Wendy Antenucci Archives

Fun in the Sun with Wendy

Aug

I am so thrilled to be with you today to share some of what I have created with the amazing Fun in the Sun collection. Hi, my name is Wendy, and I love to document our everyday with pretty papers! For me, as a mom of 6 (and yes we homeschool), I want to document everything, but I have to be quick about my creating.

Summer Frame

My first project came together as soon as I poured out the die-cut pieces, they just begged to be grouped together and displayed with some fun summer pictures!

I worked on my center frame first as that was my “title” piece for the frame. I did add/rearrange a few pieces, but mainly I stayed with my original design and I added in a little sand for a fun summer look.

I love how the puffy stickers work so well with the die-cuts as the splashes were the same size.

And one last frame featuring beach time.

I have found that the 3×4 cards that are made for Project Life style scrapping fit my style perfectly, they give me a quick title or saying and they are a lot of fun to layer.

Photo Bomb

I began by gathering my favorite 3×4 cards, a cute photo, die-cuts to match, and paper. As you can see, I almost always go with my first impression and tweak that design.

Once my basic page is established (or my photo block as I usually refer to) I begin adding in areas of interest, usually with fun clusters. I also like to dress up my 3×4 cards to add interest.

My last layout was created from my leftovers. Once I begin cutting into my patterned paper I like to cut the leftovers into 3×4 and 4×6 pieces to allow me to create quickly with lots of layers like I enjoy.

Summer Chill Out

I started layering a few fun papers with the colors I wanted to bring into my page to match my photos creating my photo block. Then came the embellishing of the page, to add interest, and to further establish my theme.

And some title work… You can see in these details that I added some vellum, cut files, and sewing all in white for texture/interest, without taking from my page.

Thanks so much for a chance to share with you today, I hope you’ve enjoyed and will take some time to document your everyday!

Summer Chill Out Supply List:

732835 Fun in the Sun Die Cuts

732831 Fun in the Sun Thickers

732833 Fun in the Sun Puffy Stickers

732841 Fun in the Sun Cherries

732861 Fun in the Sun Beach Ball

732855 Fun in the Sun Splash

732850 Fun in the Sun Summer Days

Photo Bomb Supply List:

732835 Fun in the Sun Die Cuts

732831 Fun in the Sun Thickers

732833 Fun in the Sun Puffy Stickers

732861 Fun in the Sun Beach Ball

732850 Fun in the Sun Summer Days

732851 Fun in the Sun Sunshine

732856 Fun in the Sun Lemonade

732858 Fun in the Sun Waves

732152 Mini ABC Stickers

732275 Rub Ons

744241 Candy Dots

Summer Frame Supply List:

732851 Fun in the Sun Sunshine

732835 Fun in the Sun Die Cuts

732836 Fun in the Sun Layered Stickers

732833 Fun in the Sun Puffy Stickers

732850 Fun in the Sun Summer Days

Find me in cyberspace at:

My Blog: http://antenucci.blogspot.com

My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendyantenucci

My Instagram: http://instagram.com/wantenucci

Cottage Living with Wendy

Aug

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I am so thrilled to be with you today to share some of what I have created with the amazing Cottage Living collection. Hi, my name is Wendy (http://antenucci.blogspot.com), and I love to document our everyday with pretty papers! For me, as a mom of 6 (and yes we homeschool), I want to document everything, but I have to be quick about my creating.

Be Together Frame

I loved the chalkboard included in this collection and instantly gathered my favorite gold washi tape from the Home+Made collection, clips, and a fun picture.

I began by placing my washi tape as a border on the chalkboard.

I then created a embellishment cluster with a doily (my favorite) as the base.

As a final touch, I added in a title to my frame to remind us that Family is meant to be together!

Now is the Time

My next layout was inspired by the Gallery Wall paper. I realized the colors were perfect for documenting my daughter’s first pointe recital. I used the lovely gold washi tape again and the Love Notes paper as I had in my mind a French feel. The stamp set, fit so perfectly inside of the frames adding just the right sentiment to the page. The gold garland provided a touch of celebration which I tied together with clusters of flowers fussy cut, one of my favorite stress relieving activities.

Just Be You

This layout, was a deviation from the last pieces, in I just wanted to create something fun with all of my leftovers. You can see my photo block and I loved the papers I chose to go together, but the layout was lacking in interest. So I mixed and matched! The Fun in the Sun collection had a great saying that added some color and the glasses were perfect with the sun rays from my picture.

A few leftover black stars carried the striking contrast through my page, but I still wanted more to tie everything together… So I cut some sun rays from vellum and stitched them to my layout. Again, a subtle touch, but it further enhanced my page and it added to my theme of the sunshine.

Thank you for allowing me to share with you today. Have a blessed day!
Wendy

Just Be You Supply List:

732760 Cottage Living Sunrise Sunset

732751 Cottage Living All Lined Up

732759 Cottage Living Classic Stripes

732783 Cottage Living Gold Tipped Tags

732768 Cottage Living Sweet Greetings

732835 Fun in the Sun Die-Cuts

732850 Fun in the Sun Summer Days

Now is the Time Supply List:

732750 Cottage Living Floral Tapestry

732763 Cottage Living Rounded Trellis

732759 Cottage Living Classic Stripes

732792 Cottage Living Acrylic Stamps

732793 Cottage Living Alphabet Masks

732756 Cottage Living Love Notes

732754 Cottage Living Gallery Wall

732768 Cottage Living Sweet Greetings

732783 Cottage Living Gold Tags

732791 Cottage Living Puffy Stickers

Be Together Frame Supply List:

732750 Cottage Living Floral Tapestry

732759 Cottage Living Classic Stripes

732754 Cottage Living Gallery Wall

732768 Cottage Living Sweet Greetings

732791 Cottage Living Puffy Stickers

732790 Cottage Living Hanging Chalkboard

732781 Cottage Living Gold Clips

732784 Cottage Living Flowers

You can find me in cyberspace at –
My Blog: http://antenucci.blogspot.com

My Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wendyantenucci

My Instagram: http://instagram.com/wantenucci

Fall in Florida

Sep

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Hi everyone, Wendy here today. I was thrilled to have the chance to work with the new Home+Made collection, but the topic was Sweater Weather!

