Happy Days: Life

Happy Summer, everyone! Jana Eubank here. This week for the "Picture Perfect" challenge, I pulled out some photos of my daughter posing with the cast of her 6th grade school play. It was the perfect subject to use with camera and film icons, since these kids are starring in their first school production and possibly dreaming of their future careers on the big screen. Ha!

LIFE: HOW SWEET IT IS

Using my Silhouette Cameo, I cut out a filmstrip background to place behind my photos.

Next, I had fun grouping together all kinds of bits and bobs from the kit. The stars, because these kids were the "stars" of the show ... and sequins for bling!

The lower right corner is sprinkled with all kinds of chipboard pieces from the Simple Stories Life In Colors collection. I love the random look! The hearts and sequins tie everything together.

How can you add a camera, film, or instagram icon on your next project? Will it inspire you to pull out a set of photos you've been meaning to scrap, like me? We can't wait to see what you make!

Smile! It's Picture Perfect with the "Happy Days" Classic Kit

Hello Lynn here with my first layout using this month's "Happy Days" Classic Kit. There are still some of these gorgeous kits left so grab one quick - it's loaded with product perfect for your photos!! Our challenge this week is "Picture Perfect". We are using a camera, film or instagram motif somewhere on our page. Luckily this is quite easy with this month's kit - lots of options!!

Here's my page. My Mom's neighbor took these photos last week of my Mom and Dad enjoying the outdoors which is difficult for my Dad with his limitations - so this layout means alot to me!!

I used papers from Simple Stories "Life in Color" for this page. I recently made three cards from this collection as well so I was excited to see the full sized papers and embellies from this collection. 

I knew when I saw the paper with the camera and quote exactly what I wanted to create. Here's some close ups.

I clustered chipboard, enamel dots and stickers around the photos.

I added some word phrases on the camera as a final touch! 

Thanks for stopping by today and I hope you have a great week. I'll be back next week with another layout using this month's kit!! 

"Happy Days" Classic Kit

Happy Monday!  It's Meridy again, I'm here to share a layout I made with the "Happy Days" Classic Kit. This week the design team is using camera motifs to make 'picture perfect' layouts.  I am passionate about photography, therefore I LOVE all things camera.  The "Happy Days" classic kit has quite a few camera embellishments, so it was perfect for me!

 I started this week's layout by double matting my pink background paper.  I tried to really pull all of the colors from the bright Amy Tangerine patterned paper and get ALL of those colors in my layout. I used the Tim Holtz Distress Ink that came in the kit to ink the edges of all of the various layers.

The first camera I used on this layout is a stamped image that I fussy cut and colored with marker.  I decided to mask half of the wood veneer hearts with washi tape, and paint the exposed side with acrylic paint.  It was a very simple touch and I got to use some of the acrylic paints that I have in my stash.  I also added a few splatters of Heidi Swapp Color Shine from a past kit.

For my next camera embellishment, I used one of the tags that came in this month's kit.  I surrounded it with another painted wooden heart, an Amy Tangerine rubber heart, some self adhesive sequins, and one of the Amy Tangerine rub-ons.  

This wraps up my layout this week.  If you would like to share some of your layouts using your Noel Mignon kits, hop on over to our Facebook page, I would love to see your creations.  Have a great week!

Shaping things up with the Happy Days Classic Kit

Hello!

It's Becky here with you today and I am really excited to share a new page with you that I created with the brand new Happy Days Classic kit. I believe we still have some of these kits left so if you like what you see head on over to the store and get one before they sell out!

When I saw this kit my eye was immediately drawn to the beautiful blue and white striped pattered paper. Yes, this is June, but I knew I would probably use it for a patriotic layout. Instead of making it a patriotic-themed page, though, I created an everyday page with the good ol' red, white and blue to go with my pictures from a past 9/11 flag display in my town. 

I started by cutting the middle of the blue/white paper out leaving about a 1 1/2 inch border all the way around. I then mounted that frame on white cardstock and added droplets of spray mist. 

There was some packing paper in the box with my kit, as I am sure you all received as well. I tore a piece of one sheet of this paper, crumpled it up and glued it to my page, then mounted the pictures with foam adhesive. I wrapped the photos with red and white twine from my craft supply and then cut some stars from patterned paper with a small star-shaped punch. I tucked the stars under the photos and placed a few others around the page. 

