Happy Halloween everyone!  I feel like the phrase Trick or Treat is appropriate for today’s post.   

First, the trick part.  And it wasn’t meant to be a trick, but once I show you the sketch I picked to use for Friday’s Sketch blog post today and the layout that I made…you might think I was trying to trick you!  Does this ever happen to you?  You start off with one idea in your head and then while you are scrapping it sort of evolves and the end result looks nothing like you first pictured in your head?  That’s what happened yesterday after I start working with this sketch from Card Positioning System blog.  I wondered if I should even post it today…since it looks nothing like the sketch.  But the inspiration for it DID actually come from the sketch first….so I decided it’d be okay.  I hope!    Here’s the sketch….

I liked the block background and planned on doing blocks of patterned paper with the same colored letter stickers on the blocks to give a tone on tone effect.  But then I didn’t like that so much…it was too distracting to the photo…so I got rid of the blocks and ended up doing the white letters on the white background instead. 
 

I know…it doesn’t even have any blocks now! But the initial inspiration was there. I used some of the new Sweet Cakes patterned paper along with the Fashion Script white alphas, some Vintage Moon Press Ons, and the star TopSider that I covered with Sweet Cakes paper.

Now for the treat part. Since it IS Halloween today, I thought I’d share a little Halloween mini album that I made for a class at my LSS. All papers and embellishments are Pink Paislee. I added in some fun Halloween themed fabrics too. The inside pages are mostly Topsiders.

Happy Trick or Treating! Have a fun and safe Halloween everyone!
Nicole S.

So who doesn’t like a little sparkle in their lives?  I know that I sure do and one of the perfect ways to add some wonderful sparkle is with the Pink Paislee Pixee Stix.

There are lots of fun ways to use the Stix glitter but today since we are concentrating on words, I used them on the Holly Doodle letter stickers.  All that you need is a glue pen or a small paintbrush and a liquid adhesive.  Apply your stickers to your project as desired then brush over each letter with glue and pour on the glitter from the Pixee Stix.

On the layout I used two different colors of the Pixee Stix, “Cream Soda” and “Silver Berry”.  Of course, when you work with more than one on a page or project, you will want to finish each color before you start to work with the next one.  That way your glitters won’t mix.

The layout is made with the new “Sweet Cakes” papers (and you thought that they could only be used for a girls page.)  Not!!!! I actually love the colors with my photos and the black helps to make them not look so girly and sweet.

Because I was having so much fun sparkling up those letter stickers, I decided to make one more thing      using the same technique.  This time a little WInter/Christmas project with sparkly greetings.

I followed the same steps listed above then added some Pink Paislee Press Ons and a few gems for more sparkle.  I forgot to mention above that I also used a fine point permanent black marker to outline each of the letters once they were dry.  Another tip when working with glitter and tiny spaces is that it works great to use a small dry paintbrush to wipe off any excess glitter pieces that want to stick to the surface of your project.  Using your fingers could take forever, but using a dry paintbrush lifts up and brushes off those clingy little sparkles that don’t belong on the project.  It also works great to wipe glitter off of your photos.

Now don’t you just want to get out those Pixee Stix and glitter up some letters?  The colors are perfect matches to the papers.  On the block set I used “Silver Berry”, “Raspberry” and “Green Apple”.  They sound as good as they look.

Happy glittering!
Linda

Happy Monday Morning to you!

When deciding on a project for today’s post, I decided to create something I’ve been meaning to make for months.  I have a 4 1/2 year old and a 2 1/2 year old…  I’ve been wanting to make them a number book to teach counting, and help them recognize numbers and the word associated with them.  The new Sweet Cakes line gave me the perfect opportunity to create a fun book I know my girls will enjoy.

I started with a blank chipboard album and a cardstock base for most pages, except for when I used the green Lovey Dovey paper.  To make the bottom of my cupcakes, I used Honey Bunch.  I then “iced” every cupcake with Sweet Nothings, because I thought the multi colored look was fun for icing.  I then used the Bubblegum flavored Pixee Stix to create a candy topper for my cupcake, and for a finishing touch, I used a “Yum” press on from the Sweet Cakes pressons for the bottom of my wrapper.  Of course, I sewed all over everything.

For each of my pages, I used the Aqua Holly Doodle alphas, and I had a lot of fun using the cupcake stamp from Vintage Pop stamp set.  I used the same paper for each cupcake as I used for the cover.  To create each cupcake, I stamped two times.  One time I trimmed out the wrapper portion, and on the second stamped image, I trimmed out the icing.  Then I adhered the two togehter, glittered the frosting, and added a pink jewel.

This was a rather simple and super cute project that my kids are already having fun with.  This would make a great gift, a fun stocking stuffer, and is a great learning tool too!

