Ready*Aim*Soot | All Fall Classic Kit

Hey there!

Laura here sharing a layout today!   This week the DT members are creating projects using a recipe - 1 sheet of cardstock, 2 alphas, 3 photos, 4 patterned papers, and 5 embellishments.  As is typical for me, I over achieved a little on the embellishments!

I went with a pretty simple layout for my three photos, keeping them central to my page and linear, then adding layers behind them.

I had fun playing with embellishments and forgot to stop at 5!

I had cut a tag from patterned paper to incorporate that 4th pattern.  I love the way it looks layered in behind my photos.

I struggled coming up with a clever title for this layout and settled on this "to the point" title.

A small cluster at the bottom finishes off my layout.

I have another process video today, you can watch the video for this layout below or here on my You-Tube channel!

Supply List: (from the kit)  Simple Stories 'warm and cozy', Pebbles 'autumn day', Jen Hadfield 'sprigs' and Carta Bella 'family gathering' patterned papers; American Crafts Cardstock; Pretty Little Studios "Oakley Avenue" patterned vellum paper, acrylic shape, vellum tape, flair, stickers and alphas; Queen and Co. buttons; Jen Hadfield rub-ons; Simple Stories die cuts and chipboard; Echo Park chipboard; Maya Road wood buttons; Tim Holtz Distress marker. (from my stash) Mr. Huey's brown mist; Hemptique twine.

Thank you so much for visiting today!
Laura
xo

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!

A Recipe Challenge with the "All Fall" Classic Kit

Hello all!  Today I will be sharing another layout I made with the "All Fall" Classic Kit.  I'm happy to say, I got quite a few double page layouts out of this month's kit, and a couple of single pagers too!   

This week's Design Team's Challenge...it is a recipe challenge, and I think these types of challenges are so fun. The recipe we are following this week is: 

1 sheet of cardstock

2 alphas

3 photos

4 patterned papers

5 embellishments

Well, I kept finding things that I needed to add to my layout in this month's kit, so some of these things I used "at least" that many.  For example, I used more than one piece of cardstock.  

Here is the layout I created...

1 sheet of cardstock---check!  Well, actually 3 sheets.  Both the maroon and the yellow cardstock came from this month's kit, the cream cardstock was a scrap from a past kit that I punched with a border punch.

2 alphas---check!  The word "just" is from a set of Thickers from my stash, the word "us" came from the Pretty Little Studio Mini Alphas in this month's kit.

3 photos---check!  These photos were some maternity photos from last November, just 4 weeks before the baby was born.  I knew this would be my last pregnancy, so these pictures are really special to me.

4 patterned papers---check!  I just love the hounds tooth and wood chevron papers in this month's kit.  I added another woodgrain branding strip from the "All Fall" kit and a scrap of brown patterned paper from October's kit.

5 embellishments---check!  And then some... I started with a few rub ons, a wooden chip, a couple of brads, some enamel dots, a label sticker, a printed chipboard sticker, and finally a punched heart.

Here are a few close ups of my layout.

Thank you for stopping by today!  I can't wait to break into my December "Oh What Fun" Classic Kit.  Stop by all week to see the rest of our design team's recipe challenges.  Have a great week!!!

Autumn Traditions | All Fall Classic Kit

Hello there!

Laura here sharing a new layout today!  This week the DT members are creating projects about traditions. Our family doesn't have much in the way of Thanksgiving traditions, other than to enjoy a nice meal together.  So I opted to document one of our Fall traditions,  which is to find fun places to go for walks to absorb all of the colours of Autumn.

I had fun making this page, although parts of it got away form me (or my original vision) and other parts were a bit of a struggle.  But that is all part of the journey, right?

After layering up the three patterns that make up my background, I applied Gesso to my page to fade out some of the pattern and make it easier for me to add some paint and mist.

I laid down a base of teal water-colour paints using both a brush and the packaging technique. Once that was looking how I had hoped, I went in with some green, teal, and brick coloured mists and added some splatters to pull the colours from my photo.

Then I used the mask from the kit and gold texture paste from my stash to add  leaves onto my background.  I was going for a "blowing leaves" sort of look, although I am not quite sure I got there.

After my background was complete, I layered my photo onto patterned papers and worked on a main embellishment cluster.  I used a combination of die cut leaves and elements from the kit to adorn the right side of my photo.

My title combines chipboard and alphas stickers, just the way I like it!

I create another smaller cluster on the top left side of my page, I love the way this pulls the colours from the other cluster over here.

I an sharing another process video today, you can watch the video for this layout below or here on my You-Tube channel!

Supply List for the kit:  Simple Stories  Warm & Cozy patterned paper; Pebbles Woodland patterned paper; Jen Hadfield Sprigs patterned paper; Carta Bella Family Gathering and Fall Forest patterned papers; American craft cardstock; Jen Hadfield rub-ons; Pretty Little Studio Oakley Avenue alphas stickers, vellum sticker tape and flair; Maya Road wood buttons; Prima Felt Leaves; Tim Holtz Distress marker; Echo Park brads; Carta Bella Crisp Autumn stencil;. (from my stash:  Sargent Gesso; green and teal Mr. Huey's; Brick Glimmermist; Leow's water colour paints; Heidi Swapp gold texture paste and Color Shine).

Thanks so much for visiting today!

turkey tradition

Hey friends, Michelle here! I hope you all have survived Thanksgiving without too much adjustments to your waistlines!! haha I myself am enjoying this Friday without any crazy shoppers (only online shopping for me!) and *hopefully* a bit of Gilmore Girls later today when the house is quiet and I can enjoy it to the fullest!

