A Closer Look at Storytime!!!

Hi Everyone! It's Andrea here! I wanted to do this post to talk to you some more about our June collection, "Storytime"!!! I don't know about you but I love stories! I love to read and I love to write and I especially love to document my own story through my memory keeping and planning!!! Stories are so important! Telling them is part of the human condition and we learn from them constantly. For this month, I wanted to make a collection that was inspired by story-telling and the adventure, beauty, magic and courage that is found in stories.  

This month I was inspired by Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid, Moana, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, Fantasia, and Beauty & The Beast. Story-telling is a prominent theme in all of these fairytales. There are a few other fun sub-themes in these fairytales too though and those can also be found in the collection this month -- themes like the ocean, magical creatures (like mermaids & unicorns & fairies & flamingos?), and also travel & adventure! :-)

I am loving all the beautiful mermaids in "Storytime"! I have always been a big fan of mermaids! And the tale of the mermaid is a classic one that has been around for centuries! Ancient mariners would tell tales of the beautiful creatures and they became a symbolic image for the magic, majesty and mystery of the ocean. Mermaids can be found in both The Little Mermaid and in Peter Pan. And in both of these classic tales, stories are important. Peter Pan is all about telling stories to his mermaid friends in The Mermaid Lagoon, and The Little Mermaid wants to hear as many stories as possible about the human world! So you can see why mermaids became an important part of my "Storytime" collection!

And I am loving how all the different mermaids in the collection look! I really love the mermaid planner dividers! The "M is for Mermaid" planner divider is definitely a favorite of mine! I love that she has a little unicorn sea-horse too! 

And you can find her and her little sea-unicorn in the "Little Mermaids" patterned paper and in the ephemera pack too. She has a little pink streak of hair in her ephemera form which is a cute little accent to that piece. 

And talking about ephemera, I think the ephemera pack this month is so amazing! There is a lot of great gold-foiling in the ephemera pack for "Storytime". I think that the all gold foiled unicorn is my favorite!!! Her tail is blowing beautifully in the wind and she just looks so gorgeous!

I am loving the camera too, with the little heart on it and the scallop at the bottom, with all the gold-foiling, it just looks super cute! And I also am in love with the "Believe" word that comes in the ephemera pack...the white and gold letters just look way cool!  I put the word "believe" in the ephemera pack because this collection is all about believing in fairytales -- stories of wonder and adventure, great struggle and great happiness...especially the story that you write everyday of your life! It's important that we believe in ourselves and our own story!

Besides the awesome ephemera pack, we should talk about some of the other great embellishments in June's collection too! I really am enjoying all of the embellies this month! I think that the new wood and enamel buttons are so adorable and fun to use and may possibly be my favorite! I think they just work great and add a lot of pop, dimension and interest to whatever you may be working on (whether it is a layout, a planner page, a card, etc).  In the enamel and wood buttons you will find symbols like that of the compass which is specifically symbolic of The Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales ...and the story/legend of Captain Jack Sparrow, the Black Pearl and all his adventures on the high seas! I love a good Pirate story!

The chipboard alphas are super gorgeous in this collection! I made sure they all are gold-foiled and come in lots of beautiful colors that go with the overall ethereal, "mermaid lagoon" kind of color scheme of teals, blues, mints, lavenders and pinks that can be found throughout the collection. They have a dreamy, enchanting, "bed-time" story quality that just works!

And the label and tiny word stickers are so fabulous too! I included a lot of words in there that are perfect for telling your story right now -- whether that is a story of going out and having a fun adventure swimming at the beach on vacation, or staying in and having an equally fun adventure lost in an incredible book!

Whatever your story is at the moment, I think you will find that "Storytime" will work for you! I specifically made the collection so that you can plan and scrap for a lot of things -- the patterns especially are very versatile, with one side being more specific, and the other being more open to interpretation (i.e. bold, and more themed pattern on one side, and a more simple but equally beautiful pattern on the other).

