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Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Accordion Trees + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

Welcome to day five of our blog hop with Scor-Pal! I hope you found some great ideas to try on the Scor-Pal blog & here at Miss Fancy Pants? Today, I am going to show you how to make some fun accordion trees. Perfect Christmas décor for the mantle, that are really easy to make.

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers
Home for Christmas: Mingled buttons
Blissful Blizzard: Silver Glitter paper

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape
Hot glue gun
Tree template download

Instructions:
1. Download, print and cut out tree template.


2. Transfer design to patterned paper.


3. Using Scor-Pal, score fold lines and fold into shape.


4. Grab your Scor-tape.


5. Apply Scor-tape to open side of tree.


6. Adhere tree together.


7. Apply little pieces of Scor-tape to inner folds of tree.


8. Pinch pleats closed.



BONUS tutorial:
Using glitter paper, cut & fold star using Scor-Pal, attach to top of tree using hot glue.


Decorate your little trees with Home for the Holidays, Mingled buttons.

Thanks for joining us today and this week. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Kim Watson

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: CD Folder + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

I created the CD folder for Christmas gift using Scor-pal and Fancy Pants Designs products. I did not use any papers for Christmas line on this project. These papers are from the Little Sport collection! I love the color combo of this collection. 

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Little Sport: Patterned papers (All Star and Baseball)
Home for Christmas: Stamps
Button

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape
cardstock
twine

Instructions:
1.Cut base paper like this and score along the dotted lines. Adhere to Score tape on the both sides of the bottom then fold up.

2. Cut All Star paper into 11 3/4” x 5 3/4”. Cut Baseball paper into 5 3/4” x 2 3/4” and 5 3/4” x 5 3/4”.

3. For making an accordion flower, cut a strip 12 x 1” and score every 1/4”. Then fold, adhere ends and flatten.

4. Adhere to patterned paper on the base paper.

5. Decorate the cover with the accordion flower, die cut banner, stamp images, buttons, and glitter paper.

Remember to leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. We'll have another great project later today, from Kim Watson ... and another chance to win!

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Yuki Shimada

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Christmas Cards Ideas + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

Hi everyone! Welcome to the fourth day in our blog hop with Scor-Pal. I hope you are having a fantastic December so far! Today, I am sharing some Christmas cards I made with the Home for Christmas collection. I also used my Scor-Pal and some Scor-Tape. There's still some time left to make cards for neighbors or friends if you want to.  ;) 

Have A Very Merry Christmas
I used my Scor-Pal and made random scores on my card and then sanded them down to create a fun background. I used the Scor-Tape on the left side of my card and then added glitter to it, a very easy way to add glitter to your projects. That stamped tree was the perfect finishing touch to my card. 

Merry Christmas
I LOVED the houses in the Home For Christmas brag pad, I just knew I wanted to use them on a card.  I used my Scor-Pal to make a corrugated border to place under the cute houses. 

Christmas
If you've seen much of my work then you know that I LOVE the stencil cards! This time I tried adding it to my card directly as is...no ink and no missing letters. I love it! And the Scor-Tape works perfectly to keep all the letters together simply by placing a strip behind the whole thing. The Scor-Tape also works wonderful with ribbon...so easy!

Remember to leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. We'll have some great projects tomorrow, the last day of our blog hop, from Yuki Shimada and Kim Watson ... and another chance to win!

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

Well thanks for stopping in today! I hope you feel inspired to try something new or make some cards.  : ) Have a wonderful day!! Merry Christmas!!

-Pamela Young

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Holiday Card + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

Today, I am showing you how to use the Scor-Buddy by Scor-Pal to make a dress look more texturized.  Using the "Home for Christmas" collection, I am making a few Christmas cards for a few special people in my life. 

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers
Home for Christmas: Sticker Fundamentals
Ball trim

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy

Instructions:
1.  Cut out the silhouette of the woman. Turn the silhouette over and use a pencil to draw the lines as shown.


3.  With the lines as a guide, score the lines. When you turn the silhouette over, you can clearly see the scored lines.


5.  Add a fun belt using Fancy Pants Designs ball trims.


6.  Score the back side of a piece of background paper for the card as shown. 


7.  Score a second piece of background paper for the card.


8.  Cut out a present to put atop of the platter. Assemble the elements together. Use Fancy Pants Designs Stickers Fundamentals for sentiment. 