Let’s eat cake!  Have a great Monday!  Davinie

Good Morning! Katie Watson here with you all!  I know that for me, I am NOT ready for Christmas yet…I haven’t even begun to dig my Halloween Decorations out of the garage yet..so Christmas seems just too far away to start preparing for…BUT because the Christmas season seems to be so rush rush, I think this year I will slowly start to compile my gifts and be more prepared so I am not out on Christmas Eve still trying to find that one perfect gift!

So now is the time to S L O W down and think about giving gifts the old fashioned way…Make them yourself. My Grandpa always gave us money for Christmas and always handed us the $5 bill and said, “Here, I made this myself”…haha.

I love the new Pink Paislee Tinsel Town line…it is classy and elegant. The colors are rich and deep and as soon as I saw it I knew that I wanted to make an Advent Calendar with it. This will be my 3^rd year making cookie sheet advent calendars and every year I get more and more requests for them.

The Pixee Stix glitters………..ohhhhhhh, need I say more…they are the most beautiful shades and textures! I love that they were designed to match the Pink Paislee lines. A whole new sparkly world just opened up to me!

Ok, enough rambling…let’s get down to business. I buy my cookie sheets at the Dollar Store every year. They are cheap and do the job.

LINK to TEMPLATE is at the BOTTOM!!

Supply List Pink Paislee Products-

Nutcracker paper

A Christmas Carol paper

5th Avenue paper

34th Street paper

Tinsel Town pressons

Black Fashion Script Alphas

Vintage Moon Accents pressons

Metallic Silver Vintage Moon Accents

Metallic Silver Alphabet pressons

Pixee Stix Glitter- Apple Green

Pixee Stix Glitter- Sugar Plum

Pixee Stix Glitter- Silver Berry

Pixee Stix Glitter- Raspberry

Supply list- Others

13×9 Cookie Sheet (Don’t use Tefalon)

Cropadile

25 magnets (don’t use the black chalky ones, they will leave black scuff marks on your paper. Use silver ones)

20 gauge black wire (hardware store)

White Spray Primer

Assorted Chipboard Pieces

clear dimensional lacquer

Strong Adhesive

Corner Rounder

Black pen

White pen

Glue made for Glitter

Basic Scrapbooking tools (paper trimmer etc)

Green Crackle paint or regular green paint.

Coordinating Ribbon

Directions

1) Spray cookie sheet with white primer. Make sure to spray the back of the edges and the inside of the tray (it helps the paper stick to the metal).

2) Trim the Nutcracker background paper to fit inside cookie sheet, you will have to cut this in half and leave a space in the middle (this will be covered, don’t worry). Corner round top and bottom corners. Adhere to cookie sheet.

3) Use the “A Christmas Carol” bracket edged paper and cut the sides off to make the paper the width of the cookie sheet.. Make sure to keep the points of the brackets in the middle. Ink edges with black ink and slightly distress.

4) Print Template on white cardstock and trim. Adhere to center of Cookie Sheet (as shown above).

5)     Adhere strip of striped paper along with a piece of ribbon as a border for the template.  Adhere them just above and below the template.

6) Pre-arrange your calendar pieces on the template before you start embellishing them. I start with the big pieces first and evenly space them on the template. Then I fill in with smaller pieces. If you look closely at my advent, I have big pieces that are surrounded by small pieces. Spacing and balance are your most important steps.

7) Once you have your spacing figured out, decide on your colors. Be sure to balance these also. You don’t want a whole corner all green pieces, you need a good mix.

Glitter Chipboard pieces (including title letters and numbers) using Pink Paislee Pixee Stix Raspberry, Green Apple, Sugar Plum and Silver Berry. Tap excess glitter off of piece. Set aside to dry.

9) Cover remaining pieces with left over paper and add pieces of 34^th and 5^th Avenue.

10) Once glittered pieces are dry , cover surface with clear dimensional lacquer. This will form an epoxy like cover  and prevent the glitter from flaking off (not normally a worry but since little hands will be using these magnets, we are adding the coat of protection). Set aside to dry, allow a couple of hours. Once dry, these make great surfaces for pressons.

11) Using various number stickers and pressons, add numbers to pieces.

12) Glue magnets on the back. Set apart from each other to allow glue to dry, the magnets are strong and will move toward each other if the glue is still wet. Set aside from each other to dry

13) Lightly sand edges of primed cookie sheet for a distressed look..

14)   Rub Border Silver Pressons on the edges of the painted cookie sheet.

15)   Do title work.  Adhere glitered letters, numbers and letter stickers to title area.

16) Use the Cropadile and punch two holes in the top of the cookie sheet for the wire hanger.

17) Make a hanger using the wire. Thread it through the holes and wrap the excess around the base (see pic)

18)  Tie a ribbon bow around wire.

19) Place all the magnets in their correct spots.  Hang and enjoy!

Here is the template link.

http://www.pinkpaislee.com/skin1/images/KatieCalendar.doc

Enjoy Your Day! ~Katie

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