Straight from the Nest

A Little Bit of Country

2011-04-25T08:00:00.002-04:00

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

2011-04-18T23:45:00.000-04:00

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!

2011-04-04T08:00:00.001-04:00

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

2011-03-23T10:52:00.005-04:00

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!

2011-03-21T13:02:00.004-04:00

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

2011-03-16T06:00:00.015-04:00

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!

2011-03-07T08:00:00.000-05:00

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!

2011-03-02T08:38:00.000-05:00

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!

2011-02-21T10:30:00.003-05:00

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!!!

2011-02-21T08:44:00.004-05:00

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.

2011-02-17T08:00:00.003-05:00

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...

2011-02-09T11:09:00.005-05:00

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!

2011-02-07T08:00:00.000-05:00

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?

2011-02-02T08:00:00.000-05:00

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!

2011-01-24T08:00:00.001-05:00

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

2011-01-19T12:01:00.003-05:00

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!!!!

2011-01-19T11:44:00.004-05:00

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

2011-01-19T10:37:00.002-05:00

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

2011-01-17T08:00:00.004-05:00

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

Fun Project!

2011-01-10T08:00:00.001-05:00

With all of the days spent indoors between cold weather and snow, both me and my daughter always have a stack of books nearby. There's nothing better then a good book on a cold winter's day/night. My daughter is constantly looking for something to mark her pages with so I got the idea to make her a bookmark today. And of course I used 3birds products to make it! To make it cute and girly I pulled out my cricut cartridge Straight from the Nest and choose a cute icecream cone design & then worked around that. She loves the way it turned out and I might just have to make one for myself now! I'd love to see any you decide to make as well.

Supply list:

patterned paper-3birds focus on photos

ice cream cone-3birds straight from the nest cricut cartridge

rubons-3birds over stuffed kit

ribbon-maya road and fancy pants

grommet-WeRMemory Keepers

sprinkles-etsy

And To All A Good Night

2011-01-05T22:29:00.004-05:00

Happy New Year faithful blog readers! Isn't the new year so much fun? Full of possibilities and promise! And of course fun and cute holiday photos to scrap.

I'll admit my daughter was a bit embarrassed when she saw this project but it is such a fun photo and the Opposites Attract kit is so perfect that I just had to scrap it!

Along with the Opposites Attract kit I used some of my favorite fabric flowers from the Garden of Flowers 8 Pack Fabric and Felt Kit. The diversity of colors and shapes makes it so you have a ton of options to mix and match with! I can never tire of using them and the variety...oh the variety!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Happy 2011!

2011-01-03T08:00:00.001-05:00

Hi everyone! Did you miss us? We took a little blog break for the holidays, but we're back now with some 3Birds fun to share :) I wanted to start the year off with a "before and after" LO. I know many people are simple scrappers, but that is certainly not me LOL I can't stop adding stuff until it finally feels "finished" and it usually takes a lot of adding before I get there.

So here is a LO I did...

You can see that it already has a lot of stuff on it, but after looking at it for a little while, I decided I couldn't leave it alone and I needed to do some more stuff to it before I could let it go. I had the perfect solution right at my fingertips - the 3D Embellishment box, of course! The fastest way to add cute, dimensional elements. I also wanted some more color and to fill the white space (I;m not big on white space), so I got my pink Glimmer Mist out and gave a few quick spritzes. If you try this after you already added a pic to the LO, make sure you use a scrap piece of paper to cover the photo. So here's the end result:

I bet some of you might actually prefer the 1st one, but I like the 2nd one better - it fels less "boring", and there's more to look at. I also hope it shows you should never be afraid to do stuff to your LO - if you don't like how it looks, it just means it isn't finished yet. You can keep adding and subtracting stuff until you get it right. Yesterday I made a LO with some leaves on it, and after a while of looking at it, I decided they were the wrong color. So I forcefully ripped them off, glue and all, and added different ones. So I'll leave you with a motivational quote to keep in mind next time you're scrapbooking: "If it isn't right, it isn't finished" :)

Supplies:
Paper: Focus on Fotos
Carsdtock: Straight From The Nest Must Have Cardstock (Jewels)
Die Cut Snowflakes and Purple Swirls: All Dressed Up Again (just cut out the elements you need from the die cut pp)
Stickers: 3D Embellishment Box
Felt and Cloth Flowers: Garden of Flowers
Die Cut Quote: Opposites Attract (Winter)

Happy Holidays!

2010-12-21T09:52:00.000-05:00

Happy Holidays from the 3Birds Team! We will be taking time off to enjoy the season with our family and friends. The blog will be on "break" for the next two weeks. Please come back January 3rd when our talented design team will resume their regularly scheduled projects and posts. See you then!

Wintery Christmastime fun!

2010-12-17T04:00:00.004-05:00

Hey everyone! The Holidays are such a fun time! I have been busy coming up with small little cards and gifts for all of our kid's school teachers, Sunday School teachers, family and friends. Here are a few little ideas for you:

Merry and Bright ornament.
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock
3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit
3 Birds Opposites Attract Winter Edition rubons and chipboard element.

My next two projects used the 3 Birds cardstock and 3d stickers. I also used some of the rubons from the opposites attract winter edition.

Snowglobe it's Christmas card.

Seasons Greetings card.

Merry Christmas!, Charity

Winter Work!

2010-12-15T08:00:00.000-05:00

With snow on the ground, sub zero temperatures, and more snow in the forecast I decided to scrap some snow pictures. Plus I had these adorable photos of my puppy Zoey just waiting to be scrapped. And I couldn't think of a better background paper then this 3birds snow design from the Focus on Photos pack. I added some stickles to the snow swirls for a touch of glitter and used 3birds foil cardstock for my title and the foil diecut border swirl to match. And of course I had to use the papertrails snowflake border as well! I just added a few punched out snowflakes, and I had a fantastic winter layout!

Supplies:

3birds focus on photos paper
3birds straight from the nest self adhesive paper for the photo mat

3birds foil cardstock

3birds white cardstock

3birds snowflake border from papertrails winter selection

3birds foil swirl border from papertrails sparkly

tim holtz stickles in antique linen
cricut winter woodland cartridge for title

snowflake punch-hobby lobby

How About A Little Bit Of Summer?

2010-12-10T10:18:00.003-05:00

Since so much of us is overwhelmed with a ton of snow in our neck of the woods I thought I'd bring back a little bit of summer so that we can all relive the nostalgia of warmer days and remember that this cold weather will pass and warmer days will come again soon!

For this layout I used a bunch of different 3 Birds products. Mixing and matching of products is ok in my book and it should be for you too! Feel free to experiment, you'll love the results!

Here's my materials list:

Must Have Textured Cardstock
3D Sticker Embellishment Kit
Garden of Flowers Felt and Fabric Kit
Sparkly Shapes Kit
Focus On Photos Scrapbook Kit
Paper trails Die Cut Cardstock Borders

To create the arrow shaped banner is really easy! Sometimes we love a certain embellishment but feel that the colors don't quite match. I simply turned the Border Strip over to reveal the white side and inked it using my favorite dye ink. Voila, an instant, one of a kind embellishment that works perfectly with my color palette!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Christmas crunch time

2010-12-08T08:00:00.000-05:00

I don't know about you but I still have all of my wrapping to do! So to get started I made some tags.

I die cut the tags using the Opposites Attract Winter cardstock for the base and added stcikers from the 3D sticker pack to add embellishment.

simply sweet!

2010-12-06T04:00:00.000-05:00

Good day! Charity here to give you a few ideas today! How about some happy cards!

Simply Sweet card.

supplies:
3 Birds Designs must have bits and pieces
3 Birds Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack
3 Birds Designs bling goodie box
3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit
3 Birds Straight from the Nest Papers Set

Party card.

supplies:

3 Birds Straight from the Nest Papers Set
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock
3 Birds Designs bling goodie box
3 Birds Designs must have bits and pieces
3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit

thanks for looking! Have a sweet day!

Crazy for Cards!

2010-12-04T16:30:00.004-05:00

I love to make cards! First of all they only take up a small amount of time & I love to give handmade cards to friends and family. 3birds makes it so easy to make cards with all of their adorable embellies. For my first card I used the 3birds 3-D embellishments. These are fantastic on cards and add so much character! Plus there are so many to choose from. My next card used one of the 3birds monograms and a great star border from the papertrails collection. Hope you like them!

Monogram supply list:

pp-3birds Focus on photos
star monogram sticker-3birds adorning alphas

bracket-cut from pp from 3birds Focus on Photos

star border-3birds paper trails

Winter Wishes supply list:

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

penguin-3birds 3-D Embellishment Kit

words-cricut cartridge Jolly Holidays
photo-3" X 4"

A Beautiful Day...

2010-12-01T08:00:00.001-05:00

with 3Birds! Isn't it always? LOL I just love the bright happy colors in the Straight From The Nest pp pack, so I had to make another LO using them. And of course, no LO is complete without some of the Sticker Nestables!! The circles are my absolute favorite.

And...drumroll....I did get to use my Cricut! For the very first time! As promised ;) I used the Straight From The Nest cartridge and made the leaves on the LO. Aren't they cute? And sooo much cheaper than buying pre-made ones. I didn't really know what I was doing, so I don't think I set the blade to cut deep enough. Which actually turned out even better - I really like how the blade didn't cut all the way through the middle leaf veins part - it would have been something that was supposed to pop out and leave a hole, but I like that it kind of scratched the surface instead to give it more interest. Who's proud of me for using my Cricut for the first time?! :)

Supplies:
Paper: Straight From The Nest
Cardstock: Must Have Cardstock - Jewels (for the leaves)
Cricut Cartridge: Straight From The Nest
Stickers: Super Sticker Nestables and Flocked Sticker Nestables
Frame: Corners, Tabs and Frames (Comes with the Super Sticker Nestables)
Borders: Papertrails (white lace borders and the yellow butterflies are a border cut apart)
Flowers: Perfectly Pretty Petals
Rub Ons: ABC Rub Ons

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

2010-11-24T08:00:00.000-05:00

I love Christmas. I love spending time with family and friends. It is something I look forward to all year. My daughters have inherited this love for all things Christmas, so to decorate a little shelf in their room I made this little banner.