I really hope you enjoy June's collection/kit -- "Storytime"! It is filled with fabulous fun and I cannot wait to see what you make with it! If you haven't purchased your "Storytime" kit yet, get it now! This is a truly magical collection and it's not something you want to miss out on! Get in on the adventure of "Storytime"!

Everyday Life Pocket Style

Hey everybody ! It is Mindi here with you today on the blog. I am going to be sharing another weekly Project Life style spread. This is my preferred style to document our lives and it really makes me happy to slip those photos into the pockets. 

I chose to catch up on a week from 2016. It was from September and I love how the colors all came together. Here is what the whole spread looks like together. 

This watercolor brush patterened paper is like my favorite thing in the kit. I cut some up to use as my title card. The white September word looks so pretty on that paper and I added my dates for the week underneath. 

This first filler card was one of those that I played around with the kits embellishments. I kept it simple with the circle tag and a few word strips. I also needed to add in some blue over on this left side to balance out the blues on the other side. 

I typically will follow the format of a journaling card then a photo and then another journaling card. This keeps my spreads looking nice, clean, and gets the job done. That is what I have done this week.  I have added a photo of me on a run one day with the family. 

One day this week we all went out as a family to go and work out and ride bikes. My bike turned out to be out of commission so I went for a run. 

I created this journaling card by starting with a strip of patterened paper on the side. Then I clustered some embellishments in a circle and added some journaling about our Labor day. 

Next to my journaling card is of our loved " stuffed animals" Husky and Fluffy. They drove the bus into my scrap room and wanted to help according to the kids. 

This week we also visited the library. My kids love the library and they love to check out books to read. 

Let's move onto the right side. 

Since I had some dog photos and stories I used the poodle die cut and made my own journaling card. I also used some more pieces from the die cut pack. 

One night we were out front in the yard and riding around our cul de sac. I decided to try out the skateboard. Wow, is that hard. I don't know how the kids do it. 

This week was the rivalry football game. We went over and watched it with some friends. We of course showed up in our Red glory to cheer on our team. I used the FAVE die cut to put on top of the journaling card. Football is one of my favorites. 

Here is one last photo share. 

That is it for me.  Thanks for coming by the blog today. Until next time. Happy Scrapping. 

July Collection Sneak Peek

Hello everybody!  It's Andrea here!  Today I want to share with you the July sneak peek.  Our July collection/kit is called “Sweet!” and it is full of beautiful, bright, fun, and vibrant colors and has a feeling that is reminiscent of summertime by the pool, eating ice cream...with a unicorn. Yes, I have included in this collection some really fun summertime symbols like ice cream and popsicles, but I also had to include some whimsical unicorn awesomeness as well.

There are rainbows in this collection, there are lots of reference to music and singing, there are a lot of reference to the pool and the beach, and a whole lot of yummy candy goodness.  The main underlying theme of the collection, however, is that of being yourself, and being ok with being yourself.  I was inspired for this collection, as I always am for our monthly collections, by several different Disney fairytales.  I did a mood board, as I always do, to help inspire me for the collection.  You can see it here.

As you can see in the mood board, one of the major inspirations for this collection/kit was Wreck-it Ralph and the land of Sugar Rush, which is a video game in the movie.  I challenge you to figure out the rest of my inspirations for July's “Sweet!” collection, and to place your guesses in our Facebook group, for a chance to win a fun prize!  This time there were five movies that I used for inspiration, so you just have to come up with the other four, since I gave you the first one.  Have fun playing, and I hope you're as excited as I am about our new July “Sweet!” collection.

Happy girl layout

Good morning everyone and happy Saturday to you all! I hope your weekend has started off good! Sarah here again this morning to share with you another layout I made with the beautiful Girly and Strong collection.

I loved this background paper and wanted to use it, so that's where I started with this layout. I had this picture of my youngest daughter, that I just caught when she was crawling around on the floor. Its nothing amazing or a fantastic event, just an every day moment that I wanted to capture.  So i cut this cut-file out on my Silhouette and laid it in the middle of my layout, where I wanted the focus. 

Then I went for that beautiful paper with all those roses on it and started to fussy cut them out.

