Snippets By Mendi

Thursday, August 20, 2015

Cardmaker Magazine: Lawn Fawn "Flying By" Slider Card

Hi there! Today I am sharing a little tutorial on the Cardmaker Blog on how to create interactive slider cards using some fun stamps by Lawn Fawn and two pennies.

I hope you will hop over and visit me me over there. I am sharing the cutting file I created for my card as a free download. ;)

Interested in the other products I used to create my project today? To make supplies easier for you to find, I have listed them below (affiliate links included).

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

Monday, August 17, 2015

Doodlebug Design By Color ~ Cupcake Pink Blossoms Layout

Hi there! I'm sharing a new layout on the Doodlebug blog today which focuses on using their Cupcake color! The soft pinks found in the cupcake color group are so pretty and were the perfect compliment to some cherry blossom photos I still hadn't scrapbooked from several years ago.

To create my layout I used a fun sketch by Allison Davis at Scrapbook Generation and pulled out as many things I could think of in the cupcake color. As I was creating I kept thinking of more items I missed in my photo (like washi tape, buttons, brads, clothespins, paper clips, pearls & paper frills to name a few).

For my tree branch and flowers I used Doodlebug's new Sizzix Tree with Flowers, Heart & Leaves die. I simply cut the branches apart and pieced them together to lengthen it. For the flower centers I alternated jewels, glitter sprinkles and sequins topped with mini pearls. A little birdie sticker from the Sugar & Spice icon sticker sheet was the perfect finishing touch.

For my title I paired the "beautiful" sticker from the Kraft In Color This & That Stickers with the new Cupcake Skinny Alphas. For my twine bow I was liking how the tails were naturally falling and I wanted it to stay like that so I used a glue pen to adhere it to my paper.

I cut my little birdhouse out on my Silhouette using THIS cutting file and was able to hide the knot for my baker's twine by sandwiching it between pieces foam tape under my roof. For my heart, I used a die-cut from that same Sizzix die.

I hope I've inspired you to take a closer look at the Cupcake color and to try a monochromatic project of your own. I was pleasantly surprised by what a fun challenge it was! :)

Interested in the products I used to create my projects today? To make supplies easier for you to find, I have listed them below (affiliate links included).

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

Friday, August 14, 2015

Shimelle.com Guest Blogger using Bella Blvd Riley Collection

This week I was honored to be a guest over at Shimelle's blog. I would love if you would come over to say hi. Here's a little peek of a layout I created using her Sketch No. 25. I had a lot of fun creating this one with some of the new Bella Blvd. Riley Collection.

Thanks so much for visiting. :)

Interested in the products I used to create my project today? To make supplies easier for you to find, I have listed them below (affiliate links included).

Supplies Used (available at Scrapbook.com)

Thursday, August 13, 2015

Pebbles Inc. Fun In The Sun Summer Gift Bags

This is a personal blog. All editorial content and projects are intellectual property of Snippets of Mendi. I receive financial compensation and material product from American Crafts to develop my craft posts, but all ideas and opinions are my own.

Today I have some fun ideas for summer gift bags using Pebbles Fun In the Sun collection along with the new Fuse tool and Gift Bag Punch Board by We R Memory Keepers. I don't know about you, but I rarely think to prepare a fun gift bag on the actual day of an event so I love having some ready to go when I'm headed out the door to a special occasion.

I thought it would be fun to experiment with different shaped shaker windows using various nesting dies. For my first bag I wanted to mimic the look of the citrus slices found in the patterned paper. To achieve this I added all my sequins to the circle shape before closing it up. I then carefully slid the sequins over a little bit each time to fuse the straight lines.

My next bag features a star window filled with multi-colored sequins. I cut an extra band of patterned paper to go along the top of my bag which I punched with a scalloped edge using a border punch.

My last gift bag is my favorite. It uses some of the fun watermelon patterned papers from the collection so I thought it would be really fun to create a heart window and punch out little hearts and raindrops to pose as watermelon seeds for my shaker.

Make sure to head over the the Pebbles Blog where I share step-by-step instructions on how I created these fun shaped window shakers with the fuse tool and some basic supplies I already had on hand. Thanks so much for stopping by. :)