I used papers from the Opposites Attrac paper pack and stickers from the 3D Embellishment kit.

Bling, Baby and Cute as a Button.

2010-11-22T04:00:00.002-05:00

Hi everyone! It's Charity today,sharing a few of my latest 3 Birds creations- and, I have to admit, it's quite an eclectic group!

Here's a card using the Cricut 3 Birds on on Parade Full Content Cartridge.

Baby Boy Card

supplies:
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock - Jewel Tones
3 Birds Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack
Cricut 3 Birds on on Parade Full Content Cartridge
Letter stickers- Overstuffed Craft Kit

Christmas Card gift set.

supplies:
3 Birds Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack
Cute as a Button stamp kit
3 Birds Bling Goodie Box of Embellishments

One more card using the ever so Cute as a Button stamp kit.

Hope you have a great day!, Charity

A Touch of Elegance

2010-11-19T08:00:00.000-05:00

I thought I would share how beautiful and classy 3birds products can be. I knew that I wanted to create an elegant layout for my son's homecoming photos & the diecut swirls from the All Dressed Up Again kit were just perfect for this! To give them even more of a WOW factor I painted my swirls black and added Ranger stickles to the swirls. Yes, you can paint them and they turn out great! Give it a try!

Supply list:

bazzil dotted swiss cardstock

diecut swirls-3birds

pp- 3birds Straight from the Nest

cardstock-3birds black

journal sticker-3birds overstuffed kit

flowers-3birds perfectly pretty petals

crystals-3birds bling box

bling swirl-prima

tiny alpha stickers-making memories

trim-unknown

clear embellie-pink paislee

stickles

Christmas Gift Tags

2010-11-17T08:00:00.001-05:00

Gift-giving season is coming up, which means you will need to wrap up some gifts. And of course, those gifts will need some tags. Sure, you can buy some, but for a scrapbooker, that's Sin 101 :) Take a few minutes and make some gift tags yourself - so quick and easy and of course fun. 3 Birds makes it easy to throw these projects together without too much work. Let me share a couple I made:

Supplies:
Paper and Journaling Sticker: Opposites Attract (Winter)
Stamps: So Many Sentiments
Dimensional Sticker: 3D Embellishment Kit

Instructions:
- Cover a manila tag with paper. You can trace and then cut the paper out, or you can glue the paper to the tag and then cut around it (I did it this way, and I think this is easier).
- Punch a hole where the hole is in the tag and attach a large eyelet (this makes it look more professional).
- Add the 3D sticker
- Add the journaling spot sticker and trim off excess.
- Stamp the "To" and "From" sentiment onto white cardstock and cut out.
- Glue the words to darker paper or cardstock and cut out.
- Glue the words to the tag, then ink tag around the edges.
- Add trim to the bottom.

Paper and Chipboard: Opposites Attract (Winter)
Stamps: So Many Sentiments
Dimensional Sticker: 3D Embellishment Kit

Instructions:
- Cover the Manila Tag with paper, attach large eyelet, ink around the edges.
- Stamp sentiment onto the chipboard and attach to tag.
- Add the dimensional sticker.

And there you have it - super easy and cute tags that will give your gifts that special, personal touch. Also, just wanted to share that I FINALLY got a Cricut! Yay :) I just had to create with the adorable 3 Birds cartridges. So I'm hoping I will have it figured out enough that next time I share here, I will post something with my new machine! Wish me luck!

Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful...

2010-11-15T10:38:00.003-05:00

Good morning blog readers! Laura here to show you a fun and quick layout you can create using all of your winter photos.

I used the Opposites Attract kit to create this layout and for fun I made a one of a kind accent using the brand new All Dressed Up Again kit.

Here's my project

To create the background accent I used the die cut from the All Dressed Up kit as a template and sprayed a mist spray. I really liked the shape of the die cut so I used part of it as an accent and moved it slightly to the side to give it a 3-D look. You want to know a secret? I used the white backside of the die cut rather than the front side that had the color. Feel free to use the back side of any of your accents to create the look, color or feel that you want for your projects!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

gift idea

2010-11-10T08:00:00.004-05:00

I am not much of an altered project type girl. But I really want to hand make most of my Christmas gifts this year. For me the trick is to keep it simple. I choose lavender and burgandy for this frame for my Grandma.

I used the Must Have Glitter Stack
The Must Have Cardstock Stack Brights & Pastels

Using those 3Birds cricut cartridges!

2010-11-09T07:39:00.005-05:00

Hi everyone! Just wanted to show you two cards I recently made using my 3 Birds Cricut Cartridges. Love those things!

You're Tweet Card.
supplies:
Cricut Straight from the Nest Cartridge
Cricut 3 Birds on on Parade Full Content Cartridge
3 Birds Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack
3 Birds Straight from the Nest Papers Set

I used the Birds on Parade cart for my title. The other images are from the Straight from the Nest Cart.

Bird Easter Card.

supplies:
Cricut 3 Birds on on Parade Full Content Cartridge
3 Birds Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter Set
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock
3 Birds Straight from the Nest Papers Set

Hope that inspires you to get out your 3 Birds Cartridges and play!, Charity

All Dressed Up Again!

2010-11-03T08:00:00.000-04:00

For this week's design I wanted to showcase the beautiful cutwork papers in the All Dressed Up Kit. There are sooo many beautiful papers in this collection that it was hard to choose which one to use. Since I wanted to use some recent pumpkin patch photos I choose this gorgeous orange paper for my background. And I love the way it turned out!

Supplies:
brown cardstock-3birds Must Have Cardstock Pack
orange cutwork paper-3birds All Dressed Up Again
white lined paper-3birds Straight from the Nest pack
chipboard title-3birds Sticky Sparkly Play on Words
journal sticker-3birds overstuffed paper kit
flower-3birds perfectly pretty petals
assorted buttons
ribbon unknown
homemade crocheted flower
felt leaf

Oh The Places You Will Go

2010-11-01T08:00:00.002-04:00

Anyone remember that book? Of course you do! Well, it's one of the chipboard titles included in your Sticky Sparkly Play on Words kit. That kit is so full of goodness - letters, borders, titles, quotes, embellies, etc. all in foiled and glittered chipboard. Really cool stuff. I'm also in love with the new Super Sticker Nestables that are flocked - the large stickers make it so easy to create layer - just peel stick and you're done. So here's a really super quick and easy LO I made about my DS - who's always on the go, and is clearly going places :)

I also added pop dots to some of the chipboard to make it have more layers, and I added the 3D embellies for even more dimension - fun and easy!
Supplies:
Paper: Focus on Photos
Cardstock: Must Have Cardstock - Brights (love that bright blue for matting pics!)
Stickers: Super Sticker Nestables - Flocked
Chipboard: Sticky Sparkly Play on Words
Embellishments: 3D Embellishment Kit
Everything you see here is 3Birds except the brad. That's what I love about 3Birds - you buy a few of the kits and you already have everything you need to make beautiful LO's. And they're perfect to take with you to crops, etc - really cuts down on having to pack things or plan things.

Even Ghosts Can Be Welcoming

2010-10-29T09:15:00.008-04:00

Today I want to show you a quick and fun project you can whip up in an evening to help all those little ones feel welcome to your door on Sunday night.

I created this banner using the 3 Birds On Parade Cricut cartridge and Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack. I also used some fun ribbon and string that I already had on hand and a fine tip black pen to outline the edges of each cutout.

To create the "welcome" letters I used both the font and the font shadow features on the cartridge to give the letters depth and dimension.

If you own a Cricut you will definitely want to pick up this cartridge as well as the other cartridge available Straight From The Nest . They are both definitely must haves and have so much versatility and usage. You will find yourself grabbing them more and more as you continue to discover all that is available on them. I know I am!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

pick of the patch

2010-10-26T14:39:00.002-04:00

"There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on
the feelings, as now in October."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

Yep, I am still loving the fall pictures we took last year. Time to take some new ones before winter hits!

All the patterned paper and embellishments are from the Opposites Attract Fall Edition and the cardstock is the Must Have Cardstock Jewel pack

Halloween Goody bags and then a felt flowered card

2010-10-25T06:04:00.005-04:00

Hi everyone! Charity here sharing a few ideas with you!
Mixing a bit of pretty with some Halloween today.

First up, some Halloween goody bags.

supplies:
3 Birds Designs 3d embellishment kit.
3 Birds Designs sticky sparkly letters and shapes.
3 Birds Designs must have glitter stack.
3 Birds Designs bling goodie box
3 Birds Designs must have bits and pieces.
3 Birds Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack.
small, brown paper bags- Target

Then, I have a summery, flowery card that would be perfect for a wedding or bridal shower.

supplies:
3 Birds "All Dressed Up" Layered Layouts Paper Kit.
3 Birds Garden of Flowers 8-pack Fabric and Felt Kit.
3 Birds Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack.
3 Birds Designs bling goodie box.

Hope you're inspired!, Charity

A Touch of Halloween!

2010-10-20T08:00:00.000-04:00

Every year a few hours before trick or treating we have a Halloween party at my mom and dads. My mom makes some fun spooky treats and we have time to get the kids ready for trick or treating (they boys are now too old, so it's just Bree going). I came up with the idea to make some fun place cards to liven up the table, and what better products to use then 3birds! So here's the cute Halloween place cards I made, and I hope it puts you in the mood to make a couple of your own!

