oldie But Goodie

Happy Birthday to ME! Yes, I'm now 33! I can't believe it! I went shopping for a few much needed gifts (for myself).....FUNKY jewlery and clothes! I'm so excited to wear them this week! Now I just have to think of somewhere to go with the boys to show off my purchases! Does McDonald's and Walmart count?

I share my birthday with Brandon's daughter, Mary Cameron! So, I decided to do an oldie but goodie that I did of Mary Cameron! Happy Birthday! She is now 8 years old and sooooo excited to be baptized!



Product I used:
Piggy Tales Gretel Collection
White cardstock for quote
Prima pink flower
(3) brown buttons, (1) pink button, (1) cream button
(2) gems
(2) pink brads
Fancy Pants rub-ons
Chatterbox flower template
Quote: Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven
photo tab die cut
Technique Tuesday circle frame stamp

Supplies Needed:
paper trimmer, adhesive, corner rounder, 1 1/2" circle punch, 1" circle punch, glue dots (for buttons and gems), brown pen, black pen

Instructions:
Cut 6" x 12" #79 Great Forest (large flower). Round corners and adhere 1/2" from top edge of #80 Candy Cottage (solid pink) 12" x 12" Background.
Cut a 1" x 4" #79 Great Forest (solid tan) and round bottom right corner.
Die cut photo tab onto #81 Chocolate Shingles (stripe) and adhere to 1" x 4" solid tan.
Adhere 1" x 4" solid tan to bottom right corner of 6"x 12" large flower piece.
Adhere button to pink flower.
Adhere flower to stripe photo tab.
Cut 5" x 7" #84 Miss Gretel (solid green) for photo mat.
Round corners of photo mat.
Adhere photo to photo mat.
Doodle around edges of photo mat with brown pen.
Adhere photo mat to Background page.
Using circle punches punch out circles from Gretel Cardstock Paper.
Position where you want the circles on the Background.
Using flower template trace flowers to the Background.
Adhere circles over the traced flowers.
Embellish the circles with buttons, brads and gems.
I stamped the circle frames to the center of the polka dot circles.
Fancy Pants rub-ons "Eternal Beauty" and flowers to photo mat.
Print quote onto white cardstock. I matched the font color to the color of the photo mat.

Inspiration Contest Winner

Ok, no winner yet :( don't think I gave everyone enough time for this contest, so I'm giving everyone 1 more week..due Friday September 3rd. I look forward to seeing what you create. See post on 8/20 for contest details.

Inspiration Art:




Here's what I came up with for this contest. I loved the way the Inspiration art reflects BIG words and a vintage look. So, I stamped the word "Child" over the photo (leaving the "C" off the page a little). I then created room for journaling by drawing lines with a ruler and .03 brown pen. I cut out the large and small circles from the pattern paper and added a staple in the center. The circles create a FUN feel to the page which go along with the photo and title.

Product Used:
Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff Cardstock Paper
Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff Rubons
Piggy Tales Billy Goats Gruff Cardstock Letter Stickers
Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher
Technique Tuesday Harbor Side Lower Case Letters Extra Large
Brown Ink Pad
Stayz-on Green Ink Pad

Quote

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.
by Charles Dickens

After being locked out the house for an hour and 1/2 with a 1 1/2 year old and 3 1/2 year old I could have easily gone crazy and given up for the day! Fortunately I had a pile full of mail to look at so I gave my 3 1/2 year old a magazine to look through. That kept him busy until Dad got home. Let's take action of our lives and not drone in it!

