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Thursday, October 27, 2016

Front Porch Fun Day with Valerie Bishop!

It's Front Porch Fun Day on the Blog today!

Our Front Porch Kit Design Team Member, Valerie Bishop is here today sharing a super cute Fall Tag and Technique from our It's Fall Yall Front Porch Kit!

Materials used from the
Front Porch Kit:

Cream cardstock

muslin

felt leaf

button

enamel dots

cream ribbon with brown stitch

Elle's Studio wood veneer heart

Elle's Studio cut apart tag

various ink sprays from my stash

Let's get started!
I first used the cream piece of cardstock and cut some manila tags using the Silhouette design "manila tags" design #23643 from the Silhouette store. I sized the tags 3" wide by 6" tall.

I then took my piece of muslin, scrunched it up and placed it in a glass jar. I wanted a shabby fall color to it, so I sprayed some orange and yellow spray mists on the muslin inside the jar and kind wadding it up as I went, making sure all the color stayed in the jar! I would suggest you use gloves unless you don't care if your hands get dyed! (I did not use gloves as I never think that far ahead!!)

After getting the color I wanted I pulled out the piece of muslin and let it dry. I waited about an hour and it was dry.

I then cut the muslin into strips about 3" wide to fit across the tag.

Then I layered the muslin across my tag and sewed across each one

I took the rest of the muslin and used it to make a flower. I simply used a large Cosmo Cricket Gluber and wound it around to form the outer petals of the flower

For the center of the flower I used the cream stitched ribbon. I cut the ribbon about 6" long and pulled both ends of the brown stitch to make the rest of the ribbon gather up. I then tied both ends together to form a circle which I attached to the center of my muslin flower.

I used a button for the center of the flower and stuck one of the larger enamel dots to the top of the button. I then attached the flower to a scrap piece of patterned paper and layered on my tag. I layered one of the felt leaves under my flower. I used another scrap of patterned paper under my cut apart tag title and attached it to my tag. I glued my wood veneer heart on and added a couple enamel dots to my title piece. I used the rest of the cream stitched ribbon for the ribbon topper of my tag.

Thank you so much!!

Hugs, Valerie

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Friday, October 24, 2014

Front Porch Friday- My Design Process

It's Front Porch Friday!!!

Hi, it's DeeDee Roe! :) Today I wanted to share with you how I approach my Front Porch Kit box the moment it arrives at my house.

The first thing I do when I open a Front Porch Kit is, of course, squeal. Then I get down to business. :)

1. I lay the entire kit out onto my kitchen table so I can really get a feel for what's inside and how it can work together. One of these times I am going to alter the kit box itself.

2. Patterned Paper - I love love love to use the FPK to do layouts because I am EONS behind in scrapping about myself and my family's life. My favorite supply is patterned paper so I pick my favorite papers to feature on the layouts and then I assign papers to the special surfaces that are always in the kits and then I usually try to save one stand out paper for a great card.

3. Stacks - Then I make stacks based on projects. The kits come with a ton of supplies so I usually go for a couple double layouts, the special surface, a card, and then wherever the paper leads me. Once I have the projects in mind I plan to make I divide the different embellishments into the stacks. For this last kit I knew I wanted my layouts to have tons of embellishments and texture.

You can see I used ribbon, chipboard, straws, sequins, cardstock and patterned paper building up.

At this point I usually start wondering if I have pictures to flow with my design. lol I should probably get them out sooner, but I seriously start planning my projects within three minutes of the postal lady dropping the box at my door.

I love layering embellishments and mixing colors to give them just that extra bit of depth. If you look back at the first picture, you can see where I've stitched down the side of the layout. EVERY time, every time I forget to add stitching and end up trying to add that detail after it's super inconvenient so if you like stitching on your layout - pro tip: don't wait until the end to add it.

So that's my process once I get the FPK in my hands. It's such a treat to get happy mail and I just let myself indulge in the fun of touching all the textures and patterns.

What's the first thing you do when you open a kit box?

Dee Dee

Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Boo In A Box Single Layout - Happy Halloween

Good morning from the Front Porch!

Lynette Chiles here to discuss adding more photos to your layouts with the use of flips. The Happy Halloween Layout featured in your Blueprint Guide has 10 photos on a single layout.

By adding folded strips to the top of the page it allows you to create flips to hold more photos. I just loved the little icons of the ghost, witch and Frankenstein and how you could match the feet with the heads. Please see blueprint guide for more detailed instructions. Here are a few more photos of how the flips work.

In the summer I had the pleasure of creating a class for the Be Inspired Series named Scraptivity, which means adding more photos, more journaling, and more creativity to your scrapbook page This popular class has now become a monthly class. Each month we will explore new techniques to use on your layouts. September was the debut of this class. We did a double layout using pockets, flips. and folders. We learned how versatile the Envelope Punch Board is.

The October Scraptivity class will feature paints and inks, and of course a few flips.
There are a few spaces available for the October Class, Tuesday, October 28, 10:00 to 1:00 and 6:00 to 9:00.

I hope you will join me :)

What have you created with your Boo In A Box? Would love to hear your comments.

For more inspiration visit the online gallery at
www.thelittlebluehouseonline.com
or visit the store gallery at

The Little Blue House

118 West Olive Street

Keller, Texas 76248

Happy Scrapping,

Lynette Chiles

Friday, June 8, 2012

It's Front Porch Friday!

Good Morning!
It's Front Porch Friday!

What does that mean?!?!
Today, each of our Front Porch Kit Design Team members will be posting one of their "Sew" Artsy projects that they designed and sharing some helpful tips and "how to's" on their blogs.