Travelers Notebook Fun!

Hello there everyone! It is me, Andrea here today, and I wanted to share with you a Traveler's Notebook that I have been working on, using the "Girly and Strong" collection for The Fairytale Club's May kits!

I started this TN during one of the NSD live streams that we did for The Fairytale Club on my FairytaleScrapbook YouTube Channel last weekend. I am not done with the TN yet, but I think it is coming along nicely! I wanted to share with you what I have done so far!  

I really love working with the May "happily ever after" kit! The kit, with all the goodies from the "Girly and Strong" collection, is just so cute and perfect I think for a project like this (in addition to be great for traditional layout scrapbooking and other planning and papercrafting projects), because there is just so much in the kit! You get so many patterned papers and you get so many planner dividers! I simply used one of the 12x12 patterned papers to be the cover of my TN and I used the personal sized planner dividers on the inside of my TN to be really cute TN pages!

I cut out my dapper, pink haired, cameo "fairytale girl" and added her to the cover of my TN. I did some stitching around her and added the word "pretty" from the gold foiled puffy sticker words to create a pretty cover for my TN. 

I used my TN to document my recent trip to Disney's Dapper Day expo...which is a fun vintage event! I did a mix of black and white and colored pics to add to the fun vintage-meets modern style of the TN (which is the style of the Girly and Strong collection). And I played with the ephemera and the sequins, the paperclips, label stickers, and pretty patterned papers in the kit to make cute little "layout" pages in my TN. I particularly had fun fussy cutting out the roses from the "painted roses" patterned paper in the collection to use as lovely embellishments for some of my pages!

I will try to do another post soon to share more of the TN and what it looks like completed! You can watch me work on the pages shown in the pictures above and see how I made the TN insert (how I stitched it together, etc) on my live stream video on youtube. [note: Fast forward to minute 34].  I hope you enjoyed this post and that I inspired you to make a TN or work in your TN using the awesome "Girly and Strong" collection for the May kits! Hugs! And remember to live your life as a fairytale!!!

Girly & Strong Planner Pockets

Hi everyone, Becky here and I'm so excited to share my first ever project for the Fairytale Club! When I first opened this months kit I ran to grab my planner, I was so inspired and needed all of these cute goodies in it right at that moment! 

I use a personal size planner and I love that there is an option for different size dashboards in the kit based on the size of your planners.

I use my planner pockets as little pockets of of inspiration for when I open it up to look at my to do list everyday. 

Having all of this cuteness with me everyday makes me so happy and inspired! 

June Collection/Kits Sneak Peek!

Hi Everyone! Andrea here and today I am excited to share with you a little sneak peek at the June Collection/Kits! The name of the exclusive collection for June is "Storytime"! As you may or may not know, every month The Fairytale Club comes out with a new, exclusive collection for it's kits, which is inspired by favorite fairytales.  

This new kit is inspired by so many awesome fairytales and fairytale characters...one of which is Peter Pan! There will be a full reveal of all the fairytales that inspired the collection when the full reveal of the June collection happens later this month!  In the meantime, here is a fun sneak peek to get you excited about next month! 

Here is an inspiration board that I used while designing the collection:

As you can see, a major theme of the "Storytime" collection is the concept of "the story" -- stories are important. Every day of our lives we are telling our own story, simply by living, but even more so as memory keepers, scrapbookers and planners are constantly documenting their personal story and that of their loved ones! This isn't the only kind of story found in the collection though...you can also see references to books...books are filled with stories! You can see all the references to adventure, because often the stories told in books are adventures, but also because reading a story itself is a kind of incredible adventure of the imagination! 

And of course, there are references to fairytales and fairytale creatures, this is because here at The Fairytale Club, we love a good fairytale story the most, but also because we believe in "living life as a fairytale" and being the heroes of our own story and writing our own happily ever after! But let's go back to the cute fairytale creatures that I just mentioned...they pop up here and there in this collection...and there are so darn adorable!!! There is some really pretty unicorn and mermaid awesomeness in this collection! But there is a lot that is just really versatile and will work with whatever you are documenting! There are lots of pretty graphic patterns in the collection. And there is this feeling of summer time and relaxation. It is the perfect collection for a vacation away from home, documenting the beach and summer outings, or a staycation, cuddled up with a good book! The color scheme is really great because it has colors like blues and greens in it as well as pinks and lavenders so it really can be used to document any of your loved ones (boys and girls)! Of course there is a perfect amount of sweet and cute and whimsy in there too, so for all my girls that love pink and gold and pretty...you will find that in this collection as well!

