Make-and-Take at Pages From the Heart

Another "Make-and-Take" Saturday morning December 15 at Pages From the Heart with Debbie......stop by between 10am and noon to decorate this adorable clear pillow box. Pop in a gift card or cash, and you will be ready with a quick last-minute holiday gift. $3. Pages has the clear acetate pillow boxes in three sizes!

"What's Up" from Basic Grey

 

I made a card for my friend Tina and got carried away with the scraps! I made six cards and a gift bag out of four sheets of the "What's Up" collection by Basic Grey. The banners with the pennants, letters and cute little birds are easily hand-cut to become an embellishment. Or even easier, just mat and layer! "What's Up" is in stock at Pages From the Heart and several of these cards are on display.

 

 

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More Theta Gifts!

I had planned to do some work-work today but the internet connection wasn't working this morning....so I made a kite-themed frame instead.  Question:  do you like Theta items in all colors or do you prefer black/gold?

Here is an 8" square frame with multi-colored kites, twine and Theta letters.  The picture space is 4x4".  ($10)

Theta Themed Gifts!

I'm making some Kappa Alpha Theta-themed gifts with the thought of setting up an Etsy shop but want to post some pictures here first for reactions.  Comments, please!

Four tiny (2"x1 3/4") folded cards embellished with a tiny kite and bling along with four tiny envelopes in coordinating Theta colors. ($3)

Yummy chocolates wrapped in Theta colors then packaged in coordinating sleeve and cellophane with tulle ribbon and kite tag.  ($5)

Sorority Brag Boards are just giant scrapbook pages!

 I have not posted in a long time but I have been busy with paper crafts. Over the summer I helped my daughter Katie make eight "brag boards" for her sorority's annual recruitment events. After seeing these boards, who wouldn't want to be a Kappa Alpha Theta?

 

 

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Lucky Penny Birdhouse

 

The March Challenge at Pages From the Heart was to make a project with a "Lucky" theme.  Here's my entry:

When I first started thinking about the "lucky" theme, I remembered the little jingle "find a penny, pick it up and all day you'll have good luck". So pennies were already in my mind. Then I saw a floor tiled with pennies on Pinterest....and then I found my collection of unfinished birdhouses.

I painted the birdhouse white so that any imperfections in applying the paper would look intentional. I carefully practiced the folded siding on another piece of paper since I had only one sheet of "Must Have" from the BasicGrey Sweet Threads collection. The paper is scored and folded at 1/2", 3/4" and 1" intervals to create the overlapping siding effect. The bottom flat layer is "Thicket' from the new We R Memory Keepers CottonTail collection available at Pages From the Heart. A bit of my favorite brown polka-dot pleated ribbon finishes off each side.

The pennies were easier to attach than I first thought - ScrappyGlue dried quickly and invisibly. I found some old washers to frame the cutouts and painted another lucky symbol, the "7" street address (also available at Pages) in a soft green to pick up the color in the siding.

I stained some Popsicle sticks using a copper ink pad and glued them into a flower box shape then filled it with paper flowers from Michael's Dollar Bin.

 

Materials:

Thicket (We R Memory Keepers CottonTail collection)

Must Have (BasicGrey Sweet Threads collection)
Scrappy Glue (Pages From the Heart)

Cosmic Copper Brilliance pigment ink

Craft paint - white and lime sorbet
Ribbon, paper flowers and birdhouse (Michael's)

 

 

My Next Class at Pages From the Heart!

“Genuine” Card Class - Use the fabulous new Genuine collection from Authentique to make 5 all-occasion friendship cards.   Learn how to make a pleated flower and a pleated border using the technique shown recently on the Pages' blog.  Create a fun ribbon and tag embellishment using a simple safety pin as a base.  These cards can be easily personalized with the recipient's initials using the alphabet stickers included in your kit and you'll have plenty of cardstock stickers left over to make your own gift tags.

Pages From the Heart
137 East Colorado Blvd., Monrovia
626-358-5334

Cost $28.00

Thursday, March 29^th   7:00pm – 9:00pm