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Use your scraps!

08
Jul
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Hello everyone! It’s Eva on the blog today sharing a layout using only paper scraps!

I know you probably have a pile of scraps on your craft room that keeps getting bigger and bigger! now it is time to use your scraps and create a fun and easy layout in minutes!

To start, cut strips of paper from your scraps. You can make them any width you want, it really doesn’t matter

Next, cut a big shape or a letter from a piece of cardstock. I chose the letter “W” because I wanted to scrap about the relationship my son has with the water these days. Glue your strips of paper in any order you want. I used the colorful papers from the “Oh, Summertime” line and place them in random order.

Once your letter is finished place it over your cardstock and position your photo.

Now all you have to do is decorate your layout! I put this colorful strip of paper on the top with a die cut.


On the left of the letter I wrote my journaling and added the title “water”

Finally, I placed other paper scraps and die cuts behind my photo.

This layout was very fast and I only used scraps from other projects! I love how bright and fun are the patterns in this collection, it is perfect for all your summer photos!

Thanks for joining me and have a great day!

Eva

Supplies
Oh, Summertime Papers
Oh, Summertime Ephemera 

Filed Under: Layout, Summer Tagged With: Eva Pizarro, Layout, oh summertime

USS Missouri

24
Jun
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Hello Pebbles friends. Marcia here today kicking off patriotic week at Pebbles. I pulled lots of red, white, and blue pattern papers from the Oh Summertime, Chasing Adventures, and Big Top Dreams collections and created a layout about a visit to the USS Missouri battleship in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Because I had little in the way of patriotic embellishments, I wanted to make the pattern papers work for me by using a digital cut file I designed myself and creating a fun banner with the Jen Hadfield Banner Punch Board.

That dark blue pattern paper makes a bold statement as my background with the die cut stars don’t you think. To add dimension, I created a festive banner with my Banner Punch Board. I machine stitched these triangles together. I made it a little easier to work with the banner.

Other embellishments were kept to a minimum. The ship in a bottle from the Chasing Adventures collection was the perfect touch, layered on top of a tag.

I used some older Thickers I had in my stash for my title and added a few journaling strips below my banner.

If you are interested in watching my scrapbook process video click on the link below.

There is a lot you can do with just your pattern papers and the right tools! Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Chasing Adventures Collection – papers and ephemera
Oh Summertime Collection
Big Top Dreams Collection
Banner Punch Board
Thickers – Memo Newsprint

~Marcia

Filed Under: American Crafts, Banner, Inspiration, Layout, Summer, We R Memory Keepers Tagged With: Banner Punch Board, Big Top Dreams, chasing adventures, Layout, oh summertime, Patriotic, Process Video, scrapbook layout, scrapbooking, YouTube

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project

19
Jun
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Well, we’re two weeks into summer break and I am starting to hear the dreaded cry of “I’m bored” already!! Can anyone relate? We usually put together a fun family “bucket list” every summer, but we hadn’t gotten around to it yet this year. I decided to put together a quick and easy summer bucket list project and I’ll have my kids help me finish it up.
Follow along below to see how I made it!

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Start by cutting a 12×12 paper down to 8 1/2″ x 12″ and score the bottom at 8 1/2.” I love this gingham print with suitcases on the back from the “Chasing Adventures” collection!

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.
Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Use a sewing machine to stitch down the sides to make a pocket. (If you don’t want to sew it, you can just use adhesive to secure the sides). I embellished it just a bit with a couple of strips of fun coordinating washi tape.

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Next, attach the entire piece to the bottom portion of an 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of heavy white cardstock (you want it to be sturdy). Add another strip of coordinating paper to the top portion to cover the white cardstock.

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Cut a strip of white cardstock into a banner shape and add stickers and other embellishments to create the title “Summer Adventures!”

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Now add this piece to the top portion of the background.

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

You could stop here…OR you could add some additional embellishments to the pocket. You know I can’t resist a fun tag or two! 😉

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Now it’s time to cut some paper strips for the “bucket” items! I cut several 1″ x 6″ strips of white cardstock and added a cute little sticker to the top of each one.

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

These strips will eventually be tucked into the pocket:

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Go ahead and place the entire piece on a clipboard (I love these older Pebbles clipboards so much and I use them whenever I can). Find some fun pens for the kids to use and hand it over to them. Have them write on the paper strips to list some fun activities they would like to do before the first school bell rings in a few months! (We all know how quickly time flies, it’ll be here before we know it!). Take time to make memories and enjoy spending time together. I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial and make a quick and easy summer bucket list for yourself!

