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Happy Birthday Star Calendar Magnet From "Greetings from DIY" episode DGFD-102

Project by Desiree Tanner.

Use your Sizzix Die Cutting Machine to create pocket cards and tags in seconds! With this simple technique, you can make folded cards to hold notes, small gifts, memorabilia, ephemera, photos, trinkets and treasures. Use the finished products as cards, tags, or embellishments on scrapbook pages.

Materials:

Sizzix die-cutter machine
Sizzix converter
calendar stamp
StazOn hot pink ink
fibers
lavender brads
Little Sizzles pastel paper pad
Little Sizzles watercolor paper pad
large white eyelet
Sizzlit "Girls Are Weird" alphabet die set
Simple Impressions embossing die: swirl border
Sizzix dies: super traditional tag, rectangle #2, star set, primitive stars
white shrink plastic
acrylic matte sealer/finish spray
Xyron 510 with permanent adhesive cartridge
black .03 Micron Pigma Pen
oven
magnet
Glue Dotz
adhesive

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	Figure A
	Figure B
	Figure C
	Figure D

1. For your tag, "Xyron" together the square patterned paper and the pink speckled paper, back to back.

2. Fold the bottom of the paper about 3 inches upward to create a pocket. Place this folded edge of paper just inside of the cutting blade on your traditional tag die and cut (figure A).

3. Stamp the calendar image onto white shrink plastic using pink ink. Trim carefully around the rectangular stamped image, leaving about 1/4 inch all around.

4. Place on a paper bag, in an oven heated to 350 F degrees, for about 4 or 5 minutes. When cool, seal with matte sealer/finisher acrylic spray.

5. Place the smallest primitive star on the actual day of the month that your recipient's birthday falls upon and adhere with a glue dot.

6. Cut a rectangle out of orange swirl paper about 1/2 inch larger than your shrunk calendar. Rotate and layer shrunk calendar over orange swirl paper and adhere with glue dots (figure B).

7. Attach lavender Bradlets on each corner of the orange rectangle and adhere this grouping on the top "pocket" of your tag (see again figure B).

8. Attach white eyelet to the center hole at the top of your tag. Place white fibers through and tie.

9. To make the Happy Birthday star magnet: Die cut a star from the orange swirl paper. Line around the edges with a black pen.

10. Place the Sizzix converter under the pressure plate on the Sizzix machine to use your embossing template. Because the embossing die is smaller than the star, you'll need to emboss one side at a time. Place the first half of the star in between the embossing envelope and press the Sizzix handle to emboss. Remove your star from the embossing template, and repeat with the other half.

11. To make the Happy Birthday on the star, simply cut the shadow of each letter from pink paper and cut the letter out of white paper using the "Girls are Weird" Sizzlit alphabet. Place white letters onto pink shadows (figure C).

12. Adhere the letters to the star (figure D).

13. Place a magnet onto back of star and tuck into the pocket on the tag.

RESOURCES :

Little Sizzles pink paper and die cuts
Sizzix
Website: www.sizzix.com

personal die-cutting machine and dies
Sizzix
Website: www.sizzix.com

Xyron Sticker Machine (Xyron, Inc.)
Xyron Inc.
Website: www.xyron.com

GUESTS :

Desiree Tanner
Designer
Provo Craft
Website: www.provocraft.com