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Top Trends {Ombre}

May 7, 2012 By Janna 9 Comments

Hello everyone, and welcome to a brand new week filled with lots of inspiration and gorgeous projects!

This week, we will show you creations that have been influenced by the “Ombre trend”. Ombre is a French word meaning “shadow” or “varying shades of a tone”, like a graduation in color.

Most of the time this technique is used in a monochromatic way with the color fading out to one side, just like watercolor. You can also add neutrals like grey or vanilla to add a soft and elegant look. This trend is being seen in fashion and in home decor right now, so we wanted to show you how you can adapt this trend to your scrapbooking projects.

I combined Pink Paislee´s London Market, Spring Jubilee, Vintage Vogue and Nantucket collections with products from the Mistables series. You can use inks and sprays to color the Mistables or, like I did, water crayons!

It is so much fun to see the “hidden” pattern appear on the 12″ x 12″ paper when adding color to it. You can also create more than one layer of color. I have blended the color to fade off to one side, starting on the left of the paper and lessening the saturation of color as I went to the right.

You can also leave the Mistables products as they are, like I did with the muslin flower. I like the elegance the linen brings to the project.

We are really loving this beautiful trend and hope you will try it out with us this week. If you do, please share a link to your project with us!

Pink Paislee supplies:

  • London Market – 6×6 paper pack
  • London Market – collage sheets
  • London Market – spool buttons
  • Spring Jubilee – press ons
  • Spring Jubilee – chipboard
  • Vintage Vogue – buttons
  • Nantucket – ribbon
  • Mistables – muslin flower
  • Mistables – muslin scallop ribbon
  • Mistables – 12×12 paper pack

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For Mom’s Everywhere {Craft An Origami Box}

April 30, 2012 By Janna 7 Comments

Hello everyone, this is Janna. Welcome to a week full of Mother´s Day inspiration here on the Pink Paislee blog!

Today I´d like to share a gift box and card I created for this special day. It is always nice to give a little present to the ones you love. As you will see below I chose three Pink Paislee collections to work with because they can easily be combined and they go together very well.

For this card I used the London Market collage sheets and a lot of the colorful and funky supplies from the She Art collection by Christy Tomlinson. I am so in love with the faux stitches! The rub ons are very easy to handle and they look so amazing, nearly like real stitches.

I freehand cut the heart with my scissors, added the bubble wrap texture rub on and used a black pen for the outlines. I adhered the heart with dimensional adhesive to let it contrast with the background.

After creating the card I thought it would be nice to have a matching box. I wanted it to be a different style but still match with the card. Therefore I chose supplies from London Market and Spring Jubilee.

This is an origami box, you don’t need any glue at all. You can find a lot of origami instructions on the internet and most of these things can be crafted with scrapbooking paper as well.

Have a fabulous day and a gorgeous Mother´s Day week on the Pink Paislee blog!

Pink Paislee supplies used:

  • Spring Jubilee – 6×6″ petite paper pack
  • Spring Jubilee – papers
  • Spring Jubilee – shipping tags
  • London Market – chipboard buttons
  • London Market – ephemera
  • London Market – collage sheets
  • She Art – 6×6″ petite paper pack
  • She Art – rub ons artsy textures, doodle art stitches
  • She Art – paper dolls collage paper
  • She Art – paper dolls bits & pieces
  • Foam Stickers Expressions – cushies – meringue

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Color Crush {Mini Album}

March 13, 2012 By Janna 7 Comments

Hello everyone! This is Janna with a new Color Crush project to fit this weeks theme!  We used to call this feature Hot Hue’s but recently decided to mix up the name and make it a little more obvious….we always have a CRUSH ON COOL COLOR PALETTES!

Today I want to share a mini album I created (actually I am addicted to mini albums!), combining some of my favourite Nantucket, Vintage Vogue and Mistables supplies with the Color Crush color combination.

From the moment I saw this gorgeous color palette, I was in love! I am a huge fan of glitter and I love the springlike color scheme. Just perfect!

To create this fun little album, I cut out some patterned and white papers. I chose a size of  6″ x 4″. The piece of packaging I used is a bit smaller. To give it a more vintage/used look I tore the packaging paper as well as the fabrics and the smaller patterned paper pieces.

I added fabrics and twine to create a more casual and random look. I only used a bit of glitter (did I already mention that I love glitter?!) as I wanted it to be a highlight, like the sparkling jumbo button.

As you can see I used quite a few Mistables. I like the fact that you can color them any way you want to but I also like the “nude” look.

I used my heat gun to adhere the top layers to the packaging paper. The layers itself have been stapled as I dont like glue that much ;)

Pink Paislee supplies:

Other supplies:

Piece of packaging paper, Glitter glue, Twine, Tulle, Fabrics, Binding rings & Rhinestones

I hope you enjoyed todays project! Take care!  Check back all week to see even more projects featuring this amazing color palette!

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Epiphany Crafts Blog Hop: Day 1

February 6, 2012 By Janna 127 Comments

All this week, we will be sharing some creative projects using Epiphany Crafts products combined with Pink Paislee products! This is Janna here today with two cards to share with you.

I created two cards using some of my favorite Pink Paislee supplies (remember my crush on Pink Paislee’s Ephemera?!) and the gorgeous metal settings from Epiphany Crafts. I love the elegance they bring to any project and they can easily be used as a special highlight, like on the cards I created.

As I chose the round metal settings, I combined them with Pink Paislee’s foam stickers (which I really really love!) and replaced the letter “o” with one of the metal settings. Adding a bit of twine to your project makes it look lighter, and there are so many ways to tie the knot, as you can see I chose the messy style, to lighten up the straight design of my “Love” card.

Hope you enjoyed these little love cards, just in time for Valentine’s Day.

Leave a comment today and EACH day this week during the blog hop for your chance to win a Pink Paislee prize pack! A winner will be chosen randomly at the end of the week from all of the comments. Also visit the Epiphany Crafts website and their blog this week for more ideas and giveaways!

Epiphany Crafts supplies used on both cards:

Metal Setting (round 14 silver), Bubblecaps (clear round 14)

Pink Paislee supplies used on YOU card:

  • Paper: Vintage Vogue paper pack
  • Paper: Snow Day – Cozy Sweater, Snow Day – Snowball Fight
  • Alphas: Mistables Chipboard

Pink Paislee supplies used on LOVE card:

  • Paper: Nantucket – Jumbo Shrimp, Oyster Bar
  • Paper: Vintage Vogue Paper Pack
  • Ephemera: Vintage Vogue
  • Alphas: Foam stickers – Meringue

Other: rhinestones, cardstock, twine.

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