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Fall Sweet Treat | Caramel Apples Quick Gift

Oct

Happy Fall! Renee here to share a Caramel Apple Quick Gift using the Midnight Haunting collection and the We R Memory Keepers 123 Punch Board. I love Fall! I love watching the trees change colors, the crisp cool air perfect for sweatshirts and sweaters, and going to the pumpkin farm with my girls. I also love apple cider donuts, pies, and caramel apples. What’s a Fall season without enjoying a caramel apple? Not a good one!

A Caramel Apple Quick Gift can be given to a teacher, friend, or family member for a fun fall sweet treat.

I measured the caramel apples and decided to make 3 ¼” x 3 ¼” x 3 ¼” sized boxes for them. I trimmed the Whirling Leaves, Autumn Plaid, and Pumpkin Plaid pattern papers to 10″ x 10″…

…And followed the instructions on my 123 Punch Board to create the boxes.

To create tags for my caramel apples quick gift, I trimmed the Midnight Sentiments pattern paper to 3″ x 8″, folded the papers in half and trimmed off the top corners. I adhered the tags and added a decorative edge to them.

With all the prep work done, the fun of embellishing the tags begins. I distressed the edges of the tags and added Stickers, die-cuts, and layered banner sentiment stickers.

I love the fall embellishments! The leaves, pumpkin, and fall colors are perfect.

Once I placed my caramel apple into the box, I punched a hole into all four corners of the top of the box. I closed each flap one at a time over the stick of the caramel apple. A perfect fit! I simply added a tag over the stick of the caramel apple.

Thanks for stopping by the Pebbles blog today! I hope you enjoyed this fall quick gift idea. Have a great day!

Supplies:

Midnight Haunting Midnight Sentiments (733639)
Midnight Haunting Whirling Leaves (733640)
Midnight Haunting Autumn Plaid (733644)
Midnight Haunting Hauntingly Beautiful (733647)
Midnight Haunting Pumpkin Plaid (733650)
Midnight Haunting Accent Stickers with Gold Foil (733653)
Midnight Haunting Ephemera with Gold Foil (733654)
Jen Hadfield Heart Of Home Layered Stickers (733766)
American Crafts Sticky Thumb Flat Adhesive Dots, .5″ 300/Pkg (340275)
American Crafts Sticky Thumb Raised Adhesive Dots, .5″ 150/Pkg (340276)
American Crafts Sticky Thumb Marathon Runner & Refill, Permanent Solid .315″ x 33.3 yd (342038)
American Crafts Cutup Scissors 7″ (64201)
American Crafts Knock Outs Border Punch Value Kit (63013)
We R Memory Keepers 123 Punch Board (662530)

Ready for a challenge? | October Sketch Challenge

Oct

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Hi friends! Hope you are having a great Monday. Either way, we promise it’s about to get better!

Remember when we asked if you’d like a sketch challenge and chance to win some free Pebbles products? Here it is (the first of many sketch challenges yet to come, that is!). We’ll do some experimenting with card sketches, recipe challenges, layouts and more, until we settle on what you like best. Before we share all the official rules, lets take a look at what the design team put together help you get started:

Courtesy of Monique

Courtesy of Renee

Courtesy of Eva

Courtesy of Leanne

See any common elements? We sure do hope so; here is where they came from:

Courtesy of Stuck Sketches

Before you get started, here are a few important things to remember:

Submissions need to be made mostly of Pebbles products.
Submission photos need to be clear and bright so that everyone knows what they are voting on.
All submissions need to be sent to [email protected] by October 13th.
There will be 2 winners. One will be chosen by the design team and the other will be chosen by you and your peers. In order to hold a vote, all submissions will be posted to Facebook.
Voting will take place October 16 to 23rd at noon; the winners will be announced that afternoon on Facebook.

Please let us know if you have any questions. Can’t wait to see what you put together!

Bootiful Halloween Cards featuring Midnight Haunting

Sep

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Hi there! Renee here to share a trio of bootiful Halloween Cards using the Midnight Haunting collection. It’s time to get ready for my favorite time of year and celebrate my favorite holiday! Halloween! I always love seeing the new Halloween collections that come out. They get cuter every year. Midnight Haunting is filled with adorable icons that are too cute to spook and the pattern papers are perfect!

