Adding Foil To My Journaling with Carrie

March 27, 2018 Guest User

Hello everybody! It's Carrie here with another colorful spread in my 6x12 Project Life album using the Happy Day kit. This time around I decided to add foil to my journaling, which is actually the most common way I tend to add foiling to my scrapbook projects.

To start off I decided to trim one of the planner inserts down to 3 by 4 inches. I used that lovely light purple paper with a design that reminds me of a retro geometric eye. I super love that paper! Next I typed up my journaling on my computer and printed it onto the 3 by 4 inch card using a laser printer with black ink. Then I plugged in my Heidi Swapp Mink machine, chose setting number 4, and picked out a pink foil. (You can also use a regular laminator if you don't own a Mink machine.) Once my machine was warmed up I layered the pink foil over my card and ran it through ( sandwiched in a protective plastic that came with the Mink machine, however you can also just use a piece of plain copy paper folded in half). I just love the way the light pink pops with the pale purple!

With the journaling card on the left side of my spread complete, I decided to add one of the purple die cut flowers directly onto the photo of my daughter eating her fruit snacks. I wanted the leaf of the flower to match the green in the photo so I added yellow Stickles (glitter glue) which turned it the perfect shade of green. To finish off this card layered the "sweet" flair on top of the flower.....Which I thought was fitting since the fruit snacks she is eating in the photo are quite sweet :)

Since I knew I wanted to add the date somewhere, I decided to use some Thickers to spell out 01.05 directly on to the other 4 by 6 inch photo in this spread. And that's it for the left side.

The right side of my spread is actually a half-page insert that is 3 by 12 inches. I added my photo to the middle pocket page and decided to cut another one of the planner inserts down to 3 by 4 inches. This time I chose the paper that reminds me of cherries, except in place of the red cherries there are red hearts. Super cute! I knew I wanted to add gold to this card, so I took two of the gold foil hearts from the sticker sheet and attached them to a sheet of transparency. Then I cut them out and layered them behind the "cherries" from the die-cut pack. To add a little bit more dimension I decided to pop it up over one of the "cherry" designs on this card. As a final touch, I added more yellow Stickles to the green leaves, again so they would match the green in my photos.

For the final pocket in this spread, I decided to add another filler card. This time I cut down a piece of 12 by 12-inch paper to 3 by 4 inches. Since the design on this paper reminded me of the transparency that came in the kit I decided to layer the two together, and I really like the pop of gold that it adds. Next, I took two more of the flowers from the die-cut pack and layered them onto the card popping them up with foam adhesive. Again, I added yellow Stickles to the leave of the rose. Lastly, I used the same thickers from adding the date and spelled out "YUM" since this card is directly across from the fruit snacks photo. And that it for this glittery, metallic spread. I hope you enjoyed it and found a bit of inspiration.

See you next time,

Cheers!
Carrie

Double Sided Shaker Dashboards with Henny

March 26, 2018 Guest User

Hello and happy Monday lovelies... Henny again today, sharing with you my new shaker dashboard I made for my A5 size planner.

So loving the designs and colors in this “Happy Day” kit. Can get enough of these cute adorable houses 🏠 which I’ve chose it and made as my shaker dashboard.

So what I did was cut all of the windows out. Then I used one sheet of clear pocket and placed on the back of this house. Before I filled up the pocket with sequins or confetti, I secured the pocket by taped every squares in every window, and leave the top pocket stayed open to fill with sequins later on.

Once I have the pocket taped in, I used my “permanent waterproof marker” to draw the lines on every windows as the imagination of the window. Then I filled it up with lots of sequins and confetti, and closed the pocket with clear tape one side adhesive.

And added embellishments with some diecuts from the kit.

Here’s the back side of the dashboard. I thought the bag of sequins was too plain if letting it be like that. I wanted to cover all of the appearances taped so I used one of the dividers from personal size ones, chose this kitty design and thought it would be perfect to hidden the tapes.

Anyways, I cut the kitty face off from the picture, then using my waterproof marker again and start drawing the kitty face. And there we have a double sided shaker dashboard ☺️.

Can’t say it done yet before completing the planner pocket, isn’t it? I simply love with how everything has turned out.

Thank you so much for stopping by. I hope you have enjoyed your time reading this by like this post.

Until next time 😉.

