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Play Frame

27
May
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Hello! Amy here from The Happy Scraps. I am SO excited to be sharing this fun PLAY frame with you today. I used the fun Happy Day collection on this project. When I started working on this, my goal was to create a way to get pictures of my family having fun on the weekends, off of my phone, and displayed. But I wanted to be able to change the pictures out, as often as I could, so this is the perfect solution. This turned out better than I could have imagined!

pebbles-happy-day

I started out by collecting my supplies. I used my saw to cut the word “play” and made the frame out of old fence slats. I had the coated chicken wire & mini clothes pins on hand, and I pulled out the fun Happy Day collection for the stickers, frames, twine, and paper.

pebbles-supplies

Start out by turning over you word, and tracing it onto the back of the paper that you’d like on the front of your word. I loved the pink polka dot paper, Happy Day Let’s Chat cardstock.

trace-word-on-paper

Next, you’ll cut out your word.

play

When applying paper to wood, I like to use wood glue. I put some on the wood, spread it out evenly with a sponge brush and apply the paper. On a piece this size, you may need to do one half at a time. Use a vinyl applicator to make sure you get the paper smooth.

adhere-paper

Next, I cut my chicken wire to size, and used a staple gun to attach it to the back of the frame.

chicken-wire

Now you are ready to adhere the word play to the front of the frame. I used wood glue and clamps to make sure the word was on there good.

glue-play-word

Next, I cut apart the Happy Day Thinking of You paper so I could cut apart the fun little bunting pieces that were on it.

happy-day

Using the twine from the Happy Day Photo Garland Kit, I glued it to the back of the bunting pieces. I put two of these together.

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Using the mini clothes pins, I hung the buntings from the chicken wire, one on top and bottom.

mini-bunting

I embellished the photo frames by adding some stickers from the Happy Day Cardstock Stickers, Icons & Phrases sheet. Then I hung them from the chicken wire.

embellish-frames

I added some photos to the frames that I took over the weekend. I love that I can change the photos anytime, updating them with more recent photos of my family playing on the weekends.

stickers

polaroid-frame

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So tell me, if you could use one word to describe your weekends, what would it be?

Supplies:
Happy Day Double-Sided Cardstock: Thinking of You
Happy Day Double-Sided Cardstock: Let’s Chat
Happy Day Cardstock Icon and Phrase Stickers
Happy Day Photo Garland Kit

Filed Under: DIY, Guest Designer, Home Decor Tagged With: Amy Cowley, DIY, frame, Guest Designer, Happy Day, Memory Keeping, pebbles

Memorial Day Layout

26
May
1 Comment

Hi friends, Becki here. I hope you had a great Memorial Day and that you were able to spend some time with your loved ones. Memorial Day is traditionally a day where you visit the cemetery and take time to remember those loved ones who have passed on.  Memorial Day hasn’t ever been one of my favorite holidays (or traditions). A couple of years ago I visited the cemetery with my mom, a few of my nieces and nephews, and my kids. I don’t enjoy visiting the cemetery. I always feel sad and miss my loved ones. When I found these photos I decided that I needed to change my attitude (and perspective) on Memorial Day and use that day as an opportunity to reflect on the happy memories that I have of my loved ones who have passed on.

On this layout I documented my change in attitude on this holiday. I used lots of products from the Cottage Living collection and a few bits and pieces from the Home Made collection. I also used a technique to make it look like I printed on the background of my layout with a wide format printer (when I actually don’t even own a wide format printer).

Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc I cut the “remember” portion of the title with my Silhouette Cameo and black cardstock. As I was planning my layout I decided that I wanted my journaling typed on the background. Because I don’t have a wide format printer or a typewriter, I had to be a little bit creative. I chose the pink and white striped patterned paper for my background. Then, I started by printing my journaling on a piece of plain printer paper. After I had it printed. I cut a white strip off of the bottom of the patterned paper. I attached that strip of white patterned paper to the sheet of printer paper, exactly over the text I had previously printed, and sent it through my printer again.

Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc Now, I had my journaling on a strip of patterned paper that will stretch across my layout.

Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc And when I had my layout finished. I just adhered that strip right below my title. Nobody will ever notice that I didn’t actually print it onto my background paper.

Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc I added some machine stitching with gold thread along the bottom of the journaling, just to add a little bit of sparkle.

Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc Memorial Day layout created by @jbckadams for @Pebblesinc Next time you’d like journaling on the background of your layout, don’t let the lack of a wide format printer stop you. Be creative and make it happen!
Thanks for joining me on the Pebbles blog today!

Supplies:
Sunrise Sunset Patterned Paper PJHCL-32760
Cottage Living Jewel Stickers 732778
Cottage Living Foil Garland 732779
Cottage Living Gold Metal Clips 732781
Cottage Living Gold Dipped Tags 732783
Cottage Living Paper Flowers 732784
Cottage Living Gold Foil Accent Paper PJHCLGF-32773
Gold Foil Thickers 732776
HomeMade Decorative Tapes 732626

Filed Under: Layout Tagged With: Becki Adams, Cottage Living, Layout, Memorial Day, Memory Keeping

Do-It-Yourself Memory Keeping System

05
Jan
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Hi everyone!  It’s Wendy Sue here today, wishing you all a Happy New Year!!  I don’t know about you, but I feel like everywhere I look on the internet lately, I am seeing posts and projects and memories focusing on “The Best of 2014.”  Everyone seems to have a “Top 10 (fill in the blank) of 2014,” something or other to share.  Everyone, that is, except me.  You see, even with all of my good intentions of documenting the year, I have fallen short.  Very short.  Well, not this year.  This year I am already looking forward to “looking back” at 2015!  I’ve got a system all set up and I’m ready to go.  Today I’d love to share my simple idea with you – you can set it up in an hour or two, and we can enjoy the process all year long – and then, in 12 short months, we can join in with everyone else as we write our blog posts featuring “The best of 2015!”

Here’s a look at my system, featuring the very appropriately named “Happy Day” collection:

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

First of all, I created a “to do” list of sorts.  I simply cut one of the “To do” columns from the “Weekend” paper.  The idea behind this piece of my system is to create a “bucket-list” of sorts with my family.  We’re going to sit down together (or separately) and create a list of things we’d like to do this year.  They can be big things (like “go to Disneyland” or little things like “celebrate my birthday with chocolate cake” – anything is fair game – as long as it’s something we want to remember).  Now I’m not fool enough to think I’m going to remember to take my nice camera to document each and every memory.  I’m also not naive enough to think that my teenagers won’t do some of the items on the list without me.  However, I am wise enough to know that with four smart phones in the house, it’s likely that someone will take a picture of everything.  With 3 instagram accounts between all of us, I’m just going to ask my kids to join me in adding the hashtag #AFM2015 (Anderson Family Memories 2015) to our memory photos…then I plan on making a printing a fun little book at the end of the year.

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

I loved the “insta-awesome” sticker in this collection, and had to add it to the bottom of my list!

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

There’s something about a handwritten thought, or memory, that I just treasure.  That’s why I created the next part of my system.  It’s super simple…just a quick little pocket, created with a 6×6 paper folded in half and embellished, filled with strips of paper.

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

 The idea here is that we can write down things we want to remember – things that made us happy, things that made us think, things that changed us…anything we want to remember – whether there’s a photo to go along with it or not.  The slips of paper aren’t very big (1″ x 6″), so this won’t be an in-depth novel, but it will be enough to help us recall special moments.

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

Finally, this simple little embellished mason jar can hold some of our special memories.

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

We can fold up those little slips of paper and drop them in.  We can also add other things – ticket stubs, little photos, anything that will fit inside is fair game.

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

I can’t wait to see what 2015 has in store for my little family and I look forward to sitting together a year from now while we reminisce and talk about all of our favorite moments and memories together!  I hope you’ll join me as I “look forward to looking back!”

memory jar project by @wendysuea featuring the #happyday collection for @pebblesinc

Supplies:
Happy Day “Weekend” Patterned Paper
Happy Day “Thinking of You” Patterned Paper
Happy Day 6×6 Paper Pad
Happy Day “Icons & Phrases” Stickers
Happy Day “Icons & Phrases” Stickers
Happy Day Paper Ribbon
Happy Day Tag Frames
Happy Day Enamel Dots
Woodland Thickers
Seen & Noted 6×6 Paper Pad
This to That Foam Dots

Filed Under: DIY Tagged With: DIY, Happy Day, Memory Keeping, Wendy Sue Anderson

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