Happy New Year's Eve!!! We've got our winners of the Scor-Pal Blog Hop and Scrapbook Trends giveaways!

Our random winner of Scor-Pal's new Score, Fold, Create! book and some assorted Fancy Pants Designs goodies is...

Now that Christmas has come and gone, 2013 is fast approaching! Welcome the new year with this FREE January 2013 Calendar download! These calendars are great to use in our Brag Books!! Grab a Brag Book and get ready to document 2013!!

Stay tuned to our Facebook page and right here on our blog for fabulous sneak peeks of our new releases beginning January 2, 2013!!

-Amy Peterman

I bet that you are all busily preparing for Christmas and celebrating with family today, so we'll keep our post short and sweet!  I just wanted to let you all know that next week {after all of the holiday rush} we will begin our sneak peeks...so excited about this release!  We have all sorts of new embellishments and some really amazing lines coming out...  And be sure to visit the blog this week, too...we still have lots to share with our current collections!  

Welcome to day five of our blog hop with Scor-Pal! I hope you found some great ideas to try on the Scor-Pal blog & here at Miss Fancy Pants? Today, I am going to show you how to make some fun accordion trees. Perfect Christmas décor for the mantle, that are really easy to make.

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers
Home for Christmas: Mingled buttons
Blissful Blizzard: Silver Glitter paper

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape
Hot glue gun
Tree template download

Instructions:
1. Download, print and cut out tree template.


2. Transfer design to patterned paper.


3. Using Scor-Pal, score fold lines and fold into shape.


4. Grab your Scor-tape.


5. Apply Scor-tape to open side of tree.


6. Adhere tree together.


7. Apply little pieces of Scor-tape to inner folds of tree.


8. Pinch pleats closed.



BONUS tutorial:
Using glitter paper, cut & fold star using Scor-Pal, attach to top of tree using hot glue.


Decorate your little trees with Home for the Holidays, Mingled buttons.

Thanks for joining us today and this week. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Kim Watson

Hi everyone! Welcome to the fourth day in our blog hop with Scor-Pal. I hope you are having a fantastic December so far! Today, I am sharing some Christmas cards I made with the Home for Christmas collection. I also used my Scor-Pal and some Scor-Tape. There's still some time left to make cards for neighbors or friends if you want to.  ;) 

Have A Very Merry Christmas
I used my Scor-Pal and made random scores on my card and then sanded them down to create a fun background. I used the Scor-Tape on the left side of my card and then added glitter to it, a very easy way to add glitter to your projects. That stamped tree was the perfect finishing touch to my card. 

Merry Christmas
I LOVED the houses in the Home For Christmas brag pad, I just knew I wanted to use them on a card.  I used my Scor-Pal to make a corrugated border to place under the cute houses. 

Christmas
If you've seen much of my work then you know that I LOVE the stencil cards! This time I tried adding it to my card directly as is...no ink and no missing letters. I love it! And the Scor-Tape works perfectly to keep all the letters together simply by placing a strip behind the whole thing. The Scor-Tape also works wonderful with ribbon...so easy!

Remember to leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. We'll have some great projects tomorrow, the last day of our blog hop, from Yuki Shimada and Kim Watson ... and another chance to win!

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

Well thanks for stopping in today! I hope you feel inspired to try something new or make some cards.  : ) Have a wonderful day!! Merry Christmas!!

-Pamela Young

It's almost Christmas ... wow, less than one week away ... and who says Christmas is for kids? We LOVE presents, right? Well, it just so happens that the Christmas elves from Fancy Pants Designs are giving away a fabulous Home For Christmas prize pack to one ... well, actually, TWO of our favorite fans! If you leave a comment below, you will be entered to win this awesome prize pack with over $60 worth of Fancy Pants Designs Christmas products—papers, glitter alphas, chipboard frames, stamps, buttons, brads and more! AND, if you want to have TWO chances to be chosen, just head on over to the Scrapbook Trends Facebook Page and enter to win there, too! Don't you love Christmas elves? I do! Have a happy week finishing up those last minute Christmas purchases!

You have until tomorrow, December 20, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator and posted here on our blog December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the US and International residents. :-)


-Jodi Sanford

Hey everyone! Thanks to those of you who joined us on 12-12-12 for our FREE Merry Christmas Album Class. We hope you enjoyed it and hope that those of you who couldn't join us, will take advantage of downloading the class and completing it at your leisure.

