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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!

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.

Hello everyone and happy Saturday!  It's time for another sketch challenge here at the Come On Get Crafty blog...

Let's take a look at what our amazing creative team came up with!

Ginny rocked the sketch by using different patterned paper strips as her background...

And here's what Diane came up with...

Isn't that photo amazing?!?!  I just love how she used gold accents to bring out the beautiful sunflares in her photo. 

Suz said, "I stayed pretty true to the sketch and decided to use the sentiment stickers not only for my title work, but also to represent the rectangles in the sketch (along with my photo of course).  I kept this layout pretty minimalistic.  Sometimes I like my layouts to be more about the photo + words and less on the embellishments.  (And then sometimes I like to play away with the embellishments!  I guess it just depends  on how I feel on that particular day!) ;) 

"My journaling is hidden beneath the photo as shown below.  It documents how I love the age my DS is at right now; curious, wanting to learn, and still liking to hang out with the 'rents.  I pop-dotted the camera sticker to add a bit of dimension and a little machine stitching down the borders. "

Shop Items Used:  Pebbles (Lakeside Phrase Stickers), Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Strawberries and Cream Patterned Paper, Sweet Shoppe Label Stickers)

Here's how Nicole interpreted the sketch...

Nicole says, "I loved how this sketch has borders and the potential for lots of layers.  I decided to stamp the borders on the side using the Jillibean Soup stamps and then draw some attention to it with the Lily Bee twine from the embellishment bundle.  I've been grabbing old photos that are already printed trying to create scrapbooks for our older sons who will be graduating from high school soon.  This is one of my favorite photos of my husband with our two oldest kids when they were just starting to love books.  I love how my son is looking at his daddy as he reads...priceless!"

Shop Items Used:  Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Embellishment Bundle and Letter Stickers), Jillibean Soup (Chilled Cucumber Clear Stamps Set 2), Basic Grey (Candy Buttons), Freckled Fawn (Black Pinwheel Washi Tape)

Here's Melissa's layout using the sketch...

I just love all the circular elements she used and those layers are just fabulous! 

 

And here's my take on the sketch...

I went all out with rainbow colors to emphasize my photo of the double rainbow that I had captured one summer afternoon after a rain.

Shop Items Used:  Basic Grey (Candy Buttons), Elle's Studio (Saltwater Cutouts, L'il Snippets, and Tabs), Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Circle & Tag Stickers, Sweet Shoppe Embellishment Bundle), Fancy Pants (What A Wonderfu Day Sticker Fundamentals), Crate Paper (The Pier Paper Pad)

Now it's your turn to show us your take on this sketch!  Link up your creations to this post by Friday, August 23, 2013 and get a chance to win a $5 Gift Card to the Come On Get Crafty online shop.  

Good luck and happy crafting! 

 

Happy Friday everyone!  Please join me in welcoming our Featured Guest, Jennifer Ciriano, here at the Come On Get Crafty blog today!  

Hi, my name is Jennifer Ciriano.  I'm from Brooklyn, NY and must confess that I am a very proud "Brooklynite".  I'm the wife to an amazing man and a mom to three awesome kids.  I am happy to be a SAHM again, after working in the medical field.  Being a homemaker now allows me to have more time for my family and to scrap and study photography.  

I have been crafting since before I can remember.  My mom enjoyed several crafts at home, so I was brought up around it.  Through the years I have tried a lot of different crafts, but as an adult I found my true love...scrapping.  I have been scrapbooking for well over a decade now.  It all started with some card store baby albums, a scrapbook kit from my mom, and some episodes of the Carroll Duvall show.  This eventually led me to find the wonderful online scrapbooking community, which opened up a whole new scrapbook world for me.  In earlier years, I enjoyed paper piecing and I secretly wish it was still popular, but what gave me my real love for this hobby is how aware it made me of life and life's moments.  I love that I can sit down with pretty supplies and remember all of our past moments.  This also gives me another chance to be grateful for all of them.  Scrapbooking also jump-started me with Project Life TM this year.  I now wish I would have started earlier.  Project Life TM allows everyday events to be recorded, that we wouldn't otherwise remember.  

I wouldn't say that I have a definitive style.  I like to try a lot of different trends with my layouts.  It keeps it fun and interesting.  Currently, I like happy colors.  

