Two "Adventurous" Layouts using the {Let's Get Lost} Classic Kit

Hello Noel Mignon Friends!!!  This week the design team is working with the "Let's Get Lost" kits and creating "adventurous" layouts.  I am working with the Classic Kit. 

Today I'm sharing 2 layouts of pictures of my son back from 2011.  We were playing and fishing in the mountains.  I have quite a few layouts from this day, and I have so many pictures, so I didn't need to include jounaling on every single layout.  But I did want to try to fit as many pictures as possible on a few pages.  The "Let's Get Lost Kit" was perfect for these photos, this is what I came up with...

For this first layout, I used the Fancy Pants "Teal Dot" paper as the background.  I only used one more scrap of patterned paper on this layout, the chevron patterned paper by Pink Paislee.

I used a combination of an arrow stamp with blue ink,  a "+" stencil with watercolors, and some of the Heidi Swap "Ocean" Color Shine splattered on the Teal Dot background paper to create an interesting canvas.  I also used a little white acrylic paing under my title and the date to allow those to pop and not get lost in the background.  

I created my title with a combination of the glitter Thickers and a few stamps from my stash.  I added a few cork stickers to the title as well. 

I used one of the flair pieces and a cork sticker from this month's kit to embellish the 4x6 photo on the page. 

I used the canvas banner, a date stamp, another cork piece, and one of the glitter Thickers to embellish the bottom corner of my layout.  

The second "adventurous" layout that I made with the Let's Get Lost Kit is also packed with photos.  I used a "We R Memory Keepers" patterned paper as my background, and matted the entire layout on another "We R Memory Keepers" paper.

Again, I had so many photos, that I didn't need to use much more than a few scraps of the patterned papers from the kit.  I did pull the green gingham scraps from an older Noel Mignon kit. I matted all of the photos with the Kraft paper that came in this month's kit.

I used a glitter Thicker's phrase for my title "Let's Go!".

I fussy cut a few shapes from some various patterned papers in this month's kit to create embellishmnets.  I loved the Bingo card that came in the kit, so I made sure to use it here too!  My favorite part of this layout was when I realized our city "Tucson" was on the map paper!!!  It was very close to the edge but I HAD to stitch a little red heart around it.  It still looked a little bit lost, so I added some blue ink all around the heart to bring a little more attention to it.  I absolutely love this little area of the page! You can see the heart in the photo below.

Thank you so much for visiting today!  Check back on the blog all week to see other "adventurous" layouts by the rest of our creative design team.  We would love to see your work on Instagram #NoelMignon

Greece: Let's Get Lost Kit (April Classic)

Hi everyone!  Sarah here with my first layout using April's classic kit, Let's Get Lost.  Now, I'll be honest, the travel theme intimidated me a bit at first because our family hasn't been able to really take any vacations lately.  But then, I remembered I had a project that I started a couple of years ago where I'm documenting some of my childhood memories.  And some of them are travels!  

For this layout, I found a picture of Baby Sarah in the back holder that my mom was wearing while on a trip to Greece when my father was stationed overseas.  Here, I'm about 6 months old.  My parents always teased that I had been to Greece before...and I say that totally doesn't count!  But here is the photographic evidence.  

I love how the white washed brink from the We R Memory Keepers paper highlights the washed stone in the picture.  The "Snug as a Bug" puffy sticker was perfect for representing how I'm quite snug in that backpack.

The globe fabric was just perfect for this layout.  I cut a long strip to go across the bottom of my layers and help create a place for my title.

For some extra accents, I cut out some of the heart images on the Shimelle patterned paper and used them as embellishments.  I also used one of the large Prima flowers (totally out of my comfort zone).  I love how it fits in the corner of my photo.  And I finished it off with a little sprinkling of the Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Ocean Blue.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I can't wait to see what you make with your Let's Get Lost kits.  Do you have any older trip photos you can scrap?

Have a great weekend!

Let's Get Lost in the Woods

Good morning!

How much are you loving the projects from our new Let's Get Lost kit?

The April kits are all about travel and adventure and I love what the team has created so far.

Today I have a page to share with you using the Daily Diary kit:

Last fall we traveled a few miles away to the beautiful Ruidoso, New Mexico. It was rainy over night there and the air smelled delicious. There were tall trees surrounding our cabin and deer meadering nearby. It was relaxing and a much-needed break for all of us. Behind our cabin was nothing but hills and trees and one afternoon we spent some time back there just sitting and drawing and taking in the beauty around us. In the picture above  you can see my daughter sitting on the stump of a tree where she drew pictures of the trees and deer. It was so hard for us to leave when it was time to go. 

