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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!

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!

 

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

 

Hello everyone!  I'm here today showcasing my "Everyday life. Documented." spread for Week 30.  

We spent most of the week soaking up every last bit of summertime that we could...my kiddos start back to school next week!  Where has the time gone?

I used lots of Mint Julep Alphas from Basic Grey to help pull my color scheme together for this week's spread...

The weather seems to already be changing, so we took full advantage of the record low temps and took the kids to St. Louis to visit the City Museum.  They had a blast and it was fun for all ages! 

It was a fairly "normal" week, although we did find out our oldest son has extremely high cholesterol (which was a huge shock), but hopefully can be managed by a new diet plan.  

Shop Items Used:  Elle's Studio (Saltwater Cutouts, Saltwater Frames, Saltwater Lil' Snippets Labels), Project Life (Kraft Core Kit, Midnight Core Kit), Freckled Fawn (Black Pinwheel Washi Tape, Favorite Wood Chips Frames), Basic Grey (Candy Buttons, Mint Julep Chipboard Alpha), Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Letter and Label Stickers), Studio Calico (Atlantic Glittered Star Stickers, Snippets Wood Veneer Punctuation)

How was your Week 30?  I would love to see so be sure to post your creations to our Flickr Gallery.

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day! 

 

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!

 

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!  

Happy Saturday, everyone!  It's time for another sketch challenge here on the blog...

Let's check out what our amazing team came up with using the sketch!

Suz created this beautiful card by flipping the sketch 90 degrees...

Shop Items Used:  American Crafts (Mayberry 6x6 Paper Pad), Studio Calico (Atlantic Sequins)

 

Here's what Nicole came up with...

Shop Items Used:  Fancy Pants (What A Wonderful Day Cork Arrow Stickers, Cork Hearts/Stars Stickers, Astounding Paper, Superb Paper), Pebbles (Lakeside Chalkboard ABC Stickers), Project Life TM (Jade Core Kit), Freckled Fawn (Heart Wood Chips)

Ginny also created a beautiful card using the sketch...

Shop Items Used:  Lily Bee (Pinwheel Picnic Basket Patterned Paper, Sweet Shoppe Circle & Tag Stickers, Sweet Shoppe Embellishment Bundle), American Crafts (Mayberry Strawberry Lemonade Patterned Paper), Freckled Fawn (Cloud Wood Chips)

Ginny said, "I decided to make a card from the sketch this month.  I am not a big card maker, so having the sketch as a starting point was a big help to me.  I used 3 different brands of patterned paper, but I think they all go together so well.  It was fun mixing it up!"

And here's a look at my take on the sketch...

"I stuck very close to the sketch and used the Mayberry Mixed Tags as my background paper.  I misted my background card stock with blue and yellow spray ink and added circular bits all around my page to bring my design together."  

Shop Items Used:  American Crafts (Mayberry Raspberry Mixed Tags), Pebbles (Lakeside Chalkboard ABC Stickers, Chipboard Shapes, Phrase Stickers & Post Cards Patterned Paper), Lily Bee (Sweet Shoppe Chipboard Stickers, Embellishment Bundle, Label Stickers, & Letter Stickers), Studio Calico (Atlantic Cork Arrow Stickers, Epoxy Brads, Sequins, Wood Veneer Burnished Circles, Wood Veneer Boats and Anchors), Basic Grey (Mint Julep Woven Labels)

I love how everyone used the sketch in so many different ways this month!  Now it's your turn to show us your take on the sketch!  Link up your creations to this post by July 20th, 2013 for a chance to win a $5 Gift Card to the Come On Get Crafty Shop!  And be sure to link up your creations to our Flickr Gallery, too!  

Have a great weekend and happy crafting!