I made two versions of the cards that you can see. The scored effect looks much more pronounced in the photography using on the solid color paper. I hope this has been helpful and give you an idea on how to use the Scor-Buddy by Scor-Pal.

We hope you are enjoying all of the project inspiration this week. Remember to leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. We'll have another great project this afternoon from Pamela Young ... and another chance to win!

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Jing-Jing Nickel

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Journaling Card & Gift Box + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

I am so excited to be part of the Scor-Pal blog hop! I was not very familiar with this product until now and I love it! I had so much fun working on my projects! I created a fun journaling card {or gift tag/gift card holder} and a gift card box!

The journaling card was made using one of our Friday Freebie patterns, found HERE!
 
I printed the free pdf file onto some cream paper from our Home For Christmas collection. I trimmed the bottom area off and used my Scor-pal Scor-Buddy to score along the dotted lines. 


Then, I cut it out according to the pattern to attach the pocket to the card (also part of the pdf file).


Then, using my Scor-Tape, I added it to the scored parts of my card pocket and adhered to the card.


Last, I fancied up the front of the card pocket with some of our Home For Christmas patterned papers, layered stickers, and made a fun 'junk bow' with a mix of ribbons and papers!  I also added some text and design to the included library card!  This is a perfect little journaling piece, gift tag or great for tucking a holiday or git card in...whatever you like!


And, on to the gift card box! It seems like more and more I end up buying gift cards for the holidays and I always feel like it's so impersonal--even if it isn't :)...so, when I saw the gift card holder box in the Scor-Pal book, Score, Fold, Create! I knew I had to make a few to really personalize the gift cards I was giving and I'm so happy with the result...and, it really was easy!! I simply followed the instructions included in Score, Fold, Create! and within 30 minutes had a fancy gift box complete with a little ribbon pull on the drawer! The gift card fits perfectly inside! I embellished the box with more of our Home For Christmas collection!

Thanks for joining us again today. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Jing-Jing Nickel will be here tomorrow morning and Pamela Young will be here tomorrow afternoon with more great projects using Scor-Pal and Fancy Pants Designs.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Christmas Décor + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

Welcome to day two of our blog hop with Scor-Pal! I hope you are already having fun with some of the ideas shared here and on the Scor-Pal blog.

Today, I am showing you how to make this fun, Christmas wall décor that is super easy to make (thanks to the Scor-Buddy!).

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape
Pine board
Burlap
Hot Glue Gun

Instructions:
1.Apply Scor-Tape to a scrap piece of wood and adhere burlap. Flip over and trim excess burlap.

2. Cut several 2.5" squares from various Home for Christmas papers. Place each square on your Scor-Buddy with the points lined up on the 2.125" mark (marked with •) and then score each side at 3".

4. Using the Scor-Buddy's included scoring tool, flatten the folded edges.

5. Arrange squares as desired on burlap-covered board and hot glue in place.

6.Ta-da! Quick and easy wall art for Christmas! You could make one as large or small as you like (my board is 9 x 14").

Thanks for joining us again today. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Jodi Sanford will be here tomorrow with another great project using Scor-Pal and Fancy Pants Designs.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Amy Peterman

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Gift Card Holder + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

With Christmas around the corner, I am constantly in need of cute gift card holders, so I came up with my own which can be changed up and personalized whatever way you want!

Fancy Pants Supplis:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers (Pine, Mistletoe, Nativity)
Home for Christmas: Tape stickers
Home for Christmas: Sticker fundamentals
Buttons

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape

Instructions:
1. To make library pocket to hold gift card, trim Pine paper to 4.5" x 8.5". Score at .5" on each side vertically. Score at 3.75" horizontally. Holding piece with the shorter scored piece at the top, trim off bottom .5" on each side so you are left with tabs. Snip the ends of tabs diagonally as shown.


2. Fold pocket along horizontal score. Fold tabs around backside and adhere with Scor-Tape. Round corners and punch half circle in front if desired.


3. Cut Mistletoe paper to 5.5" x 8.5", score and fold to make base of card. Adhere library pocket to front with Scor-Tape.


4. Trim off one of the strips of Tape Stickers leaving the backing on. Score every .5". Accordion fold on score lines. Remove backing, adhere ends to make circle, then press down in the center to make rosette. Layer onto card with scalloped circle from Nativity paper.

