Jessica - Jacobo

JACOBO
by Jessica Summers

SUPPLIES:
Cardstock:  Bazzill
Patterned Paper:  Piggy Tales "Itsy Bitsy Spider;" Creative Imaginations Lace Cardstock
Chipboard:  Tim Holtz Grungeboard Wings
Felt:  Fancy Pants
Foam:  American Crafts
Letters:  Making Memories, Piggy Tales
Journaling Tag:  Prima
Glitter Mist: Tattered Angels
Paint:  Blonde Moments Suet Blue
Miscellaneous:  Embroidery Thread, black pen, glue dots

HOW TO:
1. Paint Grunge Board wings and set aside to dry.  Lightly mist background cardstock with glimmer mists in coordinating colors.
2. Cut your 2 pieces of patterned paper.  The first is 3" x 9" (7,6 x  22,9 cm) and the second is 7.25" x 7.25" ( 18,4 x 18,4 cm).  Cut a piece of lace cardstock 6" x 5.75" (15,2 x 14,6).  Cut a solid piece of cardstock the same size and fit behind the lace.
3. Layer your papers onto the background paper.  Using a circle template, lightly draw an 8.5" (21,6 cm) circle and stitch over it with coordinating thread.
4. Add the photo, and journaling tag under the photo.  Layer a couple of hearts ontop of the wings and adhere to the top left of the photograph. Wrap the hospital baby bracelet around the hearts.
5. Journal baby info onto the tag using tiny alphabets.

Jessica- Hey.

Hey.

by Jessica Summers

SUPPLIES

Patterned Paper: Piggy Tales

Barndoor: Piggy Tales

Brad: Making Memories

Chipboard: American Crafts

Alphabet: Making Memories, Doodlebug

Miscellaneous: Matchbook style card, ribbon, happy face patch.

HOW TO

1. Measure and adhere patterned paper to main part of card. Add a strip of contrasting cardstock along bottom.

2. On bottom portion of matchbook card, punch a hole in the middle and attach a brad. Adhere ribbon.

3. Center barndoor on the middle of the card. Adhere your patch. Along the top where the door opens, attach a chipboard arrow to show the recipient how to open the door.

4. Add greeting to the inside of the door.

Kirs- Piggy Tales

I loyal Dog
by Kirs De Ven-Smit

SUPPLIES
Piggy Tales from The Steadfast Tin Soldier Collection
Paper : ballerina and tin heart, Kraft paper
Cardstock letter Stickers
Barndoors
Chipboard Shapes
Chipboard letters (chicken little collection)
Making Memories Paint, white and red
Wrapping paper
Stamps
Versa Mark ink
Embossing powder (blue and red)
Memocard
Making memories metallic thread
Fineliner (dark blue)

HOW TO
The textures made onto the background are made using a creased piece of paper used as a sponge, in a swirling motion.
Then I adhered a piece of wrapping paper, from the shoebox of Tommy Hillfinger.
A nice hint: take a square tag (red), cut in half so each piece is pasted behind a kraft paper, it seems as if there is a larger rectangular piece.
I had good time with the embossing powder: stitching lines (blue) on the kraft paper and a stamped piece of red (loyal). With versa mark stamp you loyal to a piece of paper (I used a memo card, which I always do. Always give a nice extra effect), then I cut them out, fastened with 3D tape.
Underneath the red tag (the extended piece behind Kraft paper), I made 3 tags (with stamps) hung out with metal wire.
Paste some die-cuts with 3D tape, such as large letters, shapes.

Mireille- Piggy Tales

"Rockstar"
by Mireille Divjak

Supplylist:
Patterned Paper:
Piggy Tales- Twinkle Twinkle little star collection
*night glow
*twinkle
*wonder years
Paint: Making Memories
Embossing powder:Stamp 'n Stuff
Ink: colorbox
Stickles: Ranger
Pen: Sakura

How to:
I distressed the edges of my paper with a Tim Holtz distressor and then I inked them
I used paint and bubblewrap for the background. While the paint was still wet I sprinkled in some silver embossing powder.
I then heat embossed.
I created a star in word and then printed it.
Traced it on the patterned paper.
Decorated with stickles

Rachel- Piggy Tales

Dating Memories
by Rachel Burgess

SUPPLIES
Piggy Tales Ballad of Mulan Collection Pack:
12x12 Dragon Patterned paper
12x12 Black Hill patterned paper
Chipboard shapes
Barn doors
Cardstock letter stickers
Big Bite
Tim Holtz Idea-ology Grungeboard Swirls Elements
Fancy Pants Biggest Board Wild flowers
White acrylic paint
Red ric rac
Ranger Distress ink : fired brick & Walnut Stain
Small pieces of sponge or cut n dry foam
Ranger Stickles Diamond
Sticky foam pads

HOW TO
Cut an 8x8 inch piece of each patterned paper.

