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December Mini Album

16
Dec
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia here today with a mini album I created to document my December. I don’t do December daily albums, but like a more scaled back approach. It allows me to document my life without the pressure of having to come up with something new every single day!

My mini album is approximately 5″x7″ and created in much the same way as my previous travel journals. This one however has a pretty gold ribbon to tie it shut. Here is a closer look at my cover…

The Merry Little Christmas collection has so many fabulous embellishments; ephemera die cuts, stickers, thickers … plus the most festive pattern papers. Inside I altered photo mats with 3″x4″ journal cards.

I love the look of transparent pages embellished with digital cut files. This FaLaLa tree is available at JustNick Studios.

I love the gingerbread ephemera and stickers in this collection. On these pages, I added a cut file gingerbread house border from Paige Taylor Evans that is available in the Silhouette store.

Here is a second transparent page, this time with a wreath cut from 3 different green cardstock shades. This cut file is available from JustNick Studios as well. You can also see snowflake flourishes on the previous page. The snowflake cut file is available in the Silhouette store.

The wreath will eventually frame the photo I add on the wintery page following.

Here is the back cover… I was having so much fun, I couldn’t help but decorate the back cover too. The Joy card is another JustNick Studio digital cut file.

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great December. Maybe you would like to try to make a December mini album to document your special days too.

Supplies:
Merry Little Christmas 12×12 paper pad
Merry Little Christmas Die Cut Ephemera
Merry Little Christmas Stickers
Merry Little Christmas Mini Stickers

Merry Little Christmas Phrase Thickers
Jen Hadfield Banner Punch Board
Sticky Thumb adhesive

Filed Under: Christmas, Inspiration, Mini Album, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Christmas mini album, Document December, Marcia Dehn-Nix, Merry Little Christmas, Mini Album

Merry Little Christmas Cards

11
Dec
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia here today. Christmas cards may seem a little old fashion, but receiving one in the mail delights me so much. There is just something more tangible to a real card versus receiving an electronic greeting. There is still time to create some Christmas cards to send out to your favorite people too. I have a few ideas to share with you today using the festive Merry Little Christmas collection.

To aid in the creative process, I like to sort my die cut ephemera pieces into categories. For these cards, I had Winter scene and Santa Claus piles. Then I start looking for coordinating pattern paper. For this card I cut the 3×4 journal card with the card sentiment from a sheet of pattern paper, adhered it to some white cardstock and added a border.

Sometimes the pattern paper reminds me of a digital cut file that I have. This cut file is from JustNick Studios.


This card too was created with one of the 3×4 journal cards cut from a sheet of pattern paper. This time I adhered it to some fun banners I cut out with my Jen Hadfield Banner Punch Board.

I couldn’t resist making a little winter scene on this card using the tiny stickers. They are so fun to add a little dimension. I almost made this a shaker card. Wouldn’t that have been fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! Christmas is 2 weeks away so go make some cards to mail!!

Supplies:
Merry Little Christmas 12×12 paper pad
Merry Little Christmas 6×6 paper pad
Merry Little Christmas Washi Tape
Merry Little Christmas Die Cut Ephemera
Merry Little Christmas Stickers
Merry Little Christmas Mini Stickers

Jen Hadfield Banner Punch Board

Filed Under: Cards, Christmas, Inspiration, Winter Tagged With: Cards, christmas cards, Marcia Dehn-Nix, Merry Little Christmas

Tis The Season

29
Nov
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia here today. If you live in the United States, I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. But now that Thanksgiving is over, Christmas is getting all my attention! I like to scrapbook some of the Christmas card photos I get from family, like this one of my daughter and her great pyrenees dog who love playing in the snow. The Merry Little Christmas collection was perfect to use! I love the fun patterns and colors. For this photo, I pulled more of the snowy embellishments, not the Christmas ones. I love how versatile this collection is.

I used a digital cut file for my title Tis The Season, and backed it with a variety of pattern papers and colors. This is a great way to use up scraps of paper. I attached these mittens to my title and added a little bow. The title was then placed on a big snowflake.