Halloween place card supply list:

pp-3birds focus on photos

cardstock-3birds

assorted buttons

twine

label maker

stickers-3birds 3-d sticker kit

black ink

Playing with Mist

2010-10-18T15:30:00.004-04:00

I hope you all had a chance to grab the All Dressed Up Again kit. It has some amazingly gorgeous die-cut papers in there, and there's so much variety, it pretty much fits any topic or occasion. I was soooo in love with it when I opened it up and the intricate die-cutting on the smaller circular paper made me think of a photo of DH and DD in Disney World, with pretty iron-work in the background.

I used Glimmer Mist to create this layout. Here are some steps to make it easy: first, choose the die-cut paper you want to use - for this type of LO, choose a smaller size. Place the paper and your photo on the cardstock to decide where you want everything to be. Turn the die-cut paper over and mist. For extra interest, add the die-cut paper to the misted LO. I also used magic mesh. If you like to slowly dig into some older supplies to minimize your stash, it's a good idea to pair older stuff with new stuff to make the older stuff still relevant and fresh and original. So remember that your All Dressed Up Again package can be used in many ways, and each of those sheets can become a stencil or a mask! There are 2 sheets of each pattern, so you could save one of each pair for misting.

Supply List:
All Dressed Up Again - Glitter & Foil Layered Layouts
Must Have Cardstock - Jewels
Must Have Cardstock - Brights
Sticky Sparkly Letters & Shapes
Over Stuffed
3D Embellishment Kit

Taking Crafting Off The Page

2010-10-15T11:04:00.007-04:00

Hello! Today I want to show you a fun and cute accent you can make using the brand new Garden Of Flowers 8-Pack Fabric and Felt kit.

I love all the variety that this new kit gives! Different colors, sizes and shapes - the combination's are limitless! I create this accent to use as a hair clip for my daughter, but really you can use the same idea for your cards or a super cute accent for your layouts.

Here is how I created these hair clips.

First I assembled all my layers. Like I said there is so much variety of shape and color. I chose to use 4 layers. You can do more, or less, whichever you prefer.

I then glued all the layers together using 450 Quick Dry Adhesive by Helmar USA. I love using that adhesive because it dries super fast and is acid free.

Here is my final assembled pieces. I again then used the 450 Quick Dry adhesive to glue the fabric to a hair clip.

Here is the final project in my daughter's hair. A one of a kind hair clip that she can wear for all occasions!

So there you have it! We'd love to see what fun projects you come up with using the new Garden Of Flowers 8-Pack Fabric and Felt kit.

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

feeling fallish

2010-10-15T08:00:00.000-04:00

While it is still hot here in Mississippi, the leaves are starting to change color. Makes me happy. Fall is my favorite season of all. Since we are planning a trip to the pumpkin patch in the coming weeks I thought I should finally scrap last years pictures :)

These pictures are from the hay ride we took:

I used:
Must have cardstock jewels
3D embellishment kit ( for the title)
papertrails die-cut cardstock borders (the lovely leaves)
Must have Bits & Pieces cardstock die cuts ( the yellow shape at the bottom)
Opposites attract Fall Edition ( the scalloped die-cut and the chipboard journalling block)

Cute as a button so many ways!

2010-10-11T06:04:00.001-04:00

Hi everyone! I was so excited when I got the Cute as a Button acrylic stamp kit! It is so cute, so fun and so very
versatile!

Here's a look at the Cute as a Button stamp kit:

In this kit you will receive:

* Clear acrylic storage box
* 18 2" x 2" acrylic stamp sheets
* Acrylic stamp block
* 2 1" pigment ink pads
* 240 assorted buttons
* Color idea sheet

some of the stamps:

Here are some cards I made using the stamp and button set. I love how you can make a whole bunch of simple cards to give as a card set. Or, you can go all out for a really special card!

Hope this gives you some ideas, Charity

Fantastic Flock!

2010-10-06T08:00:00.001-04:00

I got to sit down this weekend and play with the new 3birds flocked sticker nestables, and they are simply stunning! I love the different colors and shapes in this set and the flock just adds such a rich detail. I chose this blue and yellow combo because the blue perfectly matched the blue of our siamese's eyes. And it was so easy to put together using the different sized frames. I will definitely be using much more of the flocked nestables in the near future!

Sophie supply list:

3birds cardstock flocked sticker nestables
3birds perfectly pretty petals
sticker saying-3birds overstuffed paper and sticker kit
bling-3birds bling goodie box
butterfly-3birds straight from the nest cricut cartridge

brads-making memories
vintage lace

ranger stickles (waterfall)

Card Day

2010-10-04T08:00:00.000-04:00

It was card making day this past weekend, so I thought I'd use some of my super yummy 3 Birds supplies to whip up a couple cards. Recently I had caved and finally bought a die cutting machine - I bought a Sizzix Big Shot. I wanted to be able to emboss, and I wanted to be able to cut thick chipboard, cloth, etc. So I got some embossing folders and figured I could play around with them and experiment. Who knew embossing could be addicting!

For this first card, I embossed my some pretty cardstock from the Must Have Jewels pack. Then I sanded it, and then I covered it with red ink from the Inky Alphas kit. I didn't want the circles to be white after sanding. I like the effect I got - it looks red, but there's variability after the sanding. It's not all a uniform color - I think it adds a lot of interest. Then I added an embellishment from the 3D embellies kit, and the chipboard brackets are from the Opposites Attract kit. The brads are Making Memories and to complete the card, I simply outlined in silver Sharpie. Easy peasy!

I think this card makes a perfect thank you card to give in the winter time!
Supplies:
Cardstock: Muast Have Textured Cardstock - Jewels
Ink: Inky Alphas
Embellishment: 3D Embellishment Kit
Chipboard: Opposites Attract Kit

For the second card, I used the polka dot embossing folder and again, the Jewels pack of cardstock (SUCH pretty colors!!). I then sanded the top, but this time I wanted a different effect, so I didn't cover in ink. I inked the edges of the card with ink from the Inky Alphas kit. Then I used the foil cardstock as a mat for my embossed paper and distressed its edges, as well as the embossed paper edges. I used Making Memories glitter brads again and another 3D embellishment. This would be a great card to accompany a holiday gift. I'm not that into cards, but I think it really does make a difference to give a hand-made card, and it's so quick and easy, there's really no excuse not to!

Supplies:
Cardstock: Muast Have Textured Cardstock - Jewels, Must Have Foil Cardstock
Ink: Inky Alphas
Embellishment: 3D Embellishment Kit

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue

2010-10-03T16:54:00.004-04:00

That saying is not just for weddings anymore! Today I’m going to show you how it applies and works well with all of your 3 Birds products you have on hand!

In this project I’ve infused together products that are a bit older and some that are brand spanking new to show you how well you can keep using all of your 3 Bird products over and over again for different projects that are fresh and new looking!

What I love about this project is that I can use all of my 3 Birds stash over and over again. And these tough economic times 3 Birds is a true value! Here's the products I used to create this project:

Straight From The Nest Paper Stack

Focus on Photos Scrapbook Kit

Cute As Button Acrylic Stamp Kit

Must Have Bits And Pieces

ABC Rubons (brown)

3D Sticker Embellishment Kit

So Many Sentiments Clear Stamp Set

See, a little bit of everything! Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Winners!

2010-09-28T10:03:00.000-04:00

Thanks to all who came by the Nest and entered our cartridge giveaway!

Here are the results!

Winner of Giveaway #1

Daniela Dobson That would be a fun catridge to have!!!

September 21 at 1:47pm ·

Winner of Giveaway #2

Kelly Massman said...: I have Straight from the Nest but would love to win the paper! and the other cartridge! I would be happy to give Straight from the Nest cartridge to someone else if I won it! That paper is amazing! I'm a follower and a new LIKER on FB! STraight from the Nest is my most used cricut cartridge! It's the best! :-) Thanks so much for a chance to win!; September 21, 2010 5:01 PM

Congrats ladies! I will be contacting each of you shortly to send out your gifts!

Thinking ahead

2010-09-27T08:00:00.001-04:00

I am one of those crazy people that start Christmas shopping in August. So for me it is not unusual to be thinking of stocking stuffers too. My 13 y/o daughter loves to read so I thought I would make her a bookmark for one of her stocking stuffers.

I just had to use the new product that arrived at my door this week! Totally yummy stuff. Must Have Cardstock Jewel colors, Must Have Glitter Cardstock (a new favorite!) and the FABULous Cute As A Button Stamp Set.

Winter and Spring

2010-09-24T06:00:00.001-04:00

I'm on a kick with these seasonal cards lately! Last time I made summer and fall cards, so I decided to round out the idea with a winter and spring card.

Winter Card.
supplies:
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack.
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack - Pastels.
3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit.
3 Birds Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter Set.
3 Birds Paper Trails Complete Borders Kit.
3 Birds Bling Goodie Box of Embellishments.

directions:
Cut purple 12*12 cardstock in half then fold to make card base.
Cut strips of cardstock and place on card front as shown.
Add strip of metallic foil sticker along bottom of card.
Place penguin 3d sticker on bottom right of card.
Place greeting 3d winter sticker on upper left of card.
Cut some snowflakes from snowflake border and glue to card.
Add rhinestones for interest.

Shaped spring card.

supplies:
3 Birds Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter Set.
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack.
3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit.

instructions:
Fold 12*12 pink cardstock in half.
Peel off the very center of large sticker.
Place round sticker (heart border, flower) on the folded cardstock, making sure a small amount of the circle hangs over the top, folded seam of the card base.
Before completely adhering edges of flower to cardstock, place some of the leaf stickers underneath the petals.

tip 1: Use a tiny amount of baby power and rub it on the sticky spot that overhangs the top of the card, this will make it non-sticky so it won't be sticking to your table.