Once I got the ones I wanted cut out, I started placing them around the cut-file. I slid my photo under the left side of the cut-file and layered a label sticker and a ticket from the ephemera pack. I added the Happy die-cut from the ephemera pack and then fussy cut out the girl from one of the planner inserts and placed them down. As you'll see on a lot of my layouts, I like to add splatter, so I did that here too.

I grabbed a few of my other favorite patterned papers from this months kit and added a few strips to the bottom. I tucked a fussy cut rose behind those, added the other half of the label sticker and the hello pretty word sticker. I kept seeing the packaging from the ephemera and thought I should use it,lol. So I grabbed the packaging and cut a triangle and slid it under the strips. I liked the way that looked and decided I wanted to add some more of it to the top left to add some balance. I finished by adding a label sticker, to pull some of the blue up to that corner and added a few more ephemera pieces and was done,

I hope the rest of your weekend goes great and that maybe you'll get some scrappy time too!

This is me layout

Good morning everyone!!

Sarah here this morning to share with you a layout I made about myself. I don't scrapbook myself very often, but I am trying to get more in the habit of it, so that my kids have these layouts when there older. I want them to know that I loved crafting, that I was goofy and playful.  So that's the direction I went with this layout.

I started out with my photo. I picked a goofy one that was snapped when were were on an outing. I knew I loved that paper with the script writing on it and I loved what was said on it, so I used that for the larger portion of my background. I was also attempting to not use a lot of white cardstock, this is something I have been challenging myself to do and with all these pretty papers its a bit easier for me! lol I grabbed a strip of the paper that looks like it was colored and used one of my boarder punches to add a little bit of scalloping to one side of the paper and then of course I had to add a little white cardstock off to the left of the layout.

Once I got the background down the way I wanted, I started going threw the ephemera I had and pulled thing out I knew I wanted to use on this layout. I did grab a doily from my stash too to slide behind the photo on the right. When I realized I was going to do that, I cut out a pretty little floral to put on the left hand side of my layout out for a little more balance. I wanted a little more color over on the left since there was so much while, so I grabbed that bright Hello wood paper clip and stuck it under my photo.

I went back and started layering the bits and pieces on the right hand side. I shuffled them around a few times and decided I was happy with where they were and started to adhere them down. I did pop my photo up on 3d adhesive and then added a little under that cute little poodles head too. I punched out a unicorn from one of the papers and layered it in there too.

I wanted a little to the far right side of the layout and I love love love that cute little lipstick, so I added the tag that said Create and popped the lipstick up and layered it on top. Then I went to the bottom of the layout and layered another unicorn, popped up on a piece of ephemera and then added some pretty sequins around the layout. Then I added the title, with the pretty gold puffy stickers. I didnt want to journal on the front of this layout, so I added a little card on the back an journaled a little for my kiddos.

This kit is just so pretty!!And so easy to play with! Thanks for stopping by to check out this layout!

Mini-Workshop!

Hi! It's Andrea here! And for those of you who do not know, The Fairytale Club has a special "fairytale membership" which is like the "premium membership" for our club, and you can subscribe to it (it is super inexpensive)...and you get lots of fun stuff like great discounts for classes and events and things, and you also get a cool membership email each month with lots of ideas and inspiration! But the coolest thing, I think, about the "fairytale membership" is the Mini-Workshops! Each month there is a Mini-Workshop, which is like a small class, and in it you learn how to make a lot of fun stuff!

For May's Mini-Workshop, I made several cool things!!! I made a fab layout and taught about incorporating script and painting into your layout for a bold title... I made a super cute planner divider pocket and showed how to turn it into a spot to boost yourself esteem each month (by placing little notes of inspiration inside)! And I made these really adorable tags...each one inspired by a fave fairytale character who inspired me for the "Girly and Strong" May collection/kit!

Today, I want to share with you my tags!!!

Aren't they so cute!!! I love how each one represents a different strong female in a Disney movie!

I don't know which one is my fave...maybe the Alice one...I love that girl with the pink hair...she is like pink haired Alice!!!

But I really love the Emma Swan one too with the Swan and the Mary Poppins one with the Carousel horse!!!

