Happy Turkey Day!

I am the guest designer for Die Cuttin' Divas this week and the challenge is Thanksgiving.

 Design ID #51289  in the Silhouette Store, or look under designer PPbN and you can find it plus a lot of other cute designs. The paper I used is Flourish Fusion by the Paper Studio. I cut two papers in half and cut the third paper into thirds using it to glue the other two paper together for a 12 x 12 paper again. The doily cut under the turkey is a Silhouette store file that I stretched oblong to fit my turkey. The tag in the upper right hand corner is hand cut a hole punched and ribbon added.

I hope everyone has a fantastic Thanksgiving and a Blessed day with family. Thank you for coming to my blog.

and they lived.... Happily Ever After

Sleeping Beauty Exclusive file.

The paper is Fairytale Castle Right #36440 from www.scrapbookcustoms.com. When I saw this paper I knew I had to have it and I love this layout. That could be because my son, my daughter in law and my three grandkids are on the layout but I do love how it all came together. The frames are from the Silhouette store and the file is a PPbN Exclusive file for members only. A great reason to join.http://www.ppbndesigns.com/memberships/. Hope you love the page as much as I enjoyed making  it for one of the kids scrapbooks.

Up! Themed Card

Hi everyone!

This card was relatively easy, actually and it turned out great.

I used a blank card as my background, and I used two SVG's from www.ppbndesigns.com - both the Old Man and the Balloon house came from there.

Its pretty simple! You download the files, piece together (some people may need to follow the instructions for piecing if you're new to paper piecing), and add to the card!

The paper I used was Recollections paper from Michael's Craft Stores. I love the way it cuts.

I did use a Versamark Watermark Pen on some areas, and I used a White Gelly Roll pen on the cuts for accents.

The inside I left blank, but you can stamp or write a phrase in there. A cute phrase could be "You lift me Up!" or something similar.

This is one of my favorite cards! 

Questions or comments? Let me know!

Logan

Gobble Gobble Thanksgiving layout

Gobble Gobble!

Well, Halloween is over so I have started on Christmas and Thanksgiving layouts. I do not scrap in order always because I am trying to catch up on a few books and still keep up on the current books. This paper is pretty old from my stash, but since I have vowed to either use my stash or get rid of it I decided I could use these two papers. I had to cover the bow on page one because I wanted to turn the paper around to change things up on the layout. The Cute Turkey worked well since it was fat. Other files used on page one were Gobble Gobble Title, leaves were just taken from the title and made larger, and the Pilgrim owl (indian owl).

 On page two I used Pilgrim Boy, Pilgrim Girl, Thanksgiving pie,  Pumpkin, the date was just a font on my computer.

I changed a paper that I wasn't using into a cute layout. Really shows how my scrapbooking has changed over the 40 some years I have been doing this, I never buy papers with frames on it already anymore, I create my own designs and layouts now.

Hello Everyone! I'm Logan.

Hello everyone! I am Logan, and I'm new to the PPBN Design Team. This is the first post I'm making and I'm sharing a card design with you...

This is seriously one of the cutest cards! It's inspired by Finding Nemo and a little bit of a surfer vibe.

The turtle is from ppbndesigns.com - and it was really easy to put together. 

The papers (the Aqua with words and the surfboards) are both from a Carta Bella paper pad called "Beach Boardwalk". I purchased that pad for about $3.00 on craftysteals.com

The "Surfs Up" part was actually on another sheet of paper in the pad, and I just hand cut it with scissors and added it.

For the turtle and the phrase I used dimensional foam dots to give it that raised look.

Paper I used for the turtle is from Michael's and it's called Recollections paper. When you download this file the turtle will have two shades of green - the color of his body and then a background color where the dots on his head come through. What I did was used the same color of paper, but colored in the dots with a watermark pen. This way the color is just about one or two shades darker and looks more realistic than having two greens that may not match too well.

The watermark pen is great and it's a tool that I use the most. It's available at Amazon. I use my watermark pen so much that I am ALWAYS buying new ones. But it's great for shading and coloring your edges - and it always looks perfect because it's a shade or two darker than your cut. Just gives a little bit of dimension.

The other product I used was a white gelly roll pen for accents on the turtle. You can buy on Amazon but it's normally cheaper to buy at a craft store.

Again: big thanks to PPBNdesigns.com for this turtle! Super cute.

Any questions/comments? Let me know! 

"Later, dudes!"

Logan 

Stars and Clouds Mobile

Hey beautiful crafters!

So the daughter and I decided to make something together for her room. We went to Ppbn designs and found the perfect files. 

Moon Stars and Clouds was shaped and made into two variegating sizes. 

We then taped them onto some twine and strung them up from the ceiling. She wanted a fun little mobile and it came out really cute. The only thing I would do differently is go outside get a stick from an old tree branch and use that to adhere all the strings onto. It would probably be sturdier than our method. ;)

Hope you are all having a fabulous week!

Disney Christmas Layout

Merry Christmas Disney Layout 

I used 4 different files for this layout Merry Christmas, Santa Mouse Ears, Santa Girl Mouse Ears, Magical Balloons. Hope you enjoy looking at it.