Christmas Embellishment Sale!

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New Stuff Tuesday

New stuff in the shop!!! 

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New Stuff Tuesday

So many new embellishments in the store!! Head over to the shop and take a look! 

Are there any embellishments that you would love to have, but we don't carry yet? We are ALWAYS looking for new ideas. Leave a comment, and let us know! 

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New Stuff Tuesday

Check out the new stuff in the shop!

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New Stuff Tuesday

Check out the cute new stuff in the shop!!  There's even more on the website... this is just a sneak peek!

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Posable Paper Doll

I LOVE this posable paper doll from Banana Frog Blog! What a quirky and unique embellishment for a page or card... or you could make personalized paper dolls for a little girl to play with. Get the tutorial here!

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Accents

 What are paper accents? Well, these are the small details you place within your layout or on your embellishments that give them that little extra eye catching “pop”. These range from the sparkly stuff such as small pearls and rhinestones to other items like ribbon, brads, and eyelets that give the page or embellishment a little dimension.

For instance, here is a basic paper pieced flower that has no accents.

The edges are all inked to give the flower some dimension and even in this state it is a pretty embellishment and ready to use on a page. But as we all know in the scrapbooking world, we can’t stop there! So by adding a small pearl or rhinestone in the center of the flower…

…the embellishment now has some added dimension and will only improve the overall look of your layout.

So break out those small accents, get creative, and have some fun!!!

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Pretty as a Flower

Two of my many favorite things in the world are pink daisies and my daughter. One day I had my pink daisy embellishment on my craft table and I just happened to put my daughter's school pictures down right next to it. 

Pink Daisy Paper Pieced Embellishment

This gave me a great idea for a simple layout to use for both! Digging through the stacks I found some pink flower paper to use as a background and a brown polkadot paper to use as a base. To help tie the embellishment in, I just used the colors from the embellishment to frame the photo and the "Pretty as a Flower" label. Instead of having the flower "free-floating" on the page, I decided to give it the look as if it was growing out of the ground by placing it behind the label. I think it turned out really cute!

Pretty as a Flower Framable Scrapbook Page

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Cute new stuff!!!

Have you been to the store lately? Go!!! There are some super cute new cards and embellishments... if I do say so myself! :0)

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Using Those Pinwheels

Remember our tutorial on making pinwheel embellishments back in June? Here is a really cute way to use them on something other than a page or a card...

I was browsing around and came across these cute little boxes on Style Me Pretty. These are actually cupcake boxes... yummy!!!

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Use an Embellishment on a Card

It's almost Valentine's Day, and what better time is there to make a handmade card to give to that special someone?

A good way to start is to pick out an embellishment to be your focal point... like this cute little cupid bear. Then, choose coordinating papers that you can use to create borders, or shapes that will go along with it.

Have fun with it... whoever you give your card to is going to love it because it came from you!

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Using a Holly Leaf embellishment

Here's a way we used a Holly Leaf embellishment to create a nice Winter Holiday or Christmas layout, ours turned out to be the Christmas one. We dug through a Christmas stack that we had laying around and found some paper with a holly leaf print. The holly print was too busy to use as the background, so using just a portion of it still catches your eye.

Our Holly Leaf Embellishment Set has two purposes, one is to embellish the pictures, and the second is to serve as photocorners. Putting it together we added a vintage snowflake print as a base, a simple striped print as a runner, and a matted "Merry Christmas" to finish it off. Here's the final product:

Happy Holidays!!!

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Paper Piecing

Paper-piecing is a term known by veteran scrapbookers is also one that brings many questions to novices. Many of the questions we get through email or while at shows are:

"Are these stickers?"
"How do you make these?"
"Do you make these by hand?"
"How long does it take to create these?"

or my favorite:

"Why do these cost so much?"