Which one is your favorite?!!?

I hope you enjoyed this little peek into the Mini-Workshop from May! Please click here to subscribe to our "fairytale membership" now and start joining in on the Mini-Workshop fun!!! Hugs everyone! And remember to live your life as a fairytale!!!

xoxoxxoxo -- Andrea

PL Week 13

Hi guys ! It's Mindi here with you today. I am going to be sharing a Project Life type spread using the Girly and Strong kit. I typically scrapbook 12x12 using pocket pages. I also typically do it weekly with a few events thrown in. Here is what the whole thing looks like. 

I am going to start off with the title card. I used the die cut piece that says hello. I added a little heart and then a half of a label. I felt like the photos on this left side were very color heavy so I used some white cardstock for the title card. 

Let's dive right into my week. This was a pretty typical one. On Tuesday I went along with Noah to a school field trip. We visited our small local zoo and so I included a photo of the 2 of us and then a smaller one of him and some of his friends. I used the pink Tuesday cut apart card to tell my story of going on the field trip. 

This week the kids were always searching for ladybugs in a patch of long grass that is in our backyard. I did add quite a few photos of them and the bugs. 

Let's move on to the right side of my spread. I have a few more photos of the kids in the grass.

I used a few of the die cuts that were perfect for this week. My daughters had their assemblies for being on the Honor Roll and Principal's List ( Straight A's) so I layered these two to spell out Smart Girl. Another thing that I did was cut down one of the planner pages to make a 3x4 card. I love how it turned out. 

I always get myself some Spring Flowers from Trader Joes. This week I chose these pink beauties and the colors were perfect. I added the gold puffy sticker that says HI onto the photo. 

This pink and white striped card was another one that I cut from a planner page. I talked about how Noah received a reward for Math at his assembly. So I added the A+ to the top and then to add in some blue color with the label. 

We took Noah out to lunch the day of his assembly to celebrate all his hard work. 

One last photo to talk about. This week was kind of crazy and by Wednesday I was eating my ice cream out of the container. I took a photo and there you go. 

That is a wrap for me today on the blog. Until next time, happy scrapping everyone ! 

Dream Big Layout

Good morning everyone! Sarah back this morning with my my second layout for the Fairytale club and I just love it all!! I have such a hard time choosing what to use, or what not to use I guess, since I have a hard time not using it all!!

I started with my photo and this great cut-file. I grabbed my cardstock and sprinkled some Gold color shine around it. While the color shine was drying, I backed the feathers on my dream catcher. Once it was done with backing the feathers I adhered  the feather portion of the cut file down and started layering papers behind my picture.

I grabbed a planner page and fussy cut that adorable unicorn out and layered it on the right side of the photo and added a few pretty little roses from the ephemera pack. Then slid it under the moon. Once I got the photo placed down where I wanted it, I glued the rest of the moon down. Then came the pretty sequins! I pulled almost all the gold sequins out and glued them down around the dream catcher.

I liked the layout, but wanted more color to it, so I trimmed down two sides and backed it with that beautiful, two colored dotted paper. I cut a triangle from one of the planner inserts, I loved the bows! I put that to the bottom right of the layout, trimmed down around the outside of a circle label I had already used the inside to, punched out the xo from the paper I cut the unicorn down from and then added that cute unicorn ephemera piece. I wanted one last touch, and added the So lovely word sticker and was done.

I hope you enjoyed this layout because I loved making it and I hope your enjoying playing with this beautiful kit!!

Travelers notebook Journal page

Hey everyone! I'm excited to share with you a look into my daily journal in my travelers notebook today! 

Since I try to journal everyday I keep my pages simple and usually do them ahead of time.

I add in journaling and photos later.

It's fun to see this little guy fill up with memories! 