We have a few prize winners from the day, and they are...

From our participants at getfancystudio.com:

Congrats, Michelle Duffy and Melanie C!

And our randomly chosen winner from our blog that day is:

1. Name of Contest (12-12-12 giveaway)
2. Your full name
3. Address where your prize should be sent

Thanks to everyone for playing along!

I created the CD folder for Christmas gift using Scor-pal and Fancy Pants Designs products. I did not use any papers for Christmas line on this project. These papers are from the Little Sport collection! I love the color combo of this collection. 

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Little Sport: Patterned papers (All Star and Baseball)
Home for Christmas: Stamps
Button

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape
cardstock
twine

Instructions:
1.Cut base paper like this and score along the dotted lines. Adhere to Score tape on the both sides of the bottom then fold up.

2. Cut All Star paper into 11 3/4” x 5 3/4”. Cut Baseball paper into 5 3/4” x 2 3/4” and 5 3/4” x 5 3/4”.

3. For making an accordion flower, cut a strip 12 x 1” and score every 1/4”. Then fold, adhere ends and flatten.

4. Adhere to patterned paper on the base paper.

5. Decorate the cover with the accordion flower, die cut banner, stamp images, buttons, and glitter paper.

Remember to leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. We'll have another great project later today, from Kim Watson ... and another chance to win!

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Yuki Shimada

I am so excited to be part of the Scor-Pal blog hop! I was not very familiar with this product until now and I love it! I had so much fun working on my projects! I created a fun journaling card {or gift tag/gift card holder} and a gift card box!

The journaling card was made using one of our Friday Freebie patterns, found HERE!
 
I printed the free pdf file onto some cream paper from our Home For Christmas collection. I trimmed the bottom area off and used my Scor-pal Scor-Buddy to score along the dotted lines. 


Then, I cut it out according to the pattern to attach the pocket to the card (also part of the pdf file).


Then, using my Scor-Tape, I added it to the scored parts of my card pocket and adhered to the card.


Last, I fancied up the front of the card pocket with some of our Home For Christmas patterned papers, layered stickers, and made a fun 'junk bow' with a mix of ribbons and papers!  I also added some text and design to the included library card!  This is a perfect little journaling piece, gift tag or great for tucking a holiday or git card in...whatever you like!


And, on to the gift card box! It seems like more and more I end up buying gift cards for the holidays and I always feel like it's so impersonal--even if it isn't :)...so, when I saw the gift card holder box in the Scor-Pal book, Score, Fold, Create! I knew I had to make a few to really personalize the gift cards I was giving and I'm so happy with the result...and, it really was easy!! I simply followed the instructions included in Score, Fold, Create! and within 30 minutes had a fancy gift box complete with a little ribbon pull on the drawer! The gift card fits perfectly inside! I embellished the box with more of our Home For Christmas collection!

Thanks for joining us again today. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Jing-Jing Nickel will be here tomorrow morning and Pamela Young will be here tomorrow afternoon with more great projects using Scor-Pal and Fancy Pants Designs.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

With Christmas around the corner, I am constantly in need of cute gift card holders, so I came up with my own which can be changed up and personalized whatever way you want!

Fancy Pants Supplis:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers (Pine, Mistletoe, Nativity)
Home for Christmas: Tape stickers
Home for Christmas: Sticker fundamentals
Buttons

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape

Instructions:
1. To make library pocket to hold gift card, trim Pine paper to 4.5" x 8.5". Score at .5" on each side vertically. Score at 3.75" horizontally. Holding piece with the shorter scored piece at the top, trim off bottom .5" on each side so you are left with tabs. Snip the ends of tabs diagonally as shown.


2. Fold pocket along horizontal score. Fold tabs around backside and adhere with Scor-Tape. Round corners and punch half circle in front if desired.


3. Cut Mistletoe paper to 5.5" x 8.5", score and fold to make base of card. Adhere library pocket to front with Scor-Tape.


4. Trim off one of the strips of Tape Stickers leaving the backing on. Score every .5". Accordion fold on score lines. Remove backing, adhere ends to make circle, then press down in the center to make rosette. Layer onto card with scalloped circle from Nativity paper.

5. Embellish rest of card with word stickers, button and ribbon.

Thanks for joining us again this afternoon. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Amy Peterman will be here tomorrow with another great project using Scor-Pal and Fancy Pants Designs.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Greta Hammond

Welcome to day two of our blog hop with Scor-Pal! I hope you are already having fun with some of the ideas shared here and on the Scor-Pal blog.