These bootiful Halloween cards started with black cardstock trimmed to make 5″ x 7″ cards. I centered a decorative die-cut on the front of the cards and used my machine to cut the shapes out of each card.

I trimmed pretty pattern papers to 4 ¾” x 6 ¾”, centered the same decorative die-cut and used my machine to die-cut the papers.

Then I layered the papers to the card bases and added machine stitching around the decorative opening. The only thing left to do was to embellish each card. The best part!

This first card uses the Pumpkin Patch pattern paper. I centered a “Hello Bootiful” Thicker Sticker in the card window and added adorable die-cut ghosts. A Mini Pumpkin Puffy Sticker and fussy cut flowers finish off the card.

My second card uses the Hauntingly Beautiful pattern paper. I added a moon and stars Stickers in the window opening. A leaf Sticker and fussy cut flower sit with a cute die-cut owl. I loved adding the Mini Puffy Sticker Eyes to the owl. The perfect size!

The last card uses the Eyes On You pattern paper. I decorated with tombstones and bat die-cuts. Love the gold foil! I added bat Stickers, another Mini Pumpkin Puffy Sticker, and more fussy cut flowers to finish off this card. For a touch of sparkle to each card, I added Diamond Zazz! Glitter Glue to the flowers.

Thanks for stopping by the Pebbles blog today! Hope you enjoyed my trio of bootiful Halloween cards. For more Halloween card inspiration, check out all of these spooktacular Halloween cards.

Supplies:

Midnight Haunting Pumpkin Patch (733642)
Midnight Haunting Eyes On You (733643)
Midnight Haunting Hauntingly Beautiful (733647)
Midnight Haunting Accent Stickers with Gold Foil (733653)
Midnight Haunting Ephemera with Gold Foil (733654)
Midnight Haunting Mini Puffy Stickers (733656)
Midnight Haunting Bootiful Thickers Stickers with Gold Foil (733659)
American Crafts Textured Cardstock Pack 12″ x 12″ 60/Pkg, Neutrals (71252)
American Crafts Diamond Zazz! Glitter Glue (27415)
American Crafts Cutup Scissors 7″ (64201)
American Crafts Sticky Thumb Flat Adhesive Dots, .5″ 300/Pkg (340275)
American Crafts Sticky Thumb Raised Adhesive Dots, .5″ 150/Pkg (340276)

Make-A-Wish Layout featuring Happy Hooray

Sep

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Hi, Renee here today to share my Make A Wish layout using the Happy Hooray collection.

I love the bright and happy colors of this new birthday-themed collection. They make me think big! Thinking big, I went with this photo from Payton’s 7th birthday; it has become an easy favorite. and I knew it would look great as an enlarged print. With that in mind, I printed it off as a 7″ x 12″. I’m so happy I did!

The Rainbowtastic pattern paper was a great starting point for my Make A Wish layout. I knew where I wanted to place my photo on the page and made a line to keep everything straight (if you look at the top of the pattern paper, you can see where I drew a pencil line along my photo before the spot the pink diagonal stripe starts; it measures about 4-7/8″ from the right side of the page). I also added machine stitching along the thinner diagonal stripes on the right of the page.

I then trimmed the Celebrate pattern paper to 1-¼” and adhered it along the left edge of the page. I love how the large circle design of this paper matches up with the sprinkles on Payton’s birthday cake!

Since pattern papers are my favorite, I decided to trim a bunch of different ones and place them within the diagonal stripes. The stripes measured anywhere from the smallest at 1″ to the largest at 1-3/8″. I adhered my photo along the pencil line which I could still see.

With my photo in place, the fun part of adding embellishments could begin! I couldn’t resist the adorable animal Stickers.

I also included a “hip hip hooray” speech bubble Die-Cut, balloon animal Puffy Stickers, Enamel Sprinkles Stickers, and a “make a wish” Phrases & Banners Thicker Sticker for the title of my page.

Thanks for stopping by the Pebbles blog today! For more birthday layout inspiration, check out my Happy Birthday Layout and Leanne’s Memorabilia Pocket Layout. Have a Happy Day!