Christmas ornament {fancy pants & tombow}

Today on the Fancy Pants Designs blog I'm sharing an ornament project for our swap week with Tombow. I used Tombow adhesive along with the little trees that are a part of the Fancy Pants Designs Oh Deer! collection.

Because I was sticking a wooden-based tree to a plastic round ornament, the Tombow Xtreme permanent adhesive was the best choice. It applied a layer of super sticky adhesive to the base of the tree, which worked much better than a wet glue would have.

After applying the adhesive, I used long-nosed pliers to drop the tree into the ornament. Then, one of my handy Tombow markers worked well to help straighten and position the tree.

Once the trees were all inside the ornament, I used the packaging from my Tombow adhesive to make a little funnel for pouring the glittery fake snow into the ornament.

Thanks for stopping by here today to see my ornament!

Thanksgiving centerpiece {fancy pants}

Today on the Fancy Pants Designs blog I am sharing some tips for assembling a pilgrim hat centerpiece for your Thanksgiving dinner. 

Thanksgiving is a time for family and friends. When you gather around the dinner table this year, impress your guests with a handmade centerpiece. I made a pilgrim hat using a Silhouette file and a variety of papers from Fancy Pants Designs. It was fun to make and my son is thrilled that we have this piece to show off for the holiday.

Stop by the Fancy Pants blog to see my tips for this project.

If you are celebrating this week, have a wonderful holiday filled with laughter and good times.

Fancy Pants Designs collections used: True Friend, Burlap and Bouquets, Everyday Circus, Foil Paper

Picture This {fancy pants}

Today on the Fancy Pants Designs blog, I'm sharing a layout using four or more photos.

I love the way a grid layout can bring focus to not only the theme of the pictures, but also a spotlight on the colors and patterns in the papers I use. The orange and teal colors in the True Friend collection
were just what I wanted for pumpkin picking photos.

If you were looking to make this yourself, first cut photos to 2.5 inches. Then cut squares of pattern paper to 2.5". After that, use a ruler and draw a grid with squares that would hold 2.5" squares with just a little space on each side.

Once the grid was penciled onto the background paper, I ran the page through my sewing machine right over the pencil lines.

I made sure to create a few squares that weren't the 2.5" paper or photos. By using one of the large tags and also a square for journaling, it makes the layout a little bit more playful. I finished it off with some embellishments and ink splatter.

Fancy Pants Designs Collections Used: True Friend, Me-ology

Thanks for stopping by here today!

Add A Little Dazzle {fancy pants}

Here's a sneak peek of what I made for today's Fancy Pants Designs blog. We are swapping with Add A Little Dazzle, and I have to admit that I loved this swap. I hadn't worked with these metal sheets before, but now I love them!

The Add A Little Dazzle sheets are made of metal you don't often find in paper crafting. They are strong, flexible, forgiving and easy to work with.

For my project I made two holiday cards using the Oh Deer! collection new from Fancy Pants. Add A Little Dazzle has a wonderful shiny metal on the back of every sheet, as well as rich red and turquoise blue sheets. These went really well with the Oh Deer! sequins, colors and patterns.

Stop by the Fancy Pants Designs blog this week to see what some of the other ladies came up with.

New kicks {fancy pants}

This week some of the ladies at Fancy Pants are hopping along with Clearsnap. Today I am sharing the layout I made with the Fancy Pants True Friend collection and some goodies I had the opportunity to try out from Clearsnap.

The picture of my son's new sneakers from the first day of school reminded me of the Crackle Background Jumbo Design Wheel from Clearsnap. It gave a continuity to the asphalt in the driveway from the picture.

I used ColorBox Cat's Eye Queue Popcorn Ink to ink the Design Wheel. The ink covered the black paper from Fancy Pants really well and didn't smear off of the wheel. I was thrilled with the result.

I also used Color Box Spritzers Dye Ink Spray in Seattle Sky for the little drops of mist on the background. I loved how this mist dried with fuzzy edges and the droplets weren't perfect circles. The colors is gorgeous, too — a mix between silver and a gray-blue.

I added in True Friend sequins to give some more dimension to the misting. They coordinated perfectly with both the colors from Clearsnap and the colors in the True Friend collection.

Thanks for stopping by here today to see my layout. Make sure to check out the Fancy Pants blog all week long as we partner up with Clearsnap.

