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Waterfall Pull Tab Card with Amber

Okay friends, I think we can all agree that receiving a card is such a great feeling, am I right!? I can’t be the only one that gets excited to see a letter in my mailbox or sitting on my desk with actual handwriting on the front. I love getting cards! It’s a simple, yet meaningful way to let someone know you care about them. It really does bring on all the warm and fuzzies! You never know when someone might need a simple act or word of kindness to get them through the day. It could change everything. What a beautiful thing to know our words and actions can have such a strong impact on those around us.

One of my goals for the year is to love others well, and I believe cardmaking can be one of many ways to do it. And the fact that I get to craft is the biggest cherry on top! Today I’ll be sharing a creative card idea that’s perfect for any occasion. It’s a new year so maybe you want to send some encouragement to a friend who needs motivation to stay focused on their goals. Or maybe you want to make something special for a loved one since Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Whatever it is, I think you will love this card idea!

In general, I love interactive elements when it comes to all my scrapbooking projects. It’s a creative challenge and fun to learn new techniques. And with it being a new year, I wanted to try something new and different. I had remembered seeing a waterfall pull-tab card on Pinterest in the past and decided to try my hand at it!

I began by trimming my card to the desired shape. With a pencil, I then traced a rectangle about 1-1.5 cm inside the edges of my card base. Using my paper trimmer, I cut along the top, bottom, and left edges of my traced rectangle. I scored the right edge of the traced rectangle, so it created a flap.

On the backside of that flap, I score two lines vertically, about 2 cm apart, which created three scored columns. I folded the flap along each score edge. I then trimmed 3 different sized pieces of patterned paper and adhered them to each scored column. This made them overlap.

I also created my “pull-tab” that I secured with clear tape to the backside of the card. Then I adhered another piece of patterned paper to the back of the entire card that matched the size of my base paper. I kept the right edge un-adhered so I could pull the pull-tab through. I hope to make a process video for this technique in the future!

Once my waterfall pull-tab card was complete, I began embellishing. I used scraps I had left from the Sunny Days and Heritage collections by Maggie Holmes because they really were my favorite collections of 2019. They’re bright, vibrant, colorful, and perfect for creating a card that can be used for everyday encouragement or even for a sweeter occasion like Valentine’s Day.

It was such a fun technique to try and I hope you feel inspired to try it as well. Nothing says kindness like an interactive handmade card!

Supplies: Heritage – 6x8 Paper Pad (350958), Cardstock Stickers (350945), Sunny Days – Ephemera (350802), 6X8 Paper Pad (350818), Cardstock Stickers (350803)

Creative Valentine's Day Cards with Bea Valint

Hello, Crate Paper fans! Its Bea here with you today sharing a new card-trio as part of the ‘creative cards’ week. For me, card making is like going on an adventure… You’ve got a certain plan in your head, but you don’t know how everything will turn out. I usually gather different papers and embellishments on my table and select the items that fit together because they have got matching colors, patterns or symbols.

This time, I chose the adorable La La Love collection to create with, and fussy cut a bunch of hearts, fruits, sentiments, and other cuties from pattern papers. My idea was to gather the embellishment pieces by themes, and to layer all of them on my cards.

For all cards I begun by choosing a patterned paper base from the 6x8 paper pad. I cut out the papers from the paper pad, and folded them in half vertically to create an unusual card base.

Next, I strung every embellishments I gathered earlier with thread, and attached them to the card base. I love how the embellishment pieces on the string add dimension and playfulness to the cards. I also placed beads and buttons between the papers to add more interest.

On my first card, I used my electric cutting machine to cut out tiny sun glasses. I applied tone on tone technique to decorate the sun glasses with sticker hearts. I mixed and matched puffy stickers and cardstock stickers to create the title. My next cards feature more intricate fussy cutting. On my third card, I was inspired by the cute cherry stickers from the collection to fussy cut more cherries and to create ‘heart cherries’ using stickers from the sticker sheet.

Thank you for stopping by today! I hope you’ve found some inspiration for creating Valentine cards with your favorite Crate Paper products!

