Echo Park Paper

Special Announcement: New Stamp club!

We are so excited to announce the launch of our new stamp club!

Six times a year, Echo Park designers will create a special exclusive stamp set just for our stamp club members! Included with each stamp set will be an inspiration sheet and step-by-step instructions for projects designed exclusively for our members!

Here's a closer look at our inaugural stamp set:

In addition to preferred pricing, members will receive FREE SHIPPING for kits shipped to destinations anywhere in the continental U.S. Stamp sets start shipping April 20th! 

Click HERE to learn more!

 

Farmhouse Market Desk Set

Today I would like to share my Farmhouse Market Desk Set made with the Carta Bella Farmhouse Market line of papers and embellishments. Farmhouse Market has romantic florals paired with rustic, vintage elements for that iconic farmhouse style.

My Farmhouse Market Desk Set consists of a desk organizer and a pencil cup. The desk organizer consists of three parts; a drawer for holding small items, a tray for storing washi, and a vertical cubby for keeping items such as Enamel Dots and Puffy Stickers. 

I love that little organizer cubby! I made it with the lovely Woodgrain Paper that’s included in the Farmhouse Solids Kit and embellished it with a coordinating barn from from the Farmhouse Market Chipboard Phrases. Cute floral stickers from the Farmhouse Market Sticker Book finished it off nicely so it looks cute empty as well as full. The sticker book is loaded with cute stickers. Since there’s two of each image, it’s perfect for making your own layered embellishments.

The pencil cup is another place where I made layered sticker embellishments. To make the cup, I used a Carta Bella cut file from Silhouette Design Store. If you don’t have a digital machine, you can make this same exact cup by using the Scallop Treat Box Die. I love that!

You don’t need to live in the country to spruce up your crafting with the fabulous hand drawn images in Carta Bella’s Farmhouse Market.

 

Download a FREE project sheet featuring the Pencil Cup featured above by clicking HERE!

 

Supplies:

Farmhouse Market Collection Kit

Farmhouse Market Solids Kit

Farmhouse Market “Timeless Floral” Patterned Paper

Farmhouse Market “Lovely Floral” Patterned Paper

Farmhouse Market “Antique Floral” Patterned Paper

Farmhouse Market “Woodgrain/Blue” Coordinating Solid Paper

Farmhouse Market Chipboard Phrases

Farmhouse Market Element Sticker

Farmhouse Market Sticker Book

Adhesive

Dimensional Adhesive

Detail Scissors

Twine

Digital Cutting Machine

SVG File: Desk Organizer with Drawer (Design #128429 at Silhouette Design Store)

SVG File: Carta Bella 3D Treat Holder (Design #290192 at Silhouette Design Store)

I Love Easter Altered Book

It’s Lydia Cost today, and I’m sharing an altered book that I created using the lovely I Love Easter collection.  I don’t normally do much memory keeping during the Easter season for some reason, so I wanted to do something extra special in preparation for this spring.

What better way than to prepare a little book in advance, so that I can simply add my photos and journaling later!  I’ll have no excuse when Easter rolls around.  For this little book, I recycled the cutest little Golden Book, Peter Rabbit.  I found it on a thrift store shelf, and I knew I had to swipe it up for 50 cents.

To alter this little Golden Book, I simply cut off the covers with my utility knife and handmade a new spine out of washi and chipboard.  This is so simple to do when you find a beautiful book cover that you want to use in a crafty project.  The options are limitless.

I added some pretty character to my spine with the amazing carrot patterned paper in the I Love Easter collection.  Paired with an orange washi and some pom-pom trim, my little book’s exterior came together effortlessly.

For the interior pages, I decided on an even 14 pages to add lots of dimension to my altered book.  There are many ways to add pages to an altered book, but I chose to add mine in with ribbon.  I did this by simply punching holes through the front, spine, and back cover near the top and bottom corners, so that the ribbon could be strung through all my internal pages.  I picked a pretty Easter-worthy yellow ribbon to bring even more character to the book.

I used all of the patterned papers in the collection kit to create my internal pages.  I even made sure to add back in some of the Peter Rabbit story and illustrations, when the color scheme suited the patterned paper opposite it.  I think this made for a really lovely, whimsical look.  Some edges of pages I lined with pom-pom trim, and some of them I punched with a border trim to add extra dimension.  These little details lend themselves to a one-of-a kind altered book.

