Monday, April 29, 2013

Social Media Butterflies Blog Hop: April Edition


Welcome to the April #SMBiGblog hop! Each month we feature one of our favorite companies, and host a blog hop of inspiration!. This month, we are lucky enough to have the entire Chic Tags team join us for a BLOGAPALOOZA-- over 20 projects to inspire you! Travel along with us, starting at the Chic Tags blog, which is where you should have arrived from and on to Adrienne's blog after mine. Scroll to the bottom for an awesome free printable! 

Along the way, there are prizes and freebie printables & cut files. Hop along each of the blogs to win some of the Road Trip collection from Chic Tags. One GRAND prize winner will win the Road Trip, Everyday Life II & Birthday Wishes collection! 

My post is one of the lucky prize giveaways!! You could win die-cuts, journaling cards, some of the new collections from Chic Tags-- lots of amazing prizes! All you have to do is comment below telling me something about YOUR favorite Road Trip ever! Get extra entries by following me on twitter, instagram, or facebook, leave an extra comment for each of these that you do! Good luck!

I was super inspired by the Chic Tags products and wound up making a bunch of projects to share with you today, including a quick tutorial for my favorite bookmarks. 

Envelope Bookmark Tutorial:


Step One: Grab any envelope. Measure the triangle up against the corner of the envelope and cut the corner off the envelope. 


Step Two: Measure and cut some coordinating paper against the envelope triangle. I used the paper from the awesome Chic Tags packaging. 


Step Three: Glue the paper to the envelope triangle. 


Step Four: Add the triangle embellishment and decorate! I used Sakura Souffle pens to decorate mine. 


Love This: What a great pack of tags! One of my favorite techniques is to just overload a whole package of something onto a layout and really make it the focal point. Kind of turn everything upside down a bit. 



Road Trip Mini-Book: I put together a quick mini-book for our upcoming Road Trip to Vermont. Making books in advance means that I'll definitely document our trip immediately, instead of putting it off indefinitely. 




Here's a free printable, courtesy of Chic Tags! 


Thank you so much for stopping by! Remember to comment below telling me something about YOUR favorite Road Trip ever! Get extra entries by following me on twitterinstagram, or facebook, leave an extra comment for each of these that you do! Good luck! 

Please head over to Adrienne's blog next! http://adriennealvis.blogspot.com/