Supplies: La La Love collection | Ephemera Pieces (344555), Small embellishments (344560), Puffy Stickers (344559), Sentiment Stickers (344558), Foam Glitter Stickers (344552), Heart You (344541), Heart Beat (344547), Sugar Sugar (344543), Bouquet (344545), In Love (344534)

Vintage Book Mini Album with Magical Forest

Hey CP fans! We are so grateful for your excitement for Magical Forest and we are looking forward to seeing all of the gorgeous projects you will create with it! Since Magical Forest is inspired by children's book designs and the magic of childhood, we figured it would be fitting to create a mini album using a vintage book as the cover! 

Lucky for us, Maggie Holmes created a tutorial a few years ago about how to make one of these, so we thought we would give it a try!

 

Isn't her project gorgeous!? Here is a little look at the mini album we made based off of her tutorial!

We chose a deep emerald green book as our cover and glued and stitched the "Imaginary" paper from Magical Forest to create a contrasting binding. We added chipboard stickers and a bow on the binding to finish it off. 

Loving how the colors turned out in this collection. They are so fun to work with! Now for a look inside. Here is an up close look at how we inserted our mini album pages into the cut book pages.

It is so fun because it keeps the original width of the book, but you get to fill the pages with your own creations! Imagine how cute this would look on a bookshelf or coffee table!

We stitched the edges to add a little texture and make the pages a little more sturdy and durable. Do you add stitching to your projects? If you haven't tried, give it a shot! Such a fun and easy detail to add to a project!

Make your pages different shapes and sizes to add a nice variety to the album. Aren't those yarn rainbows darling!?

Even though there are a variety of colors in this collection, the muted tones feel so cohesive making this collection so easy to work with!

We had so much learning how to create this mini album and using Magical Forest to create it! Make your own and tag us in your projects #createwithcrate! 

Until next time!

XO, 

The CP Team

Mixed Media Winter Layout

Hello Crate Paper friends! Today my assignment was to make a creative layout. Naturally, for me that means getting the mixed media out. I love how my page turned out and as usual with mixed media, it looks like a hot mess in the process!

 

I started out my layout with blank white card stock, I added clear gesso and let it dry. I decided to focus on the greens in the Snowflake collection, and the blue from my photo. I began with a deep green watercolor paint, and scraped it onto the card stock with a palette knife. Once that had dried for a few minutes I scraped on turquoise/sky blue acrylic paint. My next step was to use the snowflakes from Snowflake stamp set to add scatters in snowflakes in blues and greens around the painted area. To finish up the paint I added gold glaze with the end of a pencil in random dots, and blue and gold splatters.

Once the background had throughly dried, I placed my photo and title on the painted area. I cut the “snow” title on my Silhouette. I adhered my large photo over the O. I created a journal tag and layered a large metallic die cut snowflake, a deep green snowflake, and a ticket die cut with a ribbon onto the tag. I tucked the tag beneath the photo and title on an angle. To soften the edge of the photo, I added a snowflake with a chipboard tree and tucked in a piece of the greenery from Snowflake

To add some final details, I scattered gold snowflake stickers around the focal points of the layout. I added a small title using the Thickers from the Heritage collection.

It was fun to give myself the creative challenge of using colours I don’t normally use. I love the combination of the blue and dark green. Snowflake is a very versatile collection. Thanks so much for joining me today, I hope you find the opportunity to get creative with your layouts!

Supplies: Snowflake - 350979 CHIPBOARD STICKERS / 350982 PUFFY STICKERS / 350980 EPHEMERA PACK / 350983 STICKER BOOK

Stitched Heart Scrapbook Layout

Hi Ladies! It’s Flóra here. Today I want to show you how can you make a colorful and fun scrapbook page using only one patterned paper. Yes, you read it right! As Valentine's Day is around the corner I decided to pull out the Crate Paper La La Love collection from my stash and create something pink. I also have a process video to share. I hope it will inspire you to make something similar.

 

For the background, I have picked a smooth light pinkish card stock. The Heartbeat Patterned Paper includes tons of different hearts that I fussy cut. After I got enough hearts I marked the background at 2, 4, 6, 8 and 10 inches. I drew a light line with a pencil. I used these lines as leading lines so I know where to place the hearts.

I arranged the cut-out hearts in five rows and glued them with a tiny liquid adhesive in the middle. After, I run it through with sewing machine and stitched all the hearts. Then, I made sure to bend the hearts to get a 3D look. I placed my photo on the left and decorated it with Thickers, floral Card stock Stickers and other bits.