5. Embellish rest of card with word stickers, button and ribbon.

Thanks for joining us again this afternoon. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Amy Peterman will be here tomorrow with another great project using Scor-Pal and Fancy Pants Designs.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Greta Hammond

Scor-Pal Blog Hop: Wintry Wreath + Idea Book & FPD Goodies Giveaway

This week we’re excited to be kicking off a week of projects we’ve created using Fancy Pants Designs products with Scor-Pal. Sometimes as winter goes on, it can get a little blah ... but it doesn’t have to with these pretty papers. I thought I’d start by sharing how I created this wreath using the Blissful Blizzard line and my Scor-Pal. I’m going to need something “Wintry” to put up after I have to take down the Christmas Decorations.

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Blissful Blizzard: Patterned papers (Snow Pack, Ice Crystals, Sparkly Mom, Snow Balls)
Blissful Blizzard: Banner Die Cuts
Buttons

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Die-AccuCut – Flower #6 F1445LC
Wreath form-Hobby Store
Hot Glue Gun 

Instructions:
Step 1.  I started with a 9 inch pressed wood wreath form from the craft store like this.

Step 2.  I cut 22 strips of paper 12” x 1.5” (11 of Woodsy and 11 of Sparkly Mom). Find the center (or near the center. This doesn’t have to be precise as you can trim the end when you cut it in a V later).  Once you have your center, place it face down onto your Scor-Pal. Here is where you can choose the thickness of your bend to fit over the thickness of our wreath. Then score your two lines. You can see how I have done this in the photo below.  

Step 3. Once you have all 22 done you can make “V” cuts to the ends of all. If you want to make sure they are all perfectly even, just use the first one for a guide for the others.

Step 4.  Now you can start assembling the base of your wreath. Start adhering your 11 Woodsy strips around your wreath form slightly over lapping each other. See how nicely they lay when they’ve been scored with your Scor-Pal?  Once you have gone all the way around with those, add your 11 strips of Sparkly Mom between (and overlapping) the pieces of your first row of Woodsy strips. 

Step 5.  Now it’s time to “pretty it up” with some flowers. Using a die cutting machine, cut flower shapes  from your Fancy Pants Designs papers. I used my Scor-Pal tool to curl up my flower peddles.

Step 6.  Put your flowers together, add a button to the center, and add your flowers around the center edge of your wreath with hot glue.

Step 7.  Now for interest, add pieces from the Blissful Blizzard Banner Die Cut Sheet and Measuring Tape strips from the Snow Pack sheet of paper to the “V” Cut strips already on the wreath.

Step 8. Creating your “Welcome” title. I wanted to show you how I used my Scor-Pal as a way to emboss and sand to create a border for my title. I cut a 5x2 inch piece of the Ice Crystals paper, flipped it over facing down onto my Scor-Pal. After choosing the width of the border I want it, I score .. following the guide on the board, going around all four edges. I take it off the board, face up on my desk, and using my emery board, lightly sand away the color, leaving a white border.

From here you can just print off you title, to finish up and add it to your wreath.

I hope you found some inspiration here, to brighten your home to carry you through till Spring!

Thanks for joining us this week. If you leave a comment here you'll be entered for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Come back this afternoon to see another project from Greta Hammond (and get another chance to enter) and every day this week for more projects and chances to enter! At the end of the week we'll draw a winner from all of the week's comments.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

Also, head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Vicki Chrisman

 

 

World Card Making Day Blog Hop + Giveaway + Card Drive

Happy World Card Making Day! We're so glad you are here! We've got a special post today, full of fun!

First off, we hope you are enjoying hopping around to all the different blogs who are participating in this special day. We love that so many people are coming together to share their love for card making, as well as reaching out through Operation Write Home to the brave men and women who protect our freedom!

For this blog hop, we asked our Pocket Chicks to base their card creations off some OWH sketches. Here's what they came up with uisng Sketch #77, #123 and #36.

