Come On Get Crafty

Why Didn't I think of That? | 6x6 Pattern Paper Pads

Hello, again! Melissa here again with you today with another installment of "Why Didn't I think of That"!

This is a quick tutorial using the 6x6 paper pads to create a quilted triangle pattern on the background of your card stock. You will need card stock, several 6x6 sheets of pattern paper, embellishments, picture(s), watercolors, and a die cutting machine.

1.) Gather your supplies.

2.) Cut the 6x6 pattern paper into various lengths and widths. The smaller patterns on the 6x6 sheets of paper work well for this "quilted" look. Make a pencil mark on the halfway point on side of the paper and then use your trimmer to cut from each opposite corner to the pencil mark.

 

4.) Lay the pattern paper triangles down and fit them against each other on your card stock.

5.)  Stitch all the triangles down with your sewing machine. (If you do not have a sewing machine, you can hand stitch or you can just glue them down and use a pen to make the stitch marks.)

6.) Place your title in the upper left hand corner of your layout. I also used corresponding water colors to jazz up my title that I had cut out in white card stock. 

7.) Cluster embellishments in the corners of your triangles.

And here is what the layout looks like in full with a couple of detail shots below it :-)

SUPPLIES USED: Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe 6x6 Paper Pad, My Mind's Eye Enamel Dots, Jenni Bowlin Flair Badges, Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe Labels, Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe Chipboard. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Product Showcase | Jenni Bowlin Rub-on's

Good  Morning!

Melissa here again with you today and I'm sharing a layout and a card I made using the new Jenni Bowlin gold Rub-on's that are now available in the shop!

I love these rub-on's! Gold is being seen everywhere these days: scrapbooking products, clothing, accessories...and I LOVE it! I used to only be a silver girl, but gold has taken my heart the past few months :-) Secondly, these rub-on's go on so very smoothly! I had no problems at all transferring them to my card stock. 

SUPPLIES: White Card Stock, Kraft Card Stock, Bella Boulevard Pattern Paper, Jenni Bowlin Rub-on's, May Arts Ribbon, My Mind's Eye Enamel Dots.

The gold was just the perfect touch for this tribute layout. I used a bunch of neutral colors for this layout since the topic of it is not one that is bubbly or cheerful. But the gold rub-on's were just the thing to give it a little pop in a classy way.

How are you using your gold in your scrapbooking? We'd love to see!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Welcome...

 

...Bonita Rose Kempenich to the Come On Get Crafty Creative Team!
 

We love Bonita's bright and cheerful "Everyday life. Documented." pages and cards and she brings experience in mixed media, collage, and other crafty arenas, as well. We look forward to seeing her creations in the gallery! 

Learn more about Bonita Rose by reading her bio here:  http://comeongetcrafty.net/pages/creative-team

and by visiting her blog here:
http://www.bonitarose.com/ 

Happy Tuesday!
                        
 

{image sources:  cake, chandelier poster, living room, door, crib bedding, makeup,  stars, sunburst,  yarn}

                    

Happy Thursday, everyone!  I'm here today with a little something I like to call the "anatomy of a layout".  

For this page, I kept my design very simple by placing four of the Maggie Holmes Fabric Frames on my patterned paper in a grid design...

Next, I placed my photo in the top left frame and added a few embellishments that I knew I wanted to incorporate into my layout...

Then I added a few more embellishments and the rest of my title in the bottom left frame...

And finally, I added a journaling pocket in the bottom right frame and some rainbow washi tape in a few spots which I ended up stitching down using my sewing machine...

I also added a few strips of striped paper at the top and bottom, the "celebrate today" sticker on the cloud die-cut, and a few phrase stickers and ta-da!  A completed layout in about 25 minutes!   

I like how the simple grid design allowed for as much or as little embellishing as I wanted.  In this case...a lot!!!  You could also switch out more photos or journaling in the frames as well.  

Shop Items Used:  Fancy Pants "What A Wonderful Day" Collection (Astounding & Superb Patterned Paper, Decorative Bags, Ephemera Pack, Label Stickers), Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Circle & Tag Stickers), Jenni Bowlin (Doily Sequins), Freckled Fawn (Neon Enamel Dew Drop Stickers), Crate Paper (Maggie Holmes Fabric Frames), Pebbles (Lakeside Phrase Stickers), Elle's Studio (Saltwater Cut Outs)

I hope you enjoyed this little peak into my creative process :)  Have a great day!

