Old to New Projects With Xyron

Each year the Xyron Team loves to do a fun promotion where the new design team selects a popular project from the past and uses it to inspire a new project.  We call it Something Old, Something New and you can check out each post this week on the Xyron Blog for more ideas. 

I selected the accordion project above by Elizabeth Bracco, which  inspired me to make this fun Summer Banner to celebrate summer.  Of course I used the Little Yellow Bicycle Splash collection along with my Xyron Mega Runner and 2.5" Create-a-Sticker.

Did you know that the LYB Chipboard Shapes and Clear Cuts easily run through the Xyron Create-a-Stickers?  It makes it so easy to attach them to a project and know that they are going to stay there.  I kinda wish I had a swimsuit like this one, the colors are so bright and fun.

I ran the clear cut flourish, chipboard sentiment and fish through the 2.5" Create-a-Sticker.  Made it super fast and easy to stick them to the banner.  Aren't the little calendar tickets adorable?

I cut up one of my LYB 6 x 6 mini albums into banners, punched some new holes and then covered them with paper.  The Xyron Mega Runner makes is super easy to adhere the paper to the chipboard.  Please ignore my super dirty craft mat.  Just know there is a lot of crafting and very little cleaning that goes on in my scrap space - LOL

The Flag kit in the Splash collection is so much fun to add to a project.  I just trimmed the sticks to fit the smaller size of my banner and then tied them together with some twine.  I also ran the chipboard sentiment "summer" through my Create-a-Sticker.

Have a wonderful day!

Family Fun with Simple Stories 24/7

 

I really enjoy this style of memory keeping.  It is really fun to work with the smaller sized journal cards, but still embellish them any way I want.  I also really appreciate the flat pages that easily fit into my scrapbook albums, plus it is a little faster than making single pages.  And, it's such a great way to incorporate something about everyone.   

Last spring my family and I made a point of visiting a different park each day of our break and each of these pages represents a park.  I thought it would be a great fit to document the memory with Simple Stories' new 24/7 collection.  The vibrant colors are a fun palette to go along with the beautiful spring photos.

I love to mix alphabets together - colors, sizes, texture.  These cork alphabets from Little Yellow Bicycle mix so well with the red and blue cardstock stickers from Simple Stories.

This calendar is a stamp from the Simple Stories Sn@p collection.  I used Ranger Ink to stamp it on to the grid patterned paper and then added that to the cork paper along with some cardstock sticker sentiments.  The Xyron Mega Runner is perfect for putting the journal cards together.

These journal cards make it sooooooo easy to add your memories in your own handwriting.  And the bright colors are really pretty.

These Little Yellow Bicycle Cork alphabets blended perfectly with this collection and added a nice dimension to the flatter cardstock sticker alphas without bulking up the page too much.  I used my Xyron Mega Runner to adhere the patterned paper together.

Love this old typewriter.  The journal card was already decorated this way, I just added the journaling and the sentiment "now" to the card with the Simple Stories cardstock alphabet stickers.

These cork scrabble tiles add some wonderful texture to the sentiment.


Thank you for stopping by today,

New Little Yellow Bicycle Design Team and Blog Hop w/ Prizes

Thank you for helping me welcome the new Little Yellow Bicycle Design Team.   Just like this card from the new Fern and Forest Boy collection says, "A Great Day Makes All Things Possible," and today we want our fans to help celebrate all of the new and wonderful things going on at LYB and maybe even win some new things for yourself...

I added the sentiment on this card with the new LYB cling stamps.   It's a nice mix with the new Fern and Forest collection.  Not to mention the adorable miniature clothespin.

I also added the new Naturals collection tree embellishment to the card.  This is quite possibly my favorite to date.

Help us welcome more of the new Design Team by hopping to his/her blogs and saying hello.  Little Yellow Bicycle is giving away prizes for leaving comments on each of the blogs and a grand prize on the new LYB Blog.

Mitchell Kraft -Minnesota
Eva Pizarro - Italy via Chile
Melinda Spinks - Australia
Mou Saha - Forida
Tamara Tripodi - California
Shellye McDaniel - Texas
Audrey Pettit - North Carolina
Suzanne Sergi - California
Jen Chesnick - Maryland
Heather Leopard - Texas
Robbie Herring - Texas
Vicki Boutin - Canada
Liz Qualman - Colorado - You Are Here

If this is the end of the hop, please head back to the Little Yellow Bicycle blog and leave a comment for the grand prize opportunity.  If you have just joined the blog hop here, please start at the beginning to enjoy all of today's inspiration.

Thank you for stopping by -

 

Xyron Imaginisce Blog Swap

This week Xyron and Imaginisce have teamed up for a fun blog swap.   I had a great time working with the Imaginisce Childhood Memories collection.  The bright colors and whimsical designs were really fun...

 

I particularly liked the Imaginisce bicycle stamp in this collection and thought it would make a great card center.  I also really loved the red striped paper and made sure I used some red Ranger Archival Ink to match.  I stamped the image of the bike on to plain white cardstock, then I used my circle cutter to cut around it.  I debated on whether I should color the bike, but in the end I like the simple image in red ink.  Finally, I backed the image with a Little Yellow Bicycle Naturals burlap circle and added some Maya Road Twine.

For the bicycle flag, I used a Little Yellow Bicycle stick pin and some jewel stickers so it looks like the Memories sentiment is part of the bike flag. I was able to run the whole burlap circle through my Xyron 2.5 Create-a-Sticker machine to give it a sticky back which made it a lot easier to adhere to the card.

These little clouds are really cute stickers.  I just added some handcut banners for a little added interest.

This home décor project was really easy to make.  I had an old 7 Gypsies Small Printer's Tray lying around, so I thought it would be fun to use the 4 x 6 journal cards in the Imaginsce Childhood Memories collection and some of the Sticker Stackers to make this project.   I used my Xyron Mega Runner to adhere the patterned paper to the tray.

For something a little out of the ordinary, I stuck some of Tim Holtz Idea-ology Memo Pins in the top of the tray and ran a little miniature clothesline.  Then I cut out some of the Polaroid sentiments and hung them up with the Little Yellow Bicycle Naturals mini clothespins.  I like how both the Polaroids and the pins have sentiments on them.

I stripped down some of the sticker stackers so I could add the little images to the Printer's Tray.  They were the perfect size without the rest of their backing and then I could customize the patterned papers.

Be sure to visit the other Xyron Team Member blogs and the Imaginisce blog for more inspiring projects.

Jen Goode

Sharon Callis

Ain't She Crafty

Imaginisce

Both Xyron and Imaginisce are giving away prizes this week so be sure to visit their blogs for details and how to enter.

Happy Crafting!