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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. 

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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!

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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!

 

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! 

 

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 :-)

Please join us in welcoming Melissa Mann to the Come On Get Crafty Creative Team!

We love the way Melissa layers and stitches on her layouts to enhance her breathtaking photos! To learn more about Melissa, you can read her bio here and catch up with her on her blog here. Welcome to the team, Melissa! We can't wait to see your creations in the gallery! Melissa will be making her debut here on the blog on August 1st, but feel free to visit us each weekday for new inspiration.

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