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wedding inspiration with Sizzix: kim arnold

 

 

This week, Kim Arnold has chosen a more whimsical style rather than the traditional romantic look for her wedding set.  The Walnut Grove range from Pebbles is not a wedding themed or romantic range, however, the fresh floral, kraft chevron and complementary prints work beautifully to create this trendy set for a contemporary wedding. 

Kim has also utilised an old staple, vellum, to print the text for the invitation and other items. The vellum softens some of the brighter colours and adds to the romantic effect.  Instead of ribbon, Kim has used a combination of glitter tape and twine.  The benefit of the American Crafts glitter tape is that it has a strong adhesive backing making it easy to apply neatly to invitations and allows the tape to be trimmed flush with the edge of the card.

By using a variety of different papers and flower embellishment colours, Kim is able to make the best and most efficient use of her supplies.  Kim was able to make this entire set using only one sheet of the chevron kraft paper which forms the base of this theme.

 

Kim has used a Hershey chocolate bar, which conveniently has a cream coloured wrapper, and wrapped it with paper in the same theme as her other items.  This is an effective favour for guests that can easily be created many times over.

 

 

 

 

The invitation opens out to reveal two layers inside with all of the details for the wedding.  The Sizzix oval frame die is a perfect place to highlight the couples initials on the front of the invitation.  The invitation is 6x6 inches square.

 

 

 

The Save the Date card has a similar feel to the invitation but is different enough that the invitation stands out when it arrives.

 

 

 

The Thank you card is a miniature version of the invitation with the same folds, but only 4 inches square and with only one layer inside the card.

 

 

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Finally Kim scrapped this multi-photo double page layout of the wedding.  She has used all of the elements from her wedding set in this lovely layout recording all of the important details of the wedding ceremony.  Kim has used the doilies made using the Sizzix frame dies to include the simple journalling of the date and location as well as the initials of the happy couple.

 

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weekend inspiration: pebbles inc

 

Kim has used the Family Ties range to create this gorgeous layout of her parents with her son and new furbaby.  Kim loved being able to create little clusters of embellishments by simply layering all of the wonderful stickers that are part of the range.  She was also impressed with the corrugated Thickers - they added heaps of texture without weight or too much bulk.

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What's not to love about this collection by Pebbles Inc?  Stacey adored working with the Walnut Grove collection and really enjoyed the colour palette.  The patterned papers are gorgeous and she loved the cut out elements (arrows, butterflies etc).  Mix it all together with a little mix media and it makes for a cute, fun page.

 

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A big thankyou to Laura Whitaker for sharing her beautiful layout using Pebbles Inc Walnut Grove.  I love how Laura has created the two clusters - one around the photo and the other around the journalling, highlighting these two most important elements of the layout. 

 

 

We love what Ashley Horton has done with the Pebbles Seen & Noted range.  There are so many interesting details to look at and Ashley's layering is fantastic.  Thanks for sharing Ashley.  Ashley's blog is at

 

 

Thankyou to Katrina Hunt for sharing her lovely layout using Pebbles Inc Walnut Grove range.  Katrina has layered many of the different patterned papers very effectively and I like how she has retained the decorative strip that comes at the bottom of each of the Pebbles Inc patterned papers.

 

 

The lovely Kim Jefress has kindly shared these 2 Pebbles Inc creations with us.  Kim's style is gorgeous, always so clean and neat with little touches of fun and a story to tell.  Kim is also a member of the Pebbles Inc design team. 

weekend inspiration: pebbles inc

 

 

Pebbles has some of the most colourful, fun, and easy to use products in the market. For this post, Iris came up with three ways to use her stash of Pebbles "Seen and Noted" Products. First up is this fun and colourful layout of her kids goofing around in the coffee shop while she and her husband were trying to enjoy their coffee.

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Next, she used her papers and stickers for a Project Life  kind of page. Using Photo sleeves with the papers, and phrase tags were so easy. The tags were perfectly measured for the smaller photo sleeves as well as the A4 sized photos. This was so much fun to do! And as a bonus, since the papers and tags, were double sided, as soon as Iris flipped the page protector, she realized that the other side was done as well and only needed photos and a few stickers!! So easy and so fun to do!!

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Finally, Iris found this photo album by Pebbles. Perfect to house all of those random A4 photos that you think won't make it inside the scrapbook album anymore. Just stick your photo at the front cover, add embellishments, and you are ready to keep adding photos inside. So practical!!

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Leanne enjoyed making these cards using the Pebbles Inc Walnut Grove collection. It is a beautiful collection of papers which have teal, blue, yellow and pinks throughout.  Each of the papers in the collection is quite different in its design and colour way and yet they all work so well together.   This paper collection came with perfectly paired embellishments and Leanne chose to work with the tag set, masking tape stickers and clothespins.

When Leanne creates cards she loves to alter some of the premade embellishments so she can create a number of different looks with the one product.  Here Leanne removed the tag top and made the “Many Thanks” into a sentiment label. Leanne also used some edge distressing and simple folding and sanding techniques to create a faux stitching border.

 

On this card Leanne chose to alter the appearance of the tag by cutting off the wording and transforming it into a banner embellishment. In addition to the faux stitching border Leanne made some tears in the border and inked them.

 

The Walnut Grove collection features a wood grain patterned paper which Leanne has used to simulate an old fence.  By using some double sided tape and carefully layering the palings on the fence the cards instantly had some definition.

 

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Christa Paustenbaugh made this simple and yet stylish card to give to her husband on their 15th wedding anniversary.  Here is what she said, at the time, about the Walnut Grove collection:
I am absolutely in love with this new Pebbles line and couldn't wait to get my hands on it in person! The rich colours are really amazing and even better in person. I whipped up this card quickly as my husband and I celebrate 15 years of wedded bliss! I just punched some circles from the phrase cards and layered with stickers and some twine. Very simple card with a sweet sentiment."

 

This layout has been created by Kim Jeffress from the Pebbles Inc DT (and incidentally an Aussie scrapbooker and paper crafter).  In her layout you can see the way she has been able to match the soft teal colours in her photo to those in the Walnut Grove collection and beautifully tied the papers and the photos together on her stunning layout.

2012 cha summer: pebbles inc - walnut grove

Stroll through fields of prairie flowers and wrap up in the textures of the homestead with Walnut Grove.  Teal, blue, yellow and pinks, ranging from blush to cranberry, are accented beautifully with black, making the perfect palette for patterns inspired by textiles and nature.

Walnut Grove features 12 papers including a woodgrain pattern, and perfectly paired embellishments like corrugated alphas, layered tags, stickers and clothespins.

 

2012 cha summer: pebbles inc - seen & noted

Record the adventure of everyday life in stylish simplicity with Seen& Noted.  A warm colour palette of red, yellow, green, turquoise and grey flourishes with beautifully versatile designs – from polka dots and stripes to speech bubbles and flowers.  Uniquely designed paper and embellishments co-ordinate with new Memorology page protectors to provide a fun and easy way to document the details of your days.

Seen & Noted includes 12 patterned papers, stickers, envelopes, a date stamp and more. Darling journaling and phrase cards fit in 3x4” and 4x6” slots of the new Memorology page protectors, and a unique mini album (O Flip!) provides yet another option for recording memories, big and small.