Trendy Bakers Twine~Valentine Treat Bags

Good Thursday morning! Beth from Beth's Beauties here today with these cute Valentine's Day treat bags.  The topper on the bags doubles as a card since I used temporary adhesive to add it to the bag.

First up, I grabbed two Kraft Wide Chevron Treat Bags and stamped on them with APB You & Me stamps and brown ink.  I sat those aside to dry and grabbed two Kraft Brown Scallop Note Cards to use as toppers.  I wanted to show you how to dress them up in different ways using the same elements, so one is more masculine and one is more feminine.

They both used Chocolate Cupcake Trendy Twine, Heart Tickets, and a stamp from You & Me stamps.  To add a little frill to the more feminine card, I added Pink Diamond Sparkling Gems and a strip of paper lace to the bag.  As I mentioned earlier, I used temporary adhesive to tape them to the top of the bags so I could still write a message inside and the toppers could be kept as cards.

Here's what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Chocolate Cupcake Trendy Twine

Kraft Brown Scallop Note Cards

Kraft Wide Chevron Treat Bags

You & Me stamps

Pink Diamond Sparkling Gems

Heart Tickets

Check out these sweet samplers of Trendy Twine!

The Cupcake Sprinkles Trendy Twine Sampler includes Chocolate Cupcake and Chocolate Sprinkles.

 The Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine Sampler includes Posy, Cherry Cupcake, and Berry. 

I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day! 

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Trendy Bakers Twine ~ Valentine Tag

Good Thursday morning!  Beth from Beth's Beauties here today with this mixed media Valentine tag.  I used our featured twine of the month, Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine.

I started with a Kraft Large Tag-It and glued a big heart of Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine onto the tag with Bearly Arts precision glue.  I then added the Heart Tickets with foam tape.  Next I filled some empty space on the tag with images from the You & Me stamp set using Scrapbook.com Leather ink.  Embellishing with Pink Diamond Sparkling Gems brought some sparkle to the tag, which I love!  At the top of the tag, I added a Cherry Latte Trendy Page Dot and a tie of Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine to finish it off.

Here's what I used from Annie's Paper Boutique:

Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine

Kraft Large Tag-It

Cherry Latte Trendy Page Dot

You & Me stamps

Pink Diamond Sparkling Gems

Heart Tickets

Look at couple of the beautiful Valentine's Day themed samplers of Trendy Twine!

 The Cherry Cupcake Trendy Twine Sampler includes Posy, Cherry Cupcake, and Berry. 

The Tickled Pink Trendy Twine Sampler includes Totally White, Tickled Pink, and Totally Pink

I hope you have a wonderfully crafty day! 

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Planner Friday - February

Hello!  I am Amanda from She's Eclectic and I am the resident planner girl here on the Trendy Twine blog.  I love to use my APB stamps to help me stay organised and to add a bit of fun to my planner pages too.  As next week is Valentine's day I have gone all out with a "romantic" theme full of hearts and things that go together perfectly so let me show you how I did it!

Products used: You & me planner stamps

Perfect pairs planner stamps

We go together planner stamps

Valentine trendy page dots
Used but not pictured: Check it off planner stamps

Weekend banner stamp

At home planner stamps

More at home planner stamps

School days planner stamps

The first thing I always do is to add washi tape wherever I can fit it in on my spread, usually along to top and bottom of the pages.  Then I pair that with a set of trendy page dots which reinforce the holes and protect my pages from tearing as well as adding a lovely splash of colour! I do this before I write or stamp anything so I know exactly how much space I have to work with.

Next it is time to get practical with the Check it off, At home, More at home, and School days stamp sets!  I use the Check it off stamps to create my to do lists and then I use the other sets to add my reminders and things I need to complete like doing the recycling, paying bills and running errands.  They also cover things like events, appointments, assemblies and after school clubs.

If you want to just get organised you can stop here, you have made your plans and now you just need to work on finishing them but if you want your planner pages to look really pretty as well as being practical then there is one more stage left to do, decorate them!

Decorating with image stamps, washi and trendy page dots

I use my APB image stamps to create my designs and a few stickers here and there.  For this week I used the You & me, Perfect pairs and We go together stamp sets to add sweet little couples that compliment each other like coffee and doughnuts and eggs and bacon.  Then I coloured them in to match my Valentine's Day theme using lots of pink!

Next week's plans

So this is how my week looks!

Do you like to decorate your planner, I'd love to know!

Amanda

Planner Friday - July

Amanda here from She's Eclectic. It's finally summer and the schools have broken up for the holidays here in the UK!  I am all set for fun in the sun, days out and lots of adventures which I want to document in my cute little travellers notebook and Annie's Paper Boutique has the perfect stamps to help me do it!

Products used: Choose Happy stamps

Documenting The Everyday stamps

Documenting The Everyday #2 stamps

Used but not pictured: Mini calendar card

Camera paper clip

Kraft tag-its

How's The Weather stamps

You & Me stamps

Perfect Pairs stamps

Foodies stamps

Drinks & More stamps

I wanted to create a spread I could fill in whenever something memorable happened during the break so I got out my stamps and planning essentials and set to work!

My summer holiday spread

I started with a strip of washi tape along the top of the page and then added a sweet mini calendar which I filled in with the dates for August.  I am going to use this to record any important dates during the month and the week my husband has booked off work.

I used stamps from the Documenting The Everyday #1 & #2 sets to make sections for my memories and stories so now I have space for Family Time, So Fun, Time With Friends and room for my favourite photo I take over the summer.

Creating sections

I stamped my kraft tag-it with the Details stamp from the Documenting The Everyday #2 set and glued it next to the place I had made for my photo so I can write about when and where the picture was taken and why it is important to me.

The weather here has been glorious recently and I hope it continues through August too so I used the sun stamp from my How's The Weather set and underneath it I used the Shine Bright stamp from my Choose Happy set as my way of willing the sunshine to continue!

I'm a foodie!

I had some space left around the edge of my spread so I used some stamps from the You & Me, Perfect Pairs, Foodies and Drinks & More sets for extra decoration.  The last step was so add a few travel themed stickers and I tried to match them to the colours of the inks and the washi tape I had used to pull the whole thing together.

Do you like how it turned out?

If you want to document your summer then head over the store now and check out all the fun supplies and I'll see you again next month for another Planner Friday!

Amanda