Friday Favorites

Raise your hand if one of you favorite childhood toys was a big cardboard box! 

Isn't it so funny to think about? The classic tale wherein the parents buy the kids some huge and expensive gift, and while Dad is busy assembling the giant beast of a toy, the kids drag the empty cardboard box out to the driveway and create the best lemonade stand ever!

It's funny because it's true.

I love the endless possibilities of a cardboard box. And another thing I love?? … anything house shaped or house themed. 

These Cardboard Brownstones are so perfect! The tall, narrow shape makes them so sophisticated and urban. It's amazing to see how basic cardboard comes to life with the addition of some brightly colored duct tape! I can't get over how fun these are.

They are one of the super fun projects in the new book "Playful" by Merrilee Liddiard of Mer Mag. I simply cannot wait to see this book in person!

I have been meaning to share these adorable toast plates with you for a while now. I just adore their sweet little faces. Seriously…the instant I look at this plate, I want toast! 

They're by Charlotte Mei Ceramics.

This bag is the perfect balance of cute, quirky and classic. It has the quilted styling and chain strap of a Chanel bag, but in the form of a soft serve cone. I love that. I also love the black accent details. To me, black is a very necessary compliment to your sweet pastels. You can find it over at ModCloth.

 I am loving these little 4 x 4 Instagram albums from We R Memory Keepers. I ordered the gold and aqua. I can't wait for them to get here. I look forward to finding creative ways to bring my personal style to this cleaner, more controlled format. If I love working within this "system", I bet the next logical progression will be to give the larger Project Life albums a try. 

As soon as I make some progress I'll be sure to share my pages with you guys! 

I adore everything about this Birthday Cake Chandelier DIY. It's so incredibly cute! I showed this pic to Aaron and he liked it…but then when he took a closer look and checked out the DIY, he really really liked! I think the two of us will be making our own very soon. 

The Hello Holiday FW/14 Look Book just launched, and to put it plainly…I love it all!  These Birthday heels are fabulous! I wouldn't mind receiving them for my Birthday next month… hint hint Aar. ; )

I'm very excited about "Big Eyes", directed by Tim Burton, and starring Amy Adams as Margaret Keane. 

I watched the trailer a few times, simply for the eye candy, and I'm impressed with the classic feel of the cinematography. I feel like the subject matter would get overshadowed if the visuals were too over the top. I'm happy to see that Tim went with a more subdued approach. I can't wait to see it! (And yes, I'm on a first name basis with Tim. Aren't you?)

Ok, thanks again for stopping by to check out my Friday Faves. I hope you have a fantastic weekend!

xo, Jenny…and Aaron says hi!

"The Sweet Life" collection ...out in the world

Me and Aaron are artists who like to share. We know how much happiness the creative process brings us personally and through teaching we see how easily this happiness can be spread around. But teaching is just a drop in the bucket...you can only reach so many people. So when the opportunity to design a scrapbooking collection came our way we jumped at the chance. A scrapbooking collection is a very useful cog in the wheel of spreading creativity around. It's so cool to see our designs going to good use. And it's an honor. Seriously, It's an absolute honor when we see something that we painted here in our humble home being used as the focal point of someone's very personal creative project. So...now that "The Sweet Life" collection is out there in the world, we wanted to show some fab examples of how it's being put to use, and also tell you about some places where you might find it for yourself! 

We're totally loving these adorable mini albums by Melissa Phillips, using papers and journaling cards from the collection. The diagonal pink striped paper on the ice cream album is the flip side of our "Ballerina Cupcakes" paper. And the cakes you see on the ballerina themed album are from our paper titled "Hooray For Cake".

Again, this is one of our journaling cards being fabulously incorporated into a project. And those are a couple of our Washi Banner stickers affixed beneath the button.

Both of these adorable cards also by Melissa Phillips. This one has some of our "Bits & Pieces" paper in the background. I love the aqua vellum envelope, which is also from Melissa Frances, and the trim, ribbon, and tiny flower finish it off perfectly. 

If you checked out the pics or were lucky enough to be in Anaheim that weekend, you may have seen this adorable little treat container in our booth at CHA. It's made using our papers ("Sprinkle Everyday" and "Mixed Media Doodles"), a journal card, and our Sweet Life Words stickers. It was made by Rachel McAffee.

And she also made these adorable party hats! Seen here: a Journaling Card, and the pink stripe paper is from our "Ballerina Cupcakes" paper. 

The bunting banner on this hat is from our "Mixed Media Doodles" paper. The blue stripes are the flipside of our "Bits & Pieces" paper. And the "what a perfect day" banner is one of our Chipboard Accents. 

Another Chipboard Accent, and our pink stripe paper again. Of all our papers I believe we'll personally use the pink stripes the most. I love the sequins on this one!

And yes...we have Treat Bags! Though Rachel took them to another level with the fab embellishments. 

