XOXO card by Kirsty Vittetoe

I am sharing another Valentine's Day card using Pixie January Kit "Love Notes"

those lovely paper and chipboard pieces are all you need...

Pixie January Kit "Love Notes"

"Paper Only" Pack - $9 - get yours HERE!!!

Crate paper chipboard element - $5.50 - get yours HERE!!!

"J'ADORE" card by lauren bergold

if you want to make your most fabulous valentines ever, this month's kit, ♥LOVE NOTES♥ is definitely right for you!!! it's got every element you need: a perfect color palette featuring plenty of reds and pinks; lots of great love-themed papers; loads of hearts and flowers, etc. on the other hand, whoever said that sort of thing only works on valentines, eh? personally, i think this is one of the best "thinking of you" cards i've ever made!

for that matter, i believe i could have made these same supplies into a pretty great birthday or anniversary card... or a fun layout celebrating my adorable nieces and nephew... or a cool mini-book about paris! the best thing about any pixie kit, in my opinion, is not the "theme" at all, but the fact that every gorgeous product has been selected to work well with every other bit of the kit!!!

by now you'll have realized that my favorite technique is collage, and i have to confess that i've been known to spend quite a bit of time finding all the right "bits and bobs" to put on a card. with a pixie kit, miss kirsty has already done that for me!!! on this card you can see i have the best background and matting papers EVER ("sweet eiffel" and the "numers grid" by my mind's eye); a wonderful sentiment sticker from american crafts; two lengths of trim plus a few chipboard stickers from crate paper's random collection; and gems snipped from webster's pages "dazzle me" strips. every single bit of which was apre-made element!!! ok, yes, i did a little fussy-cutting from other papers in the kit (the hearts & doily) and i did some inking and distressing around the edges of my papers. but that's mostly because i just ENJOY doing those things!

if you've never worked with a kit before, all i can say is, "try it once"... because i'm confident that the amazing "jump start" to your creativity will convince you far better than i ever could!!! ♥

* Supplies *

Pixie January Kit "LOVE NOTES"

"I want it all" pack

$39 - get yours HERE!!!

"paper only" pack

$9 - get yours HERE!!

Looking for the chipboard only?

$5.50 - get it HERE!!

Looking for the Crate paper trim only

$4.99 -  get it HERE!!!

♥ Pixie January Challenge ♥

"Love notes"

JOIN US HERE!!!!!

"100 hearts" valentine minibook by lauren bergold

there are plenty of things you can do besides make valentines using january's LOVE NOTES kit, but if you want to make a few valentine-themed projects, i don't think i've ever seen a better bunch of products for the purpose!

and as a matter of fact, i'm a bit of an expert in this field, since my niece riley happens to have been born on valentine's day!  this year i made this little minibook for her, and i think it's rather adorable!  :)

you can see that, as in all pixie kits, the paper selection is not only beautifully matched, but perfectly balanced with regard to colors, patterns and scale.  since everything works so well together, most of the hard work is already done and you can jump right into the fun part:  actually MAKING your project!

90% of this little book is paper that i've trimmed, inked, outlined, diecut... or all of the above!  but for the cover i grabbed a couple of crate paper's chipboard elements (in this case, the frame and the flower) from the "random" collection.  you get an entire 12x12" sheet in the kit, and i guarantee you'll love them as much as i do!

i chose a short but sweet heart-themed poem for riley's book.  i formatted most of the text on my computer and printed it out on clear inkjet labels from the office supply store, but i used the fabulously bold pink paislee alphabet to highlight a significant word on each page.  

the blonde wooden letters are already gorgeous in their natural state, but for this project i decided to make them even more dramatic by staining them black using a permanent marker.

i used the same marker around the edge of each of my graduated chipboard pages.  the cover is approximately 5 1/2 inches square; whereas the last page measures 5 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches... so it would be big enough to hold a heartfelt greeting to the birthday girl herself!

having been lucky enough to receive a bind-it-all for christmas, i actually constructed and bound this book myself, and i liked the idea of staggering the pages to really show of the gorgeous patterns.  you could do the same thing using rings or ribbons to hold your pages together, or i happen to know there are also some cute mini albums in the pixie shop!  ;)

while this design was created specifically for miss riley's valentine's day birthday... i don't think your own nieces (or daughters or mother or second cousins!) would mind receiving"one hundred hearts worth" of your love... no matter when their birthday happens to occur!!! ♥♥♥

* Supplies *

"Love Notes" I want it all pack

$39 - get yours HERE!!

"Love Notes" paper only pack

$9 - get yours HERE!!

Or you can get the Wood Chip Alphabet on its own without the kit

$5.49 - get yours HERE!!!

Head over the our New Pixie Shop at Etsy to see "Love Notes" and the choice of packages you can choose from this month

Or you may want to shop at The Pixie Shop for all the other kits and embellishment items 

♥ Pixie January Challenge ♥

"Love Notes"

Click HERE to check out our January Challenge

or scroll down to see what our fabulous Pixie Challenge DT had for you!

Love Notes.....