Sincerely yours,
Henny

“Me & You” Mermaid Disneybound with Tiffany

March 25, 2018 Guest User

Hey everyone! Tiffany here with a simple mixed media project for my Disney mini album using the Happy Day kit. My last trip to Disney was back in October/November of 2017 and I still haven’t done my album for it. But I thought it would be great to create it with different bits from The Fairytale Club kits. For this spread, I did a mixed media layout with a simple pocket page.

For the layout, I wanted to document photos with my friend and I Disneybounding as Ursula and Ariel at the Magic Kingdom. We were going to do Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween party in the evening, so we decided to dress up for the day and take lots of photos at the park. We took quite a few in front of Cinderella’s Castle, so I wanted to scrap those. For this layout, I used a selfie we took. I prepped my white cardstock first though with a bit of acrylic paint. I used mermaid-ish colors, so a lot of teals, purples and light pinks. I then took my mermaid scale Jane Davenport stencil and added a bit of modeling paste to add some scales and texture to my background.

Once my background was dry, I began building my photo cluster. I layered a white doily and some purple and white tissue paper behind my photo, which I matted on the mint with white polka dot paper from the kit. I also layered a bit of the pink and white striped paper behind that as well. When I had all of that down, I began embellishing. I added two of the heart die cuts on the top left corner of the photo, and used the “me & you” gold foil die cuts from the Take Note kit as my title. I then sprinkled some enamel dots from my stash, along with a clear sticker that says “good times” and a pretty bow paperclip.

For my pocket page, I only used one photo of us. I embellished that photo with a banner die cut from my stash layered on top of this purple with white polka dot paper from the This Is Halloween kit. For the 3x4 pocket next to the photo, I used the “Happy Day” card from the cut apart sheet. Then for my 4x6, I used a Simple Stories transparency that says “magic” and stapled my journaling, which I typed and printed on vellum. I kept these pockets simple because I wanted to use that transparency but didn’t want cover too much of it up. I like the idea of it being a window to see through to the page behind it.

That is my spread. I hope you enjoyed it. It’ll go nicely into my Disney mini album that I’m making for this trip!

2018 Design Team Call

March 24, 2018 Guest User

Do you love to plan, scrap, make? Do you believe in dreams coming true and “happily ever afters”? Do you want a unicorn? ...yeah, me too! Then we’d be excited to have you apply for our design team! We’re looking for a few crafters to join us for the next six months. As a kit club that has planner kits and scrapbook kits, we are looking for some planner addicts, scrapbook lovers, and also paper crafters who do both to add to our talented and creative design team!

(P.S. if you make cards, do snail mail, project life or home decor paper crafting... we’d love to see your work too! So if you do one of those things instead of, or in addition to, planning and scrapbooking, don’t be afraid to apply and show us what you can do too!)

The Application

What we’ll need from you:

Your name:
Email address:
Blog/website address:
Facebook:
Instagram:
Twitter:
Pinterest:
YouTube:
5-6 projects: projects using the kit would be especially appreciated and preferred (so we can see how you work with the product), but is not necessary.

We’d also love to hear more about you. If you’d tell us a bit more about you, maybe…

Do you consider yourself more of a: a) planner, b) scrapbooker, c) planner & scrapbooker, d) other paper crafter (card maker, project lifer, etc.)
Your crafting story (when did you start?, why do you love it?, etc)
Your favorite Disney or other fairytale characters
Your style (as a scrapbooker or planner, other paper crafter)
If you’re currently on any design teams or if you’ve been on any in the past

Team Duties

Here’s what we'll expect from any future design team members:

Six-month term
Three projects per month with photos, blog posts and social media promotion to match
Promotion of classes, events, sales
Help to promote the kits on the Internet (sharing your creations in Facebook groups, on your social media channels, Instagram, youtube, etc.)

How to Apply

We look forward to seeing all your submissions! Send the required information to thefairytaleclub@andreabethke.com. We’ll be taking applications until March 25th at midnight PST. We’ll be reaching out to new team members a week or so after that and announce the full team around that time.

Happy Day Memorydex with Carolee

March 24, 2018 Guest User

Hi everyone! Carolee here again with some more Memorydex cards for you to check out!

First up is this fun one commemorating my time at Plannercon. Luckily, the colors of the Plannercon badge and the colors of the kit coordinated perfectly! I punched the scallop along the side and attached it to a card I cut from one of the personal sized dividers. I don't use a personal size planner so the dividers are great for small projects like these! After that, I took a bit of the pink striped divider, used it as a mat for my photo and lastly, added the die cut from the pack and one of the cute gold stickers!

