Hello Fancy Pants Designs fans! We are continuing today with our kit club spotlight : Gossamer Blue!
Last week we not only announced our fantastic new CHA Summer 2013 releases, we also announced a guest designer contest with Gossamer Blue.

That's right! We're looking for one special person to guest design for both of our companies. After seeing our new releases we hope you can't resist the urge to enter the contest. The rules are simple and the prize is HUGE! You can read all of the details about how to enter HERE. We want to thank those of you who have already entered. We are loving everything we are seeing! You have untilAugust 1st to enter. We look forward to seeing more inspiration using our products.
Before we announce the winner of the Gossamer Blue July kit giveaway we want to share more inspiration from the Gossamer Blue design team using our What a Wonderful Day products from their July kits. Michelle Wooderson is guest blogging today to share how she creates her own unique 3x4 and 4x6 cards to use in divided page protectors. Here's what she had to say:
I'm sharing some wonderful little creations for my divided page protectors using Fancy Pants Designs What a Wonderful Day products. This is just the happiest little pile of products with such fun colors and whimsical images which all came from Gossamer Blue's July kits .

I love to embellish journaling cards for my divided page protectors. It was so easy to put together some fantastic pieces because the Fancy Pants Designs What a Wonderful Day kit items were just that good this month. Here I have a collection of 4 x 6 inserts, some are straight from the collection, some are fancied up with embellishments. The 4 x 6 Brag Pad from the Gossamer Blue July Bits & Pieces kit is wonderful for divided page protector projects.

Here are a few that I embellished using tags from the July Bits & Pieces Kit and die cuts from the Fancy Pants Ephemera Pack in the July Main Kit.

By layering, stitching and stapling I was able to add so many fun elements, still leaving room for photos, journaling or my week # and dates.

Now on to some 3 x 4 journaling cards. I almost couldn't stop myself but alas the family likes to be fed and wear clean clothes at times. :) For these inserts, I pulled various grid and pattern cards from my stash and then just started adding strips of patterned papers. The kits were full of fun Fancy Pants Designs What a Wonderful Day 12 x 12 papers. I used the backs and fronts to get lots of varied designs.

The nice thing about these cards that I add to my stash is that they can be used all in one week to create a coordinated look or they can be spread through many weeks to create a mixy matchy look. The designs and colors are clean and simple and fit into most of my color schemes.

Here I got wild and crazy and created some fun 3x4 vellum pocket cards. Each pocket has some Fancy Pants Designs What a Wonderful Day tags tucked in, ready for use. All I have to do is add another journaling piece or photo into the pockets. I just love theses.

Here I have a fun mix of tags.....the aqua tag is actually sewn in place and will be a fun landing point for an additional embellishment, maybe a flair button. The pink tag can be removed for journaling.

Here I used a fun die cut on the vellum. Two tags are inserted into the pocket.

And here I trimmed a little banner die cut to fit onto the vellum pocket. A cute little tag is in the pocket.

Since I couldn't stop myself, I finished up this fun crafty session with some final 3 x 4 cards. I loved some of the patterned papers so much that I just trimmed down some scrap pieces. I can add embellishments to them later as needed.

What do you think? Michelle really showed off how easy it use to use our Brag books, 6x6 and 12x12 papers and embellishments to quickly and easily create your very own 3x4 and 4x6 unique journaling cards. We love it!
And now to announce our giveaway winner! Congratulations to:
Kathy P.
These goodies just make me smile....fun, bright, happy colors and patterns and shapes. Can think of so many things to create with this kit. . . thanks for the chance to win it!

You are the winner of the Gossamer Blue July kit. Please email lisa@fancypantsdesigns.com with your mailing address.
Thank you for stopping by the blog today. We hope you have found inspiration and are excited to continue creating with our products!
