Must read all the books!

This week's designer challenge is to make a layout about school, books, etc. 

Because my girls are bookworms I have a few pictures of them while reading ☺

The layout below is actually the first layout that I created this month with the Study Guide Classic kit, but because it was for this week's challenge I have been saving it to share it with you this week.

When I saw the cute Jillibean Soup book paper I knew that I wanted it to be a focal point on my page. I cut around the books to help them stand out at the bottom border. I used the library card paper to add more color to the upper part of the layout. I also used some of the cute alphabet ribbon to carry on the book theme. I added two fabric pennants to the top of the page with my tiny attacher stapler. 

I used one piece of the library card paper to back the cute apple diecut. I then added some labels and other stickers and embellishments to the page. 

I finished off my page with cork stars and colorful alphas. 

Thanks for stopping by! 

Back to School pages

I cannot believe we're at the end of September already! This month has just flown by. And with Halloween and all of the festivities that go along with that I know October is going to do the same.

With the end of the month fast approaching, I wanted to finish up some back to school pages. My kids change so much over the course of the school year and I want to make sure these memories are documented. 

I've created a back to school layout of my son using the papers from the Study Guide Classic Kit along with embellishments from the Daily Diary Kit (there's still a few of these left!)

One of my absolute favorite items in the Daily Diary Kit, aside from the AC thickers, are the Jillibean Soup cardstock stickers. I've used those stickers on just about everything! 

I also created a pocket page for my family scrapbook of the first day of school with some of the photos I hadn't used on other layouts.

That apple flair I attached on the outside of the page protector to keep the plastic from bending around it. 

Now I just need to create one more page of my oldest daughter's first day of school!

First Day with the Study Guide Classic Kit

Happy Tuesday!  I hope you are all having a fabulous week so far.  It's turned chilly here in UT the last week and although fall hit us hard, I personally am enjoying the much cooler temps and the leaves beginning to turn.

I have this week another layout of my boys.  Every year on the first day of school I make them pose on the doorstep before they head off.  The oldest isn't always happy, but he still cooperates.  

As we start packing for our move I have quickly learned what my go to tools are and what I can actually live without.  I have to admit though that I miss my Silhouette and had to instead hand cut stars from the orange pattern paper.  I went a little old school and even pulled out the AC marker from the kit and outlined them to make them stand out against the stars in the background.

It was refreshing to only use items to the kit and it made me have to get a little creative with odd shaped pieces of pattern papers that I had left still in the kit.

I thought by now that my house would be all packed up and ready to move, but I am actually really grateful that I have been slow to pack up my computer and a few of my crafting supplies.  I have used it as a way to escape a little of the madness.  I have my "emergency supplies" ready to go though and I will soon be creating with my freshly opened October kit in our new/old house! :) 

I hope you are fairing well wherever you live and are able to spend some time creating.
Happy Scrapping!

Last fall in Ruidoso

One of my favorite quick trips is to Ruidoso, New Mexico.

It's only a few hours' drive from us and is a nice breath of fresh air (quite literally) and such a beautiful and peaceful place.

We traveled to Ruidoso for a gymnastics meet for my oldest daughter and rented a cabin to stay in while we were there. I took advantage of the beautiful surroundings and got some new pictures of my girls there.

Looking at this picture of my kids at a park in Ruidoso makes me a little antsy to head back to those forested hills.

I used a variety of papers from the Study Guide Classic kit, stacking the strips on top of one another and then added that cute ruler sticker. I tucked a little tab sticker under my photo to add my date. 

The kit is great for back to school but the beautiful floral I thought was perfect for fall and goes well with my photo. 

I once again used my black Sharpie on the chipboard alphas to get the look I wanted for my page. 

I added some cardstock star stickers and a couple of beautiful paper flowers from the kit. 

The Jillibean Soup paper with the library cards was a sheet I used on a few projects. I like how it adds just a little more color to my page, but in small doses. 

