Kim's Advent Planner

I can't imagine NOT celebrating the reason for the season, Jesus.  I also can't imagine not remembering past Christmas joys full of Santas and stockings as a child and making those fun memories for my own munchkins!

First off is my Dashboard page with a lot of layers. A divider which has the foiled acetate, patterned paper, Vellum and a piece of the cut apart paper.  I then added some die cut pieces and a small vintage picture of a Christmas storybook I read as a child.

Let not forget about the planner pockets now!  I made a little grouping of patterned paper on top of which I have the die cut Jolly as well as the cutie-patootie snowman.  I also made a couple more vignettes for each pocket just to enjoy as I open my planner each day.

The sequins in the kit a bit more sparkle to my fun front, don't you think?!

As we turn the page I used the clear divider that came with the planner but I cut out Santa and backed him with a personal divider in that lovely candy cane paper.

Opposite page, All I added was a quick tag with another vintage image I remember as a child and then a die cut bow.  I attached it only in the middle so that it would be 3D-ish.

On the back of Santa, the personal divider that I adhered to the divider, I just added some washi and a nutcracker dude!  The quick tag and paperclip always make a fantastic way to spice up a page too.

Lastly, I decorated the monthly pages that will house my verses for the day.

Thanks so much for joining me today!
-Kim

Candy Cane Christmas with Enza

Hi everyone! Enza here, and today I am sharing my first layout featuring the new Jolly kit!!! This kit is just gorgeous. Not only for the vibrant colors, which are absolutely amazing but for its magical feel. My layout was inspired by the candy canes in the collection.

I started with a candy cane cut file. I modified it a little bit, as I wanted to create a space in the middle for my photo and embellishments. The striped pink, red, and white patterned paper worked perfectly with it, as it gives the right amount of color, with a very festive look. 

After adhering down the picture with craft foam to give it more dimension, I fussy cut the big candy cane you see at the bottom right corner out of one of the planner dividers. I love the way it stands out! Then, I kept adding die cuts, stickers, and pieces from the cut-apart sheet. Layering is one of my favorite techniques. I find that it adds a lot of dimension and texture, and gives more interest to the page. 

I finished the layout with gold star sequins (from my stash) placed all around the edge of the circle, and white pearlescent Liquid Pearls.

I'm very happy with how this page turned out. It's happy, festive, and nostalgic at the same time.

Thank you for stopping by! Have a “jolly” day!
Enza

"Mini Memory" Memorydex Cards with Carolee

Hey everyone! I just discovered the Memorydex system and I love them for what I call "mini memories". Those are little things that you want to scrap but maybe it's too small, you only have one picture or it's a bigger project you want to take your time doing later. I decided to grab my "This is Halloween" kit and use the Memorydex to keep a few of these precious smaller things.

First up is this card. It's probably hard to tell what's going on in the picture, but it's actually the start of the work in my office/craft room. The corners had been painted and I was so excited! That's why I grabbed this Magic sticker and had to add the exclamation point from the ephemera pack. I matted the photo on one of my favorite papers from this pack (I love purple and polka dots!), added a couple of stars and a date stamp and it was done!

Next up is this picture of Andrea and I from the Halloween event at Disneyland. I have a ton of photos from this and will want to do a much bigger project with it later but for now, I wanted to get this fun picture scrapped. This one was really simple because I loved the constellation stamp I found in my stash and wanted to make sure that was seen. I grabbed the star paper from the kit, die cut it into a Memorydex card then stamped it in pink with the constellation stamp. With the purple in the photo and the pink stamp, this little kitty witch was the perfect addition. I put her up on some foam tape to give it a bit of dimension. I finished it off with the gold sticker and it was ready for the Memorydex!

Next up is this card featuring my #spookycute nails! I sometimes get nail art done and I try to especially around the holidays and events. Again, this isn't something that's big enough for a full scrap page, even in my TN, so the Memorydex is perfect for it. I grabbed the tag because it matched the purple on nails but then I realized that it also worked as a great title for the card! I cut the card from the sketched star paper, added the tag and photo, then used the sticker sheet and ephemera to finish it off.

