Tuesday’s Tip: Heritage Photos

Do you have heritage photos you’d like to store in a special place?  Today I have created a layout that is also a pocket to hold some old photos that my mom has given me of my ancestors. I really love the colors in the Queen Bee line and think they work wonderfully with these old photos.

To create the folder, I cut the Honeycomb (brown) paper a bit longer and a bit wider than the Honeybee (yellow). At the top, I folded the brown paper over about 1-2 inches. I laid the yellow polkadot paper over the base paper and machine stitched around the edges to create the pocket. (Don’t stitch the top closed.) You can create a clasp to hold the flap down with the Bella Brads. Adhere one brad to the flap and one to the front piece. Tie together with twine. The doily is a paper doily that I found in the baking section of AC Moore, and I cut a piece of Beehive paper to dress up the flap as well.

The Queen Bee frame stamp is stamped on the Beehive paper and cut out. A tip with the rub ons: cut them into any shape you want! Here I just cut a small rectangle, but you could cut it into a circle or star shape before adding it to your page. The flower was made with crepe paper.

Here are some of the old photos I am going to put inside. They are all families of my great grandparents.

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And I’d like to share one more thing before I go. I will be teaching a few Pink Paislee classes March 19-20 in Danbury, Connecticut, one class with each new line. Here are some sneak peeks of the Queen Bee card class:

Please visit my blog for more information about the classes: Homespun With Heart.

Thanks!

Take 5 Friday - Birthday Cards

Hello, it’s Danielle here with another Take 5 Friday! On Fridays, we are challenged to only use 5 products to create something. I love the fun colors in the new 365 Degrees line and think of birthdays when I see these colors, so I decided to make a little set of colorful birthday cards.

I used:

1. 6×6 Paper Pad (perfect for card makers!) from the 365 line

2. Cork Buttons

3. Flip Notes

4. Bella Brads

5. Expressions Glitter Alphabet - Berry Blue

The cork buttons are so versatile! For birthday cards, you can use them as polkadots as I did on the first card or little birthday balloons like the second card!

Thursday’s Trend - Ribbon Flowers

Since Valentine’s Day is almost here, I decided that I wanted to do a “love” themed page. I combined some of the new Bayberry Cottage line with the 365 Degrees line. I love the reds and greens with the houndstooth pattern!

One trend I have been seeing lately is handmade flowers. I love them. VERY MUCH! Here I’ve made one with the red pleated ribbon, and I’ll show you how! I have also noticed a trend using vellum for titles and journaling lately, so I wanted to try that look on my page. I didn’t use vellum though, just printed right onto the patterned paper. The font is called Edwardian.

Here is how I made the ribbon flower:

That’s it, very easy! One more thing I wanted to share about my page is regarding the houndstooth letters. I was all out of an L, V and E that I needed for the title. So I had to make do with the letters I had left. I cut a T into an L, cut a Y down to make a V and cut an 8 to make an E. Can you tell I REALLY wanted the houndstooth title on my page?!

Thanks for stopping by,

Quick, simple gift wrap…

If you are anything like me (little bit of a procrastinator) or you just don’t have enough time in the day, then you probably still have gifts to wrap for Christmas! Don’t spend money on those expensive gift wraps and tags from the store…use up your stash!

Here I’ve decorated a box with black cardstock as the base. I cut a piece of the Mistletoe North Pole paper to wrap around the center, tied a ribbon around it in a knot and added a Mistletoe brad to the center with a glue dot. Then I just cut a piece of the Mistletoe borderline sticker to add to the patterned paper.

I love how popular “banners” are these days, so I thought….how about a little banner to adorn my gift? I applied 3 of the tree rub ons from the Mistletoe Press Ons to white cardstock, cut them out, punched a hole in each one and strung them onto twine.

I always have fun making packages look special…something about the wrap that makes the gift that much more exciting! Enjoy your holiday!

Mistletoe Magic…

Now that Halloween is over, we can start concentrating on our Christmas shopping and finishing up our holiday pages from previous years! The Mistletoe line is absolutely my favorite holiday line out this year! I taught this page at my layout workshop in Connecticut a couple of weeks ago, and everyone commented about how this line works so well for girl or boy pages!

This is my daughter, Kati, when she was little enjoying her very first candy cane. We were setting up the tree one year, putting on the candy canes and she wanted to try one. She sat in the corner and quietly savored every bite!

I cut my own stars from the North Pole paper, distressed the edges, added the Mistletoe brads and hand stitched lines to hang them from. Don’t be afraid to cut the Borderline stickers apart and use just what you need, like I did here with the “joyeux noel”.

I stamped a couple of stars next to the title, stamped a couple more onto North Pole paper, cut them out and popped them up with pop dots.

The stars around the edges are already there, so I didn’t have to do much work to create this page! Super easy and quick!

If you get a chance to work with the Mistletoe line, you won’t be disappointed! Be sure to share photos of your projects with us in our Live Pink gallery! Have a great day,

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