The ADORNit Girls take you around the trade floor showing you a sneak peek of upcoming fabric lines. You’ll love meeting fabric and pattern designers.
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We love wood buttons! They’re the perfect accessory to ‘adorn’ your projects. Here are the step by step instructions to achieve the perfect diamond glazed wood button. Step 1: Trace the shape of the wood button onto the design paper. Step 2: Cut out the shape.
Step 3: Apply a light coat of decoupage to one side of the wooden button.
Step 4: While the glue is still wet, apply the design paper that is cut to fit the shape. TIP– Use sandpaper around the edges to easily trim off the excess paper.
Step 5: To get the diamond glaze affect, we use dimensional magic from Mod Podge or any type of crystal laquer. It takes about 30 minutes to dry and gives a fun dimensional feel to the button.
Now that you’re all an expert at making wood buttons you can purchase different styles and shapes at our website http://bit.ly/LpIlqN or your local craft store that carriers ADORNit products.
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We love, love, love when customers share their finished projects with us! Wendy Louis brought this ‘knock your socks’ off quilt in a few weeks ago. I can’t wait to make one for myself. Yellow and Gray is one of the hottest color palettes right now and Wendy pulled it off perfectly. Thanks for sharing with us Wendy! ADORNit Fabric Supplies: Vintage Polka Gray, Vintage Stripe Gray, Lined Squiggles Gray, Lined Squiggles Yellow, & Jumbo Vintage Flower Yellow.
(sorry for my crappy iphone photos!)
no comments I’m Angela Lenssen, a mom of three who started scrapping as a child with my mom. I picked it up as a “full time hobby” after marriage and when my first child was on the way about 12 years ago. My skill has definitely evolved over the years of practice, but I have always stuck with a basic, clean style. I’m a thrifty gal, so you’ll likely find me mixing older scrappy products that I’ve had for “ages” with fun new elements to create simple yet attractive layouts. Along with scrapbooking, I also love photography. My camera has been my best friend in this last year through some photography classes and lots of practice. You can see a lot of my recent photo shoots on my blog at www.mom-e-memoirs.blogspot.com and if you go back in the archives you’ll also see a lot of great scrapbooking, too! My biggest claim to scrapbooking “fame” are the two times my layouts have been published in Creating Keepsakes Magazine… and now guest blogging on the ADORNit Blog! Isn’t it just great to be recognized for your work doing something you love? Mixing up a variety of ADORNit products was a fun challenge for me. I chose to match up some older products with newer ones and made some fresh layouts that don’t look at all dated. Have you ever tried combining old with new?
My “Soccer Pals” layout includes a wide variety of pattern papers from the Misty Collection, Outdoors Collection, Love Fest Collection, and (of course) the Soccer Paper Stack Pack. I think a great way to match up different paper lines is to focus on the colors in the photos you’re using. Pull pattern papers that match the colors in your photos– your photos will stand out and the papers will beautifully “accessorize” your pictures. If your design is current, people will not generally notice “outdated” patterns on papers. The Soccer Attitude stickers and foam sticker letters were a perfect embellishment– I popped a bunch of them up to make dimensional elements.
Don’t let a themed paper stop you from branching out! My On the Farm layout uses pattern papers from the Soccer Paper Stack Pack too! Papers from the stack on kraft paper along with photos and foam letters was all I needed to create this layout. Sometimes you have a theme to your page that isn’t a theme you can find in the scrapbook stores. Or, the themed items at the stores just don’t quite match your photos or aren’t your style. Coming from a farming family, I definitely get creative with supplies that are meant for other pages. You can make your own embellishments– I simply cut up papers from the Soccer Paper Stack Pack to make the little tractors, clouds and sunshine on the page. Thanks for coming to check out my stuff here! I hope it inspires you to create something new with old supplies or repurpose supplies that are meant for a different theme. Pull out some of your stash and start something fun! ADORNit Supplies: no comments
On our recent travel to Oregon we made sure to live it up and ask people the best places to visit. We had an entire day to spend and we chose two very fun spots. We are really into history and learning about the past that makes the present so beautiful. I’m glad my mom passed down this passion because it’s great bonding time! We visited the historical site Pittock Mansion where it’s nestled in the hills of Portland and sits 1,000 feet above the city line. (Beautiful view!) Something that we loved seeing was they kept scrapbooks back then. Yes I said scrapbooks! Even they knew the importance of saving memories and passing it down. Of course they are not as extravagant as they are now but it served an important purpose. We need to remember that our books do not need to all be the best but we just need to do it. Simple pages keep the memories just as well as ornate ones.
