Merry Christmas Layout with Allie

Hello there! Allie here today, sharing a layout I created using the Jolly collection!  Today's layout is all about snowflakes. I used a cut file along with some fun items in the kit to create a Wintry look!

I started with a fun cut file from the Silhouette Store. I backed all the snowflakes with blue shades and laid it down on my page. To add some extra interest, I placed it on top of the beautiful gold snowflake transparency. Next, I added layers of tissue paper behind my photos for layers. I used die cuts and the gold stickers around my photo. Finally, I finished with snowflakes and heart die-cuts spread among the snowflakes! 

I love all the blues with the pops of gold, I think it makes the snowflake look extra magical. Creating this page got me in the mood for some snow. Thanks for joining me today!

Adeline's My Christmas Dreaming Planner

Hi my fairy friends,
This is Adeline for The Fairytale Club blog today with a new post.
Today, 17 days until Christmas !!! I am so excited.

I introduce you my Christmas planner: Kikki K Pause White/Gold, it's a personal planner perfect for Christmas season with his gold foil dots.

For this month I decided to make a daily journal called My Christmas Dreaming, inside each day a list of those little things that will make Christmas perfect for me.

For the first six days of December, I made my lists with the Jolly kit. I hope you will appreciate this post and why not make your own Daily journal: My Christmas Dreaming.

See you soon for a new post on the blog.
Have a Merry Christmas time with your family and friends.

Kiss from France,
Adeline @thefrenchplannergirl

A "Happy" Sequined Layout

Hey everyone! Tiffany here with a super simple layout using the Jolly kit. I've been in a very minimalistic kick lately and exploring the "less is more" concept. To be frank, I think my work has always had a bit of a minimalist aspect to it. But it's just recently that I've been embracing all the white space. So for this layout, I went super simple and had some fun creating a little layout of my dog Joey with just a few pieces from the Jolly kit. 

I started with a small little cluster at the bottom right corner of my page. I arranged my main photo of Joey, a smaller photo of his paw prints in the snow, and a squared white snowflake on pink card from the cut apart sheet. I don't usually work with multiple images on layouts, so keeping my squares together in a grid-like layout on my page really helped me put together this page. I backed each square with the same pink patterned cardstock to keep that consistency. I eventually end up repeating that pink pattern at the top left corner in order to keep the piece symmetrical and draw your eye to both ends of the layout.

I layered a white doily behind the photo of Joey before I began embellishing. I mostly wanted to keep to the snowflake pieces from the ephemera pack, but I did end up fussy cutting a few trees from one of the planner inserts and scattered them about my photos as well. I mostly tucked the pieces behind my photos so that they add a pop of color and interest to the page, while still keeping everything looking minimal. I also tucked a few of the gold foil star stickers as well to balance out the gold on my page. I had a strip of paper with a white scalloped trim from a previous project, so I cut out the scalloped bit and added it as a border to my photo. I then added a gold epoxy star from the Take Note kit at the top right corner of the photo of Joey. I finished off this cluster by adding the gold foil "happy" sticker over the snowflake card to act as my title.

I want to highlight my use of the gold and silver sequins that came in the kit and how I created movement and a lot of sparkly interest in my very minimal layout. I love creating pages that go from one corner diagonally to another corner. For this layout, my main cluster is at the bottom right corner of the page. So I used a mixture of the sequins and the gold foil stickers of snowflakes and stars to move the focus from that main cluster to a smaller little detail at the top left corner of the page, where I folded over the white cardstock to reveal a bit of that pink pattern paper. I love doing this technique. You can easily accomplish the same look with ink splatters or enamel dots. But I thought it was such a fun way to use the sequins that came in the kit.

To finish off my spread, I simply added my journaling as the border of the page. I've been loving this look lately, so I did it again on this layout. I love how it adds that special finishing touch to such a simple layout.

Andrea's BPC Christmas Planner Class! Yaaay!!!

Hello Everyone! It is me, Andrea Bethke, founder of this here wonderful Fairytale Club and I want to say Happy Holidays to everyone and share with you some exciting Holiday news!!!! I have a new class that is up on Big Picture Classes (BPC) and it is called "Planning and Documenting the Season"! It is a Christmas-time Planner class and it's super duper fun and helpful! In the class you will learn how to stay organized during this super busy time of the year...but also how to document this special time that goes by so very quickly!

