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Five Tips to create Quick and Easy Invitations

Apr

Hey everyone!
Terhi here again, wishing you the happiest Friday!
Today I want to share tips and tricks for creating unique invitation cards.
To create these four invitations I used Hey, Hello! Boxed Cards. The package includes 40 cards and envelopes, all good to go just the way they are.
Instead of writing my own greetings and sending them away like that, I decided on adding handmade look. Altering the cards is fun, easy and quick.
And here are my best tips to make them look better than ever!

1. Use one card to alter another.
To have matching floral elements to decorate the invitations, I fussy cut couple of flowery cards from the Hey, Hello! Boxed Cards. To get bigger and smaller florals too, I used patterned papers from the same line but most of what you can see here are from the Boxed Cards package.

2. Sentiments.
“Happily Ever After” surely sounds more like a sentiment on top of a greeting card, but fortunately there are no rules for crafty things like that. That’s why I thought it would be great to create “Happily Ever After” invitations for a wedding, engagement party or similar.
What do you think?

3. Be prepared.
Most of us are inviting someone to somewhere to some occasion during the next 365 days, right? Would it be great to be prepared with handmade invitations in advance!
General titles like “Celebrate” or “Today is the Day” would fit for any occasion. Just to mention few, the “Celebrate” would be perfectly for a Birthday Party, House Warming Party, Girls/Boys/Ladies/Gentlemen Night Out or even for a Baby Shower.

4. Add layers.
The fussy cut elements I talked before can be adhered here and there, but I like to make them look more real by gathering them to one spot and layering them. To make the process easier, you can use glue for some, foam dots for some and even two layers of foam dots for the ones you want to get shown the most.
Also, don’t forget the envelopes! Couple of nice flowers makes the envelopes look much more interesting and pretty.

5. Play with sizes.
The Boxed Cards from the Hey, Hello! line, as well as from all other Pebbles lines, are slightly smaller than 4″ x 6″. The envelopes are 4″ x 6″ which makes total sense in order to make the cards fit in perfectly. The 4″ x 6″ is a good and traditional size, but it isn’t the only possible size and shape. I cut these invitations to the size 3,5″ x 3,5″ and now they look so cute in square form.
Use your imagination to make the cards triangle, teeny tiny squares or maybe half circle!

What was your favorite of these five tips?
And what is your own tip for creating invitations?
If you have a tip to share, please comment here below as I would love reading them!
Have a great and crafty weekend!
Terhi xx
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Supplies:
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Pad 12×12 (736898)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Boxed Cards (736807)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Stickers (736796)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Sticker Book (736804)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Ephemera Sentiments (736799)
We R Memory Keepers Premium Paper Trimmer (660557)

Give the Gift of Kind Words

Nov

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Hi friends! It’s Wendy Sue here today, sharing a project filled with kindness! My assignment was to create a project based on “giving” or “receiving” and I chose giving, of course! My favorite thing to GIVE is a kind word or a bit of encouragement. Whenever I can use paper and glue to make those words into a little gift, I call it a double win!

Thankful cards by Wendy Sue Anderson featuring the "This is Family" Collection by @PebbleInc.

I used the “This is Family” collection to create this set of cards. I knew I wanted to make a bunch, so I kept the design pretty simple. I started by cutting several different papers into 3 3/4″ squares. Next, I cut half of those squares in half diagonally. I used my sewing machine to stitch each half square onto a full square, right up the middle.

Then I cut apart all of the 3″ squares on the cut-apart sheet in the collection. I placed one square in the center of each stitched piece.

Finally, I attached each piece to a 4″ square card cut from white cardstock. I also added a sticker or die cut to some of the card fronts.

My plan is to write notes to some of the special people in my life, telling them WHY I think they are special, why I am thankful for them, and what makes them so great! I hope they appreciate hearing a kind word as much as I know I would! I plan to share a card or two each day from now until Thanksgiving. 🙂

What gifts do YOU like to give? Kind and encouraging words are always a good choice!

