Henny's August Dashboard

Hello... I hope you are all well. My name is Henny or otherwise known as Hennytjcraftcottage on Instagram. I'm so grateful for the wonderful opportunity to be joining and to be a part of this team. 

Today I want to share with you this gorgeous "Sweet!" kit that I was able to play with for my A5 planner. The color is so vibrant, with the fun summertime theme and of course those unicorns as the focal point for this kit. Oh, I just love this collection! Overall the color scheme for this "Sweet!" kit is very rainbow-licious! Because life's all about rainbows, glitters and unicorns. 

Anyways, what I love to do the most for planner project is definitely setting up my planner, stuff up the planner pockets by accessory them with lots of pretty embellishments and make pretty dashboards. Because that is the first thing you'll see every time you open up your planner and bringing a smile to your face :)

I picked up this bright white with stripes divider for the dashboard and created this using elements from the collection. I used my die templates and was able to created sophisticated and elegant cut shapes cardstocks for the base. Love added some layering to give it more dimensional look and also I have always loved including some pearl embellishments to add a beautiful accent to any of my projects. 

I was super happy how these turned out. 

This pretty tassel with that cute little unicorn charm just a perfect addition to dressing up my planner. 

I took another divider with this ice cream cone printed and cut off the other pink side, then handwritten the "today" word and stuck it on the top of the paper and I have made one cute bookmark or divider. 

I just love this pastel green paper with white bows prints, so I used the left over paper and made another cute tag or bookmark by adding some of the ephemera, laminated everything together and then stuck the front with adhesive clear pocket to store stickers, receipts, etc..

I also have not forgotten about these adorable ladies faces, I cut them out front the patterned paper, laminated them and created another magnetic bookmark :)

So that was what I've been up to. How about you? I hope you enjoyed today's read. Until next time, 

Henny xoxo 😘 

Summer & Happiness

Hello everybody, it's Mindi here with you. I'm going to sharing a pocket page today using the July kit. I typically scrap my pocket page albums in a weekly format. Today I'm going to sharing Week 28. Here is what the whole page looks like:

Let's start out by talking about my title card. Once I opened up my kit box I knew that the puffy letters would be perfect for my weekly title card. For my background, I needed something pretty neutral so this patterned paper was great. It has a lot of white with little bits of color here and there. I also added the week number with some stickers from my stash. I even added a circle stamp around the number for a fun look. I love how it adds a little bit of black to the card. The last thing I added was a few pieces from the ephemera pack. 

The first journaling card is one that I custom made. Instead of using white card stock I chose to go with the ledger paper as my background. I added my journaling onto it and then went from there. These fun diamond shapes on one of the patterned papers were something that I thought I could cut up and use on this card. I cut out two of them and added them to the left side. The photo next to it is when the kids read to the therapy dogs at our local library. 

Here is look at the photo that is in the bottom corner. I added my journaling onto my photo to make sure that I had room for the story behind the photo. 

In the opposite corner, I added a photo of when the kids and I dressed up as cows for Chic Fil A day. 

The other journaling card is this bright yellow card that says summer. I kept it fairly simple with only added an ampersand and a word strip. I really loved the bright color and it really breaks up the photos and the other white cards. The photo next to the journaling card is my 2nd shake that week. 

One last photo to share with you. This picture is of our Slurpees on 7/11 or July 11. We have a tradition of going to get free Slurpees. I kept it pretty simple and added a word strip and a star from the ephemera package. 

Thanks so much for coming out today. I really had a great time putting this page together. 

"Take Note" : Upcoming Kit Sneak Peek

Hi all! Today we want to share with you a sneak peek of our upcoming collection/kit -- "Take Note"! It will be coming out later in the month and we are super excited for it! I am loving the colors, the pinks and blues and greens, which just feel soft and lovely! And the whole feeling of the collection is amazing!!! It is like a breath of fresh air! It is a dream...a dream to take note of!

