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Dinosaur Themed Birthday Party

Jul

Today, Design Team Member Marjan Pel shows us how to decorate for any little boy’s dream birthday party. She’s put together party decor, games, and treat bags and tags all using the Birthday Wishes collection. Read on to check it out.

My youngest son turned seven at the end of June, and he wanted a dinosaur themed birthday party. We invited his whole class. All children at that age love dinosaurs, even girls. So I used all sorts of colors like blue, green, black, pink, orange and yellow. The Birthday Wishes paperpad was just perfect for the banner, the treats and bottle hangers. I made a fun can knock down game too.

The perforated paper shapes in the form of banners are just perfect for a birthday party. I embellished the banners with patterned paper and glitter paper and adhered two dinosaurs at both ends. For the bottle hangers, I cut out a bunch of different cute dinosaurs with the help of my Silhouette SD. I used two different circle punches and a border punch by American Crafts to create these fun tags.

I used old cans for the can knock down game. I adhered pretty paper in different, pretty, and colourful designs with double-sided adhesive and I used some washi tape in cute colors to embellish the cans. Then I adhered different dinosaurs and punched circles with glitter numbers from 1 to 6.

For the treats I made some file folder candy holders with help of my envelope punch board. I embellished these candy holders with circles and more cute dinosaurs. I used baker´s twine to close them.

The children at the birthday party loved the bottles with lemonade, and the can knockdown game was quite popular.

The treats were given at the end of the party. The girls loved the pink ones and the boys were happy with the other colors. All in all, it was a perfect birthday party and we had a fun day!

Supplies:
Birthday Wishes 12×12 Paperpad 732581
Birthday Wishes Perforated Paper Shapes Banners 732583
Basics Washi Tape Honeycomb 747211
Basics Washi Tape Begonia 747209
American Crafts Baker`s Twine Value Pack Bright 366303
American Crafts Glitter Cardstock Silver AM714-16
American Crafts Thickers Ash Glitter 732162

Using Rub-Ons in a Scrapbook Layout

Jun

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Pebbles Rub-Ons are quickly becoming one of the more popular items in our collection line ups. We love how Marjan Pel showcases using rub-ons in a scrapbook layout. What do you think? Do you like using them?

Way back in 2006 when I started with scrapbooking you could buy a lot of rub-ons made by different scrapbook companies, they were very modern at that time and I used them a lot on my pages. Several years later rub-ons have become trendy again.

Pebbles has some awesome rub-ons in some of the collections. I especially love the gold ones, they are sophisticated and look really stylish. Rub-ons look cool on cards, but you can use them on scrapbook layouts too and they are so easy to use. You can use them on photos and on paper.

On this scrapbook layout I wanted to use a whole bunch of rub-ons to make a cool background for an older photo of my two boys.

I used some coordinating Project Life cards and a printed glassine bag to frame the photo. I used a 4×6 Project Life card for a hidden journaling.

I embellished the page with different kind of stars. I love the look of this scrapbook page and definitely will use more often rub-ons on my scrapbook layouts.

Supplies:
Americana Red, White Blue 732493
Americana Independence Day 732498
Americana Bright Stars 732499
Americana Grimson Glitter Foam 732502
Americana Denim Glitter Foam 732503
Americana Shapes 732506
Americana 732509
Americana Glitter 732513
Special Delivery Boy First Tooth 32445
Special Delivery Phrases 732460
Special Delivery Girl Phrases 732461

Summer Scrapbook Layout

May

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Are you ready for summer yet? If not perhaps this fun grid-style summer scrapbook layout created by Designer Marjan Pel will do the trick! We love the way she’s mixed patterned paper up for a fun look.

Last summer we had this beach vacation in the Netherlands. Zandvoort aan Zee is one of the major beach resorts of the Netherlands. It has a long sandy beach, bordered by coastal dunes. The kids loved it there! They played in the sand all day long. We had a lot of warm and sunny days during this summer vacation and we spent most of the time at the beach.

I wanted to scrap a fun scrapbook page about one day at the beach. First I cut my normal sized 4 x 6 pictures into squares because I wanted to use an easy grid design for my page. I used several yellow and blue designed patterned papers from different collections to make some sunburst cards.

I sewed vellum squares on 3 of them to give it an eclectic look.

