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Product Spotlight: Bag-o-Tags

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! We hope all of you had a wonderful time with friends and family and have had your fill of turkey and stuffing!

With Thanksgiving past us and Christmas on the way, have you been thinking about stocking stuffers? If you have a crafter in your life, why not get them a Bag-o-Tags? This super cute little  muslin bag comes filled with 80 tags in white and kraft in a variety of shapes.


 
Take a look at some of these fun projects where our designers have used this product.

You by Liana Suwandi




Fancy Nancy Tea Party by Amy Peterman



Sibling Love by Ronda Palazzari



Come back again on Monday for our next "Fancy This" project! Also, visit the Fancy Pants Gallery anytime for loads of great layout and project ideas.

Fancy This - Thankful Tins

Need a gift idea this Thanksgiving that is simple and inexpensive, yet meaningful to the family and friends around you!? Show your appreciation for them, by creating this sweet and stylish project that can be used as a fun table centerpiece at Thanksgiving or décor for the season!

Jodi Sanford tells us how you can make your own!

Supplies:
• Fancy Pants Harvest Felt
• Fancy Pants Pure Paper (from the True collection),
• Fancy Pants Daily Grind Buttons
• Fancy Pants Double Alpha rub-ons
• Tin buckets (Purchased from local craft/home décor store)
• Tags (from an Office supply store)
• Walnut ink

Instructions:
• Spray tags with walnut ink and allow to dry.
• Cut Pure paper into hearts.
• Adhere felt, paper hearts and buttons to tags.
• Apply rub-ons to buckets and tie tags to bucket handles.
• Fill bucket with candy, write a little note and roll it up to drop inside!

 

Product Spotlight: Splendid - My Valentines Overlay

Our product spotlight for this week is one of our new 12 x 12 transparent overlays from our Splendid line, now available.

This is such a versatile overlay! With 12 different designs on one transparency, your creativity can go farther! Just look at how our amazing designers used some of the elements from this fun new product!

My Bucket List by Staci Taylor

True Love by Brenda Hurd

Be Mine by Cindy Tobey

By sure to visit again this Monday - and every Monday - for our "Fancy This" weekly project.

Giving Thanks Beautifully

I can’t believe Thanksgiving is just a week away! I love the Thanksgiving holiday…for our family it is a day to cook together, eat way too much, watch football, and think about all the things we have to be thankful for. This year though, I’m going to go a little beyond just thinking about what I’m grateful for and actually tell some people how thankful I am for them…and I can’t think of a better way to tell them, than with one of these gorgeous card designs created by our talented designer, Greta Hammond! Below are all the supplies you will need as well as step-by-step instructions! 

All Fall Collection
Ball Trim
Buttons
Gingham Ribbon
Printed Chipboard shapes
Titles and Tags
Rub-ons
In Line patterned paper
Multiply patterned paper
Recess patterned paper
Penmanship patterned paper
Cards patterned paper
 
Other Fancy Pants products used:
Double Alpha Rub-ons
Willow Glitter Cut
 
Misc supplies: Kraft cardstock, brown cardstock, twine, tiny letter stickers.

Teacher Thanks card
Folded size is 5.5" x 4.25"
 
1. Make base of card with Kraft cardstock.
2. Start with card cut from Cards paper. Layer with a strip of In Line paper and a slightly larger strip of Multiply.
3. Add a piece of Gingham ribbon as shown.
4. Layer apple chipboard piece on top of ribbon and then add a Gingham ribbon bow tied with a button and twine.
5. Finish with small chipboard flourish and letter stickers spelling "thanks".

 

Thankful for You card
Finished size is 8" x 4.25"
 
1. Make base of card using dark brown cardstock.
2. Cut a piece of Penmanship paper to about 4" x 6.75". Stitch around edges with a sewing machine and then ink edges with brown ink. Adhere to card leaving a small border at the top.
3. Cut scalloped edge of Recess paper and fit as shown.
4. Add glitter cut willow and Ball trim border.
5. Cut a circle from Fall Splendor, ink edges and adhere. Add a strip of In Line, chipboard flower and button finished with twine. Add orange flourish chipboard at the top.
6. Make sentiment from Chipboard book plate, brads, rub-ons and letter stickers.

 

Thankful card
Finished size is 4.25" x 6"
 
1. Make base of the card with brown cardstock.
2. Cut a piece of Recess paper slightly smaller than front of card. Stitch and ink edges. Adhere to card.
3. Cut a 1.5" strip of In Line paper and adhere across middle of card as shown. Ink edges of blue card and layer on top.
4. Use chipboard flourish as the stem for die cut flower. Add button finished with twine as the center of the flower.
5. Use rub-ons and letter stickers to make sentiment for the card.
6. Finish card with rub-ons at the top.

Rejoice....another project from Fancy Pants Designers!

The uber talented Amy Peterman created this great new holiday design for our blog this week!!  This is using the new line Arctic Chill...this line just shipped to stores last week, so make sure to drop in your LSS or online store to be the first to get it---and create this fun holiday project for the days ahead!!!  Rejoice!!!!

   

 

Rejoice Wall-hanging

Fancy Pants products used:
Arctic Chill Ice patterned paper
Arctic Chill rub-ons
Simplicity ribbon
Botanical trim
Transparent die cuts See Through Letters
Sassy Posey
Buttons

Other:
8x8 Picture It Page Frame
Acrylic paint
Clear-drying liquid adhesive
Slick Writer marker

Here are some how-to instructions:
• From the Arctic Chill rub-ons, apply large corner and small journal lines to front of page frame.
• Apply paint to back side of page frame and to See Through Letters, allow to dry.
• Using liquid adhesive, adhere See Through Letters, Sassy Posey, buttons and Botanical Trim to page frame.
• Cut Artic Chill Ice paper to an 8x8 square and slip into back of page frame.
• Thread Simplicity ribbon through top of page frame and tie ends.
• Using Slick Writer, hand-write journaling/verse onto front of page frame.

Spooky Winners!!!

Thanks again to all of you who entered our Halloween/Fall contest! We have selected 3 winners!!! In no particular order....

Beth Wolfgang

Jessica Turner

Michele Beck

Hopefully with these talented ladies approval...we will be able to post their projects! :) I will keep you updated!

Winners, please email me your shipping address so i can get a fabulous prize sent to each of you!! (megan@fancypantsdesigns.com)

 

Have a great weekend everyone!! Check back on Monday for our weekly project by............... AMY PETERMAN!!

 

Weekly Project #3

  I hope you all had a great Halloween! Thanks so much for all of your entries for our Spooky challenge!! I will be posting those winners later on in the week! First up this week, we have more inspiration for you!! This way cute layout was designed by another new member of or design team!! The extremely talented Jolene Pienaar created this layout using the following items:

A mix of Daily Grind and All Fall Buttons

All Fall Chipboard Shapes

All Fall In Line Paper

All Fall Joy Transparency

All Fall Rubons

The Daily Grind Floral Ledger Transparency

The Daily Grind Chipboard Shapes

The Daily Grind Strips Paper

Check it out!.....

 

 I love the colors and so many great details on this layout! Thanks Jolene for sharing!! We love having you as part of our team!!!

REMEMBER!...i will be posting the winners of our challenge later on in the week!