Archives for September 2014

Sweater Weather Layout

Sep

Hello, everyone! It’s Becki here to share a layout I created with the Home+Made collection. It’s no secret, Fall is my favorite season. I love love LOVE sweater season! This year when I took my kids school shopping I treated myself to a new cardigan sweater and some new books.

Let me walk you through this cute layout so you can recreate it and make your own sweater weather layout!

I decided to make journaling cards from the 3×4 cards for a “book review” of sorts. I thought it would be fun for me to write down a few thoughts after I finished reading the books I bought.

I added a bit of washi tape to create a tab on each of the cards.

On the backside of the cards I wrote the title of each of the books. I slipped them into the paper bag. I’ll write my review of the books when I’m finished reading them.

I couldn’t finish this layout without a little bit of sparkle…okay, a lot of sparkle. The scalloped gold tape finds its way onto most of my projects these days, I can’t resist it.

And here’s the completed layout:

Cardigan sweaters and books are my comforts. What are yours?
Thanks for stopping by the Pebbles blog today.

Supplies:
Homemade Double Sided Cardstock 12×12 Aqua Floral PHMP-32589
Homemade Double-Sided Cardstock 12X12 Smiley Chalk PHMP-32597
Homemade Double-Sided Cardstock 12X121905 Pine PHMP-32605
Homemade Double-Sided Cardstock 12X12 Best Day Ever PHMP-32601
Homemade Double-Sided Cardstock 12X12 Cottage Blues PHMP-32602
Homemade Cardstock Stickers 6″X12″ 2/Sheets Phrase & Accent 732611
Homemade Kraft Bags 12/Pkg W/Glitter Accents 732635
Pebbles Dies Homemade – Banners 732638
Homemade Large Alpha Stickers 5/Sheets Black 732640
Homemade Decorative Tape 16.4yds 2 Designs – Numbers & Glitter 732626

Cozy Fall Cards

Sep

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Fall is in the air! Amanda here today with a trio of cozy fall cards. One of my favorite parts of fall is rediscovering my collection of soft, bulky sweaters. I admire them all year long as I wait for the air to feel crisp.

Using sweaters as my inspiration, I created cards with rich earth tones and soft textures.

The gray and white striped background on this card is just like my waffle knit cardigan that I wear around the house on chilly mornings. I paired the stripes with glittery gold polka dots on kraft and some pretty, feminine flowers.

I anchored a bundle of natural jute twine to the face of the card with a cluster of flowers. The flowers are fussy cut from the same sheet of 12″x12″ paper.

The zigzag pattern on the blue patterned paper reminded me of the lines that are formed on a knit sweater. The polka dot burlap leaves and glittery gold circle add texture and richness to this cozy fall card.

I die cut several paper flowers and layered them together to create the large flower. I added extra dimension to the flower by curling the petals in different directions.

The dark gray houndstooth background on this card gives it a decidedly masculine feel. I attached the journaling card sentiment to the card with a couple of contrasting stitches.

Adding stitches is a fun and easy way to add detail to a card. Place your card over a piercing mat and punch holes with a paper piercer in a square pattern.

Starting from the back of the card, hand-stitch Xs with colorful twine. Secure loose ends with a knot or a piece of transparent tape.

Happy fall!
Amanda

Supplies:
HOMEMADE DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK 12″X12″ AQUA FLORAL
HOMEMADE DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK 12″X12″ SILVER PATTERN
HOMEMADE DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK 12″X12″ GREY WHIMSY
HOMEMADE DOUBLE-SIDED CARDSTOCK 12″X12″ BEST DAY EVER
HOMEMADE GLITTER STICKERS GOLD CIRCLES
HOMEMADE KRAFT BAGS 12/PKG W/GLITTER ACCENTS
PEBBLES PAPER PAD 6″X6″ HOMEMADE

Colorful Fall Leaf Card Set

Sep

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Hi Pebbles friends! It’s Wendy Sue Anderson here today, sharing a project inspired by my favorite season: Autumn!

I just love watching the leaves change colors on the mountains surrounding the little valley I live in. Fall is definitely in the air, so it felt so natural to create a set of cards inspired by the colorful leaves!

I used my Silhouette Cameo to cut two large leaves from the woodgrain patterned paper in the Home+Made collection by Jen Hadfield.

I wanted to use the negative space from the die cuts, and placed strips of colorful patterned papers (from the same collection) behind the opening so the colors peek through the leaf shape.

I added some machine stitching around the edges along with stickers and a glitter tape border to complete my cards.

Now…not being one to waste a perfectly good leaf, I decided to create an additional card.

