A Little Bit of Country

I have to admit that this layout was really out of the box for me for a couple of reasons. First off I hardly ever scrapbook about myself. I never like my pictures and I don't know what to journal. Second, I used a lot of diecutting on this page-something I'm still getting used to. I had my cricut for months before I started really using and enjoying it. All in all though I'm really pleased with the way this turned out. Being a country girl through and through all of these 3birds products worked out perfectly for me! I started out with patterned paper from the Straight From the Nest pack (I love the clouds!) I then used 3birds tweet trimmings for the adorable banner across the top. To make it appear like a clothes line I used cricut images of clothing. I added some dimension with cardboard, felt, and denim to make it feel more country and tada! Hope you like it!

Supplies:
3birds pp-Straight from the Nest
3birds cardstock
3birds banner-tweet trimmings
3birds trees- 3-d stickers & the larger tree was cut from one of the tweet trimmings borders
flowers-3birds Garden of Flowers
tag-3birds Tag You're It
cricut cartridge
denim strip
ricrac
denim brads
assorted buttons & cardboard heart

Sweet Baby Boy

I love how soft 3Birds products can be. I decided to use some of the gorgeous die cut pp to make a baby LO about my DS when he was just a few days old. Keeping things somewhat muted and monotone, with some beige thrown in, really helps create a soft, delicate look.

Supplies:
- All Dressed Up Die Cut Lace Paper
- Tweet Trimmings
- Must Have Cardstock

Peek A Boo!

I have a quick and simple LO to share today, using a fun sketch from Sketchy Thursdays. Sometimes using a sketch is the best way to get yourself going and scrapping fast. There are many blogs and sites out there that have plenty of different challenges as well as sketches available for free. And I'm happy to say that this LO was picked as a Sketchy Thursdays Fav! :)

Supplies:
- Must Have Glittered Cardstock
- Must Have Cardstock (Jewels)
- Tweet Trimmings
- Perfectly Pretty Petals
- 3D Embellishment Kit
- Sticky Sparkly Letter and Shapes

Spring Type Layers

Ahhhhh.....Spring is in the air! Daylight is longer, trees and flowers are starting to bloom and it's time to get those cute sandals!

Even in Spring time though you can still layer. Layer on your projects that is! Here is a layout I did that layers several layers from the Garden of Flowers Kit.







I love how many sizes and colors are given to give you endless layering options! To hold all of my flower layers together I used Premium Craft Glue by Helmar Adhesives. I definitely know they will not fall apart!

Other products I used for this project are:
Super Sticker Nestibles
Must Have Cardstock Basics
3D Embellishment Kit

Thanks for stopping by!

A Touch of the Irish!

My daughter loves to dress up for the holidays, and St. Patrick's Day is no exception. This year she had an adorable t-shirt & necklace to wear. After getting her to pose for these cute photos I turned to 3birds products to make the perfect layout. I instantly knew that I wanted to use the chipboard shamrock/saying from "Sticky Sparkly Play on Words", andI used stitching to make a nice green border. The rest of the layout just came together after that! I love the touches of pink with the green, and hope that you do too!

Supply list:
patterned paper-3birds focus on photos & straight from the nest
clover rubons-3birds overstuffed paper kit
assorted buttons
tiny alphas-making memories
chipboard title-3birds sticky sparkly play on words (I just cut the end off so that it stopped at the
shamrock)
stickles-ranger

A Flowery LO

Hi everyone, I wanted to share a fun LO where I got to make some lollipop flowers out of the fun paper in the Focus on Photos paper stack. The pp is covered in these pretty circles of varying sizes, so I cut them out and stacked them to make the flowers, securing with a brad in the center. Don't forget to scrunch them up a little and fold upwards to give them some dimension. This is a picture form Thanksgiving back from 2004, and I finally got to scrap it!

Supplies:
Background pp - Straight From The Nest paper stack
Paper to make flowers - Focus on Photos paper stack
Cloth leaves - Garden of Flowers
Die-Cut Fence - Tweet Trimmings
Large Circle sticker - Flocked Sticker Nestables
Letter and number stickers - Overstuffed kit
Wood Bird - Overstuffed kit
Gingerbread and "Family Time" dimensional stickers - 3D Embellishment Kit

Fun Design!

I had a lot of fun creating this last layout with 3birds products. I used a mix match of different products and love how they all look together! And I just happened to be lucky enough to find 3birds patterned paper that perfectly matched my kitty's eyes, how perfect is that! To give this layout a little extra personality I added some stitching and a freehanded painted frame. It also helped that I had an adorable subject to scrap!

