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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!  

Making Cards with Project Life TM cards

 

Hi All!

Happy last full week of summer (for us at least)! Trying to savor these last few days. SIGH.

Anyway, amidst the scurry of buying school supplies, band camp and more, I found myself in need of a little time to create some thank you cards. And luckily for me, the Project Life 4x6 cards helped me conquer this "to do" task! 

I often like trying to find different ways (or simply practical ways, rather) to stretch my stash and create with scrappy items I have on hand. So here are the results of my s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g below: 

 

For both cards, I used the 4x6 Project Life cards as the foundations to my designs.

I used my Silhouette to cut the title out of the journaling card and then stitched around the pink perimeter with gray thread. I placed some ombre Freckled Fawn washi tape behind the cut out sentiment and some textured cardstock at the bottom. Normally, I would add an epoxy brad or two (like where the "O" is) but since I knew this card was being mailed, I decided to keep the card as flat as possible. That's where the die cut sentiment backed with washi comes in--it adds dimension and depth without the bulk. :)

 

And with this card I simply stitched around the perimeter again as well as the "thank you" sentiment and then used my vintage typewriter to complete the sentiment on the washi tape images on the bottom right of the Project Life card. 

COGC SHOP ITEMS USED: Project Life Kits 

There you have it! Two quick and easy cards completed and ready for mailing in no time! If you have other fun ideas of how to stretch your Project Life cards, please share them here by commenting below and upload your ideas to the Come On Get Crafty Flickr Gallery! 

Happy Thursday! Thanks for stopping by. :)

 

                        

Today I am showcasing the Elle's Studio Saltwater Frames. I love these little frames, they are a fun addition to any page. I treated them each like little design blocks and set about embellishing each one, so much fun!!

                        

I also added some of the Studio Calico Atlantic wood veneers, I can't get enough of those :)  I am still enjoying scrapping summer pages. I don't want it to end!!

 

shop items used-Studio Calico(Atlantic wood veneer) Elle's Studio(Saltwater Frames, Saltwater tabs) Fancy Pant(What a Wonderful Day-suberb paper, remarkable paper) Pebbles(Lakeside phrase stickers)

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!

 

 

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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) 

More grab bags

 

 

More varieties of grab bags have been added for your shopping pleasure! 

see them all here:  grab bags

Happy Thursday!

                            

 

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!