Staying Warm with the Gingerbread and Peppermint Daily Diary kit

Happy after-Christmas! 

I hope that you had a merry time celebrating with friends and family. 

Today I have another project to share using the Gingerbread and Peppermint Daily Diary kit.  There is still another of this cute kit in the Noel Mignon shop as well as a few of this month's classic kit. 

For the title of my page I used one of the Tim Holtz holiday flash cards. I trimmed the words off of the card using some sharp scissors to get into the tight spots. I added a Crate Paper chipboard star to the end of the "y." 

I used the remainder of the Crate Paper "Hot Cocoa" patterned paper left over from another project to anchor my page. I tucked a little tag under the right side of my photo for a journaling spot and added lots of cute Crate Paper chipboard with foam adhesive on some to vary the height of the elements on my layout.  

I used a strip of green washi tape along the bottom of my photo to draw attention to it. 

The gold washi and twine are from my craft supply. 

I finished off the page with lots of Crate Paper word stickers tucked here and there on the page.

It's hard to believe that we are almost at the end of another year. 

I wish you the very best as we finish out 2017 and begin a new year. 

Baby it's cold outside

One of my favorite parts of the Gingerbread and Peppermint Daily Diary kit is the Crate Paper "Snow and Cocoa" collection chipboard shapes.

We are supposed to get some snow in west Texas this weekend and we are hoping so badly that the forecast comes true!

I decided to create a project around the Snow and Cocoa chipboard for this week:

I used part of the Crate Paper Snow and Cocoa blue gingham patterned paper on the top of the page, then added my photos and tucked in lots of the Crate chipboard shapes here and there all over my layout.

I used some twine to help create motion on my page, tucking one end under the "let it snow" chipboard and the other under the photo on the left side of the page. 

I used the gold chipboard frame from the Crate Paper chipboard but cut it in half so that I could tuck part under each of my photos. 

I added a cute Pink Paislee black and white striped fabric bow to the chipboard polar bear and added some enamel dots from my craft supply to the centers of the snowflakes. 

I finished off the page with lots of Crate Paper phrase stickers.

Oh, and I also added the little holes in the alphas on the "BRRRR" chipboard.

A strip of plaid washi tape added just the right touch to the bottom of the layout.

Can you believe that Christmas is almost here? 

We are counting down the days!

Happy holidays to you and your loved ones. 

{Snowflakes} Layout with the "Gingerbread & Peppermint" Kits

Hello friends!  It's Meridy here, I have another layout to share with you using the "Gingerbread & Peppermint" Daily Diary and paper add on kits.  I really love the Crate Paper chipboard and papers that were in the kits this month.  The colors are such a fresh change from the typical reds and greens of holiday lines.

I started with 3 3"x4" photos and this great background patterned paper.  I trimmed a few inches off of the top of the paper, and added a little subtle pink patterned paper on the top portion of this layout, to tone it down just a little and allow the photos to stand out.

Next, I pulled out the chipboard from the kit and started picking out my favorite pieces and placing them around the photos.  I overlapped them so they would look a little more coherent and well thought out.  

I created a journaling block with one of the chipboard frames and a scrap of white paper.

After I placed all of the chipboard embellishments, I still felt like the layout needed a little more texture.  So I pulled out some gold thread from my stash, and went to work hand stitching a few details on the layout.  I started with this "zig zag" stitch where the 2 patterned papers meet.

I used the patterned paper as a guide for the stitching on the bottom of the page.  I picked 2 areas to highlight, punched holes with a pushpin to mark where I wanted to stitch, and then sewed the gold thread on by hand.

And that wraps up my layout today!!!  Thank you for stopping by today!

{BRR, it's Cold} Layout with the "Gingerbread & Peppermint" Kits

Hello friends, it's Meridy here with you, sharing a layout I made this weekend with the "Gingerbread & Peppermint" Daily Diary and Paper Add-On kits.  There are still a couple of these beautiful kits in the store, they are great for documenting winter and Christmas.  Today, I used some of the supplies from the kit that are not typically "classic" Christmas colors.  The colors worked great with my photos though.  