Supplies:
pp-3birds Straight from the Nest
alpha stickers-3birds overstuffed paper kit
sticker labels-3birds overstuffed paper kit
flowers-3birds perfectly pretty petals
birdcage sticker-3birds 3-d embellishment kit
ribbon-unknown

assorted buttons

More easy cards!

Just wanted to share a couple more of the fun and quick birthday cards.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Focus on Fotos
Sweet Trimmings
3D Embellishment Kit
Super Sticker Nestables and Flocked Sticker Nestables
Bling Goodie Box

Fun Spring Colors!

With the weather around here going from cold and snowy to windy and rainy, I was in the mood for a bright layout with a spring feel. I chose some cheery green, orange, and pink patterned papers from the 3birds Straight from the Nest and Focus on Photos paper packs. I just loved the tree paper and the tree embellie from the 3-d embellishment sticker kit was the perfect accent. I added some coordinating stickers from the Tag Your It! from 3birds and some fun accents to give it some texture. After adding some stitching around the edges I had my spring layout! Now if it would just actually be Spring!

Supplies:

pp-3birds Straight from the Nest & Focus on Photos

Cardstock-3birds and Bazzill

ribbon-making memories and unknown

stickers-3birds Tag Your It!

Tree-3birds 3-d embellishment kit

flower-3birds perfect petals

Celebrate National Craft Month MARCH 1st!!!

3Birds will be launching 3 brand new products on HSN March 1st for the Kick-off of National Craft Month!! We are very excited about these great products.. and it seems our amazing design team is too!! We sent them the new products.. and you've been seeing amazing ideas and samples from them featuring the 3 new kits!

The kits are.....drum role please?...... Tweet Trimmings, a border kit that has epoxy accents! each design comes in 2 different color ways for added use! This is a MUST HAVE!!!

Kit 2 is All Dressed Up Layered Layouts. This kit has fun and fresh to elegant and sophisticated designs.. 8"x8" papers as well as 12"x12". Simply Stunning!

Kit 3 is the Bling Bling Goodie Box! A fresh sparkle must have! New colors and shapes! Beautiful Baguettes to fab flowers.. this kit will dress up all your projects!! Not just for paper crafting!

Donna will be on HSN March 1st, 2011 at 11am, 6pm & 7pm launching these 3 great new projects! Be sure to fly over to our Facebook Page to see some more samples featuring these great products!

Kids birthday cards.

I think I mentioned before that kid birthday cards go like butter in this house. And I'm sure if you have young kids at home, you're in the same boat - there is a conveyor belt of kid birthday parties to attend and I can never stock up on enough cards for those! So I decided to make some more, and I can't begin to tell you how easy these are - if you gather your supplies it should only take a few minutes each.

Supplies:
Cardstock: Focus on Fotos
Cupcake: Sweet Trimmings
Party Hat and Gift Box: 3D Embellishment Kit
Flocked Circle Sticker: Flocked Sticker Nestables

Supplies:
Cardstock: Focus on Fotos
Cupcake: Sweet Trimmings
Hearts: 3D Embellishment Kit

Do you see why these are so quick and easy? It's just a matter of affixing a couple elements and you're done - a cute, bright and happy handmade card to go!

Any Day Is A Good Day...

To create!!! And create away you can with all the amazing products from 3 Birds!!!

3 Birds just came out with some amazing new products and one of those newer products I used on this layout



See the super cute banner! Yeah!!! It came from the new Tweet Trimmings pack. So cute and guess what?!?!? There are two of them in the pack!!! The other banner has different colors so you have twice as much variety!

All the patterned papers came from the Focus On Photos Scrapbook Kit, a kit I go back to over and over again because I love it so! Alphabet stickers came from the Over Stuffed 10,000 piece rub on and sticker set (yes I said 10,000!). And the fabric flower came from the newly released Garden of Flowers 8 pack Fabric and Felt kit. 8 different packages of fabric and felt flowers and leaves in every color combination possible!







Go create! Thanks for stopping by!

Tweet Trimmings!

Ok, I am totally in love with the new product from 3birds, Tweet Trimmings! I was so excited when I opened these up and each one was prettier then the one before it. As soon as I saw this peacock, from the Tweet Trimmings, I knew what picture would look fabulous with it. This photo of my niece had the exact colors as the peacock and is such a fun picture that I new it would go together perfectly! I added some touches of stickles to accent the peacock and title and am so happy with the way it came out, it just might be one of my new favorite layouts!

