Archives for December 2014

New Year Cards that Sparkle and Shine!

Dec

Hi there! It’s Mendi here today. Can you guys believe it’s almost a new year? Where did this year go? If you’re like many of us, you may have run out of time when it came to making Christmas cards, but I’m hoping I can inspire you to send out New Year Cards instead! To create my cards I turned to the classy Home+Made Collection by Jen Hadfield.

My first card uses all the soft and pretty gold and cream specialty papers and embellishments with the collection. I punched a snowflake from the gold foil cardstock and layered it with a smaller snowflake in vellum to give it a softer feel.

For my next card I alternated 1-1/8″ wide strips on a 9″ x 3-3/4″ card base. I then stitched down each side of the patterned paper and adhered gold foil alpha stickers for a sentiment with big impact. To complete my sentiment I typed my words on the computer using a text box in Microsoft Word, layering it with some of the gold glitter scalloped tape from the collection. My finishing touch was a pair of black buttons which I topped with gold sequins.

My last card has a holiday bokeh effect or exploding confetti look. I’ve included a little step-by-step photo tutorial below sharing how I created it.

I started by cutting a piece of black cardstock to fit the front of my card (5.5″ x 4.25″). I stamped and heat embossed my sentiment using gold powder onto one of the chalkboard labels from the collection. When I was done I lightly centered the label on my card front and traced around it with a pencil (and set it aside for later).

I then cut the gold foil cardstock into thin strips and punched it with a 1/4″ hole punch. We R Memory Keepers Power Punch would be perfect for this. It’s a pretty thick cardstock so you’re going to want a strong punch.

Next I started adhering the gold foil dots to cover the pencil line that I traced around my label, offsetting and spreading the dots out as I moved towards the edge of the card. I found a glue pen to work best at this stage for minimal mess, but as I started to layer them in the next step, I had to switch to a liquid adhesive with a stronger hold.

When I had completely covered the front of my card, I cut off the dots that bled past the edge of the card front.

I adhered the label to the center and stitched around the edge for extra holding power. The last step was to adhere the front panel to a notecard. This card ended up being extremely flat and is perfect for mailing!

I hope I’ve inspired you to give one of these fun looks a try! 🙂

Supplies:
Home+Made 12×12 Paper Pad
Home+Made 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock- Cool Quatrefoil
Home+Made 12×12 Double-Sided Cardstock- Cottage Blues
Home+Made 12×12 Specialty Cardstock- Cream with Gold Foil Dots
Home+Made 12×12 Specialty Cardstock- Cream with Glitter Stripe
Home+Made 12×12 Gold Foil Cardstock
Home+Made Chalkboard Label Stickers
Home+Made Phrase Tags
Home+Made Numbers & Glitter Decorative Tape
American Crafts Gold Glitter Paper Tape
Home+Made Gilded Gold Chipboard Thickers Alpha Stickers
Home+Made Large Gold Alpha Stickers
Sentiment Stamp Set

Pillow Box Shakers

Dec

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Hello Pebbles Fans! Holly here from Ribbons & Glue! Since the New Year is creeping upon us, I’m sharing some simple Pillow Box Shakers made from the Pebbles Inc. Home+Made collection that would be perfect to make to ring in the New Year.

These shaker boxes are made using the We R Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board and the gorgeous Home+Made collection by Jen Hadfield. This collection is full of gold which just screams Happy New Year!

To make my Pillow Box Shakers, I made a 5 x 6 inch pillow box following the We R Memory Keepers Punch Board instructions. I then added pop corn kernels inside the box to use as a noise maker and hot glued the ends of the box together.

The boxes are embellished with Home+Made decorative tapes, Alpha Thickers, gold stickers, glitter tape and ribbon.

I cut a small slit at the end of each box and hot glued the boxes onto a popsicle stick that I covered with glitter tape.

You can see how I assembled these Pillow Box Shakers on my blog Ribbons & Glue.

Supplies:
Home+Made Cream with Gold Foil Dots Paper – 732608
Home+Made Grey Whimsy Paper – 32595
Home+Made Cool Quaterfoil Paper – 732599
Home+Made Alpha Thickers – 73261
Home+Made Decorative Tape – 732626
Home+Made Gold Glitter Stickers – 732621
American Crafts Gold Glitter Tape
We R Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board

Merry Christmas

Dec

Christmas Cookies Mini Recipe Book

Dec

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Hi, it’s Marjan here today. I am so proud to be a guest designer at Pebbles in December because this month is my favorite month this year. It’s snowy, and you can do lot of fun things inside and outside the house like crafting, baking and skiing.

I love baking cookies during December, so I want to share this adorable mini recipe book with you.

Over here in Norway, where I live, you have to bake 7 different kinds of Christmas cookies. It is an old tradition that everyone does. You are also allowed to buy them if you do not have enough time to bake cookies all day long. Most people work here, and this time of the year can be pretty stressful. But homemade cookies are the best, right?

I have written down my favorite 7 recipes from 4 different countries (US, Norway, Germany and the Netherlands) and made this cute mini album to remember my all-time favorite Christmas cookies.

All of the ingredients are written on tags with the numbers one to seven. These tags are stuck between the pages, and make it super easy so that I can take these tags to the grocery store and do not have to write an extra list.

It was fun to make this album. I took these pretty papers from the Home for Christmas collection and glued them together to make the pages for my mini album. After that, I printed my recipes on patterned paper. I glued down all the recipes and scraps of patterned paper. I used these adorable kraft tags and embellished the pages with coordinating label stickers, die cuts and the pocket tags. I used some silver Thickers and sequins to let it sparkle. Love that!

I used cardboard, strong double-sided tape, washi tape in black and white and patterned paper to make the cover of the album.

I hope you like my recipe mini album!

Supplies:
Pebbles Home For Christmas 12 x12 Paperpad 732678
Pebbles Home For Christmas Chips Cardstock DieCuts 732674
Pebbles Home For Christmas Countdown Banner 732668
Pebbles Home For Christmas Cardstock Tags 732666
Pebbles Home For Christmas Label Cardstock Stickers 732663
Pebbles Home+Made 12 x 12 Paperpad 732643
Pebbles Basics Washi Tape Black 747206
Pebbles Basics Washi Tape Rouge 747208
American Crafts Thickers Glitter Foam Stickers Journal 732385

Mini Christmas Cards

Dec

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Hello everyone, I’m Eva Pizarro and today I’m going to show you how to make quick mini cards that you can use for small greetings or to add to a gift.

For these mini cards I used the envelope seals from the Home For Christmas collection. The size is perfect and you get so many of these in one package that you can make these in bulk.

Begin by sticking the seal to a piece of patterned paper. With a punch or a scallop scissor, cut all around the seal.

Add the seal with dimensional dots to a 2 3/4 inch square card made with kraft paper. Decorate the borders of the card with a black pen and tie some red twine.

Use your Envelope Punch Board by WRMK to do the envelopes. For this card I started with a 5 inch square, aligned my left border at 2 1/2 inches and followed the board instructions.