Fern and Forest Boy Shipping Soon from LYB

OMGnome!  Did you know Little Yellow Bicycle's Fern and Forest Boy collection is shipping this week?  And I have to say that this is one of my all time favorite kids' collections.  The color palette is perfection and I really appreciate the softer hues on traditional boy colors.  My sister and I joke that this is my son Henry's "Robert Redford" look with the shearling coat and the natural background.

These letters for the title "Boy" are really made from chipboard.  I was using prototypes for this page to get it ready for CHA, so they will have a much softer and dimensional feel in the actual product.

I added a hidden journal tag with some banners to pull it out.  Wanted to keep a really clean feel to the page and not cover up the beautiful background paper.  I used my Xyron 1.5" Create-a-Sticker to make the little banners stick together permanently.

Who doesn't love stars and banners.  Such a fun collection filled with possibilities.  

Be on the lookout for Fern and Forest Boy.  The LYB design team will be featuring projects on the LYB blog soon, but in the meantime...

 

Head over to the Little Yellow Bicycle blog today for ideas on LYB's Naturals, Stamps and Tim Holtz Ranger Ink.  It's two weeks loaded with really clever and simple ideas to include Naturals in your everyday lives.  PLUS there are prize opportunities each day.

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Little Yellow Bicycle Naturals Contest

 

Did you know that Little Yellow Bicycle is running a contest with the gorgeous new Naturals collection?  There are so many prize opportunities and a lot of categories besides just paper crafting...

When: Monday, February 18th - Sunday, March 17th
Where: Little Yellow Bicycle Blog and Facebook
What: 4 Categories, 8 Prize Packs, 1 Grand Prize and prizes for sharing the fun
How: Upload contest entries to our Facebook page or email them to liz@mylyb.com

Below is a description of the categories from LYB...

Paper Crafting  - show us how you can incorporate our naturals into a variety of gorgeous paper crafting projects like cards, layouts, minibooks, etc.  Projects must be 90% Little Yellow Bicycle, but we are happy to see any of our paper collections combined with our Naturals collection.  Please visit your local scrapbook store the LYB our online store for products.

Wearables - show us how you can incorporate our Naturals into everyday fashion.  The key to this category is being clever and a great photo to show off your fashion sense.  Write up a little advertisement about the accessory to make us want to wear it too...  Example - shoes from the Gap - $20, burlap flowers from Little Yellow Bicycle - $3.99, effect on husband/boyfriend - PRICELESS

Home Décor - Show us how easily you can incorproate our Naturals collection into your home.  These wine glass charms were made with our burlap heart shapes, jute and wonderful words rubons.  The key to this category is beautifying your home with some Natural accents.

Sewing - show us how you can use our Naturals collection in a sewing project.  Maybe use some of our burlap and canvas shapes for appliqué and add some of our adorable buttons... The key to this category is sense of style and craftmanship.  We'd like to take sewing lessons from you!

Upload contest entries to Little Yellow Bicycle's Facebook page and/or email them to liz@mylyb.com.  You may enter each category up to three (3) times.

Contest Prizes - Two (2) prize packs will be awarded for each category and include our latest paper collection along with some of our Naturals collection.  1 Grand Prize for a $100 shopping spree in our online store will be awarded to a lucky winner. 

More Prizes - We will also send out prizes each week of the contest to fans who share our contest on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.  AND as we make a push towards 10,000 fans, we'll have prize packs for our newest "likes" too.  Help us get the word out and tell us what you did and you will automatically be entered into our weekly drawings.

Find the Naturals collection at your nearest Michaels, your local scrapbook store or at the LYB online store.

It's going to be awesome and the Naturals are so fun!  I had a blast making each of these projects and my shoes have never looked better...

Simple Stories 24/7 Collection

 

Simple Stories is shipping three brand new paper collections in March.  The collection featured on this layout is called 24/7 and it is such a fun collection full of primary colors and quirky embellishments.  It's such a great alternative to the brighter, more pink Sn@p collection.

I love how you can layer the cardstock stickers and faux washi tape in this collection to make a fun little cluster. However, Simple Stories has created brand new embellishments to go with this collection including chipboard elements and layered stickers.  Yeah!  Can't wait to see them myself.

I don't think I will ever get tired of notebook paper, because it is so easy to write on and it was such a great background of this school photo of my daughter.

This ruler strip of paper with the days of the week on it was such a fun and novel element.  I made it into a large banner and used it in two different direction on my layout.  Love to use strips of paper because they easily run through my Xyron Create-a-Sticker and make things permanent.

It wouldn't be a Simple Stories collection if there was not a fun banner to go with it.  I love the overlapping elements on this.  

Check with your LSS to see when these fantastic collections from Simple Stories are shipping!

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Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day!  Thought I would make some fun cards and little gift boxes to fill with candies and chocolates for my kids.  I used the Just Because collection from Little Yellow Bicycle and my Create-a-Sticker from Xyron.http://www.xyron.com/enUS/Home/default.html

 

The two larger boxes were nesting gift boxes I found in my gift wrapping stash from X-mas and the top box was a random gift box that I thought would make a perfect topper. To make sure the paper on the sides was extra sticky I ran it through my Create-a-Sticker.  Now it is never going to peel off.

 

The tops of the boxes were not too difficult to cover.  I used my scoring tool on the corners to make really neat edges that were easy to adhere.  I also love the way sheer ribbons look on gift wrapping, so I tied this beautiful red Offray ribbon around the gift box stack.  

I was really just having fun with layering elements on this card with the silver heart and fresh verse stickers from Little Yellow Bicycle being the focus.  I just love how the journal card makes such a great focal element with the sentiment and little notebook edges.

 

I added some of the brand new Naturals cork heart stick pins from Little Yellow Bicycle to this page.  I love how well it mixes with the bright fun colors of the Just Because collection.

 

Last but not least, I wanted to keep this card simple because the 6 x 6 patterned paper was so darling and really only needed a little stitching, pop dots and heart stickers.

Hope you have a wonderful holiday!