Make It Monday...

Good morning and happy Monday! I've got a new tutorial out for you, a video for Papertrey Ink's Make It Monday series...which you can watch HERE on Nichole Heady's blog! It's all about creating confetti with the Papertrey Ink dies.

In the video, I made a little birthday gift ensemble. This is a clear card box by Papertrey Ink, and I thought it would make an adorable gift box, filled with confetti, since you can see all of the fun going on inside! I used the Cover Plate: Circles die to create the fun circles.

Then inside I tucked a card and mini envelope inside. I made a confetti border on a mini card. I'll show you how to do a super quick and simple confetti border in the video! Stamps are from the Keep It Simple: Birthday set. This would be perfect for inserting money in the little card or a gift card!

Here's one more card idea using this cute confetti that pops out of this cover plate. Gold foil tape is from Betsy's Make It Market kit.

For the challenge, you can use any of Papertrey Ink's cover dies, but border dies would work also to make your own confetti, wouldn't number confetti be cute made with this die? As you can see the possibilities are endless for this! Can't wait to see what you'll make! Again you can see the VIDEO tutorial here. Thanks for swinging by!

Make it a mini...

*Edited to add a winner!
Diane Sims! Please email me with your mailing address: dflanders71@hotmail.com.

Those of you who know me know I love making mini albums. There's just something so special about them. I grabbed a couple of the February kits over at Scraptastic (Feel Again and Feel Again add-on), which is what this is made of. Have you heard of Scraptastic? I hadn't until a short while ago. BUT, wow....I am soooo impressed with their kits! It was packed with stuff, and most of it very much my style.

One of my favorite things about the kits were all the embellishments...the wood veneers, the stickers, the Elle's Studio tags, the enamel hearts and arrows, tickets, acetate pieces, etc. So much to play with! The embellishments are my favorite part, because these are what you can layer and create interest with!

For some of the background pages, I used white cardstock and embossed it with Maggie Holmes' new Doily Embossing Folder by Crate Paper. I also watercolored a few pages.

I'll show you some of the inside.
I couldn't resist using these cute little tags and journaling cards by Elle's Studio in the kit...

I've added some vellum banners on this page, along with some Echo Park stickers, heart wood veneer, and a heart enamel shape, all in the kit (except the vellum)!

Another view...(this is my favorite page, I think!) Those Echo Park - Head Over Heels stickers are to die for. :) The gray, red and white look so pretty with the wood, and the "stitched" look to the stickers are so cozy.

On the next page, I inserted more of the Elle Studio's goodies. I stapled a clear acetate heart over the top. I think it was in the Fancy Pants pkg in the kit.

This is a watercolor page I made myself. To get this teal, I mixed blue and green. Little blobs of water formed on the edges, but I left them that way to dry (didn't wipe it off) and love how it looks!

On page four, I have added a little bag with a tag tucked inside for journaling. The "always" is a rub on that I added to the bag. The heart is stapled on just so it can tuck right over the edge of the bag and hold the tag from falling into the bag...kind of like a little clip!

More Elle's Studio tags...gosh, how I love her stuff. Perfect for adding a photo or journaling right here. And I love that typewriter font. I really need to order more of her products to have on hand.

Another watercolor page I made. On this one, I added the "love" rub on after it was dry, also in the kit. The rub ons are by Studio Calico.

This one is simple with an embossed background, a sticker and an acetate heart from Fancy Pants that I trimmed off and stapled.

Just stapled on a few of the acetate hearts to this one, a tab and a wooden heart finish off the page. I added some twine from my stash.
The "my dear" ephemera with a little heart sticker finishes this round tag nicely, and that's all it needed. Behind it is another page that I watercolored and added a Fancy Pants ticket.

On this page, I stamped the heart stamps from Scraptastic in the kit onto vellum and embossed them.

Ok, well I think you get the gist of this amazing kit!

You might be wondering why I didn't add pics of my own inside the album...I was thinking it's been a long, long time since I've done a giveaway, and I'd love to send this mini album to one of my readers. Would you be interested? If so, leave me a note below! Thank you so much for being a blog reader and supporter of mine! :)

More Monthly Moments: February...

Today is my second installment working with Papertrey Ink's new line of stamps, dies and papers for February called Monthly Moments. This line was designed for scrapbookers and pocket page scrappers, but of course can be used on cards as well! I made another pocket page, reviewing our highlights from February. Pics are of us on my hubby's birthday and my daughter Kati on the morning of her school Valentine's party. (Just to warn you, my teen doesn't like her pic taken these days, so you may see a lot of Kati. Ha. I will figure out a way to get Taylor into a few pictures as well.)

I had a really hard time photographing this. It's so colorful in real life!

I started with the journaling cards. I know. I know what you're thinking. "You don't start with the photos?" Well, I had an idea of what photos I was going to use, but I tend to work backwards, working with the colorful journaling cards first. I figure out where to place them, then add my photos after. I like to spread out the color!

Often times in my mini albums, I make little fun things to go between the pages. I just like to create fun surprises for the reader. I made a pocket with vellum (fold vellum and stitch sides) and stamped "this" several times, then embossed it with white embossing powder. I added a Monthly Moments journaling card inside, the February calendar from the free download and a letter that I typed up about all of our February highlights! The pocket floats in between the pages.

Next to it, I used the Valentine Stitches dies to poke little arrows in the cardstock. Added some washi tape to the bottom before I die cut the arrows. "Here's The Story" was stamped with Monthly Moments: Library Card stamps.

On the left side, I kept it super simple, 2 photographs, a journaling card, and then a fun pocket made with the Framed Love die. The hearts were cut from one of the Monthly Moments papers. Washi tape adorns the outside of the pocket to match the one on the vellum pocket.

Next, a little pic of my cupcake...hee hee...next to some cupcakes that we made for daddy's birthday. Took this one of her before she left for school on the day of her Valentine party. She was all dressed up, she HAD to get a red dress for that day, so we found one at Target. "Today is a perfect day" was stamped with Monthly Moments: Days of the Week stamps.

Behind the pocket is one more pic of Kati the morning of her Val. party. I used the Wonderful Words: Love die to cut out the word and added it over the pocket.

On the bottom right, I stamped "happiness is us" with the Monthly Moments: Slide Frame stamps. Love adding these little sayings!

Visit Nichole Heady, Heather Nichols, Ashley Newell, and Melissa Phillips to see more!

Love pocket page layout:
(All supplies are by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Monthly Moments: February (this heart), Monthly Moments: Library card (Here's The Story), Monthly Moments: Days of the Week (today is a perfect day), Monthly Moments: Slide Frame (happiness is us)
INK: True Black and Versamark
PAPER: Monthly Moments journaling cards and papers and free download with kit, vellum
DIES: Valentine Stitches dies, Framed Love dies, Wonderful Words: Love die
OTHER: washi tape - unknown, pearls- Melissa Frances, white embossing powder machine stitching.

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