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Inspiration From The Everyday: Pie Charts

Have you noticed how popular Infographics have become? I love how they graphically present complex information quickly & clearly, using signs, maps, pie charts & stats. I thought it would be fun for to use pie charts for my Everyday Inspiration.





Using the Country Boutique collection, I created this page. I made a layered pie chart using pretty papers & shaped banner die cuts; the perfect addition for a page about my wedding day.  




The soft colors & understated designs made using x7 different designs so simple. Nothing over shadowed anything else. The result is soft & pleasing, so reminiscent of our special day.

Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
Country Boutique: Papers
Country Boutique:  Banner Die cuts
Country Boutique:  Die cuts
Off to School: Rub-ons & Chipboard
Alphas: Artist Edition

Other Supplies:
Buttons
Plain twine

Thanks for stopping by the Fancy Pants Designs blog! I hope I have inspired you to try pie graphs too on your next scrapping project.


-Kim Watson

Layout Lift: Jing-Jing & Kim

Kim Watson has a very fun and whimsical style. I scraplifted her because her layout compositions are always unique and nothing that I could think of myself. I thought the layout Happy Day in particular would be a fun project to emulate because it is quintessentially Kim, absolutely adorable, and again, nothing I could come up by myself.


Happy Day by Kim Watson

The thing about scraplifting that I find most challenging is photograph matching, both in size and in number. Ultimately I almost always go with my photos the way they are and re-configure the page accordingly. I think the results of such adjustments may make the layout look significantly different from the original and I am perfectly happy with that. 





I incorporated many of the elements Kim used in her layout, such as tiny little borders, several rectangles of patterned papers. I even broke out a couple of bottles of mists but I did stop short of busting out the sewing machine! There are chipboard pieces, buttons, and various sticker arrows to match her stars. It was a thoroughly enjoyable process in scraplifting Kim. My layout, ultimately, reflects me and my traditional and simple style. 

Thank you so much for visiting and thank you Kim for your awesome inspiration!

-Jing-Jing Nickel

Fancy This: Sugar & Spice Mini

It doesn’t take a ton of time OR supplies to create a fun mini album. Today, I am showing you how to make a small album that has pages created with just one sheet of 12x12 paper. It is big enough for small square photos (hello, Instagrams!) but small enough to tuck into your purse. And it makes an excellent fast but adorable gift!

Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
Be You: Marbles patterned paper
Be You: Subway Art patterned paper
Be You: Daylight patterned paper
Be You: flocked transparency
Be You: Rubons
Be You: Element Stickers
Be You: Chipboard Pieces
Summer Soul: Chipboard Pieces
Chipboard Alphas
Trim

Other Supplies:
Lightweight chipboard
Black pen

Instructions:
First, you’ll need to cut your lightweight chipboard down to two 3.5’ squares. Cut two 5” squares of your cover paper and cover the chipboard. Lay a piece of trim across the center of the covers and adhere it to the chipboard with a strong adhesive. 


Now we need to cut the interior pages. Use a pencil to mark horizontal and vertical lines at the 3”, 6” and 9” marks.


Accordion fold and cut down the lines as shown in the photo so the paper looks like a “W”.

 
Fold each square back and forth so the pages lay one on top of the other like so:


You’ll see how the folds create pages. Adhere the wrong sides together to fan the pages correctly, like so:


Adhere the front and back page flaps to the centers of each cover. 


The mini book can now be tied closed with the trim and embellished with photos and other flat items!




How cute and easy is that!? Not all mini albums take hours to make. We’d love to see your mini albums using Fancy Pants Designs so don’t forget to share with us on our Facebook page. Thanks for stopping by today!



-Jess Mutty

Pocket Chick Spotlight: Suzanne Sergi

Hello Fancy Pants Designs Fans!  My name is Suzanne Sergi, and I live in Orange County with my three gorgeous children. I have two girls that love competitive cheer, and a son that loves every sport! I am originally from Texas, and someday, I hope to return to my home state. This is my second term with Fancy Pants Designs, and I love being a Pocket Chick! Scrapbooking is such an important part of my life, and I am very thankful to be a part of this talented design team! Fancy Pants Designs has some of the best products in the industry, and I love seeing what they will come out with next!