Today, I am showing you how to make this fun, Christmas wall décor that is super easy to make (thanks to the Scor-Buddy!).

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Scor-Pal: Scor-Tape
Pine board
Burlap
Hot Glue Gun

Instructions:
1.Apply Scor-Tape to a scrap piece of wood and adhere burlap. Flip over and trim excess burlap.

2. Cut several 2.5" squares from various Home for Christmas papers. Place each square on your Scor-Buddy with the points lined up on the 2.125" mark (marked with •) and then score each side at 3".

4. Using the Scor-Buddy's included scoring tool, flatten the folded edges.

5. Arrange squares as desired on burlap-covered board and hot glue in place.

6.Ta-da! Quick and easy wall art for Christmas! You could make one as large or small as you like (my board is 9 x 14").

Thanks for joining us again today. Leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Jodi Sanford will be here tomorrow with another great project using Scor-Pal and Fancy Pants Designs.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Amy Peterman

Today, I am showing you how to use the Scor-Buddy by Scor-Pal to make a dress look more texturized.  Using the "Home for Christmas" collection, I am making a few Christmas cards for a few special people in my life. 

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Home for Christmas: Patterned papers
Home for Christmas: Sticker Fundamentals
Ball trim

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy

Instructions:
1.  Cut out the silhouette of the woman. Turn the silhouette over and use a pencil to draw the lines as shown.


3.  With the lines as a guide, score the lines. When you turn the silhouette over, you can clearly see the scored lines.


5.  Add a fun belt using Fancy Pants Designs ball trims.


6.  Score the back side of a piece of background paper for the card as shown. 


7.  Score a second piece of background paper for the card.


8.  Cut out a present to put atop of the platter. Assemble the elements together. Use Fancy Pants Designs Stickers Fundamentals for sentiment. 

I made two versions of the cards that you can see. The scored effect looks much more pronounced in the photography using on the solid color paper. I hope this has been helpful and give you an idea on how to use the Scor-Buddy by Scor-Pal.

We hope you are enjoying all of the project inspiration this week. Remember to leave a comment on this post (and every Scor-Pal Blog Hop post this week) for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. We'll have another great project this afternoon from Pamela Young ... and another chance to win!

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

And remember to head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Jing-Jing Nickel

This week we’re excited to be kicking off a week of projects we’ve created using Fancy Pants Designs products with Scor-Pal. Sometimes as winter goes on, it can get a little blah ... but it doesn’t have to with these pretty papers. I thought I’d start by sharing how I created this wreath using the Blissful Blizzard line and my Scor-Pal. I’m going to need something “Wintry” to put up after I have to take down the Christmas Decorations.

Fancy Pants Designs supplies:
Blissful Blizzard: Patterned papers (Snow Pack, Ice Crystals, Sparkly Mom, Snow Balls)
Blissful Blizzard: Banner Die Cuts
Buttons

Other supplies:
Scor-Pal: Scor-Buddy
Die-AccuCut – Flower #6 F1445LC
Wreath form-Hobby Store
Hot Glue Gun 

Instructions:
Step 1.  I started with a 9 inch pressed wood wreath form from the craft store like this.

Step 2.  I cut 22 strips of paper 12” x 1.5” (11 of Woodsy and 11 of Sparkly Mom). Find the center (or near the center. This doesn’t have to be precise as you can trim the end when you cut it in a V later).  Once you have your center, place it face down onto your Scor-Pal. Here is where you can choose the thickness of your bend to fit over the thickness of our wreath. Then score your two lines. You can see how I have done this in the photo below.  

Step 3. Once you have all 22 done you can make “V” cuts to the ends of all. If you want to make sure they are all perfectly even, just use the first one for a guide for the others.

Step 4.  Now you can start assembling the base of your wreath. Start adhering your 11 Woodsy strips around your wreath form slightly over lapping each other. See how nicely they lay when they’ve been scored with your Scor-Pal?  Once you have gone all the way around with those, add your 11 strips of Sparkly Mom between (and overlapping) the pieces of your first row of Woodsy strips. 

Step 5.  Now it’s time to “pretty it up” with some flowers. Using a die cutting machine, cut flower shapes  from your Fancy Pants Designs papers. I used my Scor-Pal tool to curl up my flower peddles.