I show you how to create a memory planner for the Season using The Fairytale Club's beautiful and whimsical Jolly kit! You get 6 lessons, a bunch of videos, lots of free printables (like a calendar, to do list, shopping list, traditions list, and more), tips and tricks on organizing your Christmas-time, cool new ideas and techniques for making a super cute planner, and thoughts on incorporating pictures and ephemera into your planner so that you capture and remember how special this time of year really is!

Here is how BPC sums up the class: Plan your way to a successful holiday season—and capture your memories along the way! In Planning & Documenting the Season, Andrea Bethke shares her love for planners and Christmas while giving you tips and tricks to make the most of your seasonal organizing. Learn how to document the magic of the season right alongside your gift shopping and to-do lists. You're sure to love this way of both tackling the busiest time of year and savoring the most wonderful time of year! 

I am honored that BPC asked me to do this class for them and I am so happy that I got to do it for them and for you! For those of you already subscribed to BPC, you can go ahead and start taking the class now, all the lessons are up and ready for you to dive in...just look for the class in the new classes section. And for those of you not subscribed to BPC, you can sign up for a free trial right now and basically get my class for free!!! :-) Yaaaay! 

Alright, I will see you all later as there is a lot of fun new stuff coming your way this month so stay tuned! Happy Holidays everyone and I hope your December is already off to a fantastic and fairytale start!

Holiday Cards with Henny

Hi there.....hope your Thanksgiving was warm, cozy, and filled with love and family!  I can’t believe it’s already Wednesday! The weeks fly by so quickly...December will be here pretty soon! 

I have a handmade Christmas card with matching envelope to share with you today. I’ve used the cutest collection from The Fairytale Club called Jolly. I love the colors used, from red and pink, to mint green and aqua blue. 

Picked up the Santa 🎅🏻 die cut as the focal point for this card which I’m sure He’d brought smiles to everyone’s faces 😊. For the background, I thought  I use brighter patterned ones would be a great choice. On the left paper, I cut strip of a different paper that comes with Santa prints and used it instead toss it away 😊. Then used some of other and started arrange everything together!

For the bottom, the background of this Joy word, used another different patterned paper and made it into doily using my doily metal die. Love one of the flair buttons that comes from the kit, added on the top of the Joy word to create more dimensional ☺️.

As the interior of the card, I created a simple design by used up the left over papers and used the Dear Santa letter die cut as well as some other die cuts. 

I hope you like my layout card inspiration, and I’m hoping that it gets you in a Christmas mood to start creating your own holiday cards. Thank you for stopping by today. Have a wonderful day.

Sincerely yours,
Henny

Teresa's Christmas Dreaming TN

Hey guys! Teresa here today! 
And here are some pics of my TN set up! All ready for December. 

This kit was so fun to play with! I like to think that’s my husband and I dreaming of Christmas, I love all the pastel colors mixed with the reds and greens! 

Let’s start with how many die cuts you get in this kit! And the adorable buttons! Which I turn into paperclips! 

The signature Deer which is in almost all the kits! I love her!

Up close of the dashboard I glued down on my notebook. 

This kit is perfect for Xmas! You get two sheets of stickers, buttons and die cuts galore! And so much cute scrapbook paper and adorable dashboards for your planner! 

Let It Snow Layout with Enza

Hello everyone! This is Enza, and today I am sharing a new layout that is all about snowflakes. I really wanted to use the Winter Wonderland Acetate Transparency included in the “Jolly” kit, so I created a background to go with it.

I built my page around a snowflake wreath cut file, which served as a starting point for the placement of photo and embellishments. I cut a circle out of the acetate piece to fit the center of the wreath. I love how the gold snowflakes pop against the background!

To create dimension and bring in more color, I layered a few snowflakes, which I die cut out of patterned papers from the kit, on top of the white ones.

Next, the photo. I created some layers behind it and adhered it down using foam adhesive. The embellishments in this kit are so fun, it's hard not to use them all! The word “Joy” from the ephemera pack was perfect as my title. Isn't the pink deer just adorable? I completed the layout with a few more embellishments, gold and silver sequins that come in the kit, and enamel dots from my stash. This layout turned out so sparkly! I love it!

I hope you'll feel inspired to use the beautiful “Jolly” kit to create a layout that is all about snowflakes ;)

Have a lovely day!
Enza

Adeline's Christmas Planner using Jolly!

Hi my fairy friends,

So that's it: Christmas season is here 🎅🦌🎄⛄❄
I hope you spent a very good Thanksgiving 🦃!

Today I share with you my tn week layout with Jolly kit.

A happy week for me with so many fun things to do like going to Paris ❤❤

For this decoration, I used ephemera, stickers and film stickers of the kit.

I hope you enjoyed it.