I embellished the scrapbook layout with coordinating stickers and golden rub-ons. To give some of these embellishments a bit of a dimension I used little foam adhesives. The gold of some of the stickers and rub-ons remembers me of the color of the sun. For me sun is not only yellow, but has different shades of yellow and gold!

I just love summer and when I look at this scrapbook page I really can remember those warm and sunny days at the beach from Zandvoort aan Zee!

Supplies:

Special Delivery Boy Patterned Paper Little Stars 32444
Americana Patterned Paper Red, White & Blue 732493
Americana Patterned Paper Bright Stars 732499
Garden Party Patterned Paper Peony 32520
Garden Party Patterned Paper Poppy 32516
Garden Party Patterned Paper Lily 32525
From Me To You Roller Stamp Upper Case Letters 732278
From Me To You Cardstock Stickers Phrase & Accent 732271
From Me To You Cardstock Stickers Label 732272
From Me To You Rub-Ons Phrase/Gold 732273
From Me To You Patterned Paper Hello 32255
From Me To You Patterned Paper Written 32263
Basics Washi Tape Honeycomb 747211

Travel Mini Album

May

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Mini albums always get such a warm reception from our fans. We suspect today’s gorgeous travel mini album put together by Design Team Member Marjan Pel will be no exception. It’s a great reminder of her amazing trip!

Today I want to share my latest travel mini album about my trip to Valencia in Spain last year.

When I created this mini album I had a certain color scheme in mind. I wanted to use pastel colors and for a bigger contrast I needed black and white patterns too. The papers from the “Garden Party” line were just perfect for this job.

I used the pockets, inserts and die-cuts that come with the line to create the pages. The clothes pins, Thickers and the enamel dots give the project a little bit of dimension.

I took a lot of pictures in Valencia but I only wanted to use instagram photos for this travel mini album. I printed the photos with a white border and embellished them with some Basics washi tape in colors which coordinate with the papers.

I love stitching on paper projects lately so I stitched some cute arrows and a heart with the help of some Amy Tan stencils by American Crafts on some of the pages.

I am really happy with the result and want to make more cute travel mini albums as I love to travel to all the cool cities in Europe. I will visit Vienna in May and will go to Paris in July!

Supplies:

Garden Party Patterned Paper Lilac 32518
Garden Party Patterned Paper Pansy 32519
Garden Party Patterned Paper Peony 32520
Garden Party Patterned Paper Primrose 32522
Garden Party Patterned Paper Azalea 32523
Garden Party Patterned Paper Tulip 32524
Garden Party Patterned Paper Daffodil 32527
Garden Party Thickers Doll/Pink Glitter Foam 732529
Garden Party Cardstock Stickers Phrase & Accent 732530
Garden Party Mini Clothespins Printed 732533
Garden Party Pockets & Inserts 732537
Garden Party Self-adhesive Dimensional Butterflies 732538
Garden Party Cardstock Die-Cuts 732541
Garden Party Journaling & Phrase Cards 732542
Garden Party 6×6 Paperpad 732544
Basics Washi Tape Black 747206
Basics Washi Tape Peony 747210
Basics Washi Tape Begonia 747209

Spring Gift Box

Mar

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day Pebbles friends! We’re so excited to be well into March and enjoying a bit of spring weather here in Utah that we’re kicking off a week of fun spring-inspired posts!

Today Designer Marjan Pel is kicking our sweet celebration off with a fun spring gift box that we know you’re going to love!

Today I want to show you a gift box for my best friend here in Norway, who will go back to Germany in april. She loves gardening very much and will move to a house with a big garden.

I made an accordion card with the cardmaking pad.

This pad is just perfect for cards. I adhered on every other side of this card a library pocket of cardstock which I made with an envelope punch board.

I made also some cute coin envelopes with that same punch board. The coin envelopes contain seeds and tiny bulbs of spring flowers and they fit precisely in the library pockets. You can see how I make these library pockets and coin envelopes here.

Behind every coin envelope I put a journaling card with the description for each kind of flower.

I embellished the pages with coordinating tiny clothes pins, journaling cards and die cuts from the collection. I adhered the die cuts with foam dots to give them a bit dimension.

I love how this project came together and I hope my best friend will love this gift box too.