Cut around the circular edges of the large sticker, being sure to cut thru both the front and back of folded card.

tip 2: If you want to use the shape of the center of the large sticker, but don't particularly like the way the pattern works with your project you can try this tip: I took the sticker and placed it on the back of a patterned paper that I wanted to use. Then I simply used my scissors and cut around the shape, flip it over and there you have the shape you want with the patterned paper you want.

Once you have the center ready, adhere to the center of your large flower using foam adhesive for dimension.
Use some circle punches and cut out pink then a smaller green circle, layer and adhere to center of flower.
Finish this card by adhering butterfly, title and flower to card as seen.

Hope that gives you some good tips and new ideas!, Charity

Cricut Cards!

2010-09-22T08:00:00.004-04:00

I just adore both of my 3birds cricut cartridges, Straight from the Nest and 3birds on Parade. There are so many different options and layers on these cartridges that you can create countless projects. I find that I use mine the most when creating cards and thought I would share a couple of them that I have made.

On the Road supply list:

pp-3birds Focus on Photos

cardstock-3birds

bird diecut-3birds on Parade cricut cartridge

tiny alpha rubons-Overstuffed paper and sticker kit

assorted buttons

My Wish for You supply list:

cardstock-3birds

pp-3birds Focus on Photos

cake and candles diecut-3birds Straight from the Nest cricut cartridge

sticker & rubons-3birds overstuffed paper and sticker kit

ribbon-making memories

unknown button

Cricut Cartridge Giveaways!

2010-09-21T08:01:00.011-04:00

Time for a giveaway birdies. Want to win some cool products? You have TWO chances to win!

Giveaway #1 - Visit our 3Birds Facebook Page add "Like" so you become a fan as well as leave us a comment. Everyone who "likes" us and leaves a comment will be entered into win our brand new 3Birds on Parade Cricut Cartridge and Straight from the Nest Paper Pack. Winner will be drawn from random and posted next Tuesday September 28th.

Giveaway #2 - If you haven't already done so, become a follower of this blog and leave us a comment about your favorite 3Birds product below. We will draw a random winner to receive our 3Birds Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge and Straight from the Nest Paper Pack. Winner will be posted next Tuesday September 28th. Make sure we have your email address so that we can contact you if you're the winner.

If you've never seen our Straight from the Nest Paper Pack be sure to check it out. It has adhesive backed cardstock that was designed to go through your Cricut. After cutting your shapes, you can peel off the back and have instant stickers!

Good luck to all!

Who's ready for fall??

2010-09-20T08:00:00.003-04:00

The weather is cooling down where I am (Delaware) - how about your neck of the woods? All this cooler weather is making me think fall and autumn colors...and all the pretty fall scrapbook paper, of course! Do you guys already have the 3Birds Opposites Attract pack? It has gorgeous winter pp and supplies on one side, and on the other - you guessed it - fall pp, rub-ons, die-cuts and chipboard. Take a look at what I made using just the stuff from the Opposites Attract pack and some Brights Must Have Cardstock. Btw, if you don't have that, you HAVE got to get your hands on it! I am absolutely in love with this cardstock. I'm a big fan of matting my photos, but I like to keep the mat pretty thin around the edges, so the bright carstock is perfect - it gives the photos a pop without there needing to be a lot of it. I used the orange sheet to mat my photos and I think it made such a difference - it really makes the pictures and the colors of the pictures stand out, don't you think?

Supplies:
Must Have Cardstock-Brights
Opposites Attract
Inky Alphas (Ink for distressing edges and coloring lace)

Cute as a Button

2010-09-15T14:15:00.000-04:00

Did you happen to watch the 24 hour Craft Day special on HSN yesterday? 3Birds had many new products debut. One of favorites is our new stamp kit called Cute as a Button!

In this kit you will receive:

Clear acrylic storage box
18 2" x 2" acrylic stamp sheets
Acrylic stamp block
2 1" pigment ink pads
240 assorted buttons
Color idea sheet

Here is a preview of the stamps:

And here are a few ideas of how to use the buttons and stamps!

The Weather Is A-Changing

2010-09-15T10:05:00.004-04:00

Hello faithful blog readers! I love this time of year! Here in Colorado we're still experiencing mid 80 days, still so gorgeous! But we also know our time of warmer days is ending. Already we're losing leaves on some trees and our Aspens are changing colors.

3 Birds has amazing products you can use to help document your own Autumn memories. Take a look at this layout I created.

To me when I think of Autumn I think of yellows, oranges and blues. So when I saw these patterned papers in the Focus On Photos kit I knew I had exactly what I wanted to use! What I love about the patterned papers in this kit is that I can cut them apart to use bits and pieces of them to create one of a kind accents. In fact I used 4 different papers from the kit. Can you tell? Each of them work so well together and come together so cohesively!

I also used the Paper Trails Complete Border Kit to use a one of a kind leaf border. I love that the kit comes in seasonal sections.

I'm all about adding dimension to my projects so I grabbed my favorite Zap Dots by Helmar USA to give dimension to both the leaf border and the leaf accent. Helmar offers several different sizes and heights of zap dots to use on all your projects!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Laura Achilles
3 Birds Design Team Member

24 Hour Craft Day

2010-09-13T22:27:00.000-04:00

24 Hour Craft Day is about to Begin! Tune into HSN all day Tuesday to get your craft on!
New products froms 3Birds will be presented by our hostess Donna Stork! Be sure to watch at 1am, 2am, 5am,6am,7am,8am,11am,12pm,1pm,6pm ans 11pm!

Here is the program guide all day Tuesday beginning at 12am!

Check out the new products from 3Birds here!

Let us know which ones you love!

Babies :)

2010-09-13T08:00:00.000-04:00

Hello. It feels nice to be back. Over here at my house we have babies on the brain, since we were blessed with a sweet baby girl almost three weeks ago. But it is not just us, we have several friends at church that are expecting as well. So I decided to make my friends some cards.

Both cards use patterned paper from the Focus on Photos paper pack, Must Have Cardstock and a stamp from the So Many Sentiments stamp set.

Birdcage Canvas

2010-09-08T06:00:00.003-04:00

Good morning Sunshines! Do you hear the bird singing his morning song? How about a little project that will be sure to bring a smile to your face whenever you see it?

Birdcage canvas

supplies:

3 Birds straight from the nest cricut cartridge,
3 Birds straight from the nest patterned paper.
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack - Pastels
White and yellow acrylic paint,canvas-craft store. mod podge glue.

instructions:
paint canvas with mixture of yellow and white paint and allow to dry
cut birdcage, bird, shadows, flowers, vines from patterned papers
once canvas is dry begin layering cut papers onto canvas using mod podge.
bend edges of flowers up for added dimension.
display and enjoy.

Hello Beautiful!

2010-09-06T08:00:00.000-04:00

I am always looking for the perfect title or saying for my pages & love all the choices you have with 3birds products! I used the "Hello Beautiful" sticker from the Over Stuffed paper and sticker kit for my latest design. And the colors worked perfect with my photos! There are lots to work with in this kit and I am always discovering something new when I go through all the different pockets. I am also in love with the 3birds Papertrails diecuts. I used one of the beautiful scalloped edge borders on this design. Hope everyone has a great holiday & have fun scrapping!

Supply list:

patterned paper-3birds from the Nest & Focus on Photos

stickers-3birds Over Stuffed paper and sticker it

flower-3birds perfectly pretty petals

scalloped border-3birds Papertrails diecuts

ribbon-unknown

No free time to scrap??

2010-09-01T08:00:00.000-04:00

No problem! This is Ilene here, and today I want to show a LO that you can do in just about 10 minutes or less. I know I keep talking about how much I LOVE the Super Sticker Nestables, and there is a good reason for it - they make it sooooo easy to make cute, cohesive layouts fast! To create this LO, I used pp from the Focus on Photos pp pack - this one is great also, since a lot of the sheets already look like some layering has been done. On my LO here, it looks like I layered that flowery pp on top of the orange base pp, but it's really all one sheet. Also, the distressing around the edges was already done too, so I get a fun distressed look without all the work. Then, I used the new brights cardstock to mat the photos to give them a little pop. Glued them down, added a title, some of the super cute 3D embellies here and there, a little journaling...and that was IT. Yes, that's it!! I told you - fast, easy, and fun.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper: Focus on Photos
Cardstock: Must Have Brights
Embellishments: 3D Embellishments
Sticker (large heart and journaling spot): Super Sticker Nestables
Sticker Letters: Overstuffed Kit

Quick and Easy Titles

2010-08-30T10:35:00.004-04:00

Hello there! Laura here to show you a way to make a quick and easy title for your srapbooking projects.

I find it hard sometimes to come up with a creative or cute title for my scrapbooking projects. But I found that with 3 Birds Sticky Sparkly Shapes Kit A Play On Words it takes a lot of the guessing out of my hands and makes it super easy and quick! Let me show you!

As I was looking over some older photos I came upon this one and knew the perfect title I wanted to use for my project!

To finish the layout I used:

Must Have Textured Cardtock Stack
Straight From The Nest Paper Stack
Focus On Photos Kit
Must Have Bits and Pieces
Perfectly Pretty Petals Paper Flower Kit

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Pretty in Pink

2010-08-23T05:00:00.003-04:00

Pretty in Pink:

My daughter and her cousin loved playing dress-up together on our last visit. I wanted to make a page about them looking so cute. I used the new cricut cartridge from 3 Birds to make the cute little bird princess.

