Luggage Tag tutorial and more Bazzill projects...

I have got some more exciting Bazzil projects to share with Amanda's paper from The Quilted Fish: A tutorial and a layout today!

Before I share, I just want to state that I am an amateur at sewing at best, so when all you seamstresses see my sewing skills (or lack thereof), please don’t cringe! 

Amanda had visited my blog and made a comment about some luggage tags that I had made, so I decided to revisit these with her line of papers and fabric Divinely Sweet. So here is a quick tutorial!

I started by making some 4x6 cards that are going to be the actual tags. The front I decorated with flowers and such, and the back sides I used some lined prints to write my address and other info you might need on a luggage tag. I purposely didn’t use any bulky embellishments because although I want them to be pretty, they have to be somewhat practical, too.

Next, to protect the cards, I simply used a refill e protector from a 8x8” scrapbook. Fold the page protector in half vertically and crease. Machine stitch just to the left and right of the crease and then cut along the crease to create 2 pockets.

You may need to trim your cards a little bit to fit inside the pockets. Next, trim off some of the top of the pockets so they measure about 4” x 7”, leaving about an inch of page protector at the top.

On this excess edge of page protector, you are going to cut the back side off just to the top of the card. In this photo, you can see that the back of my card is showing on top, and I have trimmed the excess page protector at the top, but left the front piece on…this is so you can take the card in and out.

Next I cut about a 3” x 4” piece of fabric, folded it in half lengthwise, and freehand cut some scallops on the long edges. Open it back up and stitch this to the front of the page protector close to the card. See how the pocket still opens to take the card out?

Now fold the fabric and do a stitch along the top edge. Add a button hole so that you can hang it with ribbon.

On the bottom edges, take two, 7” pieced of fabric, baste and pull to make ruffles. REMOVE THE CARD and stitch each ruffle to the bottom edge on each side! Add some pretty ribbon and you’re done!

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Now for another project that is more my style! A scrapbook page! 

I don’t do double pagers that often, but I really need to start doing more because I have a ton of photos!!

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When I saw the Holiday Style papers, I thought of these photos of my daughter with that hat on immediately, and did a page about our adventures in the snow that day!

The cardstock is glazed cardstock by Bazzill that has glazed snowflakes on it. This is a pretty simple design, but I try to keep it more simple where there are a lot of colors and patterns involved. The snowflake transparencies are from Maya Road.

Thanks for joining me this week and I will be back next week to share my last project using more of the Holiday Style collection!!

Guest Designer for The Quilted Fish (Bazzill)..

It no secret that the fabric trend in scrapbooking is pretty hot.  A lot of paper companies are having their designs turned into fabrics.  But I know of someone who did it the other way around!   Her name is Amanda Herring and she is a fabric designer.  She was looking for a paper manufacturer that would turn her fabric prints into printed papers, and Bazzill came to the rescuse!  :)

How we came to meet up is a bit of a long story...kind of a friend of a friend type of thing, but anyways, here we are and I couldn't be more excited!!  Amanda has asked me to do some projects with her new paper  lines and share them on our blogs!  Her blog is The Quilted Fish, and you will find tons of great fabric and sewing ideas on there!
I will be posting some projects over the next four weeks which I hope inspire and encourage you to start playing with these beautiful papers.

OK, so now onto some goodies that I created with the wonderful wonderful products that Amanda sent to me!  I got to play with the Divinely Sweet and Holiday Style lines.

This was the first page that I created.  I wanted to show that the Divenly Sweet papers work just beautifully on a page about a boy!   I love the turquoise and red color combo. 

I misted a border with a cream color mist on the background paper and then added some faux stitching with a black pen. 

I fussy cut some of the flowers from blue paper to match with the background of the cream colored paper. 

I also wanted to add another color, so I added some splashes of yellow paint and I stitched with some yellow thread.

Part of the journaling is hidden under the tab that says "What Can I Say?" and pulls out from behind the photo.  I loved that I was able to make these papers look so boyish for my little guy!

And lastly I will leave you with two fun cards.  I'm not much of a card maker, but I go through some spurts here and there.  My stash was getting low and since World Card Making Day was October 1, I really was inspired to get some done.

This first one I just splattered a bit of black ink, did some faux stitching and made some simple accordian flowers.  I made a little gift tag to go with it, too!

And you can never have enough birthday cards, so I cut out a cake and pop-dotted it on som white lined paper and added some Stickles to make is sparkle.  Stickles make everything prettier!!

Thank you so much for joining me this week and I will be back next week to share some more projects!  Until then, you can check out my blog to see what other things I have going on!