Oh What Fun: JOY

Hi, Everyone! Jana Eubank here. I hope you are enjoying a wonderful holiday with your family and friends. It's been so nice to cozy up here at home with the family ... no school schedules to contend with ... and do a little relaxing ... and scrapping.

I have one last holiday-themed December Oh What Fun page to share with you today before we switch over to the New Year.

JOY

This page documents my favorite part of Christmas ... just being together in our own little family unit instead of rushing out the door to extended family events. This is where we are making memories.

I grouped together Elle's Studio cut aparts and a tag to look like a present and letters to Sants. The bow was cut using a Stampin' Up die from my stash.

The confetti sprinkles here and at the top left corner of the page repeat the dots in the blue patterned paper at the bottom of the page and remind me of cookie sprinkles left on Santa's cookie plate after he takes a few bites of his treat.

I used the photo overlays from the Daily Diary kit on these two photos. I love the way they add color and make the photos feel that much more important in the design.

I couldn't resist using those two, big, gorgeous, red poinsettia blooms together on this page. I added several die cut pine sprigs created by using a Stampin' Up die from my stash. Isn't the texture delicious?!

Thanks for coming by! Wishing you a very Happy New Year!

Oh, What Fun: Christmas Cookies

I can't believe that Christmas is just a few days away! Are you ready for Santa? Have you made him some delicious cookies?

My page today is about our tradition of making cookies. Every Christmas my kids and I make gingerbread cookies. The kids each have to have their own ball of dough to roll out ... where they exercise their culinary creativity.

CHRISTMAS COOKIES

I combined both the Oh What Fun Classic Kit and Oh What Fun Daily Diary Kit on this page with it's cheerful color scheme of red, green, pink, white, and tan.

The two little gingerbread people were cut from one of the 3x4 cut apart journaling cards by Pebbles. Aren't they so cute?!

I used the brown color of the gingerbread people as an accent color, making sure to put it in a visual triangle around my page. The two other spots of brown are the reindeer die cut accenting the journal block, and the brown wood veneer accenting the top border strip.

The texture of the puffy stickers reminds me of icing decorating a Christmas cookie. I had lots of fun adding the puffy stickers all around the page.

Merry Christmas!

Oh, What Fun: Holiday Party

Hello! Jana Eubank here with my take on this week's "Wrap It Up" design team challenge.

Can you spot where I added the ribbon and washi tape to this page created with the December Oh What Fun Kits?

HOLIDAY PARTY

The ribbon is easy ... it's tied around the photo.

The washi tape is the border along the top of the plaid center strip of paper.

I was having so much fun adding fussy-cut flowers to this page, that I decided to make my journaling a hidden element on my page. I cut two tabbed cards from cream cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo 3 machine, added journaling to one of them with my typewriter, and then tucked them behind the layers on my page. 

A couple of Echo Park stickers dress up the tabs.

I used the red dots from the Red Glitter Thickers to accent the center of my fussy-cut flowers for added dimension. 

The title words get layered right on top of the photos.

And here is a closer look at that gorgeous, green, shimmery ribbon tied around the photo.

Don't forget to take photos of your holiday celebrations this year!

See you again soon!

Oh What Fun: Noel

Hello Creative Friends! Jana Eubank here. I have my first page using the December "Oh, What Fun!" kit to share with you today!

NOEL

This week our design team challenge is the "Plaid Tidings" challenge ... where we were to incorporate one of the cute plaids in the kits onto our project. Here is what I came up with.

I cut my title from the red and white cardstock in the kit using my Silhouette Cameo 3 machine, and then accented it with the mini acrylic stars by Pretty Little Studio. 

I used a couple of the 6x6 papers from the Oh, What Fun! Daily Diary kit stacked behind my two photos for a fun layered photo mat.

In between my two photos I added a little cluster of embellishments wiht the Elle's Studio cut aparts, puffy stickers, flair and even one of the Simple Stories bradz.

The poinsettias were created using a Stampin' Up stamp from my stash. I stamped the image in red, green, and black inks then added in more color with colored pencils, making the petals and leaves look shaded.

I then accented the corner of the photo with one of the white, Pretty Little Studio acrylic words.

My patterned paper strips are layered on top of each other with the green satin ribbon separating them. I love the bit of shimmer and shine that ribbon adds!

I used a 3x4 journal card from the Oh, What Fun! Daily Diary kit to add information to this page. I tucked the journal card underneath the photo and then accented the top of it with more cut aparts, a puffy phrase sticker, flair, and a bradz.

This page just makes me smile with it's classic red and green color scheme. I can't wait for Christmas!

See you next time!

All Fall Kits: Feeding the Birds

Happy Wednesday, friends! Jana Eubank here. I'm tackling the Recipe Challenge this week where we were to use the following on our project:  1 sheet of cardstock, 2 alphabets, 3 photos, 4 patterned papers, and 5 embellishments.

I did squeeze in an additional wood button and some photo corners, but I have to say, I followed the recipe almost exactly and love what I was able to come up with. Here are my results!

