Archives for January 2019

Quick and Easy Valentine Tags

Jan

Hello friends! It feels like I just put my Christmas decorations away and it’s already time to start putting together fun Valentine’s Day gifts. My favorite way to personalize a store-bought gift (ie candy) is to make a cute little tag – so that’s why I decided to whip up a set of quick and easy Valentine tags! Here’s how they turned out, but keep scrolling down to see just how easy they are to create with the “Loves Me” 6×6 paper pad!

Quick and Easy Valentine Tags by Wendy Sue Anderson featuring the "Loves Me" Collection by @PebblesInc.

Here’s a look at the supplies I used:

I started by choosing a few fun patterns from the 6×6 Paper Pad. Using a metal die, I cut several tags from each paper. You could also use a digital cut file OR even cut them by hand!

Next, I used a rectangular metal die (I like this one with faux stitching marks) to cut out the mini cards from this paper:

And in the spirit of prepping everything before I actually started, I used an old heart punch from my tool stash to cut some hearts from this cut heart patterned paper:

Here’s how quick and easy they were to assemble after all the pieces were cut out! I layered one of the mini cards on top of the tag.

Next, I cut the bottom off of one of the coordinating tags and attached it to the bottom, overlapping the card.

I cut a strip from yet another pre-cut tag, making sure the pattern was different, and placed it at the top of the bottom piece.

I used a pop-dot to attach one of the hearts:

And then I pulled some ribbon from my stash to tie through the hole:

It’s so easy to whip up a bunch of these cute little tags in a hurry – and it’s also a fun project the kids can help with! Simply write to/from or a sentiment on the back and you’re good to go!

It really is a quick and easy way to add a touch of handmade love to any Valentine’s Day treat!

Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you!!

Wendy Sue

Pebbles Supplies Used:
Loves Me 6×6 Paper Pad

Furry friends, family and fun with My Bright Life and Sindi!

Jan

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Hi everybody, my name is Sindi Jeffers and I’m just stopping by today to share a layout I created with the beautiful My Bright Life paper pad. I have used almost every square inch of paper in this pad on other projects. When I was asked to do a guest design post for January, I decided to get creative and use the last few remaining bits of paper.

All I had left were a few squares of paper, which I cut into strips for this project. I had this adorable photo of my son and our sweet furry friend, so I decided to create a giant paw print for my background. I found a template on the internet and hand cut the shapes I needed.

I then used the strips to cover the shape of the paw print. I decided to roll the ends of some of the strips to create dimension on my page. Attaching the top edge of each strip to the paper before rolling helps things go more smoothly. I simply rolled the bottom edge up around my paintbrush. I also folded some of the strips into loops before securing them. I love the look it created. After that, the only thing left to do was stitch around the paw print.

After that, I hand cut some clouds to scatter around my page. In order to bring out one of the gorgeous colors from the paper pad, I painted some of the clouds a soft blue. I like to double my clouds, stacking one on top of the other, in order to create even more dimension on my pages.

Here’s the final layout. I hope I’ve managed to inspire you to keep all those scraps! Even the smallest bits of leftover paper can find new life.

Valentine’s Wiper Card

Jan

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Hello everyone! It’s Eva on the blog today sharing with you a tutorial on how to create a quick and easy Wiper card with the new Loves Me collection.

Create an easy Valentine's Wiper Card with this tutorial from @evapizarrov using @pebblesinc new line Loves Me #pebblesinc #madewithpebbles

If you want to create a simple but stunning card this is the one for you! It’s very easy and you can make them in bulk and surprise your loved ones! Plus, the collection designs are super cute so you don’t need to add much embellishments to this cards.

To create the card, start by cutting 2 – 5-inch x 3 1/4 inch pieces of cardstock. Score the cards on the long side at 1 and 1 3/4 inch.

Cut a 3/4 inch piece of cardstock or acetate and bend the tip at a 45 degree angle. (here I am using a piece of cardstock but on the final card I used acetate)

To assemble the card you will need to glue the little piece of cardstock to the 3/4 inch panel on the top of your card.

Put some adhesive on the 1 inch panel of each cardstock and then glue the two card bases making sure one fold is on the right side and one on the left side

To create the front of the card I simply cut this 12 x 12 paper. It’s perfect because it has 9 lovely 3×3 squares!

To embellish the card I put a die cut on my little piece of acetate and a piece of washi tape on the hidden pannel.

