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2020/2021 Design team call starts now!

02
Mar
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Hello friends! Happy Monday– and Happy March!

We have 6 amazing social media team members — and LOVE working with them! However, we also realize some of you might like the chance to work on our social media team too. With that in mind…we are going to have a design team call!

What are we looking for in a social media team member? We need someone that can/already does:

LOVE Pebbles Inc products!

Consistently submit projects/photos at least 1 week before the post date

Take creative direction from our team

Post 2-3 times a month on our blog

Have a meaningful presence on Instagram, Facebook and/or Youtube

Promote your project on your personal social media channels

Ready to submit your application? We need the following items to properly consider you as a potential new member of the team:

Name, email, photo

Creative resume (Can be added however you’d like it — an attachment to the email, a summary in the body of the email, etc.). **Please note–we will consider applications that take us to another site as last priority (in other words– make it easy for us!)

3 photos of your samples that include 1 layout, 1 card and 1 alternative project that you feel fits well with the Pebbles brand (bonus points for using Pebbles products in your submissions!)

Please submit the above items to [email protected]; applications are due by 11:59pm, March 17th. We’ll spend the next week (or so) evaluating them and reaching out to current and future team members.

Don’t hesitate to email us with any questions– we can’t wait to hear from you!

Filed Under: Guest Designer, Meet: Pebbles Design Team Tagged With: applications, Design team call, designer call

A summer-themed project with Anna, our guest designer for the day!

04
Feb
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Hello Pebbles fans. My name is Anna Komenda and I am so happy to be here as a Guest Designer. I had a freedom of creating whatever I wanted… so I decided to play with the “Patio Party” and “My Bright Life” collections. We are in the middle of winter here in Poland and I miss warm, summer days so much. I love coming back to those memories to brighten up cold and gray winter days.

I decided to scrap some pictures of my daughter picking up fruits at my parent’s orchard. Both the “Patio party” and “My Bright Life” collections have some cute strawberries, watermelons and cherries as embellishments, so it was easy to match this theme.

I created a dreamy, watercolor background and added a composition made of few pattern papers. It was a fast and easy job. You can follow my creative process by watching the video I recorded for you HERE.

It was a pleasure to be here with you. If you want to stay in touch with me, you can follow me on Instagram. 

Thank you for stopping by.

Anna

Filed Under: Guest Designer, Inspiration, Layout, Summer, Tutorial Tagged With: Anna Komenda, Guest Designer, Layout, My Bright Life, Patio Party, scrapbooking, summer days

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

29
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. 

Filed Under: Guest Designer, Inspiration, Layout Tagged With: fur baby, furry baby, paper crafting, Paper Scraps, paw print, Scraps

Guest Designer Becky has darling cards for you!

24
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

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

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. 

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

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. 

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

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.

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

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. 

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

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

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

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

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

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. 

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

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!

Filed Under: Cards, Guest Designer, Inspiration

A lovely layout with Guest, Caroli

22
Jan
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Hello everyone! Caroli Schulz here, I am very excited and thankful for this opportunity to be a guest designer for Pebbles. 
Today I want to share a simple layout I created using the beautiful Along the Way collection by Jen Hadfield. I love the colors and patterns of this collection, as well as the sweet and feminine details. It was perfect for using few pics of myself I’ve been hoarding for some time, waiting for the right collection. 
In this layout, I went for a really clean and simple approach, but with few pretty details in order to make it special. My idea was to create some kind of wreath, and include half-cut circles on it. To start, I drew a few half circles on my page.

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

Next, I used a cutter to actually cut the shapes I drew before; if you have an electronic cutting machine you can use it too for this purpose. 

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

Now that all the halves of circles are cut, we will use a scoring tool and fold them; this way, we will have some kind of windows that can be filled with photos or patterned paper.  

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!
@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!
@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

With this base, I created a layout with a wreath design, using some leaves I cut with my electronic cutting machine.  

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

As a focal point, I created two embellishments clusters on the top left and bottom right of the page. I like to keep things balanced and symmetric.  Here you can see I filled one of the windows with a photo and used the sewing machine to stitch over it and add an extra detail to the cluster. 

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

On the bottom cluster I also added a round shaped photo, and some more embellishments. Fussy cutting is my fave technique when it comes to embellishing, so I cut few flowers from the gorgeous patterned papers of this line. 

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!
@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

I love simple pages but with lot of texture and volume, and this is exactly what I did here. The page looks fun but not overwhelming, don’t you think? I love the gold accents on the 3D embellishments of the Along The Way collection. 
I completed the design with the title I cut with my electronic cutting machine and free font “Better Together” (you can download it from free on the internet), and my journaling. Something I love about scrapbooking, in addition to photos, is to journal about the specific memory i am documenting, so my pages always have lots of journaling 

@papelisima is a wiz with die cuts and layers - we love how she transformed her white layout to a beautiful masterpiece with the @pebblesinc products!

I really enjoyed working with Pebbles and hope you liked this idea and give it a try. If you have any questions, just let me know on a comment, or message me through my Instagram account @papelisima.

Thank you for spending time with us here, have a lovely day!

Caroli

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