To balance the page I created a small cluster on the right. Here, I added the same black flower like previously next to the photo. In the end, I stamped the date with black ink.

I really like the look of the 3D stitched hearts. You can see how easy to make something colorful if you have the right patterned paper. I always love to fussy cut flowers or other fun elements from paper and arrange them a different way on my scrapbook page.

VIDEO

I hope you will try out my tips and make something similar with heart patterned papers and Crate Paper La La Love collection. Happy crafting!

Used supplies:

La La Love: 12x12 Paper - Heartbeat (SKU 344547), 6x12 Sticker (SKU 344554), Ephemera (SKU 344555), Foam Phrase Thickers - My Sweet (SKU 344552), Phrases Sticker (SKU 344558), Sticker Roll (SKU 344557)

Journaling Mini Album with Sandra

Hello and welcome to the Crate Paper Blog today. It’s me Sandra and I’m sharing a handmade journaling mini album. The foldable mini album has three pages. Two of the pages have pockets at the bottom. These pockets are great to slip in handmade journal booklets, photos, tickets, and other memoriables. I used stickers, cardstock stickers, and embellishments from some of my favorite Crate Paper and Maggie Holmes Collections.

To make the journal booklets, I used patterned papers for the cover. And the inside pages are blank white. I just added one sticker each onto the cover to keep the journal booklets clean and simple.

Next, I started to prepare some of the journal pages by adding stickers, check boxes, and journaling lines.

Journaling ideas: Write down motivational quotes and things you would like to be aware of in 2020. These can be simple things like “Smile”, “Be you”, or “Life is good”. My advice is to keep your journaling (and also life) simple, without creating any artificial or unnecessary complications.

I think that the most important thing is to love yourself just the way you are. This could be a great theme for your journaling adventure in 2020. Write down situations and events to remind yourself how beautiful and unique you are!

I hope you like my handmade journaling mini album inspiration. Wishing you a lovely and creative day!

Yours,

Sandra

Supplies: Crate Paper - Maggie Holmes Sunny Days Splendor (350775), Carefree (35781), Chipboard Stickers (350801), Crate Paper All Heart 6x12 Stickers (350860 ), Sticker Book (350865), Maggie Holmes Bloom 12 x 12 Paper Pad (680429), Maggie Holmes Heritage 12 x 12 Chipboard Stickers with Gold Foil Accents (350944)

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Maggie Holmes Day to Day Disc Planners

Goal Journaling Scrapbook Layout

Well friends, has it sunk in yet that we’re officially in a brand-new year? We’re just about half-way through January 2020 already. The year 2020…sounds crazy to say it, but here we are! I swear, the older I get, the more time seems to fly by faster and faster. I know everyone says that, but that’s because it’s true! It makes me realize how precious time really is, and how important it is to savor it. I guess that’s why I love scrapbooking so much – it’s a beautiful way to capture, document, and relive those precious moments throughout the year. And you best believe that with the new year comes everyone’s goals and aspirations. I personally have multiple goals that pertain to each area of my life – health, relationships, faith, self-care, and recreation. I try to keep them simple so I can make little by little progress throughout the year and not feel defeated by February, ha!

And there’s one goal of mine that I’m super excited about sharing with fellow creatives – maybe you resonate with it or you have a similar goal! Essentially, is it to be intentional about enjoying scrapbooking and to take little by little steps to turn scrapbooking into my career. That is one of my biggest dreams! Scrapbooking has become such a passion of mine - it’s how I express my creativity, capture my favorite moments, and savor what means the most to me. I love that I can document memories and celebrate the people, places, and things I love.

Naturally, I decided the commemorate my 2020 scrapbooking goal with its own scrapbooking layout! I wanted to create something special to remind me every day what I want to savor and work toward. The way I go about goal setting is creating a simple overarching goal and coming up with a few specific action steps to work on throughout the year that will get me closer to achieving that goal. So, I decided to journal these action steps into my scrapbook layout! Pretty fun, right?

As far as choosing a photo, I picked out one from a photoshoot I had done before my blog launch in 2017. I felt it was perfect because it’s a picture of me scrapbooking and doing what I love most. It’s a photo that represents what I want to cultivate in the year ahead.

