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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It's Fall Y'all Wood Sign Tutorial by Vicki Chrisman

      Good Morning!
It's a beautiful morning here on the Front Porch and today we have an awesome Project to share with you! Enjoy this free tutorial and make sure to read through...there is a special bonus today for our customers at the end of this post. 
     

          “It's Fall Y'all” Wood Sign Tutorial            

designed by: Vicki Chrisman

Hello Little Blue House Friends.  

Today I’m going to share with you how I created the Fall wood wall hanging décor project I made with goodies from my Front Porch Kit.  There are so many fun things in this kit, I could have easily done this up with many different variations, but this is what I chose.

Cut one strip of the brown patterned paper (Harvest Acorns) 10”x 3 ¼”.  Measure down from the top of the wood plaque 4 ½” and attach this piece temporarily with a small bit of repositionable adhesive.

Flip your wood piece and paper over and trace both edges where you will trim to fit. Once you have trimmed by edges, you can permanently attach it to the wood piece.

You will do the same with the cork paper. Fitting it at the bottom of the wood piece under the brown paper you have just added.  Lay the cork paper down and trace for trimming in the same way.

Once you have the cork paper trimmed to fit your plaque, adhering it is easy because the cork piece has a self-adhesive backing. All you have to do is remove the backing and add the cork to the wood piece.  Cut a 1/4” strip of the (Sweater Weather) paper and adhere just above the top of the cork piece on your plaque.

Finish off by adding the gold checked paper to the top section that is left, in the same way.

At any time now you can adhere you ribbon for hanging. 
Attach to the back of the wood plaque with a hot glue gun.

Now, cover five of the chipboard banner pieces with a mix of the gorgeous fall papers from the kit. Once they are all covered, punch holes with a small punch. Run the jute thru each of them to create a banner.  Tie bows with the jute to attach to the ends of the banner once you have adhered it to the bottom of the project (on the cork).  I found that the glue gun worked well for this.

Layout all the letters and “Fall” word for the saying onto your plaque and make sure it’s where you want it before adhering permanently.   I added some (Royal Coat- Dimensional Magic) to the word “Fall” to make it stand off the page even more, Glossy Accents or Diamond Glaze will work for this step too.  (this is optional) #note: be sure to let this completely dry before working any further.

Your last step is you create and add your flowers.  I used a die to cut the paper flower pieces. You can use any flower shaped die you might have, or you can cut the flower shapes by hand.

Any simple flower shape will work fine. 

To create the fabric base piece to start with, you’ll be using the strip of muslin from your kit.  With a needle and thread, just do a simple loose running stitch along the inside edge.  Once you have finished, just pull it to gather and tie the two ends of the thread together.  Now you have your base piece.  Using a hot glue gun, layer the other flower paper pieces on top, largest to smallest.  Using the orange twine, run it thru the button and tie a big bow. After attaching this to finish off the flower, add the finished flower to the plaque.

I hope you feel inspired to create a wall hanging/ plaque of your own.  It's great way to welcome in Fall. 

http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/

If you love this kit as much as we do... 

Click the Link below to view our "It's Fall Y'all" Front Porch Kit!
http://www.thelittlebluehouseonline.com/fpk-its-fall-yall

You will see all the goodies in the kit and all the fabulous projects you can make with this kit!

Today, October 5th use this coupon code: FRONTPORCHFUNDAY  
and receive FREE Shipping on our Front Porch Kit!!
Coupon is Good for Today Only...so don't delay. Order your kit today! 

Keep Creating,
Miss Tracy :)

www.thelittlebluehouseonline.com 

#followmetothelittlebluehouse 

It's Fall Y'all Wood Sign Tutorial by Vicki Chrisman

      Good Morning!
It's a beautiful morning here on the Front Porch and today we have an awesome Project to share with you! Enjoy this free tutorial and make sure to read through...there is a special bonus today for our customers at the end of this post. 
     

          “It's Fall Y'all” Wood Sign Tutorial            

designed by: Vicki Chrisman

Hello Little Blue House Friends.  

Today I’m going to share with you how I created the Fall wood wall hanging décor project I made with goodies from my Front Porch Kit.  There are so many fun things in this kit, I could have easily done this up with many different variations, but this is what I chose.

