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Guest Blogger Nicole: Love you more!

Jan

Good morning everyone! I am so excited to be guest designing for Pebbles Inc. this month! I just love Pebbles paper products. Seriously, the embellishments and papers are all so fab. I’ll be honest, I opened my box and sighed with contentment, looking at all the gorgeous contents.

This month, I had the pleasure of working with the Forever My Always. Since I didn’t want to leave anything out, I used a little of everything! I started by creating this layout of my hubby and I. I took these selfies on New Years Eve. They aren’t perfect photos, but I still love these photos. What a great night!

Don't miss these fabulous projects from our guest blogger @nicolemartel1978 using the Forever My Always products! @pebblesinc

I love the cut apart sheet with all the sentiments so I hand-cut a few of the sentiments and used them to create a fun, grid layout. Then I tucked a few die cuts and stickers here and there to fill in the white space.

I tore the xoxo paper to create a nice border for the layout. I love incorporating a variety of textures and shapes on my projects; totally fun!

Every now and then, I like to staple my embellishments on my projects. I like how it looks.

Here’s another layout I created of my little man and I. I love this boy more than anything in this world. He is quite a kid. Notice the layers… again. I LOVE playing with patterned paper and embellishments. It’s my favorite thing to do in my spare time.

I couldn’t help it. I had to use the pencil and what better way to use it then to add it at the bottom next to my journaling.

I layered the die cuts using a foam square then added a puffy heart sticker. LOVE these itty bitty hearts!

To help pull the layout together, I added a big title at the top of the layout. I hand cut the “I think about you. A lot.” sentiment from a die cut and adhered it at the top of the gold title using foam squares.

I really like how this layout turned out. So cute…so us. And here are a few cards I created with this adorable collection! These cards are all 4″x4″. I find this size to be easier to work with when making cards. I used several pieces of die cuts and stickers to create these cards. I cut the background from 6×6 paper pads.

A 4x4 card from Nicole Martel using the Forever My Always collection of paper products

Incase you need an item list, here it is! Forever My Always Paper/ Love Notes (733623), Love Labels (733625), From My Heart (733627), Forever My Always Dimensional Stickers, Forever My Always Printed Cardstock Shapes, Forever My Always Foil and Foam Phrase Stickers (733634), Pebbles Puffy Stickers (733635), Forever My Always Accent Stickers (733633), Forever My Always 6×6 Paper Pad

I hope inspired you today with my projects. I had a wonderful time creating these projects for today’s guest post. Thank you Pebbles Inc. for giving me the opportunity to guest design for you!

-Nicole

Be Mine Valentine Wreath

Feb

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Have you seen the Pebbles Be Mine Collection? Oh, it is SO adorable! Amy here from The Happy Scraps today, and I had SO much fun playing with this collection. So much pink and red goodness. Today I’m going to show you how to make this Be Mine Valentine Wreath.

Collect all the Be Mine paper you’d like to use, along with the Valentine Minc Tags and the Be Mine red glittered thickers. I created my own wreath form out of chipboard, tracing a circle, then cutting it out.

Start by cutting several strips of paper to be 1″ x 4″.

You’ll bend each strip of paper, placing it on your chipboard wreath form, and then use a stapler to secure it to it.

Continue all the way around your wreath form, then start on the second row, offsetting it slightly.

For mine, I ended up with three rows.

Because I wanted to cover the staples that were showing, I trimmed the extra chipboard out of the center, so I wouldn’t have as much area to cover.

I got out my Sticky Thumb Cordless Glue Gun so I could attach some ric rac to the inner edge of the wreath.

I just put a little glue down at a time, and then placed the ric rac on it. I continued around the entire wreath doing this.

I pulled out the Valentine Minc Tags and the Minc Foil Applicator machine, along with some pink and silver foil.

I added the silver and pink to these tags, making it a perfect match to the Be Mine Collection.

I attached both of the tags together using adhesive on the back, making sure that they would stay where I wanted them for the wreath. Using the red glittered thickers, I attached the words BE MINE.

Next I tied a baker’s twine bow to the top of each tag.

Using two strands of baker’s twine, I tied a bow and attached it to the wreath.

With the tails of the baker’s twine from the bow attached to the wreath, I turned over my foiled tags, and put some adhesive on each, then I placed the baker’s twine tails onto the adhesive.

It created the perfect way to hang the tags!

You’re wreath is all finished! You didn’t even need to head out and find a wreath form!

Punny Pop-Up Valentine Cards

Feb

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Hi friends, it’s Wendy Sue back with you today! I’m kind of a goofy kid with a silly sense of humor…so the “punny” valentines in the “Be Mine” collection were right up my alley. I couldn’t wait to sit down and create some unique cards with the punny cards, stickers, and embellishments included with this fun collection full of cute images and traditional reds and pinks! Here’s a look at the card set I created: