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Thursday Trends – Mix the old with the New

June 4, 2009 By Rebecca Cross 6 Comments

Happy Thursday morning!

When thinking about what to do for a trendy post, I didn’t have to look very far.  With the state of our economy, while we all certainly enjoy purchasing and using the latest and greatest products, many scrappers are starting to spend more and more time, digging through their stash for paper and embellishments to use on their layouts.

The great thing about many of the Pink Paislee designs is that they work with older releases.  This is a great way to use up old product while still enjoying new releases.

For my layout I was able to mix the Sweet Cakes line with the newer Fascinating and Captivating lines, for a summer layout.

Fascinatings Bewitching for the base.

Captivating’s Tender blue.

Sweet Cake’s Sweet Cakes for summery creamsicle yum, and Cutie Pie for the orange polka dots.

I also added a Fascinating Chipboard fluorish and my title was made with the brown Captivating chipboard alphas.

I’ve been having a love affair with scallops, so I used a Fiskars Scallop Sentiment punch for this layout.  It’s almost the same size as the die cut paper so it is my go to punch with this line.

I attached the Cutie Pie paper with pop dots so that it would float above my photos a little bit, and also give a place for the edge of the chipboard fluorish to hide under.

3 different Pink Paislee lines, and one summertime layout!

I hope you are able to utilize your stash, yet still include new product into your projects.    Have a great day!  Davinie

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Another Tasty Tuesday!

June 1, 2009 By Danielle 12 Comments

Good morning! It’s time for Tasty Tuesday and I’ve cooked up a quick and easy project for you today! How about some really cute treat cups for your next party or treat to bring to your child’s classroom? These were so easy and inexpensive to make.

All you need are mini cupcake wrappers from the grocery store, any sort of candy to fill them with (I used Twizzler licorice pieces here), lollipop sticks from the craft supply store and one sheet of Pink Paislee’s super cute Sweet Nothings paper from the Sweet Cakes collection. You may also dress them up with cut outs from the Sweet Cakes postcards as I did here with the cherries if you wish!

Simply cut out the circles from the Sweet Nothings paper and tape them onto the lollipop sticks, fill the cupcake wrappers with candy/licorice and tuck the sticks in! What could be easier! Did you know you can make 30 of these with one sheet of Sweet Nothings paper?

These would also be adorable to dress up a birthday party table with! To make the curly papers for a festive touch to your table, just cut 1/2 inch wide strips of the Sweet Cakes papers and wrap them around a pencil. Thanks so much for stopping by today!

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Yummy Tuesday!

February 24, 2009 By Rebecca Cross 20 Comments

Hello everyone! How is your week going so far???
Mine is fantastic (in case you were wondering) because this is my first blog post for Pink Paislee *yay!* and my laptop is back from the workshop. The tech guy said there was some weird registry thing wrong with it that usually manifests (ooh! sounds creepy) by blocking all external ports & all my photoshop .exe files. A week without photoshop was pure torture I tell you! So being able to type this post & upload images, is heaven for me right now :o )

But enough about my war stories….I have a cute page I want to share with you using ‘Sweet cakes line’, that will be sure to get your taste buds going. Being ‘Yummy Tuesday’ my page is appropriately about my daughter & her love of baking. She is only 10yrs old & still getting the hang of cooking….so we have more flops than successes right now but her enthusiasm is so cute. I made this page with x3 of her favourite recipes to help her in her quest to become ‘a prize chef’ (her words :o ).

Inspired by a fellow scrapper who LOVES adding recipes to her pages, I tried something a little different and made removable ‘recipe cards’ by using the sweet cakes postcards, that my DD can use if she wants to.

When I started I was thinking ‘apron ‘…..which inspired the ‘pocket’ in front to hold the cards…then I thought ‘cupcakes’…so tried my hand at paper piecing with brad sprinkles…..that sparked the ‘lolly’ idea using the sweet cakes ‘sweet nothings’ paper and ribbons, and before I knew it I had a page filled with little ‘food’ related elements.

When my DD saw this page she exclaimed “Mama, this ROCKS!!”…I’d have to say if she likes it,
it was a success :o )

I sure hope this will inspire you to try something similar too? Now remember if to upload your L.O’s into our gallery for us all to ‘oggle over…OK!

Have yourselves a super day!
~Kim!

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Monday Muse – Fresh Holiday Colors!

November 24, 2008 By designteam 12 Comments

Good morning, everyone! :)

There’s no doubt, being 31 sleeps away from Christmas, that you’ve been seeing Christmas decor, commercials, coffee choices, and even Christmas tunes popping up everywhere already! I love the holidays, and apart from all the lovely traditional winter goodies, something I love so much about them is finding really cool, fresh, and unexpected color combinations for my holiday cards and scrapbook pages – who wants the same old rich red and evergreen green in their scrapbooks year after year? Time to mix it up!

As I went to gather supplies for this Christmas card, I was super-inspired flipping through the two newest Pink Paislee collections, “Tinsel Town” and “Sweet Cakes”. I love the flourished trees and snowflakes of the more traditional Christmas collection (whose colors still break out of the typical Christmas box on their own..), but the bright pinks, yellows, lime greens, and oranges in “Sweet Cakes” really inspired me to break out of the traditional box and combine the two lines for a unique, new color twist on the typical Christmas card. Here’s what I came up with:

I love how the playful, warm yellows and oranges bounce off of the cooler pinks and greens – it feels really fresh and fun! A very happy feeling holiday card, I think! So this year, when you’re making your cards or packaging up gifts, instead of reaching for the tried and true reds and greens, take a chance and throw a little pinch of lime green or bright pink in and mix it up a little! :) Dabble in a color combination that’s unexpected and totally new to you – before jumping in, if you’re a little wary, compare swatches of colors, look for color combinations online using google, or line up the patterned papers you want to use, making sure they compliment one another before devoting yourself to them and cutting anything out. And most of all, have fun! Its unavoidable if you’re using such fun patterned paper and making heartfelt gifts for the ones you love. Happy day!

-Michelle Clement

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