We're doing layouts on traditions this week so I thought I'd do one about my daughter's Oreo turkeys that she makes every year for Thanksgiving. It has become her tradition to make them every year so I thought it'd be fun to do a layout about it!

I just *love* those green glittery thickers that came with the All Fall Classic kit!
 
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!!!

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!

{Thanksgiving Traditions} Challenge with the "All Fall" Classic Kit

Happy Thanksgiving week my Noel Mignon friends!!! This week the design team is sharing layouts about Thanksgiving family traditions.  There are still 3 more "All Fall" Classic Kits in the store, so if you need to document your Thanksgiving memories, check them out.  

I love the hexagon paper that came in this month's kit, so it was the star of my layout this week.  I started with that piece and pulled the other papers and embellishments based on the colors in my photos.

The tradition that I scrapbooked about began in our family in 2012.  The tradition is that we read the Elf on the Shelf and the elves show up on Thanksgiving Day.  This past year, I read the book not only to my kiddos, but to my nieces and nephews too.  

I used a blue alphabet sticker from my stash to spell "tradition" because it matched the blue in the paper so well.  The word "Thanksgiving" is fussy cut from the Carta Bella paper from this month's kit.  I embellished the title with a chipboard leaf and a couple of beautiful Echo Park brads.  

I cut a piece of the brown sheer ribbon from the "All Fall" kit in half lengthwise and tucked both sides under the layers of papers.  I really like the way it looks peeking out from under the layers.  I finished off the journaling block (which is some packaging from the Petty Little Studio stickers) with a couple of more simple embellishments.  The background paper is so busy, that I felt that I only needed a couple of embellishments on this page.   

I started the second side of the layout with a collage print and used the Simple Stories blue paper as a background.  The subtle pattern makes a perfect background paper, similar to cardstock, but with a little touch of pattern.  

I finished off this side of the layout by piecing together a few fussy cut hexagons and adding a branding strip with a floral pint down the right hand side.  The word "gathering" was also cut from the Carta Bella paper.  I paired that with another chipboard leaf and a couple of brads for a finishing touch.

Thank you for stopping by today to see what I created.  Come back all week to see what other Thanksgiving traditions the design team shares!

Family is Sometimes Furry | All Fall Classic Kit

Hello there!

It's Laura here sharing a layout with you!  This week the DT members are creating projects with a "family" theme.  I usually scrap about a year behind, so that I can work with photos that suit the current products I am given, unless of course something really speaks to me and today is one of those days.

I snapped this photo the other night, while my son and I were snuggled in watching Netflix in our PJ's.  Of course, if Timmy is stretched out somewhere our pup Max is usually at his side.  Well our baby, Ruby, is now deciding she does not want to be left out.  The pair of them cannot get close enough as they vie for his attention, so you can imagine how cozy is it for this 90 pound kid when he has two 70+ pound bulldogges on his lap!

When I saw that we were scrapping families this week, I knew I had to document about furry family members!

I also knew I really wanted to work the the green glittery alphas in the kit as well as the colour orange (because we have one orange dogge), so I pulled as many orange and green elements together as I could and got busy.

I fussy cut some hexagons from the Simple Stories "warm and cozy" patterned paper, they are so pretty and offer just the right amount of pattern for this page.

I used these pretty alpha stickers from Pretty Little Studios to create the second part of my title, I love the golden green colour of them!  I kept my embellishing pretty simple but still managed to create a visual triangle.  The distress marker in the kit was perfect for journalling as well as scribbling onto my date stamp to stamp the date of the photo.

I have another process video today, you can watch the video for this layout below or here on my You-Tube channel!

Supply List: Simple Stories Hello Fall chipboard and "Warm and Cozy" and "Autumn Delight" patterned papers; Jen Hadfield "Daisy Margarita" patterned paper; American Crafts "cricket" cardstock and "Eclair" Thickers; Pretty Little Studios "Oakley Avenue" golden ABC's and vellum sticker tape; May Arts leaf ribbon; Echo Park "I love family" brads; Tim Holtz "gathered twig" distress marker.  (from my stash; DMC floss; Doodlebug twine; "harvest orange" Glimmermist; Dear Lizzy date stamp.)

Thanks for visiting! 
Laura
xo

Autumn Family Fun

Hey guys, Michelle here! I have a traditional layout using the All Fall Classic Kit along with a pocket page using bits and pieces from the kit along with cards from the Falloween Daily Diary kit.

When I have a lot of photos I'll do one main page and then a supplemental pocket page. I may actually add another little pocket page in here because there's a couple more photos I wasn't able to fit in. But for now, this is good enough. "Good enough" is kind of my mantra when I just don't have the time to scrap every single photo. I do what I can and if I have time to go back and add to it someday I will. If not, it's okay! The story is recorded and that's the most important part!

The journaling card is from the Falloween Daily Diary kit, everything else is from the All Fall Classic Kit. There were tons of fall journaling cards in the Falloween kit so I used those in my pages.

For my pocket pages I again used the journaling cards from the Falloween Daily Dairy kit and supplemented with embellishments from the All Fall kit. 

And here's a look at how it comes together in my albums. I did the same thing with some Halloween photos - one traditional page along with a pocket page.

 So my pages from today are on the front side, then my Halloween pages when you turn the page. The pocket pages fit right in with my traditional pages!

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!