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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

Give Thanks Décor Project

Here we are in November already, and Thanksgiving is here! Happy Thanksgiving! Today I thought I’d share with you a fun décor project you can whip up pretty quickly. I was inspired by some similar flowers I saw on Pinterest that I just had to try. Seems like I am always working on a square base, so this time we are going  …Round! Like I’ve said before, so many of the Fancy Pants Designs Lines can work for projects other than the their obvious “theme". I’m using the “Little Sport” line for this “Thanksgiving” themed project.

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Little Sport: Ball Game
Little Sport: Player
Little Sport: Basket Ball
Little Sport: Soccer
Little Sport: Football
Home for Christmas: Glittered Chipboard Alphas & More
Fancy Pants Designs buttons

Other Supplies:
Plastic Charger Plate
Acrylic paint
Tattered Angel’s mists
Circle punch(s)
Hot glue
Twigs
Photo
Brown ink

Instructions:
1. You’ll start with a charger plate like the one below. This one is plastic and was purchased a dollar discount store for $2. Since I painted mine I started by lightly sanding it and then whipped it clean. You certainly don’t have to paint it.


2. I painted my plate with a ivory acrylic paint, (available at almost all craft stores). Don’t worry about being really particular about your painting, because you will sand it a bit after it dries to give it a distressed look.


3. Once the paint is completely dry, sand the edges lightly and scuff it up a bit. (go for it ... you can’t go wrong)


4. If you want, you can add some more color to the plate base using mists, and by inking around the edges with brown ink. 


5. Now you can set your plate aside while you work on creating your flowers. You can use whatever size/or sizes of circle punches you like. I used a 1 ¾” inch punch for the larger circles and a 1” for the smaller circles. How many circles you need to punch will depend on how closely you put them together when you create your flower, so just punch out about a dozen to get started and add from there.
    

6. I found using a hot glue gun worked best for assembling these flowers. Start by adding a button to the center of one of the punched circles. (I used the larger circle simply because I had a bigger area to adhere my other pieces too).


7. For the flower I’m showing here, I alternated plain brown circles with patterned circles to create a multi colored flower. Start with one of the larger circles and squeeze it together (kind of like a taco )  Without actually folding it. Add hot glue to the bottom edge and add it to the circle with the button.


8. Continue all the way around the base circle, using the button as your guide. Remember to alternate your colors if you want to achieve this look.


9. I used my smaller circle punch to add another element to the design, by adding them inside the opposite color or patterned like this. (below)


10. Now it’s time to add your flowers to the charger. Like I said, I found that hot glue worked well. I started by adding a few twigs I picked up outside, then my flowers, and a few leaves I cut out of the brown paper. Just for fun, I gave the entire thing a light mist of Iridescent Gold Glimmer Mist. Once that is finished; add your letters and your photo. Now you have a fun piece to set out for the Holiday, or a great gift for a friend or family member.




Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a chance to give this project a try.


-Vicki Chrisman

Fancy Friday Freebie! + FFF Inspiration

 

Happy Friday!!! We've got just the ticket for your scrapbooking projects ... download this free digital ticket from our It's the Little Things collection!

We hope you are enjoying our Fancy Friday Freebies! Here's some more FFF inspiration using several of our past and current Fancy Friday Freebies!

Sept. Snippets by Kim Watson
Kim says, "The great thing about the Fancy Pants downloads, is that they can be worked into just about any collection with a little creative intervention. For my page, September Snippets, I used products from The Good Life, but needed the printed downloads to work with the page 'color-wise'. Let me explain how I solved the problem:

The Country Boutique banner- I added red pennant shapes & buttons.
The Library card & pocket- I re-colored it with yellow mist then inked the edges. Adding red pennant shapes tied it in perfectly.

The Ribbon banner- I used it as a base for my 'snippets' title, & added mini alphas.
The Good Life Ribbon- I didn't have to add anything here, but cut out the rosette & layered it with foam squares.

Make Memories note pad- I used the ledger page as my journal block below the main photo. The red chevron shape ties it in with the rest of the page."

 

Sweet Shadowbox by Amy Peterman
I used today's freebie!! I scaled the ticket down and printed two. I cut them out by hand and added them to my shadowbox with a bit of foam adhesive for some dimension.

Using some of our pretty Hopscotch collection (Tape Stickers, Mingled Buttons and Sticker fundamentals) and one of the Artist Edition Just Words Stencil Cards, made this project quick and fun!

 

Football by Suzanne Sergi
Suzanne says, "As a son for an athlete, this gives me every reason to pull out the Little Sport Collection! It has a variety of papers fit for any type of spirt. I love this photo of my son hugging his teammate. The boys will be boys was a perfect caption! Found this in the coordinating 4x6 brag pad. A great source to turn to for adding extra layers, and quick embellishments. I love tags, and pockets! I chose to use the Fancy Friday Freebie library pocket download! It was great to tuck in my journaling and layer a star diecut on top. If you have not used the free downloads, what are you waiting for? (; So easy to use, and are perfect details to your pages!"

Yes, what are you waiting for? Go download some our Freebies today! Lots of creative fun awaits!

-Amy Peterman

September Sketch Challenge Winner!

Hey everyone! We absolutely LOVED seeing all of your challenge creations on our Facebook page! We hope our sketch was a fun one to create from and we'll be sure to keep giving you more sketches in the future for more creative inspiration.

Our Pocket Chicks helped with the judging, and it was hard picking a winner (it always is with such talented fans like ours!), but we have came up with a winner. And the Fancy Pants Designs Prize Pack goes to...

All Star by Jenny Evans
Jenny's layout really caught our eye! We love the way she used our Little Sport collection in such a bold, striking way while keeping the attention on her great photo of her son.

Congrats, Jenny!! Please send an email to: [email protected] with the following information:

1. Name of Contest (September Sketch Challenge)
2. Your full name
3. Address where your prize should be sent

We also wanted to give a little shout out to these two talented designers, whose layouts we loved as well!

The Art of Good Conversation by Krissy Clark.

We loved Krissy's use of The Good Life collection, her fun little paper dolls and paint spatters. Check out more of Krissy's work on her blog.

New Do by Nicolle Grabowski Kramer
We love how Nicolle used It's The Little Things on her layout! Such beautiful details and layers!! Gorgeous! See more of Nicolle's work on her blog.

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

-Amy Peterman