Supplies:
3 Birds Paper Trails Complete Borders Kit
3 Birds Straight from the Nest Paper Stacks
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack
3 Birds Sticky Sparkly Shapes Kit V.5 - A Play on Words
3 Birds Must Have Foil Cardstock Stacks
Cricut 3 Birds on on Parade Full Content Cartridge

Instructions:
Cut dark blue cardstock into 8 1/2*11 piece.
Place pink and blue patterned paper on lower part of cardstock.
Add 3*5 inch photos on left of page.
Adhere white scalloped strip below brown paper.
Cut small rectangle of brown, then smaller rectangle of pink paper and place on the right of photos.
Set title on the right of page as seen.
Use cricut cartridge to cut out princess bird and set inside pink mat on right of page.
Add glittered sticker flowers to page and journaling.

Hope you have a great day!, Charity

My Card Stash!

2010-08-20T08:00:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone! I thought I would share one of my back to school ideas with you. Every year as soon as school starts I make several birthday cards to keep in my stash. I try and make a couple boy cards and a couple of girl cards in preparation for the upcoming birthday parties that my daughter will be attending for classmates. With all of the great 3birds products available this was so quick and easy for me this year. Here is a cute boy card I made using the adorable 3birds 3-D embellishment kit stickers (this little monster was just perfect for a little boy) and a girl card with lots of bling from the 3birds bling goodie box and flowers from the 3birds Perfectly Pretty Petals. I just need to make a couple more and I will be all ready for the upcoming birthdays!

Born to be Wild supply list:

patterned paper-Focus on Photos 8 X 8 Layouts

cardstock-Must Have Cardstock Brights

scalloped circle and title-3birds Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge

twine

ribbon-unknown

metal clip-scrapworks

Happy Birthday supply list:

patterned paper-Focus on Photos 8 X 8 Layouts

cardstock-Must Have Cardstock Brights

Happy Birthday sticker-Overstuffed paper and sticker kit

bling-Bling goodie box

flowers-Perfectly pretty petals

ribbon-American Crafts

I just can't get enough...

2010-08-18T08:00:00.001-04:00

Of the Super Sticker Nestables!! I am sooo in love with these. I especially love the large pack with the circles, squares, etc. For this LO, I used the half-circle sticker. It's so easy! Who needs all those circle-cutting tools they sell, when you can just use these. You get so many since you can take them all apart. I keep using them and I've still barely made a dent. You can dress up your stickers with some stickles, like I did here for emphasis and dimension. I also used two of the borders here. Again, SO easy. Usually, you would have to sit there and use a border punch, but with the stickers, you just peel and place on your LO and all done :) And if you look closely, I also used some photo corners.

I also LOVE the new Bright cardstock. I had to restrain myself - I almost went through all my turquoise in one day! They're so perfect as mats for photos because they're so bright, they make your photo pop against any background. Love, love, love! Here, I also used a Martha Stewart butterfly punch to make bright happy butterflies out of the new cardstock. So pretty.

The little chipboard saying "sometimes I'm so sweet even I can't stand it" is adhered with 3D foam dots. Even though the chipboard comes with adhesive on the back, you don't have to use it - you can still add foam dots to give it a little dimension.

Supplies:
Patterend Paper: Focus on Photos
Cardstock: Must Have Brights Cardstock
Stickers: Super Sticker Nestables
Chipboard: Sticky Sparkly Vs. 5 Play on Words
Swirls (red): Paper Trails
Sticker Letters: Overstuffed Kit
Flowers: Perfectly Pretty Petals

Winner Winner

2010-08-16T11:40:00.000-04:00

and the Pagemats go to....

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tricia said...

I would love to win this, I have bought several kits from HSN. I have not tried these, but with 4 kids, sports, and school starting(crazy busy) would love to try these.
Beautiful pages- great ideas! thanks

AUGUST 14, 2010 12:18 AM

Congrats Tricia! please email us your address so we can send your prize! THREE BIRDS DESIGN@YAHOO.COM

5 Minute Cards

2010-08-16T10:26:00.005-04:00

Hey all! Laura here again and it is a busy time of year!! With summer winding down and back to school in full swing there is so much that has to get done!

Sometimes we think we don't have enough time to create so today I want to show you a couple of cards that I made that took less than 5 minutes each to create!

For both cards I used the 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit. These amazing embellishments make for quick and easy sentiments for all your card making needs!

I also used Sticky, Sparkly A Play On Words for my title, Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack, Perfectly Pretty Petals Paper Flower Kit, and Patterned Paper from Focus on Photos Scrapbook kit.

So simple and so quick! Why don't you grab all your favorite 3 Birds products and create some quick and easy cards today!

Pagemats and a Giveaway!

2010-08-10T11:19:00.001-04:00

Do you love the art of scrapbooking but find yourself pressed for time and ideas? 3Birds has a great product that allows you to get more pages done but still allows you to fulfill your creative needs. Today we would like to focus on... (PS READ on for a GIVEAWAY TOO!)

3Birds Die Cut and Printed Pagemats Version 2 These unique page mats make for a super-quick scrapbook layout that looks homemade! Includes:

12 solid die-cut cardstock sheets
12 patterned die-cut cardstock sheet
24 solid background sheet

Product Features:

Pagemats - easy way to scrapbook and display photos; simply add photos behind the window and you're done
Pages that look like you spent hours creating them
Versatile - embellish the mats with stickers, rub-ons and more for a creative twist; add to home decor by placing in a frame and hanging on a wall
Pocket folder - all of the layouts fit neatly inside this organized folder; easy to carry and stay organize

The best part??? This unique product is now on clearance at HSN for only $19.95! That's 12 double page spreads including the die cut top layers and solid cardstock backgrounds for 1.66 per two page spread! Retail price for two die cut papers and cardstock would be 5.99! What a savings.

To show you some great ideas for using this product, we asked our Guest Designer Guiseppa Gubler to make some quick & simple layouts and more embellished versions using our Pagemats Version 2! Guiseppa really knocked our socks off with her fantastic ideas and beautiful touches! Make sure to visit her blog to see more of her inspirational work!

UR My Sunshine (Simple Version)
Pagemats Vs. 2
cardstock - Must Have Cardstock Stack
rub ons - Perfect In Platinum

other:
machine sewing
pop dots

UR My Sunshine (Embellished Version)
Pagemats Vs. 2
hearts- Va Va Velvet
paper- Bling Extreme and Must Have Cardstock Stack
flowers and brads - Bling Extreme and Perfectly Pretty Petals

other:
machine sewing
pop dots

Falling For You Over & Over (Simple Version) Pagemats Vs. 2
cardstock - Must Have Cardstock Stack
flower and buttons - Bling Extreme

other:
flowers - Silhouette (using Bling Stack and Must Have Cardstock Stack)
pop dots
ribbon

Falling For You Over & Over (Embellished Version)
Pagemats Vs. 2
cardstock - Must Have Cardstock Stack
flowers and brads - Bling Extreme and Perfectly Pretty Petals
rub ons - Kind of a Big Deal Rub On Kit and Perfect Platinum Rub Ons
velvet - Va Va Velvet

other:
pop dots
clouds and birds - Silhouette (using Must Have Cardstock Stack)

Elder Uncle John (Simple Version)
Pagemats Vs. 2
letters - Va Va Velvet
cardstock- Must Have Cardstock Stack

other:
pop dots

Livin' In The Wild Wild West (Embellished Version)
Pagemats Vs. 2
flowers- Perfectly Pretty Petals
brads- Bling Extreme
velvet- Va Va Velvet
cardstock- Must Have Cardstock Stack

other:
pop dots
title and hat- Silhouette (using Must Have Cardstock Stack)

The Farm (Simple Version)
Pagemats Vs. 2
cardstock - Must Have Cardstock Stack
tag - Va Va Velvet
button & brad - Bling Extreme
rub ons - Overstuffed Craft Kit and ABC Rub Ons

other:
pop dots

Birthday Girl (Embellished Version)
Pagemats Vs.2
cardstock- Must Have Cardstock Stack
rub ons - ABC Rub Ons
scalloped circle - Must Have Bits and Pieces
flourish, leaves and heart - Va Va Velvet
brad and buttons - Bling Extreme
flowers - Bling Extreme and Perfectly Pretty Petals
cardstock stickers- Quote Me On That

other:
pop dots

If you like this product and are looking for more ways to get your projects done...be sure to check out our Pagemats School Edition and All Dressed Up Layered Layouts!

Is this the product for you? Leave us a message below and one lucky blog winner will receive a set of our Pagemats Version 2! We will pick a random winner and post the results next Monday August 16th!

Hearts abound!

2010-08-09T06:00:00.003-04:00

You warm my heart card.
3 Birds Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter Set
3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit
3Birds Opposites Attract Fall Edition cardstock, patterned paper.
3 Birds Must Have Textured Cardstock Stack

Glitter Love Heart card.
3 Birds Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter Set
3Birds Bling Goodie Box
3 Birds Sticky Sparkly Shapes Kit V.5 - A Play on Words

Have a lovely day, Charity

3Birds on Parade!

2010-08-04T09:21:00.000-04:00

For those who have been waiting....you can order the cartridge from the link below!

3Birds on Parade!

Wednesday's Whim!

2010-08-04T08:00:00.001-04:00

On a whim the other morning I decided to make an altered frame for my daughter's room. She had just been telling me that she wanted a picture of her best kitty friend to put up in her room. I simply took a plain wooden frame and adhered 3birds patterned paper to it and then added some crocheted ribbon trim to the inside edges. I then added some adorable 3birds embellies and in no time her custom one of a kind frame was finished! She just loves it!

Frame supply list:

patterned paper - 3Birds Straight from the Nest

BFF sticker - 3Birds Sticky Sparkly Play on Words

flower stickers-3D Embellishment Kit

gems-3Birds Bling Goodie Box

3Birds on HSN

2010-08-03T13:18:00.000-04:00

Set your DVRs ladies - or rise with the Birds! Our lovely hostess Donna will be on HSN bright and early Wednesday morning showcasing some of best products to date.

