All That Glitters | Using Glitter Paper and Embellishments on a Scrapbook Page

I know we are officially in the cool months of Fall, but I’m going to jump back a season to the warm days of a Summer vacation for the layout I have to share today.

To start my layout, I cut out the shape of Montana using the beautiful gold glitter paper from the Graceful Season 8x8 Glitter Paper Pad and my Silhouette die cutting machine. I love that the paper cuts so smoothly, and is so sparkly too! Next I added the die cut shape to the pretty purple floral paper and added a strip of purple paper to the top of my layout.

I paired up the gold and white frame and the cute glitter polka dot bow from the Touch of Glimmer Embellishment Kit along with the purple glitter chipboard journaling shape from the Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Chipboard Kit . (can you see a glitter theme here??) I hand wrote my journaling and layered it and the bow on top of the frame and my photo.



Next I did more layering using the gold glitter arrow with the chipboard star circle and added a title that was also cut from the gold glitter paper using my Silhouette. A few star chipboard pieces, some gold sequins, and a little bit of machine stitching completed my layout. I sure love how pretty the glittery pieces from the paper pads and embellishment kits are and how they all coordinate so well together!

Mary Ann

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season Paper Collection, Midday Medley Paper Collection, Touch of Glimmer Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Chipboard Kit

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Merry Christmas Layout

Hi everyone! Robbie today to share a page that I made. Last week, I told you I was in the Christmas mood, so I made another Christmas layout.

This layout is proof that the card kits aren't just for cards! There are so many great shapes and sentiments in the cards kits that will work beautifully on your layouts, too.

This beautiful little wreath is in the card kit and is ready to go! I just added a few of the foil pieces and I had an instant design element for my page.

The quilled poinsettias are also from the card kit.

Tip | Mix up bit and pieces from other collections. I used chipboard, pearls, stickers and die-cuts to add interest and dimension.

Don't forget the little touches. For balance, I added a couple of holly leaves, also from the card kit, to the corner of the photo to pull it all together.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Supplies Used | Graceful Seasons Paper Pad, Graceful Season Dimensional Stickers, Graceful Season Chipboard Kit, Quilled Card Kit Holiday Season Edition,  Sticker Flair Mega Sticker Kit , Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box.

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Mix & Match Everyday

Hi everyone! Robbie today to share a page that I made using a mix of 3 Birds products. This layout is all about texture and finishes. I really like to mix texture for pages. In addition to different textures being great for things you can touch, texture can also bring visual dimension and interest.

The layout features many different 3 Birds products. I included chipboard, dimensional stickers, flat stickers and pearlescent pieces. Each of them has a different finish and detailing.

In this close-up you can see many different visual textures in one small space. There is glitter, flat chipboard, smooth pearlescent pieces and the sheen of foil accents, in addition to a canvas and burlap flower from my stash.

This close-up shows many of the same textures and ribbon is added. For more detail and to mix the dimension, I added foam dots to the back of the flower and chipboard circle.

More layers that include all the parts and pieces come together on the bottom corner of the photo. I purposely used the larger pieces in this section to add weight to the bottom of the page.

DESIGNER TIP | Chipboard layers perfectly over the dimensional stickers. It is strong enough to hold its' shape to stand the test of time in your books.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Robbie

SUPPLIES |  Midday Medley Nestable Sticker Pad , Midday Medley Paper Collection, Touch of Glimmer Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Chipboard Kit, Graceful Season 3D Embellishment Kit, Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box

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Mixing & Matching With 3 Birds Design

Hi everyone! Robbie today to share a page that I made using a mix of 3 Birds products. One of the things that I have loved about all the new releases is the way that they blend with the past collections and releases so seamlessly. For my layout, I pulled chipboard from the Graceful Seasons collection, paper from the Floral Festival Page Kit, Stickers from the Midday Medley collection and more!