Happy Thanksgiving Season!

Wendy Sue

Grateful Jar

Oct

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Hello everyone! It’s Eva on the blog sharing a quick tutorial on how to create a Grateful Jar for this season using the lovely “This Is Family” line.

Creating a Grateful Jar it is easy with this tutorial from @evapizarrov using the "This is Family" line from @pebblesinc #madewithpebbles #pebblesinc

One of the most important things that I try to teach my son is that he has to be grateful for all the wonderful things he has in life, all the opportunities and never take anything for granted! Even though we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving here in Chile, I believe it is a great opportunity to pond on all the things we are grateful for.

To create this simple Grateful Jar start by washing a big glass jar and decorate it with some stickers. I really like this small sticker sheets because they are transparent and let you see trough! Perfect for this kind of project!

I used some ephemera to decorate the lid of my jar and these beautiful cooper phrases to put the title.

The last step to decorate my jar was to hang some decorations. I used ephemera, tags, and even a cute flower clip!

Finally, I created a small box with my 1,2,3 Punch Board to hold little pieces of paper. I love the happy fall colors of the “This Is Family” line!

I created a small station at my house with everything you need to write the small notes, that way, you can use it anytime you want and don’t have any excuses!

I think it will be very helpful to read all the things we are grateful for after these Holidays! I hope you have a fabulous Thanksgiving season and thank you for visiting the blog!

Eva

Supplies
This is Family Papers
This is Family Stickers
This is Family Ephemera
This is Family Thickers

November is here – and so is our new sketch challenge (hint: it’s about gratitude)!

Nov

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Who else is ready for a new challenge? We certainly are! It is so fun to try something new each month, especially when it centers around a sketch! Guess what…we have a challenge… but there isn’t a sketch to follow (What?!!). Instead, there are fun phrases and images to inspire your creativity. Here they are:

Living with a grateful heart this November on the @Pebbles blog! #grateful #thanksgiving

Source: Instagram search

Source: @chakracharmshop

Source: @mom_in_life

Source: @andreadonsky

Source: @spiritual_life11

Source: @papersource_westwood

Source: @pilotpenau

Do you see a theme?? We are embracing gratitude this month! Who else tries to live in gratitude daily? We do – but sometimes we forget to look for the positive. Hope you don’t mind using this (along with us) as a reminder to do better this month!

So…how does the challenge work? All we ask is that you create a project that is centered around gratitude or thanksgiving. We asked some friends to create projects that might help inspire you. Here are their beautiful creations:

Courtesy of Victoria

Courtesy of Maria

Courtesy of Victoria

Courtesy of Jess

Courtesy of Victoria

Didn’t they do a great job??

So, what is left for you to do now? Start creating a project of your choice and send us a picture of it! Pictures are due to [email protected] by Midnight, November 20th.

Please note : we’ll be picking 2 winners at random this time around – just to shake things up a bit. We’ll post all our submissions on our Facebook Page November 21st so that you can weigh in too. That is the same place we’ll announce our winners as well.

Ok – time to get busy! We can’t wait to see what you put together!

Quick and Easy Thanksgiving Banner

Oct

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Halloween will soon be over and it will be time to decorate for the next big holiday! It’s easy to transition into Thanksgiving decor and this quick and easy Thanksgiving Banner is proof that it doesn’t take a ton of time and effort to add a little thankful flair to your fall decorations! And you’d never guess that I used papers and stickers from the “Spooky Boo” collection for my banner, but I sure did!

Isn’t it cute? Here’s how you can whip one up for yourself:

Start by gathering some of the patterned papers that are not obviously Halloween-themed. Use a digital die cut machine (or hand cut) to create banner flag shapes.

Cut the same number of banner shapes from kraft (or whatever color you choose) solid cardstock. Cut the letters to spell “thankful” from the centers of the kraft banners.

This next step is optional, but I love adding a little bit of detail and interest by stitching around the perimeter of each flag with white thread. Secure the loose threads on the backside with tape.