Looking for some inspiration on ways to use your November Main Kit? Look no further. The amazing Grace has done it again … lots of fabulous layouts to give you ideas on how to get started!
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1. Dentist time
I used the Jillibean Kraft paper as my background and layered some pattern papers over it. I love the Crate Paper border stickers and used up everything in the sheet in my projects this month. For this page, I also added the MME die cut journaling block and centered it along with my title. Since the kit was heavily themed for Fall layouts and I just so happen to NOT have any Fall layouts with me, I had to improvise a little to make the most of the products. I did this to show that you don’t have to use themed products for only the suggested theme/event/holiday it’s meant for. The title sticker said “It’s Pumpkin Time”, so to match my layout I added rubon letters to spell out dentist onto white cardstock and adhered it over the word pumpkin to complete my improvised layout.
I also fell inlove with the Making Memories butterflies. I used them here as my visual triangle elements. I broke some of the pearls from the Basic Grey pack and added some in the middle of the butterflies to create a finished look.
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2. Happy to have you
I love this page. Not only because my son’s the star on it but because it gave me a lot of room to journal on which lately is hard for me to do. Anyways, I cut out the lined paper part of the circle paper and added the half circle on the bottom of the page. The big ricrac was also a nice addition to the page.
I love the MME block and decided to use that for my title. Because there’s an empty space in the title block, I added a layered butterfly plus some more of that Crate Paper border stickers, gosh I love those stuff!
I used some more butterflies here, again for a visual triangle element plus added a round M sticker from the JBS pack.
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3. Park day
I’ve been digging the shaped papers in the kit. They provide the best frames for my layouts. I used one of them here. I layered more of the strips of paper here plus the Crate Paper border sticker.
I made my own flowers to add to the page. I handcut the circles from one of the papers and then added strips of green paper in the back, layered on top of each other. Secured with lots of glue and reinforced by threading the embroidery floss through the flowers and button.
To create the visual triangle, I used the blue embroidery floss as the element,adding it to the flowers and handstitching some lines for my journaling.
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4. Peruvian dinner
This is my two page spread share for this month. I went with a smaller size but fit for the 5 photos I have of me and my family.
I used the loaded text paper from Imaginesce here to emphasize some of the words in my journaling. Since the paper was fall related and my page was not, I had to improvise some of my sentences to fit my words like “fall” and “bountiful”.
To balance the scallops from the border sticker I added scallops around the top and bottom part of my title block using 1/2″ circle punch.
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5. Vegas Circus
Another layout using the shaped pattern paper as my page frame. Because my photos lacked enough color in them, I used a bright orange background to make the black and white photo stand out more.
Another page utilizing the Crate Paper borders and I even added some liquid pearl to the dots of the border for extra texture.
I added one of the Kaiser Craft envelopes here and I’m planning on storing some of our Vegas memorabilia in there.
I wanted the white letter stickers to stand out against the background so I opted on adhering it to the photo.
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