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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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By Grace Tolman

So for this month’s extra project, I went with something that might easily be used for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner…..place cards. We know we need them, especially when you have a big group for dinner and what better way to use up all the fun and perfectly themed products from the main kit!

I used white cardstock as my base and settled in with a basic, simple design. I had fun hadcutting the leaves and flowers from the WeRMemory Keepers paper and using them as my embellishments here. I used some small white letter stickers from my stash to make the names, but I’m sure you can easily use the stickers from the kit for this project. My suggestion would be to use it as a monogram instead since it’s pretty big sized letters.

The size of my place cards are 3″ squares but you can have yours smaller or bigger, whichever would work for you and your table setting.

I’m also thinking since the place cards were created to be a little notecard (so it can stand on top of the plate) I can use them later on as thank you notes to my guests.

So try it for this year’s gathering, you can even have your kids help you out with this. Let them write or stick the names of the guests. It’ll be fun!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

I’ve found that if I bite off little bits at a time, I am more likely to keep up-to-date on my scrapping and actually get real, meanigful projects done. That’s why we wanted to have a mini book in every kit. It would give you a chance to start and finish at least one project a month. You could pat yourself on the back each month and feel great about committing your story to a mini book month after month. And then at the end of the year, you could look back and admire, not one, but 12 different mini books and their distinct perspective on your life.

For November, our design team did amazing things with the Bazzill Accordion Album from this month’s kit. I love how each of them had the same tools and supplies … but the end result is so distinct, so personal.

So, here’s a little inspiration on just what you could do with the November mini book. To let this month end without taking a little time to craft away and tell you story.

“I used all the leftover products from my making my five layouts to make this mini book. I love that Crazy Daisy kits are chock full of items that there’s no limit to how many projects you can finish with the kit.

Being a scrapbooker, I’ve accumulated a TONof pictures over the years. Most of them of course go into scrapbooks but there are certain ones that are my favorites that doesn’t go into any scrapbook category so I’m filing them here in this minibook.

I chose pictures from one year and will print them as regular 4×6 sized photos so I can slap them quickly into this book.

I’m intending to give this to my mother in law for Christmas but you can also keep this project to yourself as a brag book. I love that the Bazzill mini book is easily adaptable to any project theme.

The fun embellishments included in the kit made this project easy and full of great details.”

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Kim Whitten:

A page from Kim's mini-book

“This mini is for our great family friend Nancy who hosts an old fashioned hayride, bonfire fall party each year.  I used photos from years past up through this year which I thought coordinated so well with this month’s selection of papers and embellishments.  I used the Autumn Harvest Clear Cuts throughout the book and actually cut them into to use across two of the panels. 

The Jenni Bowlin library cards were perfect for the bulk of my journaling throughout the mini.

This Bazzill mini accordian book has so many possibilities!  I love that you can spread this out and display the entire thing. ”

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Trace Geworsky:

Trace's mini-book

“I had a lot of fun working with the mini album included in the kit. The title of it is ’40 reasons to be thankful in these 8 days.’

I decided to take a picture every day for 8 days, and for each day to write 5 things that I was thankful for on that day. I find that its so easy to take every day things for granted, so if I take a step back and concentrate on these little things that I am thankful for, then maybe I will be more appreciative of things.

For the cover, I cut the flower/plant design from the ribbon, and adhered to the patterned paper. I used the “to” sticker as part of my title.

For the inside pages: When you open the book, on the left hand side of each page there will be a picture of something from that day, and then on the right hand side, I have my journaling of the 5 things I was thankful for on those days I have only journaled yesterday & today (because I just started my list yesterday). So I will add the pictures to the album as I go along.”

-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Go be creative today. Use these amazing layouts from our November Guest Designer Layle Koncar to inspire you. Thank you Layle, you rock!

Don’t forget … we have a special dealing running. If you order anything at all between now and Thanksgiving, we’ll give you $10 off your order. You don’t have to do anything, just put the scrapbooking goodies in your cart, check out and you’ll see a $10 discount! Happy crafting to you.

The November Add-on With a Kick Kit

The November Kits are up and ready to go. They are beyond cute, if I do say so myself. I’d like to say that I gathered all the cuteness together, but the real credit goes to Jennifer. She has such a knack for finding the most adorable things and pulling together the best kits around. I’m so lucky to be surrounded by so many talented and creative people and Jennifer is an inspiration to me (plus, she makes me laugh and she’s seen me give birth … so really, can I have a better friend than that?) I’m so lucky to call her my friend and business partner.

The November Paper Kit

But enough about that … about  the November Kits. If you haven;t already seen them, we’ve added two new kits for November, the Add-on With a Kick and the Paper Kit. The Add-on With a Kickis an awesome kit that’s a bit smaller than our main kit, but still packed full of tons of crafty goodness. The Paper Kit is just that … all paper. We selected 12 adorable sheets of coordinating patterned paper and created a special little kit for all you paper lovers out there.  

If you order at least two November Kits by the 10th, we’ll throw in one of our Grab Bag Kits for FREE!!

The November Main Scrapbooking kit will look like this ….

A little peek at the November Main Kit.

And the November Add-on Kit for your drooling pleasure

A peek at the November Add-on Kit