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Product Spotlight: Summer Soiree Overlays

 

In my neck of the woods, it seems that we've skipped spring and have gone straight to summer. It's okay with me though. The winter was long enough and now I'm ready for balmy weather! And you will be too once you check out these layouts using our Summer Soiree Overlays.

Beach Bum by Kay Rogers (uses Summer Soiree Heat Wave)

Sunny by Anne Jo Lexander (uses Summer Soiree Paradise)

Now are you in the mood for some summer scrapping?

Reminder: The due date for entering our Fancy Friday Challenge is tomorrow! Good luck to everyone entering. We look forward to seeing all of your Mother's Day creations!

Designer Spotlight: Denine Zelinski

Welcome back everyone. Are you ready to meet another one of our awesome design team members? We invite you get to know Denine Zelinski.

Q: How long have you been scrapbooking?
A: I have been scrapbooking for almost 9 years since the birth of my son, Ryan.

Q: What kind of scrapper would you consider yourself to be?
A: I consider myself to be a linear scrapper. I love lines. I also love to add little details to my pages. 
 
Q: What is your favorite Fancy Pants product?
A: My favorite Fancy Pants product has to be the patterned papers. I just love the designs and bright colors. A close second would be buttons ... they always seem to make their way onto my pages.

Q: What time of day do you usually scrapbook and where?
A: I usually scrapbook on weekends only. I work full time as a teacher, so my time is limited. It could sometimes be an all day thing on Sundays!

Q: Where do you find inspiration?
A: I find most of my inspiration from my photos. I almost always start my pages with pictures. The rest just seems to come together all on its own!

Thanks Denine!

Come back again tomorrow for more inspiration with our weekly Product Spotlight. Oh, and don't forget to enter our Fancy Friday Challenge!!!

Fancy This: To Be Loved Frame

This week's Fancy This project comes to you from our talented Greta Hammond. Greta has created this beautiful, dimensional, framed art using our 8x8 On Display Frame and the Delight collection. We love how she placed some items under the acrylic sheet (that comes with the frame) and some items on top.





Supplies:
8x8 On Display Frame
Delight papers
Delight rub-ons
Delight: printed ribbon
Delight buttons
Delight journal book
Other: twine, thread, scalloped punch.

Instructions:
1. To make the frame, create the background with green solid and add a punched border of the pink at the bottom. Put this behind the acrylic of the frame.
2. Layer the other elements on the front to give a little dimension. Greta started with the scalloped journaling piece and then her photo.
3. Add the ribbon to the top part of the frame and create a bow with another piece of ribbon. Attach the button to the bow with a piece of twine and then adhered it to the frame.
4. Cut out the quote from "Cards" and adhere it to overlap the photo slightly and also the ribbon.
5. Finally, I add a bit more dimension by layering some rub-ons in the lower left corner and add threaded buttons for the flower centers.

Come back again on Wednesday for a chance to learn more about another one of our design team members. This week we get to know Denine Zelinski!

Fancy Friday Challenge: Mother's Day

Hey everyone! Are you ready for a challenge and chance to win some great Fancy Pants products? This challenge is all about celebrating Moms. Sound fun? Here is what you need to do to enter.

Create something for Mother's Day. It could be a card, mini album, magnet, jewelry...anything you choose. Make sure to use at least some Fancy Pants products when making your beautiful creation. Leave a comment on this blog post with your full name and a link to your project and you will be entered. It's that simple!

We will judge the projects and select one winner to receive a prize package. This winner will also have their creation featured on the blog. We will also randomly draw one winner from the remaining entries to receive a prize package.

*We will accept only one entry per person. You must live in the continental United States to enter. Entries are due by midnight, Friday, May 1st. We will post the two winners on Monday, May 4th so be sure to check back then to see if you've won.

Good luck and have fun! We can't wait to see what awesome Fancy projects you will create!

Product Spotlight: Buttons

This week we are spotlighting our Buttons. Each package contains 45 buttons in 5 different colors and 3 different sizes. They have been dyed to match their corresponding paper collection and they all coordinate beautifully with our older collections as well! I love using these buttons on all sorts of projects. They add the perfect touch of beautiful color!

Mari & Me by Anne Jo Lexander
Anne Jo simply lined some buttons up and stitched them across her layout for a beautiful and bright border!

Beautiful Fall Days by Brenda Hurd
Brenda created a lovely tree and adorned it with some of our buttons. Notice how she added some twine to a few of them. And check out the large button at the top of her page. She added a rub-on to it! Lovely!

Thanks by Nikki Bellish
I love how Nikki used one of the large buttons to accent this card. She applied several rub-ons to it as well as a brad. Isn't it cute?!

Fancy This: Birthday Party Decor & Invitation

This week's project is from Allison Davis. Her youngest son, Jackson, is getting ready to turn one! To celebrate Jackson's first year, Allison made a frame with 12 little photos (one for each month) to sit on the table at his birthday party. What a great way for everyone to see how much he's grown and changed over the last year. Allison also made an invitation for her son's birthday party and is sharing those instructions with us as well! Isn't that cupcake design adorable?!

Supplies (frame)
8 x 8 On Display Frame
Summer Soiree: Lounging paper
Say it Simple chipboard alphabet
Double Alpha rub-ons
Acrylic paint

Instructions (frame)
1. Create a square grid of photos leaving the middle four squares blank. (My background is 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 and my photos are 1 1/2")
2. Cut a square of patterned paper to fit in the middle, rough up the edges and adhere to the photo grid.
3. Paint "year" with paint and cover a "1" with patterned paper. Adhere the the patterned paper square.
4. Add "one" rub-ons underneath the "1"
5. Adhere the completed grid to the frame.