 

Hello everyone, Diane here to share with a layout featuring a super fun product in the shop...the Fancy Pants corrugated paper.

It is easy to use/cut and adds lots of dimension to a layout. I decided to cut it into the shape of a heart and added a little gesso for some distressing.

From there I began layering my photos and coordinating Fancy Pants products from the What a Wonderful Day collection.

Supplies used: Fancy Pants What a Wonderful Day (Corrugated Paper, Decorative Bags, Ephemera Pack, Label Stickers, 12x12 Superb paper, 12x12 Swell paper, Tape Stickers, Sticker Fundamentals).

You can pick-up the Fancy Pants corrugated paper and the What a Wonderful Day collection, right here in the Come on Get Crafty shop.

Thanks for visiting today!

Weekend Inserts

 

 

Hi All! Back with you on this lovely Tuesday to share with you some weekend inserts that I use when working on my everyday life documented. Since much of what my family does together is shared on the weekends (or more of the fun, exciting stuff anyways) I almost always implement some sort of page insert into my PL spread that highlights the weekend activities. This works for me because I have more time to take pictures on the weekend too. And this past weekend happened to have a bunch of activities, so I actually used two page inserts! (*Yes, I have always been a rule follower but find that breaking creative rules are kind of fun the older I get). That's one of the many things I love about this type of documentation; you can make it fit your needs, or your creative style!

So, on to my weekend inserts:

First up, I loved, loved, loved seeing this patterned paper by Bella Blvd show up in my DT goody package!! I knew immediately I wanted to break out my Copic markers and have a little bit o' fun coloring outside the lines! (*There I go breaking the rules again! LOL)

 

Beneath the photo I have another Becky Higgins PL card that has journaling about the story behind the wand bottle opener my friend is holding (er, I mean waving). ;) I simply used my tiny attacher to staple the front photo (on green heart BB sticker)  to the back card. You can still lift the photo and easily read the journaling.

 

Here is the back side of the first weekend insert:

 On the backside of the "hello" PL journal card I wrote about having our eldest son's GF over for dinner for the first time. So surreal that I have a son old enough to drive and to have a girlfriend. *Sigh.  

The front of weekend insert #2:

We attended a concert by a fave local 80s band of ours after the taekwondo pool/bbq party. So, so fun and the weather was perfect for this outdoor event! I loved that the theme gave me great reason to break into the awesome neon Freckled Fawn Enamel Dew Drop Stickers that are in the COGC shop. ;) The orange "80s" and "Members Only" is a cut up concert wristband I saved. I always find it kinda fun to work ephemera and memorabilia into my PL spreads.

 

 

Some close ups highlighting several of the adorable stickers from the Bella Blvd Everyday and Snapshots lines (*now available in the COGC shop!) 

I used Becky Higgins Design H page protector for the first weekend insert and American Crafts for the Second.

 And the back of the second insert:

The top card flips up to reveal hidden journaling. Journaling talks about my hubs playing some mean ragtime on the piano and everyone at the party  enjoying it. What some didn't know is that it is also a player piano, so when he was finished really playing, they had others go up to the piano and give it a try. Then they set the piano in motion! It was a fun surprise by a quite a few! LOL

 

**SHOP ITEMS USED:  BB Daily Chevies Pickle Juice Patterned Paper (B side-black with white stars),

Bella Blvd Daily Chevies Everyday Bookplate Stickers, Bella Blvd Play Date Tab Stickers, Bella Blvd Snapshots Bookplates Days Stickers, Bella Blvd Snapshots Bookplates Stickers, Bella Blvd Snapshots Captions Stickers, http://comeongetcrafty.net/collections/chic-tags/products/road-trip-note-clips,  Project Life Kits , Freckled Fawn Neon Enamel Dew Drop Stickers  

I also have been using digital templates to make quick and easy photo collages/hybrid inserts for my weekend pages. I will be sharing this technique a little bit further down the road as I don't have a wide format printer at home currently and the templates I have been using are 6x12 and will fit into an American Crafts 6x12 page protector when printed. So look for that tutorial or post here on the COGC in the near future.

