There's a couple of new collections out. One of the new ones is called Furry Friends and it is just as adorable as it sounds! I couldn't resist digging in right away!
My inspiration for the page were the chipboard circles. Circles are currently popular for pages right now so I decided to put them to use. I cut each one in half, but did not make the halves equal. This way I could play around with the element and have different sizes to choose from.
I built on the circle theme by using the pearls as well as some flair from the ephemera packages.
The finishing touches were the title and the yellow stars, both from the Noteworthy collection.
I hope you enjoy using this falls new collections!
Many thanks to the SEI team for a wonderful opportunity and a fun term!
Thanksgiving in Canada is in October. We always have a big family dinner with too much food and little gifts on each of the dinner plates.
I had so many fall leaves cut out from my card and gift bag set, that I decided I would add them to the little gift containers for Thanksgiving dinner.
Each one is created using a 6x5 pieces of patterned paper. I created a tube and the adhere the ends in an offset manner. I then decorated each of the little gifts. Each has the first letter of the family members' name. I could easily make them more generic, but then the gift inside would also have to be general.
I add candy, stickers, jokes and little toys inside. It makes for a lot of fun and lots of conversation.
I hope I've inspired you to create something fun for you next family dinner!
Sarah
Halloween is almost here. We love it. The decorations, the candy, the costumes and the not-so-ideal lighting for pictures ;) So today, I decided to put one of the big corrugated cardboard banner pieces to use and create my own halloween decorations.
Cut files are really popular and that's what made this project so easy. I cut out the title, spiderweb and spiders for my project.
For a little detail, I added some twine from some of the spiders to the web. The spiders are all adhered using foam dots. I also added a little gold and white mist along the way to give the banner more depth.
Finally, the shiny purple letters from the Pembroke collection were perfect for spelling 'happy'.
Cut files are hot right now. They are a part of so many projects and there are so many to choose from. SEI sent me a terrifc cutting file featuring leaves. This was perfect because I love fall! I love the colors, the crisp air and thick warm sweaters for fall.
I decided to pull out a variety of patterned papers that would fit into a fall color scheme and create. I cut out all sorts of leaves and then drew white lines around the edges of all of them. I found the white line really helped the leaved pop off of my projects.
I added a few foam dots here and there behind different leaves to help maintain the dimension and the visual interest on both the card and the gift bag.
As you can see, I used gold in the base of both items and built out from there.
The 'thankful' sentiment stickers is from last year's Think of Me collection.
I hope that I've inspired you to mix up the collections and create something around the fall theme!
Sometimes there are collections that I love to revisit. Often it is the colors or something about the pattern that draws me back in. This is the case with the Perfection collection. I pulled it out again along with some lovely blue chipboard from the Blooms and Blossoms. Here's what I created:
The blue chipboard matched the light blue that is throughout the paper line. I also used a bit of gold mist over the page to tie in some of the gold touches on the butterfly and the glitter on the chipboard.
The wood chiplets were a great finishing touches to the picture. The large heart was attached to the picture using a glue dot with the second heart layered on using a foam dot. I chose to use the more plain side of the wood chiplets to avoid taking away from the picture.
I hope that you have a few ideas to mix and match items from different lines.
Thanks for visiting!
Sarah
So I will start this post by apologizing. I am sorry to have to remind you that Christmas is 4 months away. BUT it's good to get crafting and create early with favorite leftover bits before the season starts. Really, every year I am behind by a number of cards and gifts. Every year I try to start early and I was hoping this would help all of us ;)
I pulled out the packages of plain kraft and white envelopes as well as the Holiday Traditions and Noel leftovers that I loved too much to give up. Here's what I created:
First up is the white envelope that I decorated with gold and red products. The gold and red/white washi tape were perfect for the finishing touches on this envelope.
Next is the tall, kraft envelope. I used my favorite snowflake punch and I also used a little silver washi to match the grey throughout the collection. The kraft really makes the colors in the Noel collection pop.