See you soon on the Fairytale Club blog.

Kiss from France
Adeline @thefrenchplannergirl

A Winter TN Junk Journal

Hey everyone, Tiffany here! For my project today, I decided to create a "junk journal" styled insert for my pocket traveler's notebook using the new Jolly kit. I mainly stuck with the light, white colors of the kit because they are my favorite and I wanted the journal to look more winter wonderland as oppose to Christmas, since I don't celebrate it. I love how the kit has those light pinks, blues and mints in it as well, so I pulled out everything in that color scheme. I also pulled out some white paper doilies and old book pages from my own stash to include in my insert making.

What I did first was create my insert cover. I mostly used the personal sized planner divider inserts for this. Since a pocket TN is so small, the personal planner inserts are perfect if you don't want to cut into one of the 12x12 papers. I took one of the inserts that I liked the plain pattern of (this pink star one) and cut it down to size. I then cut out a bunch of squares from the other different patterns and lightly glued them to the back side of that pink pattern insert, which covered up the Christmas part of that divider. Once I had a patchwork quilt feel to it, I went ahead and ran it through my sewing machine so that the end result really ended up looking like a patchwork quilt. After folding my cover in half, I embellished the edges with some lace and pom pom trims. I just love the delicate touch the trims give to the cover. I kept my cover super simple and added two of the snowflake die cuts layered in the center.

Next, I compiled my pages for the insert. I cut down to size a few of the papers from the kit. With the mint sided paper and the blue snowflake paper, I ended up applying a thin layer of white gesso over them, in order to soften and lighten them up just a little bit. I didn't want any dark papers in my journal because I wanted to keep it looking like a winter wonderland. I love how the gesso distresses the papers a bit and the white just looks like snow! I did this same technique with the Faith Love Joy planner divider as well, to soften up that darker blue color. Once I prepped those pages, I cut everything down to size, even some of my old book pages and assembled my insert. I added some plain white paper to, just so that I had enough alternating pages in my journal. I folded in a couple of white doilies as well and once I had everything ordered the way I want it, I stitched it all together.

Once I finished my insert, I went to work on a matching bookmark or page marker. I took that Faith Love Joy planner insert that I had gessoed and cut it down to size. I then took all the little leftover bits of paper I had on my desk and patchwork them all together like I did my journal cover. I ran it through my sewing machine as well. I then added a white doily, a piece of ripped book page and a bit from the cut apart sheet that says "Love Joy Faith" on it. Once I glued all those pieces down, I  ran it through my sewing machine again to add stitching around the "Love Joy Faith" piece. I took another scrap and made it into a little tab to add to the top of my page marker. I also stitched that on. I embellished it with a phrase sticker from the Take Note kit that says "love to create" and another scrap piece of paper that I cut into a small banner strip, which I also ended up sewing on.

Now, since the pocket TN I'm using only has one secretarial pocket on the inside, I got a little creative with a small glassine bag, which I taped to the pocket. I decorated it with some old book page scrap and a few of the tickets from the cut apart sheet. On the inside, I used some scraps too make a little tag that reads "hello beautiful." The phrase stickers I used are from the Take Note kit. I added a paper clip from my stash just to hold the bag secure in place. In the actual secretarial pocket, I just made a card out of a planner divider scrap just to act as decoration for my pocket. I layered a doily, some book paper, and that cute little polar bear that I cut out of the cut apart sheet. I used the scalloped edge to that bear card at the top and just embellished the card with one of the gold foil clear stickers that says "Joy." I covered the back of the car with a poem from the Alice in Wonderland book I took the book pages from.

I love how soft and delicate everything came out looking. I don't really know how I'll fill this little journal up just yet, but I'm thinking of doing a daily photo challenge in December, so I might just want to add a photo a day that I take into its pages. I'm still very indecisive on that one. But I hope you enjoyed this little walk through of my journal!

Merry Christmas from Allie

Hello friends, today I'm sharing a fun, festive layout using the Jolly collection! 

This layout was all about the happy colors featured in the kit--I can't get enough of them! I started with a cut and fold file from the Silhouette store. I folded the trees and backed each one with paper. I used watercolors to paint the other half of the trees to coordinate with the paper I backed them with. Next, I glued down the folded part of the trees, and my background was complete!

To help my photo stand out, I added a doily behind my photo. I used the die cuts to add a title and continue the tree theme. Finally, I finished off with a few snowflakes for added interest.

I had so much fun creating this layout, and it definitely got me in the mood for Christmas! Be sure to check out the Jolly kit!