P.S. Can you name some of the ways in which you see Peter Pan in this collection sneak? I will give you one...Peter loved a good story...especially the stories about himself! (And he loves telling them to anyone who will listen, including a certain group of lovely ladies who live and swim in a particular lagoon!)  :-)  Do you have any guesses on other fairytales and fairytale characters that influenced this collection? You can put your guesses up on our Facebook Group! Those who guess will be entered to win a fun free prize -- some Fairytale Ears (to wear to the parks or just around the house while you are crafting...I personally like to do both)! Guess correctly and you get an even better chance of winning the prize so really think about it and check for clues inside the inspiration board too! We will take guesses on facebook up until the reveal day and then a winner will be announced!

National Scrapbook Day Celebration Part 1: Live Streams & Weekend Review

Hi Everyone! It is Andrea here and today I want to do a little review of our NSD celebration that we had this last weekend (which was just the first part of our NSD celebration...we are doing another towards the end of the month), to share with you how the live stream went, and to show you the projects that I worked on during this fun online crop! 

So this last weekend (May 6th and 7th), as part of our National Scrapbook Day celebration, I hosted a couple of live streams on my FairytaleScrapbook youtube channel!

It was so much fun! It was a cool online crop where I got a chance to talk to and interact with a lot of our awesome Fairytale Club members and fans! We had such a great time together! The chat consisted of fun scrappy topics..."what tools are on your wishlist right now"..."what are you working on for NSD", etc... I also took requests for what scrappy and planny things I should work on during the stream. And of course, we talked about the May "Girly and Strong" collection and the amazing Disney female characters and movies that inspired it! We also talked quite a bit about other fun stuff too, like our fave Disney movies, music, video games, and hobbies...some fun Marvel universe/comic book stuff...some Star Wars and Harry Potter goodness...our fave t.v. shows right now, etc! I loved it! And I think the conversation very well reflected the kinds of things our club members are into and inspired by -- things that are creative, magical, whimsical, and reflect a "once upon a time/happily ever after" sensibility!

During the live streams I worked on several projects. I worked on and completed two layouts, I worked on my planner calendar set up for May, and I worked on a Travelers Notebook. 

I will be sharing my Traveler's Notebook and my planner set up in different, future posts, once they are completed! :-) 

If you joined us live for one or both of the streams, thank you so much for your support and for participating in our fabulous NSD celebration part 1!  Please join us at the end of the month, on the last weekend (May 27th and 28th), to celebrate some more...this time with fun challenges from our Design Team!

Remember to live your life as a fairytale!!! Huuuugs! -- Andrea

Scrap Gals iNSD “A Plan to Scrap” challenge with Andrea Bethke using The Fairytale Club May kit!!!

Today I hosted a challenge as part of the Scrap Gals iNSD celebratory online crop over on their Facebook page! The challenge is to incorporate a planner decorating look and/or techniques into your scrapbook layout, or visa-versa ( i.e incorporate a scrapbook layout style and/or techniques into your planner decor)!  It could be called a "scrap/plan-lift" challenge"! And I used the May "Girly and Strong" collection/kits for my challenge!!!

I went ahead and made both a planner dashboard pocket page AND an 8 ½ x11 layout so you can see how the same ideas can work for both planning ans scrapbooking and how one can influence and inspire the other. If you want to follow along, you can do the same as me, and make a planner page and a scrapbook page OR you can just make one of the two. So if you just want to make a layout, you can use the planner page that I made to inspire your layout. And if you just want to make a planner page, you can use the scrapbook layout I made as inspiration for your planner decor. (note: you don't have to use my planner or my scrapbook lo as your inspiration though...you can use inspiration from social media, etc).

The point of this challenge it to get you out of your box a little bit and help you to think about how inspiration can come from anywhere! If there is a planner page that catches your eye, don't just assume that you can't apply those same ideas to your scrapbooking! You absolutely can! Inspiration comes from so many places! You could take a look at what the planner girls are doing, and maybe add one or two fun, decorative paperclips to your page...why not?! And the opposite is true as well, if you are a planner, look at what the scrapbook girls are doing, and maybe put some pictures into your planner....why not? Have fun!!!

