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Quick and Easy “Celebrate” Card

Feb

Hi Pebbles friends! Wendy Sue here today, sharing a quick and easy “Celebrate” card I created with the fun new collection called “Chasing Adventures.” With so many amazing themes and color combos to choose from, it was hard to narrow it down, but I fell in love with these cute little taxi illustrations and just knew I had to use them on a card! Here’s a peek at the card duo I made – keep reading for a simple step-by-step plan for creating it yourself!

Quick and Easy "Celebrate" card by Wendy Sue Anderson featuring the "Chasing Adventures" collection by Jen Hadfield for @PebblesInc.

Start by gathering and prepping the following items (sizes are indicated on the photo):

The first step is optional, but one I always love – use a sewing machine to stitch around the edges of the dot paper.

Place the dot paper in the center of the yellow paper.

Next, place the taxi paper on the bottom portion of the dot paper.

Add the strip of white cardstock above the taxi paper, tucking it slightly under the top edge.

Add the sentiment (this could be printed, die-cut, or even hand-written) onto the white cardstock strip.

I forgot to take a photo, but the next step is to add the small patterned paper strip above the sentiment. Place it over the top of the white cardstock so there is an even amount of space above and below the sentiment.

The next step is to punch (or poke) small holes in the four corners of the sentiment box. Stitch the twine through the holes and tie a bow on the bottom left side.

Next, add the dimensional sticker above, and slightly to the right of, the sentiment box.

Finally, place the entire card front onto the white cardstock card base!

That’s it! Wasn’t it easy?? And wouldn’t it be fun to use this same basic design with different papers, stickers, and sentiments? The possibilities are endless! Coincidentally, I just couldn’t stop at one card – and I had plenty of paper to make another identical card (actually I could have made several cards with only a few pieces of patterned paper!) – the only difference is that I used a puffy sticker taxi cab instead of a thicker!

Thanks for joining us on the blog today!

If you use this tutorial, please share your creations with us by linking in the comments!!

—Wendy Sue

Supplies:

Chasing Adventures “Savanna” Patterned Paper
Chasing Adventures “Big City” Patterned Paper
Chasing Adventures Puffy Stickers
Chasing Adventures Thickers
White Cardstock
Grey Cardstock
Yellow Twine
Scissors
Sticky Thumb Adhesive

A summer-themed project with Anna, our guest designer for the day!

Feb

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Hello Pebbles fans. My name is Anna Komenda and I am so happy to be here as a Guest Designer. I had a freedom of creating whatever I wanted… so I decided to play with the “Patio Party” and “My Bright Life” collections. We are in the middle of winter here in Poland and I miss warm, summer days so much. I love coming back to those memories to brighten up cold and gray winter days.

I decided to scrap some pictures of my daughter picking up fruits at my parent’s orchard. Both the “Patio party” and “My Bright Life” collections have some cute strawberries, watermelons and cherries as embellishments, so it was easy to match this theme.

I created a dreamy, watercolor background and added a composition made of few pattern papers. It was a fast and easy job. You can follow my creative process by watching the video I recorded for you HERE.

It was a pleasure to be here with you. If you want to stay in touch with me, you can follow me on Instagram.

Thank you for stopping by.

Anna

Quick and Easy Valentine Tags

Jan

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Hello friends! It feels like I just put my Christmas decorations away and it’s already time to start putting together fun Valentine’s Day gifts. My favorite way to personalize a store-bought gift (ie candy) is to make a cute little tag – so that’s why I decided to whip up a set of quick and easy Valentine tags! Here’s how they turned out, but keep scrolling down to see just how easy they are to create with the “Loves Me” 6×6 paper pad!

Quick and Easy Valentine Tags by Wendy Sue Anderson featuring the "Loves Me" Collection by @PebblesInc.

Here’s a look at the supplies I used:

I started by choosing a few fun patterns from the 6×6 Paper Pad. Using a metal die, I cut several tags from each paper. You could also use a digital cut file OR even cut them by hand!

Next, I used a rectangular metal die (I like this one with faux stitching marks) to cut out the mini cards from this paper:

And in the spirit of prepping everything before I actually started, I used an old heart punch from my tool stash to cut some hearts from this cut heart patterned paper:

Here’s how quick and easy they were to assemble after all the pieces were cut out! I layered one of the mini cards on top of the tag.