June "Storytime" Kit Reveal & "Mad Tea Party" Kit Reveal!!! :-)

Hello there everyone! It is Andrea here and I want to share with you our beautiful collection/kits available for June -- "Storytime" and "Mad Tea Party"! First I want to share with you our full June "Storytime" collection/kit! As you may remember from our sneak peak that we did in May, our kit for June, entitled "Storytime", has a theme of story-telling and focuses on the importance of story. And it is inspired by several Disney fairytales that have this "story" theme! Many of the Disney fairytales that inspired me also have "sea", "travel" and "adventure" themes, so you see those sub-themes in the collection as well.

The list of fairytales that inspired me for "Storytime" are: 1) Peter Pan , 2) Moana, 3) The Little Mermaid , 4) Fantasia , 5) Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Men Tell No Tales , 6) Beauty and the Beast. These fairytales all talk about the importance of stories...telling them, reading them, the adventure that comes with story, the beauty of story, and the impact and influence of story on our lives. I think, most importantly, these fairytales say a lot about how important it is to tell our own story and to live our story to the fullest -- by living our lives with a sense of adventure, confidence, and possibility!

The color scheme for "Storytime" is very much inspired by the sea and the "mermaid lagoon" in Peter Pan. I wanted the collection to feel like you were in a beautiful, waterside, or even underwater environment...with lots of blues and greens as well as pinks and lavenders. The colors feel very ethereal and dreamy, with all the pretty and light pastels that really give you the feeling like you are in a "mermaid lagoon".

The imagery of mermaids pops up a lot in "Storytime". I for one love mermaids and so when I decided to do this kit, and I felt inspired by both Peter Pan with the mermaids in Neverland, and also The Little Mermaid with Ariel and all her sisters, I knew that I wanted to include a lot of pretty mermaid imagery and references to mermaids. 

One of my favorite pieces of mermaid imagery is the "Little Mermaids" patterned paper, with the different colors of cute, vintage style mermaids, in  a kind of scalloped row on the page. I also love the Planner Dividers with mermaids and mermaid references on them...like the one that says "I'm really a mermaid", the "M is for mermaid" divider, and the lovely red-headed mermaid divider (which may remind you of a specific sassy mermaid princess, longing to be human)!

I love all the fun travel inspired pieces in the kit too, especially the "Fairytale Adventure" patterned paper, which I made to be a kind of cut-apart sheet (or at least, it can be used as such), with all the cute luggage tags on it. Each of the six luggage tags, you will see, is inspired by one of the fairytales that inspired me to make this collection and has a location from each of those movies/stories.

The luggage tags speak to the travel theme, but also to the adventure theme...a theme that you can see with things like the planner divider that says "let me adjust my crown and begin this adventure". And also the "Black Pearl" and "Pixie-dust" patterned papers..which are references to Captain Jack and Tinker-bell -- two great adventurers!

There are lots of great embellishments in this collection, like the super adorable wood and enamel buttons! These buttons are so cute and useful for your planning and scrapbooking needs. I personally, use buttons and enamel dots a lot in both my planning and scrapbooking, and this is kind of the best of both worlds! I enjoy the little unicorn and mermaid buttons so much, but also love the more simple half and half buttons as well!

Other embellies in this kit include a fabulous ephemera package, some super useful tiny word and label stickers, and some really cool gold foiled, multi-colored chipboard alphas. All of these embellishments are perfect for both use in your planning and your scrapbooking. The ephemera packs that we do with our collection/kits are always one of my fave things! I particularly love that there are gold-foiled pieces mixed in the pack. The little "mermaid lagoon" piece is particularly cute I think, with the two mermaids sitting on the rock. I also love the "my story" script piece, the "adventure" script piece, and the gold-foiled "believe".

The "Storytime" collection has a lot of cute mermaids and sea imagery, travel references, and references to adventure...but again, the "story" theme is key, you can see this again and again, in the dividers, with the lovely brush-script quotes like "every new book I read is a new and exciting journey of imagination", and the "i heart books" divider. You see this with the "Storytime" patterned paper, which says "our life is the fairytale story that I like the best" and embellishment pieces like the tiny word stickers that say "our story", "documented" and "reading list" on them. I love all the "story" in "Storytime" and I imagine this whole collection like one big, amazing book that Belle would love to read -- a story of mermaids, travel, adventure, sea-voyage, and magical creatures like unicorns...but also a story of imagination and creativity, of bravery and perseverance, and the beauty of a bright and happy life, well lived!

