Line It Up: Selfie Stick

Hi, Noel Mignon Fans! Jana Eubank here. This week's design challenge was a really fun one for me! For the "Line It Up" challenge, we were to use journaling lines of some kind, either hand-drawn, stitched, or whatever! I love sewing on my layouts and decided that I would add stitched journaling lines to this next page.

SELFIE STICK

I created this page using the April "Trailblazer" Classic Kit. I was drawn to the October Afternoon "Moaning Cavern" paper with the multi-colored diagonal lines.  I cut the Ecru cardstock down and adhered it on top to use as the base of my layout.

My daughter wanted a selfie stick for her last birthday, so of course we had a gazillion crazy pictures trying the thing out! Ha! I printed them in two strips and anchored them together using the Shimelle Starshine "Kepler" paper placed on a band of layered patterned paper, washi tape and ribbon the navy ribbon from the kit. I added some kraft twine (from my stash) around the photo strips for a bit more texture.

I cut the title out on my Silhouette Cameo machine using a cut file by Echo Park Paper that I found in the Silhouette Design Store. I cut it out twice and offset the two pieces so that the title appears to have a shadow. The phrases on the rolling stamp went perfectly with our silly photos and I had fun adding several of them around the title.

I used my sewing machine and navy thread to add journaling lines to my page. The texture is awesome! This is definitely something I want to do again!

Below the journaling I created a cluster of fun elements. I love the bright yellow tulle flowers included with this month's kit! To help them stand out a bit more from the busy layered papers below, I added a couple of flower shapes (cut from the Goldenrod cardstock on my Cameo) below each of them. Leaves cut from some green scrap paper from my stash finish them off. 

I then hand-cut a few of the cameras from the Shimelle Starshine "Pathfinder" paper and clustered them together below the flowers. A super-cute blue Maya Road bird sits on top of it all enjoying the view!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look at my project today! I hope you are having a great week!

Dot-To-Dot Challenge: With His Own Two Hands

This week the design team is tackling a challenge called "Dot-to-Dot" where we are to use circles on our page somehow. Here is what I came up with using this month's Trailblazer Classic Kit and a few items from my stash.

WITH HIS OWN TWO HANDS

Last year, my son had the time of his life on a back-country hike with his scout troop. He had purchased a fishing license for the year and was excited to "live off the land" and catch his dinner from the stream. However, the fish must not have been used to having people around because they ended up being easier to catch by hand. My son would just reach down into the stream and grab them! He had a blast and I was thankful when one of his leaders sent me this photo to remember the weekend.

I used a base of kraft cardstock pulled from my stash, building the kit's papers up in a block design. The top half was to hold my photo, title and journaling and then the bottom was saved for embellishing.

For the circular elements for the challenge,  I used the wood dots from the Trailblazer kit and an older Jenni Bowlin journal paper that I had floating around my stash. The brown letters are old Heidi Swapp chipboard letters. I paired them with the October Afternoon letters from the kit to create my title. Below the title I wrote the journaling and added a couple of the Pretty Little Studio cut outs from the kit. I used a few of the wood dots to continue the "fish bubbles" from the bottom of the page.

On the bottom half of the page, I layered together several strips of patterned paper and washi tape from the kit. I cut them into pennant shapes and added enamel brads to the tops of a few of them. 

To the right of the pennants, I created a block with die cut fish (using my Silhouette Cameo machine). I brought in a scrap of teal paper from my stash to bring the aqua color of the woodgrain tape over to this side of the page. My favorite part? ... adding the wood dot "bubbles" to each of the fish! So cute!

I love using circle elements on a page! It's a great way to break up the blockiness of rectangle photos and layers. So if you are feeling "stuck" on your next project ... try adding a circle or two!

Cutting it out with the Trailblazer Daily Diary kit

Hello once again!

The weeks are flying by so quickly, aren't they?

Before we know it summer time will be here!

I hope you're enjoying the great projects shared by our team this week.

For my "Cut it out" feature I have created the following layout with the Trailblazer Daily Diary Kit.

Noel surprised me with the Daily Diary kit this month and I set forth to do the kit justice, but in a different way than you are used to seeing the Daily Diary kit used. Instead of creating pocket pages I will be using the cards and other product on traditional pages and other projects. 

So, if you get only the Daily Diary kit, you can still create traditional scrapbook pages with it if you'd like!

I actually really like using the pocket card for quick layouts. 

There are so many fun embellishments in this kit and I used quite a few of them on this page. The flowers gave the brown/blue/orange color palette a more feminine feel. 

To go with the "cut it out" challenge for this week I used a circle punch on this pocket card and added the heart and enamel dot detailing. It is simple but adds a fun detail to my page. 

As always, there is a variety of alphabet stickers in this kit. I used a mixture of those as well as lots of hearts to convey the love felt by my daughter for her sweet grandparents. We treasure the memories we have with those we love so much. 

I hope you have a great weekend. 

Thanks, as always, for stopping by the Noel Mignon blog today. 

Stay tuned next week for our new challenge.