finishing up flower week

Hello again!

We hope that you have been enjoying our flower projects this week.

Today it is my turn to share a project.

This layout features the Heart of Gold Classic kit. I will admit here that I am typically not a very flowery person and I struggle to use flowers on pages without them looking too gaudy. I did, however, these little monochromatic jeweled flowers in the February kit, and because of their small size they didn't feel too overwhelming on my layout.

I used a variety of papers on this page, some florals to go with the week's challenge and others to ground the page and give more variety. I tucked a chipboard frame under the corner of one of the pictures, tucked a bow under the edge of the flowers and added a few gold enamel stars around the page. The gold strip across the page is the pretty satin ribbon from this month's kit. 

I also used quite a few strips of washi tape from the Pink Paislee Memorandum washi booklet. 

Do you enjoy using flowers on your projects?

We would love to see what you do with them!

Feel free to take a look back through this week's post by our design team for some ideas on how to use the flowers in your scrappy stash and share your projects with us in our Noel Mignon Facebook community.

Have a great weekend!

♥♥

My Fellas & How She Rolls

Have you checked out the newest challenge yet? This is my take on it!

I not only used the color scheme as my inspiration, but also the layout of the colorboard. I loosely interpreted it into a "sketch" for my page.

The Seaside Cottage kit (2 left!) isn't just for girls! Add a pop of dark black edges to your papers, tear some of the sides, add some distressing, make sure to use strong lines, and shabby chic + dudes can work for you!

This week, while I was playing with the kit, I decided to scraplift this beautiful layout from message board member, Ronda.
Here's my take on it (using the Seaside Cottage kit, plus some letter stickers and pearls/rhinestones from my stash):
The background is made with a piece of red cardstock and the pretty distress crackle paint in the kit. I love this look!

A pocket and a notebook

I saw this great tutorial for this lovely little "diaper fold origami pocket" on someone's blog, and I immediately wanted to try it! They were using it to house party favors, but I knew I had a little mini album that would fit perfectly in one.

I made the actual pocket in about 1 minute. It is super fast & easy to make- you don't even need adhesive!
I made it with supplies from the Nightingale kit (there are still a couple of these left if you're interested in one!), plus I added one of these Prima flowers (they are my FAVORITE right now!), and some seam binding & ribbon from my stash.
How great would these be for all sorts of things?! An envelope for a card, a treat container for a friend, even a pocket on a layout for some hidden journaling or extra photos!


The other thing I have to share with you is a notebook I made from the Penny Arcade kit. If you have the Penny Arcade kit, it goes perfectly with the Nightingale kit!The idea for this came as partial inspiration from one of my favorite home decorating blogs, The Nesting Place. There are often times I will be doing something around the house and think, "I need to grab a new lamp for over there," or "Man, I need some new dishtowels!" This is going to be my place to jot down all those ideas.

I used binding rings from an old notebook of mine that I was about to toss out. I clipped them to 5 rings each and punched holes in my cardstock & covers with my Crop-A-Dile. I love doing little projects like this!

The cover is made with cardstock & patterned paper from the Penny Arcade kit, and then layered with some Hambly from the Nightingale kit to add durability. I want to be able to toss this in my purse any time I'm out shopping and need to reference what items I need for my home!
I die cut (with the AccuCut) some of the grungeboard to make the little house, then painted it with acrylic paint. Some sanded Thickers and a pearl make the perfect trim for the house!Inside, each room of our house has a section, divided by stamped cardstock with little half circle tabs I punched and attached.

Nick's Album

These are the first layouts from my new album I am making. This is my Nick album. I am taking all of my favorite photos and creating an album for each boy. Products used are the Crate Paper kit "Cowboy Collection", foof a la buttons, happy hammer brads, Heidi Swapp florals, Ranger distress ink in "vintage photo", crate words "descriptions", and Heidi swapp rub on's.