Archives for April 2012

“It is very important to our family to teach our girls about the true meaning of Easter but we also enjoy the fun of Easter eggs and pretty spring dresses! The girls are all too excited to put on a pretty dress and have their hair done and then they have to give a little twirl for daddy to show off their new dress. For my layout, I combined a few pink elements from Country Picnic with the happy colors of Hip Hip Hooray. I gave my layout a little fringe (grass) to ground it and then highlighted each photo with scallops. I added some texture with machine stitching.”  – Jill Cornell, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Country Picnic Meadow (751243)
Country Picnic Clear Raspberry ABC Stickers (732097)
Country Picnic Mini ABC Stickers (732099)
Country Picnic Dimensional Flowers (747172)
Hip Hip Hooray Good Times (751228)
Hip Hip Hooray Cheers (751229)
Hip Hip Hooray Confetti (751233)
Hip Hip Hooray Surprise (751235)
Hip Hip Hooray Multi ABC Stickers (732090)
Hip Hip Hooray Pinwheels (747168)

“For my clean and simple page I used one of my favorite Easter pictures of my son. I wanted it to take center stage so I framed it with strips of some spring-patterned papers from the new Hip Hip Hooray & Country Picnic Lines. To reinforce the Easter theme I die cut some oval shapes from the Hip Hip Hooray Good Times paper and used them as a base for my titling and journaling.” – Valerie Mangan, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Fresh Goods Mini ABC Stickers (73207)9
With Love Gift Tags (747160)
Country Picnic Dimensional Stickers (732101)
Country Picnic Patio (7512)
Hip Hip Hooray Sequin Candy Dots  (744285)
Hip Hip Hooray Sequin Candy Dots (744286)
Hip Hip Hooray Celebration (751231)
Hip Hip Hooray Good Times (75122)8
Hip Hip Hooray Dimensional Flowers (747165)
Hip Hip Hooray ABC Stickers (732095)

“Happy Easter! I made this double-page layout about a little adventure I had last Easter. My husband had to be out of town over Easter weekend for a work thing. As a surprise, he left a ton of Easter eggs hidden around our house for me to find. I was still finding eggs days after he got back! Because I had quite a few pictures to scrap and so many different colors in the pictures, I tried to keep this layout pretty simple. I did not want my pictures to get lost in too much patterned paper or too many embellishments. I chose white cardstock as the background of the layout and framed my pictures with strips of patterned paper. I did have a little fun with my title though! It was a little hard for me to embrace the white space around the edges of the layout but I do think that simplicity is best on this page!”  – Gretchen McElveen, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Fresh Goods Signage (751186)
Fresh Goods Mini ABC Stickers (732079)
Ever After Dimensional JournalingStickers (732050)
Floral Lane ABC Stickers (732053)
Happy Go Lucky ABC Stickers (732035)
Hip Hip Hooray ABC Stickers Pink (732089)
Hip Hip Hooray ABC Stickers Colorful (732090)
Hip Hip Hooray Dimensional Circles (744290)
Hip Hip Hooray Celebration (751231)
Hip Hip Hooray Confetti (751233)
Country Picnic Corrugated ABC Stickers Pink (732097)
Country Picnic Corrugated ABC Stickers Green (732098)
Duplicate Rub Ons Just Because (760251)

“The soft kraft compliments the pinks, and greens in this collection. A variety of papers that are wonderful paired with Easter photos. I kept my page clean, and simple. The patterns in this collection are just that. They need few embellishments, and I used strips of the pattern paper to add interest to the page. I cut out a few of the doily flowers found on the Picket Fence paper to embellish the centers of the pinwheels. Instead of using the entire gift tag, I cut it into two sections. One to stamp my date of my page, and the other to house my journaling that was tucked to the right hand side. Vellum is definitely one of my staples, and I used it here to add subtle texture to the page.” – Suzanne Sergi, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Country Picnic Picket Fence (751241)
Country Picnic Meadow (751243)
Country Picnic Terrace (751246)
Country Picnic Corrugated Natural ABC Stickers (732093)
Country Picnic Layered Gift Tags (747173)