I finished off by laying down some foundation pages for Easter memories.  6x8 is such a universal scrapbooking size, that it will be a breeze to do some documenting on these spreads.  I can’t wait to fill them up lots of beautiful Easter photos and memories!

Click HERE to download a free project instruction sheet for this fun book!

Supplies:

I Love Easter Collection

I Love Easter Collection Kit

I Love Easter Element Stickers

I Love Easter Patterned Papers

I Love Easter Ephemera

Ribbon

Hole-Punch

Washi Tape

Pom-Pom Trim

Border Punches

Extra Strength Double-Sided Adhesive

Chipboard

Utility Knife

Easter Egg House Box

Tired of making the same old Easter Basket year after year? I know I am! This year, I've made something different. It's an Easter Egg House Box made with the I Love Easter by Echo Park Paper.

The little house is a cute decor piece, but underneath the lid, there's lots of room for yummy treats.  Since it's made from quality paper, I know that it will last for years.

I used the “Easter Plaid” patterned paper for covering panels on my egg.  With all of the colors represented, it coordinates nicely with the other prints. The cute little “Welcome” sign is from the I Love Easter Element Sticker Sheet. The sheet is loaded with cute images so I know that I can make many more Easter projects.

Easter will be here soon, so get out your glue and craft with the I Love Easter Collection by Echo Park Paper.

Supplies:

I Love Easter Collection Kit

I Love Easter Element Sticker Sheet

I Love Easter “Eggscellent” Patterned Paper

I Love Easter “Easter Plaid” Patterned Paper

I Love Easter “4X6 Journaling Cards” Patterned Paper

I Love Easter 4X4 Journaling Cards” Patterned Paper

I Love Spring Solids Kit

Carta Bella Ultra White Felt Designer Cardstock

I Love Spring Enamel Dots

Vellum

Adhesive

Dimensional Adhesive

Digital Cutting Machine

SVG File: Egg House SVGCuts.com

Happy Easter Mini Album

Hello Friends, It’s Dorymar today with a subtle Easter Mini Album.  The new “I Love Easter” collection from Echo Park is full of fabulous patterned papers and the cutest embellishments!  I took all these papers, along with the I Love Spring coordinating solids paper pack and made this beautiful 6x8 scrapbook album.

This beautiful album measures 6x8 and has a total of 7 pages in two different sizes, 4 measuring 6x8 and 3 measuring 4x6. All made in chipboard. It has pages with pockets and flaps. 

For the cover, I used a 3 x 3 card, stickers and die cuts.  I selected all the elements following the theme of my project. I love adding ribbons to give it a chic touch!

The journaling cards have beautiful rabbits that I fussy cut with my scissors to use as part of the decoration. They are the cutest rabbits I've ever seen! 

In the small page on the right you can see that I added the "Easter" word, this word was cut using the pink paper of the solid papers and the Happy Easter Egg Die Set.  Around the photo mat, I decorated it with several embellishments of the collection, all glued with foam tape to add dimension and layers.

The album follows a pattern of a large and small page but in all, you will find different designs, pockets, flaps and above all a lot of space for memorabilia! It is just fantastic!

To create this flap, I used a letter envelope and covered it with patterned paper, then I fussy cut the “funny bunny” phrase from one of the 4x6 journaling cards.

On this page, I created a pocket in the center of the page where I can host several of the beautiful cards of the collection, to add photos and journaling.

On this page I incorporated several chipboard stickers from the I Love Spring collection because both collections match perfectly. The elements of these collections are so perfect for the occasion.

This page has a flap that opens to the side and at the top it has a pocket. This gives you much more space for what you want to add.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you love this collection as much as I do. It is the perfect one to document your 2020 Easter pictures.

Happy Crafting!

Dorymar

Supplies:

I Love Easter Patterned Paper

I Love Easter Elements Stickers

I Love Easter Ephemera

Happy Easter Egg Die Set

I love Spring Coordinating Solids

I love Spring Chipboard Accents

I love Spring Frames and Tags Ephemera

I love Spring 6x6 paper pad

Don't Forget About The Warehouse Box Sale

Did you get your warehouse box yet?  Here are the details again:

Each box is $50, but has a value of $175!! All boxes include an assortment of patterned papers, stickers, and embellishments from some of our most popular collections. 

