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Fabulous memory file mini
By Heidi Swapp
Heidi Swapp products
shared SUPPLIES
hello today memory f ile kit
glitter banner delights
pink glitter stickers
chipboard stickers
color mag ic cards
acrylic stars
wood block stamp
love mini stamp
heart stencil set
music backg round stamp
white cardstock (1 sheet)
pink color shine
navy color shine
blush color shine
white acrylic paint
OTHER SUPPLIES
24” seam binding ribbon
stapler & staples
white acrylic paint
adhesive
make up sponge
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1. Cut W hite Cardstock to 7 ½” x 7”.
2. Mix a small amount of white acrylic paint with 2
sprays of Pink Color Shine using a triangle sponge.
3. Place the heart shape stencil 1” from the right
edge, centered top to bottom and fill the heart with a
THIN LAYER of the pink tinted paint.
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4. Place the solid heart stencil over the heart. Position 5. Rub more of the acrylic paint mixture to blend
the lattice stencil in the top left corner, and spay
around outside edges; allow to dry.
Pink Color Shine over the top. Move the lattice to the
bottom right corner and spray with Pink Color Shine
again.
7. Open the Color Mag ic Card and lay face dow n.
Place a paper towel over the left side. Spray the front
with Pink Color Shine. Blot and set aside to dry.
8. Spray the top of the mini file Color Mag ic card with
Pink Color Shine, blot and set aside to dry.
6. Add Navy Color Shine to the f lap of the Color
Mag ic envelope with a sponge.
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9. Replace the open heart stencil over the heart on
the white cardstock, and stamp with the music notes
stamp over the heart using pink ink.
10. Cut Navy dot mini file to 7” tall.
11. Measure 1” from the crease and cut off the front
of the folder.
12. Adhere the white cardstock inside the 1” f lap of
the navy dot mini f ile folder.
13. Trim shaped file folder to 8” from the left point.
14. Punch 2 holes in the top of the fotostack.
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15. Use the fotostack holes as a template to punch 2
holes in the front cover, the shaped folder and the
navy striped mini folder
16. Open the fotostack to the last page, and tuck the
navy striped folder inside.
17. Place that inside the shaped folder.
18. Tie all pieces together by running the ribbon
through both holes, and tying a bow on the outside
19. Cut a 7” piece of the pink scallop banner delight
and adhere behind the right edge of the front cover.
20. Cut a 6” piece of the text banners and adhere at
the top left of the cover.
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21. Add one pink striped banner over the top.
22. Stamp “remember this” to a label in the block
stamp set, and adhere 1 ½” up from the bottom
right.
23. Add the “Captured Documented” chipboard
circle, and “fabulous” glitter word to the front cover,
along with 2 glitter stars and a chipboard heart.
24. Adhere the remainder of the navy dot mini file on
the inside front cover to create a photo mat.
25. Adhere the Color Mag ic envelope on the front
of the shaped file. Add the “best _________ ever”
chipboard heart to the f lap.
26. Adhere the mini Color Mag ic card to the front of
the striped memory file. Staple an acrylic star off to
the right to act as a stop for the card.
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27. Add stickers to the labels of the files, and tabs of
the fotostack.
30. Stamp the word “unforgettable” from the block
stamp to a piece of scrap white paper. Adhere one
banner, chipboard circle “favorite”, acrylic star to
inside front cover.
31. Add any stamping as desired.
28. Embellish fotostack edges with acrylic stars,
29. Adhere a scrap of the shaped memory file that
was cut to the front of the 2nd Color Mag ic card.
Adhere to the back page of the mini.