“Easter is coming up so I wanted to take advantage of the cute bird in the New Arrival clean stamp set and use that for Easter cards. I am sending them to our friends that we just recently visited. The Country Picnic collection that I used was a perfect fit for Easter and my friends!”  – Elizabeth Carney, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Country Picnic Cobblestone (751244)
Country Picnic Orchard (751249)
Country Picnic Meadow (751243)
Country Picnic Vineyard (751250)
Country Picnic Corrugated ABC Stickers (732095)
Country Picnic Corrugated ABC Stickers (732094)
Country Picnic Layered Flowers (747172)
Floral Lane ABC Stamps (747106)
New Arrival Clear Stamps (732064)
The Mr. & Mrs. Flower Brads (747089)
The Mr. & Mrs. Pearl Pins (747096)
Felt Embellishments Pink Flowers (747031)

“The Country Picnic line was perfect for an Easter page. I love the combination of the green, kraft and pink; such great spring colors. These pictures were taken on a rather grey day, so it was nice to have a little pick-me-up with the paper!”  – Sarah Webb, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Country Picnic Picket Fence (751241)
Country Picnic Back Porch (751248)
Country Picnic Vineyard (751250)
Country Picnic Layered Paper Flowers (74172)
Country Picnic Corrugated ABC Stickers (732095)
New Addition Girl Ribbon (780010)
Button Candy Dots, Leaf (744272)
Button Candy Dots, White (744270)

First things first, I have a winner to announce from last week’s “Hip Hip Hooray” giveaway. Thank you all so much for your comments. And the lucky winner is …

Congratulations! Please email your full name and mailing information (including your phone number for shipping purposes) to pebblesincdt(at)gmail(dot)com and put “Hip Hip Hooray Winner” in the subject line.

“I had already scrapped my photos from last Easter and the colors in the Hip Hip Hooray line just screamed Easter colors to me so I went with some cards.  I used my Silhouette to cut out egg and bunny images for one card and a larger egg image for the second card.  After that I just added some subtle embellishments to top it off!”  – Christa Paustenbaugh, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Hip Hip Hooray You’re Invited  (751226)
Hip Hip Hooray Let’s Party  (751227)
Hip Hip Hooray Cheers  (751229)
Hip Hip Hooray Yippee  (751230)
Hip Hip Hooray Circle Sequin Candy Dots  (744285)
Hip Hip Hooray ABC Stickers  (732090)
Hip Hip Hooray Dimensional Flowers  (747165)
Country Picnic Clear Raspberry ABC Stickers  (732097)
Orange Glitter Candy Dots  (744220)

“As soon as I saw the cute stitched dimensional stickers I just knew they would make the cutest little bunny rabbit tails!  So I built my card set around that idea and used my Silhouette machine to make the cute Kraft bunnies.  Hip Hip Hooray is the perfect line for Easter with it’s fun pops of color :)”  – Laura Craigie, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Hip Hip Hooray Party Time (751225)
Hip Hip Hooray Happy Day (751232)
Hip Hip Hooray ABC Multi Stickers (732090)
Hip Hip Hooray Stitched Dimensional Circles (744290)
Country Picnic Mini ABC Stickers (732099)

With Easter almost upon us we will be sharing projects with an Easter theme all week long on the Pebbles blog created by some of our talented design team members.

“For my Easter layout, I chose to use the Country Picnic collection.  The floral patterns and pastel colors reminded me of Easter.  And the Dimensional Flowers were just calling my name.  For my title banner, I printed out the letters using my word processor and then cut each one down to a pennant shape.  I adhered the twine to my page and then added the pennants.  So fun!”  – Aphra Bolyer, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Country Picnic Secret Garden (751240)
Country Picnic Vineyard (751250)
Country Picnic Meadow (751243)
Country Picnic Patio (751245)
Country Picnic ABC Stickers (732098)
Country Picnic Dimensional Stickers (732101)
Country Picnic Layered Paper Flowers (747172)
Brown Pearl Candy Dots (744236)

“Easter eggs are the perfect gift when going to a dinner around Easter so I thought I would be perfect to reuse those egg cartons. Perfect presentation for those yummy chocolate and colored eggs.”  – Anna Sigga, Pebbles Design Team Member

Pebbles supplies used:
Hip Hip Hooray Celebration (751231)
Hip Hip Hooray Surprise (751235)
Hip Hip Hooray Sequin Candy Dots (744285)
Hip Hip Hooray Dimensional Circles (744290)
Fresh Goods Mini ABC Stickers (732079)
Country Picnic ABC Stickers (732094)