Step 6.  Put your flowers together, add a button to the center, and add your flowers around the center edge of your wreath with hot glue.

Step 7.  Now for interest, add pieces from the Blissful Blizzard Banner Die Cut Sheet and Measuring Tape strips from the Snow Pack sheet of paper to the “V” Cut strips already on the wreath.

Step 8. Creating your “Welcome” title. I wanted to show you how I used my Scor-Pal as a way to emboss and sand to create a border for my title. I cut a 5x2 inch piece of the Ice Crystals paper, flipped it over facing down onto my Scor-Pal. After choosing the width of the border I want it, I score .. following the guide on the board, going around all four edges. I take it off the board, face up on my desk, and using my emery board, lightly sand away the color, leaving a white border.

From here you can just print off you title, to finish up and add it to your wreath.

I hope you found some inspiration here, to brighten your home to carry you through till Spring!

Thanks for joining us this week. If you leave a comment here you'll be entered for a chance to win some Fancy Pants Designs goodies and the Score, Fold, Create! book pictured below. Come back this afternoon to see another project from Greta Hammond (and get another chance to enter) and every day this week for more projects and chances to enter! At the end of the week we'll draw a winner from all of the week's comments.

You have until Saturday, December 22, 2012, at midnight (12:00 am MDT), to enter. Winner will be drawn by a random number generator from all Scor-Pal Blog Hop posts this week and posted here on our blog Thursday, December 27, 2012. Contest is open to residents in the continential US only. Thanks. :-)

Also, head over to the Scoc-Pal blog for ever MORE inspiration and ANOTHER chance to win! They are giving away this awesome book and some FPD goodies too!

-Vicki Chrisman

Spreading Christmas Cheer just got a little bit easier ... with this "Merry Christmas" Stamp from Fancy Pants Designs! 300 dpi png file along with .abr file. Download it for FREE here.

-Amy Peterman

Yay...it's Friday!  I hope you all had a fun week and are looking forward to a great weekend...I know I am!

I quickly wanted to let you know that I've got a special blog post up over on the Creating Keepsakes Blog today...it's featuring our new lines Blissful Blizzard and Love Note!  Go check it out HERE!  Below is a little peek at what you'll find there!

And, last, I wanted to remind everyone about our post on 12-12-12--there were two ways to win on that post...to leave a comment there and to post your own Fancy Pants Designs projects on our NEW website!  TWO ways to WIN!  Thanks for being the best FANS...we look forward to sharing our NEW CHA releases with you soon!!!

Plus, don't forget FRIDAY FREEBIE today...it's below and it's lovely...enjoy!

Hello everyone on this most memorable date of 12-12-12!  Since this is such a cool and unique date, we wanted to do something cool and unique to go along with it!  So, here you go, our 12-12-12 gift to you...FREE MINI ALBUM CLASS!  We've been working hard to prepare this fun class for you and hope you'll love how it turns out and find some great use for it with your upcoming (or previous Christmas) memories!

Here is our Mini Album Mini Mag to follow along and create with us...at your leisure!  I'll still be available on Facebook today from 12 MST- 1 MST if you have questions.  We'll just start a thread there and post through comments...keep it simple for everyone :)!  I'm guessing this little Merry Christmas Mini Album Curriculum will provide all the instruction you need, but should you want to stop in to chat, please do!

And, not to forget that I promised our Big Announcement today, too!  We have are so THRILLED to announce that we have "opened the doors" to our new website Get Fancy Studio !  The purpose behind this website is to provide education on our products!  

Our goal with this site is to educate and create fun and unique projects and pass the details on to you! The shoppe will list what is included in the kit so if you are able to pick this up at your local store that is better for EVERYONE!  But, for those of you who can't locate the product, we wanted to make these available to you!  

WE REALLY WANT TO RECOMMEND GOING TO YOUR LOCAL STORE AND REQUESTING OUR PRODUCTS AND/OR CLASS KITS FIRST--BECAUSE THESE KITS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO STORES!  Then, we all WIN! You know that we LOVE to produce innovative products and we will continue to do that...NOW, we will have a new avenue for education of our product line!

For now, we have all new class kits available for purchase (limited quantities), custom frames (limited quantities), and more to come!  We also have a new GALLERY for our FANS to post their projects!  So, now we have a place for you to share what you've done with our products!  Now, you can post your contest projects here as well! YAY!  Please join us by posting some of your favorite Fancy Pants Designs projects today!  

