Looking Ahead ... a Father's Day Ticket Book

It's never too early to start thinking of dad!  We have a real cute and easy ticket book to show you, created with our Digital Printed Ticket Kits at JessicaSprague.com .

Today's new kit, Printed Tickets Expressions, is on sale today!   So grab it now while it's 25% off!

The ticket book as shown here also uses two other Printed Ticket kits:  Printed Tickets Stars & Stats, and Printed Tickets Boy & Girl Icons.

Instructions:

1.  Upload the digital tickets you'd like to use into PSE or a Word Processing program. 

2.  Resize the tickets on your document and organize the tickets for printing.  My tickets were resized to 2.5 inches x 5 inches.

3.  Add type to the cover ticket and sentiment and words to any of the tickets.

4. Print the tickets and cut them out.  I had deco scissors from Fiskars that were perfect for cutting out the ticket edges.

5.  The tickets to the right in the photo above, are "favor tickets" that dad can redeem when he likes.  To create these, I stacked 4 of the Stars Printed Tickets as shown to create one group on my digital page.  The 4 tickets when stacked, are the same size as the album.   I added the words "this ticket good for:".   

Print out these tickets and use a perforating blade to perforate in between the tickets.  Dad can now tear a ticket off when he wants to redeem a favor!

6.  You can add photos, words, or embellishments to the tickets.

7.  Organize your tickets and punch holes in the edges, using a ticket you've punched as a guide.  Use binder rings to hold the book together.

I added a sweet piece of red and white polka dot ribbon to my album.  I know the polka dots aren't particularly masculine, but the ribbon just looked so cute next to the blue of the cover ticket.  And cute won over masculine!

Have a great day!  Don't forget to check out and download the latest issue of the Gazette!  It's PACKED!  Take a look at the post below!

A Hybrid Sampler

I just love samplers ... needlework samplers ... quilted samplers ... samplers of any kind!  So when I saw Jenni's Circle Home Mixed Media Kit, it reminded me of a sampler, and inspired me to create something similar for my scrapbook:

I used the digital Frame Rub-on Kit to create the basic framework for the sampler.

It's simple to do in any word processing program.  I just dragged the digital seal image onto a document,  copied, resized, and organized the images to get  the look I wanted.  I printed the arrangement onto a printable canvas.  Each seal became a home for a photo or embellishment.  

The canvas was mounted on Inkwell paper with only a tiny border showing and then mounted on a 12x12 sheet of Nest from the Magpie collection.  This background paper works so nicely with the canvas!

Doesn't this sound like fun?!  Try creating your own framework of frames digitally, print them out, and  decorate and embellish!

Supplies:

Jenni Bowlin Digi Shoppe at Jessica Sprague Frame Rub-on Kit

Nest Patterned Paper

Magpie Mini Pattern Sheet

Inkwell Patterned paper

Hodge Podge Stickers Memo, Magpie, Souvenier

Clear Alphabet Stamps

Blue Ribbon Clear Stamp

Vintage Sew-On Button

Doily Flower Cream

Decorative Brads Rhinestone 

Malted Milk ink

Chewing Gum paint, Cough Syrup Paint

Claudine Hellmuth Studio Sticky Back Canvas

Vintage Trim

Digi Monday and a Teeny Hybrid Project!

Today's digi release at JessicaSprague.com is another gorgeous classic paper collection in Jenni's classic Red, Black, and Cream.

Creative Team member Lisa Breuer created this lovely digital layout of her daughter:

An exciting BONUS addition to Jenni's digital kits will be showing up from time to time.  In this kit, you can find a bonus scalloped banner "Punchable" pdf.  "Punchables" are pdfs that when printed,  work with Fiskars/Jenni Bowlin punches to create hybrid embellishments.

Punchables are quick and easy to use, and very little computer knowledge is needed!

The pdf is simply printed on the paper or media of your choice ...

 ... punching instructions are included on the pdf, but these are so very easy to use ...

In the Vintage Red Collection kit, the "punchable" contains various scalloped banner images for use with the Fiskars/Jenni Bowlin Scalloped Banner punch.

I created this sweet teeny photo display of my boys with the Vintage Red Punchables, and flashcards from my Mercantile Kit stash!

The great thing about digital is that you NEVER run out!  When you download this kit, you will have an unending supply of the Vintage Red Paper, Journaling Cards, and sweet Punchable banners!