Archives for September 2016

Grab A Coffee with Warm & Cozy

Sep

Hello everyone! It’s Monique on the blog today sharing my latest project with the Warm & Cozy collection. I adore this Fall collection and just can’t get enough of it! Fall is actually my favorite season of the year. When I think of Fall I think not only of “warm” and “cozy” but also of coffee! Lots of coffee! The corner in my kitchen where you can find my coffee machine, is one of the places where you’ll find me most! So, when I saw that “journaling” was going to be the main feature this week, I knew straight away what I was going to create: framed (wall) art for my coffee corner with lots of “text” in it! So here’s what I did:

Grab a coffee wall art made by @MoniqueLiedtke using the #WarmandCozy collection from @PebblesInc.

And because maybe your kitchen could use some coffee home decor as well, I’ll quickly explain what I did. I got an inexpensive photo frame from a local store and chose five sheets of patterned paper, two of which held “text” (I just love papers with text!). I cut the papers in the right size so they would fit in the photo frame and layered them on top of each other. The last sheet I wanted in a different shape than the others and hand cut it in the shape of a heart:

Grab a coffee wall art made by @MoniqueLiedtke using the #WarmandCozy collection from @PebblesInc.

I added a bit of machine stitching. Not too much, along the outer edges of two of the papers and the heart is enough:

Grab a coffee wall art made by @MoniqueLiedtke using the #WarmandCozy collection from @PebblesInc.

Next I added some embellishments at the top of my project and in the bottom left corner. Isn’t that red coffee mug awesome?! Before I added the text I first adhered a vellum heart on top of the other heart to make it “pop” a bit more.

Grab a coffee wall art made by @MoniqueLiedtke using the #WarmandCozy collection from @PebblesInc.

For the text I used a mix of letter stickers, letters cut with the Silhouette and letters punched with my (old fashioned) QuicKutz Squeeze. I’m glad I kept the Squeeze even though I’ve got several more modern die-cutting machines by now! The QuicKutz alphabet I used is called “Stiletto”, the ampersand and the word “coffee” were cut with the Silhouette and the “A” is from the Warm & Cozy Rose Gold Foil Alpha Stickers set.

Grab a coffee wall art made by @MoniqueLiedtke using the #WarmandCozy collection from @PebblesInc.

And here’s how my project looks in my coffee corner. My hubby promised he would hang it up on the wall, but for now it looks great here as well I think.

Grab a coffee wall art made by @MoniqueLiedtke using the #WarmandCozy collection from @PebblesInc.

Supplies:
Warm & Cozy Leaf Toss Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Logs Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Daisy Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Tweed Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Cozy Sprigs Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Ephemera Die Cuts
Warm & Cozy Rose Gold Foil Alpha Stickers

Adding Journaling spots to Cards

Sep

13 Things I Love About You Birthday Mini Album

Sep

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Hi everyone. Heather Leopard is here today talking about quick journaling gifts. My daughter’s birthday is in 3 weeks and it’s a BIG milestone birthday. She’ll officially be a teenager! Since this is such a momentous occasion, I thought it would be nice make her a birthday mini album and write 1 note to her for every year with the plan for her to read one every day leading up to her big day.

I wanted this to be something that can be made relatively quickly and can be scaled up or down depending on the number of years the birthday recipient is turning. Afterall, if you choose to make something similar for a 30th birthday, you don’t want it to take too 30 years. Since I wanted it to be quick and easy, I chose to keep the embellishments and details to a minimum, plus I wanted this birthday mini album to have plenty of space for a favorite photo and journaling highlights from each year.

How to:

This birthday mini album will have a finished size of 4×6″ so your first step will be to trim your cardstock to 4×6″. Be sure to cut a cover and enough pages for all the years you are celebrating.
Choose your favorite photos from each year and print them no larger than 2.5×2.5″. Add them to your pages if you are handwriting your journaling. If you are typing or using your CAMEO sketch pens, you’ll want to do the journaling before you add the photos.
Next, add your journaling to the pages. You can choose to keep everything consistent from page to page or mix it and journal in different spots. Make sure to leave enough space for your photos if you are adding the photos after your journaling.
Lastly, add embellishments. I chose to keep it simple by adding a few strips of paper, punched circle and the year. I stitched these elements to each page to make sure they were nice and secure.

You may choose to wrap each day’s page separately so that she opens a new one each day. Make sure to include a book ring so the birthday girl or boy can piece them together each day to build their birthday mini album.

Supplies:
Birthday Wishes Printed Bags
Birthday Wishes Hip Hip Hooray (732557)
Birthday Wishes You’re Invited (732556)
Birthday Wishes Make a Wish (732553)
Prismatic Thickers (732831)
Cottage Living Imprint Thickers (732776)
American Crafts White Cardstock

DIY Notebooks

Sep

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Hello Pebbles’ fans! Eva Pizarro there today sharing this tutorial for a quick Back To School project.

When I saw the lovely Woodland Forest collection I fell in love with the cute animals and knew I wanted to do a project that I could enjoy all the time. I haven’t yet jumped into the Planner wagon so this little notebooks are going to be perfect to take notes and make daily To DO lists.

To create the notebooks cut a piece of patterned paper the same dimensions as your printer paper and another paper with the same width but 6 in tall. Gather 10 plain white papers and stack them together.

Bend your two pieces of paper in half and cut a triangle from the smaller patterned paper.

Use some double sided adhesive and attach the paper to the back of your cover. This way you create a pocket on the inside of your notebook!

Put the cover on top of the sheets of paper and use some clips to hold everything in place.

To bind your book use a stapler or a sewing machine. I am using the Staple Board from our friends at We R Memory Keepers, it is very easy to use and you can staple anywhere you want!

Close your notebook and very carefully use a ruler and an exacto knife to create an even edge.

Use some die cuts or other embellishments to decorate. I chose not to decorate too much my notepads just in case I want to put them in my bag.

On one of the notebooks I added some alphas from the Warm & Cozy collection, you could even put a name on it and create a personalized gift!

Another idea is to use the 3×4 cards from this paper and use them as a message for your cover.

This is the inside of my notebook, with 2 little pockets to hold the papers I need and not loose anything! If you want you can even add more patterned paper pages and add more pockets to your notebooks.