Carefree Cutie Pie

Hi there everyone! Deanna here with my first May post. I'm super excited to be your Guest Designer this month! Thank you for having me! This month I chose to work with the new Simple Stories "Fabulous" line. I really love its bright colors, fun patterns and slightly distressed edges. For today's layout I combine a couple of patterned papers with a set of Shabby Chic woodgrain tags and Maya Road wooden butterflies.

"Carefree Cutie Pie"

I chose to stagger the woodgrain tags down the page, while keeping my journaling flowing from one to the next all the way down the page. I embellished with a couple of butterflies and some buttons from my stash, then called it a day!

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Shabby Chic Crafts and Prima layout and cards!

The Shabby Chic Crafts Notecards and Artisan Frames are a perfect addition to your layouts!  I made this layout about my nephew Logan using some fun papers from the American Crafts Confetti collection.  I added a little Maya Road Crystal Star to this joyous layout as well!

For my "Hi" card I used American Crafts Confetti paper, a Shabby Chic Crafts Artisan frame, and a Prima flower in lime green!

The Shabby Chic Crafts Envelopes help you make a quick card that looks great...you can complete the look when you add a little hidden journaling card in the envelope!  The Prima pink and lime green flowers match the envelope perfectly :)

Prima is making the cutest birds...you will love these on your cards or layouts (the script ones I used on my card are sold out but make sure you check out the Rose Print ones...they are beautiful)! The Shabby Chic Crafts Vintage Moments tags make a very classy accent to your projects.  For the base of the card I used My Mind's Eye Hazel/Mother Meadow paper.

Shabby Chic Crafts + Prima = Cute Mini Book!

products on the mini book cover:

flowers (Prima); flower centres (Prima);  Pins (Maya Road)

paper (Echo Park); mini frame (Shabby Chic Crafts)

I instantly fell in love with all of the Shabby Chic Crafts product in the Let's Capture Our Memories Store and I imagined that the line would look great with Prima flowers!  Seeing everything together I was instantly inspired to make a Spring mini book and I'd love to share with you how.


The Supplies:

corrugated cardboard
cardstock
embroidery floss
pattern paper

adhesive
needle


The Instructions:

1.  Trim two pieces of corrugated cardboard to measure 3 1/2 X 4, as well, cut a piece of cardstock to measure 2 X 4.  Glue your corrugated cardboard onto your card stock as shown...making sure to leave at least 3/4 of an inch in the centre.

inside:

outside:

2.  Cut a piece of pattern paper to measure 2 X 4 and use to cover the piece of card stock on the outside of book.

3.  Fold mini book to form a spine.

4.  Trim three piece of cardstock to measure 4 X 7 and fold in half. Place one piece of folded cardstock inside the book, along the spine, and poke holes using a push pin along the fold line...make sure that you push your pin through the spine of the book as well.

5.  Handsew the cardstock page to the spine.  Repeat with the other sheets of cardstock.

inside:

outside:

The book is now ready to be decorated!

The papers to use for my book was an easy descision...Echo Park Springtime!  The lime green Prima flowers were a perfect springtime match :)

Aren't the little envelopes so sweet...

By layering up notecards you get lots of journaling room!  I added a Maya Road Star Pin to the flowers pin for a fun look!

The pink and blue Prima flowers look so perfect with the pearl and crystal centres...

I added a little strip of Maya Road brown satin pleat ribbon for some extra dimension...

If you have any questions leave them in the comment section or you can email me...aswiebe@hotmail.com!

Have a great day,
Andrea