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Love Life layouts // Noel Mignon

This week over at Noel Mignon we're sharing our projects with the new Shine Bright kits. But before I start sharing those I thought I'd share the projects I've made with last month's kit - the Love Life Classic kit.

I love this kit because it's more geared toward love rather than Valentine's Day which can be used for a multitude of projects.

Silly Selfies - my little one has figured out how to take her own selfies. So it made for a super cute layout :)

 

I Remember - This layout is all about my grandma. My kids and my husband never met her so I wanted to do a bit of journaling of things I remember about her so that my kids could know a little bit about her through me.

Lil Swimmer - that woodgrain heart paper made the perfect background for my photos. It wouldn't make sense to use summery photos since these were taken in the winter. So this kit was perfect for me to document my little one's love of swim classes.

I also made this framed art from the kit based on this project I found on Pinterest. I simply changed it to be more of a family tree.

You can see that even though this is a 'love' kit that I used it in very different ways that totally work! I have a project in mind for that great chipboard album that came in the kit but I'm going to probably use the Shine Bright kits for that. I had a lot of fun playing with this kit and I believer there might be a couple of the Love Life Classic kits and Daily Diary kits left!!

jobs for hire

I have a new project over on the Noel Mignon blog today!

I created this 'jobs for hire' board for my kids using the Hey Girl Classic kit & Daily Diary kit.

I've been needing a new way for my kids to earn money around the house. Lately it seemed like they were always asking me what they could do to earn money (even though they knew what jobs they could do around the house). I remembered seeing something on Pinterest that sparked the idea to create this project.

You can head over to the Noel Mignon blog to see how I created it but here's how it works and some of the 'rules' that I've set up for this jobs board (which is mainly for my 2 older kids). I will 'post' jobs that I see need to be done. Some will stay up for a few days, some will only be up for that day. For example, yesterday one of the jobs was 'fold towels'. If someone doesn't choose to do that job, I'll simply fold the towels and take the job down and they miss out. Some days there might not be any jobs available. It all depends on what needs to be done. When I post the job it will also have the payment for that job so once the job is done (and I say it was done ok) they instantly get paid. In the past we've always kept a tally and I paid them at the end of the week. And while that's how it works in the real world I found that my kids started getting lazy about doing jobs. Then we would have the inevitable 'discussion' when they wanted to buy something but hadn't worked & saved up for it (and expected me to buy it). So I think this will work better for us.

Also, these jobs are considered 'extra' jobs and so they are not allowed to do any of them until their homework is done and their regular chores (the non-paid ones) are done. My kids don't have a ton of chores so this isn't a big deal. They are also not allowed to come home & snag all of the jobs leaving none for the other person (unless the other person doesn't want to do them). The first day I put this up I immediately had one person complaining that the other was 'stealing all of the jobs' (even though that wasn't the case). So you can see why I had to set up rules!

So far it's working out well and I'm hoping it will continue to encourage my kids that it feels good to earn some money for themselves!

Disney decorated painter's tray

Are you guys sick of me posting Disney stuff yet??

Bueller?? Bueller??

It's hard to stop when a) you love Disney as much as I do, and b) there's so much great product out there to create with!

I have a new project over on the SSS blog using the On Cherry Street Magical Kit & Reflections Kit. You can head over here to check out more!

Monsters University // decorated frame

This week I shared pics from our 1st trip to Disneyland and California Adventure. One of my favorite photo spots was in front of Monsters University in California Adventure. What I love about Disney is their eye for detail...I can sit and stair at all of the little details in stuff like this forever!

The first time we tried to get good pics it was too sunny and I ended up with 2 kids squinting for photos. Thankfully I remembered to take more pics when it wasn't quite as sunny and managed to get a couple good ones :)

Sometimes I have a tendency after a trip to scrapbook all of those wonderful memories but then I forget to actually keep some photos out for us to see everyday. So when the Monster Mash stamp set was released for Sweet Stamp Shop I knew immediately I wanted to create a cute photo with those adorable monster stamps!

I mounted my photo on some patterned paper and colored in a few of those adorable monsters with Copic markers, cut them all out, and mounted them on foam dots to make them pop out from the photo.

I colored that little guy green cause he reminds me of Mike ;)

It's hard to tell in the photo but I also added some glossy accents to the eyeballs.

Whenenver I do photo frames like this with a bit of dimension I like to take the glass out of the photo frame. But since the glass in this one doesn't come out I simply mounted the photo in front of the glass by simply slipping the edges of the paper behind the frame. Easy peasy!! And my decorated frame is done just in time for Halloween :)

notebook addiction

I have a confession...I love notebooks. And lists. And planners.

Any kind of cute notebook.

I'm a bit "old fashioned" that way. Give me a cute notebook & pen for lists anyday over my iphone.

I love the feeling of physically checking things off a list. I'm a very visual person so it works so much better for me.

I'm actually thinking of getting an Erin Condren planner for next year (but starting it with September). I {heart} pretty planners!

Anyway, I'm always scoping out the dollar sections at Target & Michaels. And you can almost always find cute notebooks & such in there.

This one I bought at Michaels a while back & simply embellished with one of those fab quote cards in the Reflections kit.

I colored in the fire with some markers...and I discovered that sadly it's been too long since I've used them because half are dried up :(

A fun thing to do with notebooks is to stamp a little something on the inside pages. I added the "Enjoy the little things" on the 1st page and the stars to about 20 of the pages (both from the Enjoy Calligraphy stamp set). You'll be seeing more of that stamp set on some upcoming pages for sure!

Then I just added some ribbon & a button and voila!!

Cute notebook ready to keep for myself or save for a quick gift for a friend/teacher/neighbor!

summer wreath

I'm a big yard saler and one of the things I will always pick up at yard sales are wreaths. For a good price of course! It doesn't matter if they have flowers or stuff on them, you can usually pull that stuff off and if there's any bits left on the wreath you can just cover them up with your own embellishments!

I have a mirror by my front door that desperately needed something. So I grabbed one of these grapevine wreaths that I picked up a yard sale recently for a quarter.

I grabbed my hot glue gun & most recent Noel Mignon kit which has some fun summer papers along with some of my own stash & got to work!

I simply made some accordian flowers & embellished with brads, added that fun pinwheel, made a cute little butterfly, added some stickles, then took those cute clothespins & made a little pennant banner.

Originally I tried to just hook those clothespins to the wreath but it just wasn't working out. So in the end I hot glued those to the wreath as well. The only thing that's not glued down is the pennant banner & pinwheel.

And that's it! A cute little wreath to greet visitors at my front door!

And like I said, this wreath is actually hanging in front of a mirror. It just didn't photograph well with all the reflections but here it is in my entryway...

The next project on my list is that lamp shade...and to clean that smudge off the mirror!