Both planning and scrapbooking are important papercrafting ways by which we document our life and tell our story! Let's tell a good one! Let's live our life as a fairytale and write our own “happily ever after” one scrapbook layout or planner page at a time!!!

Remember to make your order over at The Fairytale Club, to get our premier collection, “Girly and Strong” so that you can make fun stuff like this too! You can order a scrapbook kit, a planner kit, or a “happily ever after” kit (that has both the planner and the scrapbook goodies in it plus more)! Join in on our magical papercrafting adventure today and start living your life as a fairytale! (and there is a coupon code in the video, so make sure to watch to get it so you can use it to get a 10% discount on your Fairytale Club kit!)

I mean, how cute are these goodies?!!! Anyways, I hope you enjoy my video & I inspire you to create something with a lot of fairydust ;-) and to think outside the box...and hopefully I also gave you some fun ideas on how to use your May kit! Happy inter-National Scrapbook Day everyone!!!

Please share the fabulous things you make for my “A Plan to Scrap” iNSD challenge on the Scrap Gals Community Facebook page (on the share thread for it)!!! :-) Can't wait to see what you create!!!l

xoxoxoxo--- Andrea

"Girly and Strong" YouTube video & NSD celebration announcement!!!

Hello Everyone! It's Andrea here, and I am super duper excited to announce that there is a new video up on my YouTube channel, FairytaleScrapbook, where I show you the whole “Girly and Strong” collection! It is the premiere collection for our magical papercrafting kit club AND its the collection that is found in our May kits!!!

Did you order your kit yet? You can order the planner kit, the scrapbook kit, or the “happily ever after” kit (which has all of the “Girly and Strong” collection in it, plus more!)!

You can do a one time purchase or subscribe (for 6 months or a year)!!! Join us in this magical adventure and join the club today!

Remember to add on the “fairytale membership” to get even more awesome papercrafting goodness each month (like the monthly “mini workships”, discounts on classes and events, and monthly email inspiration)!

Oh, and one more thing, May is the month to celebrate “National Scrapbook Day” - May 6th! However, we will be celebrating several times throughout the month! Yaaay! So join me on May 6th for a live stream from 6:30 pm PST to 11 pm PST AND on May 7th from 3 pm PST to 9 pm PST, on my YouTube channel, FairytaleScrapbook! Then, later in the month, we will be having an NSD celebration part 2 with the whole Fairytale Club Design Team and some fun fairytale challenges!! That will be on May 27th and May 28th! So get ready for lots of magical papercrafting goodness in celebration of National Scrapbook Day...umm....Days!!! :-)

Alright, talk to you guys later! Scrap happy and remember to live your life as a fairytale!!!!

The "Girly and Strong" Look -- May's Colors!

I don't know about you but I am loving the color scheme for May's "Girly and Strong" collection! As you know, each collection that is made every month for The Fairytale Club's kits, is inspired by a combination of favorite fairytales and fairytale characters! These characters inspire the patterns, the embellishments, etc.  So it makes sense that the color schemes are inspired by fairytales as well!

For May's "Girly and Strong" collection, I wanted to go with something that felt lovely and worked with the tone of May and how it crosses over from Spring into Summer!

It has the bright primary, summery colors of red and blue yellow, but also the really light and spring like colors of light pink and mint.  ... Does this color pallet remind you of anyone?

That's right, it's Snow White! Snow White is my favorite Disney princess and I just love her so much! She is so lovely and sweet, girly, kind, happy, loving, pretty, and also brave! She has the perfect look and color scheme to base my premiere collection's colors and overall feel on! 

And if you watch the movie again, I kind of think that maybe you'll see that the whole thing is taking place in May....at least that's what I think!  Also, I think Snow White would totally Scrapbook and Plan and that she would love "Girly and Strong"!

Yes, she would be a dark haired papercrafting princess...with a silly, happy demeanor, who was fair skinned, loved wearing red lipstick and playing with planners and scrapbooks...believed in "happily ever after" and...um...oh...

Well, you get the picture! :-) I hope you enjoy the color scheme for our premiere collection "Girly and Strong" and this look at it's fairytale inspiration! Have a happy scrappy day and remember to "live your life as a fairytale"! 