:) Trina

Oldie But Goodie

Title: "Fall Fun" Layout

Product: Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Collection
#124 Wife
#125 Pumpkin Shell
#127 Pumpkin Eater
#128 Well Kept
#130 Cardstock Letter Stickers
#131 Chipboard Letters
#146 Barndoors

Other:
Making Memories: Circle tag, heart paper clip, epoxy buttons, brads
May Arts: cream lace ribbon
Prima: turquoise flower

Supplies Needed:
paper trimmer, scissors, adhesive, pop dots, glue dots (hold down ribbon), mini hole punch (for brads), large & small flower die-cut


Background: 12"x 12" #125 Pumpkin Shell (turquoise side)
(2) 2" x 12" #124 Wife. Adhere to left edge and bottom edge of background.
5"x 6" #127 Pumpkin Eater (green side) to right edge of background.
3" x 6" #127 Pumpkin Eater to left edge of 2" x 12" piece.
Mat "fall" cardstock letter stickers to #124 Wife (light blue side). Doodle around edges of mat. Adhere turquoise flower and brad to mat. Adhere to background.
Adhere "FUN" chipboard letters to background.
Adhere cream ribbon and Making Memories epoxy buttons 4" x 6" #128 Well Kept (brown side) photo mat.
Adhere photo to photo mat.
Adhere photo mat to background.
Cut 2" x 2" #124 Wife (light blue side). Cut in half diagonally and cut out notch to look like a photo corner.
Attach 6 mini brads to photo corner.
Adhere photo corner to background.
#124 Wife to flap of green patterned Barndoor.
Attach circle tag with Making Memories heart paper clip to flap of Barndoor.
Adhere Barndoor to background.
Cut flowers from any flower die-cut. (1) large and (1) small.
Mat large flower onto white cardstock.
Mat small flower onto #124 Wife.
Thread cream ribbon through holes of (2) epoxy brads by Making Memories.
Adhere epoxy brads to center of flowers.
Pop dot flowers to background.

Note: Some of the embellishments I used on this page may no longer exist, so you may have to use something similar instead.

Inspiration Contest

Create a layout or card from the inspiration I found from this Art. Win product from the Row, Row, Row your Boat Collection. Send in your project by Wed. Aug. 26th and I'll post the winner on my blog on Thursday, Aug. 27th! Send it to me: trina @piggytales.com

Quote

I took my son school/church shopping today. When we got home he wanted to try on all of his clothes. He took the shopping bag in the from the car and straight to his room. He opened up the bag and took out his church clothes (dockers, white shirt, dress socks and tie). I helped him put on everything and then he said, "Mom let's pick out a dress for you now." So, he went to my closet and picked out a dress. He then gave it to me along with shoes. He then did my makeup (with lipstick only on half my lips) and eyeshadow all over my cheeks and eyes. It was a BLAST! This quote really helps me to remember that it's the little things we do each day that make all the difference! Let's not forget to make our days special! PS and don't forget to take the photos for the memories!

Tip Tuesday

Have you used our AMAzing Build a Rubons yet? Well, if not you're missing out! When I taught at CKU I instructed the students on the steps to using our Build a Rubons. They loved how our rub-ons applied so easily to their books and stayed true to their color.

Build a Rubon Steps:
1. Using Scissors cut out the border of your choice.
2. Apply border to paper with light pressure using popsicle stick (provided in packaging) or rub-on tool.
3. Using scissors cut out phrase.
4. Apply border to inside of border rub-on.
5. Using scissors cut out additional shapes (flowers, etc. and adhere overlap onto the border of the phrase.
6. When finished staple the rub-on sheet to the backing and insert back into packaging.
7. Organize by theme, alphabetically by company name, etc.


:) trina

Oldie But Goodie

I created this layout titled "Our Precious Gift" using "The Gingerbread Man" Collection. This collection is one SALE now. Here's the link to visit us online. http://www.qbaroo.com/piggytalesretail/main.cfm?categoryoid=14

"Our Precious Gift" Instructions:
Item #060 Can't Catch Me (solid green): Background Page
Item # 055 Sly Fox (polka dot): 7" x 12" adhere 2" from top edge of background.
Item #060 Can't Catch Me (horizontal stripe): 6"x 6" adhere to left edge of background over polka dot.
Item #056 Run, Run (vertical stripe): 3" x 10" adhere to bottom edge of polka dot.
Adhere Tag-lets, and chipboard letters.
Other: brads, metal flower, white square button, green ric-rac, black/white gingham ribbon
Stamp: precious, Dec. 2nd (date of birth)
White acrylic paint for edge of background and tags.

