The simply scored scoring tool
is fabulous for:
1. Scoring the fold in your cards, no crooked, slightly wonky folds any more!!!
2. Making concertina (accordion) folded rosettes
and
3. Scoring the measurements of
card stock boxes.
You can make boxes any size you like (up to 30.5 x 30.5cm).
I took some photos of the DVD box I made recently,
to show you all the cool features on the "Simply Scored" tool.
At the top there are imperial measurements (and it comes with a metric insert that slides into the board.)
At the top end of the board is a little compartment to hold your extra scoring tools in.
Very clever idea ... I have checked out the other score pads on the market and they dont have all these features. It also comes with its own scoring stylus....
Any way, Card stock for my box was 11 5/8" wide and 8 1/4 " deep.
I scored lines for the spine of my DVD box dragging the stylus from top to bottom, turned it sideways and scored the sides too.
I won't bore you with the maths.... it's actually easier using the metric insert.
The "simply scored" comes with three little pins to measure where to make your score lines.
Especially if you want to make more than one, you don't have to keep measuring and doing the maths in your head because the pins keep the place on the board.
Did I mention that it also comes with its own scoring stylus tool?
So you don't have to use your bone folder. The scoring tool is very comfortable and allows for a fine precision score mark.
Having cut and scored my paper. I was then able to fold the box around my DVD and stick it together with sticky strip. Too easy!
The decoration was explained in a previous post. Now for the details:
Simply Scored tool - $55.95
Page 6 and 7 of the Autumn Winter mini catalogue
(comes with scoring stylus and three Place markers).
Metric scoring plate: $21.95
My butterflies are embossed in silver embossing powder and attached behind the spine with dimensionals to lift them off the card. I have rolled the baja breeze strip with the friendly word wheel and then again on whisper white to emboss and feature as my sentiment.
We are still feeding our little noisy minor bird ... every couple of hours. Here he is only a few days after we found him on the first Monday of the school holidays.
When I am making cards he is on the floor lookng at me, chirping at me and showing his pretty yellow and grey plumage. So I have made another friends 24/7 card using the markers direct to rubber and coupled it with the friendly words wheel. A portrait of our little bird as he grows.
This is my daughter enjoying a reptile display at a nearby business open day - she certainly enjoys every moment, the little things and the big things. I just couldn't giggle, myself while a diamond python wrapped itself around my neck ... but each to their own. 
This scrapbooking page just needed an embossed title to compete with the photos my partner took of our angel wrestling with wild animals (That Bindi has a lot to answer for). A fascination with snakes, spiders, lizards and crocodiles comes from her father's side I am certain... 
Here's my kiwi kiss Wild about you crocodile on the edge of the clear embossed friendly words wheel on pink passion cardstock. If these colours are looking familiar I recently made a card using them for the elite challenges site. (Passionate kisses ...)
Jessica says, that her dad didn't get a photo of her kissing the blue tongue lizard ... eeewww!!!
The journalling is done with my basic grey marker on a silver embossed flower medallian from the same stampset. I have used the corner rounder as I don't have a big enough circle punch to cut that one out. The little white flowers were stamped in clear embossing powder on white cardstock , sponged with kiwi kiss ink and cut out with a small circle punch and raised on dimensionals.
The background is stamped with the damask stamp from friends 24/7... rock and rolled in pink pirouette and riding hood red ink. I did the same with the bird ( a bit heavier with the riding hood red) and cut it out so that I could place it up off the page with a few dimensionals.
Then I coated the bird in shiny crystal effects. Its an adhesive that dries hard and clear and gives a great shiny coating to cardstock when you spread it with the nozzle.
The sentiment "My friend" was stamped and embossed on white cardstock using the "friendly words wheel", cut out and attached with a dimensional too. The pink flower is a metal brad (from the Spring mini catalogue) and I have edged the two layers with the eyelet border punch.