The Fairytale begins...a Letter to start things off!

Dear friend and club member,

Hello there you wonderful papercrafter you!!! And welcome to The Fairytale Club!!! Whether you love planning, scrapbooking, or both...or perhaps some other form of papercrafting...you are going to love being part of our club! My name is Andrea Bethke and I built this club to be a very special and magical community where everyone feels inspired to create beautiful things and to share in ideas and friendship! Our club is one of a kind, with monthly collections inspired by your fave fairytales! And there is a planner kit, scrapbook kit, and “happily ever after kit” each month made with the cool, exclusive and special collection goodies packed inside them!

As part of the club, you will be getting lots of inspiration! You will get this inspiration from our design team, and from other members of the club (as part of the facebook group), and from me too! You will receive inspiration in the form of blog posts, social media posts, and especially the “fairytale membership” extras like the mini workshops and monthly inspiration emails! And if you ever need any more help, I am available to all of my Fairytale Club members to answer any papercrafting questions you might have! I started this club to be a place where everyone, no matter what level they are at in their papercrafting experience, and no matter what their story is, can feel supported and inspired! You can feel good knowing you will find the help, encouragement, inspiration, support and answers you are looking for here (for scrapbooking and planning and whatever other papercrafting creative endeavors you have)!

Now, I mentioned the “mini workshop” and let me just talk a bit about that... :-) I would suggest adding the "fairytale membership" on to your kit purchase/subscription if you haven't already. There will be monthly "mini-workshops" that come automatically with that, which will basically be little classes that teach you about papercrafting (scrapbooking, planning, etc). In addition to this, when you get the "fairytale membership" you will also receive inspiration emails every month which will also give you lots of ideas, tips and tricks, and challenges! And, you also get discounts on special events (get togethers, crops, tea parties, etc) and the classes (which are similar to the workshops but more in depth and extended). [I also want to note, that I'm always trying to come up with new and innovative ideas for my scrapbooking and planning and other papercrafting projects, so you can expect the workshops and the classes, which are taught by me, to include new and innovative ideas in them! :-) ]

I made this club to make creative people feel good about themselves and have a place to interact with each other and enjoy their creativity! I want my members to feel inspired as people in their everyday life as well as in their creative endeavors! I want to help you “live life as a fairytale” – meaning that my goal is to help you tell your story and write your own "happily ever after" one layout or plan at a time!

I really hope you enjoy your time in our club and please, always feel free to contact me...to talk about scrapping, planning, disney, life, etc... :-) I am here for you and I am so excited to start making beautiful papercrafting projects with you!

Welcome to the club you beautiful, magical person you!!!

Huuuuuugs! Happy Scrapping... And remember to “live your life as a fairytale”!,

Andrea Bethke

Founder of The Fairytale Club  ...and recently dubbed “Fairytale Queen” (by a friend...on instagram) :-P ...the title totally counts though and I'm keeping it!

P.S. Don't forget to follow us on instagram ( @thefairytaleclub and @fairytalescrapbook ) and join us on Facebook at “The Fairytale Club Facebook Group” for daily posts, challenges, ideas, cute images, info, fun tips, and lots of inspiration!!!

Girly and Strong! – The Fairytale Club's premier collection by Andrea Bethke

Hello!!! It is Andrea Bethke here, and today I am super duper excited to share with you my first collection called “GIRLY AND STRONG”! It is the first collection for THE FAIRYTALE CLUB, which is a brand new and magical membership club with scrapbook and planner kits for all your whimsical and pretty papercrafting needs!

THE FAIRYTALE CLUB is built on my love for fairytales and all the “once upon a time” , “wish upon a star”, and “happily ever after” goodness that makes life beautiful PLUS my love of all things papercrafting, planning and memory keeping!

Each collection for the club will be inspired by my favorite fairytales and my “happiest place on earth”. And so, for this first collection, GIRLY AND STRONG, there are lots of lovely hints at various fairytale movies and characters – like Alice in Wonderland and Oliver & Company, and Snow White, Mary Poppins and Emma Swan – and also by my trips to my favorite theme park. However, the collection is also filled with just awesome versatile patterns and things that are great for documenting spring, summer, being in love, being happy, having fun, being brave, being girly and strong...wink wink...and all kinds of other good stuff!