The layout was built around the picture,of course. I thought it was so cute and I wanted to play up the hammer she is holding. There are so many great silver pieces spread throughout the collections, so that became the common thread in the embellishing. The silver chipboard alphabets fit perfectly with this idea.

A journal card and and silver sequins that are included in the Touch of Glimmer Embellishment kit were sweet additions to the page. Notice the tiny pink bows on the card. It goes really well with the oval stickers that i chose from the Midday Medley Sticker Pad.

To embellish near the photo, I added a few things from my stash and layered chipboard flowers that are in the chipboard set. Finally, if you take a close look, you will see that the photo is matted with a glittery piece that is also included in the Touch of Glimmer Embellishment kit. That got me thinking that I wanted to add a bit of glitter to punched leaves that I tucked behind the roses.

The page still seemed to be lacking a little something, so a added some blue and lavender stitching to pull the whole thing together.

Thanks so much for stopping by!
Robbie

SUPPLIES | Flora Festival Page Kit, Sticker Flair Mega Kit, Touch of Glimmer Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Chipboard Kit, Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box

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Halloween Treat Set

Halloween is just around the corner and we are giving you some fun ideas here on the 3 Birds Studio blog. I am sharing some fun and quick treat bags, along with a card for those special goblins that come to trick or treat.

I used the Graceful Season and Midday Medley Paper Collections. These have all the right colors for Halloween goodness! This witches hat treat bag was create from the Graceful Season foil pad and the 12 x 12 paper pad. I love the green foil paper!

These treat bags are very easy to create with or without a die cutting machine, so don’t feel like you need to have a die cutting machine to make treat bags. Find a pattern online, trace it or simply just add lot of embellishments to make your toppers. Then attach your “centerpiece” to a piece of pattern paper that is the width of your bag and folded over. To attach your assembled piece onto your sandwich bags, just use a stapler!



And then I made a fun card to go along with the treat bags. The bats were just adorable and I thought the Midday Medley Glitter Paper would be perfect for them.

The card just slips out and is basically a tag. I haven’t come up with the perfect spooky saying yet, so I have left it blank for now! And an added touch with the Pearlescent and Foil Goodies!



You can make these for all sorts of celebrations and occasions. These would be adorable with pumpkins, cornstalks, and cornucopias for Thanksgiving! Thanks for stopping by today. BOO!

Katrina Hunt - Paper, Scissors and Glue

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season Paper Collection,  Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Chipboard Set, Midday Medley Paper Collection, Pearlescent & Foil Goodie Box

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Halloween Boo Banner

Halloween is just around the corner and it's one of my favorite holidays. Hi 3 Birds Fans, it's Juliana with you here! I love to decorate my home with hand made decorations. This year, I decided to make a fun and only slightly spooky Halloween banner using my electronic cutting machine and some of my favorite 3 Birds Design products.



 

To create the banner shape, I used a digital cut file, but you can easily create your own banner shape by drawing it onto a piece of scrap paper and using it as a template. Each piece of this banner is 5" wide by 6" tall. You can then use a 1/4" hole punch to create a hole in each corner.


The Midday Medley and Graceful Season Paper Collections each had some papers that were perfect for Halloween. I also loved using some of the Foil and Glitter papers as well. These paper cut so smoothly.



All of the images were also cut using my electronic cutting machine and some digital cut files. I layered some of the die cut images and gave them some dimension by adhering them with double sided foam tape. The black border strips were created using a border punch. The final touch was to add a few of black pearls from the Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box.



 

Do you enjoy decorating for Halloween? What is your favorite holiday to decorate your home? Thanks for stopping by today! For more details on the digital cut files used to create this banner and to download the banner shape for free, please visit my blog 17turtles.