4-5 am Super Sticker Nestables

5-6 am 3D Embellishments

9-10 am Sticky Sparkly Play on Words and our Bright Must Have Cardstock

Hope you can tune in!

Happy Birthday, 3Birds style!

2010-08-02T08:00:00.002-04:00

I must confess I'm not much of a card maker. But the 3Birds products are just as great for cards as they are for scrapbook pages. When I realized I was in need of some quick and easy cards, I knew I just had to give it a go. Maybe you're not much of a card maker either, but you love to give handmade cards, since it makes the gesture that much more meaningful. If so, I hope my cards can show you just how easy making a card with 3Birds products can be. In fact, if you have cardstock, the 3D Embellishment Kit, and the Super Sticker Nestables, you're pretty much all set! My daughter is at an age where she goes to a lot of birthday parties, so I wanted to put together some fun, bright birthday cards that would be great for kids.

Supplies:
Cardstock: 3Birds Brights Cardstock
Sticker: Super Sticker Nestables
Embellishment: 3D Embellishment Kit
Bling: Bling Goodie Box

Supplies:
Cardstock: Must Have Cardstock
Patterened paper: Straight From the Nest
Letter Stickers: Overstuffed Craft Kit
Sticker borders: Super Sticker Nestables
Embellishments: 3D Embellishment Kit
Bling: Bling Goodie Box

Supplies:
Cardstock: Must Have Cardstock
Letter Stickers: Overstuffed Craft Kit
Sticker: Super Sticker Nestables
Embellishment: 3D Embellishment Kit
Bling: Bling Goodie Box

See - fast and easy, right? The new Super Sticker Nestables and the 3D Embellishments make cards simple even for a layout person like me :) Give it a shot - and we always love it if we inspire you to create something, so if we do, share your creation with us - just leave a comment to the post with a link back to your own project.

***Edited to add - I totally forgot to mention that I have a card using 3Birds products in ScrapStreet right now, so CHECK IT OUT (mine is at the bottom of the page - the Thank You Card). If you're not familiar with ScrapStreet, it's an online Scrapbooking magazine with articles, tons of LO's, and ideas every month, and it's totally FREE! So take a look!

These Boots Were Made For Walking!

2010-07-28T10:17:00.005-04:00

Hi there! Laura again bringing you another project to hopefully inspire you to use all your amazing 3 Birds products in brand new ways. Here is my recent project

And here is the cast of characters I used to create this project

Must Have Cardstock Paper Stack
Focus On Photos Scrapbook Kit
ABC Rubons
Perfectly Pretty Petals Paper Flower Kit
Bling Goody Box
Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter set
So Many Sentiments Clear Stamp Set

I love how beautifully all the 3 Birds products go together don't you? I love that I can layer my flowers from the Pretty Petals Paper Flower kit for endless possibilities.

Let me tell you how I created my title. It was so easy! I cut out the letters I needed to create my title and rubbed them on the coordinating patterned paper. Then I free hand cut them out giving them just a bit of border edge. A one of a kind title!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

The Birds are Away!

2010-07-26T09:45:00.000-04:00

We are off to CHA, we'll be back on Wednesday!

Cupcake Stand Canvas

2010-07-23T08:00:00.001-04:00

What could be sweeter to decorate a girl's room than a cake plate loaded with cupcakes?
One of the many fun things about using the 3Birds Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge is that it can be used to create art!

Cupcake Stand Canvas.
Supplies:
3Birds Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge
3Birds Bling Goodie Box
3Birds Straight from the Nest patterned papers
3Birds Focus on Photos papers and cardstock
canvas and acrylic paints from craft store

instructions:
1. paint 12*12 canvas with light purpe paint and allow to dry.
2. cut cake stand, cupcakes from papers.
3. use modge podge to adhere papers to canvas. coat entire canvas with modge podge, allow to dry.
4. embellish with rhinestones.

Have a great day, Charity

Love My Cartridge!

2010-07-21T08:00:00.002-04:00

I had so much fun this week playing with my 3Birds Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge! There are so many different features on it that I just kept finding more and more neat things to try. I used several different images on this week's layout. I used the word fly for my title and shadowed it in a contrasting color of cardstock. I created a sun out of a flower shape and I double layered two different colored bird images for more pop! I also used adhesive pop dots to have the bird and sun layered over the cloud image that I cut from 3Birds paper. If you get a chance take the time to play with your cartridge and you'll be amazed at all of the different features it has!

Supply list:
Patterned Paper - 3Birds Straight from the Nest and Focus on Photos paper packs
Cardstock - 3Birds Must Have Cardstock
Diecuts - 3Birds Straight from the Nest cricut cartridgeStickers & Rubons - 3Birds Overstuffed Craft Kit and 3Birds Borders, Corners and Frames
Misc.: buttons, brown brad, and ribbon

If you love our first cartridge...Just wait until you see 3Birds on Parade! Coming soon!

Flower Power!

2010-07-19T08:00:00.005-04:00

Hi everyone, it's Ilene today! Do you like to use flowers but think the super fancy ones are too expensive? Well, you can give your cost-effective 3Birds flowers some power! LOL On this first LO, I used plain paper flowers and stickled the heck out of them. You can use glitter glue or regular glitter. You can do many other things, including embossing, or using flocking. I think the results speak for themselves! On this first LO I also used Super Sticker Nestables for the circle and for the heart. And you can always embellish your borders and stickers with a little lace. Here, I used May Arts lace - it's the one called ribbon by the yard crochet lace. I cut it in half, which actually means I got 2 yards! And to get the pretty yellow swirls, I simply cut apart the border sticker in the new Super Sticker Nestables - Borders

Supplies:
Super Sticker Nestables (coming to HSN July 19) - That's TODAY!!!
3D Embellishments (coming to HSN July 19)
3Birds Perfectly Pretty Petals
3Birds Bling Goodie Box
Straight from the Nest Paper Pack
Must Have Bits and Pieces

I wanted to share another LO with you today. This one was super easy and quick to make since I used the Focus on Photos paper packs, so all the work was done for me! I used the coordinating 12x12 sheet, slapped on an 8x8 sheet and a 5x7 sheet, a border from the Super Sticker Nestables, and viola! If you take a look at the upper right corner, you'll see a large flower there. I used a flower punch and coordinating cardstock. I didn't want to leave it boring, so I gave my flower some power by using 3Birds So Many Sentiments Stamps :)

Supplies:
Super Sticker Nestables (coming to HSN July 19) - That's TODAY!!!
Focus on Photos
Perfectly Pretty Petals
So Many Sentiments Stamp Kit
Sticky Sparkly Vs. 5 Play on Words
Bling Goodie Box
Overstuffed Craft Kit
Must Have Bits and Pieces

New Stuff is Up at HSN!

2010-07-15T21:13:00.000-04:00

Our new lovelies are on HSN! Head on over to see the Details!

3 Birds 3D Sticker Embellishment Kit3 Birds always makes crafting fun! Bold, bright and even glittery, the 3D stickers in this kit add that extra bit of pizzazz that makes your projects stand out. Celebrate birthdays, capture vacation memories or create a winter wonderland -- it's all here.

3 Birds Super Sticker Nestables Foil and Glitter SetWelcome to sticker heaven! Three books full of lively colors and new designs provide a fresh dose of inspiration for paper crafting and home decor projects. Foil and glitter accents add extra pizazz to many of the stickers. From whimsical to modern, the styles are certain to delight.

3 Birds Must Have Textured Brights Cardstock StackSerious crafters keep plenty of paper on hand for when the mood strikes. This generous collection of thick, textured sheets are perfect for scrapbooks, cards and more. By continuously adding fresh colors to your supply, you'll never run out of this crafting essential.

Donna on HSN! July 19th, 2010

2010-07-15T08:00:00.002-04:00

Hey There Birdie Watchers!!! 3Birds is launching 3 NEW product on HSN Monday, July 19th, 2010!!! Be sure to tune in and watch "The Storkster" work her magic and premiere amazing new products! 3-D Embellishment Kit... (i fell in LOVE with the product!) Must Have Cardstock Stack Brights Edition.. and Super Sticky Nestables Kit! 3 Books in one kit! Here is just a preview of some of the samples we made for Donna!!! The Products work great together and with all of the other products in the 3Birds line!!!

Summer Time & The Living Is Easy

2010-07-14T08:00:00.010-04:00

Ahhh can't you just feel it! The summer sun on your shoulders, the cold ice tea on your lips. Fun summer activities, vacations, ice cream, watermelon, sprinklers. Such a wonderful time of the year!

3Birds is perfect to document all of your summer time activities! Including, as in my layout, dining al fresco! Living in Colorado doesn't afford us the opportunity to grill and eat outside year round which is why we so look forward to it every year and I wanted to make sure I documented it! Don't forget to document the small things that make you happy. Not just the bigger events in your life!

To create this layout I gathered a bunch of different 3Birds products. Don't hesitate to mix and match your favorite papers and products. They all go together so beautifully! For this particular layout I used:

Sticky Sparkly Shapes Kit - A Play On Words
Must Have Foil Cardstock Stacks
Straight From The Nest Paper Stacks
3Birds Super Sticker Nestables (coming to HSN July 19th)
Overstuffed Craft Kit
Focus On Photos Scrapbook Kit

To create the accordion style flower in the layout simply cut out two 12x1.5 pieces of patterned paper. Score the paper every 1/2 inch and accordion fold back and forth. Adhere the two pieces of paper together, smoosh them together with your fingers and flatten to create. Cut out a smaller circle out of cardstock, slather it up with glue and attach the flattened flower. I used 450 Quick Dry Adhesive by Helmar USA to attach the flower to the circle shaped cardstock. Worked like a charm!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Laura Achilles
3Birds Design Team Member

card share

2010-07-12T08:00:00.001-04:00

I don't know about you, but we have been so busy this summer. I wanted to just get into my craft room and play this week. I have so many things running through my mind lately as you will see from the variety of my two cards :) My friends had a baby shower for me this week. It color scheme was lavender, which totally inspired this card.