I am loving the polka dots in the collection, the cute deers, the beautiful flowers! It all screams "enchanted forest" to me and it just makes me happy! You will notice there are lots of references to "taking note", "document", "create", "noted", things like that, because this collection has a lot to say about paying attention to the important things in life...big and small. This collection is the kind to make you stop and "smell the roses" and look at all the magic in the world. And it encourages you to document that magic in creative ways like writing, drawing, photography, scrapping, planning, etc. It inspires you to dream...

Note: I think you will see that "drawing" is something that inspired me a lot in this collection...especially the old Disney drawings and the idea that you can create a whole world through your imagination, a dream and a pencil...

"Take note" is all about noticing the details and seeing the beauty in everyday things...like even the instruments by which we note things like cameras and even pencils for instance. You will find a lot of cool things in the collection that have a kind of "pencil-drawn" feeling to them because of this. And there are a lot of references to nature and the natural world in this collection, like with all the cute animals you find in the collection -- like the cats and deer and chipmunks, etc -- as well as all the flowers! And because we are "taking note" with this collection, there are a lot of note papers, ledgers, handwritten letters, etc in this collection as well.

As with every collection/kit that we design exclusively each month for our magical papercrafting club, The Fairytale Club, this one is inspired by several different fairytales! This time, four different Disney fairytales were chosen to inspire the "Take Note" collection.  If you take a look at the inspirational mood board used to create the new "Take Note" collection, maybe you can guess what those four fairytales are! I will give you a clue...all of them involve cute animals as main or supporting characters... Guess which four fairytales and the fairytale characters (from those stories/movies) that inspired "Take Note" and you will be entered to win a prize. Place your guesses in our Facebook Group for a chance to win! The closer you get to the correct answer, the better chance you have of winning!

Alright, well I hope you enjoyed this sneak peek of "Take Note" ! Have a wonderful day and remember to "live your life as a fairytale"!!! 

Hugs --- Andrea, Founder of The Fairytale Club

How Sweet It Is

Hello planner girls! I'm Belen of Art & Whimsy and I'm excited and honored to be a Guest Designer for the Fairytale Club this month. Today I'm sharing my planner setup, in an A5, using the latest kit, "Sweet!". Let me tell you... oh my goodness, this kit lives up to its name!

I love the exclusive design elements, colorful imagery, and how you can mix and match the components of the various kits to create a layout that is uniquely your own.

The first thing I did was to make a dashboard from a personal sized insert and stuff my planner pockets with some of the adorable planner kit die cuts.

I love adding a large pocket insert to my planner setups so I made one using the 12x12 paper and stuffed it full of more Fairytale Club prettiness.

I embellished my pocket with ephemera die cuts. How adorable is that unicorn?!

Oh! And speaking of unicorns... included in the Happily Ever After kit comes the cutest planner tassel complete with a unicorn charm.

I've loved all of the Fairytale Club kits, but this has to be one of my favorites. The whimsical feel of it makes me smile! Thank you for allowing me to share my planner layout with you. Wishing you a beautiful week. 

xo, Belen

Our Newest Kit: Sweet!

We've already shown you a few previews of our newest kit, Sweet! But today, Henny (@hennytjcraftcottage on IG) got her hands on it and took photos so nice, we had to share them here on the blog!

Aren't they great?! The gorgeous colors and fun patterns really pop! Her photos include both sizes of the dividers, but other than that, it's exactly what's included in our Happily Ever After kit. Love what you see? Click the link and sign up to have it sent your way! 

Hope you have a magical day!

Mini Workshop goodies: Mermaid Planner Set up, Decorative Pocket Cards, and a Lovely Layout...

Hello there everyone! It is Andrea here and I want to share with you some lovely things that I made for the most recent Mini-Workshop, using the "Storytime" collection! I love the "Storytime" collection! The mermaids just make me so happy! It was so much fun playing with "Storytime" to create these projects for the Mini-Workshop and our "fairytale membership" members! If you don't know about the Mini-workshops that we do each month, I will share a little about that now!

The Mini-Workshop is a sort of mini-class made up of video tutorials of a few different projects. I do one for each collection that comes out each month. There have been two so far and soon we will be doing one for the "Sweet!" collection (which is our newest collection/kit).

