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Product Spotlight: Little Sprout Notebook Journal

We just love our Notebook Journals! Today we are taking a closer look at our Notebook from the Little Sprout collection. While this little book is filled with pages perfect for adding journaling to your scrapbook pages about baby, it can be used for so much more as two of our designers show us below!

 

Fresh & Clean by Amy Peterman

Amy used a page from the journal as a backdrop for her title, a great idea to help her title stand out on her sweet layout! Notice that she cut the shape out from the journal page rather than using the whole page with the torn edge. Amy also cut apart several of the journal pages and pieced them together to create the cute border along the bottom of her page. So fun!

Running Off Some Energy by Cindy Tobey

By using two of the journal pages on this layout about her (then) 9 year old daughter, Cindy shows us these journal pages are perfect to use for a variety of page and project themes. One of the pages frames a photo of Cindy's daughter. She cut the center from the other journal page and filled it with her title, a border strip and rub-on.

Mid-Show Release Winners!

The three winners of the samplings of our two brand new collections, Frosted and Vintage Valentine are:

Love the colors of the new collections. You have the most talented designers here.

Posted by: Teri Gelbmann | October 28, 2009 at 11:26 AM

How exciting! They are GORGEOUS. Thanks for the chance to win!
- April

Posted by: April | October 28, 2009 at 11:37 AM

These are both gorgeous collections, can't wait to get my hands on them when they're released. Thanks for the opportunity to win one!

Posted by: Shawn Wenrich | October 28, 2009 at 07:15 PM

Congratulations! Teri, April and Shawn please send an email to: general@fancypantsdesigns.com with the following information:

1. Name of Contest (Mid-Show Release Giveaway)
2. Your full name
3. Address where your prize should be sent

Fancy This: Wrapping Paper

With Christmas just under two months away, now is the perfect time to start thinking about how you will wrap all those gifts that you'll be giving. Amy Peterman shares with us a fun idea for making wrapping paper that you can get the whole family involved in! Amy's daughter, Hattie, shows us how. The result is beautiful, one of a kind gift wrap!

Supplies:
Craft paper
Various Fancy Pants Chipboard and/or Transparent Die-cut shapes
Happy Holidays Stamp Set #1 (trees & Merry Christmas)
Blissful Season Stamp Set (snowflakes)
Spray glitter mist
Ink pads

Instructions:

1. Choose desired shapes from Fancy Pants Chipboard and/or Transparent Die-cut shapes.

 

2. Spread out large sheet of craft paper and arrange shapes.

 

3. Spray glitter mist over shapes.

 

4. Remove shapes.

 

5. Stamp randomly with stamps.

 

6. Let dry.

 

7. Wrap gifts! (If desired and your packages are square/flat, the steps above can be done after the gift is wrapped.)

Thanks Amy for the fun idea, and thanks Hattie for showing us how to make our own pretty wrapping paper!

Product Spotlight: Trick Or Treat Glitter Cuts

Happy Halloween! Today's Product Spotlight will give you lots of ideas for using our Trick Or Treat Glitter Cuts. Check 'em out!

Spooky by Anne Jo Lexander
Anne Jo used the Spooky Title Glitter Cut for this scary birthday card.

Cats Beware by Cindy Tobey
Cindy used the Black Cat Glitter Cut on her clever layout about her kids in their puppy dog costumes. Don't you just love the repetition of cats in her design? Cindy also used the Scary Swoosh Glitter Cut as a background for her title.

Spook by Brenda Hurd
Brend used the Scary Swoosh Glitter Cut on her ghoulish card.

Happy Halloween by Amy Peterman
Amy used the Halloween Title Glitter Cut as the title for her layout.

 

It Must Be Halloween by Kay Rogers
Kay used both the Circle Web Frame Glitter Cut and the Black Cat Glitter Cut in her wonderfully layered page.

Spooky by Kay Rogers
Another cute layout from Kay. Here she used the Spooky Title Glitter Cut for the title of her layout.

Pumpkin Carving 101 by Staci Taylor
Not into glitter? Staci used the back side of the Scary Swoosh Glitter Cut for a great accent on her layout.

2009 Mid-Show Release & Giveaway!

We are thrilled to share two brand new collections with you! Frosted designed by Michelle Coleman and Vintage Valentine designed by Nancie Rowe Janitz.

 

We are so excited about our new collections that we'd like to share a sampling of them with three lucky winners! Just leave a comment on this blog post and you will be entered to win!

*We will accept only one entry per person. You must live in the continental United States to enter. Entries are due by midnight, Sunday, November 1st, 2009. We will post the winners on Monday, November 2nd, so be sure to check back then to see if you've won.

 

Fancy This: Happy Halloween layout

With Halloween just around the corner, Vicki Chrisman has created this simple-to-create layout. You''ll be dying to create your own, as soon as you get those fun costumes pics this weekend.

