Archives for August 2011

Sketchy Thursday

Aug

For today’s edition of “Sketchy Thursday” I asked some of our design team members to create a project based on this fabulous sketch by Becky Fleck.

Design team member Ginger Williams created this fun boy themed layout using lots of different Pebbles collections. Here’s what Ginger had to say … “This was a super fun sketch to work with! I changed it up just a little turning the two photos into three to match the photos I wanted to scrapbook. I also added a little bit of color to the top and bottom of my layout as it felt a little bit empty without it. Mainly I used the Happy Go Lucky Line, but in order to keep it a bit more masculine I used a paper from the New Arrival Boy line for a pop of blue – I think it added the perfect touch!”

Pebbles supplies used:
Happy Go Lucky Cheery (751080)
Happy Go Lucky Glee (751082)
Happy Go Lucky Carefree (751083)
Happy Go Lucky Chipboard Flowers (747071)
Mr. & Mrs. Rings (751100)
New Addition Boy Special Delivery (751066)
Candy Dots Green (744215)

Other supplies used:
Thickers (American Crafts)
Stickers (Cosmo Cricket)
Punches (EK Success)
Tag (Little Yellow Bicycle)

Design team member Natalie Dever created this sweet layout about her daughter’s Prom. Here’s what Natalie had to say … “I love working with sketches. You can follow the sketch exactly or use it as a starting point and make it your own. I especially like how this sketch uses two pictures with different orientations and makes them work so well together.”

Pebbles supplies used:
Ever After Enchanted (751108)
Ever After Blushing Princess (751114)
Ever After Journaling Dimensional Stickers (732050)
Ever After Epoxy Embellishments (747095)
Peony Candy Dots (747102)
The Mr. & Mrs. Tulle (751093)
New Addition Girl Baby Pink ABC Stickers (732020)

Other supplies used:
Cardstock (American Crafts)
Thickers (American Crafts)

Dear Pebbles

Aug

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Good morning everyone! Today we are featuring cards created by some of our design team members using their favorite Pebbles products.

Design team member Suzanne Sergi created this sweet card using the Ever After collection. Here’s what Suzanne had to say … “My daughter has a birthday party to attend this week, so this assignment was perfect for creating a card for her little friend. The Ever After is a sweet collection, fit for a young princess! I used the Fairy Tale patterned paper as my background, and cut a rectangle window to house my birthday sentiment. I am loving the new addition of clear stamps to the Pebbles collection.
Stamping is fast, and is a fabulous way to dress up a card! “

Pebbles supplies used:
Ever After Fairy Tale (751104)
Ever After Magical (751112)
Ever After Blushing Princess (751114)
Ever After Clear Stamps (747104)
Ever After Buttons (747097)
New Addition Girl Buttons (747004)

Other supplies used:
Cardstock (American Crafts)
Ribbon

Design team member Guiseppa Gubler created this adorable card using the Floral Lane collection. I love how she added the Clouds Layered Embellishments as well. Here’s what Guiseppa had to say … “The new Floral Lane collection is so fun to use. I love using this collection to make cards … it’s perfect. I created this card with Floral Lane and also added a Cloud Layered Embellishment and a Toothpick Flag from the Happy Go Lucky collection. I also made this cute paper ruffle for an added special touch. It doesn’t take much to create something fun using Pebbles products.”

Pebbles supplies used:
Floral Lane My Darling (751118)
Floral Lane A Little Hello (751126)
Floral Lane Dimensional Stickers (732054)
Floral Lane Button Candy Dots (747114)
Happy Go Lucky Assorted Toothpick Flags (747067)
Cloud Layered Embellishments (747026)

How To Tuesday

Aug

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First things first, I have a winner to announce from last week’s “Friendship” giveaway. Thank you all so much for your comments. And the lucky winner is …

Congratulations! Please email your full name and mailing information (including your phone number for shipping purposes) to pebblesincdt(at)gmail(dot)com and put “Alphabet Winner” in the subject line.

Design team member Savitri Wilder shares a fun tutorial with us today about creating props for photography using Pebbles products. Here’s what Savitri had to say … “I love How To Tuesday at Pebbles. I love it because I either learn something new or get reminded of something I already know. Today it’s my turn to share a bit of how to and I hope that my little tutorial will either teach or remind you of a little something or another. I’ve been into photography more and the last few weeks I have been either buying props or figuring out how to make some of my own. While doing my research I came across this tutorial and I was inspired. While the examples were quite adorable, I wanted to spruce mine up a bit more and there’s nothing better than Pebbles’ goodies for what I had in mind!”

First of all you need the template. I found the template quite nice. At first I thought it was a bit small but after perching the finished piece on my 7-yrs-old head, it looked really really cute.
Using my good old printer I printed the template out and trimmed around it. After that was done I placed the template on top of the pattern paper. While I didn’t use anything but my left hand to hold the two pieces of paper together, I think it’d be better if the papers were adhered using non-permanent tape. So if you’re not steady with the other hand, do use a non-permanent tape.

You will most likely notice that my piece wasn’t like the template. Well, my friend borrowed my exacto knife and my sharp knives were all in the wash so I decided to do without the tab.

Then I grabbed some Pebbles ribbons and using a glue gun I adhered it. If you look at the photo I left a small piece hanging on the left. I did this on purpose so that I could adhere that piece to the back of the hat. It not only gave the edges a nice finished look, it also helps with fraying. Here’s a tip: Glue gun glues dry quickly. So don’t outline the whole bottom of the base with glue. Do it a bit of a time. So for the above I gave the base about 1.5” of glue and then adhere the ribbon. I kept going until the end. Also, you can decorate your hat however you want. I just decided on the above because I thought it’d look really cute. The method I used was glue, fold a bit, glue, fold a bit, etc.

