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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.

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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For more photos of Grace’s layouts, visit our Gallery.

I was looking at some of the pages the Crazy Daisy design team created with our October 2010 Main kit and I’m feeling more inspired to get my Halloween pictures scrapped. Maybe this will help you too.

From Amy Kingsford:

For more photos of the goodies Amy created, check out our gallery here.

Here are a few of my latest creations. What are you working on?

Here are a few new pages I’ve created.

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I’m still working on a few more and hope to have them done soon … it’s so nice to feel productive!

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But, there are some things I have been doing. I am taking a course with Big Picture Classses … Me: The Abridged Version taught by Cathy Zielske. I’m so loving it. It is super heavy on the writing, which is right up my alley. I’m doing my book 100 percent digi, so I’m hoping to finish it up soon and be able to share it. It’s been a great process.

I’m reading “Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life” by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. The book was Cathy’s inspiration for her Big Picture class and it’s quite inspiring. It’s an easy read and I highly recommend it.   

 I had a bunch of digi layouts (32 to be exact) printed at Persnickety Prints. They are having their semi-annual sale and 12×12 prints are just $1.49. The sale goes through tomorrow, Oct. 4. I can’t wait to get them and slide them into an album!  

Check out some of these adorable layouts from our fab design team … if you’re like me, you’re still working through your September kit and could use a little inspiration!

From Katie Turner:

Amber Zimmerman:

Don’t you just love what Amber did in the layout above?

 She stitched around some of the stars on the patterned paper. So cute. So clever.

The September kits were shipped out last week, so most of you should have recieved yours by now or will very soon. As you’re getting started, here’s a look at what Grace did with the September Main Kit. I always love looking at what Grace does with our kits. She’s amazing. I’m always inspired with her work.

So feast on her amazingness!

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1st day of 1st grade

 
This is the first page I made with the kit. I wanted to mat that notebook paper onto brown cardstock to make it stand out more. I cut out the report card paper to create an uneven border with it. I also used the typed paper from Crate Paper as part of my border and tore the top end of it for added interest.
I loved layering all the stickers that was in the kit. There were so much to choose from. And to make them stand out a little against the background I adhered them with dimensional adhesive.

I wanted something large for part of my title so I cut out some words from one of the Crate Paper pattern papers. To make it stand out more I also adhered them onto one of the Jillibean soup journaling block.

Animal Show

 
I’m into block design lately and this layout shows that. I think it makes it easy to create a clean simple design with it.

Anyways I added my pictures first, then on the black spots, I added papers, journaling block and title.

The journaling block had a sun with a number 2 on there. I really didn’t need that 2 in my layout so I covered it with journaling block and then more stickers.

Preschool

Another block design. I’m digging this style because I can place my pictures first and then just fill the empty spaces.
To break the square feel, I tilted that patter paper strips on the right hand side.

Lots of layering here again with the title against the 4 playing card, the border stickers and papers on top of the journaling block, the flower on top of the jillibean soup circle block and the butterfly with stickers collection.

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To see more photos of Grace’s layouts for September, visit our gallery here.

Check out the adorable (seriously adorable) layouts Kelly Hansen created with this kit. Love ‘em.

To see more photos of Kelly’s layouts, check out our Gallery.

I’m in Rio right now. I had to stay over the weekend, which isn’t something I do often. Since I’ve been to Rio so many times there’s not a lot of new things for me to see and do. And, I’m feeling rather lazy. So instead of exploring a lot this weekend, I have been scrapping like a mad woman. I’ve done a bunch of all digital layouts (I’m taking one of Jessica Sprague’s digi classes) and I thought I’d share them with you.

I have to say … I think I might just be more of a digi scrapper than a paper scrapper. I never thought I’d say that and though I won’t EVER give up paper crafting … I’m loving the digital tools and being able to scrap while I’m away from home.

I’m think that my goal this week is going to be to take a few digi templates I’ve already used and tweak them in some way to make the different. I want to see just how much use I can get out of a single template!