Stand Up Birthday!

Here is a fun way to use your word diecuts.  Stand them up!  You can put them in all sorts of places on their special day.  Place them on the table, mantle or a bedside table.  Add them to the top of a cake or cupcake! There is no end to where you can put them. This project goes together really quickly, so you can make lots and leave them around the house or office.  Give someone a stand up birthday!

Supplies:

Elizabeth Craft Designs Happy Birthday 1054

Elizabeth Craft Designs Flourished Night Sky 1561 (flower elements)

Rinea Double sided foiled paper – Woodlands Variety Pack in pale green textured, pale green smooth and dark green. Princess Variety Pack in pink.

Xyron Mega Runner Permanent Adhesive

Instructions:

1. Die cut Happy Birthday from pale green textured and pale green smooth foiled paper.  Die cut flower from pink and the leaves from dark green textured foiled paper.
2. Run adhesive across the top of the letters on Happy of the rear die cut. I used the smooth foil for the back diecut.  Align the top die cut and adhere to the back.  
3. Adhere the leaves to the back of the flower.  Attach the flower and leaves to the H on Happy Birthday.
4. Gently pull the back and front die cuts apart to form a tent so the words will stand on their own.   
5. Stand Happy Birthday on a surface.  If it’s not straight, carefully trim off the bottoms of the flourishes till the word sit straight. Refer to the photo.
6. 1.       Place the stand-up Happy Birthday on a desk, on a cake, on a cupcake or anywhere your special birthday person might see it all day long.

This thoughtful little addition will please anyone celebrating their birthday.  Try it with other word dies for different occasions!

Thanks for dropping by! I hope you like the project and make a whole bunch!

Happy creating, Suzanne

Shout Out to Xyron!

Hi everyone!  It's Suzanne here today.  I just finished a job that I've been doing for a very long time (well over a decade)!  You've probably seen me post about them before. They are guest books for a Vancouver Island inn known for rustic elegance.

In the last couple of years, they have started recycling the covers - great idea!  That's where most of the work is!  So now I receive unbound covers back from the inn and I refill and rebind them.  Sometimes inside there are sweet gems of love for the westcoast written on the endpapers.  They're really fun to read!  I can't imagine how wonderful the interior pages are - or what they do with them - because there would be a lot!  And yes, I do go to the beach and collect the shells - it can be surprisingly difficult to find good ones and some don't survive being drilled.  Of the guest books I get back, only about hmmm, maybe 10% have broken shells on the front, so they stand up well!

More impressively, I am so happy to see that the covers are standing up well to years of wear and tear.  And this is where I have to give a shout out to Xyron.  All the endpapers for every book has Xyron adhesive on it and they haven't budged.  So impressive!

So you know how long I've been using Xyron!  I used to make all the stickers for the covers of my bookbinding kit instructions using them.  So fast and easy!  The Xyron machines are awesome for projects where you have a lot of little elements or a few big ones AND for projects where you just need an edge to edge adhesive for a single element.  Clean and fast!  Love them!


Here is a photo of some of my history with Xyron.  There is a real antique in there!  These have saved me so much time for years and are well used!

Now if anyone from Xyron is reading this, they're probably thinking, Gee Suzanne, update your tools!!

Happy sticking!  Suzanne
Oh, and try this if you're new to Xyron!!  They're celebrating a new website!