This collection and all collections for the club, will be perfect for documenting your fairytale adventures but also your everyday life adventures and really work for any story that you want to tell. I specifically designed everything so that you could use it for any of your memory keeping and planning needs, but in a way that has that touch of magic and whimsy...like a little nod to the happiest place on earth!

For GIRLY AND STRONG, I specifically wanted to design a collection where the theme was all about being a strong woman/girl/female and accepting and being happy with the person that you are! I have always wanted to design my own collection and making this dream happen is so incredible! I feel empowered as a woman and I want to share that with all of you. I so often dreamed about this happening, but I kept telling myself that I couldn't do it...it wasn't until I realized how truly brave and capable I am that I finally allowed myself to begin the journey that I had always been dreaming about! And so here it is...a collection and a club that is all about being inspirational, making dreams come true, and writing that happily ever after...whether through your planning or your memory keeping!

I am so thrilled to finally be able to show you all the special designs that I have been working on for this collection and all the cool patterned papers and planner dividers and embellishments! 

I want to share with you my favorites...oh wait, they are all my favorite! Well, let me just list out all the cool things that are in the collection! So first, there are all the amazing patterned papers! There are 12 double sided 12x12 patterned papers (so 24 patterns total). And the patterned papers range from super whimsical and lovely images of swans and poodles and carousel horses (well, unicorns actually) to more simple, but also super cute patterns like fun polka dots and stripes.

I really love the pretty patterns that just scream girly goodness – like the bows and lipsticks and roses! I also love all the watercolor patterns which have a more free-flowing feel as well as the geometric prints which are also really cool.

Then there are the planner dividers (which come in A4 and A5 sizes). There are 12 of those and they are also double sided, with cute patterned prints on the back. They are perfect for planning but would also look beautiful in a mini album or hung on the wall as a décor piece.

I love the sweet imagery on the planner dividers. The vintage feel of the poodle and the swan makes me smile. And I think my cute, dapper, pink haired girl is my favorite!

I also love the sayings that you can find in the collection. There are some great inspirational quotes on the planner dividers that are all about being brave, loving yourself and others, being strong and silly and weird and wonderful, and you!

It is all about feeling good about who you are. I love that! And you can see that, not just in the planner dividers, but also in other imagery in the collection, like in the embellishments and the cut-apart sheets.

Let's talk about the embellishments...there are so many adorable embellies in this collection! And everything has gold foiling!!!

I of course had to have paperclips. I love paperclips! They are by far my favorite thing to scrap AND plan with! I decided to make my paperclips for the GIRLY AND STRONG collection in cute decorative shapes. They are wooden and come in different pretty colors from the collection and they all have beautiful gold foiling on them!

Another embellishment that I love and always use in both scrapbooking and planning, is ephemera. So I knew I had to have an ephemera pack be part of the collection! I made ephemera pieces that matched nicely with the patterned papers in the collection and that would be fun and easy to use. I love the cute vintage pieces so much! And I also really love the tags and the hearts and the words...and oh, all the pieces with gold foiling on them! Did I mention that some of the pieces in the ephemera pack are gold foiled! Yay!!!

I decided that I needed to have some label stickers and tiny word stickers in my collection too. So I came up with a cool sticker sheet that has both. The labels and the word stickers are gold foiled. They look beautiful and they are super colorful and bright! The words are great too because they go along with the theme of GIRLY AND STRONG so there are words like “brave” and “silly” and phrases like “happy girl” and “so lovely” and “stay weird”...because us girls are so many wonderful things, all of which we should be proud of!

I realized that we also needed something pretty to use for title-making in our scrapbooks and planners...so I decided to have some pretty gold foiled puffy word stickers to play with! I just love these! They are so gorgeous! All the words are in my handwriting and they say cool things like “this is me” and “pretty” and “bright' and “hello”.

All the product is so cute and I love it so much! This has really been a dream come true getting to design this collection and starting this new club! I really feel like I am in the middle of a fairytale made real!

I really hope you will join me on this amazing fairytale adventure! Please join THE FAIRYTALE CLUB today! You can get a planner kit or a scrapbook kit or all of the collection! Whatever you decide on, I hope you enjoy being part of our new club! This is the beginning of our “happily ever after” in a papercrafting dreamland together...so don't wait, subscribe to get your May kit of GIRLY AND STRONG goodies today!