Sketch This {fancy pants}

I am the lucky person who gets to reveal to you the Sketch This sketch for Fancy Pants this month. Jenny made a wonder sketch for us for September and I had a blast working with it. You can see the sketch she made at the end of this post.

I love the teal, black and mustard yellow colors in the True Friend collection. They worked really well with these summer fun photos I had from our day at a local amusement park.

The sequins are also from True Friend and perfectly coordinate with the colors in the collection. Such a great idea and so convenient to have those to work with for my pages. 

Here is the sketch for September for Fancy Pants. Make sure to pin it and use it later on next time you need some crafty inspiration.

Thanks for stopping to see my layout today!

ThermOWeb week {fancy pants}

This week, the gals over at the Fancy Pants blog are sharing work using ThermOWeb adhesives with Fancy Pants collections. 

The best test for any adhesive is a multi-texture project. Can you get paper to stick to canvas? To burlap? With they hold well when layered? Well, ThermOWeb worked great for my burlap twine wreath with paper detailing! I so am pleased with how it turned out.

To make this wreath, I started with a flat circle wreath you can find at nearly every craft store. I then used the iCraft Adhesive in the 1/2 inch size to hold the burlap twine onto the wreath. I placed it in strips all along the one side of the wreath, allowing it to hold the twine in place better than if I had no
adhesive or even a wet-apply adhesive.

Once the twine was wrapped around, I cut some flowers from Me-ology collection papers using a studio file from Lori Whitlock and my Cameo. I used three different sizes and three different patterned papers to add dimension and texture to the layering.

To apply the flowers to the wreath, I used the ZOTS 3D singles. They worked wonderfully! And they are forgiving, too, so I was able to move flowers around and change my mind as I worked without fear of ruining the project.

I then began to add in some of the die cut pieces from the Me-ology collection. In some places, I used the Sticky Tape Runner when I didn't want the dimension of the ZOTS 3D, like with the buttons or the flair.

The best part is that this wreath has been hanging on my door for a week or so now, with a dog and boy running in and out and nothing has fallen off. I'd say that the project was a success with a test like that!

Fancy Pants Designs collection used: Me-ology

To Die For {fancy pants}

Today on the Fancy Pants blog I am sharing my work with die cutting — both pre-cut and also machine cut. 

And since I was using the Everyday Circus collection, I thought it only fitting to document the start of summer vacation. For those of you with little ones under foot again for the summer break, you know what I mean — these days can be a circus!

For this layout, I machine cut a large title that acts to anchor the three photo elements on the page. 

Both the "hello" and the "summer vacation" are welded words, meaning that they are connected in as many points as possible and don't require individual application of the letters. When using your dies for lettering, this is always helpful and a time saver.

I also used the pre-cut dies in the ephemera pack. These little die cut pieces are the perfect extra touch to the page. They add dimension and playfulness to the layout.

Supplies: Fancy Pants Designs (Everyday Circus)

Thanks for stopping by here to see my layout. I had fun making this one and hope you also got some ideas for using your die cut machine for lettering as well as layering the ephemera in the Everyday Circus collection.

Brag cards {fancy pants}

Today I want to share a layout I made that uses the Brag Cards from Fancy Pants in a fun way. I chose to use the Brag Cards from the new Burlap and Bouquets collection. There are some great manly pieces in this otherwise feminine collection. I used the cards that all had a rustic tan, brown or green colors.

There aren't any pieces of pattern paper on this layout except for the background sheet — the Brag Cards were used in place of pattern paper and serve to anchor the pictures and mini golf card on the page.

To add some fun detailing, I punched one of the cards with a star punch and the other with a swiss cheese style confetti punch.

For all of the photos I wanted to include, using the Brag Cards was the perfect way to give each moment its own part of the page.

Next time you start to work on a layout with many small photos, put away the pattern paper and see how Brag Cards can work for you!

Fancy Pants Designs Collections Used: Burlap and Bouquets, Be Different

Kiwi Lane swap {fancy pants}

Today on the Fancy Pants blog I'm sharing my layout for our partnership and swap with Kiwi Lane Designs.

When looking to work with the Madison Avenue Framing templates I have from Kiwi Lane Designs, I knew I wanted to use them to create dimension on my layout. I have new photos from the start of my son's baseball season, so i set out to use the templates to create grass and hills to go along with the pictures.

I used foam adhesive to pop up the layers and create depth — tucking the little monster, a corrugate paper hill and the photos into the layering.