HUGS!
Juliana

SUPPLIES | Midday Medley Paper Collection, Graceful Season Paper Collection, Pearlescent & Foil Goodie Box

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September Scrapbook Sketch Feature

During the month of September, we shared our September Scrapbook Sketch with you and then showed how our 3 Bird Design Team was inspired by it. We then asked you, our 3 Birds Fans, to play along with us. By playing along you had the chance of being selected to be featured on our 3 Birds Facebook page and blog. We had two wonderful takes on the September Sketch, so we decided to feature both of them.

Raechellus Bellus did a great job incorporating six photos into her layout using the sketch for inspiration and we love how she used our Graceful Season collection to scrapbook these photos of her family enjoying the beach.



Dinah Audish Christoph played along with us again this month and we adore her take on the sketch too! She was able to fit 7 photos onto her layout and we love how she flipped the right hand side of the sketch to work for her photos.



We want to thank both Raechelle and Dinah for playing along with us! Stay tuned, we some fun things planned for later in October!

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Quick & Easy Masculine Birthday Cards

Welcome 3 Birds Fans! Juliana here to share a couple of quick and easy masculine birthday cards. I love to create more than one card when I have my supplies out and that is exactly what I did when I sat down to create a birthday card for my husband who just recently celebrated his birthday.



 

The first thing I did was to go through the stickers in the Sticker Flair Kit looking for some masculine looking birthday sentiments and I found the "Happy Birthday" and "Best Wishes" stickers.



I then pulled out some of my scrap papers that I had coordinated and had a masculine feel. Then it was just a matter of cutting and trimming the papers to size. To finish each of them off, I added some pearls from the new Pearlescent & Foil Goodie Box. Who ever said that jewels are just for girls?

Speaking of girls, while I had all of my 3 Birds out on my scrapbook table, I decided to make a couple of quick & easy feminine birthday cards as well. Visit my blog - 17turtles - and you can see them!

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope you enjoyed the cards I created to share with you!

HUGS!
Juliana

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season Paper Collection, Midday Medley Paper Collection, Sticker Flair Kit, Pearlescent & Foil Goodie Box

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Quick & Simple Card Set

Cards, do you make them? Do they confuse you? When I first started scrapping, I NEVER made cards. I told myself I didn’t know how! BUT if you are a card newbie, I am here to show you some quick and simple cards with the Graceful Season Quilled Card Making Kit. The 3 Birds card kits make cards so easy to make.

I wanted to show a few different ways to make the cards. The card below is the only card that I added something extra too. I tried to use one card, along with one sheet of die cuts to make each card. I didn’t have something for the center, so I just added a chipboard piece from the Sticky, Sparkly, Glitter Foil Chipboard set.

You can see a close up here of how I just added foam adhesive to make the embellishments more interesting. And a close up of that fun chipboard flower!

I also concentrated on making cards that you could actually MAIL! Envelopes are included in the kits also.

Layer your die cuts for something fun. Move them around until you get them the way you like them!

There are a few sheets that have these fun little envelope die cuts in them. I knew I had to use one!

You can see here, I just slit the envelope a little to slide the banner piece into it. I love that it looks like the banner is just flying out of it!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Katrina Hunt - Paper, Scissors and Glue

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil chipboard Set, Graceful Season Quilled Card Making Kit

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Happiness Found | September Sketch Challenge

We’ve been sharing layouts made with the September sketch all this week here on the 3 Birds Studio blog, and today is my day to share! I don’t make a whole lot of two page layouts, but when I do, using a sketch sure helps because it gives me an idea of where to place my photos to get the most out of both pages.

As you can see, I picked different elements from the sketch to follow, but moved some of them around. Instead of placing the stripes behind the photos, I instead added one stripe to the top of my pages. I also still used a background piece behind my photos, but changed the size of it.

For the left side of my layout, I used the same amount of photos as shown on the sketch, (this is where a sketch comes in handy!) but changed the size of the photos, and also the placement of the embellishments. The new Pearlescent & Foil gems were perfect for a touch of glimmer and shine!