Pixie Dust Paperie January Kit

"Love Notes"

This month, we are doing things a little bit differently, you are able to get the Pixie Kits in different packages

"I want it all" pack

$39 - get it here!

"Paper Only" Pack

$9 - get it here!!!

"Embellishment" Pack A

"Embellishment" Pack B

"Embellishment" Pack C

all at $9.95 each, check it out here!!!

♥  ♥  ♥

Pixie January Challenge

"Love Notes" 

create a Valentine's day project OR a project with heart on it

You have seen our talented Pixie Challenge Design Team and their fabulous project the past 3 days, here's 2 more project for the challenge

Lauren Bergold

Kirsty Vittetoe

Click HERE to play along 

or read more about the Pixie Challenge

Introducing Pixie Challenge Design Team ~ Day One

Today is a big day at Pixie Dust Paperie, not only we have a brand new Pixie Challenge, we are excited to have our very first Pixie Challenge Design Team!!!!

To join our Pixie family, 10 talented crafters from different part of the world, I will start by introducing the first 3 (not in any particular order)

from United Kingdom.............

Ros Crawford

Hi I'm Ros Crawford from Liverpool in UK.... and I am so excited to be working with the rest of the girls here at Pixie Dust Paperie! I have always loved making things... creating makes me happy.... and I share this love, teaching a group of mentally and physically challenged people once a week at "Thursday Club." My best creation is and always will be my son Mike, hence my blog name of "Mikeysmom" and in the short time that I have been blogging..... I have made so many friends and been inspired by so many of you who share my passion for creativity.

Ros's project for Pixie January Challenge, Ros used the paper from Pixie November Kit "Snow Shoe", we have only a couple left at The Pixie Shop, get it before it is too late

♥  ♥  ♥

from Russia.....

Evgenia

I'm Evgenia from Moscow, Russia. First I want to thank Kirsty for choosing me in your team. I'm really happy to join you. I started scrapbooking one year ago when my daughter was born and couldn't stop since then. I like to make altered projects and albums for my friends. My favorite styles are shabby and vintage. Recently I tried sewing and like it so much. Here are 2 hearts which I sewed for Pixie January Challenge. And I hope to inspire you more in the future. 

Hugs.... Joy_L 

Here's Evgenia's lovely hearts project for Pixie January Challenge "Love Notes"

♥  ♥  ♥

and from USA.......

Linda Breedlove

I'm a retired graphic designer who has worked in the craft and hobby industry for my entire life, growing up in a family owned business. My husband, aka The Penmaker, and I love traveling and are always on the lookout for a new scrapbook or woodworking shop. We have four children and six grandchildren with another on the way.

This is Linda's project for Pixie January Challenge, she used the paper from Pixie October Kit "Blue Moon", and look at those adorable pins with hearts, aren't they lovely?

Ok, make sure to check out their blog (by clicking on the links provide below) to see more of their wonderful creation!!!!

Ros Crawford - Blog: Mikey's Mom

Evgenia - Blog: Enjoy your life

Linda Breedlove - Blog: Hands to love... Heart to love

I hope our DT had inspired you to play along with Pixie January Challenge "Love Notes"

make a project for Valentine's day or simply a project with heart(s)

Click HERE to play along!!!!!

We will introduce 3 more talented ladies on the Pixie Challenge Design Team tomorrow, stay tuned!!!!

whole lotta "LOVE NOTES" by lauren bergold

the january pixie dust paperie kit, ♥LOVE NOTES♥ is great for making sooooooo much more than valentines. having said that, if you'd like to make some completely FABULOUS ones, you can do that in a snap. see?!

i made all six of these mini-cards... (which will indeed serve as valentines for my nieces and nephews!) ...in about an hour, using nothing but cardstock, paper and my trusty dymo labeler. it really, REALLY helped that pixie-in-chief kirsty vittetoe packed this kit with the most gorgeous new love-themed papers from my mind's eye, american crafts, pink paislee and crate paper, and that nearly every sheet is double-sided-- giving me twice as many patterns with which to work.

the three layered heart is cut using the very first cuttlebug die i ever bought when i got my machine, yet it's still one of my favorites! mostly because, by cutting it just once from four or five different patterns, i can get a huge variety of mix-n-match looks from the same set up!

i ALWAYS love the smudgy look on the edges of my pieces, but honestly, this time i discovered at the very last minute that i didn't have any maroon dymo tape from which to punch my labels, and the black looked a little stark until i spread a bit of that color--in the form of ink, and also black machine stitching--throughout my design. so now you know my one of my tricks!!! ;)

here's another secret for you: i'm planning to get a friend who is unknown to the children in question to sign these "guess who"! i'm hoping to create a fun little mystery, but i'm not so sure it'll be successful; not only are they *VERY* smart... they've also seen quite a lot of my work!!! ♥♥♥

* Supplies  *

$9.00 - Get yours HERE!!!!

Pixie January Kit "Love Notes" is available HERE!!!

Pixie December Challenge

December challenge is all about the word NEW!!

Click HERE for details or to link your entry!!!