Graphic 45 & Scrapbook Adhesives Blog Hop

It's a fun week for us as Graphic 45 designers this week as Graphic 45 and Scrapbook Adhesives are teaming up for a blog hop filled with inspiration.

The blog hop starts at The Crafty Power Blog and the Graphic 45 Blog. 

Both the Graphic 45 and the Scrapbook Adhesives designers are posting beautiful creations on their blogs this week. Also, if you visit each designer's blog, you will be in the running to win a generous prize package from Graphic 45 and Scrapbook Adhesives.

What is Scrapbook Adhesives?

"Our reliable and easy to use adhesives are perfect for not only scrapbooking, but also card making, mixed media, home décor and more. We offer strong permanent adhesives for archival use, 3D Foam for dimension, and repositionable adhesive for multiple uses. We cover it all! So much more than scrapbooking!

3L Consumer Products A/S has more than 40 years of experience designing adhesives for the creative industry.  The Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L® brand was introduced with the focus of providing a full-line of rigorously tested and approved adhesives that are safe for all your crafts. You are our inspiration to provide the most reliable, easy-to-use adhesives to suit any papercrafting need. Our guarantee leaves you free to focus on your craft!"

You may also like to visit the Scrapbook Adhesives Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest or website.

My project for this blog hop is a gift box that I made with the gorgeous "An Eerie Tale" collection. I used the Staples Book Box for my basis and decorated it with the papers, chipboard pieces and banners from this wonderful collection. I used Scrapbook Adhesives tape and adhesives to stick everything together.

Graphic 45 Supply List:

Patterned paper ‘Eerie Tale’:

You Bewitch Me 

Grand Illusion

Fanciful Fable

Wicked Whimsey 

Enchantment 

Staples ATC Book Box

Eerie Tale Banners

Eerie Tale Tags & Pockets

Eerie Tale Journaling Chipboard 

I also used tape, foam dots and glue dots from Scrapbook Adhesives. I really love their adhesives as they are strong, easy to use and high quality. 

Step-by-step tutorial

I also did a step by step tutorial on how to make this gift box. 

Step 1:

First paint the gift box with gesso to give it a whitewashed look.

Step 2:

Trim the “Grand Illusion“ paper at 4.5” x 11” and decorate the box with it by attaching it to the bottom, the backside and the upside of the book box. Cut a strip of the backside of this paper to decorate the sides of the book box. 

Step 3:

Trim the “You Bewitch Me” paper at approximately 3.5” x 9” and attach it on top of the  orange paper. 

Step 4:

Cut out a small rectangle from the “Wicked Whimsey” paper and adhere it onto the upside of the book box. Then cut out two roses from the “Captivating Characters” paper and a tag from the “Fanciful Fable” paper and decorate the upside of the book box with the cut out elements. Attach these elements with foamtape for a dimensional look. 

Step 5:

Further decorate the upside and the sides of the book box with more fussy cut elements, a die-cut, a chipboard embellishment and two resin cherubs. 

I hope you enjoyed my project.

Don't forget to also visit the blogs of the other designers for today.

They have some wonderful, inspiring projects up on their blog.

Nichola Battilana – Canada 

Rhea Freitag – USA 

Romy Veul – Netherlands 

Angela Ploegman 

Erica Houghton 

Thank you so much for stopping by!