Is it summer yet ?

Hey there ! It's Mindi here with you today. I have another pocket page post for you. This one started with inspiration from the fun Summer filler card. I knew that I wanted to use it and then everything else came into place. 

Since the summer filler card was vertical I needed a pocket page that could accommodate it. This particular week was the last week in May. The last week of school. I didn't have that many photos so I decided to use this side for the week and fill in the other side with some other photos. I added some simple embellishments to the top of the card and then added the dates of the week on the bottom. 

Most of these photos were from school events. This circle photo was from Memorial Day. We went to a pool party where the kids swam in the pool. I used a circle punch on the photo and added some sequins on the bottom. The photo next to it is of Noah on field day at school. 

On Thursday I participated in a sixth grade parent/student baseball game. It was so funny and fun all at the same time. I snapped a photo of me in the outfield during one of the innings. I wanted to add in my story in the empty space on the photo. So I made a text box in photoshop and added in to the photo. Finishing it off with that hashtag. 

I created this journaling card using a combination of gold letters, and parts from the kit. It holds lots of happenings from the week. 

I am so glad that summer is here now and that school is out. Now that last week of school is documented and not forgotten. Until next time everyone. 

Every Book is a new adventure

Good morning everyone! I hope you had a great 4th of July with friends and family. I was happy that I got to spend it with both and we all had an amazing time!

So this week's theme for me was "Books" and lucky for me, I just got a few new book and can't wait to start reading. For me, I love reading books that draw you in and make you feel like you're in a completely different place! So I choose my title with that in mind. 

I decided that I wanted to do block lettering with my title, so I pulled bits from different papers in this months kit and started to cut my title out. I added a very little bit of adhesive to the letters and placed them where I wanted and them I sewed through them, I wanted them to be able to lift off the page a little still, so I didn't add anymore adhesive to my letters.

I had taken my picture of my book already, so I started layering papers behind my photo. Knowing how I had done the title and running through my head what I wanted to do embellishment wise, I chose to put my photo to the bottom right of my layout.

Then I went to fussy cutting the pretty little books out of some of the planner inserts and layering them to the left of my photo along with some fussy cut roses and a beautiful rose ephemera piece.

I liked my layout at this point, but I wanted to use that gold unicorn so bad, so I decided to add little embellishment clusters in a few places around the title.

I added that cute little unicorn, I was dying to use! lol and then of course I had to use those new little wooden buttons that came in this months kit. They are adorable and add dimension and I just love them!

I added hearts to the right of my title. The gold foiling is so pretty! I also cut out a heart from one of the papers and added it, along with another wood button. I thought I would finish off my layout adding some gold Heidi Shine and some of the pretty sequins. I hope you're enjoying your kit this month and I hope that you enjoyed my layout today!

Special Day

Hello everyone! It's Enza, and today I'll be sharing my last project as guest designer for the Fairytale Club. I have loved creating with the Storytime kit this month. I can't get enough of its beautiful colors and patterns. Here is my layout:

To start, I backed a floral cut file with some of my favorite papers from the kit. The soft colors are perfect for this picture of my daughter and I.

Clusters of embellishments frame the bottom portion of the photo. I fussy cut some leaves from the "Belle" paper and just layered them in between hearts and sentiment stickers.

The big pink heart is from the cut-apart sheet. I just added some wood buttons on top of it for dimension.

To balance the page, I added another cluster of embellishments in the lower left corner. Again, lots of layers and a few sequins and enamel dots (from my stash) to complete the layout.

Thank you so much for stopping by! I hope you enjoy playing with the Storytime kit as much as I do!

Have a lovely day!

Enza

Lookin good travelers notebook layout

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July! I'm excited to share another peek inside my travelers notebook today using June's kit! 

Happy 4th!

Happy 4th of July everybody!!!! :-) Here at The Fairytale Club, we hope that you are having a really magical and wonderful day with your friends and family! Here is a fun printable for you all to enjoy in your celebration of our nation's independence!!!