For my page I used the Hopscotch collection, and I love, love this paper line! So soft, and vibrant at the same time! A bit of shabby, and distressed papers make this such a fresh collection! The papers are gorgeous, and I had fun mixing together the different patterns to create my own embellishments!







Q: What is your favorite technique?
A: Well, I love the look of embossing on my papercrafting projects! So, my embossing folders are always within reach. They add instant texture to paper, and add dimension, without a lot of extra bulk. Perfect for creating your own embellishments. Embossing Folders are hands down my favorite tool!

Q: If someone was to walk into  your scrap room/area right now, what would they find?
A: Well, right now, I will admit it is in a bit of disarray. I recently moved, so you will find scrapbooking product in every room at the moment. I am almost finished with the reorganization, and unpacking so soon my favorite scrapbooking products will have a new home. Finally! My desk is in our kitchen area, and this is probably the only area that I do strive to keep clean. I try, and scrapbook a bit everyday, even it is only fifteen minutes. So my desk has to be clean, and organized at all times.

Q: What type of camera do you use?
A: I use a Nikon D90.

Q: What is your favorite Fancy Pants Desigs product?
A: My favorite product from Fancy Pants Designs are the papers! I think this was my answer last time, too. I love their patterns, and unique designs. You will find beautiful patterns on one side, and a solid color on the other. Perfect for creating a page, and using the patterns to create your own creative embellishments.

Q: What do you listen to or watch while scrapbooking?
A: While I scrapbook you will find me listening to country music, or watching my favorite TV Show, I Love Lucy. I never tire of the episodes! I may not be actually watching it, but I need to have this in the background as I am designing.

Q: What kind of scrapper would you consider yourself to be?
A: I feel that I am simple scrapbooker with lots of clean lines, and small details throughout. I do tend to scrapbook one photo pages most of the time. Sometimes, I think all you really need is one photo to convey the story. I also have a love for mini albums, and altered projects. Occassionally, you might  see  a card from me, too!

-Suzanne Sergi

Fancy Pants Designs + Jessica Sprague

Hello Fancy Pants Designs Fans! I have a special little post here to share some EXCITING news with all of you...especially those of you who prefer to scrap digitally **hint, hint**! We are so excited to announce that we are now offering our products in a digital format over at jessicasprague.com! It's been in the works for a long time due to so many requests, but we just decided it was time to jump in!  

Our product offerings will be similar to our physical products, but in a digital format with a few unique additions that can only be done in digi format! PLUS, we'll be bringing some old time favorites into the digi world for you to snatch up! I sure hope those of you who've been asking for digi products are as excited as we are! Our first release is part of our Off to School collection and has some amazing product lined up...including, like I said, a few additions that are perfect for all the digital scrappers out there!

Thanks for sharing in our excitement and stay up to date with us to find out about our releases, specials, classes and contests going on here and in coordination with jessicasprague.com! Oh...and, I forgot to mention that we've included some great images below that the Jessica Sprague design team created with the digi product and I threw one of my traditional pages in there as well! Enjoy!!!


Friends At The Bus by Jodi Sanford


School First Day by Julie Long


School Days by Chrissy Guido


Congratulations Lila by Debra Hutton


Summer Fun by Jen McCabe


Teacher Teacher by Amy Yarrington


First Day by Monica Lifferth



-Jodi Sanford

Pocket Chicks Published!

Hey Fancy Pants Designs Fans! Be sure to check out owner, Jodi Sanford's layout on page 79 of the Creating Keepsakes Sept/Oct 2012 issue using the Childish Things collection! 

Play Hard by Jodi Sanford

Oh ... and as a side note Jodi said ... "that is my adorable SON, not daughter playing hard at the playground! Love that boy! And he is so pretty that he could be a girl :) ... but he is definitely ALL BOY!"

You can also see my Awesome Ice Cream layout on page 26 of the final issue of Scrapbooks Etc. I am so sad to see such a wonderful publication go. Scrapbooks Etc. has always been a wealth of creative inspiration. I am honored to be in print with them one last time.

