It's All Good: Elmer's Embellishment Extravaganza!

!{Click on the pictures to see the embellies closer than they appear here. }

Today is The Paperlife Elmer's Blog Party! If you came from Wendy's blog....WELCOMELove is in the air around here. I know it is a few months past February, but April is my month for LOVE. Next week I will be married to the man of my dreams for SIXTEEN YEARS! SWEET SIXTEEN! So I created these tags with love on my mind.

{I also used this PolKa DOT WhimsY kit to create the embellies & the two scrapbook pages below}

Go on over to the Elmer's Facebook Page and see all their projects {Tell them that The Paperlife sent you...there is going to be a prizes!!}

Don't we all just like {or love} tools and glue? If you like papercrafting then I am sure you do too! Sorry didn't mean for that too rhyme....honest!

Loved this adhesive for all my paper-to-paper gluing needs! This is refillable and is a great tape runner.

This glue is for paper AND fabric. Some other glue products say that they can glue paper and fabric, but with fabric it doesn't really work. I used this product to make my fabric flowers that you see above and it worked great and dries clear.

LOVE this blade because it is RETRACTABLE. As I travel around the country teaching, the biggest horror stories I hear are about xacto blade accidents and people cutting themselves when they reach into their crop bags! They go from cropping to the ER! Yikes! So I LOVE a retractable blade. This cut very smooth and worked great.

I used this circle cutter to cut all the circles that you see small and large. I think that this is a great portable circle cutter. There is only one problem: it doesn't have a cover on the awl or the blade! Yikes! It scares me even on my craft table. I put the end of it into a big pink eraser, but I still feel scared. The instructions on how to use it were not on the packaging, so I had to look up how to use it on their website. Just like any other tool, once you get the hang of it, it was good. But it needs a PROTECTIVE COVER or LID!!!

I used this trimmer throughout the night and it worked swimmingly. I love the rotary blade. I was a little rough with the flap that holds the paper in place and it already broke off, but I have ordered a new one because the rotary blade is fab. I am just not really dainty when I use my tools. My son also used this trimmer for a school project, and he could cut paper at different measurements without my help!

I {heart} decorative scissors...and they are BACK BABY!!! I wish I hadn't gotten rid of all mine a few years ago in the scrapbook store garage sale! These were fun to use for layering. Cutting bits of paper and adding layers.

BONUS: After I created all those embellishments, I was inspired enough to put a layout {or two} together. It was fun to continue to use the tools and how easily these two layouts came together after the embellishment warm-up. I just want to point out the burlap banner; the Elmer's craft bond fabric glue worked great with burlap.