The Mini-Workshops are available to our "fairytale membership" members. The "fairytale membership" is a kind of club within the club. It is our premium membership. And for these members, we offer several special things in addition to their subscriptions. They get these "mini-workshops" and they also get other special benefits like inspirational emails, and discounts and deals on classes and events. We also have a special Facebook group that is just for our "fairytale membership" members only. It is a different, exclusive group, separate from our The Fairytale Club Facebook Group, which is public and for all our members and fans. 

Now, I just want to quickly talk about the projects that I worked on for the last Mini-Workshop. I had fun working on these. I love them all, the layout, the pocket cards, the planner stuff. I enjoyed working with the rose cut-files for my layout and using the different pretty colorful roses cut from the "Storytime" patterns to create a kind of garland from one corner of the page to the opposite one.

I loved working in my planner with the "Storytime" kit. I love the mermaids! I decided to set up the front of my planner with goodies from the kit that I tucked in, and also to use a sketch from the inspirational email to create a little planner "mini-layout" which served as a divider for my planner.

The decorative pocket cards were probably my favorite thing to work on though! They are cute quote cards and they serve as great pieces of inspiration as they each have a special quote on them! I had fun with the shaker ones especially, like the unicorn one that says "think happy thoughts" on the front and the mermaid one that has "I know who I am...I'm a mermaid" written out on the back.

I hope that you like these Mini-Workshop projects and that you are inspired to join our "fairytale membership" ! It is super fun and I think you will enjoy it! Alright well, remember to live your life as a fairytale! Hugs everyone!

Ice cream&Shades

Good morning everyone!! I'm so happy to be playing with the July "Sweet" kit!

It s so bright and full of summer fun ephemera! I'm sharing a layout with you this morning of two of my little girls enjoying some yummy ice cream on a nice summer day!

I had a hard time choosing what papers to use, I just wanted to use them all, but I finally decided to cut a strip of the paper that looks like it has the paint strokes. I placed that across the center and then moved on to backing my photo. I used one of my planner inserts and backed the photo and then the water color paper too. I fussy cut that cute little ice cream cone out and then used the left over for behind my photo too.

I added the ice cream cone to the right of the photo and then broke into the adorable ephemera pack, I pulled out the little ice cream cones, a ticket and some little bitty hearts and started placing them around the layout.

I had thought I would leave it with an all white background, but decided I wanted more color, and to be honest I wanted to use more of the pretty papers from the kit,lol. I added some of the die cut words to the layout, the yummy just fit! And after I cut it down and placed it on the teal bow paper I added a little ticket, sticker and a heart.

I pulled out a wood button from last months kit and added it and then grabbed some gold alphas from my stash and added my title, Ice cream&Shades.

This months kit has so many pretty papers, I mean the patterns are amazing! The colors are so beautiful too! If you havent went and checked out the new kit yet, or the past ones, make sure to go look at them!!

Our 2 new Disneyland/DCA Events!!! For Summer & Halloween! Purchase your ticket now!

I am so super duper excited to announce that we are doing more Disney events!!!! Yaaaaaay!!!! We had such an incredible time at our last event at Disneyland! Our "Mad Tea Party" at Disneyland was a huge success!!! Everyone had an incredible, once in a lifetime, magical experience! And we got asked to do more events! And so, we are responding to your requests for more Disney magic with The Fairytale Club at The Happiest Place on Earth!!! We are now selling tickets for our two next events! We have one in August, for "Disney's Summer of Heroes" & one in October, for "Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party"!!!!!!

Our first event, is this August, Saturday the 19th at Disney's California Adventure! It is our "Super" party and it is super-hero themed for "Disney's Summer of Heroes"!!! At the event we will be eating lunch, with cute decorations everywhere in the superhero theme, at Tortilla Jo's in Downtown Disney! There will be an awesome Traveler's Notebook class during the event to document your "Summer of Heroes" experience, a cool goodie bag filled with goodies like an exclusive Fairytale Club kit and a Traveler's Notebook, plus more! There is a photographer, a photo booth, an online photo gallery...yay! There will be prizes, of course!!! And we will be walking around the park afterward for our "afterparty" at Disney's California Adventure, during which we will be enjoying "Disney's Summer of Heroes", going on rides, hanging out, meeting heroes, and doing a "creative session" with lots of pics and tips on how to get the most out of the park! Please see the event page for all the super awesome details!!!