 

I am over the moon happy to be a guest designer here on the Come On Get Crafty blog and I want to thank Nicole and Adrienne for this exciting opportunity! 

I am so inspired by Jennifer's layout!  I just adore those triangles and that title...wow!  To see more of Jennifer's beautiful work, visit her blog at http://www.jenns-doodles.blogspot.com.  

Thanks so much for stopping by...have a great day!  

Good morning everyone! I'm back today with my monthly pocket pages for May.  This month I used the Project Life Blush Core Kit along with some random items from the shop.

I used the Studio Calico Snippets Journal card, to indicate the month. I plan to use these through the entire year.

The Lily Bee Label Stickers are great to use for journaling right on top of photos.

Did you know with the right kind of pen and ink you can stamp and journal right on top of your photo, like I did here using the Jillibean Chilled Cucumber Soup stamps in the shop.

I also used a bit of the Fancy Pants Trendsetter 6x6 Paper Pad to accent some of my photos and Project Life Blush Core Kit cards.

Shop items used: Project Life Blush Core Kit, Fancy Pants (Trendsetter 6x6 Paper Pad, Label Stickers), Studio Calico (Snippets Journal Cards), Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe (Circle and Tag Stickers, Letter Stickers, Label Stickers), Jillibean Soup (Chilled Cucumber Soup Stamps). 

Thanks so much for coming by. Have a great week!

 

                        

Happy Friday, we made it through another week :) Today I am sharing my love of all of the new cork products out there right now.  Fancy Pants is just one of the companies that has some super cute cork products right now. 

                                                        

                                                        

I love those hearts & stars, I could use them on everything!! 

                        

I am sharing a home decor project today made with the Fancy Pants What a Wonderful Day Reminder paper. I have had this chalkboard for years and I love it, but it was needing some updating. I had modpodged a map paper over the original design a while ago and I liked it, but time for something new. I had been thinking of adding a piece of cork to make it a memo board, but I didn't have any cork thin enough. So then I thought of the cork paper! Honestly you can hardly tell that it is paper and not real cork :) I am going to use washi tape to  keep my reminders tacked to the paper. Ahhhh, the wonders of washi tape-you can take it off and no sticky residue!! I also had to add the Pebbles wood piece, we live at the lake and I love all of the little reminders of it in the summer. 

                        

 

shop items used- Fancy Pants (reminder paper) Pebbles (word veneer) Freckled Fawn (mum flower washi tape) American Crafts (strawberry lemonade paper) Lily Bee (licorice whip paper) 

Good Morning, everyone! This is Melissa here for the first time on the Come On, Get Crafty Blog! I'm super excited to be here and to share some ideas and inspiration with you all!

This is going to be a simple tutorial using some paper weaving as your layout background. 

1.) Choose some pattern papers that work well together. 
       TIP: To make this easy on yourself, choose papers that are all from the same collection. For my layout, I chose pattern papers that all belonged to the Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe collection. 

2.)   Cut out some strips from several of the pattern papers. They do not all need to be the same length or width. 
        TIP: This is a great technique to use when you want to get rid of some of those extra scraps laying around!

 3.)  Take a piece of Kraft card stock (12x12) and layer a slightly smaller piece of white card stock on top. 

4.)  Choose some corresponding colors of mist that will match well with your pattern papers. I chose to use pink, orange, and yellow mists that I then splattered in the upper part of my layout and the lower part. 

5.)  After the mist has dried, take some of the pattern paper strips you cut out earlier and lay them horizontally across the white card stock. Do not adhere them down.

6.)  Then, you will take some more strips of pattern paper and you will start weaving them in between the horizontal strips. 

7.)  Add as many vertical strips as you need until the entire piece is covered. You can weave these papers tightly (leaving no white cardstock exposed underneath or you can weave them loosely). 

8.)  Once all of your strips have been woven together, you are going to stitch a few of these pattern paper strips down using your sewing machine.
        TIP:  I usually start with the very middle strip of paper. This helps to anchor all the other strips down for the most part and will prevent them from sliding around while you run the rest of them through the sewing machine.