Happy Monday!

:)trina

PT Giveaway/Facebook Fan

PIGGY TALES IS GIVING AWAY
$200 IN PRODUCT TO ONE
LUCKY FACEBOOK "FAN"

We love seeing you guys on our blog, Twitter and facebook and we've noticed that more people are joining us everyday. We thought it would be cool to reward those of you who keep us as part of your daily web ritual. So here's a contest; as a special thanks to our loyal social network of friends we've decided to give away $200 in Piggy Tales product to one lucky facebook fan. To enter, just visit our facebook page and become a "fan":

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If you are not already using facebook, this might be a good time to start. We will often post tips, contests and general Piggy Tales silliness on our facebook page. Some content is exclusive to facebook, which means you wont find it anywhere else. Hope to see you there soon, contest ends August 31st, 2009.

CKU Provo FREE Class!!

Hi everyone! Welcome to my BLOG! This is my first post and I'm so excited for you to join ME! I've got a lot of things planned so I hope you'll visit me often for inspiration, FUN and contests galore!

I had such a wonderful time in Provo this past weekend! Thanks to my students and the CKU staff for the FUN! I can't believe it's over! Debbie and my cousins Jen and Val came along as students! They had sooo much FUN! We went to some amazing restaurants in Provo and Orem, did a little shopping at Archivers and stayed up WAY too late just catchin up on old times!

A little History: After my mom divorced when Debbie and I were young we moved next door to Jen and Val, so we grew up together until we moved in our teenage years to Texas. It had been a while since we were together (just the girls) no kids! Can you believe none of us brought a camera! What a shame! I took a few shots on my iphone but they weren't very good! You can view them on my facebook page if you'd like.

I also went out to Los Hermanos (a popular Mexican joint) with Teresa Collins and Jamie Harper! We talked for a few hours about our lives in a nutshell. It was great getting to know them both. They are such amazing women! Ican't wait to see them again for Teresa's private event in Henderson in September! (Actually Jamie are you going?)

At CKU my students created a special Slide Book titled "My Love Bugs". The inspiration was taken from my 3 year old boy whom we called "buggy boos" when he was younger. The first page begins with memories of his birth. Then through out the rest of the book I've recorded memories I have of him during tub time, getting dirty, and climbing trees! Isaac loves to look through this book because the slides move back and forth creating an interactive book that keeps him busy for a little while (at the doc's office, at church or as a bedtime story). He loves just looking at photos of himself too! Don't all children! Hope you enjoy!

So, if you didn't make it to CKU, I've posted the class for you for FREE! It doesn't have the photos, so it makes it easier for you to see where you need to add your photos. ENJOY!

"My Love Bugs" Slide Book taught at CKU PROVO! Visit Piggy Tales' online store for the following items.

piggytales.com

Piggy Tales Product:

Chicken Little Cardstock Paper: #105, #106, #107, #108, #109

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater Cardstock Paper: #127

The Ant’s Go Marching Cardstock Paper #324

The Ant’s Go Marching Build-A-Rubons #327

Chicken Little Barndoors

Slide Book

Supplies Needed:

Paper Trimmer, Scissors, Adhesive, Pop Dots, Glue Dots, Corner Rounder, Black Ink, and a Black Doodle Pen, craft knife, cutting mat, pencil, scorer, large flower punch, small flower punch

Tips before beginning:

Using pattern to trace and cut front cover, back cover, pages 3 and 6.

Corner round and ink edges of all photo mats.

Front Cover:

Background: #109 Blue Pattern (round right edge corners) Use page template to trace (with pencil). Use a craft knife for cutting out the slide.

4” x 5” #108 Solid Red.

(2) small flowers #107 Solid Yellow (doodle around edges and pop dot (1) small flower)

(2) large flowers #109 Solid Light Blue and #108 Solid Red (ink edges and pop dot both large flowers)

Center of flowers use #108 Circle Pattern (doodle around edges and center of small flower circles)

Cut out (2) butterflies and (1) bee from #324 Bug Pattern. Pop dot to cover. Use black pen to doodle dashes below bee and butterfly (by “My Love Bugs”)

Apply ants border and “My Love Bug” and mini green flower rub-ons to #108 Solid Red. Cut around rub-on border and pop dot to cover page.

