Join us this weekend for the 

November Scrap-Along-with-Me on

 the Five Pines Designs Facebook page.

 The September Challenge is only days away. Will you be posting your layout?

FPD Challenge Gallery

and don't forget just around the corner is October's Scrap-Along-with-me!

October 5th, 10am. on Five Pines Designs Facebook page

Hope to see you there!!

Andrea

 Come Join Us!

Fine Pines Designs on FB

A few Tips & Ideas for working on the Mosaic Moments Grid Paper for your Birthday Layouts!

 As Summer begins to come to an end, I thought I'd post a few layouts from our 2024 Summer Camp Classes so you can see what we do!

Layouts for Family Trees. 

Oversized Photos for Special Gatherings of family.

Mosaic Moments Half Circle Die

Working with Patterned Papers with great scenes.

Studying Color Choices

The difference that a few color choices make using the same photos and colors in different arrangements.

Quilt Patterns on the Grid

for a Home Decor piece of Wall Art.

and then leaving 3x3 spots to add photos

Using an 8x10 photo and using L frame Dies

Mosaic Moments Grid Template allows you to turn any patterned paper into a grid, and even resetting  the grid!

Using the mini banners dies

paper from Paper Rose

Going off the Grid for an aperture look

Now September will bring a return to our Monthly Scrap-Along-with-Me sessions on the first Saturday of each month. For September we'll be doing Tips & Ideas for Birthday layouts so if you'd like to join in find us on FaceBook on the Five Pines Designs page! 

Thanks for stopping by, 

 

Andrea

 We are just days away from Summer Camp I 2024.

It's not too late to join the group and join the fun at our all-day Scrapbooking Camp using the Mosaic Moments Grid System of scrapbooking.

Visit the Five Pines Designs Facebook page for the connection to join the Camp. It's free, and you bring your own supplies. We will begin bright and early at 10 am eastern, June 1st, 2024. Supply lists are on the group site.

This is the first of three summer camp sessions.

Hope to see you there!

Andrea

Scrap-Along-with-Me March 2nd

 

It's time for the next Scrap-Along-with-Me, March 2nd, 2024! Join us at 10 am. eastern on my Facebook page Five Pines Designs for a live session (also available on replay).

This month the challenge is to incorporate some of the long-neglected and often-forgotten scrapbooking supplies that we have. When you are working in mosaic style the positive perk is getting many photos one a single layout, the downside is that we forget about adding in all the extra embellishments we may have. 

Here are a few of my storage drawers with the supplies that I'll be picking from to create my page.

and, here are the things I've chosen. Come and see how it all comes together.

see it at Five Pines Designs on Facebook!

Thanks for stopping by,

Andrea

 February Scrap-Along-with-Me

Today on my Facebook page we tackled designing with an oldie but goodie die, one our our first die sets, and now retired, The Diamond Mines Dies. 

You can watch the video that we walked through the steps that I'm highlighting here. 

I began with a Cocoa Grid Paper and patterned papers from Simple Stories. 

Page one of the layout uses the 3x3 and 3x4 dies. I've cut the paper into strips to keep the pattern intact. I've also used the sections as a foundation for the delicate die-cut sections and adhered them to the patterned paper. Photos were die-cut to drop into their positions. 

I printed two copies of the landscape photo so that I could cut them to fit the center row spots. 

I have not used the patterned paper in the center 4x4 section to work into the second page, in the center.

For page two, I've incorporated the 2x2 die from the set. I began by cutting 8 - 2x2s in the dark brown that I'm using for the die-cut pieces. Tone on tone with the cardstock and grid helps to make the photos pop while the die cuts blend into the grid. 

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This time I'm looking for red, white, and blues to create with on Navy Grid Paper.

 

The third layout takes a different arrangement with the 2x2s and patterned papers. My main photos are of Mount Rushmore from four different viewpoints. The other photos were from spots from around the area and are cut into 2.125" squares. 

The 3x4, 3x3, and the 2x2 Diamond Mines Dies. 

One way to stabilize your delicate die-cuts and then pop your photos or cardstock into place. I've created templates matching the dies' color coding to make it easy to play and plan layouts by moving the various pieces around. 

Thanks for stopping by today and I invite you to join us on Five Pines Designs Facebook page where more inspiration and a video is taking you through the steps. 

Andrea 

  

 

 Welcome 2024 and the beginning, again, of posting some of the creative things I'm doing. 

On January 6th, we began our Scrap-Along-with-Me series for 2024 on my Facebook page, Five Pines Designs, with a look at Mosaic Moments Dies the Forever Stamp die and the stamp 2x2 die. I added in the LOVE Squares and layers dies. You can find the step-by-step video on the FB page.

I also played around with an idea to do a page-in-review of photos from the year with a seasonal approach. Three for each season. This is still in the works.

Each photo would represent each month and be cropped to fit our Mosaic Moments 2x2 square (measures 2.125" square or 2 1/8" square)

For my final page, I mixed things up a bit for a festive Christmas page. 

This detailed photo of the banner 1" dies shows off the way I layered and added a little bling too! 

So please come and join us each month on the first Saturday at 10am Eastern on the Five Pines Designs Facebook page for some creative ideas for scrapping the Mosaic Moments style. 

Thanks for stopping by

Andrea