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Make Pinwheels With Your Kids

29
Jun
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia back today with another craft you can do with your kids. When I was little, my Mom showed me how to make a pinwheel. Pinwheels are fun. You can play with them. Learn about wind. Even use them to decorate with. You probably already have all the supplies you need at home too.

They look awesome in a vase. You could even use them for party favors.

Change the paper and you get completely different looks. I used different pattern papers from the Pebbles Sun & Fun collection.

Here is how you can make them too.

Supplies needed:
paper
pencil
ruler
scissors
a straw
a long stemmed brad.

1 Select your pattern paper. You want the front and back to coordinate well as you will see both sides. It’s ok to use a paper pad even where the back side is white. Cut the paper into a 6″x6″ square. Draw a line lightly in pencil diagonally from corner to corner, and repeat with the other corners. Then measure from each corner along the line and make a mark at 2 1/2″.

2. Use a hole punch to make a hole in the middle of the square where the 2 lines intersect. Then make 4 more holes just to the left of each corner near the edge.

3. Using a scissors, cut up from each corner following the penciled line to the pencil marking 2 1/2″. Erase the penciled lines.

Take the brad and insert it through the corner holes one at a time. Then insert it through the hole in the middle.

After you push the brad through the straw, open up the brad prongs, leaving enough space so you can still turn the pinwheel.

Enjoy!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I hope you’ll try making pinwheels with your kids too.

Supplies:
Sun & Fun Patterned papers

Filed Under: DIY, Inspiration, Papercraft, Party, Tutorial Tagged With: Kids Crafts, Marcia Dehn-Nix, Papercraft, patterned paper, sun & fun

This is Family Notebooks with Terhi

16
Sep
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Hey, who loves notebooks? I do!
It’s Terhi here today, and I want to share you how easy it is to turn patterned papers to your favourite notebooks. All the papers and embellishments I used to create these notebooks are from This is Family line.

I’m the kind of person who love lists and notes. My purse is always filled with notes, notebooks etc. It doesn’t matter if I ever read them or not, I just love writing things down and seeing pretty things while I’m on the go. That’s why I wanted to learn how to use patterned papers for this habit of mine. I found lots of ideas and after trying couple different techniques myself, I decided that the easier the process is the better the notebooks are.

The process for these notebooks couldn’t be easier! Just take couple sheets of “office paper” or any other paper you want to have inside as pages. Cut them to the size you wish to have each spread, then fold them half.
Choose a patterned paper for the cover, cut it slightly bigger or same size as the pages inside and fold it half, too.
My notebooks are sized about 3,5″ x 6,5″.

Then, choose a sewing machine or hand stitching.
With a sewing machine, go ahead and sew the notebook tightly together using the folding as your guide. Sew the line couple of times to make a firm notebook and pretty details!
If you choose hand stitching as I did, pierce small holes (for example with Pink Paislee Book Binding tool) to the pages and to the cover, then simply stitch the book together tightly.

Decorate the cover as you want or leave it as it is.
When you feel ready, add the notebook to your purse with a pencil and you’re ready to rock!

Have a crafty day!
Terhi xx

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Supplies: 
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
71793 Smooth Cardstock White 
734182 This is Family Patterned Paper Fringe Art 
734162 This is Family Patterned Paper Fresh Picked 
734174 This is Family Patterned Paper Flower Batch 
734175 This is Family Patterned Paper Growing Together 
734184 This is Family Patterned Paper Bits & Pieces
 
734192 This is Family Paperclips
 
734190 This is Family Ephemera

310850 Pink Paislee Truly Grateful Book Binding Tool Kit

Filed Under: Altered Item, DIY, Inspiration, Papercraft Tagged With: DIY, notebook, notebooks, Papercraft, papercrafting, Terhi Koskinen, this is family

3 Things to Create a Scrapbook Page

06
May
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Hey all! Terhi here with layout I’m super excited about. Our theme this week is to use three types of things to create a project. For me this sounds a challenge, but definitely something very inspiring! Let me show you what I did and how.

Three things for a project can be actually quite much. First thing I chose was paper. Paper is the background, and paper will be what makes the embellishments, title and everything else too!

Second thing is scissors! Well, to be honest I could also say paper cutting tools as I used paper trimmer and two different sized scissors.
Third, and last thing is another set of one type of things: Adhesives. There’s glue, double sided tape and foam dots all used.

To create this page I had an idea about thin squares adhered on the background with a bit different adhesives. I started by cutting the squares. Sure you can go and cut it all with electronic cutting machine, but I wanted to do it myself. The largest square is about 7″ x 7″ and all the squares are about 3/4″ wide.

