Fancy Pants–Trend Setter

Have you guys seen the latest Fancy Pants releases from the CHA winter show?  I seriously love them all!  A show favorite was Trend Setter.  I personally am just SO happy to see navy blue in scrapbooking supplies!

I created these Trend Setter projects for the Fancy Pants booth:

I love classic patterns… chevrons, dots, and stripes, oh my!

And a fun card:

This fresh color scheme makes me happy.  I love a good spring line that isn’t pastel or cutesy so this collection will keep me busy for a while!

Woven Paper Heart Basket

Hey there everyone!  The month of love is in full swing around here and today I’m bringing you a tutorial for this woven paper heart basket on the Fancy Pants blog.  We’re hopping with Tombow this week and using a variety of their fabulous adhesives to create Valentine projects with the Love Note collection.

To see the full instructions for how to weave the basket go on over to the Fancy Pants blog.  And keep checking back all week for more Love Note inspiration with Tombow!

Playing Catch Up!

Oh, I am so so behind in my blogging!  The holidays with two little ones were wonderful but exhausting and I’ve just been treading water with getting things done.  Please forgive a couple of Christmas projects!

These first ones are some simple little gifts for our mailman and daycare provider. 

I used Home for Christmas from Fancy Pants for these.  Mr. Mailman got his with a nice sweet pack of lottery tickets.  Our daycare provider got the card with a Target gift card.

This layout also uses Home for Christmas and was included in the winter issue of PaperHaus.  If you haven’t read this magazine yet you are definitely missing out!  Every single page is filled with beauty. 

Thanks for indulging my lateness!

Living The Good Life

I always forget to update my blog with work I’ve posted on other blogs!  So today you’re getting something I posted last month but ANYtime is a good time to see a bit from The Good Life from Fancy Pants.  This is pretty much the most versatile line ever. 
(on a side note, can anyone tell me why my photos post SO much more dull looking on my blog than they seem anywhere else??)

Thanks for taking a peek today!

Still Need a Last Minute Gift?

Everyone needs a cute 2013 desk calendar, right??  I have instructions up at Fancy Pants on how to make this little bad boy! Make it assembly line style and badabing… DONE! 

                                      
I used The Good Life and each page is tailored a bit to the month represented. 

To see more pages and the full instructions head on over to Fancy Pants!

Today!

Join Jodi, Kim, and me today for a FREE class from Fancy Pants Designs!

A Spooky Month

In case you missed it last week on the Fancy Pants blog, here’s a fun little Halloween project for you.  Did you know Fancy Pants has free downloadable goodies every Friday?  And each month one of those is a calendar.  I took the October calendar and turned it into both a functional and decorative piece for my desk.  Yes, I still like a good old fashioned written schedule!

See the full instructions on how I made this here.

Halloween Harvest

October is my favorite month… the crisp leaves, Halloween fun, and the traditions (and eating) that comes along with harvest time!

Paper Issues is kicking off the new Halloween Harvest theme till October 20th and YOU could win your choice of kit from Gossamer Blue!


Like Gossamer Blue on Facebook and start following their blog, too, and you could win one of their fabulously coordinated kits. 

And if you need to shop before you can create (don’t we all!?) head on over to the Paper Issues store with the coupon code “SCRAPGOO” and save yourself 20% on everything.  Yeah, harvest that!!

In honor of the Halloween Harvest theme I created these haunted butterfly houses:

These are made from small wood birdhouses, wood candlestick holders, and the Fancy Pants Oct. 31 digital collection.  I pulled off a hybrid project by printing the papers and embellishments and fussy cutting them. 

               

Check out the inspiration from more of the Paper Issues gals on the hop today:
1. Jess (you are here!) 
2. Mandy 
3. Leah
4. Carrie
5. Lizzie
6. Marlene
Thanks for taking a look today and don’t forget to link up your Halloween/Harvest pages, cards, and projects over at the Paper Issues blog!

This project has been linked up to Made by You Monday at Skip to my Lou!

World Card Making Day

Ohhh, the interwebs is abuzz with World Card Making Day!  It seems like everyone is busting out the paper scraps and sentiment stamps to celebrate and I surely can’t be left behind! 

Fancy Pants has teamed up with a favorite of mine… Operation Write Home.  OWH sends cards overseas to our men and women in uniform for them to send home to their loved ones.  I highly recommend checking out exactly what they do and contributing! Head on over to the Fancy Pants blog to see some inspiring cards, a blog hop, and giveaways!

I created this baby card using the Hopscotch collection and an Artist Edition alphabet card:

Paper Issues is also having a ton of fun today on our Facebook page! 

We’re giving away four $20 Paper Issues gift certificates to lucky peeps who post a card to our wall.  Easy!
Annnnnnnd… don’t forget that you can use my code “SCRAPGOO” in the Paper Issues store *anytime* for a cool 20% off!

Here are a couple of super simple toddler birthday cards I whipped up last month.  We had a three year old girl’s birthday to attend:

And a four year old boy’s fire truck party too:

Both of these were cut with the Silhouette.  The circus tent card uses Fancy Pants’ Summer Soul collection and the fire truck card is entirely cardstock… which I never do!

Finally, if you need a challenge to get your mojo flowing head on over to Pink Paislee where you can enter to win the entire City Sidewalks collection!

All you have to do is create a card around any of our 5 challenges:
Make It Masculine
Make A Shadowbox Front
Make It Mini
Stamp, Stack & Stick
Make A Custom Shape

You can link up an image of your card to any blog post from this week or link up your project on the Pink Paislee Facebook page. 

So have fun carding today and don’t get too lost in all the fantastic inspiration around the web!  Go get gluing!

A Haus Warming Party!

This is it! The first issue of PaperHaus Magazine is about to go live on September 1st and we’re going to be partying all week at the PaperHaus blog and on contributor blogs as well. Join us for peeks at an awesome digital magazine that will knock your socks off, personal and manufacturer giveaways, and inspiring projects.

The blog hop both starts and ends at the PaperHaus blog so please bounce on over there first if you’re just hearing of this hop from me.  The details on the BIG giveaways, a contest, and the new issue will be there.

PaperHaus
Frank Garcia
Christina Colón
Paper Issues
Jodie Lee
Missy Gener
Peg Hewitt
Jodi Williams Baune
Carrie Walz
Lowri McNabb
Lori Hairston
Diana Fisher
Aimee Maddern
Izzy Anderson
Jess Mutty (you are here!)
Christina Heeren
Corri Garza
Sabrina Alery
Sarah Andreotti
Shellye McDaniel 
Jamie Dougherty
Kate Vickers
Kristy Dalman  
Melissa Priest
PaperHaus

In honor of the launch of this fabulous new magazine I whipped up a couple of cards.  A “thanks” to all of you for visiting this week and helping to make this magazine a huge success and a balloon to “launch” us up and away into a bright future!

 

Both cards are made with the Time for Spring collection from Fancy Pants. 

 

Balloon and clouds cut with the Silhouette.

And of course I wouldn’t leave you without a RAK giveaway for this momentous event!  Leave a comment and follow my blog to be entered to win this prize pack from me.  All winners will be announced on the PaperHaus blog on September 2nd and I will also announce my winner here. 


Remember you have ALL week to hit up the blog list!  Many of the blogs have amazing prizes up for grabs and ALL of them are filled with creativity.  Please join us in our enthusiasm for PaperHaus Magazine!

Here Comes the Bride

Summer is typically wedding season and this summer was no exception for me.  I missed TWO weddings due to having a baby! But of course I still like to send our congratulations to the happy couple.  Today I am sharing a wedding set… a card and a matching box. 

This set is made with the Country Boutique collection from Fancy Pants and both the card and box were cut on the Silhouette. 

 

The card cut was super intricate but I love the end result! The “B” is the new couple’s initial. 

 

The dress box is the perfect size to store a gift card.  I fussy cut the flowers from patterned paper and added a bias tape sash to match the card. So pretty!

Heavy Lifting

Last week I kicked off the first of the “Layout Lifts” over on the Fancy Pants blog.  I used this fun page from Piradee Talvanna:


It struck me as simple but so very fun. I loved the dimensional pennants and the bright colors of Summer Soul.

My layout is a pretty close lift, design wise. I used Time for Spring and some neutrals from Country Boutique and created a more masculine page.

I chose to stitch around each of my flags and keep them flat. I exchanged the filter paper flower for a more masculine accordion circle and switched up the title placement a bit. But ... there is no mistaking that this is a scraplift! My black and white photo looked great with the cool greys from Country Boutique and I love how the colors from Time for Spring pop.

I used bits and pieces of chipboard from other lines as well. So many of the recent Fancy Pants Designs collections can be mixed and matched to get exactly the look you need. 
Thanks to Piradee for the inspiration here. Like sketches, lifts can really get your mojo flowing. The end result can be very close to the original or look absolutely nothing like it by the time you are done, but it is a jumping off point either way.