There are so many fun accents in the Let's Get Lost Daily Diary kit. I added a few enamel stickers above my journaling spot for some extra color and to draw attention to that part of the page. 

More little accents added to one of the 4x6 card. 

I liked the soft touch the paper flower added to this layout and the leather tags in the kit are so fun and add great texture to a project. A strip of washi tape at the bottom finished off my page. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Oregon Coast album // part 1

Hey all!! Today I have the beginnings of my Oregon Coast mini album. We took a trip over to Newport, Oregon last year and I've been wanting to do a mini album ever since. Last year I shared a few pocket pages from the trip (you can see those here). Those are in my family album but I wanted to have a separate album that has more photos & journaling from the trip.

6x8 albums are my go-to size for trip albums. They're manageable, don't take up as much room as a 12x12 album, and they're pretty easy to put together. For my album I'll be using a combination of the Let's Get Lost Classic Kit and Daily Diary kit.

When I'm putting together an album like this I first try to figure out the layout of my album. For this album I created 6x8 'dividers' for each day highlighting the main adventure we took that day (whale watching, visit to the aquarium, lighthouse). Then I'll share some of the other things we did, mostly toward the back of the album (like playing on the beach, collecting seashells, kite flying, etc).

Here are a few more my main pages that I've put together so far:

Now I can go back and use my pocket pages & journaling cards to add all of the extra photos for those days. Stay tuned for my Oregon Coast album // part 2!

Camping Trip using Let's Get Lost Daily Diary

Have you checked out the kits for this month?!  I was so excited as soon as I saw them that I chose to grab both the daily diary and classic and get some of my travel/camping photos scrapped. I will be sticking mostly to my daily dairy kit, but will more than likely intermingle a bit of the classic as the month goes on :)

This layout uses only the daily diary kit except the background cardstock which is from the classic kit.  This layout will serve as a title page of sorts since I plan to scrap the rest of our camping trip project life style. 

The pattern paper is a few of the 6x6 papers and a 4x6 card.  I decided to play with circles and used a compass to draw circles in pencil and then cut them out.  I layered them behind my photos and then added the last green circle to a few die cuts over the bottom of the larger photo.   

 I  finished off my layout by placing enamel dots and chipboard stars in a visual triangle around my layout.  The center of the paper flower was pretty bulky so I replaced it with another enamel dot. 

 Thanks for stopping by the blog.  Come back tomorrow for more inspiration using the Let's Get Lost kits. 

{This Boy Loves an Adventure} with the "Let's Get Lost" Classic Kit

Hello all!  It's Meridy here.  Today I'm sharing a double page layout using the "Let's Get Lost" Classic Kit.  This kit is one of my favorites!  I love the bold colors and the blues throughout the kit.  I believe there is still ONE more of these kits in the store as of this morning.  

I pulled out some photos from 2011 to use with this kit, and unlike most of my layouts, I only used one piece of patterned paper! But I also managed to fit 13 photos on this layout! 

I did use lots of scraps of cardstock from my scrap bin to build up the layers.  I choose the colors based on the colors of the paddle paper.  These colors were also in my photos, so it worked out great!

I actually fussy cut a couple of designs from another sheet of patterned paper.  The blue embellishments that read "so loving this" and "let's be adventurous" came from one of the WeRMemory Keepers papers from this month's kit.  I paired them with a few puffy stickers, some glitter foam stars, a touch of washi, and some cork stickers from the kit to create some embellishment clusters.  

The letter stickers I used are from my stash, I thought I needed the blue in there to make the title stand out against the busy background paper and photos.  

I finished off the layout by adding a few more embellishments from the kit to the strip of photos that runs across the bottom of the left side of the layout.  

Thanks for stopping by today!  I would love to see what you are creating with your Noel Mignon kit either on our Members Facebook Page or on Instagram #NoelMignon

See you later!!!

One last Delightful layout!

Even though I got the "Get Lost" Daily Diary kit this week, I couldn't go by without doing just ooooone more layout with the beautiful Delightful classic kit! I'd been saving this adorable bandana styled paper to do a girly layout with, so I loved layering up on it with watercolors and paper scraps. 

I honestly didn't mean to do quite so much of the black watercolors, but I made a big splotch on the bottom left by accident so I just rolled with it. To balance it out, I used several other black accents on the page, and contrasted it with the yellow embellishments.