Strawberry Patch.

I am in love with the new Strawberry Patch stamps and dies and the Berry Basket die by Papertrey Ink (coming out on the 15th)! There are so many ways you can use this cute basket, but I have decided to make a party favor - a little gift box to give out when the kids leave the party. My daughter Kati saw this and now wants a strawberry party this June for her 7th birthday! I have to admit, I was glad she said that! These were easy and fun to create, can't wait to make more!

The basket is cut out of Simply Chartreuse pattern paper. You need to cut 4 sides. Two will fit on an 8.5 x 11" piece of cardstock, so you can make a full sized basket with two pieces of 8.5 x 11" cardstock.

After the basket was made, I played around with the Strawberry Patch stamps and Strawberry Patch Sentiments to create this little notebook made from scratch. I made the cover, then cut the inside pages from printer paper slightly smaller than the front. The back is thick cardstock I had saved from a packaging of some sort. I found some rings to hold it all together. The notebook's finished size measures 7" x 4". The cute little tag is from the new Tagged Sentiments set.

You can stamp on the inside pages too - would be a cute gift for a teacher at the end of the year!

The pencil topper is made with a Strawberry Patch die and Pure Poppy felt. I did a tiny bit of hand stitching on the berry and then hot glued another berry on the back to cover up the stitching, leaving the bottom open for a pencil to slide into. Oh the cuteness!!

For another little thank-you gift to tuck inside the basket, I bought some headbands and added a felt strawberry with a hot glue gun. After hot gluing the strawberry to the headband, I cut another strawberry to glue on the back to cover up the little stitches on the back. I folded up the headband and tied it with floss to tuck in the basket.

You can weave ribbon around the basket, or tie a bow, maybe even cover the inside with fabric? I just used shredded kraft paper from the party supply section of Walmart to fill the basket.

One more thing I made to tuck into the basket is this little vellum pocket. I cut 2 frames and stitched them together, leaving the top open for lollipop, candies or anything small. How about a felt strawberry ring? Oooh!

I have one more card to share with you made with the Strawberry Patch and Strawberry Patch Sentiments. The "just smile" is from the new Framed Out #3 set. (And the little frame is the Framed Out #3 die.)

Kati and I are so excited to create more of these baskets and goodies for her party this June. She was a great helper with these projects and is looking forward to her party already! I thought I'd share some other cute "strawberry ideas" we also might try for Kati's birthday party:

1. Strawberry Aprons for the party goers.
2. Love the red tulle on these chairs! 
3. Must have pink lemonade or Strawberry Crush to drink!
4. A pretty tutu for the birthday girl? Of course!
5. Strawberry fruit cups!
6. Heart shaped strawberry cookies are a must.
7. Strawberry bean bag toss!

Hop over to the other Papertrey Ink team members' blogs to see what they've made with these BERRY same products. :)

Ashley Cannon Newell

Betsy Veldman  

Dawn McVey  

Erin Lincoln  

Heather Nichols  

Jessica Witty  

Lisa Johnson  

Maile Belles

Melissa Phillips

Nichole Heady

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Strawberry Basket Party Favor:

STAMPS: Strawberry Patch, Strawberry Patch Sentiments, Framed Out #3, Tagged Sentiments

INK: Pure Poppy, True Black, Simply Chartreuse, Raspberry Fizz, Spring Moss

PAPER: white/Pure Poppy/Simply Chartreuse cardstock, Simply Chartreuse Pattern Pack, It's Official Patterned Paper

DIES: Strawberry Patch, Berry Basket, Limitless Layers 3.5 Oval

OTHER: PTI ribbon and felt, vellum, printing paper, pencil, white floss, stick pin, headband, candy, rings, Pink Paislee houndstooth tape, circle punch, white floss, shredded paper basket filler.

A little belated, but

I'm a little belated in sending Easter wishes, but I hope you all had a great holiday! We had a very nice day with my husband's family and all of the little cousins.

My daughter Kati is having her tonsils and adenoids out in 2 days, so I've been frantically trying to get all of my Papertrey Ink projects for the month done before Thursday, so I can spend time with her and be there for her as much as she needs me. She's had swollen tonsils since last fall...and the Ear, Nose and Throat doctor thinks she had mononucleosis, which is what caused the tonsils to become so enlarged. They are so swollen that they are almost touching. As a worried mom, I'm little bit nervous of her being put under because of her congenital heart condition. Please pray that everything goes well. xo I love her to pieces!

I will have some new projects set to post again starting in 2 days for the Papertrey Ink countdown! I wanted to share some pictures from our Easter, but I just haven't had time yet. Here are two that I really liked. We have this big tree that we try to take pictures by each year in front of our house, kind of a tradition! We have an egg hunt each year with all of the cousins, Easter dinner and a bonfire, so my girls don't really dress up that much for Easter. :) The older they get, the less they want to wear dresses!

Thank you for stopping by. I'll be back soon with lots of new Papertrey Ink things to show you!

Scrapkit Studio...

I have been working on this little mini album the past week or so, coming back to it here and there and adding more when I have time! That seems to be the trick for me, as I usually like things more on the simpler side, but when I leave a project and come back to it, I can see better where something might need to be added in or where it feels empty!

This mini album was made with a kit by ScrapKit Studio. When I received this kit in the mail, I was pleasantly surprised...it's like no other kit I've ever tried! EACH piece is already pre-cut for you! I didn't cut a thing in this little album.
You can either follow the directions provided to you to complete the album, or go more on your own and complete it how you'd like. I decided to just wing it, and do what feels natural to me. The only thing I really added to this kit was the black houndstooth tape by Pink Paislee, some white paint and machine stitching.

On this first page spread, I decided to leave one of the chipboard pages blank with no patterned paper and instead added some paint around the edges, then journaled over the top.

I've included some pictures of our family that we took of us at Thanksgiving. We were trying to get a family photo for our Christmas picture (which I never sent out because I ran out of time!)

There are chipboard shapes included with paper shapes to match, so I covered the chipboard frame here with the blue paper and stitched around it. I also added some messy stitching to the red heart. The white and black alphas are in the kit - as well as every punched shape you see! Yes, everything! The owner of this kit club works so hard to pre-cut everything you will need to create the album.

Here I used the white letters on white cardstock. I love the tone-on-tone effect! Another thing I like to do is tie twine or ribbons around the rings in between pages. You can also add more photos on the rings! Simply punch holes and add the photos in between pages.

This little pocket came in the kit also. All you do is fold the pocket and adhere the sides. I decided to do a little zig zig stitching on the sides of my pocket. I added the banner and felt word over the top from the kit. I used the red ribbon to twirl around into a little rose and attached a pin through it.

Here is another chipboard piece that I painted instead of adding paper to it...love how that looks.

A couple of little embellishments add to the page and photos, but don't completely take it over like this page below.

Some of our pictures were blurry from that day, but I scrapped them anyway...we were having fun together in the pics being silly!

And another peek at the cover!

Don't be afraid to mix and match colors when making a mini album - as long as you have a reoccurring color scheme throughout the book, it will keep it looking cohesive. All of the Basic Grey Picadilly papers are double sided, so you could end up with a book looking totally different than mine if you chose the other sides! Many options with this kit, yet what I loved was not so many decisions on what shapes to cut, etc. It was fast and super easy.

Here is the link to the Live Love Laugh kit. Hope you enjoyed my take on this little album! :)