On the right side of my layout, I still used the same number of photos, but, I printed the four photos all together as one large 6x6 photo. I followed the sketch to place the 3D embellishment and red foil gems, but added those to the bottom of my journaling instead the top.

DESIGNER TIP | I like collecting patches from the different places we visit. These make great custom embellishments to add to your layouts.

Thanks for stopping by the 3 Birds Studio blog today; we would love to see how you use the sketch. Be sure to share them with us on our Facebook page!
Mary Ann

SUPPLIES |  Pearlescent & Foil Goodie Box Set, Graceful Season Paper Collection, Graceful Season 3D Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set

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Gift Set | Magnets & Trivets

Hi everyone! It's Robbie again today. Last week, on the 3 Birds Blog, I shared a card that I made using the new Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box. On my blog, I shared a matching gift bag and tag. Today, I'm back to share the little gifties that I put together to go in the bag!

I love to give little kitchen gifts because everyone can use them. With the versatility of the 3 Birds collections, you are sure to be able to find a color combination that will work with any kitchen, too. For this gift, I made a couple of trivets and matching magnet set. I also added a whisk and a wooden spoon for a little extra.

DESIGNER TIP | It would be really cute to add some cup towels or wash rags. The ideas for the kitchen are endless!

The trivets are 6 1/2 x 6 1/2 tiles that I picked up at Home Depot to alter. These are perfect because you can use the 6 x 6 pads with it. These are SO SIMPLE!

Directions: Use Mod Podge to adhere your paper to the tile. After it's dried, add another coat of Mod Podge to the top. After that is completely dry, seal with a spray sealer and add cork pieces to the bottom corners.

The last thing I made was a set of 4 magnets to match. They work great as a little tie-on for gifts and are really practical, too.

Directions: Glue flat-back glass pieces to small scraps of paper with Glossy Accents. If you don't have Glossy Accents, any strong glue that dries clear will work. After it is completely dry, trim around the glass piece as closely as possible. Glue a magnet to the back, also using a strong clear drying glue. I used Glossy Accents for this, as well.

Now, pop the magnets in a little organza bag, tie a great bow to attach the magnets to and put the whole thing in your matching bag. Quick and Easy gift! When you sit down to make them, think about making a couple of sets. Then you'll have another gift for when you are in a pinch!

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek at my project!
Robbie

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season Paper Collection, Graceful Season Quilled Cardmaking Kit, Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box (coming soon to HSN)

 

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Pearlescent & Foil Goodie Box Inspiration – Quilled Card

Hi everyone! Robbie here to talk about how much I love the Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box that 3 Birds is releasing on HSN soon! This little box contains so many little flat backed pieces that are perfect for adding that extra touch of fabulous to your projects.

For today, I wanted to show you a little card that I made using quilled flowers combined with the Pearlescent and Foil pieces. After you take a look here, be sure to stop by my blog where I'm sharing a matching Gift Bag and Tag.

As you know by now, the quilled roses that you can make with the card kit are my favorites!! When I got this goodie box, I knew that I wanted to put some centers in my flowers, so that is what I did here with the card

I'm including a super close photo so you can see what it looks like. I just used tiny glue dots to adhere them right to the top. I also added them to the leaves the same way. No need to push down on them, the sit perfectly right on the top of the center.

One more close up to show the dimension of my card. A strip of paper with a border of punched paper added to the card completed the base. I used a Fiskars Scalloped Border punch for the borders.

I used foam dots to raise the doily from the background. I like the way this made it sit nicely against the bow.

Once I got started, I couldn't stop playing with this combination of products. Drop by next week to see what I put in the bag!

Thanks for stopping by to take a peek at my project! Don't forget to visit my blog to check out my coordinating Gift Bag and Tag.
Robbie

SUPPLIES: Graceful Season Paper Pad Collection, Graceful Season Quilled Cardmaking Kit, Pearlescent and Foil Goodie Box (coming soon to HSN)

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