I Heart Piggy Tales
Piggy Tales has been one of my favorite manufacturers since the company launched several years ago. The owners are adorable, their product is gorgeous and innovative, and it's made right here in the USA -- often from recycled materials! Oh, and their product lines are named after nursery rhymes. What's not to love??
I fell in love all over again when I got one of their new Drawbridge albums to play with. These new board books are designed to allow all sorts of bulky poky sticky-uppy sort of embellishments -- and still close flat! LOVE THAT! I got an early release as part of a special project with Big Picture Scrapbooking, and created this cute mini-album of some of my scrapping friends. The patterned paper is their Cinderella line, and I threw in some other goodies, including WorldWin cardstock (a new favorite), Making Memories glitter alphas, CK rub-ons, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters, Foof-a-la buttons, Cosmo Cricket ribbon (on the cover -- chocolate brown velvet scallops, how delish is that??), Tinkering Ink rub-ons, and KaiserCraft rub-ons, flowers, jewels and self-adhesive pearls (KaiserCraft is an Australian company doing some amazing stuff. I'll share more about them soon).
The big chipboard letters on the cover are from the Cinderella line, too.
Look how the pages flip open! I piled on the embellishments and still the whole book lies flat. Tons of room for goodies.
Because of the interactivity element (fold out/down/up pages), I created a masterpiece in a few hours... totally in keeping with my "Keep it Simple" philosophy. I stuck with a single color palette, added in a few embellishments, and voila!
I actually did most of this at Ben's baseball practice. I used spray adhesive to make it even quicker, and everyone was awed and amazed at my results. ;) Gotta love the "wow" factor!
Want to see more of what folks are doing with the Drawbridge album? Visit Stacy Julian's blog today, and follow the links to some other fabu projects by Big Picture instructors!
And you thought I hadn't been scrapbooking! P'shaw!
that is so cute :)
got to try that spray adhesive :)
Posted by: katie scott | June 16, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Wow!~ I have seen four of these books today (must google reader the right gals, huh?) and have loved every single one. Having them all released on the same day just makes it even more clear that these are VERSATILE.
Great job!
Posted by: Jenna | June 16, 2008 at 11:33 AM
super cool. I suppose I need to hunt one of those down!
Posted by: sue Treiber | June 16, 2008 at 01:34 PM
I totally love this project. It really makes me want to break out a board book and go to town.
Posted by: Michelle | June 16, 2008 at 04:20 PM
OOOOOO . . . AHHHHHH. Absolutely, totally COOL! I love your album and *sigh* it looks like I'll be adding yet another item to my wish list. ;) Thanks so much for sharing!
Posted by: Kyla | June 16, 2008 at 06:26 PM
Is this not the coolest album-I can't wait to get one. You did this during practice-you de man!
Posted by: BethW | June 17, 2008 at 04:35 AM
That is a totally adorable album and I love that you made it at practice! You rock!
Somehow I had not heard of Piggy Tales before now (or don't remember). I'll definitely be on the lookout for them from now on!
Posted by: canadacole | June 17, 2008 at 05:55 AM
Way cute!
Posted by: Etta | June 17, 2008 at 05:55 AM
Love the album --- I'm going to have to get my hands on some of those albums --- too cute!
Posted by: Laura T. | June 17, 2008 at 06:27 AM
I just saw these somewhere on a blog or something..not sure where and I thought the concept was wonderful! I love that you can use embellies and still close the book! Amazing job on this one!
Posted by: Christine Jensen | June 17, 2008 at 10:55 AM
That's totally got me inspired to do a board book this weekend at my scrappy retreat I'm going on!!! Thanks Lain!! Can't wait to hear your voice again sometime soon!!!?
Posted by: JoEllyn Steele | June 17, 2008 at 08:16 PM
Like others I haven't seen these before today. Wow is all I can say!!
Posted by: Jenni G. | June 19, 2008 at 11:18 AM