I started with the black and white background paper, and knew I wanted to add a little water color to the design to brighten it up a bit.  First, I laid out the photos and a few of the paper embellishments to get my approximate placement.  Then I removed those items and started painting the background.  The faster I painted, the better it turned out.  So I tried not to overthink my brushstrokes or color blending. 

Next, I decided that I wanted to paint the "BRR" and "Cold" wood veneers white, so they would pop against the background of the layout.  I used white acrylic paint.

Then I adhered all of the photos and paper layers that I had so far.  It looked a little bare in places, so I dressed everything up with some of the adhesive chipboard from the kit.  

Last, I sketched a double line around each piece of paper and added my journaling.  I left a small bit of white cardstock empty, just to journal in.  I try to plan my journaling as I am creating the layout, so it fits in and looks like it belongs on the layout.

And that wraps up my layout for today!  Thank you so much for stopping by.

Sweet Charlotte Classic Kit: Happiness

Happy Wednesday, friends! It's Jana Eubank, back with another layout using the completely lovely Sweet Charlotte Classic Kit (pick one up for yourself HERE).

This week the design team's theme is "Stamping Through the Snow" and we are focusing on ways to use the stamps and mist that was included in January's kit.

I selected a few photos of my daughter playing in the snow for my page today and as I was holding the photos up to the papers in the kit this ombre woodgrain was calling my name! I love the way the pink wash fades into the woodgrain. It has such an etereal feel and complimented the pink in my daughter's snow suit perfectly!

The first thing I decided to do was to create some large washi tape snowflakes on the background of my page to surround my photos. For the medium and small snowflakes, I simply cut the washi tape in half length-wise. I left the edges sticking up slightly so that they would have more of a dimensional look to them. I then sprinkled the Heidi Swapp mist and a few sequins around them for an icy feeling! I love it!

I didn't want to detract from the awesome ombre happening in the background, so I decided to keep my embellishments simple and tone-on-tone. I used the brown cork letters for the title on the top half of the page where the background was woodgrain ... and then on the bottom of the page I used the pink Heidi Swapp "favorite" word where the background was pink! Brown-on-brown, and pink-on-pink! Kind of a fun thing to try out!

The lighter pink on the kraft tag and the neutral wood veneer and kraft colored die cut pick up the mid-tones in the middle of the page.

Finally, I decided that my page still needed "something."  I pulled out the stamps and decided to use the dashed line as "stitched" accents throughout the page. I'm sure it is meant to add journaling lines to the typewriter stamp, but I thought it looked like stitching. I stamped a few clusters at the bottom of the page, to the left of the journal spot, and then again to the right of the title. It was the perfect finishing touch, and I really love how this page came together!

How are you incorporating the stamps and mist into your projects this month? We would love to see! Come share them with us on the Noel Mignon Facebook page, or leave us a link in the comments of this post.

Happy Winter!

P.S. Don't forget! Tonight is the February Kit Reveal Night on Noel's Kit Reveal Party Facebook Page!!! I can't wait to see all the goodies we will get to play with next month. Hope to see you there!

Winter Blues---in the desert???

It's kind of hard to have "winter blues" when you live in the desert.  We don't see much, if any, snow.  Nor do we really see many changing seasons throughout the year...it's typically mild weather in the winter months then really hot...for months and months and months...and then mild weather in the winter again...until spring and it's hot all over again.  So what do you do when you live in the desert and it's 70 degrees on New Year's Eve day???  Why, you go ice skating, of course!!!

I used the "Sweet Charlotte" Classic Kit to create this layout about my daughter's first time ice skating...

The colors and triangles in the Maggie Holmes "Shine" paper matched the colors in my photographs pretty well, so I knew right away I wanted to use this paper with these photos.

The wood veneer originally said "Best Day Ever", but I decided to cut away the "Ever" part and use the "Best Day" as part of my title which reads "Best Day with my Little Girl".

And here are a few more details from my layout, using the Maggie Holmes stickers, the doily, the chipboard embellishments, and the Heidi Swapp mist...

Thank you for visiting me today.  Please share some of your "winter" layouts with us on the Noel Mignon Members Facebook page.  I would love to see your work!!!