The next place we visited was Haystack Rock on the coast of Oregon. I was dying to see the beach and forced my mom to drive us out to Cannon Beach. Although when you think “beach” you think warm but I don’t know if there is a warm beach in Oregon! It was cold enough for gloves and a hat! You could definitely tell we were tourists when we showed up in our light jackets. Beside the brisk weather we had so much fun enjoying the view and listening to the roar of the ocean.
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It’s officially Springtime and in our family we couldn’t be any happier. In my house with three little boys being stuck inside all Winter starts to get old very fast. These are picture of our family last Spring all dressed up in our Sunday best. I thought it was very fitting for this cute Spring paper.
I LOVE this cute Watering Can Patterned Paper. Since I love to fussy cut, this page just jumped right out at me. With a little bit a photo matting, a bit of fussy cutting, and a few jewels here and there this page was created. Tell me what things you love to put on your Springtime pages. ADORNit Supplies: Watering Can 12×12, Bunny Word Play 12×12, Eggs Scattered 12×12, Bunny Stripe Cut Up 12×12, Easter Cut Apart 12×12, White Jewel Droplets.
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I was going out to deliver some Easter treats to a few friends and decided they had to have a handmade card. I love our new Easter 12×12 paper and knew that would be perfect. I didn’t have a lot of time and because the paper has so much artwork they came together so quickly.. A little bit of fussy cutting (only used paper – no stickers) and a few pop dots, you have a darling dimensional card. I challenge you to take 15 minutes out of your day and make a handmade card to brighten someone’s day. ADORNit Supplies: Easter Cut Apart 12×12, Eggs Scattered 12×12, Bunny Stripe Cut Up 12×12.
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We had so much fun visiting with our long time friends and owners at A Joy Forever in Milwaukie, Oregon. Joy and David have a special place in our hearts because over the past 12 years we have not only built a working relationship but a friendship that will last forever. Each time we travel to our wholesale trade show we look forward to visiting with our dear friends. After all these years we finally made it to their darling scrapbook shop where we even found ourselves buying scrapbook paper from her fantastic selection. Yes, the ADORNit Girls who have oodles of paper couldn’t resist and bought more! Goes to show you can never have too much ;)
If you are ever in the Milwaukie area you need to stop by A Joy Forever! You will be amazed at their selection and the sweet people who will help you find the perfect project. XOXO
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First step is to trace the chipboard provided to the outside shape of the wooden tray. At this step I also traced the shapes of the squares inside of the tray. This helped me know where I needed to lay the paper and give me an idea of my design space. Purchase the entire kit here. On sale for $20.00, regular price $25. CLICK HERE.
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Egg hunts, the Easter Bunny, and Jelly Beans are just around the corner. We have an adorable Easter Papercrafting Collection that is in stores now! Check back this week for some Easter inspiration. Happy Monday! no comments |
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Seems fitting that we found our ADORNit travel paper while we were traveling in Oregon.
I used all the wood shaped eggs and covered them with paper.
The smaller eggs are placed next to the bunny and add a fun dimension. I also used the bunny wood shape to pop it out of the frame.
On the inside of the two large frames I lined it with the ribbon. I put a line of glue down first then added my ribbon.
For the flowers I simply cut it out a square from the Watering Can patterned paper. To dress them up I added cute ADORNit dimensional flower stickers.
Feel free to be creative with this project and have fun with it! When you’re all finished snap a picture of your project and share it on our 
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