Supplies (invitation)
Power Flowerz 12 x 12 Big Board Chipboard (chipboard cloud)
Summer Soiree: Destination paper
Summer Soiree: Glimmer paper
Summer Soiree: Lounging paper
white cardstock
craft wire
felt
embroidery floss

Instructions (invitation)
1. Cut a 8 x 5 1/2 piece of cardstock and fold.
2. Cut a square from patterned paper.
3. To make the slanted edges on the cupcake holder, on one side measure in 1/4" from the left and right and make a pencil mark. 
4. Draw a line from the pencil mark to the corner below it and cut along the line.
5. Fold the paper like an accordion and sand the folds. Adhere to the bottom of the card.
6. Glue a sheet of white felt to a piece of white cardstock.
7. Trace the cloud shape onto the back of the cardstock and cut out.
8. Stitch around the cloud shape and adhere to the top of the cupcake cup.
9. Cut a 1/4" strip of patterned paper.
10. Cut a 2" piece of craft wire and twist to form a loop in the middle.
11. Adhere the craft wire to the back of the 1/4" patterned paper strip.
12. Cut a "flame" from a piece of patterned paper and add it to the top of the wire.
13. Adhere the candle to the top of the cupcake.

Thanks Allison for sharing the fun projects that you created for your son's party and Happy First Birthday Jackson!

Product Spotlight: Ball Trim

I think the thing I love most about papercrafting is the tactile quality of the finished product. I love to see (and feel) the texture and depth that appears when paper, trims, chipboard and embellishments are combined. That's why I love this weeks product spotlight: Fancy Pants Ball Trims. They come is a variety of colors (coordinating with our recent and past collections), so there's sure to be one (or all of them!) that's perfect for you!

Take a look at some fun ways our designers used this product.

Green by Michelle Filo

Water Fun by Kay Rogers

Sweet Days of Summer Journal by Cindy Tobey

Designer Spotlight: Cindy Tobey

It's time to get to know another one of our great design team members! This week we learn all about Cindy Tobey!

Q: What is your favorite Fancy Pants product?
A: Honestly, I have many favorites, but one of my newest favs are the Mixed Media Books. I love the variety of page shapes and materials. They're incredibly versatile.  
 
Q: What is your favorite technique?
A: Machine stitching. Painting is a close 2nd.

 

Q: How long have you been scrapbooking?
A: Over 11 years.
 
Q: What are some goals you have for yourself, scrap-related or personal?
A: I'd love to write more scrapbook articles, and an idea book. Outside of scrapbooking, I'd love to illustrate children's books.  
 
Q: What is the most unique topic/photos that you have scrapbooked?
A: I created a layout about my children's "bird legs."  

 

Q: If someone was to walk into your scrap room/area right now, what would they find?
A: A mess. I just finished a layout and I need to clean up.
 
Q: What time of day do you usually scrapbook and where?
A: It varies. I scrapbook when my kids are in school but I do at night sometimes too and my late night scrapping seems to be the most productive. Of course, the next day after staying up late...not so productive. :)
 
Q: What type of camera do you use?
A: Canon Rebel XTi
 
Q: What are some other hobbies you enjoy?
A: Knitting, quilting, drawing, painting.
 
Q: Share something quirky about yourself.
A: Once spring hits I start shaking out my clothes before putting them on. I grew up in the woods and I learned quickly that bugs love to hide in clothing. I'm not a fan of bugs...especially if they are crawling on me!  

Thanks Cindy! Everyone be sure to come back again tomorrow for some more great ideas with our Product Spotlight.

Fancy This: Spring Flowers

Our Fancy This project this week has been created by Ronda Palazzari. She brings us a pretty vase of flowers that are as simple to make as they are beautiful.

Supplies:
Fancy Pants pattern paper: I mostly used Celebrate & Simplicity because of their spring colors
Ribbon: Simplicity
Fancy Pants Buttons
Misc: Kitchen skewers, Pop-dots, green paint, vase, Flower punches or templates

Instructions:
1. Cut the kitchen skewers to various lengths for your vase. Paint them green to create a “stem” for each flower. 
2. Punch a variety of flowers and layer them using pop-dots to give them dimension.
3. Poke the pointy end of each skewer through the back side of each flower all the way through the flowers and pop-dot. 
4. Add buttons to finish the flowers. 
5. Arrange bouquet in a vase, then tie a bow around the vase. 
6. Now you have a spring bouquet that won’t fade. You can also change out the colors as the seasons change.

Thanks Ronda, for another great project idea!

Product Spotlight: Sugar and Spice Chipboard

Hello everyone! This week's product spotlight is on our Sugar and Spice chipboard. Check out the fun designs. I love that you get all 6 pages in one package! These sweet chipboard shapes are sure to add some sugar (and spice) to any layout!

Pelle by Anne Jo Lexander
Anne mixed the bird and arrow (with heart) with some of our other chipboard for a beautiful design. Notice that she painted the chipboard and then added an outline to the shapes.

Butterfly by Kay Rogers
Kay dressed up the butterflies with a combination of paint, marker, patterned paper and gems for a lovely look.

Princess by Ronda Palazzari
Ronda painted the crown and then added some brads for the perfect embellishment for this beautiful page.