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Another Sneak Peek!

Posted by Renata Watt on July 03, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (9) | TrackBack (0)

CHA SUMMER 07 SNEAK PEEK!

Now for the fun stuff - here is a SNEAK PEEK of one of the products we will be releasing at CHA. I hope you like it - it's one of my favorites!

Posted by Renata Watt on July 02, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (8)

I know the blog hasn't had an update for a while but we have been getting ready for the CHA SUMMER 07 release as well as our very first CHA SHOW!! We are very excited about coming to the CHICAGO show and would love to meet everyone - so if you are heading down make sure you come and say HI! We'll be at BOOTH # 4405.

Posted by Renata Watt on July 02, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (0)

Urban Cut Mini Book : step by step

Hi everyone.

The first step by step here on the Urban Lily blog will be a how to construct the Urban Cut Mini Books. There are two mini book sheets available, a black and white Mini Book and the brightly colored version, which I'm using below.

Cut out the cover and pages, cutting along the SOLID lines:

You will have five little double pages and a long strip which will become the cover:

Fold each page in half:

Now, this is where I constructed the book a little differently to the instructions on the sheet. Stick the pages together to create an accordion style book. Only use adhesive along the edges of the pages:

Fold the cover in half:

Find the middle page, and match the fold of this page with the fold (spine) of the cover:

Punch a hole through both the page and the cover layers:

Punch another hole. You now have the two holes needed to thread the ribbon which will hold your book together:

Thread a length of ribbon through the two holes:

Turn the book over, and tie a bow (quite tightly) along the spine of the book:

Finished:

On one of my little books I used a Basic Grey Magnetic Tie Back with a short length of ribbon to hold the book closed:

Thanks for visiting. Any questions, leave a comment and I'll answer them.

We'd also love to see your little Urban Cut Mini Books. Leave a comment with a link to your book.

Cheers

Fiona

Posted by Fiona Carter on July 01, 2007 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)

A FANTASTIC RESPONSE!

It was GREAT to see all the comments here - THANK YOU!

We're going to have lots of fun so make sure you keep checking back. We'll have heaps of inspiration and ideas from the fantastic Urban Lily DT girls, step by steps, challenges from time to time, maybe a competition or two and giveaways!

And we also want to see your Urban Lily layouts and creations so make sure you share them by posting a link to them!

So to start of with CHECK OUT this gorgeous mini book made by Fiona Carter. Fiona is one of the fabulous DT girls and made this from the URBAN CUT COLLECTION Mini Book BRIGHT card stock.

We're going to post a step by step SOON so that you can create one just like it for yourself. If you have made a MINI BOOK from the URBAN CUT RANGE or used any of the other URBAN CUT accents, or card stock pages SHOW US! We'd LOVE to see!