Fall Banner with the Apple Crisp Daily Diary Kit

Fall y'all!  I love, love, love fall.  This year I am a little sad since I am usually crazy decorating our house for the upcoming holidays and this year my living room is full of boxes.  To make myself a little happier as moving day is quickly coming I bought a few little pumpkins and whipped up this little fall banner with the Apple Crisp Daily Diary Kit.

I used foam adhesive to place the large die cut letters on the Becky Higgins Project Life cards.  To add a little more color I added some teal ink around the edges of the cards.

I then cut tabs from the Echo Park pattern paper and stapled them to the top of each card.  

I strung them on the yellow Maya Road twine and hung it off the pumpkin stems since I have already taken down on the hooks from my mantle.  I am so happy with this cute little banner and the decorator inside of me is incredible happy to have a little color added to my mantle for the last time.  

And for a real life look here is a snap of my current mess.  ;)  

Crafting can be such a nice break!  Hope you are all enjoying a little craftiness in your own neck of the woods.  Thanks for stopping by the blog today.  

{Family 2016} layout with the "Apple Crisp" Classic Kit

Hello friends!  It's Meridy here with you today.  I have a layout to share with you this week featuring some mixed media and the "Apple Crisp" Classic Kit.  This layout is featuring photos of our Thanksgiving dinner in 2016.

For this layout, I started with the BEAUTIFUL Prima papers from the Autumn Moon line.  They are just gorgeous! 

 The left side of my layout features my 2 favorite pictures from Thanksgiving dinner.  I really enjoyed layering up different textures and media for this side of the layout.  I started with the dimensional leaves in the kit, then added some of the twine.  Next I stamped a few images directly onto the layout.  

I also splattered some of the beautiful stain that came in this month's kit across the corners of the page, right over my embellishment clusters.  

The right hand side of my layout features an 8x10 collage.  I find this is a great way to add multiple photos to a layout without making it feel cluttered.

I finished off this page with a strip of glitter washi and a cute cluster of embellishments from the great selection in this month's kit.  I love that everything in my Noel Mignon kits work so well together.  I used some crystal dots, paper leaves, a paper bow, some printed die cuts, and a few puffy stickers.

And that wraps up my layout this week, with a touch of mixes media.  Thanks for stopping by!!!

St Bernard Farms: October Apple Crisp Classic Kit

Hi everyone!  Sarah here with my first layout using the Apple Crisp classic kit.  It's fall just the best time of year?  We took the girls to a local farm to celebrate the start of the season.

 

This kit was just so perfect for this picture.  I used a combination of the Prima paper with the beautiful pumpkins printed on it and the Echo Park pumpkin print paper.  Using the orange ribbon I created a good border between the two papers.

Using a mix of the Thickers and Jillibean Soup I created the title, which is the name of the farm.  I used a pumpkin print die cut and a large paper bow to add to the title piece.

I fussy cut some of the floral prints from a Jillibean Soup paper.  There was a sticker on the Jillibean Soup that says "I Love You a Bushel & a Peck" which was so cute!  And there are some blue elements in the pumpkin print paper.  And since they're sitting among pumpkins, I thought it was so cute!

For the cut apart element, I used a craft knife to cut around the raccoon's tail and the top of the banner so I could tuck the gingham paper under it.  The prima crystals helped to finish off the layout perfectly.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope this month's kit will help you ring in the fall season!

Feeling like fall

Happy October!

It has cooled off substantially here and I am loving it!

I took my kids to a local corn maze and pumpkin patch yesterday and it was the perfect temperature, a little overcast and such a great way to start off this fall season.

I talked my kids into letting me take some pictures of them and used one of my two youngest girls for this page using the Apple Crisp Daily Diary kit. I also mixed in some papers from the Apple Crisp Classic kit. 

The foundation of my page was this jade-colored patterned paper and strips of other patterned papers as well as the 6x6 paper from the Daily Diary kit. I cut some strips from the Jillibean Soup Bite- Sized Bits paper and layered those under my photo. 

I the yellow twine from the DD kit around my photo a few times and tied it in a bow. I added some of the cute paper flowers as well. I actually took apart the layers of the smaller flower and used the second piece at the opposite corner of my photo. 

These Jillibean Soup alphas are one of my favorite parts of the kit. I used a mix of colors and then used my American Crafts Slick Writer pen to write on top of the letters to add a bit of contrast to help the letters to stand out more. 

I finished off the page with some of the fun Tim Holtz phrase stickers. 

Have a fantastic day!

spooky spider

Hey all and Happy October!! I absolutely love fall and everything that goes with it. I had planned on playing with the new Apple Crisp Classic Kit this week...which is amazing by the way!!! Then my daughter came home with this little artwork and I just had to pull out the Limited Edition Frightful Kit (only ONE left!). I don't keep all of my kids' artwork but I do like to create a layout everyone once in a while of my favorites. This cute little spider just had to go on a scrapbook page!

So I scanned her drawing since it was just on a piece of regular white paper, resized it and printed on cardstock. Then I played around with some of the patterned paper & fun embellishments in the kit. That black glitter washi is a favorite of mine for sure!

Red Maple Trees with the Apple Crisp Daily Diary

Fall is here and it so happens that it is my very favorite season.  Here in Utah we get a beautiful change in the leaves and the slight nip in the air as the weather begins to cool down.  This months kit is perfect for documenting this season.  I decided to make a full page spread with the Apple Crisp Daily Diary kit and document my love of the red maple and the glorious color it turns in the fall.

I started with the Jillibean Soup pattern paper for my background. I used the large die cut letters for my main title and then added the 3x4 cards around it.  I chose to use two of them for embellishing, one for journaling, and one for my picture.

I then took the 6x6 Echo Park pattern papers and added a few strips among the 3x4 cards and added more across the top.

Noel combined some of my favorite embellishments this month:  letter stickers, enamel dots, and cork stickers.  I picked from the Tim Holtz word phrases and paired them with the heart cork and a couple of enamel dots.

Once I had placed everything down I went back and outlined the title letters with the AC Marker from last months kit and a few staples along the top.  Another very simple page put entirely together using the kit and a few must haves that are in my moving scrapbook tool kit.  At this rate I might need to get rid of all my stash and go back to all the basics . . . nah, that is probably too extreme, but it's nice to know that all I need is a few tools and Noel's kits and I am set.  :)

Happy Scrapping!

{Picking the Perfect Pumpkin} made with the "Apple Crisp" Classic Kit

Happy October!!!  It's Meridy here today and I just love this time of year.  Today I'm using the "Apple Crisp" Classic Kit to create a double page layout about my daughter at the pumpkin patch last year.

 

The colors in this kit are so beautiful!  I started with the plaid paper from the kit and added an extra plaid grid with the thin bronze glitter washi tape in the kit.  That is what I used to base this layout around. 

I couldn't wait to fussy cut the beautiful floral paper and use the floral clusters as embellishments on a layout, and this was the perfect "girly" layout to do that on.

I used the dark grey alphas from the sticker sheet in the kit to create my "Picking the Perfect Pumpkin" title on the layout. I paired the title with a couple die cuts, a leaf, and the acrylic word "lovely" from the kit.  

I mimicked the elements from the right hand side of the layout on the left hand side to keep it consistent and coherent. 

I, once again, fussy cut some floral clusters, added a few stickers, and a leaf from the kit to create an embellishment on the lower right hand side. 

To round out the layout, I splattered some gold mist that I have from an older Noel Mignon kit.  

And that completes my layout for this week.  Thank you for stopping by!!! Happy October!!!