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

—Wendy Sue

Supplies:
Chasing Adventures Collection – papers, ephemera, stickers, washi tape, and thickers

Filed Under: DIY, Summer, Tutorial Tagged With: chasing adventures, Summer Bucket List, Wendy Sue Anderson

Blooming Layout in 5 Steps with Terhi

07
Jun
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Hey all, Terhi here again!
I’m so excited to inspire you with this bright, happy and fun scrapbook page, made with many small bloom and greens.
The photograph on the page was snapped last winter on our holiday in Spain. Even though it was a bit windy and rainy, my girls insisted to go for a swim. And there they were, happily floating and being the only kids in the hotel pool. That was the point in my life that I finally realised that we really are Finnish: If it’s not snowing, it must be summer! Anyway, to balance a bit the fact that it wasn’t just as warm as we hoped, I decided to create very warm, sunny and blooming page around this memory.
Next I’ll tell you how to create one yourself.

Step 1: To start creating I searched for a nice cut file for my electric cutting machine. Sweet Paige Evans has some great designs, and there are bunch of cut files for free too!
If you don’t have a cutting machine and still wish to repeat this page, I’ll give you ideas to complete it.
Grab your punches, dies or draw and cut. Even if you think you can’t draw a flower, I’m pretty sure you can! Just draw a simple bloom with five petals, and then repeat it in couple of different sized and cut all out. Or, if you have flower punches or dies, just punch a lot of flowers in two different colors.

Step 2: No matter how you made the cutting part, next you need to start folding. I’m used to fold the blooms the way that I gently press the bloom against my palm. I’ve heard some likes to flick water on the paper first, as wet paper is easier to modify to a new shape. However, I like to keep my pretty patterned papers dry, and just patiently press and fold until the bloom has got some nice roundness. This folding process has to be done to all of the blooms, even for the smallest ones, if you wish to have airy and real-looking flowers to your layout.

Step 3: Next step is to glue the flowers together, using liquid glue. I chose to use pink and yellow papers from Oh Summertime collection, and add them on top of each other in turns. Last, I added small circle piece of paper to the middle.

Step 4: The green leaves and flourishes on the background are again another beautiful cut file, but you can again just cut some out of green paper (Under the Sea) or take a step further and maybe use green texture paint through a stencil. Or paint green flourishes with watercolours. Oh, the choices are endless! Just aim to flat green design on the background.

Step 5: Last I adhered first the photograph to the right side of the page leaving about half inch from the edge. Then I adhered the flowers to the layout using Sticky Thumb foam dots. I was almost finishing already at this point, but decided to add couple stickers here and there, then left it alone.
That’s it – Voilá!

Feel inspired? Hope so!
Have a great day!
Terhi xx 
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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White 
734108 Oh Summertime Patterned Paper Scoops
734101 Oh Summertime Patterned Paper Bee Happy
734105 Oh Summertime Patterned Paper Under the Sea
734087 Oh Summertime Clear Stickers

Filed Under: Flowers, Layout, Summer Tagged With: Flowers, oh summertime, scrapbook layout, scrapbooking, Terhi Koskinen

Shelling

05
Jun
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia here today. This week the theme we were given for inspiration was ‘Poolside’. I figured ocean waves fit just as well and I could knock out a layout from a family vacation in beautiful Myrtle Beach South Carolina. We had lots of fun searching for unique shells and found a few sea creatures as well. The fun Pebbles Oh Summertime collection was perfect to document our beach adventures.

I wanted to showcase all the washi tape from the collection on my layout. On a piece of 8.5 x 11 cardstock, I layered washi tape all down one side. This was then mounted on a 12 x 12 piece of pattern paper. Don’t you love those fish scales? or maybe I should say mermaid scales.

I arranged multiple photos over the washi tape using foam adhesive to add some dimension. I can’t resist adding a bit of sunshine on my summer layouts to set the mood, so here I added a die cut sun. I love the all the fun water elements in this collection too, like this mermaid, jelly fish, and seaweed.

I created an eye-catching big title and backed it with a striped pattern paper that coordinated so well with my background paper.

Are you ready for summer yet? I sure am!

Supplies:
734097 Oh Summertime 12×12 Paper Pad
734094 Oh Summertime Ephemera 
734090 Oh Summertime Washi Tape
340272 Sticky Thumb Foam Dimensional Dots

Thanks so much for stopping by!
~Marcia

Filed Under: Layout, Summer, Uncategorized Tagged With: Beach, Die Cuts, ephemera die-cuts, Layout, Marcia Dehn-Nix, oh summertime, Summer, washi tape

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