For those that know, the art of paper piecing involves creating embellishments through the layering of the different parts of the image you are creating, giving it the "3D" effect and a personal touch that a sticker can not. The drawback of this is the amount of time it takes to create each piece, which answers the last question. :0)

When starting your paper pieced embellishment, you can do one of two things. You can either sketch your image or find one on the internet to use, the latter I do not recommend due to copyright issues. Once you have your image, start looking at how to break it up. For instance, if you are creating a Penguin such as the one I created below:

Start by breaking up the image into separate pieces. In this example, the body would be used as the base, then the other parts (such as the eyes, beak, arms, legs) would be your layering pieces. See below:

Once you have the pieces, simply cut them out in the different colors, shade the edges to make them "pop", and glue them together.... and VOILA!

As I stated before, this is a time consuming process, but well worth it when you are done. By now you may be asking yourself, "What if I am not good at sketching?" That is ok. You can find free paper piece patterns by doing a simple search on the web or there are companies that offer books of patterns for you to purchase. For patterns created by A Scrap of Time, click here.

Either way, whether you are a veteran or a novice, break out those embellishment designs and instead of printing or sticking them... Paper Piece them!

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Jack-o-Lantern Paper Piecing Pattern

It's that time of the year and the Jack-o-Lanterns are coming out! Use this free paper pieced pattern to embellish your own Halloween layout.


Click on the image above and you will be directed to a version that you can print. Or, copy it into an image edited program to re-size.


Enjoy!





*** All free patterns are provided for personal use only and copyrighted by A Scrap of Time! Do not recreate for commercial or resale purposes.

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Pinwheel Embellishments

I have wanted to make little pinwheels to put on my cards and scrapbook pages, especially with summer coming up. So I decided to play with it, and let me tell you, they are super easy to make!

Start off will a little square of paper… it can be any size you want. I used a 3x3 here, but I think if I’m using them for cards I would actually want to make it a little smaller.

Double sided paper works best, but if the paper has a plain white backing, that will work too as you can see from the picture.

To start, cut halfway from each corner to the center point.

Next. place a small amount of adhesive in a corner and bring it to the center, pressing it into place. I like to use a little bit of the roll adhesive (I highly doubt that is the technical term, but you can see what I'm talking about in the pic), with a dab of glue on top. The roll adhesive will hold it in place while the glue dries.

For the center you can either cut a small slit using an Exacto knife, and add a brad like I did, or you could glue on a button, flower, rhinestone, etc.

If you are using the pinwheel on a scrapbook page or card, you could hide a small pop dot under the fold, and this will help it to keep its shape after it is place in your book, or envelope.

And there you have it… a cute little pinwheel embellishment.

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How to Make a Paper Rose

I love cards with dimension, like this simple, but elegant card card I made. I thought I would show you how to make the roses, so you can make your own!

Start with a strip of paper approximately 1 1/2" wide and 12" long (6" for the smaller roses).

Fold the strip roughly into thirds, and then squish the folds.

Starting at one end, start rolling around itself into a circle. Use an adhesive dot to secure the end, and follow with some glue. (The adhesive dot will hold the end in place while the glue dries.)

To make the leaves, cut out a basic leaf shape. Ink the edges, and then after folding it in half, ink along the crease.

Now, just make as many roses and leaves as you want, and place them on your page or card.

And voila!

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Free Valentine Cupcake Paper Piecing Pattern

There is nothing sweeter than love... especially when you have a great husband like I do!!! There is also nothing better than a sweet cupcake, like this cute little one sitting up on a cupcake stand. Just like the Penguin Pattern, simply click on the image above and you will be taken to the large version of the image.

Use this little cupcake to create a cute Valentine layout, or change the colors, and use it to create just about any layout you want. You can change the heart for a candle, and you have a birthday cupcake. Or, you can even use the cupcake "top" as a cloud pattern! Let you imagination run wild, and enjoy!

*** All free patterns are provided for personal use only! Please do not recreate for commercial or resale purposes.

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