And, coming soon we will have our online classroom, more boutique goodies, and more awesome class kits will continue to arrive in the shoppe!  

And, the AMAZINGLY TALENTED Jess Mutty and Kim Watson teamed up with me for today's post to share how they used the TEMPLATE included in this FREE CLASS Mini Mag to create something totally different! Here's a peek at what they created!  These kits can be found in our Get Fancy Studio Shoppe as well!

Joy Card by Kim Watson!  

 Joy Banner by Jess Mutty!

And last, but NOT least, we'll be running TWO contests with this post!!  The first is to simply leave a comment here in our blog about the class, the new edcuation site, or just the designs in general for a chance to win a FREE kit to create this Merry Christmas Mini Album shown here ($40 value)!  

The second part of this contest is to get you posting in our new PUBLIC GALLERY at the Get Fancy Studio Gallery! We will select, at random, a winner who has posted in the gallery one of their favorite Fancy Pants Designs projects--- you can post as many as you want---the more you post, the more chances you have to WIN a random prize pack filled with Fancy Pants Designs goodies!  

{We'll post the winners on Tuesday, December 18th!}  And, as always, thanks for joining us--especially on this fabulous 12-12-12 day!  

Calendars for the holidays are a gift giving tradition! I like to make mine personal and unique and avoid the kittens and movie characters you can find at the mall. This desktop calendar truly IS the gift that keeps on giving as every month the recipient will turn a new beautiful page. This little calendar stands up on its own frame and doesn’t take much time at all if you work in stages. I cut all my main papers at once, then chose the calendar cards to match the month in some way (pink and red in February for example), then chose the banner die cuts to match, and then added the smaller details.

Fancy Pants Designs products:?
The Good Life: 12x12 papers?
The Good Life: Sticker Fundamentals
?The Good Life: Banner Die Cuts?
The Good Life: Tape Stickers?
The Good Life: Layered Stickers
?The Good Life: Mingled Brads?
The Good Life: Chipboard Frames?
Artist Edition: Number Stencil Cards?
Artist Edition: Calendar Cards

??Other Supplies: ?
bare chipboard, 2 book rings, black pen, ribbon, a small amount of washi tape or other tape??

For the stand:?
1. Cut two 4.5 x 6.5 pieces and one 4.5 x 2.5 piece of lightweight chipboard.?

2. Cover them with patterned paper that is 5.5 x 7.5 for the larger pieces and 5.5 x 3.5 for the smaller piece. Trim the corners. Fold the edges over and adhere so one side is completely covered in paper. 

3. Cut two lengths of ribbon approximately 12” each. You are going to sandwich them in between the chipboard and the paper that covers them in the next few steps.  ?

4. Cut one 4.5 x 6.5 pieces to cover the other side of one of the larger chipboards. This will become the back of your calendar.  ?

5. Cut a 4.5 x 2.5 piece to cover the other side of the small chipboard. This will become the bottom of your calendar. Adhere one ribbon from the bottom as the picture shows.?

6. Use a length of tape (washi looks great!) to adhere the back and bottom chipboard pieces together, leaving a very small gap so they can bend.  ?

7. Cover the other side of the front chipboard piece with a 4.5 x 6.5 piece of the Laughter black chevron print, adhering one ribbon from the bottom as we did before. This will become the front of your calendar.

??For the cover:
?1. Back the grey polka dotted chipboard frame with the red side of the Tokens paper and outline in black pen.?

2. Outline the “2013” numbers with black pen and add to the bottom of the frame. ?

3. Add a brad to the center of the layered flower and adhere it above the numbers.?

4. Add the stickers as shown.??

??For the pages?:
Again, I suggest cutting your pieces first and working from smaller and smaller scraps before assembling them all.  ??

1. Outline each 4.5 x 6.5 page in black pen?

2. Cut a 4.5 x 3 piece to coordinate with the page and border punch both sides. Adhere to the lower half.

?3. Outline a die cut banner in black pen and adhere as shown in the photos (I cut some of them in half to “lengthen” them).?

4. Add an Artist Edition calendar page on top of the banner. (write dates with black pen if desired)?

5. Add a 4.5 x ½” strip of coordinating paper on top of the calendar page

?6. Mat a sticker phrase and add it to the bottom of the page.?

7. Use letter stickers to spell out the month on coordinating paper and trim it in a banner shape. Add it to the strip at the top. ?