I decided to use my two favorite collections from 2019 to create this layout – the Sunny Days and Heritage collections! Vibrant colors and florals are always my go-to, and Maggie Holmes does an amazing job bringing those to life in all her collections.

To start, I picked my base paper and arranged where I wanted my photo to sit. I knew I wanted to incorporate some journaling of my goal action steps in a creative way. So, I decided to create a series of waterfall flip-up tabs to one side of the layout that I could put my journaling underneath.

I picked some more patterned papers, a different one for each tab. I kept the bottom one 12 inches tall so it would reach all the way down to the bottom of the base paper. Each one above I made a little shorter, so they overlapped nicely. To make it easy to lift each tab, I adhered a chipboard sticker to each one. I stuck down the upper half portions of the chipboard pieces onto their specific tabs, but then backed the lower exposed half portions with white card stock so they wouldn’t stick to the lower tabs. This made for some fun dimension and an interactive element! I then added my journaling listing my goal action steps underneath the tabs.

To the right side of the layout, I placed my photo. I backed the photo with white cardstock first, then layered it on top of a couple more patterned papers. I added chipboard and cardstock stickers to add dimension. My favorite piece is the gorgeous pink floral to the bottom right corner! I added even more floral sticks peeking out underneath to create a floral cluster, which I absolutely love.

Additionally, I added the “This is my happy place” sticker, which is the perfect representation for this photo and layout. Above that, I stuck down a little purple chipboard heart to signify my love for scrapbooking. And to the top of my photo, I used the “This is lovely” chipboard phrase layered with another floral and swan chipboard.

I am obsessed with how gorgeous this layout turned out. It’s such a pretty way to remind me of my creative goal and I can’t wait to display it somewhere I can see it every day. I feel like this was such a fun, creative, and inspirational idea – to use your craft to get you excited and motivated about your goals! It’s so important to make time for the things you love. I hope you all make time for your passions this year and that you feel inspired by this goal journaling scrapbook layout!

Supplies: Heritage – 12x12 Paper Pad (350957), Chipboard Stickers (350944), Cardstock Stickers (350945), Washi Tape (350955), Sunny Days – Cardstock Stickers (350803)

2020 Goal Journal with Flora

Hi Ladies! It’s Flóra back on the Crate Paper blog today. Happy New Year! January is the perfect time to sit down and make plans for the new year and get organized. I grabbed my favorite Journal Insert from Journal Studio line and made a few pretty spreads.

For my project used Maggie Holmes Sticker Book what contains tons of amazing stickers from the Willow Lane collection. To complete my supplies I also used other papers and embellishments from the same line. On the first page, I have used an awesome title from the Sticker Book, added the year using Maggie Holmes Heritage Alpha Thickers and puffy hello and chipboard alpha from Willow Lane collection.

Under the title, I added month stickers and decorated them with mini Puffy Stickers, question mark and exclamation mark from the chipboard Thickers sheet. I couldn’t resist adding the cute cat and panda lady from the sticker book and some fussy cut flowers to make the scene even cuter.

On the other side, I placed a black paper ribbon with a phrase Dreamin is free. Over I placed a unicorn sticker with some flowers and music notes. Under it I adhered a Journaling Ephemera which includes a tag. I have bound a handmade tassel on the tag to make it easier to pull it out. To decorate the small pocket I added fussy cut house and floral.

In the end I have stapled tabs on the side of the page. One is from the sticker book but the tiny one was made with EK Tab Punch. It was super easy and fast to make it with the punch. In the middle, I added a phrase sticker.

That was it for today. I hope my Journal Page helps you to get organized and start 2020 big plans. Thank you for stopping by here! Flóra

Used supplies:

Journal Studio: Sticker Book (SKU 344530), Journal Insert (SKU 344539)

Maggie Holmes - Willow Lane: Sticker Book (SKU 354217), 12x12 Paper - Cottage, 12x12 Paper - Sentiment, Journaling Ephemera (SKU 344477), Puffy Stickers (SKU 344482), Thickers - Cheerful (SKU 344488)

Maggie Holmes - Heritage:  Alpha Thickers - Sarah (SKU 350960)

Maggie Holmes - Sunny Day: Gold Metal Clips (SKU 350814)

EK Tab Punch (SKU 36039)