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Cartopia Treat Bags

Hey there Carta Bella Paper friends and fans, Becki here to share some awesome little treat bags that I created with the Cartopia collection. If you have a little (or big) boy in your life that loves cars, this is a MUST have collection! These treat bags were so easy to create and came together within a few minutes.

Whenever I create treat bags, THIS is my favorite cut file. It’s so easy to cut and assemble. It’s the perfect size too. You just need one piece of paper to create a treat bag. The front of each bag is embellished with 3x4 cards from the 3x4 journaling cards patterned paper. In addition to the 3x4 card on the front of the bag, each bag has similar embellishments. I used a metal clip, a white tag, enamel dots, and a large sticker as well.

The first bag I created is the “Finish Line” bag.  I chose the “finish line” 3x4 card for this bag because I liked the contrast of the red card against the blue bag. To bring in a little more color, I added the number border sticker at the bottom of the bag. The front of this bag has a LOT of texture and dimension. The flags and car stickers are stuck to the front of the bag using pop dots. The metal clip, staples, and enamel dots add a lot of texture to the “finish Line” bag as well.

The “Driving School” bag is made with a bold bright patterned paper. I LOVE the red background on this patterned paper. To add texture and dimension to this bag I added the “us 35” sticker using pop dots. Tucked under the bottom of the 3x4 tag, I glued a small piece of dark navy rick rack. I love the addition of the metal clip on this bag. I think it coordinated perfectly with the gold color in the 3x4 card.

I’ve saved the best for last. Or at least in this case, I’ve saved my favorite for last. I fell in love with the bright striped patterned paper when I first saw it. I knew I had to use it for this project. I thought the “go kart” 3x4 card coordinated perfectly with this patterned paper. Of course, I had to add the little blue speedy car to the front of this bag. On the 3x4 card, I added some star stickers to draw excitement and attention to the go kart theme. To finish this bag, I added a few enamel dots.

These cute gift bags came together so easily with the Cartopia collection. Is it wrong that I want to have a cars themed party just so I can create more of these cute treat bags? Thank you for stopping by today. I’ll see you again soon!

 

4x6 Journaling Cards patterned paper

3x4 Journaling Cards patterned paper

Pit Stop patterned paper

Border Strip patterned paper

Cartopia element sticker sheet

Scrapbook Your Fun Water Themed Photos!

Hello Echo Park Paper friends! How is your summer going? Have you had a chance to go to family vacation yet? If you didn’t, you can always enjoy the memories from past vacations by making a new layout! Anya here today, to share one of the layouts I made featuring the “Under the Sea” collection. I am in love with every shade of blue in this line!

I based my layout on the ombre effect of Submarine Scene pattern paper and built a block of other pattern papers and photos in the middle. From Crabby Stripe pattern paper I cut a navy/white stipe piece and adhered it across the entire page. Blue stripe paper always screams water and ocean to me.

For my title, I used Summer Splash Word Die Set and cut it twice. I used dark blue die cut words as a shade for the white ones, which made the title stand out better against the striped background. I finished the page by adding lots of starfish. Some of them were fussy cut from Happy Starfish pattern paper and others were die cut using the Seashells Designer Die Set.  I hope I’ve inspired you to pull out some of your vacation photos and create a new layout! Happy scrapping everyone!

**NOTE: If you love this layout as much as we do, be sure to download the FREE instruction sheet HERE!!**

Supplies used to create this layout:

Ocean Friends pattern paper

Crabby Stripe pattern paper

Swimmingly Stripe pattern paper

Submarine Scene pattern paper

Happy Starfish pattern paper

Under the Sea Element Stickers

Let’s Cruise Decorative Brads

I Love Winter Enamel Dots

Tab Set Die Set

Seashells Designer Die Set

Summer Splash Word Die Set

Number Designer Die Set

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Cute Boy Card with the "Cartopia" Collection!

Hello Card makers! When was the last time you made a cute card for a little boy? Anya here today to share with you one of the cards I made featuring the “Cartopia” collection by Carta Bella Paper and to remind you that this collection is a perfect choice for any kind of project for a boy in your family!

I have always been drawn towards monochromatic designs. I like to play with different shades of the same color family and for my card today I picked a bunch of blue pieces from the “Border Strips”, “License Plates”, “Pit Stop”, and “Car Advertisement” pattern papers and a few stickers from the Element Sticker Sheet.

Cartopia collection is filled with cute car images, which will let you create many more adorable projects for a boy in your family!