Hi by Kim Watson
Kim says, "I felt so inspired by the sketches being featured on the Fancy Pants Designs blog in support of OWH that I thought the fact that I live in Africa shouldn't stop me getting some cards together for this worthy cause. I imagine finding out where my cards originated from would be cause for a joke or two amongst the USA hero's abroad. LOL! When designing them, I tried to keep the cards free of flowers and as unisex as possible, which wasn't as difficult as I imagined once cracking open my long awaited box of latest amazing Fancy Pants Designs collections. Using The Good Life products for this card I layered some circle shapes again; slipping them under a contrast strip for variety & instead of hearts added flags & a sentiment. For something a little different, I cut a diamond shaped all-over design in white to create a fun background texture, filling in a yellow diamond here & there for a flash of unexpected color."

Joy by Pamela Young
Pamela says, "I created this card based off OWH's Sketch 77 using the fabulous Home For Christmas collection.  I stamped the word 'Joy' on the background, and for a fun and funky scallop border on the bottom, I adhered chipboard buttons and then layered on top of the bottom half of the buttons a strip from the Tape Stickers sheet."

Merry Christmas by Amy Peterman
I flip-flopped the design of sketch 77. I layered some Tradition Filter Embellishments for the circle element in the sketch and added a couple brads and a Mingled Button to mimick the small heart elements. My card base is the Stars and Holly patterned paper from the Tradition collection and I finished off the design with the chevron stamp from the new Home For Christmas collection.

You Super Star by Kim Watson
Kim says, "I made this card using Little Sport. I followed the basic design, omitting the central circle & swapping out the hearts for a title, flags & stars. The addition of red chevrons & colorful stars made the card masculine & fun too."

Noel by Pamela Young
Pamela explains, "This card uses OWH's sketch 123 and the wonderful Home For Christmas collection. To layer the chipboard on top of chipboard, I used a 3D adhesive. This sketch was a no brainer with the fabulous banners that Fancy Pants Designs has with their collections."

Live Laugh Love by Kim Watson
Kim explains, "Again using the fabulous The Good Life collection, I changed things up a bit. I turned the sketch vertically, using central rectangles for the positioning of the sentiment. The amazing thing about the sentiment is that it is actually one of the NEW lines Fancy Pants released at the last CHA, 4x6 Brag Pads. They are little booklets filled with different card designs perfect for scrapbooking pages and cards alike. Lastly I added some bright pennants, cloud shapes & a button trim to finish it."

Merry Christmas by Valerie Sanchez


Joy by Valerie Sanchez

Gosh You're Awesome by Kim Watson
Kim explains, "For the last sketch number #36, I really took creative license. More The Good Life, but again I turned the sketch vertically & opted for a top opening card this time. The 3 x 3 1/2" rectangle was interpreted into complimenting patterned pennant shapes for a modern twist; with great results."

So, how's that for some card inspo? Want a chance to get your hands on some of the Fancy goodness our Pocket Chicks used on their cards? Here's two ways you could win!

Giveaway Drawing
Simply leave a comment on this post and we'll choose one random winner to recieve a Fancy Pants Designs prize pack! You have until Sunday, October 7, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator and posted here on our blog Tuesday, October 9, 2012. Contest is open to US and International residents! :-)

Card Drive
Send us your handmade cards! We'll be collecting cards for Operation Write Home now thru October 31, 2012. Create your cards following these guidelines and desired themes, send them to our address below and from all the cards we receive, we’ll draw one winner to receive a random pack of FPD goodies. We'll announce the winner here on on our blog Tuesday, November 6, 2012.

Send your cards to:
Fancy Pants Designs
Attn: OWH Card Drive
2441 N. Main St., Ste. 8
Sunset, UT  84015

We hope you enjoyed hopping by today! We look forward to reading your comments and seeing your hand made cards!

-Amy Peterman

 

 

Simon Says Stamp + Giveaway!

Hey everyone! I hope that you are all enjoying these last days of summer! I know many kids are already headed back to school, and mine will be heading back next week, so the timing was just right to work on this "back to school" guest blog post with our fine friends over at Simon Says Stamp! I had a lot of fun working up some ideas for back to school, plus it got me into action on making something special for my little ones! Here are a couple of sneak peeks of what you'll see over on the Simon Says Stamp blog!  

Be sure to check it out at simonsaysstampblog.blogspot.com, then drop back in here to leave a comment on this post about your favorite idea we shared for the chance to win some fun school themed products!

You have until Sunday, August 19, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winners will be drawn by a random number generator and posted here on our blog on Tuesday, August 21, 2012. Sorry, this giveaway is open to our US fans only.

-Jodi Sanford