This is what the card looks like when it is closed. If you don’t want any piece of embellishment to pop simply attached it to the edge of the acetate! I couldn’t do it because my die cut was too long! I don’t mind, I think it is a way of telling the recipient that there is something hidden.

You can even leave the card on your desk because it stands of its own! How cute are those foxes? This collection is one of my favorites so far!

What do you think? Have you ever made a Wiper card?

Eva

Supplies
Loves Me Patterned Paper
Loves Me Washi Tape
Loves Me Ephemera

Valentine’s Day Card gone Wild with Terhi

Jan

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Hello there Pebbles Fans, it’s Terhi Koskinen here today with some very very lovely and sweet ideas for the upcoming Valentine’s Day!

This is a card. Or a mini book. Or a book. I don’t know. But no matter what it is, it is load with cute things and it will be sent to my best friend on 14th of February to make her day a bit happier.
Before starting to do anything, I had a vision in my mind to create a mini book full of love and memories from the happiest times with my loved one, but once I flipped through the ‘Loves Me’ patterned papers I knew I had to do a card – or something card-like to be send away.

I started the process by cutting out the tags from one of the patterned papers, and to add one tag with foil effect I also used the 6″x6″ paper pad.

The tags are sized 2″x3″, and to cover the back side partly of each I cut 1 1/4″x2″ sized pieces from another patterned paper. To make the result smooth and balanced, I only used one pattern to the back sides.

Then I continued the cutting fun by cutting out several blooms and flowers from one of the papers to be the embellishments.

As soon as I had all the tags ready, all blooms cut out and my foam dots on the table, I started to adhere the blooms onto the tags. In addition, few of tags got a phrase or two to complete the look.

The phrases and words are all cut out from patterned papers too. And as this card is mini book-like already, I wanted to braid some embroidery threads and decorate it with some charms and tassels – now the look of this card/book/whatever will be perfect!
To finish the process I took one metal ring and hang all the tags to it. The braid is on top of everything, hanging wild like the koalas.

Inspired? I hope you are! I never knew I’d love Valentine’s Day crafts this much!

Who could resist those cute koalas!?

Hope you’ll have a great day, full of love and sweet things!

Terhi xx

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Supplies:

340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71081 Textured Cardstock White
Loves Me Patterned Papers

Guest Designer Becky has darling cards for you!

Jan

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Hello! My name is Becky Williams and I am thrilled to get to guest design for Pebbles this month.

As guest designers, we were given free rein to create anything with any collection from the past six months, so I decided to create a set of cards using just a few supplies:

Becky Williams and her quick cards will have you crafting up a storm! Take a look at the @pebblesinc blog to get started!

-patterned paper from Jen Hadfield’s Along the Way collection (Blooms, Sweet Sentiments, Home, For My Friend, Window Box)

-white 8 1/2″ x 11″ cardstock cut to 4 1/4″ x 11″ and folded in half

-black and Kraft cardstock to mount card sentiments and tags, for flowers

-foam adhesive and adhesive tape runner

-flower punch

-twine

-scallop edge punch

-narrow gold washi tape

For this first card, I adhered two different pieces of patterned paper to the card base and then used the tear strip from one of the sheets across the seam. I used the reverse side of one of the tags, wrapped it with twine, added the gold tape, staples and brad and then added a card sentiment to the front using foam adhesive. I adhered the tag to the card with foam adhesive.

For this second card, I cut strips of varying sizes the width of the card and, after tearing along one edge, layered them to create the background of the card.

I created the tag by trimming down another tag, mounting it on kraft cardstock. I cut the cute girl and “just for you” sentiment from another tag and layered them as shown, finishing off the tag with some twine.

For this quick and easy card, all I did was layer a piece of patterned paper on white cardstock, leaving about a half inch on the edge, then used my scallop border punch on the cardstock, layering that over the cute pink polka dot paper.

Once again I layered my tag on a piece of cardstock allowing the tag to stand out from the card.

For this final card I chose a black and white color scheme accented by the gold washi and some kraft-colored flowers.

I mounted the card sentiment on black cardstock and left some extra so that I could use my scallop border punch. I wrapped the tag with twine and adhered it to my card base with foam adhesive and then tucked some punched flowers under the edge.

I hope that from my projects for today you could see that you can create a set of beautiful cards with just a few supplies.

Thank you for stopping by the Pebbles Inc. blog today!