Mother's Day Plaque

Hello friends!! Mother's Day is coming up this weekend, and I like to try and always make a personalized gift for the wonderful mamaw's and grandma's that my kiddos have. I made sure and got some updated group photos of them together over Easter weekend, and knew that I was going to make a photo plaque that  can be  display either at home or at work.

I started out with two chipboard mini album pages, I adhere them together using some strong liquid adhesive, and I taped the seam along the back. Using the Heidi Swapp heart stencil and blush ColorShine that we received in our "Book of Love" kits back in February, and some modeling paste. I made a a soft, dimensional background, and base for my layers.

I chose to work mainly with the Chickaniddy Crafts papers that were included in the kit. I loved the colors that were in these papers, and thought that they worked perfect for the look I was hoping to achieve.

I wanted to keep this fairly simple, I cut my papers into pennants and layered them through the middle of my "plaque", then by cutting one of the kraft tags included in the kit, I was able to make another pennant shape that I layered under my photo layers, to make it have more presence on the  piece. 

I loved this paper clip, and knew I wanted to put it in this spot, but when I tried to actually "clip" it, I was losing more of the design that I wanted, so by using a strong adhesive, I layered right on top of my photo. I added one of those cute clear butterflies underneath to help it stand out even more, and add in more layers.

I wanted to have the embellishing a little heavier on the opposite side. Layering in stickers and labels, made for a great base. I removed the bow for one of the clothespins, and adhered it using foam adhesive.

Hoping that my mom loves this as much as I think she will. I know she will at least get a kick out of the photo. It was our best out of about 10...trying to get all those kiddos to cooperate wasn't working so well for us! ;)

Mother's Day Shadow Box

Hi everyone! I've got a fun Mother's Day gift I made for my mom using the gorgeous Carousel kit.  The colors are so soft, they went perfectly with an 8x8 beach layout that I made.  My mother has a beach house and my son LOVES to play there so I thought this layout would be a perfect gift for her.

To finish up the shadow box I added some sand and seashells that my son collected from that very same beach :) I hope she loves the gift, and Happy Mother's Day to all of you mom's out there!

Life is beautiful with pink sparkly glitter

Hello again! 

I hope you are all having a great week so far and that you got some time to do something creative over the weekend for National Scrapbook Day. 

Today's project is one that I created with our May kit, Carousel. 

One of the embellishments I was most excited about in this kit was the pink glitter from American Crafts. I knew it would add a little bit of extra spark to the paper that already said "Life is beautiful." 

All I did was squirt some craft glue in the outline of the words "life is beautiful" and then sprinkled the glitter right on top, shaking off the extra when I was done. After that I added a few hearts that I drew with the glue and then added a bit of a border at the bottom of the paper as well. 

I cut one of the vellum banner pieces and layered them for an accent at the top left of my page. 

The My Mind's Eye stickers are so fun! I added a bunch of them in a variety of colors on my page as well. They are great for journaling, titles, etc. 

Have you tried the glitter from the kit yet? 

We'd love to see what you do with it so make sure to share your projects in our Facebook group. 

Have a great day!

Mother's Day Preparations!

Happy Monday, my friends! I'm popping in quickly this morning to share with you a little freebie printable I made to use this week! Mother's Day is Sunday, May 11, and I have lots of crafting to do this week, between making a few cards, to making little crafts with my preschool class for their mamas! 

I whipped up this little painted printable for you to use: you can resize and print for cards or tags, or keep it larger and use it for a scrapbook page! Please make sure to share it with me on our facebook group- I'd love to see how you use it!

You can download it here: Mama Brush Words

I'll be back later showing how I am going to use it! 

Love you! with May flowers

Hi everyone! I'm get to finish up May flowers week with a layout I created using some non-traditional flowers. I layered several embellishments from the Carousel kit to create my "flowers".  Here's a look:

 At first glimpse you may not SEE the flowers, but up close can see them in more detail.

Here I created 2 layered non-traditional "flowers" to go along with the newsprint vellum flower from the kit.  To get the first layered flowered look I used a MME green flower sticker and 2 MME chipboard buttons. For the second layered "flower", if you can call it that, I hand-cut the pink hearts from the Glitz Carpe Diem paper and layered it underneath the wood veneer sentiment.  

The third layered flower is on the other side of the photo, and again I stacked a coral MME sticker with two MME buttons.

Thanks for letting me share! Hope you have a fantastic weekend!

May flowers

It's May!

Can you believe it?

This year is flying by way too quickly for me.

May is here and soon school will be over and Summer vacation will be in full-swing and then before we know it school will be back in session again. It seems like time keeps going by more and more quickly for me.

Our theme of the week is May flowers and the May kit, "Carousel," is perfect for this.

I decided to create a card for this week using some of the fun florals in the kit.

This peachy floral was one of my favorite papers in the kit and I thought it would look so pretty on a card. I actually ended up using both sides of the paper as well as part of the tear strip at the bottom of the page.

After adhering the patterned paper I added some of the cute Glitz washi tape and then cut one of the doilies in half. I adhered the doily, overlapping the two pieces and then trimmed off the extra. I added a Heidi Swapp banner piece on top of that, then some of those cute lace flowers and some twine. After that I chose a few of the sentiment stickers from the kit and it was done. It was pretty quick and easy. 

Here is a closer look at the layering: 

Thanks so much for stopping by the blog today. 

Have a good one! 

Make sure to share your projects with us on the Noel Mignon Facebook page. We'd love to see what you have created. 

♥♥

Running Through the Wildflowers

Hi friends, Cassie here! I'm continuing our "May Flowers" week after our "April Showers" themed week last week.  This time I've got a layout up using the gorgeous Carousel kit which I was so excited to play with!

I love the dreamy colors in this kit, and they worked beautifully for these photos of my son running through a field of wildflowers.  Don't be afraid to use pink on layouts with your little boys- just pair it with some fun bright colors and you're in good shape :)

There are so many great embellishments in this kit- I had a hard time not using them all at once! Below you can see I used the diamond stickers, enamel hearts, vellum flowers, sequins and washi tape on just this one section of the layout.