Awesome Ice Cream by Amy Peterman

I used a combo of Fancy Pants Designs goodies on this layout. A little bit from Off To School, a little from It's The Little Things and a little from Beach Babe. I love how easily FPD collections mix together.

-Amy Peterman

Simon Says Stamp Giveaway Winner!

Thanks to all who visited the Simon Says Stamp blog and participating in our giveaway. Thanks for all of your great comments. We loved reading them and learning what you loved best about Jodi's projects.

We have a winner for our giveaway, and the winner is...

 

Love the customized school bags on the SimonSaysStamp blog! Love this layout too!

Posted by: KellyG | August 17, 2012 at 11:29 AM

Congrats, Kelly!! Please send an email to: lisa@fancypantsdesigns.com with the following information:

1. Name of Contest (Simon Says Stamp giveaway)
2. Your full name
3. Address where your prize should be sent

Thanks again to everyone who participated! We love our Fancy Fans!

-Amy Peterman

Fancy This: Dry Erase Calendar

One of my favorite things about back to school time is all the new supplies and organizational tools! It feels like a great time to get myself organized as well so when I saw this calendar paper from The Good Life line, I knew I had to do something fun with it. I pulled together this fun little dry erase calendar in no time! Read on to find out how to make one for yourself.
 
Fancy Pants Designs Supplies:
The Good Life: It's A Date patterned paper
The Good Life: Good Times
Artist Edition: Chipboard Alphas (black)
Various brads, ribbon, and buttons
 
Other:
12x12 plastic packaging, twine
 
Instructions:
Find 12x12 plastic packaging. I used packaging from the older 12x12 Fancy Pants Chipboard pieces. Trim off any excess if necessary.
 
Slip calendar paper behind plastic. Then poke holes and add black brads to bottom two corners.

 
Cut a piece of red ric rac to 16 inches. Poke hole in top corner of calendar through plastic and ribbon. Add brad. Do the same to the other side to create hanger.

 
Cut a 12" x "1 piece from Good Times paper. Figure out which side of calendar you want to put the month piece. Add chipboard letters and button tied with string and then trim off excess into a banner edge.

 
Adhere to front of calendar.

 
Add numbers with dry erase marker and hang up!




-Greta Hammond

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

Pocket Chick Spotlight: Yuki Shimada

Hello Everyone! Today I’d like to share a little bit more about myself here with you. My name is Yuki Shimada, and I live in Japan with my wonderful husband and two teenage girls. I’ve been with Fancy Pants Designs since November 2010. The past 21 months as a Pocket Chick have been an exciting new challenge for me! I’m so honored to be today's Spotlighted Pocket Chick, and to be a part of such a talented team! I am so blessed to be working with such great people and products.
 
Before getting to answer the questionnaire, I’d like to share a little about my layout above with you. I created this page with the Country Boutique collection- it’s one of my all time favorites ❤ Do you know about the Fancy Friday Freebies? Please check it out! You can download the library card used on my page here, along with other fun art exclusively by Fancy Pants Designs.


 
Q: What is your favorite Fancy Pants product?
A: I would have to say the Filter Embellishments and Buttons. I love to make flowers with them. It’s hard to find my project without any buttons.


 
Q: What is your favorite technique?
A: Like many people, I’m addicted to my new die-cutting machine, Silhouette CAMEO, right now! I also love fussy cutting.




 
Q: How long have you been scrapbooking?
A: I started scrapbooking around 2006 but became much more serious about it in 2008 when I was on the Design Team of Color Combos Galore challenge blog and a Japanese scrapbooking store.
 
Q: Where do you find inspiration?
A: Home decor and lifestyle magazines, interior catalogs, greeting cards, store displays, delicate arrangement of Japanese food, colors of flower arrangements … everywhere!
 
Q: What time of day do you usually scrapbook and where?
A: I usually scrapbook in the early afternoon once all of my errands are done. I used to create in the middle of the night, but I have noticed a definite weight gain – I’m getting hungry as the night leads on.
 
Thanks for stopping by today. I’m looking forward to creating more for the Fancy Pants Designs!

-Yuki Shimada