To Assemble:?
1. Punch two holes near the top of your cover. Use these to measure hole placement for all the pages and the back cover and punch those as well.  ?

2. Stack the calendar back, pages in the correct order, and then the cover and thread them on to the book rings. ??Tie the two pieces of ribbon in a bow to stand the calendar with the cover facing out. When it is time to use the calendar the front cover is turned over and you can again tie the ribbons in a bow in the back and it will stand to show the calendar pages.??

-Jess Mutty

Curious about what is happening every month here at Fancy Pants Designs? Now you can check out our Calendar section for up-and-coming events and we've got exciting things going on this month! As an extra bonus, we are offering each calendar base as a FREE download every month. Our December Calendar base can be downloaded here. How cute would this be incorporated into a December Daily album?

Enjoy! And happy holidays!

-Amy Peterman

Hello, everyone! My name is Melissa Stinson, and I'm thrilled to be guest designing with Fancy Pants Designs this month!

Before I launch into my projects, here's a little background information about me- I’m a 32 year old software engineer married to a full-time graduate student (and med school hopeful). We don’t have kids, so my scrapbooks are filled with photos of our everyday (and not so everyday) adventures. We love to travel when our work and school schedules line up to allow it, and when we’re at home we’re always into something (the current project is DIY’ing a new kitchen from the floor up). I love documenting all of those things in my albums and having them to look back on. It’s amazing how many things my scrapbooks remind me of that I would have otherwise forgotten!

When Amy first got in touch with me and asked me to guest design with Fancy Pants Designs, I crossed my fingers and hoped that Hopscotch would be one of the collections I was asked to work with. I was totally thrilled to find it included in my package- I'm so in love with the colors and the patterns in this collection! For my first layout with this set I pulled out a travel photo from a couple of years ago. It seems I like to take photos of flowers whether at home or on vacation, and this lovely bunch of bougainvillea had been sitting in my photo binder for quite a while just waiting for the perfect paper to match it. I used a set of blooms cut from the large floral paper as the largest embellishment on my page, then cut pennant shapes from some of the other papers in Hopscotch to layer behind the photo.

I love using the same scrapping supplies that I use for my regular layouts in my Project Life album, so after I was finished making my bougainvillea layout I went ahead and put together a Project Life page, too! This is a great way to use up leftovers after you've finished scrapping with a collection, and also a fun way to be creative when you might be short on time since each pocket only takes a few minutes to embellish and complete. The tiny alphabets in the Hopscotch collection kit were especially useful for adding small titles and captions to my layout.

The snowy scene in the photo on this page might seem far removed from the tropical blooms on my Hopscotch collection layout, but would you believe these pictures were taken less than 6 weeks apart (in completely different locations, of course!)? I love how the muted reds and aquas and soft grays of Blissful Blizzard really enhance the chilly feeling of this photo. The sheet of silver glittered cardstock might have been my favorite thing in the whole pack- as soon as I spotted it I pulled out my snowflake punches to whip up some custom embellishments for my page!

Thank you to everyone for stopping by today, and thanks to Amy and Fancy Pants Designs for allowing me the honor of being this month's guest designer. I had a blast playing with Hopscotch and Blissful Blizzard! If you'd like to see more of my scrapbooking, please stop by and visit my blog.

 -Melissa Stinson

Here Now Today by Krissy Clark

Congrats to Krissy Clark!!! You are our Sketch Time November Challenge Winner!!!

Please send an email to: lisa@fancypantsdesigns.com with the following information:

1. Name of Contest that applies to you (Nov. Sketch Challenge)
2. Your full name
3. Address where your prize should be sent

Thanks to everyone for playing along! Be sure to join us again next month for our next sketch challenge and lots of other fun stuff!!

-Amy Peterman

I wanted to finally get you a closer look at a sneak peek of the class I was teaching at an Event in London. It's titled "My Life" and it is filled with thoughts and images of my family and why I am ThAnKFuL for them—because they are each different in their own way :)! I used our Artist Edition Journaling Cards as the base for this book and I LOVE how it turned out (plus I have enough cards left for another complete book). Most of the products here are from our collection The Good Life, along with our fun Artist Edition Stencil Cards ... I love these cards ... they are an easy add embellishment that are perfect for titles and accenting! This shows most of the pages in the album! I hope you like it and I hope you all have a very Happy Thanksgiving filled with family, friends, food and fun!

-Jodi Sanford