And, wait...we're not done...because this month, in addition to our main collection for June, "Storytime", we also have our special, limited edition add-on collection/kit, "Mad Tea Party"! The "Mad Tea Party" was made for and inspired by our incredible Mad Tea Party event at Disneyland! It is super, duper cute and filled with Alice in Wonderland imagery and also tons of Disneyland imagery!

With our main collections that we put out each month, we always use Disney fairytales as inspiration, but the theme of "Disney" is usually quite understated -- this is done purposely so that you can use these kits whether you are documenting Disney-themed things or not in your planning and scrapbooking. With this "Mad Tea Party" kit, the Disney references are much, much more overt and obvious! You get Mickey and Minnie images, you get Sleeping Beauty's caste, you get Tinkerbell, and you get a ton of Wonderland themed goodies too! 

You get Mickey and Minnie images, you get Sleeping Beauty's caste, you get Tinkerbell, and you get a ton of Wonderland themed goodies too! 

I love all the Tea Party in Wonderland pieces, like the "we are all mad here" divider, which is my favorite divider in the kit!!! You can see on the divider, different images from that classic story, mixed in with the curly-cued brush script -- like the Cheshire cat's smile, Alice's bow, a heart and a spade, pieces of a tea set, a butterfly, and the White Rabbit's pocket-watch! 

The color scheme for this add-on kit is very similar to the color scheme for the June "Storytime" kit, so you can totally combine the two and intermix if you want. The colors for "Mad Tea Party" are pinks, blues, lavenders and mints, and a few little touches of yellow as well. It should be noted that you can also mix this add-on kit in nicely with your "Girly and Strong" May kit because most of these colors can also be found in that kit too! 

My favorite patterned papers from this kit are "A Couple of Mice" with Mickey and Minnie smooching on the front, and the beautiful watercolor on the back, "My Castle" with our Fairytale Club castle (which is our version of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle). and "The Golden Afternoon"! I have to say that "The Golden Afternoon" may be my absolute favorite because it is just so beautiful! For this pattern, I drew and water-colored a mix of lovely flowers...meant to signify all the pretty flowers that Alice meets and sings with in Wonderland!

Since this is a smaller, add-on kit, I choose to make cut-apart sheets that would have both pocket 3x4 and 4x6 cards in them, as well as a bunch of smaller pieces to serve as ephemera for the kit. I particularly love all the tickets that come in this collection! I did a long row of them on one of the cut-apart sheets and they have things like Mickey Mouse ears and hearts on them!

The dividers for this collection/kit are so awesome! I particularly love the "photo-realistic" ones of the castle and also the cute Mickey balloon! They are both so lovely!

And one of my favorite things about this kit, is that we have included a two page calendar spread to document and plan your month of June! 

Alright, well that is it for our collection/kits for this month! I hope you enjoy both "Storytime" and "Mad Tea Party"! I love both of them so much!!! I love the pastels, I love the pixies, the mermaids, the unicorns... I also really love the fact that there are a lot of versatile patterns and things in there too -- like all of our wonderful blues and greens and black and white patterns which can be used to document both boys and girls and different themes and subjects! You will love the options that these kits give you! Use "Storytime" to document and plan out you and your family's story...stories of summer, of the sea-side, of books and reading, of staying home or going out, of adventures big and small! And use "Mad Tea Party" to document your fabulous Disney adventures with the ones that you love -- whether those adventures are at Disneyand, Disneyworld, another Disney Park, or just at home, watching Disney movies in the theater or on the couch with your family and friends!

Hugs! Happy Planning and Scrapping...and remember to "live your life as a fairytale"! Kits will be available for purchase starting tomorrow! If you are already subscribed to The Fairytale Club, you will be receiving your June "Storytime" kit when it starts shipping out ...if you want the "Mad Tea Party" kit tough, you need to go into your account and add that on.  

xoxoxoxo -- Andrea...and Tinkerbell too!!! :-)