I grabbed the die-cut leaves and leftover 1″ patterned paper strips:

I arranged them in a diagonal pattern on a 4 1/4″ x 5 1/2″ piece of cardstock (which will be the front of my card) and added some machine stitching around the edges.

Next, I used foam adhesive to attach the die-cut leaves. I wanted them to look natural, so I layered one on top of the other and slightly folded the edges up.

To embellish the leaves, I added sticker banners to the stems.

After attaching the completed piece to the front of the card, I added it to my little card set to create a trio, ready to give away with some yummy pumpkin cookies – because it’s Autumn!!

Supplies:
Home+Made Snapshot Patterned Paper (732603)
Home+Made Pine Patterned Paper (732605)
Home+Made Silver Patterned Paper (732592)
Home+Made Loveseat Patterned Paper (732593)
Home+Made Aqua Skies Patterned Paper (732596)
Home+Made Homemaker Patterned Paper (732598)
Home+Made Decorative Tape (732626)
Home+Made Cardstock Stickers (732611)

Collage Fall layout

Sep

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Hello everyone! I’m Eva Pizarro and today I wanted to show you how to make a cute background for your pages using paper scraps. I always have too many and even though I try to use them all up, they seem to multiply themselves!

Start by cutting the shape you want from your cardstock. I printed an image and then used my scissors to cut the design, but with a die cut machine you can do this much faster.

Glue strips of paper to a cardstock sheet, use different colors, widths and lengths.

Using your sewing machine, sew the paper to the page. It’s best if you don’t follow a pattern and just combine straight lines and curves.

Cover the design you just stitched with the page that has the cut out design and stitch all around the borders.

And that’s it! This is my layout! The background was busy enough so I kept everything else simple. Just a few embellishments here and there and those BIG and pretty alphas!

Here are a few detailed shots…

Supplies:
Home+Made 6×6 Paper Pad 732644
Home+Made 6×12 Sticker Sheet 732661
Home+Made Glitter Stickers 732621
Home+Made Decorative Tape 732626
Home+Made Large Alphas 732640
Home+Made Thickers Alphas Gold 732613
Home+Made Burlap Cardstock 732607

My Darling Dears Layout

Sep

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Hello! It’s Renee Zwirek here to share a step-by-step tutorial of how I put this fall layout together. It’s not the typical colors and patterns that I would use when I think of fall and that’s the whole reason why I embraced Jen Hadfield’s Home+Made collection for this project. It’s such a pretty and versatile collection.

I started by penciling in a vertical line on my background paper. Then, I added heat embossed leaves along that line.

I added various strips of pattern papers next to my leaves using some Double-Sided Sticky Red Tape.

I added three favorite fall photos of my girls (which measures slightly less than 4 x 6 inches because I trimmed off the borders) with a bit of Adhesive Runner.

I used the beautiful Gilded Gold Thickers for my title. I heat embossed the “Darling” word clear stamp onto vellum and cut it out to add a pumpkin color and some fun to my title.

I embellished around my photos and added my journaling to finish off my layout.

Here are some close-up shots: I had enough room on this photo to add a gold glittered flag sticker and a leaf cut from the Burlap with White Dot specialty paper in this collection.

I just LOVE fussy-cutting the hexagons from the Homemaker pattern paper and adding more stickers.

And, more hexagons scattered around my photos. I added my journaling to the gold glittered sticker tag and stitched a burlap leaf and a heat embossed vellum leaf to it.

Happy Fall, Everyone!

Supplies:
Home+Made Aqua Florali (732589)
Home+Made Sunday Best (732590)
Home+Made Silver (732592)
Home+Made Homemaker (732598)
Home+Made Planters (732604)
Home+Made 1905 Pine (732605)
Home+Made Burlap with White Dot (732607)
Home+Made Phrase & Accent Stickers (732611)
Home+Made Gilded Thickers, Gold (732613)
Home+Made Gold Circles Glitter Stickers (732621)
American Crafts Zing! Opaque Finish Embossing Powder, Rouge (27123)
American Crafts Zing! Opaque Finish Embossing Powder, White (27124)
American Crafts Zing! Opaque Finish Embossing Powder, Apricot (27136)
American Crafts Zing! Metallic Finish Embossing Powder, Copper (27160)
American Crafts Baker’s Twine Value Pack 5yd Spools 24/Pkg, Bright (366303)
American Crafts This To That Adhesive Runner with 2 Refills (61740)
American Crafts This To That Double-Sided Super Sticky Red Tape (61753)
American Crafts Amy Tangerine Plus One Accompany Clear Stamps (366856)