Next up is the first of two cards that are just me messing with Facebook filters. After printing this picture out on my Instax, I cut a mat from the scraps I had after cutting the base cards. Next, I added some of the bigger sequins around the picture and finished it off with another piece from the die cut pack and one of the flare.

I'll admit, I'm a little obsessed with this filter. Vine bunny ears and flowers? Yes please! I used the die cut and a flower I fussy cut from a scrap to mirror the flowers on the ears. Finally, two of the gold stickers were used to make my title. I feel like this is definitely the headpiece of a magic bunny princess! I used a couple of sequins to dot the eyes because it's never a bad time for sequins!

Last up is this really simple card. I decided to keep it really simple since I went with a more busy background. This was a "what's in my bag?" type of post from my Instagram. These are the things I like to use my Memorydex for: little memories that aren't enough for a big page but that will still be fun to look back on.

So that's it from me! I hope you liked seeing them and that it encouraged you to check out the Memorydex system yourself. Until next time, happy crafting!

DIY Traveler's Notebook Pocket and Bookmark by Kim

March 23, 2018 Guest User

I have 2, love at first make Travelers Notebook projects for you today! The newest collection from The Fairytale Club is entitled "Happy Day" which it always is when I work with this kit!

First, I made this laminated bookmark. I just trimmed off the A5 dividers to make it fit within my standard traveler's notebook. Andrea always designs things so versatile you would never think that I'd miss out on the width of that size of a design. The ribbon accent where I feed it through the grommet will definitely make sure I never miss my place!

As crafters, you know adhesives are paramount in construction. Well, my favorite non-toxic permanent liquid super glue adhesive, called Wellbond, is perfect to make sure those special sequins are never going anywhere. Just a little dab and it's perfect!

On the back side, I added a pocket to hold some of the lovely goodies!

I used the top half of a personal divider, since it is exactly the same width, to create this pocket before laminating. I did adhere the bottom and sides but through the process of laminating, It seems to make sure the pocket is absolutely secured and not going to rip in any way. I then used my craft knife to create the slit after to make sure the pocket was fully functional.

The other project I made was a secure folder insert for my Travelers Notebook. Now I know I didn't invent the wheel on this one but when I've made them in the past, stuff has always slipped out the side of them.

To mitigate that I added a snap enclosure on the prevent that slippage from happening. As it turns out snaps are just as easy (or easier) to add to paper crafts as they are to clothing. Who knew?!

The decorative front side was fun to make as well! The cut a-part paper was one of my favorites this time. With the busy background, I knew the gold 'princess' sticker would get lost, so the black and white tag really came in handy!

And don't forget not everything deserves to make it into the waste bin. I used a discarded paper punch piece to place in the front of the snap for decoration too!

Thanks again for joining me here today!

XOXOX
-Kim

Pretty Dividers with Henny

March 22, 2018 Guest User

Hello and good morning... Henny is here again today to share with you the advanced pages from my previous posts for the Fairytale Club blog.

Per mentioned from previous posts this page I made it into a slide pocket out of 2 sheets of dividers that I stitched together.

Before going to the next page, I wanted to make something just as a fun part and I took a sheet of divider with Unicorn picture and I cut it out, laminated it and punched holes to fit into the ring.

A close up picture to show the holes that I punched.

And here’s the back side of the unicorn, added the “believing” word that came from the kit.

Next one is where I did a little journaling or we can say as scribbling away. I decorated it using some diecuts and sticker from the kit as well as some from my stash. I think it turned out great and looking cute too :).

Next page is just another inspiration quotes divider which I love to have all of them tucked in my planner as reminders and inspirations whenever I opened up my planner.

While the back side I used the left over acetate from this kit, stitched it together with the divider and made it as a pocket.. yayyy for another pocket :). Perfect size to store my stickers and many more.

Lastly I printed out this digital picture in a vellum paper and I just love how simple it is.

Thank you everyone for looking through and reading along with my blog posts. Again I hope this will give you an idea to work on your own project and to be more inspired. Please come, stop by and say hi to my IG account @Hennytjcraftcottage God bless you now and always :)

Until next time!

Sincerely yours,
Henny

Wish Upon a Star with Allie

March 21, 2018 Guest User

Hello friends! Today I'm sharing a mixed-media inspired layout, full of mists, stencils, and stitching!

