Happy National Scrapbook Day - Midday Medley Giveaway

Happy National Scrapbook Day from all of us here at 3 Birds Design! We hope you have enjoyed our week long celebration full of scrapbook page inspiration and the reveal of products from our new the Midday Medley collection! To celebrate this special day, we are giving away our Timeless Stamp Kit to one lucky person. All you have to do is follow this link to enter a Rafflecopter giveaway on our 3 Birds Facebook page: http://tinyurl.com/kc3gxfa

The giveaway begins today and ends May 6 at 12AM EST. More details about our new stamp kit were posted during our Timeless Stamp Kit reveal. This giveaway is your opportunity to WIN this collection BEFORE you can buy it! Good luck!!!

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National Scrapbook Day - Midday Medley Timeless Stamp Kit Reveal and Scrapbooking Special Events

Happy Friday! Thank you for stopping by today for Day 5 of our Week Long National Scrapbook Day Celebration here on the 3 Birds Studio blog! Today, we are announcing our second product from our new Midday Medley collection. I would like to introduce to you our Timeless Stamp Kit! This kit includes over 50 clear stamps, hundreds of die cut shapes, an acrylic stamping block, and both a brown and a black ink pad. The die cut shapes were made to perfectly fit the stamps so that you can stamp your image on the shape and then color it with markers, chalk, watercolor, etc before adding it to your projects.

So, what do you think? It has such a wonderful variety of stamps and shapes that can be layered and used for so many projects including cards and scrapbook pages. We can't wait to start sharing ideas to inspire and delight you!

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Hello 3 Birds Fans! It's Juliana here and I hope you have enjoyed our 3 Birds Studio style National Scrapbook Day Celebration! When I first started paper crafting, it was scrapbooking that got me started over 15 years ago. To this day, I still enjoy creating scrapbook pages about those special events that happen throughout the year. Today, I am sharing a scrapbook page that I made to commemorate my great nephew's baptism. This was definitely a special event and I feel blessed to have been a part of this day with my family. As you may recall, I recently shared a baptism layout of my great niece and because they were both baptized on the same day, I wanted to use the Graceful Season collection again to capture the memories of this special event.



DESIGNER TIP | Don't be afraid to cut apart your scrapbook papers. Look at patterns within the paper that can be cut out and used in a different way. For this page, I took the large dark gray and light gray striped paper and cut the stripes apart. I then took the light gray stripes and positioned them on top of the green chevron paper and achieved a totally different look.

To embellish the layout, I layered several pieces from the Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set. I also used one of the dark gray stripes and cut it to create the banner that is underneath my photos. 

I then dressed it up with some adhesive jewels from my stash and added a small amount of journaling. I felt like the photos captured the story for this page, so I didn't do a lot of journaling. I did however, create a second pocket style page to coordinate with this one and that is where I added my journaling. You can see this layout on my blog - 17turtles.com!


FOR THE RECORD SCRAPBOOK PAGE by Juliana Michaels

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 6 x 6 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set

I hope you are now inspired to start scrapping more of your special events, if you don't already!

HUGS!
Juliana

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Stay tuned tomorrow for our National Scrapbook Day Celebration Giveaway were we will be giving away one of our new Midday Medley Timeless Stamp Kits to one lucky person!

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National Scrapbook Day Celebration - Midday Medley Nestable Reveal and Scrapbooking Everyday Moments

Welcome to Day 4 of our National Scrapbook Day Week Long Celebration! Today, we are sharing our first full reveal of one of the products from our new collection called Midday Medley. Allow me to introduce to you our Nestable Festival Sticker Kit! For those of you who are not familiar with this product, let's share some details. This is a sticker kit like no other. It contains over 250 stickers that nest within each other creating frames, shapes, sentiments and designs that you can use in a variety of ways on all of your scrapbooking and paper crafting projects. And to give it even more punch, some of the stickers have gorgeous foil borders!