It's the last day of summer. 

I hope that it's a great one for you!

Using patterned paper for journaling

Hello again!

For our designer challenge this week we were supposed to make journaling the star of our project.

There are many ways to add journaling to a project. You can use hidden journaling on a card behind your photos. You can handwrite it, type it, use stickers or phrases on pocket cards.

There is a piece of Pink Paislee Turn the Page patterned paper (Paper 14) in the Study Guide Classic Kit that I used for my journaling. I handcut strips from that page, which added visual interest along with lots of journaling. I also added handwritten journaling to my page as I usually do. The papers, though, said exactly what I would say to my daughter about her recent gymnastics experience.

I added cork stars to each strip of journaling to add some texture to the page and a bit of contrast to the bright colors.

I love the colorful papers in this kit and they were the perfect backdrop of the black and white photo of my daughter. I used the small gold alphas from last month's kit to create my long layout title. 

Here is one more close-up of my page: 

Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

There are many ways to incorporate journaling into your project- just make sure to include some. I forget the little details sometimes, so I love adding info to my pages. 

Share your journaling projects with us on the Noel Mignon Facebook page. 

Waiting

Hey all and happy Wednesday!!! This week the design team is focusing on the journaling on our pages. Now I will admit that I'm not a big journaler. Most times I stick to the facts, add a personal line or two, and that's it. This week I pushed myself to do a bit more journaling and I'm pretty happy with the result!

I used the Study Guide Daily Diary Kit to create my layout along with the papers from the Study Guide Classic Kit. For my journaling I grabbed some of the cards from the daily diary kit and tucked them under my patterned paper.

Summer Reading with the Study Guide Classic Kit

Hello everyone!  I am always amazed at how fast little ones learn to read.  At the end of kindergarten last year my little guy was reading.  I encouraged him through the summer to practice and did so by only allowing him the use of his kindle after doing his to do list for the day, which including reading.  It worked pretty well except he only wanted to read three books. 

At least he learned how to read those three books really well, right?  ;)


I started with #23 Pink Paislee pattern paper.  I love that it includes all the colors from the kit.  I then cut a piece of white cardstock and laid that on top.  I decided to choose a center weighted design and cut two more pieces of cardstock to fit the space above my picture.  Both patterns really help support my reading theme for the page.

Once in place I started on the title placing my chipboard stickers right above my picture and then chose to add the small Pink Paislee stickers to the chipboard flag.




I cut the "R is for Reading" from pattern paper and paired it with two shipping tags from my stash.
I layered these together and added a few stickers on top.  

The white space around my title seemed very empty and I filled it with a few of the star chipboard stickers from the Echo Park sticker sheet and a few of the Prima Sugardots.

I thought I was just about finished and felt like I needed a darker base.  I then took my trimmer and trimmed off both sides of my layout and backed the whole thing on a piece of Kraft cardstock.

This months kit works great for school themes, but also if you love reading, learning, or even want to record a few of those long ago childhood memories.

Thanks for stopping by the blog today!  Happy scrapping :)

My little dancer

Good morning!

I have another project to share with y'all today using the super cute, brand new Study Guide Classic Kit. This kit is such a fun mix of back to school and fall and a great combination of hues for layouts about boys OR girls. I love it.

Today I am sharing a layout about my third daughter. Lately she doesn't much like to have her picture taken. She's almost 10 and is very self conscious as a lot of kids are. This particular day, though, as she was excitedly waiting for time to go to her dance class, she let me take her picture, even asked for me to do it. Of course I took full advantage of the opportunity ♥

For this page I used a few strips of the Pink Paislee washi tape. I love that it is cut to 12" so that it's perfect for adding across a page like I did here. 

That cute paper with the words on it was begging me to cut it out for this page. I found some sayings that went well with what I wanted to say to my girl ♥ I loved that cute cloud clip, too. I used a few of the Fancy Pants clips but took the clip off of the back of the "dream big" and bird ones and just  used them as extra embellishments on my page. 