Here's another Treat Bag, and Rachel adorned it with one of my favorite journaling cards in our collection. It's our mascot bunny but rendered in basic black and white chalkboard style. I love the simplicity of the design. 

We have been receiving lots of emails from you guys asking when we will have our collection in stock in our online shop. The answer is: Any day now! Our order is in, and we are awaiting it's arrival on our doorstep. So as soon as it is in we promise to let you know! We love that you guys are so excited! We will be shipping worldwide!

But...If you truly just can't wait another second...

The awesome Blue Moon Scrapbooking carries most of the collection! And they've got a great little video featuring the items they've got in-stock. What a great source for tons of amazing scrapbooking supplies! We loved meeting Scott from Blue Moon at CHA. 

And for you paper loves in the San Diego, CA area...You can find "The Sweet Life" at the fabulous Paper Tales. Dining with all the Paper Tales gals was the highlight of our time at CHA. The realest, funniest, coolest, gang of gals you'll meet in the world of paper.

One of the funniest of the Paper Tales gals is our sweet and talented friend Karin. She will be teaching this adorable mini book using the collection at Paper Tales soon! 

And we are loving seeing peeks of projects using The Sweet Life over on Instagram. Loving these pics of this mini album that @maidmarianmade is working on! We love how she colored her Allie & Amy and cake! 

We are just so thrilled to see our designs in the hands of so many talented, creative, FUN people! We'd love to see pics of anything you've created using the collection! And we may share them here on the blog! So please feel free to send them to us or comment with a link to your blog post, or tag us on Instagram! @jennyeveryday

Thanks so much for popping in today! We hope that you are inspired by these projects! And we hope that you love "The Sweet Life". Have a great day friends!

Love from the NJ Shore, 

xo Jenny and Aaron

Hooray! "The Sweet Life" hits stores this week!

Today was definitely a good mail day for us! And hopefully there's an equal feeling of excitement being felt at shops around the country...and the world. In our mailbox was a package full of items from our scrapbooking collection "The Sweet Life", which is the first offering from our partnership with Melissa Frances...and we couldn't be more excited about it. And if it arrived in our mailbox today, then that means that there is a pretty good chance that lots and lots of stores have received their shipments of the collection as well. Which is SUPER exciting!

 On the one hand it feels like we've been waiting forever for it to arrive...and on the other it feels like just yesterday that we were designing the stuff. A major highlight in the whole process was our trip to CHA. Just being there with the line and having the chance to talk with all the shop owners who will be carrying the collection was such thrill. Everyone was so enthusiastic about the collection...and probably one of the coolest things was how many times we'd meet someone at CHA and it turned out that they have been longtime readers of the blog. Also, so many shop owners came to check out our line after being tipped off by one of our faithful readers...which just totally melts our hearts. A huge thank you to all of you who have been cheering us on from day one! We hope you love the collection as much as we loved designing and painting it!

In today's package there were lots of goodies. Above you'll see chipboard pieces, Washi Stickers, Treat bags, journaling cards, and sweet saying stickers.

And this here is a very very cute mini book kit! It comes with everything that you see here! 

I love this tiny little "Sprinkle every day with Fun" element! Look at our tiny ice cream cone! 

There are so many sweet little bits to adorn your pages! 

It is really such a fun little kit! 

And the journaling cards are so adorable! They would be perfect for project life! 

I love seeing our bunny here rendered chalkboard style.

And treat bags! Aren't they so sweet?! You get this variety of 4 in each pack! 

We are just so excited to have these in our hands. Cannot wait to start creating and crafting! 

And of course our papers! 6 Double sided sheets! We blogged all about our special design process...each pattern is hand painted by us. 

Oh and I just had to share these pics that Carolyn Peeler sent us. Carolyn, who you may know, is the Senior Creative Director at Melissa Frances, and she was just in Norway teaching at a fabulous shop called Bikuben. We blogged about meeting the sweet owners Ellen and Egil at CHA, and later had a fantastic dinner date with them. Well, they carry "The Sweet Life" at Bikuben, and Carolyn took the trip there to teach some classes that featured our line. And from what we hear, they loved working with "The Sweet Life" collection! Carolyn asked the class attendees in the pic above to hold up their favorite papers! So fun right? Seriously, we LOVE putting our work in the hands of other artists and seeing how they go off in their own creative direction. 

And we just love these samples Carolyn colored using Copic markers. Above you can see the two sides of our paper titled "Mixed Media Doodles". One side has layers of vintage baking book pages collaged with some of our abstract painting strokes. And the other is an antique-y looking coloring book style page featuring Allie & Amy! some of our roses, a cake, cupcakes, a bunting banner, scrollwork, and other things that are ready and waiting for you to work your magic on! Perfect for Art Journaling! 

We will be carrying "The Sweet Life" collection in our shop very soon! But you can always let your favorite loal shop know about it as well! Thanks bunches for popping in and for being such awesome cheerleaders! We couldn't have made this collection without you all.

xo Jenny & Aaron