Hip Chick supply list:

cardstock-3birds
fabric flowers-3birds garden of flowers
buttons-3birds cute as a button pack
title-cut from 3birds straight from the nest cricut cartridge
stickles
peacock-3birds tweet trimmings

Got a bad pic to scrap?

Sure, it's nice when you have gorgeous pics to scrap...but what about when you have a memory you want to document, but alas, no good pics to go with it? I had that problem when it came to scrapping our New Year's - DS would NOT cooperate! We had many out-takes...and never did get that one great pic. DS's lack of cooperation combined with bad lighting...well, this was the result. So I decided to just scrap them all! And throw a humorous title in, just to pull it all together. Here is the resulting LO, "How Hard Can It Be?" How hard can it be to get one good pic? Sometimes impossible :)





Supplies:
Paper, Cardstock, Die-cut chipboard and cardstock: Opposites Attract (Winter)
Sticker: 3D Embellishment Kit
Sticker Letters: Overstuffed Kit

A Little Bit of Sparkle!

I knew as soon as I picked this photo to scrap that I wanted a really fun and girly layout to go with it. What better way to do this then with fun colors and sparkle! Right off I thought of the 3-D stickers from 3birds. I love the dimension and all of the details that these stickers have to offer and of course the beautiful sparkle! I only needed a few embellies to make this whole layout pop, and just adore the way it turned out!

Supplies:
patterned paper-3birds straight from the nest paper pack

butterfly sticker, birds on a branch sticker- 3birds 3-D stickers
flower-3birds garden of flowers
rubons-3 birds overstuffed paper kit
banner sticker-3 birds overstuffed paper kit
jewel-3birds bling goodie box
metal rimmed tag-office supply store
ribbon-offray
brad-My Minds Eye
cardstock-bazzil scalloped and 3birds brights
button-3birds cute as a button stamp kit

Donna Sighting on HSN 1.20.11

Be sure to tune into HSN this Thursday, 1/20/11, for some crafting inspiration! Be on the look out for our very own DONNA STORK bringing you some great deals on 3Birds products!! Donna will be on at 7am, 12pm noon, and 5pm.

Newsflash... Time to throw a PARTY!!!!

We are just super excited about the release of our 3rd cartridge from Provo Craft and Cricut!! Fly over and check out 3Birds "Life's a Party" Cartridge, you won't want to plan another party without it!! All coordinating themes allow you to create a party everyone will be "tweeting" about!! From invites, to cupcake wrappers, hats, party boxes, banners and more.... this makes party planning a snap! Once the party is over...create coordinating layouts with the cartridge too!!!

Scrapping With Your Scraps

We all have them. You know those bits and pieces of patterned paper that are leftovers from other projects. What do you do with them? Do you toss them or save them? I suggest you save them and then gather a bunch of them together to create a fun and colorful layout using your scrap leftovers.

Take a look at this project. I used a bunch of different patterned papers from Focus On Photos Scrapbook Kit. The colors of the different papers are all complimentary in nature so they work together well. It didn't take a lot of time and effort to grab the scraps and I was quickly on my way creating a fun layout! To bring attention back to the photo I used a circle shape from the Cardstock Flocked Sticker Nestables Kit. So many cute and fun choices in the kit and I love the texture!

I had a title from the Play On Words pack that worked for this project and finished it all off with layered paper flowers from the Pretty Petals Paper Flower Kit. So fun and easy!



Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

My Girl - Acrylic Mini Album

I wanted to do something fun with all the super cute 3Birds supplies I have, so I decided to make a clear mini. These are easier than they might seem, and it's actually fun trying to disguise things on the backside. I have wanted to scrap these pics of DD for a long time now, and I finally decided to do it! All the sparkly stuff 3Birds makes was just perfect.













Supplies:
Paper: Straight From The Nest and Focus on Photos
Cardstock: Must Have Glitter Stack
Embellishments: 3D Embellishment Kit
Journaling spots: Super Sticker Nestables - Tabs, Borders, and Frames
Die-Cut Cardstock: All Dressed Up Again Glitter and Foil Layered Layouts
Bling: Bling Goodie Box
Flowers: Garden of Flowers and Perfectly Pretty Petals
Chipboard: Sticky Sparkly Letter and Shapes