Sequin/Shaker Saturday - A Non-traditional Approach

Hi again, friends!

It's spring!  It's allergy season!  It's time for fun, happy colors!!

I'm up on the Timeless Twine/Bella Creationz today with a sequin/shaker Saturday project.

Typical shaker cards have a little bit of bulk to them that wasn't going to work for my purposes.  If something doesn't work for what you're needing, there's no rules that say you HAVE to do it a certain way.  Be creative!!

This is how thin the card is.

I guess you could say this isn't a traditional shaker card.

(I've always been a bit of a rule breaker. ;))  

Here's the entire set that I made.

I am in {LOVE} with this 4x6 title card!  Before I put the sequins in, I tied a bow made out of Razzleberry Sorbet twine around the backer card.  I think it turned out great and it's definitely something I'll do again!

The smaller 3x4 cards:

I cut 3 smaller than the card strands of  Key Lime Sorbet twine and stapled them down on the card for some added texture.  The "Happy Spring" card is also a flat shaker and stamped with the Bella Creationz PlanNERD stamps, and the journaling card is stamped with the Oh, Snap! set.

(A slight obsession w/these stamps is happening here....)

  

This project was SO fun for me to do!  I can't wait for April to end so I can get my pics printed and get them and these cards right into my album. :)

xoxo, Amber

3D Thursday - Travel Journal Mini Book

Happy Thursday, friends!!

On the Timeless Twine Creative Crew, we have set challenges for each day of the month.  On each of my days, I try my very best to meet each challenge using Pocket Scrapbooking.  Well, today is 3D Thursday.

If you pocket scrapbook, you can understand why I would panic a little bit about that! :)  

Truth be told, I almost caved and created a cute little critter on my Silhouette for Easter.  BUT...then I put my big girl panties on and decided that I was going to make this work!  I enjoy a challenge.

So, I went to work.

I chose 3 4x6 themed cards from the Sn@p "Travel" collection that I had laying around just waiting for me to use and folded them in half making 6 mini book pages.  Instead of using staples to put the pages together, I took some of the super cute Timeless Twine to TIE them together!  I chose Chocolate Chip and Olive Green twine - it's darling with these cards!

Here's the full spread:

And a few pages of the mini book:

Lots of spots for journaling things that I don't necessarily want to share with the public.

Like perhaps locking my daughter in the rental car after I had put her in her car seat.  Yeah.....mother of the year moment!!  We were still at the rental car place and got her out quick.  Shout out to Budget rental cars!!

I also found this great little travel agenda card that I used the Bella Creationz PlanNerd stamp set to cute it up a bit.  I use these stamps on everything.  Seriously.  They're SO versatile!!!!

Until next time, friends!

xoxo, Amber

Pocket Scrapbook - Snow Spread w/Stitched Pocket

Doesn't the beginning of a new year always feel fresh?  

Like that new car smell or laundry right out of the dryer.  

In my case, the new car smell is opening a new roll of twine or a new package of PL cards.  

I'm simple...what can I say? :)

I've been thinking about how I was going to continue on with my Pocket Scrapbooking recently.  For 2013 and 2014 I've done weekly, and I've been pretty good at keeping up with it.  However, I'm noticing now that Neysa is in pre-school and dance classes, I don't have too much interesting stuff to fill a weekly spread with!!  I've also got a school album (sort of - everything's pulled together and ready to throw in the book!!) started for her, too.

With all that being said, I've decided to take a monthly approach for 2015.

Since January started off with snow here in Utah, I thought it was only fitting to start my 2015 album with a snow spread.  

(This page will also serve as the "first" page of my album.)

Remember this??  Well, I wanted to do something like that, only right into my spread instead of doing a separate insert for it.

I filled the pocket with hearts (you'll see that I use hearts on almost everything!!) and sequins (Sparkly Clear for the snowflakes, Raspberry-Pink mix, and graphite gray), and stitched it together with Aqua Blue twine.  I think it turned out quite adorable. :)

In addition to hearts, I'm also a pink addict.  I {love} pink.  

I'm sure having a little girl helps feed this addiction!  

I loved this turquoise card from Elle's Studio, but it needed a little pop to it.  Add Raspberry-Pink twine, wrapped several times around the card, and ta-da!  Texture and pop added.

Well, that's the end of my starting point of 2015.  

Until next time, friends!!

Creative Crew - Bella Creationz/Timeless Twine - Anything Goes #1

Hello friends!

Today is my first post with Bella Creationz/Timeless Twine and I think you're going to {LOVE} what I've got to share with you.

Even though it's January, I know that some (most? ;)) of you are still finishing up your 2014 edition of December Daily.  

No judgement here!!  I barely just finished 2013 mid December THIS YEAR!!  Better late than never, right?? :)

Today, I'm going to share days 1 - 8 from my DD out of my family album.

I chose to do mine differently this year.  Instead of creating a full mini album as I did last year, I am inserting it right into my pocket album.  December Daily is basically a daily scrapbook of your December events.  Really fun to do with all of the holiday events that happen!

I chose Doodlebug's "Santa Express" as the base for this project.  I'm in LOVE with the bright colors and Timeless Twine accents and matches perfectly with it!!!

Throughout the course of this year, I'm going to show you how easy and {CUTE} it is to use Twine in your pocket spreads.  It adds so much to your LO's.  

Here's my full spread:

You can click on each image to open it up bigger to see all of the detail!

Card collage using twine, sequins, doilies, and stamps from Bella Creationz:

Left side: 

Right side: 

I REALLY enjoyed making this spread!!  Hope you enjoyed looking at it! ;)

You REALLY should check out the Bella Creationz Etsy store.  There's some fun stuff in there!!

Products used:

Vintage Christmas Sequins (Card 6 and 2nd Re-cap)

Lemonade Yellow Twine (washi tree card)

4" Fancy Lace Doily (cut in half!!) (3 and 8 cards)

planNERD2 Stamps ("family" w/gingerbread girl card)

Valentine's Day Twine ("happy" and geo tag card)

Solid Black Twine (geo tag card and 1st recap)

Sparkly Clear Sequins (washi tree card)

Happy Days Stamps ("happy" and 5 cards)

Creative Crew - 2015

Hi ya'll!!

Today I have some {SUPER} exciting news to share with you.

I've been selected to be on the 2015 Creative Crew for Timeless Twine/Bella Creationz!!

I am in the company of some extremely talented ladies and I'm SO excited to be a part of this awesome team!!

Here's a few little projects I made specifically for this DT call:

I've been using Bella Creationz stamps for a while now and I love them - but I'm also stoked to start incorporating some of this super cute Timeless Twine into my pocket pages.

Congrats to everyone that made this team!  I can't wait to get working together!!