Cut one strip of the brown patterned paper (Harvest Acorns) 10”x 3 ¼”.  Measure down from the top of the wood plaque 4 ½” and attach this piece temporarily with a small bit of repositionable adhesive.

Flip your wood piece and paper over and trace both edges where you will trim to fit. Once you have trimmed by edges, you can permanently attach it to the wood piece.

You will do the same with the cork paper. Fitting it at the bottom of the wood piece under the brown paper you have just added.  Lay the cork paper down and trace for trimming in the same way.

Once you have the cork paper trimmed to fit your plaque, adhering it is easy because the cork piece has a self-adhesive backing. All you have to do is remove the backing and add the cork to the wood piece.  Cut a 1/4” strip of the (Sweater Weather) paper and adhere just above the top of the cork piece on your plaque.

Finish off by adding the gold checked paper to the top section that is left, in the same way.

At any time now you can adhere you ribbon for hanging. 
Attach to the back of the wood plaque with a hot glue gun.

Now, cover five of the chipboard banner pieces with a mix of the gorgeous fall papers from the kit. Once they are all covered, punch holes with a small punch. Run the jute thru each of them to create a banner.  Tie bows with the jute to attach to the ends of the banner once you have adhered it to the bottom of the project (on the cork).  I found that the glue gun worked well for this.

Layout all the letters and “Fall” word for the saying onto your plaque and make sure it’s where you want it before adhering permanently.   I added some (Royal Coat- Dimensional Magic) to the word “Fall” to make it stand off the page even more, Glossy Accents or Diamond Glaze will work for this step too.  (this is optional) #note: be sure to let this completely dry before working any further.

Your last step is you create and add your flowers.  I used a die to cut the paper flower pieces. You can use any flower shaped die you might have, or you can cut the flower shapes by hand.

Any simple flower shape will work fine. 

To create the fabric base piece to start with, you’ll be using the strip of muslin from your kit.  With a needle and thread, just do a simple loose running stitch along the inside edge.  Once you have finished, just pull it to gather and tie the two ends of the thread together.  Now you have your base piece.  Using a hot glue gun, layer the other flower paper pieces on top, largest to smallest.  Using the orange twine, run it thru the button and tie a big bow. After attaching this to finish off the flower, add the finished flower to the plaque.

I hope you feel inspired to create a wall hanging/ plaque of your own.  It's great way to welcome in Fall. 

http://vickichrisman.blogspot.com/

If you love this kit as much as we do... 

Click the Link below to view our "It's Fall Y'all" Front Porch Kit!
http://www.thelittlebluehouseonline.com/fpk-its-fall-yall

You will see all the goodies in the kit and all the fabulous projects you can make with this kit!

Today, October 5th use this coupon code: FRONTPORCHFUNDAY  
and receive FREE Shipping on our Front Porch Kit!!
Coupon is Good for Today Only...so don't delay. Order your kit today! 

Keep Creating,
Miss Tracy :)

www.thelittlebluehouseonline.com 

#followmetothelittlebluehouse 

Front Porch Fun Day- It's Fall Yall Layout Tutorial

It's Front Porch Fun Day! Lynette is here on the Blog to share a full tutorial on how to create this "Its Fall Yall" double Layout!  

It’s Fall Y’all – Double Layout   Designed by: Lynette Chiles

Additional Supplies Needed:

Fast Grab Tacky Glue

Tape Runner

Glossy Accents

Pop Dots or Dimensional Squares

White Signo Uniball Broad Pen

Quick Quotes Chalk Ink – Java

Black Permanent Medium Tip Journaling Pen

Circle Punches: 2”, 1”, ¾”, 5/8”

Oval Punch: 1 ½”

Scor Tape ½”

CUT LIST

Note: Base Pages are pieced to conserve paper. 

Title: It’s Fall Y’all is included in the kit.