Supplies:
Trick Or Treat: Haunted Mansion paper
Trick Or Treat: R.I.P paper
Trick Or Treat: Ghoul Talk paper
Trick Or Treat: Rubons
Trick Or Treat: Woven Ribbon
Trick Or Treat: Buttons
Trick Or Treat: Halloween Title Glitter Cut
Adhesive
Sewing Machine (optional)
Small letter stickers

Instructions:
1. Trim Haunted Mansion paper to 8.5 x 11 for background. Freehand cut a moon and a strip from the R.I.P paper. Trim a matte from Ghoul Talk paper for larger photo.
2. Layer and adhere paper pieces and photos to background.
3. Apply Trick Or Treat Rubons (spider wed, stars, spider, trick or treat and swirls).
4. Adhere Glitter Cut, trim, button and small letter stickers. Finish with some decorative stitching with a sewing machine (optional).

Product Spotlight: Trick or Treat Rubons & Stickers

This week we are spotlighting the rubons and stickers from our Trick or Treat collection. Check out how our design team used these fun Halloween accents on their projects below!

 

Pa'n igjen by Anne Jo Lexander

 

Skull Jammies by Cindy Tobey

Happy Halloween by Kay Rogers

Little Monster by Michelle Filo

Fancy This: Halloween Centerpiece

Our Fancy This project for the week is this fun Halloween Centerpiece created by Staci Taylor!

 
Supply list:

Trick or Treat: Great Pumpkin paper
Trick or Treat: Monster Mash paper
Trick or Treat: Skull paper
Say it Simple Chipboard letters
Orange ball trim
tin or other container
craft foam
shredded paper
craft wire
glitter
black paint/spraypaint
ribbon
skewers

Instructions:

1. Cover a container with patterned paper. Measure a piece of craft foam to fit inside.

2. Fill the inside of the container (covering the foam) with shredded paper. 

3. Cover plain chipboard letters with glitter. 

4. Paint 3 skewers black and attach them to the backside of each chipboard letter.  Stick the skewers into the craft foam.

5. Cut out Halloween images from patterned paper and adhere each image to a length of craft wire. Wrap the wire around each skewer randomly.

6. Attach ball trim around the container, and tie a bow around one of the skewers.  

Product Spotlight: Trick or Treat Transparencies

This week's Product Spotlight ... Trick or Treat Transparencies!

You Look Boo-tiful Mirror by Amy Peterman
Amy used the Web Transparency to create this mirror. Amy cut the transparency into a 12" circle and laid it over a mirror she purchased at a craft store. She hung the mirror using a plate hanger and some of our coordinating ball trim and ribbon.

 

 

Fall by Nikki Bellish
Nikki also used the Web Transparency to create this whimsical fall layout. She embellished the web design with dots of glitter glue to add some sparkle.

Fancy This: Twisted Pumpkin

Not into carving pumpkins? Why not embellish one! Nikki Bellish shows you how you can create your own  Twisted Pumpkin.

 

Supplies:
Trick or Treat: Monster Mash
Trick or Treat: R.I.P
Trick or Treat: stickers
Trick or Treat: buttons
Trick or Treat: notebook journal
Craft knife
Adhesive/ Mod Podge
Decorative scissor’s
Pumpkin (remove stem)
Sewing needles
Heat gun
Embossing powder

Instructions:
Stem:
• Cut four to five, two inch strips of the Trick Or Treat: R.I.P. paper.
• Use the craft knife to cut four thin strips leaving about ½ inch, at the bottom of the strip.

• Stick needles in the base of the strips to hold strip in place, where you want your stem.

• Use Mod Podge to twist and form your stem, use heat gun to dry.

Vines:
• Cut five, one inch strips of the Trick or Treat: R.I.P. paper, and cut four thin strips leaving about ½ inch, at the bottom of the strip. 
• Use the needles to place the strips on the pumpkin.

• Use the Mod Podge to form and twist the strips into spirals (Remember to use the needles to help make your vines clime the side of the pumpkin.) 

• Use heat gun to dry.

Leaves:
• Draw a bunch of hearts, all different sizes.
• Cut the hearts with decorative scissors.
• Fold the heart in half, and fan both ends.
• Use needles to pin the leaves around the vines. 

Decorative pieces:
• Cut one inch by two inch pieces, about eight.
• Use craft knife to cut a curve on both sides of the two inch side. 
• Use decorative scissors to cut the one inch ends, and fold into a V shape. 
• Use the needles to pin the leaves down at the base of the stem.
• Use pages from the Trick Or Treat: Notebook Journal and a stickers from the Trick Or Treat Stickers, and glue them onto the pumpkin. 

• Use Trick Or Treat buttons randomly to decorate.
• I used Mod Podge, and embossing powder to distress the pumpkin.