Summer Time & The Living Is Easy

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

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

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

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!

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?

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!!!

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