News from Your Maine Stamper week of 8/15-20

ANNUAL CRAFTERS YARD SALE  

SATURDAY AUGUST 20  9 AM TO NOON

at YOUR MAINE STAMPER

This is our BIG EVENT for the month of August.  We have 12 vendors in the yard all bringing crafting supplies to sell.  Really good deals on stamps, papers, tools, etc.  Sales inside the shop too!!!

Please note our early starting time on Saturday--9AM!  Come early and bring cash or checks for the yard sale outside.  All of the vendors are local crafters looking to sell items they no longer use or wish to keep.  There's tons of really cool stuff up for grabs!  

This week's tutorial:  Using Memory Box Dies

My class on Monday the 15th at Your Maine Stamper will feature a number of the new dies from Memory Box.  We'll be using the Cuttlebug to create our own die cuts using these beautiful steel dies.  

98123 Catalina Border
98115  Spring Border
98146 Snowflake Border/Frostyville Border
98164 Wrought Iron Fence

Each Cuttlebug seems to be calibrated a bit differently.  I found on mine that the best "sandwich" starts with an A plate, then a C plate on top of that, the die raised side up next, the paper to be cut face down on the die, and a B plate on top of that.  If you don't use the A plate--and you may not be able to if your machine balks at the height of your sandwich, you will need to add some extra cardstock layers to shim the C-die-paper-B sandwich in order to get a deep enough cut in the paper so that the image pops out easily.

These are some of the card kits that people in class will complete using these dies before cutting their own:

Even though these die cuts look detailed and delicate, they cut out beautifully on cardstock and are quite durable.

And here are two cards I made using the Snowflake Border/Frostyville Border re-imagined as flowers!

There are also dies that coordinate with stamps and there's a whole different set of techniques for using those which I will write about in a future post.  

There are a number of websites that feature instructions and videos for working with the Memory Box dies.  Just Google "Memory Box dies how-to".










HOPE TO SEE YOU ON SATURDAY the 20th
AT THE ANNUAL CRAFTERS YARD SALE!!!