Last but not least is this card featuring movie tickets from a recent double date my husband and I went on. This was actually our second time seeing Thor, it's that good! For this one, I cut the card from my favorite paper and added the pink tag behind the movie poster. After that, I stapled the ticket down and added a couple of hearts to tie everything together. 

This system is totally new to me but I'm obsessed with it! Had you ever heard of it or tried it out? Let me know! Until next time, happy crafting!

Memory Keeping in Your Everyday Planner​​​​​​​ with Tiffany

Hey everyone! Tiffany here with a fun planner spread using pieces mostly from the Take Note kit, with paper bits from the Girly & Strong kit mixed in. This spread turned out looking more like a scrapbook spread to me. I had just come back home from a week at Disney World and well, it took me a bit to readjust to a normal everyday life. I was halfway through the week before I created this spread, so since I didn't have many things that I needed to do for the week, I decided to make it extra fun and just scrap. I included a photo of the castle in it, the first time I included an actual photo in this planner (I normally leave photos for my memory planner) but it's always fun to mix it up and do a bit of memory keeping in your everyday planner.

So I really wanted to work the layers in this spread. I tried to use the scrap pieces of paper I had left over from other projects before cutting into the larger sheets. I ended up backing my photo on this beautiful watercolor paper from the Girly & Strong kit. I have most of my kits thrown in together and absolutely love that they coordinate with each other. After layering some ripped paper from the Take Note kit, a white doily from my stash, and paper bits from Girly & Strong, I began embellishing with pieces from the Take Note ephemera pack and everything just worked so well together! After adding a few epoxy and matte stickers, I finished this little cluster off with a light pink paperclip from my stash that just says "Friday" on it.

On the opposite page, I built up a small cluster on the top left corner to balance out my main cluster on the right page. I used the same pattern papers and ripped them into strips just to add that same texture to this left side. I added a bit of white doily here as well. I embellished with a few epoxy and matte stickers from the Take Note kit. That "hello" butterfly sticker was one of the boxed stickers that I just fussy cut the butterfly from. I like how it looks this way; it just seemed so out of place on my page when it was in the box. Finally, I added a few puffy dot stickers from the Take Note puffy word stickers. I finished off the spread with some pen scribbles and writing in a few holidays happening that week.

Definitely take a look at the process video below to get a better feel of how I put together this spread. I really enjoyed this process of just playing on my planner page!

So Thankful for You with Allie

Hello there! Today I'm sharing a fall layout using the "This is Halloween" kit. I wanted to make a page that had Thanksgiving vibes, but I actually don't have any unscrapped pictures of Thanksgiving! I used a recent picture of my family around a table of food, so I figured it was close enough.

I started out by cutting my title and some leaves from my Silhouette Cameo. I used watercolors to paint my title in colors that coordinated with my layout and backed the leaves with patterned paper from the kit. Next, I created my background with mist splatters and modeling paste. I punched out circles from patterned paper to add to the background and then added my photo and title. I finished off by adding the leaves and some gold die cut hearts from the "Take Note" collection.

I enjoyed challenging myself to create a Thanksgiving themed layout from a Halloween collection. I hope you feel inspired!

Thanksgiving "Grateful" Printable

Hello everyone!  It's Andrea here, and I just wanted to share this printable I designed in celebration of the thankfulness of the awesome, upcoming season!  Happy Thanksgiving, and Happy Holidays!

Left-click the images to download the full-size versions of these graphics.

6x8 at 300dpi

4x6 at 300dpi

Teresa's Halloween Planner

Hello! Teresa here with my Halloween planner set-up! 

This is a picture of my lil munsters last Halloween! They killed it, and this kit went so great with their photo. 

I love adding lil fabric bows and such to Dashboards, to give em a lil pop! I use normal planner Girl glue sticks to and start gluing everything done! 

I totally love the tags you get in almost all the kits! I hole punch a bigger hole so they can fit in my planner rings. 

These are slightly stuffed pockets with all the adorable Halloween die cuts you get in the kit!

Thank you for checking out my post today! Is it bad that I will want to use this kit even wayyy after Halloween. 🖤

Use What You've Got | Re-Purposing Travelers Notebook Insert Covers with Kim

Hey Kim here!  How are you guys today!

I'm one of THOSE people...I've spent so much time, energy and effort on making something I would hate to throw it away when I was done using it. That's why when I set up my Design Team planner, I decided to re-purpose my old pocket notebook insert covers and dashboards to make them bigger and better!