**Oh, and don't forget, OUR 4th of July SALE is still going strong, so order your kits today and get them for 20% off, and the Magical Memory Planner is on sale for $25 (half off it's original price)...don't miss out on the savings!!! :-) 

Click on the image to download the file...there is both a 4x6 pocket card and a A5 planner divider printable version available in that file! 

Enjoy the fireworks everyone! And remember to wish upon a star and always, live your life as a fairytale!!!!

PL Week 26 | 2016

Hey lovely ladies ! Welcome to the blog. It's Mindi with you again for another pocket page post. As promised I am here with the other side of the spread that I shared last time. 

This is week 26 from 2016. Let's start out with the title card. The new June kit came with two of this gorgeous watercolor sheets of paper. I cut one of them up and used it for my title card. Then I started to play around with the die cut pieces and stickers to see what would look good. I used the letters and then some numbers for the Week 26. 

This heart cut apart card was perfect for my journaling card. I needed some pink over on this side to balance out all the blues. I added some journaling and then added a label and a date. The photo next to it is a photo from when we drove up the coast to see the sea lions on the beach. 

The bottom left corner photo is when we had a little art activity for the kids. They each picked something to paint. 

I really loved this patterened paper. The heart geotags are so cute. I added some letters to spell out ART. It turned out that there was a word strip that said summer. It was perfect. 

I cut up one of the die cuts and stuck it underneath the photo. 

Here are a few more close ups of this page. I really loved how this one turned out. The colors are amazing and I look forward to creating more with this June kit called Storytime. 

Thanks for coming everyone ! Have a great day. 

Happy Fourth of July!

Here in the States, we've got a nice long weekend and what better way to spend a weekend than crafting? In the spirit of that and in honor of the holiday, The Fairytale Club is having a sale from now through midnight PST on July 8th. We've got 20% off all one-time purchase kits as well as the first month of your new subscription. In addition, our new class, Mad Tea Party, is only $25, over 30% off! So use the discount code FIREWORKS and add a new project to a future weekend!

Best Ever Layout

Hello everyone! Enza here, and today I'm back with a layout featuring the Storytime kit. The first think I usually do when I get a kit or collection is looking at all the patterned papers and different elements to see how I can transform them somehow.  I'll show you in a second what I mean. Here is the layout:

The inspiration here came from the Black Pearl patterned paper. I thought I could fussy cut the images and make them look like stars or flowers by just placing them in a circular shape. As the color was very similar to the ones in the paper I chose as background, I decided to back them with white card stock to create some separation. Hand-stitching was also added for extra texture.

Next, I fussy cut lots of lovely roses and just created clusters around the page. The wood buttons fit perfectly in the middle of my shapes.

The little sentiment stickers are adorable.

To finish the layout, I just added a strip of patterned paper on the right side of the page.

I hope this post has inspired you to use your Storytime Kit in a new way. Thank you so much for stopping by! Have a lovely day!

Enza

July's "Sweet!" Kit Reveal: Part 1 (Embellishments)

Hello all! So we are going to try something new this time around and break the upcoming Kit Reveal into sections (embellishments, 12x12 paper, planner dividers)...with several posts over the course of this week and with one long "full" reveal at the end! Yaaay!!! So here we go with part 1 of our new July "Sweet!" collection/kit -- the embellishments...

I am so super excited about this new "Sweet!" collection! It is a collection inspired by several different fairytales (which I will reveal in our last kit reveal post), which is what we do with all our kits. And as with all our kits, there is a major theme that can be found in all of the inspirational fairytales, as well as several smaller themes. So this month, the big theme is to sum up "I am me, and that's ok"...and it is basically about being yourself, and accepting and being happy with who you are...because who you are is in a word pretty "Sweet!'! There are lots of cute little themes though that can be found throughout the collection too -- like summertime, music, rainbows, believing,  and of course, yummy edible sweeeeeeets!

The embellishments for "Sweet!" are so adorable and include some of my favorite pieces. For one thing, I am loving the ephemera pack for July and specifically the happiness of the bright, rainbow colors, the great cheerful and inspirational sentiments, and of course, the awesome unicorn!!! It's a rainbow unicorn to be exact...and she is amazing!!!!