First I adhered the largest one with thin foam dots. I used a ruler to adhere it straight, and then I didn’t need the ruler for other squares. Second square is adhered with thick foam dots, the third one with only double sided tape. You can see all the shadows and different dimensions!

The photograph is like framed, as it is inside the smallest square. All embellishments, paper flowers, and fussy cut out from paper Bouquet of Love, from collection Loves Me. Fussy cutting can take time, but it is totally worth the trouble!

Even thought there aren’t any of my most used elements, I think this page is quite fun and fresh. Hope you like it too!
Wishing you a day full of love!

Terhi xx
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Supplies:
340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots
342039 Sticky Thumb Marathon Runner
340272 Sticky Thumb Dimensional Foam Dots
71081 Textured Cardstock White
733956 Loves Me Patterned Paper Bouquet of Love

Filed Under: Flowers, Layout Tagged With: Loves Me, Papercraft, papercrafting, scrapbook, scrapbook layout, scrapbooking, Terhi Koskinen

Sunshine Card Set with Video Tutorial

17
Apr
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Hello all! Terhi here, hoping you all are having sunshine in your day today! I’m sharing some sunshine for you with my card set I made using ‘Oh Summertime!’ collection. To show you how I created these, I recorded a process video – see it in the end of this post.

To be more specific of what these cards are, I’d describe them as a treat bag tags mixed with cards. I got the idea to make the set of cards/tags when I was starting to plan some kind of gift to our children teachers this spring. Something handmade for sure, but also fun and colourful!

The treat bags I used, Homemade with Love Treat Bag Kit – Day Dream, are perfect to go with Oh Summertime! collection. They can be filled with any sweets of course, but also with anything else. How about some seeds to plant and grow beautiful flowers? Don’t let your imagination stop you.

As you can see, I didn’t add any large sentiments. Instead, I let the big circle shaped element speak loudly, wishing warm and sunny days, and thought to write my greetings to the back side.

To add more depth and interest to the cards I layered paper, paper and glitter die cut ephemera and fussy cut elements together. The result is fun-looking and very detailed!

This kind of project is super quick to do, and also quite simple. No need for tools in addition to scissors!

Take a look to the video here. If you can’t see the video, follow this link: Sunshine Card Set for Pebbles.

 

Thank you so much for taking time to visit here! See you soon again!

Terhi xx 
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Supplies:

340272 Sticky Thumb Adhesive Foam Dots

71793 Smooth Cardstock White 

734097 Summertime 12×12 Paper Pad

734087 Summertime Clear Stickers

734094 Summertime Ephemera

734093 Oh Summertime Glitter Ephemera

734091 Oh Summertime Foam Thickers

734086 Oh Summertime Cardstock Stickers

351422 Homemade with Love Treat Bag Kit – Day dream

Filed Under: American Crafts, Cards, Gift, Gift Bag, Party, Teacher, Thank You, Treat Bag, Tutorial, Uncategorized Tagged With: homemade with love, oh summertime, Papercraft, Terhi Koskinen, Treat Bag, Treat bags

It’s A Girl!

15
Mar
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Hello Pebbles friends! Marcia here today. Our theme this week has been party invites. Since I am helping to plan a baby shower for my nephew and his new wife who are expecting a girl, I decided to go with a baby shower theme. The Pebbles Loves Me collection was perfect with all those pretty pink pattern papers and cute die cut ephemera pieces and stickers. I found this cute umbrella bag digital cut file at SVGcuts and could not wait to make these. They are going to look so fabulous on tables at the baby shower! I could fill them with snacks. They would also be awesome as small gift bags.

Each umbrella is created from two different pattern papers. They are not full umbrellas, rather the back is flat. This left space for me to stamp “It’s A Girl!” and then embellish with die cuts and stickers. Each one is different.

There are adorable sloths adorning the handles of each umbrella as well as bows.

Don’t pack your Loves Me collection away just yet … Valentines Day is over, but this collection can do double duty for baby girls, Easter, Mother’s Day and so much more!

Supplies:

  • Pebbles Loves Me – Papers
  • Pebbles Loves Me – Stickers
  • Pebbles Loves Me – Die Cuts
  • American Crafts cardstock
  • American Crafts 2-sided tape

Filed Under: American Crafts, Gift Bag, Inspiration, Papercraft, Party, Treat Bag, Valentine's Day Tagged With: Baby, baby girl, Gift Bag, Loves Me, Marcia Dehn-Nix, Papercraft

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