Print your photograph onto white card 8 inches tall and cut another piece of dragon paper at 8 inches tall. Rip the left hand edge of both of these two pieces and ink with both inkpads. Layer the pieces together as shown to form 2 base sheets.

Edge the centre of the red circular chipboard shape with the glitter glue and attach to the top left corner of the left hand page. Curl the edges of the red flower upwards and ink with the walnut ink. Edge with the glitter glue and layer over the chipboard circle.

Use the sponge or cut n dry foam to colour 2 grungeboard swirls all over with the red ink. Start at one end of each and begin to paint white, blending and fading the white as you go. Later these over the chipboard flower and top with the star chipboard (trimmed and edges curled up. Highlight the centre of the star with glitter glue. Paint three chipboard flowers white and edge with glitter glue. Layer these over the grungeboard swirls.

Edge the red barn door die cut with walnut ink and then stickles. Once dry attach your photograph behind and trim away any excess. Curl one corner of the front flap up and ink. Attach a bracket piece either side and a flower to the front of the flap that has been painted white and edges with glitter. Paint a grungeboard heart red and use the big bite to punch holes in it to correspond with the holes in the black button chipboard piece. Edge both pieces with glitter and layer with a grungeboard swirl that has been painted white. Tie with a piece of red ricrac and layer onto the barn door.

Attach a length of red ric rac across both halves of the layout add the title usinf the alpha stickers on one half and the barn door piece on the other.

Moniek- Piggy Tales

Kookles

by Moniek Jannink

This layout is about the Japanese woman I met thru my previous work. She is married to a dutch man and she is just amazing. She can cook fantastic japanese food and her sushi is the best! She once invited me and my collegue Stef for a cooking lesson..... We had a fantastic evening with lots of tasty Japanese food!

I thought the pictures of this evening fitted perfectly with the Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection.

SUPPLIES
Paper: Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection
- Valiant soldier
- Yellow river
- Mulan
Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection Chipboard shapes
Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection Ribbon
7gypsies - 97% complete stickers - Document
Fiskars border punch

Moniek- Piggy Tales

When I first saw the Piggy Tales Mulan collection with the black and red patterns I immediately thought about the soccer outfit of my son. The colors of his club are black and red!
Most of the papers have an asian print, but I used the Valiant Soldier paper with the strips..... perfect for a soccer layout of my son!

I use a Heidi Swapp 9x9 album for all soccer layouts, so this layout is 9x9.

-Moniek

Supply list:
Paper: Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection
- Valiant soldier
Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection Chipboard shapes
Piggy Tales - the ballad of Mulan Collection Cardstock letter stickers

7gypsies - 97% complete stickers - Document
white embroidery floss
Dymo tape
stamps: Creative Cafe / art warehouse / Teresa Collins

Natalie- Piggy Tales

Alex - 7 Today

by Natalie O'Shea

Supplies:

Piggy Tales Tortoise and the Hare Collection Patterned Cardstock Pack
Piggy Tales Tortoise and the Hare Collection Letters
Piggy Tales Tortoise and the Hare Collection Chipboard Shapes

How to:

Make your base card from the plain blue patterned cardstock. Cut a strip of the squared patterned card and attach to the bottom of your base card. Cut a rectangle big enough to cover most of the top half of your card leaving a small border around the edge. Add letter stickers to two chipboard tags to personalise your card. Sand the edges to show the white chipboard core. Add the tags to your card and add some doodled detail around the edges of the tags and the letter stickers.

Perfect for any little boy :)

Carole- Making Memories/Piggy Tales

"Faire un Boeuf"

by Carole Maurin

The title means "Make a Beef" and it's a french expression used to describe a group when they begin to play music, although they don't prepare before hand.

SUPPLIES

paper: Piggy Tales "Old King Cole" collection

die cut paper: Making Memories "Flower Patch" collection

Die cuts, buttons, embossed butterflies: Making Memories "Flower Patch"collection

other die cuts: Making Memories "Love Notes "collection and My Mind's Eye "Be Merry" collection

clear dimensional flowers stickers: Making Memories "Flower Patch" collection

alphabet stickers: Piggy Tales "Old King Cole" collection and adorn it

HOW TO

Adhere the die cut paper onto your base paper. Then play with the die cuts, make superposition and adhere it. Adhere the picture. Decorate with buttons anddimensional stickers. Make the title with stickers.

Carole- Rock n' Roll

rock 'n' roll

by carole maurin

SUPPLIES

Papers: Piggy Tales "Old King Cole" collection and Making Memories "Just Chillin"

alphabet stickers: Piggy Tales

die cuts: Making Memories

chipboards: Piggy Tales

3D foam square

HOW TO

One of the ideas is to create a cluster of die cuts on the corner of the picture and adhere them with 3D foam square with different thicknesses. The other idea is to use the chipboard picture corners as arrows to draw the eye to the picture.