I used cardstock from the Must Have Cardstock Set Pastels. I embossed the lavender cardstock and punched out the circles from the green. I added the flowers from the Perfectly Pretty Petals purple flower set and used one of the green Perfectly Pretty Petal set for the leaves. I just cut it into quarters for the perfect leaves. I added a tound of bling from the Bling Goodie Box for a finishing touch.

For my next card, I had Christmas on my mind. With soon to be 11 children I can't just leave Christmas shopping for the last minute. So I have been thinking about what to buy this year. Which is my inspiration for my next card.

I used cardstock from the Must Have Cardstock Stack. I just loved this snowflake paper from the Opposites Attrack Winter Addition, along with die cut. I punched out snowflakes from more of the Must Have Cardstock and punched the scallops. I added a little bling from the Bling Goodie Box.

Summer and Fall

2010-07-09T06:00:00.004-04:00

Hi everyone! Here are a few card ideas that are so fun and simple to make using your 3Birds goodies!

Summer card.
3Birds Must Have Pastels Cardstock
3Birds Super Sticker Nestables (coming to HSN July 19th)
Straight from the Nest Patterned Papers
3Birds 3D Embellishment Kit (coming to HSN July 19th)
Letter stickers- Overstuffed Craft Kit
Rhinestones- 3Birds Bling Goodie Box

Jack O Lantern card
3Birds Opposites Attract Fall Edition cardstock, patterned paper, chipboard and rubon
Rhinestones- 3Birds Bling Goodie Box

Have a great day, Charity

3Birds on Parade

2010-07-07T12:36:00.000-04:00

Because one can never have enough ~~friends~~ BIRDS in your life...we are pleased to present our second Cricut Cartridge 3Birds on Parade! The 3 Birds on Parade cartridge is filled with images of birds with different themes such as holidays, seasons, and sports. These cute layered images also have coordinating phrases and a complementary font.

Be sure to tune in to HSN on July 19th to see the debut of the cartridge as well as some new 3Birds products presented by our hostess Donna Stork.

3Birds Desk Set!

2010-07-07T08:00:00.003-04:00

Good morning everyone! I thought I would share a project I made for my daughter's room with you today. Over the last couple weeks we have been redoing my daughter's bedroom and one of the new pieces of furniture we purchased was a new desk. After looking everywhere, including online, we could not find a girl themed desk set. That's when I came up with the idea to just make her one, and what better products to use then 3Birds! I was able to customize it to perfectly match the colors and fun look of her new room & she just loves it!

I simply used cardboard as the base for the desk mat & covered it in 3Birds paper from the Focus on Photos stack and added some thick offray ribbon to the ends. I only glued down the top and bottom of the ribbon so that she can stick papers under the ribbons.

For the desk box I actually used the box that the new 3Birds 3D embellishments are packaged in (coming to HSN July 19th!). It was perfect! I just covered the words on top with a piece of self adhesive patterned paper from the Straight from the Nest paper pack and then added the beautiful 3D embellishment stickers-the bird on the branch & the flower. And then I used the Stickly Sparkly letters and added her initials. How cute is this!

For the pencil container I used an old snack can and covered it in the same Focus on Photos paper and added the offray ribbon, a flower from the Perfectly Pretty Petals from 3Birds, a butterfly sticker from the new 3D embellishments, and a rhinestone from the Bling Goodie Box.

For all three pieces it only took me about 45 minutes & we both love the end result!

Who needs flowers, right?

2010-07-05T08:00:00.003-04:00

Hi everyone, it's Ilene , here to share a masculine LO with you! The new Straight From The Nest pp pack has wonderful variety in it, and some of the pp is perfect for all your dad/guy LO's. This one is of my wonderful DH - I started dating him 14 years ago. I loved the greens and browns here. This photo was taken in the Spring and I was happy to find pp that matched the photos without being "Fall" pp. I did a lot of distressing here to create a slightly more rugged, masculine feel. In fact, I think I made it masculine enough to pull off adding a little bling and flowers...I just couldn't help myself!

Supplies:
Patterned Paper and Cardstock: Straight From the Nest Adhesive Cardstock
Stickers, Letters: OverStuffed Craft Kit
Chipboard Embellishments and Title: Sticky Sparkly Letters and Shapes Vs. 5
Flowers: Perfectly Pretty Petals
Bling: Bling Goodie Box
Stamps and Ink: So Many Sentiments

Go Create!!!

2010-07-01T08:01:00.002-04:00

Go on...you know you want to! How can you not be sooooo inspired by the many projects for you to look upon recently here on the blog?!?!

It's me again, Laura, coming at you sharing another layout featuring a ton of super cool and super cute 3 Birds products. I want to show you some different ideas to give you "mileage" on your projects and hopefully show you some new ways to use your favorite 3 Birds products. Are you ready? Here we go!

First of all here is my cast of 3 Birds characters -
Must Have Cardstock Paper Pack
Straight From The Nest Paper Stack
Cricut Straight From The Nest Cartridge

I want you to notice here that I changed up a couple of different patterned papers from the Straight From The Nest Paper Stack. First off I cut out the scalloped circle and adhered it to a different background patterned paper. I wanted to have my circle be off centered and cutting it out gave me that option.

Secondly I love clouds :-) So I cut out some clouds from a piece of paper from the Straight From The Nest Paper Stack and use them on my project. To give them dimension I used Zap Dots by Helmar USA. I mentioned before how much I love dimension in my projects and here you can see it again.

I had so much fun playing with the Straight From The Nest Cricut cartridge. I used it to make this adorable bird accent and to create my title. There was a swirl attached to the title so I altered it by removing the swirl in this project.

Make your project your own! Rip it, ink it, use your sewing machine, punch out elements, re purpose your supplies. Have fun with it! You'll be glad you did!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Laura Achilles
3 Birds Design Design Team Member

2010-06-30T10:00:00.004-04:00

3Birds was on The Shopping Channel yesterday along with our Provo Peeps!! The Cricut Design Team made some amazing samples with the 3Birds Straight From the Nest Cartridge! Thanks to our own amazing Carmi, we wanted to share some samples with you! Be sure to stop by Carmi's Blog as well to view some of her amazing samples with new products too!

2010-06-28T14:39:00.002-04:00

Hey 3Bird PEEPS!! Nest Flash: This just in! Our Website is offering a ONE DAY ONLY free shipping special. All orders that are $65.00 or more, placed on Tuesday, June 29th, 2010 will recieve FREE SHIPPING! Isn't that "TWEET!?!" This is your chance to restock your nest and save!!! Enter coupon code: freeship061day during checkout.

sweet baby layout

2010-06-28T08:00:00.001-04:00

Hi, Heather here again. This week my project is a layout of my youngest (for the next 7 weeks at least :))
I love to use lots of pictures on my layouts but don't always know how to place them on the paper. So one of my favorite things to do is a photo collage, using my photo editing program. A great way to be able to tell the whole story using all these great pictures we take.

I used 3 sheets of cardstock from the Must Have Cardstock Stack Pastels. I used the backside of a yellow sheet to get the white. I trimmed the white to 11x11 and layered it over the pink 12x12 cardstock. I cut the pink polka dots from a sheet from the Focus on Photos paper stack. For the butterflies, I punched shapes from the Straight From the Nest 12x12 Adhesive & Cardstock Paper Stack. I wanted them to have dimension so I just left the backing on and stapled them to my layout. The sweet little title sticker is from the OverStuffed Craft Kit.

Christmas in ... almost July!

2010-06-23T06:07:00.005-04:00

Is it hot where you are? It is here in Florida. How about a few cards representing cooler times to give you a creative jump on your Holiday cards or maybe just for fun!

Two Trees Christmas card.
Supplies:
Must Have Foil Stack 8x8
Bling Goodie Box
Sticky Sparkly Letters and Shapes - A Play on Words
Opposites Attract Winter Edition Rubons

Instructions:
Fold your 8x8 Pre-shaped foil paper in half for card base.
Cut two triangles (for trees) from green foil paper and adhere to left of card.
Add chipboard gold border to card as seen and cut off extra from edges.
Adhere chipboard greeting, stars to card.
Place rhinestones on tree.
Last, add rubon snowflakes to card.

Happy New Year card.
Supplies:
Opposites Attract Winter Edition - paper, cardstock and rubons
3D embellishment kit (coming soon!) - clock
Super Sticker Nestables (coming soon!) - border

Instructions:
Place clock paper on far left of card base.
Add strip of light blue cardstock to right of clock paper.
Cut out clock form patterned paper, place rubon and 3d embellishment clock on top.
Add rubon greeting below clock.
Adhere adhesive border to far right of card.

Have a great day, Charity

Happy Monday!

2010-06-20T18:01:00.003-04:00

Hi, hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. I'm here again to share a 3birds layout with you. We have been getting so much rain and storms here lately that I jumped on the chance to take a couple photos of my daughter when the weather was nice. I loved the dreamy expression she has in this photo and found some bright & whimsical 3birds products to compliment it just right.

I am a huge fan of the Straight from the Nest cricut cartridge and used it for the bottom layer of my flower. I just crumpled it a bit and used a copic marker to outline the edges for more dimension. I also used the cartridge for my title. This cartridge has really fun and sweet phrases on it. It's definitely one of my favorite cartridges right now! I also used the Super Sticker Nestable hearts & love how easy they were to use. And what an eyecatcher for any page too!Hope the weather stays nice in your neck of the woods and you can be outside enjoying it too!