Our second event, is this October, Friday the 13th at Disneyland & DCA and in celebration of Halloween-time and "Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party"! It is our "Spooky" party!!!! I am soooo excited! I love Halloween!!!!! It is my favorite Holiday as many of you know! The event will include a lunch at Downtown Disney, decorated spooktacularly for Halloween-time and the decor will be inspired by "Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party" at the parks (and staples of the party, like the Haunted Mansion and The Nightmare Before Christmas)! There will be an amazing Halloween themed class in which we will combine planning and scrapbooking and create a fabulous mini-album to document your special experience of "Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party"! You will get a cute decorative bag filled with goodies like an exclusive kit from The Fairytale Club, an album/planner, and more! There will lots of fun games and prizes! Again, there will be a photographer, a photo booth, an online gallery...and during the after-party there will be more pics! And yes, there will be an after-party, which as always is optional...but oh so amazing, so don't miss out on it! During the after-party, we will enjoy walking around Disneyland and DCA and do some Trick-or-Treating in costume around the parks, and go on rides, and just have a magical Halloween-time! It is going to be so much fun! Check out the event page for all the spooktacular details!!!!

Make sure to purchase your ticket/s today! The event space is limited so tickets are limited and based on how big a hit the last event was, they will probably sell out fast! Get your spot asap and don't miss out on the magic!!!!

*Important Note: Admission into the Disney Parks is not included in the tickets for these events. Also, The Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party is a special event hosted by Disney and requires a "special event" ticket (subsequently, if you are an Annual Passholder, your pass will not apply to this event). Make sure to purchase your ticket to The Mickey's Halloween Party on October 13th, if you want to join us for the afterparty! :-) 

Have a great day, remember to live your life as a fairytale, and I hope to see you at The Happiest Place on Earth for some magical planning and scrapbooking fun!!!!!

"Summer" Printables

Hello there! Today we want to offer you a couple fun summer printables to use as you like! One is a 3x4 decorative pocket card (to use for project life, etc) and the other is a decorative A5 planner divider.  You will find that they work great for the summer season and match beautifully with our new "Sweet!" collection!

3x4 pocket card

A5 planner divider

Hope you all are having a great summer so far! Remember to live your life as a fairytale! Hugs!!!! -- Andrea

Sweet! :-) : Reveal and Release!

Hello there! It is Andrea here, founder of The Fairytale Club and believer in dreams coming true! Today I want to share with you "Sweet!" -- all of it, all together, in it's entirety, for you and your summertime papercrafting dreams to enjoy!!! Yaaay! This is our full reveal and release of the newest collection from The Fairytale Club! I've been sharing this collection, or "kit", if you will, in sections with you so far (part 1, part 2, and part 3), and today I finally get to share everything all together and declare that it is now available for purchase! Yaaaaay again!!! So, first, let's look at an overview of "Sweet!" 

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"Sweet!" is a gorgeous, vibrant and fun summertime collection that is made for those who believe in Unicorns and would like to maybe hang out with one by the pool while they eat ice-cream! I just love this collection! It makes you feel like summer is just brimming with possibility, play and lots of happiness, hope, sunshine and rainbows! I think the bright rainbow colors that make up the color scheme for the collection create that feeling quite well. 

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Yes, the color scheme for "Sweet!" is very rainbow-licious! And I am loving all the great imagery in this collection! All the sweet treats, like the candies, lollipops, popsicles, cotton-candy and ice-cream are super adorable! I think the tropical birds are so sweet, especially the love birds on the pattern paper. The references to music and singing are so great and just help give that summertime feel of listening to the summer hits in your car and singing along to the loud and awesome tunes on the radio. The sunglasses that show up in the collection, the ones on my fabulous girl and also the ones by themselves are so very cool! But of course, my favorite image in the collection has to be my rainbow unicorn...I mean, look how stinkin cute she is!!!