Enjoy the rest of your day y'all! Thanks for stopping by!

Good Morning! This is Melissa back again sharing a new layout with you on this fine Friday morning! 

I love the Studio Calico faux polariod frames but wanted to use them in a different way. I thought about a couple of different ways to use them, but finally decided to use them as a background element to this layout. I sewed them down the length of this layout off the left hand side and the placed my photo in the upper right hand corner. I then used some of my favorite little embellishments such as enamel dots, flair, and wood veneer shapes to cluster in the little polaroid frames. 

SUPPLIES: Mayberry Paper, Freckled Fawn Enamel Dew Drops, Fancy Pants Trendsetter Flair, Fancy Pants Cork Stickers, Lily Bee Sweet Shop Bundle, Studio Calico Sundrifter Vellum Frames. 

These little frames can be used in so many ways! You could lay them horizonally across your layout as a border; you could actually use them as frames; you could cover the entire background of your layout in them as a fun layer...so many possibilities!

Show us how you have used this product! We would love to see!

 

Tips, Tricks & Tutorials | 6x6 Paper Pads

I love the 6x6 paper pads. The smaller prints make them great for cards but they are really easy to use on layouts too and are quickly becoming a favorite for me. The 6x6 pads usually come with 2 sheets of each print.

Today I'm going to show you how I used one sheet of each design to make a layout and two cards, with plenty to spare for more projects. Lets start with the layout.

I had a lot of fun creating a patchwork block along the left side of my page. The smaller scale of the prints is perfect for small pieces of paper. Keep reading...I'll share how I created the patchwork block at the end of the post. :)

Here are a few close-ups...

I used one of the coordinating frames from the Down by the Shore collection for my journaling spot.

I used took the same concept and applied it to a couple cards. For this one, I placed rectangles around the edge of the card and finished it off with another frame and my greeting.

On this last card, I used strips of paper for my base instead of random squares and rectangles, and again placed a frame and my greeting over the background.

Shop items used: Fancy Pants Down by Tthe Shore collection (6x6 Paper Pad, Photo Frames, Tape Stickers), Park Bench (Button Set), What a Wonderful Day collection (Cork Stars, Sticker Fundamentals), Studio Calico (Atlantic Glitter Star Stickers, Wood Veneer Burnished Circles).

Do you want to give it a try? Here is how I created mine.

Begin by cutting a piece of vellum the size of your desired patchwork piece. I used vellum to keep it from becoming too bulky. Place small squares of paper randomly over the vellum and stitch each one of them down.

Add another layer of squares, overlapping and filling in the some of the holes. Again, stitch each square down.

Continue adding squares, overlapping them onto previous layers until all empty spaces are filled. Stitch each one down for a quilted look.

That's all there is too it. I hope you'll give this technique a try.

Product Showcase | American Crafts Mayberry | Raspberry Mixed Tags

 

Hi all! I am back today to showcase the lovely little tags from American Crafts Raspberry Line! I  love the texture of these little pretties and decided that they were just begging to become a simple little summer happiness mini album!

 

 

 

I simply printed out my photos to 2.5inches by 4.5 and trimmed a touch, embossed the "Summer" with red Zing, added a few other embellishments from the shop and from my stash, some sentiments, some stitching (I swiveled out the pp to sew on it so as not to sew through the burlap), and a ribbon. *The red circle ring is from 7 Gypsies.

I used my Cropadile to punch the holes through papers and embellishments. 

 

 **SHOP ITEMS USED:  American Crafts Raspberry Mixed Tags, Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe Letter Stickers, Lily Bee Chipboard Shapes, American Crafts Mayberry Shady Lane 12x12 Patterned Paper, May Arts Red Twill, Basic Grey Mint Julep Bottle Cap Stickers, Crafty Bits Kits

The thing I love about mini albums? Near instant gratification. :)

So, what summer mini albums are you working on? Post your creations over in the Come On Get Crafty Flickr Inspiration Gallery here. 

 

Have a great Wednesday! First day back to school for my youngest. Sixth grade already! *sniff sniff