There are great varieties of green in the Be Different collection, so it made it really easy to achieve this look without needing to add card stock to my supplies.

Once I had my rolling hills all set, I was able to add a variety of die cuts, stickers, buttons and tags to the layout.

Thanks for stopping by here today to see my layout! Remember to add a comment any day this week to the Fancy Pants Blog for your chance to win a fabulous Fancy Pants and Kiwi Lane Designs prize pack that includes products from the Be Different collection, Tiny Tags Accessory set, Tiny Celebrate Accessory set, and the Aspen Court set.

Fancy Pants Designs Collections Used: Be Different, As You Wish - Turquoise Corrugate Paper

Home décor for mom {fancy pants}

Hello! Mother's Day is this Sunday, and the team at Fancy Pants is celebrating moms all week. For this week's home decor post on the Fancy Pants blog, I shared this mom print I made, the decorated frame and a little altered jar filled with vintage threads.  

I made this “God made mothers…” print and you can download the PNG file HERE. The pink colors match the As You Wish collection very well. If you didn’t want to frame it, it could be resized and print as a card for your pocket page layouts.

I framed the print in a rustic wood frame and added chipboard, tag and die cut pieces from As You Wish to decorate the outside edges of the frame.

I also had a jar of pink and orange vintage threads that I’ve been meaning to do a little bit more with. I hot-glued twine around the center of the jar and then decorated it with a heart I fussy cut from one of the brag cards. I then finished it off with faux white stitched lines and a chipboard button. 

If you were interested in using the Mother’s Day print as a cut on your Silhouette, you can also download the studio file.

Happy Mother’s Day to all of the mommies out there!

Supplies: Fancy Pants (As You Wish)

Happy National Scrapbooking Day! {fancy pants}

Happy National Scrapbooking Day! It's the first Saturday in May, and today all over the country there are crops and events to mark this day for scrapbookers.

Fancy Pants wants to share this day with you! The design team has gotten together a mini hop for you to inspire you for the day.

I made the first of many Easter celebration layouts. The bright colors form the Nautical collection as well as the chalkboard background from Be Different were perfect for the Easter egg coloring pictures I have.

If you are hopping along with us, here is the hop order:

Fancy Pants Designs 
Jodi Sanford

Jess Mutty

Diana Fisher (you are here)
Jenny Evans
Laurel Seabrook
Cathy Harper
Beatriz Jennings
Anna Kossakovskaya
Kim Watson
Fancy Pants Designs

Make sure to start and end with the Fancy Pants blog. I little birdie told us there might be some prizes for the hoppers. Doesn't this prize look yummy?

Thanks for stopping here today — and Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

Picture this {fancy pants}

Today I am sharing a Picture This! layout for Fancy Pants. The idea behind Picture This! is to use four or more photos on your page — not always an easy task for many of us.

Sometimes it is overwhelming to start a layout with so many photos, but I found that if you make them all the same size and design around them, that they can still be as powerful as one large image. Plus, if you design on a slant, you can fit more on a page (at least it feels like you can).

I had a wonderful girls’ weekend getaway in early March. My best scrappy friends (Sara, Heather & Audrey) and I got together for great food, drinks, scrapbooking and chit chat for two full days and nights. We took quite a few Instagram pics and I love that I've documented our fun weekend together. 

These girls are incredibly talented, so if you are looking for new scrappers to follow online, click on their names above and check out their blogs. I can't recommend them enough!

There are so many tags, stickers and die cuts in the As You Wish collection that it was easy to add fun layers to the page.

I love how this turned out and am already thinking I need to do this more often.

So, have I inspired you to put more photos on your page? 

Fancy Pants Collections Used: As You Wish

Fancy Pants | Intro Post & Project

If you are looking for the Samantha Walker Hop, click here.

Today is my day! I am elated to have my introduction post over on the Fancy Pants (brand new!) blog today. If you would like to find out some more about me (they had a fun little Q&A over there) or find out more about why this layout represents me and my style well, head on over to their site.

I had so much fun making this layout. The Be Different collection is perfect for documenting my son's moments. I loved looking at each tag and die cut searching for that next piece to add to my layout.

I'm over-over-the-moon excited to be a part of this team and am looking forward to many more projects, layouts and cards that I can share with you for Fancy Pants.

Thanks for stopping to see my layout!