I love this star paper and can't help but cut them out to use as embellishments. 

Thanks for stopping by today!

first grade

My youngest daughter started first grade this year! It's getting harder and harder to watch my kids grow up since there's no more 'babies' after her, she's the last one! So I'm cherishing all of these last 'firsts' and the new Study Guide Daily Diary kit. I paired it with the Study Guide papers which can be found in the classic kit or purchased separately.

I absolutely adore that alpha ribbon & all of the Jillibean Soup stickers in the kit! This month's kit is packed with lots of embellishments for traditional and pocket pages. And those thickers...so cute!!!

Kindergarten with the Study Guide Classic Kit

It's that time of year when all the students are headed back to school.  This months kit is such a great mix of school themed and non school themed products.  I decided to document a few things about my littlest from last year when he was starting school as a kindergartener.

I started with the yellow cardstock and cut about an inch off two sides and used the black script pattern paper underneath.  I then started cutting strips of pattern paper to go on top.  I ended up three different patterns and lined up on top of the cardstock.

I cut a strip of pattern paper for the top of the block and placed ribbon underneath.  I then decided to use the Heidi Swapp stamp on to of one of the cardstock stickers and placed that on the upper left corner.

I then used the thickers to spell out my title and added the pictures and journaling block underneath.  I cut one of the library cards from pattern paper and added his teacher, school, and school year with the American Crafts marker before tucking it behind the picture.  

The final touches were some enamel dots, flair, and cork stickers.  

I hope you all had a fantastic holiday weekend.  Thanks for stopping by the blog today and be sure to share any of your projects on the Noel Mignon Facebook Page.  We would love to see what you have been creating.

Happy Scrapping!

Two layouts to share

Hello again!

It's great to be back with y'all today.

For my post today I have two layouts to share, one using the Weekend in Paris kit and papers from the Classic Kit and a layout using the brand new Study Guide Classic Kit.

It's been quite a week or so of crazy weather in Texas. This picture of my girls was taken when a beautiful rainstorm appeared after a bad thunderstorm. This storm was different than the hurricane that is affecting Texas and Louisiana, but I will get to that in a little bit.

I used a paper from the Classic kit for my base and then layered strips of paper and pocket cards for the main design of my page. 

The word stickers from the Weekend in Paris classic kit were perfect for my title. I love the script font as well as the size of these stickers. I used a few little star stickers that also came in the same sticker pack as the title words. 

This cute heart pocket card came in the Daily Diary kit. I'd cut out the gold glitter heart to use on a different project and decided to use the rest of it, backed with that cute black and white striped paper, on this page. I added bits of gold glitter tape from my scrap supply and added a tiny piece of pompom trim to the "on top of the world" card. 

I stayed up late last night to finish up a second project, this time using the brand new Study Guide Classic Kit. 

I live in Texas, and while I am not in the area impacted by Hurricane Harvey, we have family and friends in the area and much of our emotions and time have been focused on this horrible storm and its effects. While on vacation this past summer we visited or drove through many of the areas that have been hard hit by the storm. We vacationed in Corpus Christi (near Port Aransas) and drove through Rockport before heading to Houston to visit family there. 

I wanted to somehow document this week's event and the colors in the Study Guide kit worked well with this picture of my daughter doing a handstand pose in front of a Texas map on the side of a building we passed while on our vacation in east Texas this summer. 

I used the chipboard alphas from the kit but used a black Sharpie marker over the design to make them stand out over the top of my photo. I used the American Crafts Slick Writer pen for my journaling and it was bold and smooth- my favorite kind of pen for journaling. 

I cut these fun stars from patterned paper and added some gold stars from the Weekend in Paris kit. 

Also used on my page is this cute navy and gray tag, a tag from Jillibean Soup and a strip of washi from the kit. 

Thanks for stopping by today.