Cardstock:

Cardstock A – Vanilla – 8 X 12, 4 X 7

Cardstock B – Goldenrod – Two 4 X 6, Two 2 ¾ x 3 ¾, 1 X ½ (flag), Four- 1” circles, and Two ¾ X 1” (flags)

Cardstock C – Brown – 5 X 7, Two 5/8” circles

Cardstock D – Green – Two 3 X 4, 4 X 6, Two 1 X 1 ½ (flags), Two ¾” circles

Cardstock E – White (used backs of printed cards) Two 1 ½” Ovals

Cardstock F – Orange – 6 ½” circle 

(leftover from Wreath on the Family is Everything Double Layout)

Patterned Paper:

Patterned Paper A –Plaid – 4 ½  X 12, 1 ¼ X 12,

5 ½ X 3 ½

Patterned Paper B – Dk. Brown Trees/Acorns – Two 2 X 12, 4 ½ X 12

Patterned Paper C – Orange Dot/Trellis – 8 X 12, Two 2” circles, 3 ½ X 5 ½

Patterned Paper D – Gold Check – 4 ½ X 6 ½, Four 1 ¼ X 2 (flags)

Patterned Paper E – Gold Stripe (taken from card) 2 X 4

Patterned Paper F – Football Print – 1 X 1 ½ -Stem, ½ X 5 ½

Patterned Paper G – Cork – 1 X 12

Additional Items From Kit

2 green enamel dots, wooden heart flag, 24” grey and white baker’s twine, “so fun” wooden tab, wine and rust felt leaves, October label, 24” jute, orange arrow paper clip

Time to Create! 

1.     Ink all edges with Quick Quotes Chalk Ink – Java

2.     Refer to photos to assemble the layout.

3.     Piece base pages together with ½” overlap to create the two 12 X 12 base pages.

4.     To make pumpkin – 6 ½” circle – orange. Punch random circles in area that will be seen. Back with goldenrod punched circles. Attach stem and wine and rust felt leaves. Add jute bow.

5.     Scarecrow – 4 X 7 vanilla cardstock, add gold stripe (2 X 4) to the top section to create hat, add jute to the back of the ½ X 6 football print, pop dot across. Fray jute. Cheeks – Adhere circles referring to photo and trim to fit. Eyes – 1 ½” ovals (white), ¾” green circles, and 5/8” brown circles. Cut triangle for nose from 1 X 1½ orange cardstock. Use black and white pens for details. Contour of mouth is a 3” circle. Attach flags at the bottom for Y’all. Add twine and bows.

6.     Pop Dot – Brim of hat (scarecrow), goldenrod/plaid photo mat, brown (2) flags.

7.     Glossy Accents – Fall (title), green (scarecrow eyes)

I Hope You Are Enjoying Your It’s Fall Y’all Front Porch Kit.

Kits are still available...To purchase or to check out more projects made from this
It's Fall Yall Front Porch Kit visit:
 http://www.thelittlebluehouseonline.com/fpk-its-fall-yall

Front Porch Fun Day with Rhonda Merry

It's Front Porch Fun Day here on the LBH Blog! Today, one of our Front Porch Kit design team members, Rhonda Merry is sharing a super cute Thankful Book she created with our "It's Fall Y'all" Kit! 

Hello, Rhonda Merry here with some Front Porch Kit Fun. 

One of my favorite things to create are mini albums or tag books adorned with fun embellishments.  I admit I have a lot of great packaged items to break into but there is something extra special about making your own. For me it’s not only getting creative but using up the scraps from a project rather than throwing pieces away. Also, using the many stamps, dies and punches I have picked up over the years. 

This little book is titled “We Give Thanks”.  Each page has a little journal area where each of my family members will be able to write in what they are thankful for this year. All of the embellishing was made up from the various scraps and embellies that came inside the “It’s Fall Ya’ll” Front Porch Kit. 

Here’s a look at each page. 

The little pumpkin is made from punching out 3 ovals from the orange patterned paper.  I layered it onto a 1’ chipboard circle to easily adhere the parts.  Punched a little leaf sprig and free handed a cork stem. I inked the edges if each oval and the leave with coordinating inks.  Once all of the pieces in place to form your pumpkin and the glue is dried, adhere to your page, card or tag.

  

                I used various dies to cut fall images from the cork sheet included in the FPK. 

So if you would like to get embellishing, go through your stash, find those general shapes (circles squares, ovals, or labels) gather the stamps with foliage, Thanks Yous and journal lines plus some specialty shapes like stars, hearts, fall themed, etc. and start punching and stamping away with your Front Porch Kit.

Enjoy!

Rhonda Merry

I hope you enjoyed Rhonda's tutorial today!
Tune in every week for another Front Porch Fun Day!! 

This Front Porch Kit is still available...Check out "It's Fall Yall" by clicking HERE!  Keep Creating!