Finally the second kraft envelope. For this one, I chose to trim the edge of the patterned paper to match the outline of the envelope. A white pen a quick and easy way to add the detail of stitching along the border of the red patterned paper all the way around.
I hope I have inspired you to pull out some of your favorite Christmas products and get an early start!
It's always fun to record memories; not just in scrapbooks but in journals too. The kids keep a journal for one family adventure every year. We then end up with a little keepsakes or both writing and thoughts from a certain age. It's really fun to look back at those moments in time.
For this summer, I pulled out the Azalea collection to create a couple little journals. The fun thing about this collection is that the A side and B side are great opposites!
I created 5x7 cover pieces and then trimmed the end with a die for the scallop. I also used a small single hole punch to create the holes to tie the covers and pages covers together. The pages inside are 4x6, and white copy paper that has been used at one end and clear at the other. (We try to recycle whenever we can).
The covers are decorated with the die cut stickers from the Azalea collections, ribbon, twine. I found that I needed to pass the twine through the holes several times (at least three) for the pages to be held together firmly enough to keep the journal's shape. I am looking forward to seeing these put to use!
Happy Summer! Beach time and camping are the themes for us every summer. With these adventures, come great treasure hunts and collections. One of the ways we contain the collections is by providing a small container for these treasures. I created a couple of treasure bags for one of our camping trips.
First, a little boy version. I used the turquoise and white velvet sheets and thin metal dies. I machine stitched the stars onto a little cloth bag (the bag is a little larger than a deck of cards). I pulled out the buttons from a variety of different sundries packages and hand stitched them onto to stars. I decided that I needed to include a little glitter ribbon to add a little pizzaz to the baggie.
The next treasure bag I created was a little girl version. I pulled out the sheet of pink and white polka dot iron on material. Again, I used the thin metal die and ran it through my embossing machine a couple of times. The starts were ironed on and the paper remomved. I then machine stitched gold ribbon around the top. I overlapped the ribbon at the back and stitched through the overlap, but left a small 2 inch section unstitched at the left corner. I threaded a second piece of the ribbon through and tied a ribbon. I pulled out the flower shaped buttons from the Primrose sundries package and hand stitched them to the baggie.
I hope you have few different ideas for the velvet and iron on materials!
Cheers,
Sarah
So when I opened up the Azelea collection, I knew right away that I needed to create a page about my daughter. The flowers, pink and green are complimented nicely with more neutral and masculine colors on the B sides. What I enjoy about this collection are the stickers with positive little messages. Turns out I had the prefect pictures to match the color theme. Here's what I created.
To keep a little dimension with the worded sticker, I added some thin foam dots just to keep the edges up. I also added some ripped, little pieces of washi tape for extra detail.
The 3x4 journaling cards were just the right color and size to add one more layer. I trimmed off the top edge of one to create the embellishment at the top corner of the page. The pink banner piece was created using a piece of the border sticker and bannering the end of it.
There lots of great possibilities with this collection! I hope you enjoy it!
Last year was a busy year for our family. We had good news, bad news and a variety of adventures, both expected and unexpected. I thought I would start a mini album. I recently received the 6x6 Kraft expandable album and knew it would be perfect for my idea. I initially thought that I would use only the Noteworthy collection, but then got distracted by a variety of other fun sundries and pretty paper.
I thought I would start with the happy. And so I created a first page to reflec the happiness that I was hoping to capture.
Next up is a page for my brother and his wife. We celebrated their wedding last year.
This is the partner page to the picture page of my brother. I included a Noteworthy pocket so that I could tuck in lots of journaling and details about the event.
The next two pages features our kids and my parents in their fancy duds. I used doilies in the background and a flower and bead embellishment from the new Basics sundries package.
For the last two pages, I put the Noteworthy collection back to work. I chose pictures from the different adventures that we took while we were travelling for the wedding.
A couple of things that I chose to do for my minibook pages. I left lots of white space to allow the focus to fall on the picture. The white space will also let me add lots of journaling when I decide on the last couple of pages and the order that I would like pages to appear.
Thanks for visiting! I hope you have a few ideas from my post today!
