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Hey friends, Becki here. I am so excited to share a little piece of Spring with you today. During the months of January, February, and (sometimes) March I get SO tired of Winter and look forward to anything Spring related. I was thrilled when the new Tealightful collection landed on my doorstep because of it’s beautiful Spring color palette and theme. I wanted to create a beautiful piece of DIY Spring Home Decor to display in my home. I started by trimming a piece of patterned paper down to 8×10 to fit into my cream colored frame.

Then, I cut twenty 2×2 squares out of various patterned papers from the Tealightful collection. I adhered them around the edge of the 8×10 piece of patterned paper. Then I dove into my collection of stickers and die cuts to embellish the center of the frame.

Then…comes the my favorite part. I LOVE Thickers and use them as much as possible so I added the frame sentiment with Thickers from the new Simple Life collection.

After I had my papers, embellishments, and Thickers in place, I took the whole project to my sewing machine to add a little bit of machine stitching. I stitched around the inside of the paper squares twice and at the bottom of the Thickers.

When you take a closer look at the DIY Spring home decor piece I created you’ll see that it isn’t under glass in the frame. I left the glass out of the frame so that you could really see the texture and dimension on the artwork.

I love the dimension the Thickers add to this project! The stitching also adds additional texture to artwork.

In addition to the texture from the Thickers, I also adhered my die cuts with pop dots. By adhering the die cuts with pop dots the kite and the clouds “float” off the frame and add just a little bit more interest.

I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait for Spring!! I’m so excited to have a little bit of Spring in my living room with this DIY Spring home decor. Thanks for stopping by the Pebbles blog today. I’ll see you again soon!

Supplies:

Tealightful Transparent Stickers 733539

Tealightful Ephemera 733540

Simple Life Thickers 733488

Floral Patchwork Patterned Paper 733535

Daydream Patterned Paper 733537

Bouquet Patterned Paper 733527

Delicate Lace Patterned Paper 733528

Lovely Lilacs Patterned Paper 733534

Meadow Patterned Paper 733532

Lanterns Patterned Paper 733533

Quick Snowflake Themed Gift Bag

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I don’t know about you, but sometimes January feels a little bit sad. There are no big holidays to celebrate, decorate for, or give gifts. This January, especially, we’ve had SO much snow and it’s been so super cold that we haven’t really even gone out much unless it was necessary. I decided to stop feeling down about it, and create something beautiful instead. So, I whipped up these little “snowflake themed” gift bags! It was kind of a fun challenge to create a project that screamed “winter,” but not “Christmas.” I think I did it though – what do you think?
Create a snowflake themed gift bag like this one by @wendysue using the "warm & cozy" collection and a few fun embellishments from the "home+made" collections by @pebblesinc

These little bags will be fun to fill with a treat or a little gift to share with some of my friends who have also been “snow-bound” for the last little while.

Here’s how quick and easy they are to make:

Start by gathering the supplies. The polka-dot glitter gift kraft bags, the gold circle stickers, and the phrase tags are from the Home+Made collection by Jen Hadfield. I cut the snowflake shapes from the “b” side of the “tweed” patterned paper from the “Warm & Cozy” collection using my Silhouette. I have always been a fan of snowflake embellishments that weren’t just plain white – this text paper was a perfect choice for me. The buffalo plaid paper is also from the “Warm & Cozy” collection, it’s called “Antlers.” I also pulled some black twine and foam adhesive from my stash.