Supply list:

layered heart-3Birds Super Sticker Nestables (coming soon!)

patterned paper-3Birds Straight from the Nest paper stack

flowers-Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge and 3Birds Perfectly Pretty Petals

gemstones-3Birds Bling Goodie Box

title-Straight from the Nest Cricut Cartridge

stickers-3Birds Overstuffed Craft Kit

cardstock-Bazzil

tiny alpha rubons-3Birds Overstuffed Craft Kit

threading water punch- EK Success

Happy Father's Day!

2010-06-18T08:00:00.001-04:00

Hello everyone, it's Ilene again, here to share a LO that's holiday-appropriate :) I have one of my wonderful DH with our little boy, and the pp was just perfect for this photo. I especially love how the foil chipboard accents from Sticky Sparkly Letters and Shapes matched with the new foil papers. The foil has adds that little touch of something special, don't you think?

Also, take a look at the upper right corner - I wanted the "backside" to show, so I made the pp be double sided by gluing a sheet of pp to the back. Most times, you only need the one side of a pp and having it be double sided is a waste. But those times you do want to reveal a little backside, you could always easily adhere some coordinating pp to the back.

Supplies: Patterned Paper: Straight From the Nest, Cardstock: Must Have Foil Stack, Straight From the Nest Adhesive Cardstock, Stickers: OverStuffed, Chipboard Embellishments: Sticky Sparkly Letters and Shapes, Flowers: Perfectly Pretty Petals, Bling: Bling Goodie Box

Making Your Pages Sparkle

2010-06-16T08:00:00.003-04:00

Hello everyone! I'm Laura and I'm so excited to share with you some of the wonderful things you can do with 3 Birds Design products! My goal is to give you an "aha moment" when you see my projects that you can take with you and inspire you to recreate on your own projects! If and when you create a project using inspiration from mine or any other of the design team members designs please link it in the comment section! We'd love to see what you're creating!!!

This is my first project I created using Must Have Cardstock Stack, Straight From The Nest Paper Stacks, Sticky Sparkly A Play On Words, Perfectly Pretty Petals Paper Flower Kit, Must Have Foil Cardstock Stack, and the Bling Goodie Box.

One thing I love about 3 Birds products is how well and cohesively all the products work together! Let me show you some little added touches I created to make my project, and yours too, one of a kind and unique!

First of all pull out those paper punches! You can create beautiful touches to your projects with a simple punch pattern. I used a border punch, flower punch and a butterfly punch to create accents on my layout.

Secondly don't be afraid to layer! Layer those gorgeous flowers from the flower kit for extra color and dimension. Punch out several of the same shapes and layer them! I also pulled out my crimper and created extra texture on the accents. I also folded the flower petals for extra dimension! Add buttons and string and voila!

To help keep the accents securely fastened, I grabbed my favorite liquid glue 450 Quick Dry Adhesive by Helmar USA. 450 Quick Dry is just that, quick drying and acid free!

Banners are hot right now in paper crafting and you can recreate it to for your projects! 3 Birds has an amazing cricut cart out entitled Straight From The Nest that has an amazing banner that you can cut out using any of your 3 Birds cardstock, foil stacks or patterned papers. To give the banner added dimension and height I used Zap Dots by Helmar USA. I'm big into dimension....I think you'll see that more and more in upcoming projects!

Well there you go! I hope and trust you were inspired by what I brought to you today!

Thanks for stopping by! Now get scrapping!

Laura Achilles
3 Birds Design Design Team Member

Design Team inspiration

2010-06-14T08:00:00.004-04:00

Hello all! This is Heather. Today I have a couple of cards to show you using the great products from 3 Birds Design. First up is a birthday card.

I used 3 colors of cardstock from the Must Have Basic Cardstock Stack. The white is just the backside of the brown :) I embossed the white background and one of the candles to add some interest.
Next I wanted to use the scraps from the first card to make another card.

I added the baby blue color from the Must Have Pastel Cardstock Stack and the Orange scallops from the Must have Bits & Pieces cardstock Diecuts and Shapes. I drew the kite shape on the back of the cardstock and cut it out.

Design Team inspiration

2010-06-11T10:00:00.003-04:00

Hi everyone! I'm Charity Hassel, another new design team member here at 3 Birds!
Today I wanted to share a page I made for my brother and his family using some of the fabulous product from 3 Birds.

Favorite Memories.
supplies:
Brown cardstock- 3 Birds 64-piece Must Have Cardstock Kit

Chipboard title and branch- Sticky Sparkly play on words
sequins- Bling Goodie Box
patterned paper- Straight from the nest patterned paper and cardstock set.
stickers and rubons- 3 Birds Fall & Winter Opposites Attract Kit

I made my own tags from patterned paper by cutting the papers into long rectangles and cutting the edges to form tags.
The bird embellishment is a wood bird that comes with 3 Birds 10,000-piece Overstuffed Craft Kit.

Thanks so much for looking and have a great day!

Design Team Post #2 by Marcie!

2010-06-09T08:30:00.003-04:00

Hi everyone! My name is Marcie and I will be the second design team member to provide you with some wonderful 3birds inspiration. When choosing the paper for my layout I was instantly drawn to the vivid colors and designs in this patterned paper in the Focus on Photos pack. I used white cardstock as my background and sprayed blue Tattered Angels glimmer mist over it in a random spray design. I then sewed a funky outline to frame my layout-love my sewing machine! I then took coordinating lime green paper from the same Focus on Photos pack and tore the edges and crumpled them up before adhering them to my cardstock. I then took the patterned paper and cut different sizes of stips and layered them over the solid paper. For a little more interest I took a few strips of solid blue and green paper from the same paper pack and sewed them over the patterned paper strips. I then adhered the photo in the center and added fabulous chipboard embellishments from the Sticky Sparkly Letters & Shapes A Play on Words. I also added a little "Just Being You" sticker from the Overstuffed Kit to one of the chipboard embellishments and added a bit of stickles. Lastly I did the title. I used the mini rubons in green from the Overstuffed Kit and put them onto a small piece of white cardstock outlined with blue marker. I then cut the "All Natural" from the Straight from the Nest cricut cartridge and added stickles for some extra pop! I think everything went together so well & was so easy to match up! Hope you like it!

Supply list:

white cardstock-Bazzil

sapphire glimmer mist-Tattered Angels

lime green solid paper-3Birds Focus on Photos pack

soft blue paper-3Birds Focus on Photos pack

patterned paper-3Birds Focus on Photos pack

chipboard flowers, butterfly, & journaling bracket-3 birds Sticky Sparkly Letters & Shapes A

Play on Words

"just being you" sticker-Overstuffed Craft kit

mini-alphabet rubons in green-Overstuffed kit

All Natural phrase-3birds Straight from the Nest Cricut cartridge

royal blue marker-zig

stickles-Starry Night & Cinnamon from Ranger

2010-06-08T07:45:00.004-04:00

Some samples.... with the new products!! These pics don't do the foil paper justice! You have got to get these!!!!!

Straight from the Nest

A Little Bit of Country

Sweet Baby Boy

Peek A Boo!

Spring Type Layers

A Touch of the Irish!

A Flowery LO

Fun Design!

More easy cards!

Fun Spring Colors!

Celebrate National Craft Month MARCH 1st!!!

Kids birthday cards.

Any Day Is A Good Day...

Tweet Trimmings!

Got a bad pic to scrap?

A Little Bit of Sparkle!

Donna Sighting on HSN 1.20.11

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

Scrapping With Your Scraps

My Girl - Acrylic Mini Album

Fun Project!

And To All A Good Night

Happy 2011!

Happy Holidays!

Wintery Christmastime fun!

Winter Work!

How About A Little Bit Of Summer?

Christmas crunch time

simply sweet!

Crazy for Cards!

A Beautiful Day...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Bling, Baby and Cute as a Button.

A Touch of Elegance

Christmas Gift Tags

Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful...

gift idea

Using those 3Birds cricut cartridges!

All Dressed Up Again!

Oh The Places You Will Go

Even Ghosts Can Be Welcoming

pick of the patch

Halloween Goody bags and then a felt flowered card

A Touch of Halloween!

Playing with Mist

Taking Crafting Off The Page

feeling fallish

Cute as a button so many ways!

Fantastic Flock!

Card Day

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue

Winners!

Thinking ahead

Winter and Spring

Cricut Cards!

Cricut Cartridge Giveaways!

Who's ready for fall??

Cute as a Button

The Weather Is A-Changing

24 Hour Craft Day

24 Hour Craft Day is about to Begin! Tune into HSN all day Tuesday to get your craft on!New products froms 3Birds will be presented by our hostess Donna Stork! Be sure to watch at 1am, 2am, 5am,6am,7am,8am,11am,12pm,1pm,6pm ans 11pm!

Babies :)

Birdcage Canvas

Hello Beautiful!

No free time to scrap??

Quick and Easy Titles

Pretty in Pink

My Card Stash!

I just can't get enough...

Winner Winner

5 Minute Cards

Pagemats and a Giveaway!

Hearts abound!

3Birds on Parade!

Wednesday's Whim!

3Birds on HSN

Happy Birthday, 3Birds style!

These Boots Were Made For Walking!

The Birds are Away!

Cupcake Stand Canvas

24 Hour Craft Day is about to Begin! Tune into HSN all day Tuesday to get your craft on!
New products froms 3Birds will be presented by our hostess Donna Stork! Be sure to watch at 1am, 2am, 5am,6am,7am,8am,11am,12pm,1pm,6pm ans 11pm!