Check this out - Fancy Free made the list of Top 10 Essentials to own this season!
Fancy Free in Scrapbook & Cards Today!
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Check this out - Fancy Free made the list of Top 10 Essentials to own this season!
Fancy Free in Stores!
Monday, April 4, 2016
It's official - Fancy Free is arriving in stores!!! YIPPEE!
Here are the places online I have found Fancy Free - please tell me if you know of more!
If you're on instagram, make sure to tag me (@paigetaylorevans) and use hashtags #ppfancyfree so I can see and share what you make!
Pages from Paige's Pages 07
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Paige's Paiges 08 is coming out in just a few weeks so today I'm sharing the 4 layouts that I created for Paige's Pages 07 at Big Picture Classes! The start-to-finish videos plus free cut file, tips, techniques, and more, can all be found on the class website, so take a look at the layouts here then head over to Paige's Pages 07 to watch and learn and be inspired!
LOVE by Paige Evans
In the first lesson I feature the wood veneer star which is one of the three exclusive products made by Big Picture Classes for this round of Paige's Pages! I share how to wrap it with some string for a bit of customization and create a dream-catching inspired background.
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LOVE YOU TOGETHER by Paige Evans
In the 2nd lesson I share how to use another one of the exclusive BPC Paige's Pages products: heart stamps! It's a 4x6" set with 12 individual stamps. Using a fun painting technique I found on pinterest, I create my own patterned paper and have fun stamping/cutting out hearts to make a custom and eye-catching background.
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Another product BPC made for this class is a set of 8 acrylic triangles! In this lesson I use the triangles as masks and spray paint over them to make a bright, mixed media background and then top it with the triangles themselves. I also clumped together lots of colors of string for a funky embellishment.
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In the last lesson we create a page with the free star cut file - it's the same shape as the wood veneer star! I stitch over the stars first to create texture and then back them with patterned papers - you know how I do ;)
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All of these layouts are available to learn how to make in start-to-finish videos at Paige's Pages 07 at Big Picture Classes! Paige's Pages 08 (featuring Fancy Free!!!) will be live on April 25th 2016!
Jane's Broken Collar Bone
Saturday, April 2, 2016
Poor sweet Janey girl broke her collar bone on Thursday :( :( :( Here's what happened:
First of all, the kids like to roll down hills at the various parks in our neighborhood, exhibit A:
First of all, the kids like to roll down hills at the various parks in our neighborhood, exhibit A:
Probably not the safest activity in the world, and sadly we've had to learn a hard lesson.
On Thursday night after Chris got home from work I took the kids outside to play. It was a glorious, warm day - the warmest day probably since September of last year. No jackets required! Selfies ensued:
These kids are cray cool.
Jane's last pictures before the incident, only 20 minutes later.
We walked up to one park, it was too busy (when the sun comes out, so does the entire neighborhood! Soakin' up those rays!), so we walked down to the other park. I pushed them on the swings for awhile and then they took off up this hill - the same one in the video above. I thought more rolling was about to commence.
Jane was up at the very tippy top, ready to roll, when all of a sudden a bee flew by. It was one of those massive, huge, black, furry, bumble bees that I could see from a mile away. Jane is TERRIFIED of bees. She turned around and started RUNNING full speed down the hill. My heart went ice cold and all I could do was run towards her and hope and pray she didn't land on her head or neck because she honestly could have died. She was going so fast and picking up so much momentum. She crash landed at the bottom on her arm and immediately started bawling harder than I've ever heard her cry. Jane is a tough cookie with a high pain tolerance. It takes a lot to make her cry, so I knew this wasn't good.
I couldn't see any broken bones and she seemed to be okay with her arm wrapped in a makeshift sling, so we gave her some children's tylenol and decided to keep an eye on it then call the doctor in the morning if she was still hurting. She was. At 10am Friday morning I took her in to the doc, he pushed and pulled and prodded at her arms and requested some xrays. She was so good and strong and brave during the whole ordeal. The doc said he couldn't really see anything in the xrays so he was going to forward them on to the pediatric radiologist 3 hours away in Landstuhl and he hoped I wouldn't hear from him the rest of the day and Jane would be back to rolling down hills tomorrow. Yeah. No. A half hour later he called and said there might be a fracture and they don't have the right equipment and to head straight to the ER in Weiden. Jane was so upset when we told her the news and was so tired from a restless night, so she took a two hour nap and then Chris drove her to the hospital a half hour away. They looked at the xrays and you can clearly see: her collar bone is broken :( The first broken bone in our entire family.
They said this is a common injury in small children and the only way to fix it is to immobilize her arm for two weeks and it should heal itself. Human bodies are amazing.
We made cupcakes and ate ice cream for dinner. Whatever Jane wants, Jane gets for the next 2 weeks.
Love you Jane, so sorry you have to go through this!
On Thursday night after Chris got home from work I took the kids outside to play. It was a glorious, warm day - the warmest day probably since September of last year. No jackets required! Selfies ensued:
Jane was up at the very tippy top, ready to roll, when all of a sudden a bee flew by. It was one of those massive, huge, black, furry, bumble bees that I could see from a mile away. Jane is TERRIFIED of bees. She turned around and started RUNNING full speed down the hill. My heart went ice cold and all I could do was run towards her and hope and pray she didn't land on her head or neck because she honestly could have died. She was going so fast and picking up so much momentum. She crash landed at the bottom on her arm and immediately started bawling harder than I've ever heard her cry. Jane is a tough cookie with a high pain tolerance. It takes a lot to make her cry, so I knew this wasn't good.
I couldn't see any broken bones and she seemed to be okay with her arm wrapped in a makeshift sling, so we gave her some children's tylenol and decided to keep an eye on it then call the doctor in the morning if she was still hurting. She was. At 10am Friday morning I took her in to the doc, he pushed and pulled and prodded at her arms and requested some xrays. She was so good and strong and brave during the whole ordeal. The doc said he couldn't really see anything in the xrays so he was going to forward them on to the pediatric radiologist 3 hours away in Landstuhl and he hoped I wouldn't hear from him the rest of the day and Jane would be back to rolling down hills tomorrow. Yeah. No. A half hour later he called and said there might be a fracture and they don't have the right equipment and to head straight to the ER in Weiden. Jane was so upset when we told her the news and was so tired from a restless night, so she took a two hour nap and then Chris drove her to the hospital a half hour away. They looked at the xrays and you can clearly see: her collar bone is broken :( The first broken bone in our entire family.
We made cupcakes and ate ice cream for dinner. Whatever Jane wants, Jane gets for the next 2 weeks.
Hohenwerfen Castle, Austria
Friday, April 1, 2016
After lunch the sun had more fully come out and revealed a gorgeous day.
We drove across the river so we could take in the castle in all its glory.
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