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How To: Spring Has Sprung Page Layout

How To: Spring Has Sprung Page Layout

Use 12" × 12" white cardstock for base page. Type or handwrite journaling on 5½" × 8½" white cardstock; adhere journaling to top left of the base page. Adhere 6" × 12" Easter Time Stripe/Blue to bottom edge of page, Stripe side up. Adhere 1" × 12" Easter Time Flower/Pink Dot ¼" above Stripe paper, Flower side up. (Optional: Machine stitch between Stripe and Flower papers.) Adhere 5" × 7" picture ½" from top and sides of 6" × 10½" Easter Time Stripe/Blue paper, Blue side up. (Optional: Machine stitch around 5" × 7" picture.) Using white foam alphabet stickers, place “SPRING” title below 5" × 7" picture on Blue paper. Using white rub on letters, rub, “has sprung” below “SPRING” as shown. Place a green brad to the left of “has” and a green brad to the right of “sprung.” Adhere 6" × 10½" Blue paper to top edge and ¾" from right of page. Adhere Easter Time Flower/Pink Dot 2¼" circle punch Pink Dot side up and Easter Time Sprinkles/Green 1¾" circle punch Green side up onto page as shown. Using a foam square, place Daisy White with Yellow Duplicate Sticker onto Pink Dot 2¼" circle punch. Using a foam square, place one Daisy Pink with White Duplicate Sticker onto Green 1¾" circle punch. Using a foam square, place one Daisy Pink with White Duplicate Sticker to lower left of 5" × 7" picture. Adhere white button to center of Daisy Pink with White Duplicate Sticker.

How To: Thank You Card

How To: Thank You Card

Fold coordinating 5½" × 8½" blue cardstock in half. Adhere 2" × 5" Zoo Fun Stripe/Orange Circle Paper (Stripe side facing up) ¼" from left, bottom and right edges of card. Adhere ¾" × 5" Zoo Fun Stripe/Orange Circle Paper (Orange Circle side facing up) directly above Stripe Paper. Place White Daisy in Brown Circle Duplicate 1" from right of card and ½" from top of card. Using Brown Thank You Script Rub Ons, rub “thank you” to left of White Daisy in Brown Circle Duplicate and above Orange Circle Paper.

How To: Pinwheels

How To: Pinwheels

Cut a 6" square out of cardstock-weight paper. Fold in half diagonally; unfold. Fold in half diagonally in the opposite direction; unfold. Cut along each fold to about two-thirds of the way to the center of the square. Bring every-other point into the center, overlapping the points. Secure with a brad. Cut a skewer or dowel to desired length and paint using Pebbles Inc. Orange paint. When dry, glue to the back of
the pinwheel. 

How To: Mother's Day Accordion Fold Card

How To: Mother's Day Accordion Fold Card

Fold five 6" × 12" coordinating pink cardstock pieces in half to make 6" × 6" sections. Glue one 6" × 6" square overlapping 6" × 6" square from another section, alternating fold directions until all the sections are glued together to make one accordion. Adhere 2" × 2¾" Pebbles Inc. Birthday Girl Stripe Paper ¼" from top and left edge of each 6" × 6" pink cardstock square on accordion. Adhere 3½" × 5½" pictures directly to right of Stripe Paper and ¼" from top edge of each 6" × 6" pink cardstock square on accordion. Adhere 2" × 2¾" coordinating orange cardstock ¼" from left edge and directly below Stripe Paper to each 6" × 6" pink cardstock square on accordion. Adhere m, o, t, h, e and r die cut letters onto orange cardstock on each accordion. Using foam squares, adhere Pebbles Inc. White Daisy with Pink Center Duplicate Stickers and Pebbles Inc. Pink Daisy with White Center Duplicate Stickers to right of each letter in the following order: 1 Pink Daisy, 2 White Daisies, 1 Pink Daisy, 1 White Daisy, then 1 Pink Daisy. Adhere ¾" × 2" Pebbles Inc. Birthday Girl Pink Flower Paper ¼" from left edge and directly below the orange cardstock. Using a black fine tipped marker, write a characteristic of your mother that corresponds to each letter on ¾" × 2½" white cardstock strips. Example: m is for motivator. Adhere white cardstock strips to left edge of stripe paper and ¼" above orange cardstock.

How To: Teacher Appreciation

How To: Flower Pot

Using Pebbles Inc. Olive Green Paint, paint a 4" ceramic flower pot. Using Pebbles Inc. Brown Paint, paint a 4" styrofoam ball. Place the dried styrofoam ball inside flower pot. Adhere 1¼" × 12" School Days Stripe/Red Paper (Stripe side facing up) to the rim of the pot. Adhere 1¼" × 4" School Days Stripe/Red Paper (Stripe side facing up) to cover the remaining portion of the rim. Place a coordinating yellow brad through School Days Stripe/Red 1" circles. Adhere circle punches to center of white flower die cuts. Adhere flower die cuts to eraser end of a pencil. Tie a 4" length of Pebbles Inc. Olive Green Ribbon around the pencil and push pencil into styrofoam ball.

How To: Teacher Appreciation Card

Fold coordinating 4" × 8" green cardstock in half. Adhere 1¾" × 4" School Days Stripe/Red Paper (Stripe side facing up) to bottom of card. Adhere ½" × 4" School Days Stripe/Red Paper (Red side facing up) directly above Stripe Paper. Type or handwrite, “Thanks for a blooming good year!” on coordinating 2½" × 2½" brown cardstock. Adhere School Days Stripe/Red ½" circle punch to center of white cardstock flower punch. Place coordinating yellow brad through Red ½" circle punch. Adhere flower punch to brown cardstock. Adhere brown cardstock ¾" from left edge of card and ½" from top of card.