I love finding adorable die cut ephemera pieces like this girl wearing a red coat. Since my daughter was also wearing a red coat, I had to use it on this layout. I matted my photo with two different green pattern papers and tore the bottom edge so I could see the white core. The white edges remind me of snowbanks. Take a look at the dimension foam tape gives too.

One of my favorite things about this collection are the tags, like this Happy Holidays tag. These tags would make amazing quick and easy cards too. For this snowy scene, I added some dimension with some stickers and foam dots. Behind the tag you can see two of the washi tapes I layered on the background. There are so many embellishment options with this collection!

If you are interested in my process video, have a look here.

Thanks so much for stopping by. Have a great weekend!

Supplies:
Merry Little Christmas 12×12 paper pad
Merry Little Christmas Washi Tape
Merry Little Christmas Die Cut Ephemera
Merry Little Christmas Tag Pad
Merry Little Christmas Stickers
Merry Little Christmas Mini Stickers

Filed Under: Christmas, Layout, Winter Tagged With: Christmas, Layout, Marcia Dehn-Nix, Merry Little Christmas, patterned paper, scrapbook layout, stickers, washi tape, Winter

Documenting Christmas Joy with Terhi

20
Nov
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Hey Pebbles Fans, are you ready for Christmas?
I AM!
Can’t wait the lights, can’t wait the ginger breads, the chocolate, the tree… Oh, I’m ready for all. But more than anything else, I’m waiting for giving gifts.

This layout was inspired by my passion to give gifts and there’s a very long story behind the picture. As this post would grow way too long if I’d tell the whole story now, I’ll just say I didn’t know I was taking such precious pics when I took these shots couple Christmases ago and will focus now only for the scrapbooking part.
And literally the story IS behind the pic, I couldn’t fit it on the page so it’s written to the backside of the layout.

Last time I created a small Christmas mini book and today I’m using Merry Little Christmas, too. The mini book was easy to make, but trust me this layout is even easier!

Instead of using electricity or any other cutting machines, I created the background of this layout by punching away with one simple star punch. One star is about 1″ wide, so I punched a lot of stars. I used all green-ish patterned papers from Merry Little Christmas line and simply adhered the stars on white cardstock with foam dots.

Then, to give the layout some texture I added some thread on top, again keeping the tones on green. And then on top the photographs. First I was adding only the biggest photo, but soon I thought why not to add a row of smaller pics too. Seeing more faces of my sweet little girl makes the whole Christmas happiness even bigger!

Last phase of the creation process was to add watercolour drops here and there, a title and some embellishments.
Can’t wait to see what this Christmas brings!

Terhi xx
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Supplies: 
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White 
734146 Merry Little Christmas Ephemera
734152 Merry Little Christmas 12 x 12 Paper Pad
734145 Merry Little Christmas Ephemera Phrases
734147 Merry Little Christmas Puffy Thickers
734144 Merry Little Christmas Stickers

Filed Under: Christmas, Layout, Winter Tagged With: Layout, Layouts, Merry Little Christmas, scrapbook, scrapbook layout, scrapbooking, Terhi Koskinen

Star Garland

11
Nov
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia here today. Do you like to make some of your own Christmas decorations? I love adding homemade touches around my house… like this star garland. These origami stars can be made into ornaments for the Christmas tree or added to a swag to decorate your fireplace mantle.

To make my star garland I selected a variety of 6×6 pattern papers from the Merry Little Christmas 6×6 paper pad.

The first step to making these stars is to fold and cut the 6×6 papers into pentagon shapes. There is a fabulous tutorial I highly recommend on how to fold the stars here.

Once I had all my stars folded, I tied them to my swag garland with some gold thread.

This is even a craft you could do with older children. Here are some closer views of the stars…

Thanks so much for stopping by! I hope I you will want to make your own origami star garland.

Supplies:
Pebbles – Merry Little Christmas Collection – 6 x 6 Paper Pad

~Marcia

Filed Under: Banner, Christmas, DIY, Home Decor, Inspiration, Papercraft, Party, Uncategorized, Winter Tagged With: Banner, Christmas crafts, christmas decor, Garland, Home Decor, Marcia Dehn-Nix, Merry Little Christmas

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