So, what do you think? Are these going to be on your "must have list"? These will be available on HSN on Wednesday, May 14. Stay tuned to our social media sites for more details as we get closer to that day!

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Thanks for joining us during our National Scrapbooking Week on the 3 Birds Studio blog. It’s Katrina here today to share a scrapbook page I made with the Graceful Season collection.



Honestly, a lot of the papers and chipboard that I used on this layout, I have been hoarding since I got this collection! I loved these colors so much, but I finally decided to use them! I thought this little “be happy” banner was adorable and added the chipboard flowers to it for an extra touch.



You have probably noticed that I layer a lot of the embellishments. This gives the page more depth and texture. Here I added a couple of smaller foam adhesive dots under the “simply you” piece to make it balance on the glitter frame.



The multi colored chipboard letters that come in the Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil set were a fun addition for my title. I also used a small banner and flower from the 3D Embellishment set.



I really wanted to use the “this is awesome” piece, but it did not look right sitting by itself on the frame. After I added a doily underneath, it worked better. Play around with your elements. I have a lot of straight, sharp edges in this layout, but by adding the doily underneath the circle element, it blended everything together.



LATE NIGHT SCRAPBOOK PAGE by Katrina Hunt

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 6 x 6 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 3D Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set

Celebrate National Scrapbooking Day (or week in our case!) by creating some layouts of your own!

Katrina Hunt

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Stop back tomorrow for more sneak peeks from our new Midday Medley collection! And don't forget, we will be having a giveaway starting on Saturday May 3 to end our Week Long National Scrapbook Day Celebration!!!

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National Scrapbook Day Celebration - Scrapbooking Old Family Photos

Welcome to Day 3 of our National Scrapbook Celebration Week here on the 3 Birds Studio Blog! So did you like how we teased you yesterday? Well, we are in the teasing mood again today! Here is another sneak peek for you. Any guesses on what this might be? If you think you might know, leave a comment below!

We also have a scrapbook page to share with you from Mary Ann Jenkins. She has some great tips on how she scrapbooks her old family photos, that are sure to inspire you to pull your old photos out of those shoe boxes and to get them in an album!

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Hi friends! It’s Mary Ann here today with a layout using a photo from 1970. It’s no secret that I love scrapping old family photos, whether black and white or color, there’s something about an old photo that is so much fun to look at! The hair styles, the clothes and even the cars give us a peek back in time to see what was popular back then.



A lot of times, when I scrap old photos I will “clean up” the photo in photoshop to give it a brighter and more correct color. Unfortunately, so many photos from years ago have either changed color with time, or were never processed correctly so they have a yellowish-green tint to them. For this layout though, I kept the photo just as it was, and embraced the greenish tint and even coordinated my embellishments to match!

I used the journaling chipboard from the Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil set along with the letters and numbers for my title and date.



The “total fave” 3D embellishment was a perfect addition to tie in the colors of my photo and patterned papers. I added two banner pieces underneath it that I cut from white cardstock to make the embellishment just a bit longer, and add of pop of white at the bottom of the layout too.



DAD AND ME SCRAPBOOK PAGE by Mary Ann Jenkins

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 6 x 6 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set

Do you have any old photos waiting to be scrapped? Why not pull them out of those storage boxes and give them a try!

Mary Ann

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Make sure you stop back by tomorrow for another great scrapbook page by Katrina. We will also be revealing the name of our new collection and more sneak peeks!!!

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National Scrapbook Day Celebration - Scrapbooking Happiness

Welcome 3 Birds Fans to Day 2 of our National Scrapbook Celebration Week! We thought we would tease you a little with a super sneaky sneak peek at one of our new products. Any guesses on what it might be? If you think you might know, leave a comment below!



Today, Designer Robbie Herring shares about the versatility and value you get with the Graceful Season collection. You are going to be amazed at how many projects she has created with this collection!

