New Contest: What makes a kit club great?

New Contest! We'd like to know what you think! We want your opinion on what would make our kit club great. We're always looking for ways to make our products better. Tell your friends, let everyone know. We will select 3 lucky winners! All you have to do to enter is visit us on Facebook and submit a comment with your opinion of what makes a kit club great, you will be entered to win $50 in Piggy Tales product. Contest ends at midnight November 15, 2009. Good Luck!

November Contest!

For Thanksgiving this year we are going to my inlaws! This will only be the 2nd time I've been away from my own family for Thanksgiving, so I want to make it extra special for us and my inlaws. I'd like to make the table settings and centerpiece using paper. Does anyone have any ideas for me? If so please email them to me trina@piggytales.com. I will choose a favorite and post it on my blog. If you are my favorite I will send you a package of Piggy Tales goodies to use for your holiday card making or scrapbook pages. Deadline will be Nov. 23rd. I look forward to your ideas!

Have FUN!
trina

Charity's holiday wreath

I can't believe it's been a few weeks since I've last posted! I was on a roll and then...well I'm not sure what happened. Last week we went to San Diego and had a blast. We stayed right on the BEACH! It was so much FUN! Now, I'm off to St. Paul for a Creating Keepsakes Convention..oh and of course shopping at the Mall of America! I can't wait!

I wanted to share with you this beautiful wreath that one of our design team members, Charity Hassel created with our cardstock paper! It's AMAZING! Also, Piggy Tales is having a contest, so you'll have to read about it and participate! Hope you're having a wonderful week!





If you would like all the details on how to make your own make sure you check out the Label Tulip blog tutorial.

Product Used: Piggy Tales Itsy Bitsy Spider paper, Creative Imaginations brads and flowers. Making Memories leaf straight pins, WRMK glittered brads.

Contest Details:
If you haven't already signed up for our newsletter, visit our sign up page at; http://www.piggytales.com/website/newslettersignup.html and sign up to receive the FREE Piggy Tales digital newsletter, you'll also receive sneak peeks, coupons, product announcements, ideas, inspiration and MORE! Then have your friends go to piggytales.com and click on "Newsletter Sign Up". Be sure to have your friends list their name, email address, state and who referred them. We will pick 3 lucky participants and their referring friends to win $50 each in Piggy Tales product. Contest will end October 31st, 2009. Good Luck!

Trina

"Inspiration Unlimited" Free Class!

Sitting: Layle, Janna
Standing: Teresa, Me, Ginger

I had such a wonderful time a few days ago with Teresa, Janna, Layle, Stephanie and Ginger at the Inspiration Unlimited event in Henderson, Nevada! I was so excited to get invited to come and teach the LUCKY 140 women about Piggy Tales. It was such a BLAST! As a thank you gift Teresa gave me a necklace with one of her Jumbo Crystals (which I had been eye-balling all night) and pewter angel wing! I LOVE it! I hope to come back next year!

If you're interested I will email you the CLASS color copy and instructions of the book I created SPECIAL for this event! It will also be available as a Project Idea Card under the Creative Ideas link on Piggy Tales' website.

Here's a sneak of the book.

Tip Tuesday

Think outside the box with your letter stickers. Mix and match colors and patterns to create a title, journaling or dates. I just created a "Busy Book" for PTI (wish I could show you)! Across 2 pages I created an alphabet game. I made an alphabet and number chart using all the letters of the alphabet on the page. Then, as the title I said "Where's my ABC's and 1,2,3's? It a fun way to create interaction with those viewing the page! Also, a great way to use up letters!

Oldie But Goodie

I had a wonderful day today! The boys woke up at 9am, so I took full advantage and slept in with them! I then did yard work while the boys puttered around picking berries off the trees, and getting soaked in the water fountain. We then took a swim in the freezing cold pool! Emails, phone calls, Dinner, FHE, muffins, blog, (soon) bedtime!

Here's a layout I did using The Ballad of Mulan collection. The theme of this line is Chinese New Year, but is so universal it doesn't have to go with the theme! That's what I love so much about Piggy Tales' paper! Mary Cameron's black/red velvet hat went perfectly with this collection!



Piggy Tales product:
The Ballad of Mulan Cardstock Paper, ribbon, Barndoors, Rubons

Other product:
white cardstock, black/white/red buttons, self adhesive gems & brads, Maya Road chipboard flowers, glitter, black/white paint

Instructions:
Cut 3 1/2" x 6 Red/flower piece to top right corner of 12"x 12" Solid Black background.
Cut 4 1/2" x 5" Black/White flower piece 1 1/2" from top left corner of background.
Cut 4"x 4" Black/White leaf piece and adhere below 4 1/2" x 5" Black/White flower piece.
Cut 4 1/4" x 5" White cardstock.
Apply rubon to White Cardstock and adhere to top left corner of Red/flower piece.
Mat 5"x 7" photo onto solid red piece and adhere to background.
Cut a 2 1/2" x 2 1/2" piece from Stripe. Cut triangle from corner to corner and adhere to bottom right corner of background.
Adhere solid red piece behind flower Barndoor.
Trim off solid red and apply rubon word of your choice
Attach ribbon pieces with brads and gems to left edge of background.
Cut out 2 1/2", 2" and 1 1/2" circles from cardstock paper.
Layer circles.
Paint and glitter the chipboard flowers.
After dry add buttons, brads and gems to the flowers.
Adhere flowers to centers of circles.
Adhere circles to background.

20 min. layout

Yes, it's been a while since I've last posted and I don't know where the time has gone. I got back from Nashville and I've been busy getting Scrapfest ready. Debbie is there now, shopping her heart away. She's having so much fun!

We finally got a shipment of the Summer Release embellishments so I could start designing! I took the day to design and had a great time! I love the 5 little ducks line and have the perfect photos of the boys in the tub! I can't wait to get them developed!

Here's a quick layout that took me about 20 min. The photos are of my adorable nephews making faces at each other!

Piggy Tales Product:
5 little Ducks cardstock paper, chipboard letters, chipboard shapes, cardstock letter stickers, barndoors
Other: (3) silver brads, ribbon, yellow button, brown floss

Instructions:
Adhere (2) photos across bottom of Solid Green background. Trim as necessary.
Trim (2) 1" x 12 pieces from Stripe paper. Adhere across top and bottom edges of photos.
Trim (1) 1" x 8" piece from Animal pattern. Adhere across top edge of stripe piece.
Adhere chipboard letters spelling "Silly" to background.
Adhere Solid Green paper behind green frame chipboard shape.
Adhere "faces" to center of frame using cardstock letter sticker (overlap the letters)
Attach silver brads to frame and adhere to Background.
Tread brown floss through yellow button and adhere to orange chipboard shape.
Adhere star to frame.
Thread ribbon through button chipboard shapes. Adhere buttons to background.
Adhere Solid Green paper behind blue tag barndoor. Cut off edges.
Journal onto Solid Green paper.
Adhere Barndoor to background.

ENjoy!