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Merry Little Christmas with Terhi

Dec

Hello Pebbles Fans, it’s Terhi here with another cheerful Christmas layout.
Just as I told you in my previous post (link here), I’m super excited about the upcoming holiday time. As I can’t be decorating and preparing our home for Christmas, I’ve been focusing on Christmas scrapbooking which I’ve usually almost skipped for numerous reasons.

After the last layout I made, I had all the Merry Little Christmas leftovers laying on the table and I couldn’t stop myself from creating another. To make this layout much more dimensional, I created the lovely layered flowers.

Both the flowers and the wreath are cut with my electronic cutting machine, and as usual I’ve picked the cut files free from charge from the endless world of internet. I guess the flowers aren’t anything like poinsettias, but the color scheme will keep the layout tightly on the Christmas theme.

After cutting the petals were attached to each other. This time I chose to use foam dots instead of glue to give the flowers as much dimension as possible. I also used my fingers to curl, wrinkle and fold the petals to give them a good and pretty look.

Finally I finished the layout with couple of embellishments, and by adding the title on the photograph.

Hope you are inspired by this!
Terhi xx

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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White
734146 Merry Little Christmas Ephemera
734152 Merry Little Christmas 12 x 12 Paper Pad
734145 Merry Little Christmas Ephemera Phrases
734147 Merry Little Christmas Puffy Thickers
734144 Merry Little Christmas Stickers

Documenting Christmas Joy with Terhi

Nov

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Hey Pebbles Fans, are you ready for Christmas?
I AM!
Can’t wait the lights, can’t wait the ginger breads, the chocolate, the tree… Oh, I’m ready for all. But more than anything else, I’m waiting for giving gifts.

This layout was inspired by my passion to give gifts and there’s a very long story behind the picture. As this post would grow way too long if I’d tell the whole story now, I’ll just say I didn’t know I was taking such precious pics when I took these shots couple Christmases ago and will focus now only for the scrapbooking part.
And literally the story IS behind the pic, I couldn’t fit it on the page so it’s written to the backside of the layout.

Last time I created a small Christmas mini book and today I’m using Merry Little Christmas, too. The mini book was easy to make, but trust me this layout is even easier!

Instead of using electricity or any other cutting machines, I created the background of this layout by punching away with one simple star punch. One star is about 1″ wide, so I punched a lot of stars. I used all green-ish patterned papers from Merry Little Christmas line and simply adhered the stars on white cardstock with foam dots.

Then, to give the layout some texture I added some thread on top, again keeping the tones on green. And then on top the photographs. First I was adding only the biggest photo, but soon I thought why not to add a row of smaller pics too. Seeing more faces of my sweet little girl makes the whole Christmas happiness even bigger!

Last phase of the creation process was to add watercolour drops here and there, a title and some embellishments.
Can’t wait to see what this Christmas brings!

Terhi xx
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Happy Cake Day with Terhi

Oct

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Hello everyone! It’s Terhi here with a scrapbook layout made with Happy Cake Day collection! I can’t describe how much I adore the bright and crisp colors this line has. As well as all the balloons, cupcakes, candles and so much more! All so fun and pretty! Instead of picking one or two colors to work with, I added them all to this one layout and it was so fun to do!

Happy Cake Day can be used to all kind of celebrations and everything around parties. For cards, invitations, party decor and of course memory keeping. My younger daughter turned nine just couple weeks ago, and scrapbooking her balloon photos was a true joy with this lovely line!

To make interesting and very large title, I used my electronic cutting machine and cut out a phrase matching perfectly to the birthday theme. The cut file is from Paige Evans, here’s a link to her Facebook group called Happy Scrappy Place from where you can download some cut files for free.

All the letters are backed with different patterned papers. All the Happy Cake Day patterned papers are so pretty! There’s one more patterned paper behind the whole phrase, and only couple carefully chose embellishments next to the photos. I’ve noticed that if you have a title as big as the background, it’s better to keep other elements small.

The Happy Cake Day Puffy Phrase Thickers are great to give your creative project some extra texture. I added couple words to my layout, and continued with other puffy stickers to finish the look.
Hope you are inspired by this!

Terhi xx

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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White
736793 Happy Cake Patterned 12 x 12 Paper Pad
736783 Happy Cake Day Puffy Phrase Thickers
736784 Happy Cake Day Ephemera Icons
736786 Happy Cake Day Puffy Dot Stickers
736787 Happy Cake Day Semi Glossy Puffy Stickers

Peek-A-Boo You with Terhi

Oct

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Hello there, everyone!
Terhi here, with the sweetest scrapbook layout I’ve done so far. Have you seen Pebbles newest line: Peek-a-Boo You – link here!

Peek-a-Boo You is such a pretty, beautiful and playful line. It was a true pleasure creating a scrapbook layout with it. This page I made was for one of my dearest friend, and the baby you see is already turning one.

Even though the baby in the photo is a girl, I felt more comfortable using both girl and boy themed products for the layout. There are separate paper stacks and embellishments for boys and girls, but as you see they all blends together very smoothly.

To create this layout I decided to add dimension and detail by grabbing the “girl” stamp set, and stamped a lot of leaves and butterflies with embossing technique onto patterned papers. Then, I cut the images out.

The background of the layout is created with Paper Fashion metallic watercolours, which are great for making shimmering look even on white cardstock. I splashed around and decided to have a vertical design for the layout.
On top of the watercolors is a cut file from Paige Evans, which I backed with Peek-a-Boo You patterned papers: Jungle Strips for the leaves and Woodland Floral for the flowers.
Then, I placed the photograph on top of the cut file, leaving some thread between. Finally I added the embossed leaves and butterflies on top, and mixed different embellishments around and over the photograph.

There are lots of different ways to reach the kind of sweet and chubby look for a baby layout, but for me layering different embellishments and other elements is the best.
Go ahead and try it out yourself, you’ll love it!

Thank you for stopping by today!
Terhi xx

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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White
734211 Peek-A-Boo You Sticker Sheet Girl
736759 Peek-A-Boo You Ephemera Girl
736758 Peek-A-Boo You Ephemera Boy
736763 Peek-A-Boo You Stamp Set Girl
734205 Peek-A-Boo You patterned paper Jungle Strips
734201 Peek-A-Boo You patterned paper Baby Love You
734202 Peek-A-Boo You patterned paper Woodland Floral

Layered Flower Tutorial by Terhi

Sep

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Hello everyone!
Terhi here to inspire you with a very simple and easy tutorial about layering paper flowers. I will explain it to you, and I also have a video tutorial for you to watch so you can see how it’s all done.

To be honest, I could spend a lifetime just cutting and layering paper. Unfortunately (well, actually fortunately!) that’s not possible, but I do spent a lot of time fussy cutting my favourite papers from Pebbles collections. Adding fussy cut flowers and other shapes to layouts is fun, but sometimes one flat piece of paper is not enough – and this is a problem this post answers.

Often the shapes and images you fussy cut are very detailed. And just as often our use of scissors isn’t as detailed and even as the image or shape. This could cause a problem, but what if you turn your thoughts from a problem to a free way of adding more interest to the layout?
Sounds much better to me!

To create those lovely layered flowers, which you can see in the photographs here, do this:
1. Fussy cut flowers. A lot!
2. Decide how many layers you want to have.
3. Attach two similar flowers together with a drop of glue or use thin 3D foam to avoid waiting the glue to dry.
4. Enjoy your masterpiece and use it in your next project!