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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!
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Hello, everyone! My name is Melissa Stinson, and I'm thrilled to be guest designing with Fancy Pants Designs this month!
Before I launch into my projects, here's a little background information about me- I’m a 32 year old software engineer married to a full-time graduate student (and med school hopeful). We don’t have kids, so my scrapbooks are filled with photos of our everyday (and not so everyday) adventures. We love to travel when our work and school schedules line up to allow it, and when we’re at home we’re always into something (the current project is DIY’ing a new kitchen from the floor up). I love documenting all of those things in my albums and having them to look back on. It’s amazing how many things my scrapbooks remind me of that I would have otherwise forgotten!
When Amy first got in touch with me and asked me to guest design with
Fancy Pants Designs, I crossed my fingers and hoped that Hopscotch would be one
of the collections I was asked to work with. I was totally thrilled
to find it included in my package- I'm so in love with the colors and
the patterns in this collection! For my first layout with this set I
pulled out a travel photo from a couple of years ago. It seems I like
to take photos of flowers whether at home or on vacation, and this
lovely bunch of bougainvillea had been sitting in my photo binder for
quite a while just waiting for the perfect paper to match it. I used a
set of blooms cut from the large floral paper as the largest
embellishment on my page, then cut pennant shapes from some of the other
papers in Hopscotch to layer behind the photo.
I love using the same scrapping supplies that I use for my regular
layouts in my Project Life album, so after I was finished making my
bougainvillea layout I went ahead and put together a Project Life page,
too! This is a great way to use up leftovers after you've finished
scrapping with a collection, and also a fun way to be creative when you
might be short on time since each pocket only takes a few minutes to
embellish and complete. The tiny alphabets in the Hopscotch collection
kit were especially useful for adding small titles and captions to my
layout.
The snowy scene in the photo on this page might seem far removed from
the tropical blooms on my Hopscotch collection layout, but would you
believe these pictures were taken less than 6 weeks apart (in completely
different locations, of course!)? I love how the muted reds and aquas
and soft grays of Blissful Blizzard really enhance the chilly feeling of
this photo. The sheet of silver glittered cardstock might have been my
favorite thing in the whole pack- as soon as I spotted it I pulled out
my snowflake punches to whip up some custom embellishments for my page!
Thank you to everyone for stopping by today, and thanks to Amy and Fancy Pants Designs for allowing me the honor of being this month's guest designer. I had a blast playing with Hopscotch and Blissful Blizzard! If you'd like to see more of my scrapbooking, please stop by and visit my blog.
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Hi, everyone! Today I will share a winter page using the brand new products of this season with you.
The new Blissful Blizzard collection is so warm and cozy. I thought it would be fun to make a winter layout of snowy photos! The muted colors and pretty patterns in this line are perfect for everyone of all ages. Let’s get started!
Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Blissful Blizzard: patterned papers (Rosy Cheeks, Homestead, Strips)
Blissful Blizzard:
Banner Die Cuts
Blissful Blizzard: Sticker fundamentals
Blissful Blizzard: Silver Glitter Paper
Artist Edition: Alphabet Stencil Cards
Artist Edition: Calendar Cards
Artist Edition: Filter Flowers
Artist Edition: Brown Trim
Hopscotch: 4x6 Brag pad
Home for Christmas: Chipboard Frames
Home for Christmas: Mingled Brads
Other Supplies:
Paint
punch
Instructions:
1. First of all, paint the surface of a chipboard frame and a stencil card white, and let them dry. I used gesso this time but you can use any kind of white paint you have.
2. Cut some strips from the Strips patterned paper.
3. Put a half inch strip on the top horizontally, and the rest of strips on the right side of page vertically as shown.
4. Prepare the parts of your layout-
- some Banner Die Cuts (1)
- cut out from the Homestead patterned paper (2)
- 1 sheet from the 4x6 Brag pad (3)
- 1 Calendar Card (4)
5. Decorate the chipboard frame and the stencil card with stickers from Sticker fundamentals. I also added Silver Glitter Paper and Filter Flowers.
6. Put the Banner Die Cuts on the upper left. I added brown trim and a brad.
7. Layer the cut out from the Homestead patterned paper, a sheet of 4x6 Brag pad and a Calendar Card under the chipboard frame.
8. Add the decorated stencil card on the bottom right corner of the frame.
9. Punch circles from the Silver Glitter Paper and put them around the page.
Thanks for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed this project!
-
Yuki Shimada
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Blissful Blizzard... That is what we had this past weekend in Utah. At least it was kind of 'blissful' because I didn't have to go out in it too much ... I'm sure for others it may not have felt quite so 'blissful'! Either way you look at it, it was snowy and beautiful! Which got me in the mood to scrapbook using some of our latest collection named, what else? Blissful Blizzard! Most of you have seen the previews of this line ... and our team will be sharing layouts and projects from it soon, but since I was lucky enough to get a hold of the products right when they came in to our office, I scrapped the weekend away. {I should mention that my sweet husband and oldest son were gone for a baseball tournament, so I got more time than usual, when the other kids were tucked in to bed, to scrap all night!} Oh and some fun news for our blog followers and fans, this little blog post is going to be available to all stores as a kit! Yes! That's right, we will have kits to go with our new releases so that you can recreate EXACTLY (or not so exactly) what you see on our blog (only specially noted blog posts, of course :))! Help us spread this news by stopping in to your local store and telling them about this line and kit offering! We're so stoked about it and we know you will be, too! First, is a layout of my sweet Abbi in her new 'winter' hat. Technically speaking, it's not the warmest winter hat since it's made from recycled t-shirts, but it's cute nonetheless, so we're going with it! I've used Blissful Blizzard papers, stickers, corrugate paper, glitter paper and some small extra embellishments to spice up the page!
For the second part of the kit, we've created 4 different cards for different occasions, but you can easily change to suit your needs since there are like a bazillion alpha sticker options on our 12x12 Sticker Fundamentals sheet! Yay! Here are the cards!
Enjoy the coming week because it's crazy after that ... I can't believe it's Thanksgiving next week ... so much to do, so little time to do it in! I hope you get everything done you're hoping to!
-Jodi Sanford
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Welcome Winter ... literally! A quick snapshot from my iPhone this morning of my back yard is proof ... SNOW!
Not much here in our neck of the woods, but it still counts, right? Well, the timing was perfect for my {day late} blog post this week! We are super excited to share our good news with you—two new Fancy Pants Designs releases ... Blissful Blizzard and Love Note! Plus, more fun corrugated and glitter papers to coordinate with these lines!
Blissful Blizzard is a gorgeous mix of reds, blues, whites ... and even a touch of silver {glitter paper} that really catches the essence of the winter season! I love the barn doors, the dainty snowflakes and the vintage country chic feel it offers!
And our Love Note collection is traditional Valentine's Day! It's simple and sweet with a few fun trends mixed in and that's why we love it! And, we hope you'll love it, too!
And, with all good news, comes more good news ... giveaways! Leave a comment here for your chance to win one of two giveaways (a collection kit from Blissful Blizzard and a collection kit from Love Note)!!
You have until Monday, October 29, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winners will be drawn by a random number generator and posted here on our blog Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)
-Jodi Sanford
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