The sale ends March 22nd at midnight, so get yours soon!

Click here to purchase! 

** Free Shipping in the Continental US **

Please contact customer service (HERE) with any questions. 

Click HERE to purchase!

Yeti To Party Birthday Mini Album

It's our final day of our Birthday Celebration week!  Have you enjoyed the party?  I hope you've also visited our Instagram and Facebook pages for fun birthday games and prizes!!

Lydia is joining us today with a fabulous celebration album - and don't forget to click on the link at the end to get your FREE project sheet for this fun album!

Hello there again friends; this is Lydia Cost again, and today I’m sharing with you a little peek inside my process and finished details of a caterpillar album.  This little cutie is made with the amazing papers and stickers in the It’s Your Birthday Boy collection.

This is only the second time I’ve created one of these caterpillar albums in over ten years.  I remember making one for the first time when I was in middle school with lots of little photos of my younger brother.  As you can tell I’ve been a papercrafter my entire life.

For this one I chose to document my little’s first birthday, and the primary color scheme lent itself perfectly for the theme.  That’s what I love most about the It’s Your Birthday collection; it matches perfectly to any birthday color scheme you might have! 

For the outer part of my album, I chose to make my covers out of the amazing Party Animals paper.  I love all the fun animal illustrations on this paper, and I just knew it would make the perfect album cover.  A little recycling secret to making the perfect album cover for all your albums is dryer sheets!  I save up my used dryer sheets and them use a few of them to stuff the inside of my covers for extra dimension and character.  It makes even your homemade albums look professional.

There’s a full PDF tutorial here for all the instructions of putting together your own caterpillar album.  After I got mine all constructed and stitched together, I got to move on to the fun part of embellishing and adding photos.

A great tip for choosing photos for caterpillar albums is to work with 5x7 photos or larger, with the subjects in the center of the frame.  This allows for the photos to be easily trimmed into diamond and triangular shapes.  I chose 6 photos to fill my album, but you can always add more.  You can even choose to embellish the backside of the album with even more photos and goodies; for this particular album I didn’t, but it’s a great way to fit a lot into a little album.

I think what I love so much about this album is that it expands so much, and it only takes up a little bit of space when it’s all folded back up.  Everyone that’s ever peaked inside one of these has always been so enthralled with how the pages are folded and put together into a little 4x4 album.

I really hope you loved taking a peek inside my caterpillar album, and I hope you’re inspire to create your very own.  Make sure to check out the full tutorial in the Echo Park Project Downloads section!

And don't miss Lydia's helpful Video Tutorial HERE!

Supplies:

It’s Your Birthday Boy Collection

It’s Your Birthday Boy 12x12 Pattern Papers

It’s Your Birthday Boy 12x12 Solid Papers

It’s Your Birthday Boy 6x6 Paper Pad

It’s Your Birthday Boy Element Stickers

It’s Your Birthday Boy Ephemera

It’s Your Birthday Boy Frames and Tags

Recycled Dryer Sheets

Paper Trimmer

Sewing Machine

Chipboard or Recycled Packaging

Adhesive

RIbbon

Warehouse Box Sale!!

Surprise! We're having a Box Sale!!

Each box is $50, but has a value of $175!! All boxes include an assortment of patterned papers, stickers, and embellishments from some of our most popular collections. 

The sale ends March 22nd at midnight, so get yours soon!

Click here to purchase! 

** Free Shipping in the Continental US **

Please contact customer service (HERE) with any questions. 

Click HERE to purchase!

Paper Birthday Cakes

Have you been celebrating with us?  Don't miss our daily giveaways on Instagram and our fun super-sized giveaway on Facebook!!  We'd love to see if you're playing along with us and creating a birthday celebration project of some type.  Link us up in the comments to your birthday layout, birthday card, birthday decor, or whatever birthday themed project you created to celebrate with us!  We'll choose one of the comments on today's blog post to win their choice of "It's Your Birthday" Boy or Girl collection!  Be sure to leave your e-mail address in your comment so we can contact you! **WINNER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED!**

And now for today's fun Birthday inspiration from Michelle Z:

It doesn't matter how old you are, when it comes to birthdays, it's all about the cake and the presents. I'm Michelle Zerull and I'd like to share a project that combines the cake AND the presents with the Echo Park Paper It's Your Birthday Boy Collection.

