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Scrapbooking with children | Terhi

Jun

Hey there Pebbles Fans! It’s Terhi Koskinen here wishing you the most colorful day and inspiring you with a scrapbook layout made in very special situation.

As I have been scrapbooking our family life for as long as I have been a Mom, I thought to ask if my daughters would like to make a layout together with me. We’ve done many crafts together and they both have done many layouts of their own. This layout has been made with my older daughter, who just turned 12.

Teenagers, children, how ever you wish to call them, are super talented and very creative if you just give them a chance! Surely my children has been watching how I create and seen my work, so they have strong opinions and thoughts about how the layout should look. For this page, we proceed completely in her phase – not mine.

We started by choosing a photograph and I was very surprised she didn’t pick a horse photo but mine instead! I asked why this one and she told because it’s a pretty one. That’s a perfect reason, isn’t it. Then, she picked up a white cardstock for a background to start our work, just as her Mom always do.

I limited her passion and excitement to Pebbles Hey, Hello collection instead giving her access to all my products. I had some of the separate patterned papers and Pebbles Hey, Hello Project Pad on the table and she fell in love with the paper Yellow Roses. We fussy cut all the flowers out and to bring more colors we took the lovely colored sheet out from the project pad.

The most interesting part of the process was adding thread. She’s seen my Youtube videos and she’s been watching how I do it, but she gave me an idea which is totally new to me – adding matching thread around each paper. The effect is adorable! It bring softness to the page but doesn’t make it as messy as I usually end up doing. Well done my dear child, well done!

Attaching the squares to the background was a bit tricky, so instead of measuring and getting gray hair I asked if the squares could be like wreath. She didn’t like the idea but shook them a bit, so the squares are inclined on purpose.

If you’d like to try out creating something together with older than toddlers, here’s what I think are the most important things to make the moment memorable.

Tell her/him clearly what’s the main goal – it’s easier to create when you know what to create and to where.
Limit all options – it’s easier to decide from four papers than from forty papers.
Let her/him teach YOU something, be curious about their opinions.
Instead of saying no, ask questions like why.

We did this together and I’m so very proud about it. Creating one thing together is totally different thing than creating things beside each other. She enjoyed as much as I.

Thank you for stopping by here today, it’s been a pleasure! Have a great day!
Terhi xx
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Supplies:
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Pad 12×12 (736898)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Project Pad
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Stickers (736796)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Sticker Book (736804)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Puffy Thickers (736798)
We R Memory Keepers Premium Paper Trimmer (660557)
American Crafts White Cardstock (71259)

Hello Summer! | Terhi

Jun

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Hey all!
It’s Terhi Koskinen here sharing you some tips to capture your summer memories in a beautiful way. I’m using Pebbles Sun and Fun collection, which is my most favorite line to scrapbook summer themed layouts.

If I can choose a photo for my layout I want to create, I often choose one taken with a good camera, people staying still with pretty smiles and even choosing photos edited in proper way.
This summer I will challenge myself to use more photos taken randomly, just like the one on this bright and colorful layout.

As the photo is a bit blurry and small, I decided to bring the feeling from it to the layout. My girls and their Grandpa were showing the fish they got, and the excitement was one of the things I wanted to honor. Colors are perfect for this! I picked up three bright colors from Sun and Fun patterned papers, pink, blue and green. Bringing the feeling from the photo to the layout is always a key to success.

In addition to bright colors, I added lots and lots of details to catch attention from the blurry photo. There are bits and pieces of patterned papers, ephemera, fussy cut pieces, washi tapes and much more! Also, there are words and phrases supporting the great feeling from the photo.
Finally, I finished the page by adding watercolor details close to matching colors.

What do you think, could you use more everyday photos? How about making a layout with lots of details? And maybe even finish it with some watercolor elements!
Hope you feel inspired! Have a great day!
Terhi xx
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About me – Terhi

Jun

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Hello everyone, It’s Terhi Koskinen here!
I have been up here for many times before, but as we have just started a new term with my lovely three team mates, why not to share something about myself. Oh, and don’t worry, not going to get you bored by telling all about my shoe size or full length life story, I only want to share some things about my creative life so far.

I have been scrapbooking for over ten years and started the journey by seeing some scrapbook albums made by a friend of mine. As I’m a lover of photographing and I couldn’t imagine my life without creating things with my hands, I was hooked from the day one. The lovely friend of mine let me borrow her papers and stamps, and told me how to start and where to purchase my own stuff. I’ll be forever grateful for her, as her help and advice as given me not only beautiful albums full of our family life, but also countless opportunities to see the world, make new friends, and even lead to me to study new profession!

Talking about profession, last year was the toughest of my life so far. Struggles with health, home and work gave me an idea about to do something I would actually love and be passioned about as my work, to support my mental health and happier life. Uniting my career with technology to my creative mind lead me to dream about graphic designing.
Now I’m studying like never before and couldn’t be more excited about the choice I made!

When I’m not reading or practicing, I’m making cute things like this mini album here. This one is made as a small birthday present for my eldest daughter. She turns twelve in just few weeks and she lives for horses – just as her mother has always lived! The mini book is all about her pony and what they discovered last summer.