How To: Chocolate Bar Wrap

Remove the wrapper from a king sized chocolate bar. Wrap 6" × 9" School Days Circle/Orange Paper (Circle side facing up) around chocolate bar. Type of handwrite “Thanks for a great year!” on 2" × 4" School Days Circle/Orange Paper (Orange side facing up). Embellish with School Days Stickers. Punch a hole in the corner and attach a Pebbles Inc. ribbon to chocolate bar.

How To: Treat Bag

Fill a 3" cellophane bag with a treat of your choice. Fold the top of the cellophane bag over and staple closed. Fold 3¼" × 8" School Days Dot/Lined Paper in half. Embellish front with School Days Stickers. Adhere to cellophane bag. Type or handwrite, “thank you thank you...” on ½" × 7" coordinating green cardstock. Wrap around bottom of Lined paper.

How To: I Love School Tin

Adhere 3½" × 4½" School Days Stripe/Red Paper (Stripe side facing up) to bottom of 5" × 5½" silver square tin. Adhere coordinating 1½" × 4¼" blue cardstock directly above Stripe paper. Tie a 17" length of Pebbles Inc. Red Ribbon around silver tin and adhere to back. Using School Days Stickers, place coordinating blue brad to “I Love School” Sticker. Place sticker to left edge of silver tin and centered on Red Tibbon. Tie Red Ribbon to the front and right side of the silver tin. Fill silver tin with a mini album, CD, etc.

Pebbles Inc. How To Tutorials!

Every month, we'll be posting "How To" tutorials with a page layout idea, a card idea and a few paper crafting projects! This month, we're spotlighting some of our newest theme sets: School Days, Summer Days, Zoo Fun, Easter Time and Party Time Girl! Use these ideas as starting points for your creativity! We love hearing from you and seeing the fun things that you create! Enjoy this month's How To's!

New Pebbles Inc. Website!!

We are so excited about our new website that launched TODAY!!

Pebblesinc.com has a fresh, new look and is easier to navigate! We're also excited to announce that everyone can now purchase products from our website! Simply click on My Account in the upper right corner and login as a wholesaler or a retail customer.

We'll also be starting a creative gallery soon, so start getting your projects together and ready to submit and be part of our creative community!

Also be sure to sign up for our Monthly Email under the Community tab. Sign up your friends and spread the word!!

We're excited about our new look! Let us know what you think!!

Just in time for Easter!

There's still time to order our newest products for Easter! Our cute Easter Time line has coordinating paper, stickers and die cuts to for all your paper crafting projects! It's also perfect for Mother's Day to Birthday and everything between!

Contest Winner!

Congrats to JULIE for winning our layout contest! We loved her use of the Sweetheart products on her page layout!

Thanks to everyone who participated in our contest! We loved it all and it was hard to pick just one winner!

Contest Time!

Time for another contest!! Are you ready??

For this contest, we want to see your page layouts using our latest 8 theme sets: Season's Greetings, Sweetheart, Party Time Girl, Party Time Boy, Zoo Fun, School Days, Easter Time and Summer Days.

Important things first: THE PRIZE! The winner will receive a ScrapbooKit from our FOUR newest theme sets! Their layout will also be featured on the blog!

Here's the rules:

• Must be a single-page layout (12 x 12 or 8.5 x 11)
• Must primarially use Pebbles Inc. products
• There's no submission limits--enter as many times as you want!
• You can use layouts that have been published
• The contest is now OPEN, and ends on MONDAY, MARCH 3rd
• Be CREATIVE and HAVE FUN!

To SUBMIT: Send a .jpg image of your layout to [email protected]. Be sure to include your name and the products used in your layout.

Winners will be chosen by our design team on Tuesday, March 4th.

Have fun with this! Be sure to tell all your friends! We're excited to see what you come up with!

Back from CHA!

We're back from CHA! We had a great time at the show and loved meeting several of our customers! It was good to get away and enjoy the sun and warm weather down in Anaheim! Be sure to check out our photo album on the left from the show!

Also, stop by later this week...a new contest will begin on Friday! Prizes include new product and being published on our blog!

Happy Monday!

Share & Tell Sneak Peek!

We're excited to introduce to you our Share & Tell Binder Program! Let's face it...we are all busy. Whatever stage in life we find ourselves in, time seems to limit us from all that we want or need to do. The Share & Tell Binder Program offers simple ways to organize your photos and display them beautifully!

The Share & Tell Binder Program includes Albums, Sheet Protectors, Creative Pads and Journaling Cards that all work together to make scrapbooking your memories easier! This is the only system on the market that is flexible enough to work with hard-core crafters and non-scrapbooking consumers alike!

Start looking for the Share & Tell Binder Program this spring!

CHA Sneak Peek!

We've been busy getting ready for the Winter CHA Show and wanted to give you a little sneak peek at our four newest theme sets! Be sure to come see them in person at Booth #5189 at the show!

And the winner is...

...Rachel! Congrats on winning! Thanks to everyone who participated in our drawing! We'll have more contests in the future, so stay tuned!!

As Seen On...

Good Things Utah!! We are so excited that our Share & Tell Program will be debuting on Good Things Utah this Thursday! Be sure to check it out!

Also, be sure to submit a comment before Friday to be included in our Pebbles Inc. drawing for $50 in Pebbles Inc. products!