Journal behind slide.

Spine: Cut a 2" x 6" #127 Polka Dot Piece. Wrap piece around the spine and adhere.

Back Cover: #106 Green Stripe use page template to trace. Cut out and adhere to back cover.

Pages 1 and 2

Page 1:

Cut 3 ½” x 7 ½” #127 Polka Dot (adhere 2” from bottom edge)

Mat photo onto #109 Blue Pattern.

Barndoor: Circle Tag to White Barndoor (mat onto #106 Solid Yellow/Green Stripe). Journal behind Barndoor.

Page 2:

3 ½” x 4” #106 Solid Yellow/Green Stripe (ink edges)

2” x 3 ½” #1#108 Solid Red (ink eges)

Mini Tag: onto #106 Green Stripe (cut out and apply mini blue flower rub-on) and pop dot to page.

3 ½” x 4” #106 Green Stripe

Cut out (2) bees from #324 Bug Pattern. Pop dot to page. Using black pen doodle dashes below bugs.

Using black pen, journal behind left slide.

Adhere photo behind right slide.

Pages 3 and 4:

Page 3:

Trace #108 Circle Pattern from Page Template and adhere to page.

Mat 4” x 5” photo onto #107 Red Stripe (solid yellow side).

Barndoor: Adhere Solid Red to White Barndoor (adhere to page).

Apply blue wavy border, “gotcha”, and butterfly rub-ons to center of barndoor.

Use black pen to journal behind the Barndoor.

Page 4:

Trace zigzag onto #106 Green Stripe.

Cut out zigzag and adhere to left and right edges of doors.

Cut out a butterfly and bee and pop dot to page. Usin black pen doodle dashes below bugs.

Adhere photos behind the slides.

Using black pen, journal on top of the slides.

Pages 5 and 6:

Page 5:

Cut out 4”x 7 ½” #107 Red Stripe. Ink edges and adhere 1" from bottom edge of page.

Cut out 1 ½” x 7 ½” #108 Circle Pattern (adhere to center of Red Stripe piece).

Mat 4”x 5” photo onto #109 Blue Pattern.

Page 6:

Trace page template onto #127. Trace around slides and cut out with craft knife.

Trace a 2" x 3" bubble onto #106 Green Stripe (yellow side). Cut out bubble and ink edges.

Apply red ants border, “got dirt?” and bee rub-ons to center of Bubble.

Adhere Bubble with pop dots.

Barndoor: Adhere Solid Yellow to White Barndoor. Ink edges and adhere photo behind Barndoor.

Adhere Barndoor to page.

Flower: use small flower template onto #108 Circle Pattern (solid red side).

Cut out blue circle from #108 Circle Pattern and adhere to center of flower.

Doodle around edges of flowers and adhere to page.

Adhere photos behind left slide.

Using black pen, journal behind right slide.

Page 7 and 8:

Page 7:

3 ½” x 8 ½” #108 Solid Light Blue (ink edges)

Adhere 1” from left edge of page (leaving right edge unglued for pocket)

Adhere flower Barndoor to white chipboard Barndoor (insert in pocket)

Mat 4” x 6” photo to #107 Red Stripe.

Page 8:

3 ¾” x 4” #107 Red Stripe.

Cut out (2) butterflies from #324 Bug Pattern.

Pop dot butterflies. Use black pen to doodle dashes below butterflies.

3” x 3 ½” #107 Red Stripe (yellow side). Round corners and ink edges. Adhere to page.

Barndoor: Blue tag onto White Barndoor and adhere to yellow piece.

Using black pen, journal behind slides on page.

Apply "looking glass border, Catch Me if you Can and a ladybug rubons to the top of the left slide.

Adhere photo to top of right slide.

Have FUN! Please email me with any questions!