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Oh Happy Day

Jul

Hey everyone, Michelle here today with a new layout to share using the Chasing Adventure collection. I wanted to share a view of what my happy life looks like in the summer. I am so lucky to have my camper set up in beautiful Prince Edward Island. If you’ve never been there make sure to put in on your bucket list, it is gorgeous!

I don’t get to spend the whole summer there because my job gets in the way…lol. I do go every chance I get, and I enjoy every single minute!

I often tend to add a lot of stuff on my layouts. I’m kind of an embellishment junkie! But for this one I kept it simple. I cut out a whole bunch of hearts in different sizes on my cameo and layered them randomly on the side of my layout to create a border.

Then I added some simple journaling and a few embellishments.

I finished it off with a bit of stitching and some splatters.

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies used:
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – 12 x 12 Paper – Take Off
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – 6 x 8 Paper Pad with Foil Accents
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Thickers – Foam – Phrases and Icons
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Puffy Stickers
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Ephemera with Foil Accents – Phrases
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Washi Tape with Foil Accents
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Cardstock Stickers with Foil Accents – Phrases and Icons

Young Love

Jul

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Hey everyone, Michelle here today with a new layout to share using the Chasing Adventure collection. This week we’re focusing on using your scraps to create projects. I find one of the best ways to do this is to take out my punches. For this layout, I used 2 heart punches.

For the outer circle, I layered 3 hearts and stitched them together. This gave my layout a lot of dimension.

I then added some more hearts on the inside. I didn’t layer these because I wanted to be able to add a title and embellishments over them.

I also added a few circles of stitching under my hearts to tie them together. This also helped me place them into a nice circle.

I love how these hearts turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Supplies used:
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – 12 x 12 Paper – Asian Garden
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – 12 x 12 Paper – Cherry Blossoms
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – 12 x 12 Paper – Wild Flowers
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – 12 x 12 Paper – Paradise
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Thickers – Phrases and Icons
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Puffy Stickers
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Ephemera – Phrases
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Clear Stickers – Tiny
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure – Cardstock Stickers – Phrases and Icons
Pebbles – Chasing Adventure Collection – Thickers – Foam – Alpha

USS Missouri

Jun

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Hello Pebbles friends. Marcia here today kicking off patriotic week at Pebbles. I pulled lots of red, white, and blue pattern papers from the Oh Summertime, Chasing Adventures, and Big Top Dreams collections and created a layout about a visit to the USS Missouri battleship in Pearl Harbor Hawaii. Because I had little in the way of patriotic embellishments, I wanted to make the pattern papers work for me by using a digital cut file I designed myself and creating a fun banner with the Jen Hadfield Banner Punch Board.

That dark blue pattern paper makes a bold statement as my background with the die cut stars don’t you think. To add dimension, I created a festive banner with my Banner Punch Board. I machine stitched these triangles together. I made it a little easier to work with the banner.

Other embellishments were kept to a minimum. The ship in a bottle from the Chasing Adventures collection was the perfect touch, layered on top of a tag.

I used some older Thickers I had in my stash for my title and added a few journaling strips below my banner.

If you are interested in watching my scrapbook process video click on the link below.

There is a lot you can do with just your pattern papers and the right tools! Thanks so much for stopping by today.

Supplies:
Chasing Adventures Collection – papers and ephemera
Oh Summertime Collection
Big Top Dreams Collection
Banner Punch Board
Thickers – Memo Newsprint

~Marcia

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project

Jun

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Well, we’re two weeks into summer break and I am starting to hear the dreaded cry of “I’m bored” already!! Can anyone relate? We usually put together a fun family “bucket list” every summer, but we hadn’t gotten around to it yet this year. I decided to put together a quick and easy summer bucket list project and I’ll have my kids help me finish it up.
Follow along below to see how I made it!

Quick and Easy Summer Bucket List Project by Wendy Sue Anderson with the "Chasing Adventures" collection by @PebblesInc.