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Talking about the collection, its color scheme and imagery, I want to make sure to talk about my inspiration for designing "Sweet!". As you know, every collection/kit that I design is inspired by Disney fairytales. And this collection was of course, no different. For "Sweet!" my fairytale inspirations were: 1) Wreck It Ralph and specifically the character of Vanellope and the land of Sugar Rush and also Ralph himself!, 2) Inside Out and specifically the Rainbow Unicorn, but also Riley's feelings and memories, 3) Lilo and Stitch and especially Lilo and her love of Elvis Music and Ice-Cream, 4) Aladdin and particularly the Genie and Iago, and 5) Teen Beach Movie and specifically the characters of Lela, Tanner, McKenzie and Brady...and definitely all those great songs and vintage beachy vibes!

I want to briefly talk about the themes of "Sweet!", which are of course -- candy, rainbows and definitely Summertime! Summertime is definitely a prominent one! However, the theme that really runs throughout sweet and all its imagery and the theme that all the fairytales that serve as my inspiration have in common...well, it is being yourself and being happy with who you are! The unicorn, the references to feelings and also phrases like "I am me" and "I am me and that's ok!" are all indicative of this theme.

Now, I know that I went over all of the specific parts of the kit/collection in my previous "Sweet!" posts (part 1, 2, and 3 of the reveal)...but I do really quickly want to talk again about all the amazingness that comes in the collection this time around. We have tons of gorgeous patterned papers! I am loving the patterns! Such great colors and patterns that I think are just perfect for Summer! 

I definitely want to point out a few of my faves! For example, I love love love the ledger pattern that we have this time with the gorgeous rainbow colored circular pattern on the back called "Surf, Sand, Sun ".

Other faves of mine include the "Sweet!" paper that has that wonderful script on the front and that super gorgeous watercolor rainbow on the back...the "Summer's On" paper that has the watercolor sprinkles on the front and the word "summer" all along the back, and the "S-U-G-A-R" that has that cool pink with rainbow stripe on the front and the lollipops on the back, and definitely "Be Yourself" which has the really cool polka dots on the front and the pretty blue and green and pink rainbow pattern on the back. 

Oh...and the unicorns...definitely the unicorns!

I think all of these are perfect for summer layouts, mini-albums, diy projects, cards, planners, etc! So many great and versatile patterns in this collection!

There are so many super adorable  planner dividers that come in this kit/collection too! I know that you know that the Rainbow Unicorn is my fave, but that ice-cream cone is definitely a close second!

And how cool is it that this time around we are including the month overview calendar pages as well as the weekly ones! So great that you guys get those now too in addition to all our adorable decorative dividers/dashboards!

In all our kits we have such super amazing embellishments! This kit is no different and includes just so many really great embellies to use for your planner or scrappbooker or other papercrafter needs! 

The puffy alpha stickers are definitely a must have! I love that you get both the awesome pink and the fabulous blue too! And the font is so cool and perfect for summer!

Each month we like to do our label and tiny word stickers because they are just so useful and work great no matter what project you are working on (planning, scrapping, project life, mini albums, etc.). The bold bright colors of these labels are incredible!

This kit we are doing these fantastic new embellishments that I am super duper excited about! They are these wood veneer hearts with gold foiling, in fun, candy colors that match the collection! I am so excited to use them and create with them!

And of course we have are super adorable ephemera pack this month as well! I am so loving the pieces in the ephemera pack for this kit! I love the unicorn, the tickets, the cute and really useful yellow notebook paper that is so great for journaling! And all the sweets pieces are adorable -- especially the candies with the little heart faces!

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Alright, well, that is it for our full "Sweet!" collection reveal and release! You can now buy our new "Sweet!" planner kit, scrapbook kit, or "happily ever after kit" (which has absolutely everything in the collection in it...plus a special surprise) right here and now! Have fun shopping and I hope you have a great time creating for the summer using this fabulous and adorable, perfect for summer, collection! It is definitely super duper sweet! Have a great day, a great summer, and remember to live your life as a fairytale!!!