NOTE: IF you want to hide the hole for where the string to hold the hat up will go hidden, you might want to create the holes before adhering the ribbon. I made the mistake of not doing this and I had to punch my holes above the ribbon. While it ended up looking great it wasn’t meant to be that way.

After the ribbon’s adhered, glue the end pieces behind the hat and glue the hat together. What I did for this part was lined one end of the hat with my glue gun and then stick. To cover the top hole I used a small pom-pom.

I could have been done but the hat just seemed so empty and so I went back to work. I remember a tutorial by Laura Vegas a few Tuesdays back and decided to use a similar method to create some flowers.

Instead of sewing, I pulled the stitching that goes through one part of the ribbon gently. Using the glue gun I adhere the edge and around and created this flower. It’s not perfect but that’s ok. I will use one of Pebbles brads to cover up all the imperfections.

I made three of the above and after adding the brads and gluing them to the hat, my hat now looks like this below:

As I mentioned above I forgot to punch holes on the sides of the hat for the strings so my holes are above the ribbon. With the long jute it looks great but it was a close one {::SMILES}.

If you are wondering how it looks like on one’s head, here is an example:

Pebbles supplies used:
Happy Go Lucky Glee (751082)
Happy Go Lucky Flower Brads (747075)
Raspberry Ribbon (744030)

Other supplies used:
Jute Twine
Pom Poms

Mix & Match Monday

Aug

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Happy Monday everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend. Today on the Pebbles blog we’ll be mixing and matching some Pebbles products to show you just how well our collections can be used with one another.

Design team member Melinda Spinks created this sweet layout to celebrate a new furry addition to the family. Here’s what Melinda had to say … “An assignment to mix and match Pebbles collections isn’t really an assignment at all, it’s basically an opportunity to simply scrap with what you love. Pebbles collections all seem to blend beautifully no matter what the theme or colour, so really it was a joy to put this layout together. I grabbed out all the paper I had from both Happy Go Lucky and Ever After and to be honest, I actually had to look twice to see which range I was using as they all matched perfectly. I created a layout based around the newest addition to our family who arrived this weekend and has been the centre of attention ever since. Introducing Mr Wilson, our long awaited Rag Doll kitten and he’s just the sweetest darn thing who loves to sit and watch me scrap … awww!”

Pebbles supplies used:
Happy Go Lucky Cheery (751080)
Happy Go Lucky Splendid (751081)
Happy Go Lucky Glee (751082)
Happy Go Lucky Carefree (751083)
Happy Go Lucky Tickled Pink (751084)
Happy Go Lucky Delight (751086)
Happy Go Lucky Embossed Border Stickers (732037)
Happy Go Lucky Dimensional Stickers (732038)
Happy Go Lucky Chipboard Flowers (747071)
Ever After Fairy Tale (751104)
Ever After Princess Tiara (751105)
Ever After Royal Garden (751106)
Ever After Magical Forest (751110)
Ever After Prince Charming (751111)
Ever After Enchanted (751108)
Ever After Blushing Princess (751114)
Ever After 12″ Cardstock Stickers (732048)
Baby Pink Candy Dots (744233)
New Arrival Girl 4×9 Rub Ons (735003)
New Arrival Boy 4×9 Rub Ons (735004)

Other supplies used:
Cardstock (American Crafts)
Rub Ons (American Crafts)

Design team member Jennifer Yates created this fabulous card using a combination of several different Pebbles collections. Here’s what Jennifer had to say … “When I saw this quote “Follow your Dreams” from the Floral Lane Phrase Embellishments I knew right away I wanted to incorporate the Layered Cloud Embellishments with it. I used black patterned paper from Mr. & Mrs. collection as the base to all the bright colors in the card. The papers from all the collections really work so well together!”

Pebbles supplies used:
Mr & Mrs Tulle (751093)
Happy Go Lucky Cheery Varnish (751080)
Ever After Royal Banner (751115)
Floral Lane Your Sweet (751121)
Floral Lane Phrase (732054)
Floral Lane Icon Stickers (732056)
Layered Embellishments – Clouds (747026)

Other supplies used:
Adhesive (American Crafts)

Design team member Stephanie Baxter recreated one of her favorite Pebbles embellishments – toothpick flags – using papers from several different collections. Here’s what Stephanie had to say … “One of my all-time favourite Pebbles products is the Happy Go Lucky Toothpick Flags … they are just super cute! I wanted to be able to have the same sort of embellishment but in some of the other patterns that Pebbles has to offer so I decided to make my own versions by cutting out strips of patterned paper from the various Pebbles collections, snipping the end into a flag shape and adhering them to toothpicks by folding the paper strips in half and putting adhesive in between. These would look great on a scrapbook page but today I decided to pair them with some of the Duplicate Rub-Ons to make fun cupcake toppers.”

Pebbles supplies used:
Happy Go Lucky Carefree (751083)
Happy Go Lucky Dimensional Stickers (732038
Ever After Royal Banner (751115)
Ever After Dimensional Stickers (732049)
Floral Lane Memory Lane (751119)
Floral Lane With Delight (751124)New Addition Duplicate Rub Ons – Boy (760247)
Happy Birthday Brown Duplicate Rub Ons (760223)

Other supplies used:
Adhesive (American Crafts)
Toothpicks