Start by cutting a 12×12 paper down to 8 1/2″ x 12″ and score the bottom at 8 1/2.” I love this gingham print with suitcases on the back from the “Chasing Adventures” collection!

Use a sewing machine to stitch down the sides to make a pocket. (If you don’t want to sew it, you can just use adhesive to secure the sides). I embellished it just a bit with a couple of strips of fun coordinating washi tape.

Next, attach the entire piece to the bottom portion of an 8 1/2″ x 11″ piece of heavy white cardstock (you want it to be sturdy). Add another strip of coordinating paper to the top portion to cover the white cardstock.

Cut a strip of white cardstock into a banner shape and add stickers and other embellishments to create the title “Summer Adventures!”

Now add this piece to the top portion of the background.

You could stop here…OR you could add some additional embellishments to the pocket. You know I can’t resist a fun tag or two! 😉

Now it’s time to cut some paper strips for the “bucket” items! I cut several 1″ x 6″ strips of white cardstock and added a cute little sticker to the top of each one.

These strips will eventually be tucked into the pocket:

Go ahead and place the entire piece on a clipboard (I love these older Pebbles clipboards so much and I use them whenever I can). Find some fun pens for the kids to use and hand it over to them. Have them write on the paper strips to list some fun activities they would like to do before the first school bell rings in a few months! (We all know how quickly time flies, it’ll be here before we know it!). Take time to make memories and enjoy spending time together. I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial and make a quick and easy summer bucket list for yourself!

—Wendy Sue

Supplies:
Chasing Adventures Collection – papers, ephemera, stickers, washi tape, and thickers

Spring Vibes and Acrylic Paints with Terhi

May

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Hello Pebbles Fans!
Terhi Koskinen here back with you and I’m very happy to share this layout just now in the end of May. Everything outside is green, at least here in Finland and I can also bath in the beauty of flowers and blooms! Even on my way to work I can smell how the apple trees are blooming. Spring is my favourite, absolute favourite!

To bring the lovely spring vibe on to the scrapbook layout can be a bit tricky, but don’t worry at all as I have couple of tricks to help you out. And also a step-by-step process video in the end of this post to show you exactly how to create a layout like mine!
First, make sure your photos are presenting the kind of spring you wish to spread out through the layout. For example, it will be hard (if not possible) to make bring spring vibes to a layout if the photo on the layout shows the face of Santa Claus.
Instead, take your photos from outside and make sure there is something green showing. Or even better, take some photos of your favourite blooms and go with that!

Second trick for a spring layout is to fussy cut blooms and flowers as much as possible. I mixed couple of the latest Pebbles collections to make sure I have lots and lots of different shaped blooms. The ephemera pieces, patterned papers and the biggest fussy cut blooms are from Chasing Adventures, all other flowers from Loves Me. I like to avoid too busy layouts, but a good mix of different shaped, sized and coloured blooms are definitely very important key to bring the spring vibes onto your page.

Third and last trick to spring layout is green. Like I said in the first paragraph, the world here looks like it’s all green. If you looks closely, you can see there are hundreds of different shades and tones of greens outside. It’s important to bring the same idea to your page.
Pick different greens to your layout: to the background, to the ephemera pieces and to the fussy cut leaves. Also, the photo(s) will bring you another tone of green.

As said earlier, I’ve got a video tutorial for you. Enjoy watching!

Link: https://youtu.be/p1v1J5CcAQk.

Have a wonderful Monday!
Terhi xx
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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
734025 Chasing Adventures 12×12 Paper Pad
734027 Chasing Adventures Ephemera
734024 Chasing Adventures Clear Stickers
734028 Chasing Adventures Tag Die Cuts
350816 Crate Paper Acrylic Paint
343917 American Crafts All the Good Things Foundations Media Paper
733956 Loves Me ‘Bouquet of Love’