See we live in Florida, and there is no such thing as sweaters here, lol. So while I don’t have the traditional pictures some might have, instead I created some Home Decor projects to bring the fall feel into our lives even though the weather doesn’t cooperate.

Get in the spirit of fall with these beautiful home decor pieces by @antenucci made using the #JHHomeMade collection by @tatertotsjello and @PebblesInc.

The first project I created was my letter A.

I bought a paper mache letter from my local craft store and covered it with the burlap paper. I was amazed how well the burlap paper cut and adhered to my letter with the mod podge. A few fussy cut flowers and a tag were the perfect finishing pieces to my project.

My next project was my tree. As easy as it looks this was not the original intent! I started by spraying my jar with gold spray paint (and now I am addicted to spraying everything). I then gathered sticks of various lengths. I originally had cut leaves to put on my trees, but they didn’t give me the look I wanted. The tags though were perfect to hang from the branches. I did hot glue the string to the branches so that they wouldn’t go everywhere and would stay where I wanted them.

My final project was my wreath and this came together because I had those pretty leaves cut and I wanted to use them for something.

I wrapped my wreath in strips of torn material. I used the bags from the collection to make my flowers. (Rolling flowers is much easier if you lightly spray your paper first with water or even mists.)

The gold foil paper is thicker but worked well in my dies to cut the fringy flowers. I used my leaves to fill in the areas around my flowers (both made and fussy cut). A 3×4 card tucked behind the flowers gave the perfect pop of color and theme to my wreath.

My sentiment at the top with another flower was the finishing touch.

Thanks so much for the opportunity to join you today and I hope I inspired you to create!You can find a layout I created from the Home+Made collection on my blog, my FB page, my Pinterest page, and my Instagram profile.

Hope to see you there!

Supplies – A:

732611 Phrase & Accent Stickers

732589 Aqua Florali

732639 Phrase Tags

732607 Burlap Dots

366231 Whittles

Supplies – Home Wreath:

732609 Cream with Glitter Stripes

732635 Kraft Glitter Bags

732610 Gold Foil Paper

732611 Phrase & Accent Stickers

732601 Best Day Ever

732589 Aqua Florali

Supplies – Tree:

732639 Phrase Tags

Supplies – Books:

732609 Cream with Glitter Stripes

732596 Aqua Skies

732595 Grey Whimsy

732592 Silver

732626 Decorative Tape

Versatile Layouts using Americana

Jul

Using Rub-ons in Layouts and Cards

Jun

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You’re going to love the how Wendy Antenucci has been playing with all of the Pebbles rub-ons. Learn how she’s using rub-ons in layouts and cards!

I have a tendency to hold onto my supplies because I never know when I might need them. But when I saw the assignment for rub-ons I pulled out what was left of my favorite rub-on sheets and I went to town experimenting!

I first began by applying my white rub-ons to white cardstock and then I tried various medias to bring out the designs. I used ink pads as shown in the first picture and while it worked, it wasn’t a crisp image like I had hoped. My next try was with watercolors; this method made my rub-ons pop and it was much easier to blend my colors. My final try (with gold rub-ons because my white ones were all gone) was with mist; it wiped off the rub-ons like the watercolors, but I didn’t feel comfortable blending my colors.

Handmade birthday card created by @antenucci for @PebblesInc using the #BirthdayWishes collection #birthday #card #handmade

Here is one of the cards I created from my experiment, you can find the other finished card and another layout using mist/rub-ons on my blog.

I was having such a good time creating with the rub-ons in the new Birthday Wishes line that I created this layout next and had to share it.

Birthday layout created by @antenucci using @PebblesInc rub-ons #scrapbooking #birthday

I had this great idea to cut out pieces of the paper to nestle my pictures from my 8year olds birthday. It allowed my not so great pictures to shine on the dark paper by cropping them and not needing to have them in larger sizes. I used the best picture of this set in the largest block to call attention to it.

I love the pops of color from the Thickers and some of the stickers, the dark background made the colors so fun, perfect for our boy.

I really wanted to show the age of our boy using the candles and they fit perfectly in the bottom square, by using the tag as an “envelope” I was able to house my candles and fill up another square in my layout.

I use the gold seal and some of the happy gold rub-ons to add some wow factor to my layout.

Make sure you to stop by my blog and see a step-by-step tutorial for the birthday page I created, see you there.

Supplies:

Happy Birthday

Birthday Wishes envelope seals 732568

Birthday Wishes Hip Hip Hooray 732557

Birthday Wishes Celebration 732561

Birthday Wishes Party Day 732562

Birthday Wishes Celebrate multicolor Thickers 732565

Birthday Wishes phrase & accent stickers 732566

Birthday Wishes die cut cardstock shapes 732570

Birthday Wishes rub-ons 732574

Celebrate Card

From Me to You rub-ons 732274

Birthday Wishes Celebration 732561

Birthday Wishes die cut shapes 732570

Birthday Wishes cardmaking pad 732582

Birthday Wishes printed chipboard shapes 732571