A list of products I used to create this card:

Cartopia Sticker Sheet

License Plate pattern paper

Cartopia ”Full Auto Service” pattern paper

Cartopia “Pit Stop” pattern paper

Cartopia “Car Advertisement” pattern paper

Cartopia “Border Strips” pattern paper

Toy Box Decorative Brads

Stitched Rectangle Designer Die Set  

"Cartopia" Mini Album

Hello there! It's Tya and I am up on the blog today sharing with you my project featuring the awesome Cartopia collection. This collection was so fun to work with and so inspiring! I just loved it! I knew right away what photos and memories I wanted to share so I made a mini album to highlight those special memories. We are Disneyland nuts at our house and I have SOOO many Disneyland photos. One of my favorite things to do is to ask each of my kids what their favorite ride is and then take photos of that ride. The papers and icons in this amazing collection just screamed Cars Land to me so I knew exactly what photos I wanted to use. My oldest daughter loves this ride so I plan on giving this little album to her so she can remember all the fun times we had on her favorite ride.

To make the base of this album I simply took a piece of kraft cardstock and scored it at 4 inches and 8 inches vertically and then turned the paper and scored it at 6 inches horizontally. I then trimmed the paper on the 6 inch scored mark and ended up with 2 pieces that are 6x 12 and scored every 4 inches. I accordion folded the papers. I then glued one of the sections to the end of the other and then trimmed off one of the end pieces because I didn't have tons of photos. So in the end the album folded out like shown below. I decorated the fronts and the backs of the paper and make one of the sections my cover.

To decorate this album I used some of the 12x12 papers , the 6x6 paper pad, the Ephemera, some enamel dots ,buttons,  twine and the Sticker sheet. Here are some close ups of the album:

 

To make the title of my album, I chose a block font and cut the letters out of  a piece of the 6x6 Scenic Route map paper on my Silhouette. I also cut out a shadow letter from black cardstock for some dimension.

I recorded my journaling here. It’s always nice to have a little story recorded about the theme of the album.

 I just loved the pop of color the enamel dots added to this stop light created! Enamel dots are some of my go to embellishments!

So that is my mini album. It was really nice and easy to create and super fun to decorate. I hope I have inspired you to grab this cute collection and make an accordion mini album like this one to record your special memories. Happy crafting!

Products Used:

-Cartopia Colletction Kit

-Cartopia 6x6 paper pad

-Cartopia  Sticker Sheet

-Cartopia Ephemera

-Kraft cardstock

-Twine

-Buttons

-Enamel Dots

-Pop Dots and Foam Tape

-Scor-Pal or similar scoring tool

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Beach Tote and Flip Flops

Do you know someone who could use a little pick me up this summer? Create this fun beach tote and two flip flop boxes with the Under the Sea collection to give to them, and they will be feeling "sun-sational" in no time!

 

 

Hi, Everyone! Jana Eubank here. I created this beach tote and the two flip flop boxes using my Silhouette Cameo machine (cut file information listed with the supplies at the bottom of this post).

 

I cut the main body of the beach bag from the dark blue Sea Explorers Paper with a sunny orange polka dotted pocket (Deep Sea Fun Paper). The yellow accents were cut from the Coordinating Yellow/Blue Solid Paper and the striped bottom is the Swimmingly Stripe Paper.

 

 

Of course I had a blast decorating the front of the bag with all kinds of die cuts (Frames & Tags Ephemera) and stickers from the Element Sticker Sheet. I just love that happy yellow submarine and all of the sea creatures!

 

 

The tag was cut with an Echo Park Paper Cut File from the Silhouette Design Store (August Apple & Tag, Design #73518). I love the way the 6x6 submarine scene paper has an ombre effect. I added a phrase sticker and a few sea critter stickersfor fun!

 

I couldn't resist creating a couple of flip flop boxes to tuck inside. I used the orange dotted Deep Sea Fun Paper along with the navy striped side of the 3x4 Journaling Cards Paper. The top of the flip flop is decorated with the fish pattern from the 6x6 paper pad. 

 

 

Won't it be fun to fill the flip flop boxes with a treat and tuck them inside of the beach tote?! I plan to stick a few other treats inside, as well. I can't wait to see the face of the person I give it to!

 

 

Happy Summer!

 

SUPPLIES:

Under the Sea Collection:

3x4 Journaling Cards Paper

Deep Sea Fun Paper

Swimmingly Stripe Paper

Sea Explorers Paper

Yellow/Blue Coordinating Solid Paper

6x6 Paper Pad

Element Stickers

Frames & Tags Ephemera

Carta Bella Let's Cruise Decorative Brads

Silhouette Cameo 3 Electronic Cutting Machine

Beach Tote: Luxury Handbags by SVGCuts.com

Flip Flop Box by Suzanne Cannon (Design #204703 in the Silhouette Design Store)

August Apple & Tag by Echo Park (Design #73518 in the Silhouette Design Store)