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 

Fancy Pants is Coming to the LBH!

Only a few more Days till Fancy Pants arrives at The Little Blue House!! We are so Excited to Celebrate National Scrapbook Day with Jodi & Jarred from Fancy Pants!

 

We have 3 Workshop held by Jodi while she is here in town and she is also bringing lots of extra class kits from layouts, cards, mini-books and more!!

 

 

Jarred has been working hard putting together Fancy Product Bundles for this Weekend! They are bringing lots of great product bundles to sell for a great Deal!! You will want to stock up on all the best Fancy Pants products while your in the HouSe this weekend!!!

 

 

and the Fancy fun continues....
 We will have the new Flutter Collection and Office Suite Collection in the HouSe this Weekend! These 2 new collections from Fancy Pants are absolutely fabulous!! You will create with these in some of Jodi's workshop or kits you may purchase too!!!  

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Did you know one of our own LBH Team Members is also on the Design Team for Fancy Pants?? Vicki Chrisman, and LBH Media Team Designer has been designing for Fancy Pants for awhile now! We just love her style and the way she repurposed this vintage clock using the new "Flutter" Collection from Fancy Pants!

 

We hope you join us the NSD Week and Get Fancy! For all the details on these workshops visit the tab at the top of the blog
"Let's Get Fancy Workshops"

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NSD DEAL OF THE DAY

Enjoy 25% off all Stamps and Die-cuts today at the LBH! We are open from 10am-9pm today, Tuesday April 28th

 

Happy NSD Week,

LBH Gals

Bo Bunny "Sweet Life" layout tutorial and card to share

Hi LBH friends!
Vicki Chrisman here to share a couple projects with you today.
First of all, I like to share a layout I created using the Bo Bunny "Sweet Life" Collection
and a few other goodies you can find in the LBH online store.  I'll share with you some tips for putting this layout together.

I loved the circle design on this Bo Bunny paper, so I decided I would cut one of the larger ones out and use it as an accent piece on my layout. 

I am a huge fan of machine stitching on paper and using gold thread is one of my favorite things these days.  I used gold thread to stitch around the circle before adding my photo.

This layout has lots of layering.  Here I used some of the Bella Blvd Clear Cuts (Blueberry) under my photo.  It really showed up on top of the book print paper.

I used my Quick Quotes "Powder Puffs" to ink up and color my initials for my title.

 

 I tend to type up journaling strips for my layouts quite often, and find that machine stitching them on works great!

Time to add the embellishments.  This is always my favorite part :)

I fell in love with these little Maya Road Mini Say Cheese Chipboard.  Here is what I did with mine.    First I used my ink to make it a dark blue to match my layout.  Then I printed off a tiny photo and trimmed it like a  Polaroid, with a little more white boarder at the bottom of the photo.  
I used a foam square to add it to my layout, making it look like it was coming out of the camera.

Then I added Glossy Accents to the openings on the camera the would be the lens.    

Oh geeezzzz... I love this little camera!!! lol

One more project to share. These beautiful bright happy colors are just so pretty aren't they Gorgeous papers!  I embossed my stamp and the edges of my matted piece of paper with gold embossing powder for interest. ( and used my gold thread for stitching again).
I also added a little strip of the Clearly Bold "White Stripe" on the base of the card.
I really like the sightly different look and feel that adds to the projects. Very fun stuff!

Thank you so much for stopping by and letting me share with you.

Vicki

I am Layout using Simple Stories

Hello Everyone!
 Vicki here to share a layout I created using the Simple Stories I am Collection.

 

My background pieces are from the I AM Collection Kit. I'll share with you in the steps below how I put my layout together. For me this is a pretty big achievement because doing layouts of myself has never been something I've been very comfortable with.  But I know it's important. I think as scrapbookers we often end up documenting life around us. The kids, events, ect... But "we" are a part of all that. Usually "behind" the camera. Which honestly is where I prefer to be lol I had to stop and think of it differently. How sad would I be if I looked thru photo albums and there were no photos of my grandma and great grandma. We are a very important part of it all ... so take time to document YOU.

I started by adding some sort of semi dry brush swipes of acrylic paint behind where I will place my papers and photo.

Then I added a little stamping. Just enough so it would show around the edge of the matted paper.

Adding the background paper and photo was easy, then I decided to use one of these American Crafts straws as kind of a topper or bar above my photo. I put ties at both ends, and at this end I cut out one of the feathers from one of the Elements Sheets in the Collection kit and attached it to the string. I added a foam square to the back to give it lift off the page.

This pocket with tags from the Interactive Elements was one of the pieces I had decided from the beginning, would be a focal point on my page. What a fun way to add some journaling. I used the Expression Stickers on some of the tags and hand wrote journaling on others, using both the fronts and backs of the tags. Just a few of mine were I AM.. Simply Me, Compassionate, Choosing Happiness, Believer in God, Right were I want to be, a creative spirit, a believer that music soothes the soul, committed to my family, Lover of Animals. 

Then comes my favorite part. Going back and adding details. I used the Gold Photo Stickers a number of different places on my layout. LOVED them! And a long the side of my photo you can see I used one of the photo overlays. Instead of using it over my photo I just used the part I wanted along the side of the photo, since it would easily show up on the background paper.

I hope this encourages you to create a "I AM" layout of our own.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a GREAT day!

Vicki