I knew I wanted to use my sewing machine on this page, so this time I started by determining what I wanted to sew down onto the layout. I settled on punched out hearts using the adorable patterned papers from the Everyday Wishes collection. To liven up the background before I added the hearts, I used the packaging technique with various shades of mist, and added lots of splatters for good measure. I grabbed my favorite heart stencil with some modeling paste, and added hearts towards one side of the page. While that was drying, I cut out the big rainbow from one of the planner pages.

Once everything was all dry, I used my sewing machine to stitch down the hearts, making sure to pop up the sides for extra dimension. I added my photo with the rainbow and a few embellishments. I kept it simple to let the background have all the focus. Thank you for joining me today, I hope you feel inspired!

Through the Looking Glass, a Memory Planner Spread by Tiffany

March 20, 2018 Guest User

Hey everyone! Tiffany here with a little self-reflective spread in my planner. I’m keeping this planner like a personal development/vision board type of thing. Sort of like a real-life Pinterest board where I add quotes and maybe the occasional magazine cut out, but it’s basically a place to play. I find myself just snipping and sticking things into this planner just to have something fun and enjoyable to do. So it’s not really a true memory planner or anything, though I do find myself journaling little bits of how I’m feeling or what I’m thinking about in that moment. So it’s sort of like a memory planner in that way, since when I do add journaling it’s more self-reflective and about me.

So for this spread, I did a bit of self-reflecting on self-love. I used a recent selfie that I took of myself and played around with different papers from the kits. I tried my hardest to just stick with the new Happy Day kit, but in my true fashion bits from previous kits found their way onto my project! So a few bits from Take Note and Jolly, I believe. Anyway, I began by building a cluster around my photo. I layered papers from Happy Day and Take Note, along with some white tissue paper packaging, an old book page, and a white doily. I ripped most the of papers because I liked the texture it creates. I also intentionally used the side of the book page that says “Through the Looking Glass,” because this spread is about self-reflection; sort of like me looking in the mirror at myself. I thought it was serendipitously appropriate.

When I have my cluster, I begin my embellishing. I first put down a few of the floral die cuts from the Happy Day ephemera pack, tucking them in between layers of the ripped paper. I add the days of the week washi tape strip so that it peeks out from behind the cluster too. I also add two “love” bits from the Jolly kit: one is a clear gold foil sticker and the other a piece of branding strip. I use a white foam “loved” sticker that I had in my stash as my title. I sprinkle some enamel dots from my stash, along with a heart sticker from Take Note layered with a foam heart on top of it. I then finish off this page with a few random pen scribbles.

On the opposite page to my photo cluster, I have my journaling. I basically typed it all up on my computer then print it on some American Crafts textured cardstock and cut it down to size to fit over my Heidi Swapp memory planner pages. Before I glued it down though, I ran it through my sewing machine to give it a rather wonky sewn border. I love the added texture that gives to the page. I then taped it down with some sturdy double-sided tape, and ruffled up the edges a bit.

And that’s it! Like always, I keep everything super simple and on the minimalistic side, as my nature. I really hope you like this spread and remember, you can keep your memory planner however you want. You don’t always have to tell a story day to day. Sometimes journaling about how you are or how you see yourself now, is the story.

Inside Kim's Personal Planner with Happy Day

March 19, 2018 Guest User

Oh Happy Day it is! The newest collection from the Fairytale Club is all about being fresh while keeping to a Retro Vibe kinda feel!

I started off with the main pockets of my personal sized ring bound planner. The pockets are all filled with tags and die cuts galore. Her kits make it so easy to decorate! Everything is usable straight out of the kit!

The dashboard is made using the gold geometric acetate included in the kit! I then added a few of those fabulous golden stickers too add to the glimmer! Most of the decoration is actually on the dashboard behind.

The tab, die cut, as well as the washi tape strip are secured there to create a layered look.

The next kit dashboard came with these cute houses on it. I decorated it with a cut-a-part happy day card with some black paper for pop, the new washi tape strips and a die cut.

On the back of the next dashboard is a cute notecard but the cool part about it is the flair that I turned into a paperclip charm.

All I did was drill a hole in each of the flair. I used some twisted wire and added some o rings to create the dangle and before assembling, I strung some of the sequins on the wire. It is a simple and sweet way to use the flair in your planner!

I was fond of the bookmark I made form the acetate too. Pieces of paper were cut to fill in the negative space between the gold lines.

And because the pattern paper is two-sided, it was really easy to execute. I did laminate it and then slit the hole punches so that it can be easily put in a different place every day!