Next, I cut the bottom off of one of the coordinating tags and attached it to the bottom, overlapping the card.

I cut a strip from yet another pre-cut tag, making sure the pattern was different, and placed it at the top of the bottom piece.

I used a pop-dot to attach one of the hearts:

And then I pulled some ribbon from my stash to tie through the hole:

It’s so easy to whip up a bunch of these cute little tags in a hurry – and it’s also a fun project the kids can help with! Simply write to/from or a sentiment on the back and you’re good to go!

It really is a quick and easy way to add a touch of handmade love to any Valentine’s Day treat!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you!!

Wendy Sue

Pebbles Supplies Used:
Loves Me 6×6 Paper Pad

Valentine’s Wiper Card

Jan

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Hello everyone! It’s Eva on the blog today sharing with you a tutorial on how to create a quick and easy Wiper card with the new Loves Me collection.

Create an easy Valentine's Wiper Card with this tutorial from @evapizarrov using @pebblesinc new line Loves Me #pebblesinc #madewithpebbles

If you want to create a simple but stunning card this is the one for you! It’s very easy and you can make them in bulk and surprise your loved ones! Plus, the collection designs are super cute so you don’t need to add much embellishments to this cards.

To create the card, start by cutting 2 – 5-inch x 3 1/4 inch pieces of cardstock. Score the cards on the long side at 1 and 1 3/4 inch.

Cut a 3/4 inch piece of cardstock or acetate and bend the tip at a 45 degree angle. (here I am using a piece of cardstock but on the final card I used acetate)

To assemble the card you will need to glue the little piece of cardstock to the 3/4 inch panel on the top of your card.

Put some adhesive on the 1 inch panel of each cardstock and then glue the two card bases making sure one fold is on the right side and one on the left side

To create the front of the card I simply cut this 12 x 12 paper. It’s perfect because it has 9 lovely 3×3 squares!

To embellish the card I put a die cut on my little piece of acetate and a piece of washi tape on the hidden pannel.

This is what the card looks like when it is closed. If you don’t want any piece of embellishment to pop simply attached it to the edge of the acetate! I couldn’t do it because my die cut was too long! I don’t mind, I think it is a way of telling the recipient that there is something hidden.

You can even leave the card on your desk because it stands of its own! How cute are those foxes? This collection is one of my favorites so far!

What do you think? Have you ever made a Wiper card?

Eva

Supplies
Loves Me Patterned Paper
Loves Me Washi Tape
Loves Me Ephemera

Valentine’s Day Card gone Wild with Terhi

Jan

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Hello there Pebbles Fans, it’s Terhi Koskinen here today with some very very lovely and sweet ideas for the upcoming Valentine’s Day!

This is a card. Or a mini book. Or a book. I don’t know. But no matter what it is, it is load with cute things and it will be sent to my best friend on 14th of February to make her day a bit happier.
Before starting to do anything, I had a vision in my mind to create a mini book full of love and memories from the happiest times with my loved one, but once I flipped through the ‘Loves Me’ patterned papers I knew I had to do a card – or something card-like to be send away.

I started the process by cutting out the tags from one of the patterned papers, and to add one tag with foil effect I also used the 6″x6″ paper pad.

The tags are sized 2″x3″, and to cover the back side partly of each I cut 1 1/4″x2″ sized pieces from another patterned paper. To make the result smooth and balanced, I only used one pattern to the back sides.

Then I continued the cutting fun by cutting out several blooms and flowers from one of the papers to be the embellishments.

As soon as I had all the tags ready, all blooms cut out and my foam dots on the table, I started to adhere the blooms onto the tags. In addition, few of tags got a phrase or two to complete the look.

The phrases and words are all cut out from patterned papers too. And as this card is mini book-like already, I wanted to braid some embroidery threads and decorate it with some charms and tassels – now the look of this card/book/whatever will be perfect!
To finish the process I took one metal ring and hang all the tags to it. The braid is on top of everything, hanging wild like the koalas.

Inspired? I hope you are! I never knew I’d love Valentine’s Day crafts this much!

Who could resist those cute koalas!?

Hope you’ll have a great day, full of love and sweet things!

Terhi xx

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Supplies:

340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71081 Textured Cardstock White
Loves Me Patterned Papers