I think it is really cool that we have elements in the collection that relate to song and music this month, I think music has become an integral part of fairytales in modern culture. Music is also just so essential to us as people and will always be an important aspect of our daily lives. We express ourselves through music and songs themselves are a form of fairytale -- as they each tell a story. I really like the little, vintage record player that you can find in the ephemera pack...it just makes me happy! I also think that the music theme is perfect for summer -- I don't know why, but when it's summertime, I just feel like music is constantly playing!

I am also really digging the ice-creams, popsicles, and other sweet treats in the kit. I also feel like sweets are consumed a lot during this time of year...but maybe its just me who's sweet tooth gets really strong in the summer sunshine!! LOL!!!! And even though it is really simple, I am also really digging the yellow notebook paper ephemera piece...it's a great little bit to do some journaling on for your planner, layout, mini album, card, etc.

So the ephemera is fantastic to say the least, I mean I just mentioned a few of my fave things in the pack...but let's move on now to another awesome embellishment for this month -- the puffy alpha stickers. I think the coolest thing about these alpha stickers is that you get the awesome font in two different, bright and fun summertime colors -- fabulous pink and brilliant blue! So cool, right?!! I don't know about you, but I am excited to use them separately but also mix them together so that I can have a single word that is like "pink, blue, pink, blue...". It makes for a great look on your papercrafting project. Yay!!!

Alright, now let's take a look at the gorgeous wood veneer, gold foiled, colored heart embellies that come in the July kit. I myself, love a good heart! I have always loved hearts and I find them particularly useful when working on basically any and all papercrafting projects. They are great for layouts, planner decorating, mini-albums, cards, home-decor pieces...and they just go with any theme you can possibly think of! I know I am going to use all of these up asap! I am loving the ice-cream colors -- the peach and the pink and the blue and the mint! And with the gold foil?!!! They feel like ice-cream cones that I want to eat...in other words they are so yummy!

And last but not least, for our "Sweet" embellishments, is our label/tiny word sticker sheet. We like to do these each month because they are just so useful. And in addition to being great for different themed projects, they work for all types of papercrafters. Our planner girls love them, our traditional scrappers love them, and our mini-album and project lifers find them especially useful for their pocket-pages! The label stickers are super cute as always and perfect to add some writing or to stamp on! I think you are going to love these ones as we have added gold foiling touches to all of them and they are all in bright, fun colors! I also think you are going to love the words and phrases that we did this month! There are stickers that say "vacation", "road trip", "sunny" and "swim" that are perfect for summer. There are also lots of words and phrases that are perfect for any time of year and any theme, like "always remember", "togetherness", "so fun", and "dreaming". And we have some really great ones this month that are reflective on emotion and our reality -- which is not always perfect -- but that are also really helpful, inspirational, and supportive! These include words and phrases like "sadness", "happiness", "life is strange", "shake it off", "be positive", "imperfect", "worth it" and "one of a kind". All of these are part of our over-arching theme in the "Sweet" collection which, as I said, is about being yourself, and being ok with yourself! 

Alright, that is it for our embellishments for July's "Sweet!". I think this new July collection/kit is my favorite...although I say that about all of them!!! I just am digging it all! I especially love the color scheme and the feel of the collection. These colors are just perfect for summer 2017 and the collection as a whole expresses a kind of ice-creams by the beach, listening to great music, happy with who you are, rainbow and blue skies...while you hang with a unicorn...kind of vibe! Lol! Alright, I hope you enjoyed this first part of our July Kit reveal and I will see you again very soon, with more from "Sweet!" Have a fun weekend, and remember to "life your life as a fairytale"!!!

June Travelers Notebook Journal Layout

Happy Friday everyone!! I don't know about you, but I think I squealed out loud when I opened June's kit this month! All of the pink and blues were making me drool at the mouth! 

I grabbed my travelers notebook and updated my scrapbook journal right away! Hope you enjoy taking a peek inside!