FEEDING THE BIRDS

I created this page about my son feeding three lost baby birds using elements from both the All Fall Classic kit and All Fall Daily Diary kit and a sheet of white cardstock from my stash for the base.

My one piece of cardstock is the white cardstock I pulled from my stash. I used some distressing stamps by Stampin' Up (Watercolor Wash and Gorgeous Grunge) to add the ink splotches to the background.

The two alphabets I used are from the All Fall Classic kit. While I was building this page, I kept singing the Mary Poppins song, "Feed the Birds" in my head ... so that is what I went with for my title. Ha!

I have three photos on this page. One of my son feeding the lost baby birds, one of the birds, and one of the mother feeding her babies once she had figured out where they had gone off to.

For the four pieces of patterned paper, I used one to mat the photos and then layered three strips together as a band across the page.

For my five embellishments I used five chipboard leaves from the All Fall Daily Diary kit. I also added in a wood circle embellishment and some gold photo corners from my stash ... but you're okay I threw those in, right?! :)

I used the green glitter dots from the Thicker alpha stickers as embellishments, but I'm counting those as part of my two alphabets. :)

I hope you feel inspired to create something this week. Give our recipe challenge a try. It was fun to use these guidelines to think a bit differently about my page elements as I was putting this together ... and I think you'll have fun trying it to!

Have a great week!

All Fall Scrapbook Process Video: Fall

Hello Friends! Jana Eubank here. Today I have a scrapbook process video of a two-page layout I created using the All Fall Classic and All Fall Daily Diary Kits.

First, here is a look at this spread, followed by the video and detail shots. Enjoy!

FALL

Let's talk about the left side of the page first ...

Of course I had to use some forest critters on this page, right?! I chose to cut out the Echo Park Fall is in the Air Bear and Fox from the 3x4 Journaling card paper and combine them with a couple of the trees from the Pebbles Woodland Forest sticker sheet. I also fussy-cut several of the leaves from the 8x8 vellum Pretty Little Studio paper to sprinkle at their feet.

Here I used some of the cut apart Pretty Little Studio phrases accented with scribble heart stickers and the Echo Park Paper decorative brads. So cute!

I cut the title from brown cardstock using my Silhouette Cameo machine and then embossed it with a woodgrain texture using an embossing folder.

Now for the right side of the page ...

Aqua blue is my favorite color, so of course I had to sprinkle in a bit with the Pretty Little Studio flair!

The Echo Park Fox keeps my journaling company at the bottom of the page with more handcut vellum leaves, decorative brads, and heart stickers.

The hedgie chipboard sticker found a home in the top right corner of my page along with more leaves and brads.

I added a date to this page by die cutting a tag from the yellow cardstock and stamping it with the month and year.

Thanks for joining me today! I hope you enjoyed this tour through my page. 

Happy Thanksgiving!

All Fall: Pumpkin Patch Pocket Page

Good morning, creative friends! Jana Eubank here. Tonight it is supposed to snow in my town and that makes me a bit sad ... I'm not ready to give up the beautiful Autumn days just yet! Good think I can relish in them with my Noel Mignon All Fall Daily Diary Kit and All Fall Classic Kit.

I combine these kits together, along with a few elements from last month's Falloween Daily Diary kit, on the blog today to create a 3-page pocket page spread about my family's visit to the pumpkin patch last year.

GRATEFUL

I love it when Noel adds Simple Stories to the kits ... it is one of my most favorite paper companies! I especially love the colors, patterns, icons, and typography in this year's fall line that they did.

I used this blue bordered card to create my title card for this pocket page spread ... adding in a couple of die cuts. I also accented it with a few dimensional embellishments, the buttons from the Classic Kit and the enamel dots.

I can't get enough of these tiny phrase stickers in the kits! I used the woodgrain Pebbles phrase stickers in combination with the Simple Stories phrase stickers from last month's Daily Diary kit to accent several of my photos.

Our challenge this week was to use the word "family" somewhere on our project. I used the Echo Park oval die cut on the top right photo, clustering it with a Simple Stories die cut flower grouping and more phrase stickers.

These orange patterned buttons included in the Classic Kit this month are too cute! I think I used one on almost every card in this spread!

 

A few stickers accent these photos and then the bottom journaling card gets a bit of dimension with another orange button, combined with a wood button from last month's kit.

I used all of the fun Simple Stories products on this third page in the spread, as well.

The enamel dots and buttons add the perfect amount of dimension to each card or photo.

The plaid washi tape from last month's kit mixes in flawlessly with these products again. I added a narrow length of it to the bottom of two of my photos for additional color, trimming off the excess hanging over the edges.

I created the large journaling card myself, adhering a trimmed white notebook card from my stash on top of the patterned side of one of the Simple Stories 4x6 cards in the All Fall Daily Diary kit. A few Simple Stories stickers (from the Falloween Daily Diary Kit), die cuts, and a button dress it up for the season.

I love how this page came together! Have you documented some of your fall memories yet? 

See you next time!