Black and White Layout

Oct

Hi everyone! I’m Eva Pizarro and today I’m going to show you how you can use the beautiful Thirty-One Collection from Pebbles to do a non-Halloween themed layout.

I love Halloween, but here in Chile we are just starting to celebrate this holiday and because I don’t have kids yet I really don’t have any themed photos to scrap! Looking at the entire collection though, I noticed that it had great patterns and a lot of them weren’t themed. So I thought I could use it for any kind of layout!

To start, I cut strips of paper from a grey and a black paper.

I drew diagonal lines and divided my layout in 4. Then I started gluing the strips of paper, making sure they were perpendicular.

After I finished one color I started with the other one.

Then I included my title and a cluster of stickers and embellishments under my photo.

The stickers in this collection are beautiful and for the layering technique you can cut them in half and glue them so you can only see the borders.

Hope you like it and happy holidays!
Eva

Supplies:
Thirty One Witching Hour Paper (732301)
Thirty One Hocus Pocus Paper (732291)
Thirty One Cardstock Stickers (732304)
Thirty One Chalkboard Thickers (732564)
Thirty One Decorative Tags (732308)

Anna and Elsa Layout

Oct

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Hello, Pebbles Fans! It’s Renee Zwirek here today to share a step-by-step tutorial of my layout using the Thirty-One collection. I am especially excited for this Halloween. My girls are dressing up as Anna & Elsa from the popular and loved Disney Frozen movie! I wondered how I was going to combine the Thirty-One collection with my Frozen-themed photo. I was inspired by this image I found on Pinterest.

I started with white cardstock and added the Enchanted paper with adhesive. I then added and machine stitched snowflake borders to the remainder of the page.

Here’s a close-up of the pretty snowflake borders that I stitched to the page.

I added foam dots to my photo and the very bottom of my layers of pattern papers.

Now that my layers are done, I can add my title and embellishments.

I added my title and more snowflakes with glitter candy dot centers.

I love the script font of this “Happy Halloween” Chalkboard Label sticker! I fussy-cut some flowers from the Mystical pattern paper and added them within the layers around my photo. I added some pretty Icicle Zazz! Glitter Glue to the centers of the flowers. So pretty and sparkly!

The girls can’t wait to go Trick-or-Treating in their costumes. So, I added this great sticker along a snowflake border.

I used the Roller Stamp to make this “Coolest Costumes!” banner for my page.

Here’s my finished layout! I really enjoyed making this one. This is such a wonderful Halloween collection!

I also wanted to share the Anna & Elsa (and Olaf) page I added to my Halloween Costumes O’Fl!p Album! This album is a perfect and simple way to gather your Halloween costume memories. My girls love flipping through it to see all the adorable costumes they have worn through the years. I have to admit that this year is one of my all-time favorites!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE!

Supplies:
Thirty-One Hocus Pocus (732291)
Thirty-One Mystical (732293)
Thirty-One Dreadful (732297)
Thirty-One Enchanted (732299)
Thirty-One Witching Hour (732301)
Thirty-One Phrase & Accent Stickers (732304)
Thirty-One Chalkboard Labels (732305)
Thirty-One Decorative Tags (732308)
Thirty-One 6 x 6 Paper Pad (732339)
Tricks and Treats Spooky Thickers, White (732136)
From Me to You Roller Stamp (732278)
Seen & Noted O’fl!p 4 x 6 Post Bound Album, 25 pages (770215)
Glitter Candy Dots, White (744246)
American Crafts Cardstock Pack 12″ x 12″ 60/Pkg, White (71259)
American Crafts This to That Strips Adhesive Runner (61712)
American Crafts This to That Dimensional Dots (61709)
American Crafts Precision Pen .03 Point, Black (62311)
American Crafts Precision Pen .05 Point, Black (62321)
American Crafts Zazz! Glitter Glue, Icicle (27416)
American Crafts Amy Tangerine Today Roller Date Stamp (59220)

Halloween Layout with Circle Tutorial

Oct

Halloween Treat Bags

Oct

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Hi everyone! I’m Eva Pizarro and today I am going to show you how to make small pumpkins to decorate your fall or Halloween projects.

I used these pumpkins to do some treat bags. They were very easy to make! Just fill one of the printed bags from Pebbles and embellish with some stickers and papers from this beautiful Halloween collection.

To make the pumpkins, cut and glue strips of paper. Use your circle punch (or scissors if it is too thick) to cut 3 circles of paper.

Glue two of these circles together, then attach the other one on top with some foam dots.

Cut a strip of green paper and use something pointy or a quilling tool to roll it. Pull the paper and glue to the top of the pumpkin.

Now fill and decorate your treat bags. They’re super easy, and your kids are going to love them!

Here you can see them one by one.

Happy holidays!
Eva

Supplies:
Thirty One Mystical Paper (732290)
Thirty One Dreadful Paper (732291)
Thirty One Cardstock Stickers (732304)
Thirty One Decorative Tags (732308)
Thirty One Printed Bags (732309)

Pumpkin Layout

Oct

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Hello! It’s Renee Zwirek here today to share a step-by-step tutorial of a pumpkin-themed and titled layout.

I wanted this layout to look like it was framed. So, I cut out the center of my favorite paper in this collection to be the frame. The frame measures 1.5 inches all around.

For the mat of the frame, I cut out the center of white cardstock leaving 1/4″ of white to show.

I attached the frame and mat to my background paper and machine-stitched the four corners for added interest.

Here’s a close-up of one of the stitched corners.

I used a pencil to mark where I wanted to place my photo and then I added drops of color mist using a paintbrush.

Here is my photo! I’m going back in time to 2005. Caitie’s First Halloween at the pumpkin farm! Yes, I dressed her as a little pumpkin and placed her in front of the pumpkin patch for a photo (cue the “It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” music). Ha! Isn’t she adorable, though?! It got warm that day so I did change her into a short-sleeved dress right after I took this photo.

I layered a few pattern papers under the photo. I added an overlay to my photo and machine-stitched it a tiny bit at the bottom right corner (where I knew I would add some embellishments).

I used this pattern paper to cut out some triangles to add to my layout. I did add some more drops of color mist to the triangles before I machine-stitched them to the layout.

I added my title and a bit of journaling.

Now it’s time for some fun embellishments! I cut away some of the gray color from the branches as well as the bird of this tree sticker before adding it to my layout. Then, I added a few pumpkin stickers. They are too cute!