 

Each of my sweet cakes, is actually a box that can hold smalls gifts and treats. They are perfect for birthday party goodie bags!

There are so many cute animal elements on the It's Your Birthday Boy Sticker Element Sheet, that it's hard to choose just one. The excited little pup can’t wait for his cake as he frolics on a tag cut from the It's Your Birthday Boy 6X6 Paper Pad. The pad includes patterns that are scaled nicely for the tag and candle elements.

It's party time! I love the friendly sharks that are in the It's Your Birthday Boy Collection. He looks ready to party with a sentiment a present, which also came from the It's Your Birthday Boy Element Sticker Sheet. There are loads of fun sticker elements and I love that there are sentiments included too.

There's a second shark included as well. This big guy is ready to party as he swims in a sea of paper frosting made from the Dog Party Patterned Paper. Yum!

It's a birthday wish come true! My paper cake confections were fun to make with the It's Your Birthday Boy Collection from Echo Park Paper. What sweet birthday projects will you be making?

Supplies:

It's Your Birthday Boy Collection Kit

It's Your Birthday Boy Solids Kit

It's Your Birthday Boy 6X6 Paper Pad

It's Your Birthday Boy Element Sticker Sheet

It's Your Birthday Boy “3X4 Journaling Cards” Patterned Paper

It's Your Birthday Boy “Boy Party Animals” Patterned Paper

It's Your Birthday Boy “Birthday Boy Party Fans” Patterned Paper

It's Your Birthday Boy “Dog Party” Patterned Paper

It's Your Birthday Boy “Birthday Boy Confetti” Patterned Paper

It's Your Birthday Boy “Birthday Boy Cakes” Patterned Paper

It's Your Birthday “Birthday Boy Fun” Patterned Paper

Carta Bella Home Again Designer Dies Stitched Tags Die Set

Twine

Adhesive

Dimensional Foam Adhesive

Manual Paper Crimper

Manual Die Cutting Machine

Digital Die Cutting Machine

SVG File: Strawberry Cake Box

(Item #118163 At Silhouette Design Store)

SVG File: Candle (Modified) Dreaming Tree Designs

 

Party Animal Birthday Mini Album

We are so excited to be celebrating our 10th Birthday!! We have a week full of fun birthday projects, some great giveaways, and (as always) oodles of inspiration!  We hope you celebrate with us here, on facebook and on instagram - you won't want to miss a thing!!

Hi friends, It’s Dorymar here today sharing with you a party animal mini album.  To create this fun piece, I used the new It’s my Birthday-Boy collection from Echo Park.  This collection has tons of beautiful birthday animals and fun sentiments in every piece of the ephemera packs.

I started the project, cutting 6 pieces in cardstocks with the following measures; for the cover and back cover a piece of 6.5 x 7. For the inside pages two pieces of 6x5 and 2 pieces of 7 x 5.5.  The collection has many different patterns and I wanted to use all.  For the cover, I used three different patterns and decorate it creating a fun birthday scene with the gorgeous cardstock stickers and fun die cuts from the ephemera pack.

The inside pages have different sizes, this brings to the album more fun.  Each page features layers of paper, stickers, and die cuts along with some of the journal cards. This collection is so full of the most adorable details including the cutest party animals! The page fronts have tons of space for photos and journaling along with a flip feature for even more memories.

Here are some close-ups, so you can appreciate this beautiful project!

Have you ever seen an adorable shark like this? 

On this page I incorporated a small pocket that holds 4 beautiful journaling cards, this add more space to the album.

I placed a binding wire to hold the 6 cardstock pages, this allows better movement and provides a greater dimension when I add the pictures.

It was such a joy to layer all the papers together with the fabulous stickers and die cuts to create this adorable project.  I hope inspired you to use this colorful and fun collection to create your own one.

Happy scrapping!

Dorymar

Supplies:

It’s your Birthday-Boy Collection Kit

It’s your Birthday-Boy Ephemera

It’s your Birthday-Boy Frames and Tags

Green/Blue Coordinating Solid