I added some bits of chipboard, a wooden heart, some adhesive sequins and some rub-ons as embellishments to finish off the layout. 

Have a wonderful weekend and come back to see us next week for a new challenge. 

♥♥

Arlo

Hey all, Michelle here. I'm sharing a layout today about our new dog. We stopped in Petsmart last week...and that was our first mistake! You see, we already have 2 dogs. Two big dogs - a lab and a golden. So we really didn't need another dog. And my husband was out of town on the other side of the world. In other words, I had no one at home that was going to give me the stink eye when I came home with another furry creature ;) And the kids said 'let's go look at the dogs'. Oh yeah, big mistake! This little guy just looked at us so sweetly and it was all over. 

I gotta say, I'm not a little dog person. I mean, they're sweet and all. But I've always been a big dog gal at heart. I love their big faces that you can squish in your hands. But this little guy, he had to some home with us. So we named him Arlo. And if you're a Disney fan, yes we got the name from The Good Dinosaur :) My oldest actually came up with it and it just fit.

So this is Arlo. And we now have 3 dogs in the house. Let the games begin!

I used papers from the Pure Bliss Classic kit and added to my page with elements from previous kits, mostly the Sweet Charlotte Classic kit. I used a 2" circle punch to cut out the circles from the Pink Paislee paper.

And that chipboard dog sticker...that was the perfect finish! 

Documenting Wk 20 with Happy Days AND a Design Team Call!

Good morning everyone! Danielle here to share with you week 20 from my project life! Also scroll down to the bottom of this post for some BIG NEWS FROM NOEL MIGNON 

here is the process video

 Here is the brand new Happy Days Daily Diary Kit from Noel Mignon. Look at how full this kit is!!

Our challenge this week on the design team was to use a repeating shape throughout our project. I chose circles/polka dots.

 I love the vellum tags with gold from Jillibean Soup that Noel included. 

 as usual, I added some stitching to give an element of texture to the cards. I also love the yellow flowers that came in the kit, and how they add a nice pop of colour.

Here are some close ups

 I used my Hero Arts Soft Cantaloupe ink, and the eraser from my pencil to mark off the days on the May calendar.

Now for some BIG NEWS!!!!

Noel is having a Design Team call!!!

Get your projects together and email them to Noel@Noelmignon.com

Pure Bliss: Just Plain Fishy

Jana Eubank here! I can't believe it's the last week of May?!! Where has this school year gone?! I don't know about you, but the Pure Bliss kit has been getting me excited for the fun colors, sites and sounds of Summer. Today I have a final page to share with you using this fun kit!

JUST PLAIN FISHY

Our design team challenge this week is to "Shape Up for Summer" ... where we were to pick a shape and repeat it on our project.

I have been making an effort lately to go back through older photos and fill in the gaps that are remaining in my albums. These fun fish pictures of my son come from a trip we took back in 2012. I thought the circle would be a PERFECT shape to repeat on this page because it reminds me of fish bubbles and water bubbles! Here is what I came up with.

I punched several circles from the Pink Paislee circle paper ... it was so much fun to have all kinds of patterns at my fingertips on just one sheet of paper! It made it really easy to pick and choose which ones I wanted to work with. Here, I focused on the patterns of blue, green, yellow, and gray.

I added a couple of Pink Paislee buttons to the top 2 circles for a bit more interest.

My title was created with stickers I pulled from my stash. I used the gold foil My Mind's Eye stickers to mimic bubbles and give the title a bit more pizazz!

The tags tucked in around the layout come from a package of My Mind's Eye On Trend 2 die cuts. I tied them with white twine to add brightness and texture. My journaling is printed on white cardstock to go with the white I used elsewhere on the page.

This wood circle was the same exact size of the punched circles I used on the background. It was a great way to bring the circle shape over to the left side of my layout.

Are you feeling stuck in your scrapping this week? Why not try repeating a shape on your next project and you, too, can get in "shape" for summer! (Now THAT'S my kind of workout! Ha!)

See you next time!