Mini albums are one of my favorite craft to make, as I can create one about years long adventures or add only couple photos telling a story about one single moment in life. Also, you can add much more pretty embellishments into a mini book than to scrapbook layouts. But I do love creating layouts, too!

Here I created the album with Hey, Hello project pad and other embellishments. I made the covers with thick cardstock covered with patterned paper. The made the simplest photo cards by attaching patterned papers behind each photo I added to the book. I kept the photos clear from embellishments and added everything to the other side, together with a phrase sticker matching to the theme.

In addition to my daughter I talked before, our family includes another sweet girl aged nine and a handsome man I could “hubs”. There are two furry friends here, too, couple of cavalier King Charles spaniels.

We live in a small house and sadly I don’t have a huge room for my scrapbooking supplies. Instead, half of our living room is my creative space and quite often our family has to eat somewhere else as the kitchen table is occupied with my scraps, tools and machines.

My dream is to share the word of memory keeping to the whole world and encourage everyone to make something with their hands. I also dream about traveling to US, to see the people and places who has started the scrapbooking in the first place.

I hope you are inspired about work! Please come to visit at my blog and social media, and we will meet also here at Pebbles blog many times in the future, too!

Thank you for reading this far!
Keep on crafting!
Terhi xx
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Supplies:
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Pad 12×12 (736898)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Paper Clips (736802)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Stickers (736796)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Sticker Book (736804)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Ephemera Sentiments (736799)
We R Memory Keepers Premium Paper Trimmer (660557)

Spring Flowers with Terhi

Apr

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Hello Friends, it’s Terhi here with you again!
It’s April now, which means we are very close to the season of Cherry Blooms. Can’t wait for it! I love seeing all trees in blossom, both apple and cherry trees are my favorite.

The last weeks has been full of very worrying news, so keeping mind in positive things and remember the beauty of the world is important. This is why I decided on creating a scrapbook page around the spring flowers theme. To create this page I used Hey, Hello! collection designed by Jen Hadfield.

You might be focusing first on the flowers here, but as usual, the most important part of a scrapbook layout is the photograph (or some other way telling about the memories).
I really like playing with photographs!
Like while creating this layout, first I added one photo of the cherry blooms, but then wanted to add another one cut in circle shape. And I couldn’t stop there, so I added even more very small cherry bloom pics in matching bloom shape.

Layering photographs on top of each other and on top of other elements in the page gives you depth and dimension. Both depth and dimension will make the layout more live, which makes the layout much more interesting!
Small things matter.

In addition to photographs of the memory, I like adding matching embellishments or other elements to the page. Like here, I wanted to add lots and lots of flowers to support the theme of the amazing cherry trees.
The rest of the creation process is just adding smaller embellishments like stickers, and then title and journaling.

Now I have this wonderful page hanging on our wall and reminding about happier times. “I got this”, and I know “all is good”, so no need to worry too much. Hope you feel the same.

Terhi xx
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Supplies:
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Pad 12×12 (736898)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Happy Day (736862)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Flower Blossoms (736848)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Stickers (736796)
We R Memory Keepers Premium Paper Trimmer (660557)
American Crafts White Cardstock (71259)

Good Friendships with Terhi

Mar

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Hey there Pebbles Friends!
It’s Terhi here with you today. Hope you all are fine and doing great no matter where you are!
I’m here to share you a scrapbook page telling a story about one of the most important friendships in my life.
Let’s go, I’ll share how it was created, too.

I guess friendships are important to all of us, no matter where we are or how we were raised. This is no exception for me, my friends are my superpower! But instead of creating a layout including a silly selfie taken with friends, I thought to share who are my closest friends.
Side note, the silly selfies are important, too.

Who are the friends standing next to me when life gives me lemons?
Who are close to me when I’m ill?
Who smiles me every time we see each other – even if the last time was a second ago?
Who are always excited to do absolutely anything with me?
Who are the ones who agrees with anything I say and still be the most honest ones?
Who make my heart sign no matter how gray the world looks?
Please meet our two Cavalier King Charles Spaniels Myy and Elsa. I hope I can be as loyal to them as they are for me.

Creating a page like this was easy.
I think the photograph and its meaning is so strong, that I didn’t want to disturb it too much. Only frame it gently, and add couple of heart there.
I had my calming moment with patterned papers and scissors, I love fussy cutting! Then, I simply adhered all the flowers on white cardstock, forming a circle and leaving some space inside it.

Before finishing the page I cut the title and adhered it too, as well as the hearts. Last, I flicked some watercolors around the flowers as I wanted to add some green to the page.
That’s it!
Oh, and another side note: See how beautifully Hey, Hello! collection and my darling dogs match together? It’s like a match made in heaven!

Do you scrapbook about your friends? How about your furry friends? Or are all of your albums including pages about your family?
I wish you are inspired! And staying mentally close to your friends.

Terhi xx
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Supplies:
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Pad 12×12 (736898)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Thinking of You Sentiments (736850)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Flower Blossoms (736848)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Patterned Paper Thank You Sentiments (736845)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Ephemera Icons (736800)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Ephemera Sentiments (736799)
Pebbles Hey, Hello Cardstock Stickers (736796)
We R Memory Keepers Premium Paper Trimmer (660557)
American Crafts White Cardstock (71259)