If you haven't had a chance to see them the first time around, below is the YouTube video with a page by page walkthrough and a tutorial on how I made an acetate pocket.

And here is the original blog post on Fairytale Club Blog

Now, let's get to the transformation!  I did a walkthrough video to show and talk about how I organize my Design Team planner using my predesigned items from the Pocket Notebook.  But I also talk about how each part come together so wonderfully from this endless Take Note collection!

I tackled this dashboard by adding a piece of patterned paper as a base and then adding the previous 'everyday' dashboard from my pocket travelers notebook.  Scraps make great additions, in this case, the flower is the last of the littlest bit I had left from the It's mama paper to make a cool little corner piece.

The next one is with this cute and sweet little guy I couldn't get rid of!  He again is starring once again as an insert cover.  I did have to cover up a couple of bumps and bruises with some more stickers and paper pieces, but you would never know the way it turned out. 

On the back side, I just played with pattern and color and the flower dashboard on the right is brand new to the setup.  I had to make a few new pieces, you know! ;)

This time, instead of wrapping the old insert around the new sized one, I decided to slice it down the crease and use only the front. I also added the tag made previously and grounded it on a new background paper.

I also used part of an acetate to enhance the back side of this cover.

I love how Andrea has been designing this lined note paper for the kits!  I thought it would be great to jot down some upcoming tasks I wanted to get a head start on.  It's the perfect cover for my projects inset.

The back side of this cover was newly designed but the one opposite with the foiled adhesive cutie is my favorite!  I had to keep him as is for an insert surround.  

The last insert cover I had to use paper from the "Sweet" Collection because I had run out of all large paper pieces.  BUT the colors work famously together. I then added a few more list papers to jot ideas down right on the cover!

Love you guys!  See you next time.

-Kim

"Spooky" Halloween Layout with Sarah

Sarah here today to share with you my layout using the spooktacular "This is Halloween" kit!!

I started my layout using a white sheet of cardstock, I pulled a few Shimmers from my stash and sprinkled them on the background. I set that aside to dry and started to add layering behind my photo.

I knew I wanted my picture in the center of the page, as that would give me a lot of room to play and layer. I layered some of the papers behind my photo and then broke into my planner inserts and chose a few to add in with the layering.  After I had the layers the way I wanted I decided to bend up the sides of each of the layer.

Once my sprinkles were dry in the background, I went ahead and added my photo and its layers to the background and worked from there. I like to do this a lot - get my photo where I like it and then work the rest of the page from there. I looked through my planner inserts again and decided to cut the cute black cat sitting on the pumpkin out and use it as an embellishment.  I added it to the right side of the photo and slid the cute little Boo heart sucker die cut behind it.

I knew I wanted more on the layout, so I decided to add a strip of the purple polka dot paper to the top and a strip of the orange, too.  They tied in well with the plaid paper in the layering behind my photo, and I decided I would add some of the purple to the bottom as well. 

Then it was on to embellishing!! I pulled out the die cut pack and started to play. There were so many cute pieces, I had to reign myself in or I would have used it all! But instead, I pulled out a few pumpkins, some little bats. and the word 'Boo.'

I knew what I wanted the title to be, and the Boo would be great to mix in. So I added the Boo to the upper left side of the layout with a little pink pumpkin and then added the rest of my title with thickers from my stash, so it says 'Boo @ the Zoo!' That's where we took the picture. It was a fun-filled night for adults at the zoo with lots of fun, scary zombies and some cute things made out of hay.

Well I went on and added the bats around the title and then moved to the bottom of my layout. I added two little pumpkins and that adorable tag that says, 'xoxo.' Finishing off my layout. I added some stitching and ruffled up the edges of the rest of the papers.

Thanks so much for coming by and seeing what I created today!

"Jolly" is now available!

Hey everyone!  Andrea here, and I just wanted to officially announce that "Jolly" kits are now available to purchase through the website, so start your subscription to The Fairytale Club today or get "Jolly" on a one-time basis.  Kits will be shipping out on the 10th or 11th.  And don't forget that older collections are still available as whole kits or as individual components ("This is Halloween" components coming soon!).