Hello everyone! Karola here with another “Love Week” inspiration for you!

As you know – love has different faces. We love our life partner, love life, animals, nature, motherhood is closely associated with the great love…  It’s so many shades of love, they are difficult to count! My today’s layout is about frosty, but hot kisses, this cute photo of Rose when she playing with snow and sending “snow kisses” to everyone is perfect to cover it with Snow Day collection.

I started with create a background for embellies. I used big cake doily as a mask with a distress ink pad in a color matching the colors of the collection (frayed burlap). Then I cut two large hearts and layered them to create the background for my photo.

Using my Cricut, I cut  ”X” and “O” letters as part of the title, above I put another “XO” created from Wood Shop letters.  In the center of  the “o”, I put a funny accent – Mrs Snowman head. Almost every element is stuck with 3D tape for more dimension.

I used a lots of Snow Day – Ephemera die cuts and used almost every paper from the collection to make a colorful, playful page. Here are more close – ups:

I hope you enjoyed my “snow kisses” layout! Thank you for visiting the Pink Paislee blog today!

~~ Karola ~~

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Pink Paislee Supplies Used:

• Snow Day – Frosty 00581
• Snow Day – Hot Cocoa 00582
• Snow Day – Cozy Sweater 00584
• Snow Day – Fireside 00585
• Snow Day – Warm Mittens 00586
• Snow Day – Dimensional Stickers 00578
• Snow Day – Ephemera 00579
• Wood Shop Alphabets – Wood Chip 00568

I love the vibrant colorful hues in the new Snow Day collection from Pink Paislee. Although it is a winter collection, the patterns are adorable. I think this line fits perfectly with other themes, including Valentines Day. I love the red and blue, and even with a touch of pink, I used in a boy page. Since it is summer here in Brazil, I used summer pictures  and love  as my theme!

As I used smaller pictures  and “negative spaces “, my title design was the key to making this layout pop. One of my favorite things is mixing types. So I used the wood alphabet painted with red  TomBow pen and the big word was cut using The  Silhouette Machine. In the background, I sprayed a red  mist to give some “texture”. Lots of scraps and layers give the page volume.

Supplies:
Snow Day – Snowball Fight 00583
Snow Day – Frosty 00581
Snow Day – Cozy Sweater 00584
Snow Day – Fireside 00585
Snow Day – Warm Mittens 00586
Snow Day – Wood Shapes 00577
Snow Day – Ephemera 00579
Wood Shop Alphabets – Sawdust 00566

xoxo,
Renata

Hi Everyone, Piradee here and welcome to Day 3 of our Love Week.

Today I wanted to share this cute layout I made using the Snow Day collection of dear hubby;  just a little something to say Thank You for being the wonderful person that he is.   I opted to keep the overall design of the layout simple, in order to emphasize on the fun confetti heart. **shake shake**

For my big confetti heart – I first cut the shape out with my die cut machine and then gathered all the little bits and pieces of confetti to be included and headed to the sewing machine.

Tip for smaller areas :: do try to include the confetti as you’re sewing the pieces together.  In my case for the smaller heart area, I initially thought that I could add the confetti in afterwards, but only then realized that I had sown the pieces together too tight and therefore couldn’t squeeze much there… (or then again, I might just be adding too much…lol)

And for my title, I used the wood shop alphabets (wood chip style) with a bit of brown mist to make the letters  pop against the pattern paper and also added in some glitter alphabet stickers from the sweetness collection for that touch of yellow (my fav color at the moment).

Also when I showed hubby the layout, he was curious as to why I had selected the words “each day” and not per say “everyday”.  Well, I then told him that if he got me a super really nice present for valentine, then it would be “everyday”.  **wink**

Thanks for stopping by everyone!!!  And don’t forget to check back for more valentine inspirations this week.

:: Piradee ::

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Pink Paislee Supplies Used:

• Snow Day Pattern Papers Hot Cocoa 00582
• Snow Day Pattern Papers Cozy Sweater 00584
• Snow Day Pattern Papers Fireside 00585
• Snow Day Pattern Papers Snowball Fight 00583
• Snow Day Dimensional Stickers 00578
• Snow Day Ephemera 00579
• Snow Day Wood Shapes 00577
• Mistables Scallop Ribbons 00513
• Wood Shop Alphabets – Wood Chip 00568
• Sweetness Glitter Sticker Alphabets 00386

This is Danielle with a quick and inexpensive gift for classmates, teachers, friends and neighbors for Valentine’s Day. These Valentine Crackers are so easy to make that my 6 year old is actually making them for her class herself in a simpler version. A bonus to this project is that you get to recycle at the same time!

First, collect some empty paper towel tubes. You can make two of these candy holders out of a paper towel tube by cutting it in half.

Cover the empty cardboard tubes with a paper of your choice. I’ve used 2 of the new Spring Jubilee papers on mine. Fill the tubes with candy.

Now we get to decorate! I’ve tucked in some doilies and tissue paper on the ends. Adhere them along the inside edge with glue dots or repositionable adhesive that would make the tissue easy to take out, so the recipient can remove the candy.

You can hang little punched hearts to add the name of the recipient to the Valentine cracker with twine. You can also decorate these tubes with Vintage Vogue die cuts. There are a lot of cute “love” die cuts in that line! On the dark pink cracker, I added some Vintage Vogue ribbon and hot glued onto the edges.

To make the ruffled ribbon, I machine stitched along the edge and then pulled on the string to start gathering the ribbon. Keep pulling the string and gathering until you get the desired look.

Now hot glue the ruffles onto the ends. Insert tissue paper and decorate the tops!

You can make these as simple or as extravagant as you’d like. A bowl of these on the counter would be a pretty decoration as well!

Thanks for stopping by today. Be sure to check back each day this week for more Valentine/love project and layout ideas.

Danielle

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Supplies used:

NEW Spring Jubilee papers (Party and Celebration), Nantucket papers (Crab Cakes) by Pink Paislee

Vintage Vogue Ephemera (die cuts) by Pink Paislee

Soiree twine by Pink Paislee

Soiree flags by Pink Paislee

Other: doilies and tissue paper from craft supply store, cardstock for punched hearts, heart punch by McGill, hot glue gun, assorted candy.

I chose to scrapbook this recent photo of my hubby and I.

What I really love is how I was able to use papers and elements from the Snow Day range to make a “love” layout – without a hint of snow! The chevron paper makes my heart beat just a little faster – it is divine and I just had to make it a feature.

To jazz up the pink paper that I used on the left side, I sprayed the Mistables misting mask with a darker pink mist which gives a lovely subtle addition to the layout.

I created a cluster of elements on a large kraft tag – kraft works perfectly with this range – as does the raw elements of the calico from the Mistables range and the wood from the Wood Shop range. I was very excited to be able to incorporate in the little metal happy sign from the Vintage Vogue range – it was perfect!

I felt that I needed to incorporate some darker colour on the right of the page so punched a variety of circle shapes from a red and pink polka dot paper and randomly spread them over the chevron. A large circle at the top right of the photo grounds the title. Circles are becoming a favourite element of mine at the moment – either solid punched circles or larger hollow circles using my circle cutter.

I hope that you have enjoyed my first post and that you are inspired to start scrapping your love!

Cheers, Kim x