9.)  Once the background was all sewn down, I chose the picture(s) I wanted to use. I decided to go with a black and white photo as my layout background was already fairly busy with all the strips of pattern paper. I used two of the same photo and trimmed them down slightly from a 4x6 size to more of a 3x5 size. I layered these on top of each other slightly and adhered down. 

10.)  After my pictures were glued down, I decided where I wanted my three groups of embellishments to go. I had made a big mist blot in the upper right hand part of my layout that I needed to cover up so I knew one of my embellishment groups would go right there. I placed one off to the right hand side of my photos and one to the upper left hand side of my photos. 

11.)  Lastly, I placed my title right underneath my photos. I used a mixture of a word cut from my Silhouette Cameo and some black Pebbles alphabet stickers. 

And here is the final result!

...and a couple of close up looks at it!

Supplies used:  Kraft Card Stock, White Card Stock, Lily Bee Sweet Shoppe Pattern Papers (Lemon Drop, Saltwater Taffy, Strawberries & Cream, Pink Mint, Cotton Candy, Lollipop), Red Shipping Tag, Fancy Pants Decorative Tags, Fancy Pants Decorative Bags, Lily Bee Chipboard Stickers, Fancy Pants Cork Shapes, Basic Grey Candy Buttons, Lily Bee Label Stickers, Pebbles ABC Stickers. 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Make sure to check out the Come On, Get Crafty web store for some scrapbooking goodies :-)

Hello everyone!  I'm here today showcasing one of my favorite new lines in the shop, "What A Wonderful Day" from Fancy Pants! 

 

I used the tape stickers for my banner and to add some layers beneath my photo.  I also used various pieces of patterned paper from the collection and layered the corrugated paper under my photo.  

I misted a bunch of colors over a mask I had leftover from a Silhouette Cut to give my background paper some pop!  

Shop Items Used:  Fancy Pants (What A Wonderful Day -  Terrific Patterned Paper, Swell Patterned Paper, This Way Patterned Paper, Tape Stickers, Sticker Fundamentals, Turquoise Corrugate Paper,  Park Bench Button Set), Basic Grey (Candy Buttons), Chic Tags (Road Trip Note Clips), Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Chit Chat Stickers & Letter Stickers), Freckled Fawn (Black Pinwheel Washi Tape), Divine Twine (Pink)

Thanks for stopping by today and be sure to check out our Facebook page and our Flickr gallery for shop updates and even more inspiration!  

Hi All! Back to share with you a Travel Edition of "Everyday life. Documented." Last week my hubs and I vacationed in Vegas celebrating our 18th wedding anniversary and attending the CHA (CreateNConnect) summer show. (I attended that solo! -LOL) ;)

Knowing that I wouldn't be able to scrap on the road this time due to luggage restrictions and time, I simply collected ephemera all week including, tickets, napkins, coasters, and other small items to add to my layouts.

Here is my intro page which I added as I could no longer fit any more pages into my album!! So this year is broken into two albums and our summer trip and CHA seemed to be a good place to break the year up into two.

I cut out the bracket frame (below "Hello There") with my Xacto knife and added some color behind it. The Becky Higgins Project Life kit cards from the shop came in very handy in simplifying the process and helping me get this week documented relatively quickly.

Here is the left side:

I pieced together a bunch of sentiment stickers from Fancy Pants to add to the "love this place" Project Life card and layered a few other Project Life cards together to create the Monday card. 

 

Here is a portion of the insert I added to my spread. It houses a bunch of journaling from the PL Days of the Week cards that are in the shop along with some pictures and ephemera (hotel coasters). 

I will simply stitch through the page protector a bit to keep the coasters from falling out. (Thanks Ali Edwards for your continuous inspiration!) 

Here I have added a portion of a napkin from Serendipity 3 ( the restaurant known for it's frozen hot chocolate). I plan to add some more journaling to the "this is life" journaling card as well.

 

**SHOP ITEMS USED: Project Life Jade Kit Project Life Midnight Kit Project Life Blush Kit Project Life Kraft Kit Fancy Pants Cork Stickers Freckled Fawn Heart Wood Chips Fancy Pants WAWD Sticker Sheet Fancy Pants WAWD Reminder Patterned Paper 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Feel free to ask questions in the comment section if you have any! Have a great day!