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Hey y'all! It's Robbie today to share another layout that I have made with the Graceful Season Collection. I wanted to point out today how many projects that I have made so far with this collection. To date, I have made 7 layouts, 8 cards, 2 gift boxes, 1 gift bag and 1 gift bucket. That's a LOT of projects! It's also important to point out that I have only been working with 1 set of the collection and I still have a LOT of beautiful things to work with!

As you know, I've talked about the versatility so much and today I wanted to make sure that you also knew that you get a lot of product for such a great price!

Today, I'm sharing layout number 7. I have such a love of flowers, so for this layout I used some of the beautiful floral papers and added a few little floral accents.



I started by choosing the floral background paper to frame my layout and then chose to add a 10x10" square with a more subtle pattern to build my layout on. I fussy cut the large floral pattern out of one of the papers and then tucked it in randomly around the page.



Next, I layered my embellishments behind and even on top of the photo. If you look closely, you will see that some of the embellishing is done over the frame and some of it is under the frame. Even the photo has corners that are tucked under and overlap the top.



To finish the page, I added a bit of stitching and a few more embellishments for balance across the page.

DESIGNER TIP | Add to simple embellishments to make them really pop! I added a punched scalloped circle and a tiny pearl sticker to the glitter circle to give it a bit more wow power!



HAPPINESS SCRAPBOOK PAGE by Robbie Herring

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 6 x 6 Foil Paper Pad, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set

Thanks so much for stopping by to take a look at my page!

Robbie

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Stay tuned tomorrow, when we reveal more sneak peeks of our gorgeous new collection!

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National Scrapbook Day Celebration - Scrapping School Memories

Welcome to Day 1 of our week long National Scrapbook Day Celebration here on the 3 Birds Studio Blog! Each day this week, one of our design team members will be sharing a scrapbook page focusing on ways to scrapbook different kinds of photos and memories.

To celebrate this week, we will be having a giveaway on National Scrapbook Day Saturday, May 3. You will have the chance to enter to win one of our new products BEFORE you can buy it! Also, throughout the week, we will be sharing sneak peeks of our new products that will be released on HSN on May 14. Make sure you stop by each day so that you don't miss a thing!

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Hi Everyone! Jana Eubank here. Do you have a specific holiday or occasion that you love to scrapbook over and over? For me, I love working on school-related pages. I love the first day of school, school pictures, class pictures, class activities, you name it! This time I have a page featuring photos of my kids sneaking out of their building on the last day of school last year. (Don’t worry, I really checked them out, but they had fun pretending to escape. Ha! Ha!)

Normally, when we approach school photos, we tend to reach for traditional Primary colors of red, yellow, blue, and green. Why not do something different? Here, I lightened the traditional primary colors up a notch by incorporating the soft colors and patterns of the Graceful Season collection.
In the top left corner of the page I placed my journaling surrounded by darling accent elements from the Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set. I used three sheets from the 6 x 6 premium paper pad. I cut a small journal block from one of the sheets, and then used the yellow polka dot sheet and pink/orange circles sheet to create two pennant shapes.

I cut the large floral element from a sheet of the Graceful Season 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad to accent the bottom right corner of my page, adding my photos right on top. The photos are playfully matted with the pink/white diagonal stripe from the same paper pad.

I used another cut out section from a sheet of the small 6 x 6 paper pad as a word in my title. I used a circle punch to punch out the word “routine” and then added it to a chipboard circle (from the Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil set) to give it more presence.
Stars scattered throughout the page tie everything together.


GOODBYE ROUTINE SCRAPBOOK PAGE by Jana Eubank

SUPPLIES | Graceful Season 12 x 12 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 6 x 6 Premium Paper Pad, Graceful Season 3D Embellishment Kit, Graceful Season Sticky Sparkly Glitter & Foil Set

Thanks for taking a look at my page today! I hope it has inspired you to complete a few school-related pages for your own album.

See you again soon!
Jana Eubank

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Don't forget to stop back by tomorrow! You never know when we will be posting some sneak peeks!!!

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