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Fall layouts // Noel Mignon

Hello again! My poor blog has been so neglected. I've been posting on Instagram mostly the last several months and I seem to have forgotten about my poor blog. But that is about to change. I have lots to share and before I get into holiday posts I wanted to share some of my fall Noel Mignon layouts.

Such fun times! All of these pages were created with the All Fall Classic Kit and Daily Diary Kits. I believe there's still a few left if you're behind on documenting all of your fall memories! I still haven't wrapped my mind around the fact that we're nearly in the 2nd week of December!

I'll be back with some of my recent card making projects!

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hey there!

I realize it's been quite a while since I've blogged. I didn't realize just how long til I looked and...whoa, nearly 2 months??!! Although, I'm not sure if it matters. Anyone still following my little blogerooni??!!

Hello?? lol

If you're on Instagram you can find me @24olivestreet. I post there more frequently. And facebook here. But I really want to get back into blogging.

A couple weeks ago I was a vendor at the Fancy Farmgirl Vintage Market. Getting ready for that took up a lot of my time the past month. This show is a lot of fun and this year it was almost twice as big as last year. Great vendors, great customers, great time! And I was totally exhausted after!!

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Mother's Day was absolutely fabulous. I had mentioned to the hubs last week that I thought it odd that despite the fact that I love flowers and love to garden no one ever gets me flowers for Mother's Day {hint hint} So I got a gift certificate to my favorite nursery, great handmade cards, and a beautiful hanging basket.

Guess the hints worked ;)

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I've been working on lots of projects, like these for Noel Mignon:

More on my Disney travel journal here.

More on my "So You" mini-album here.

Noel's kits always have me inspired. They are filled to the brim with scrappy goodness (seriously, you won't find another kit club out there that gives you this much bang for your scrappy buck as these kits!). We have a Disney trip coming up this summer (so stinkin' excited!!!) and I'm planning on using some of the Pack Your Bags kits for another travel journal. We also have something pretty cool coming up this summer so if you're not following Noel Mignon head over to Facebook & Instagram to keep up with all of the latest & greatest news!!

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And these for Sweet Stamp Shop:

It's been so much fun getting back into card making & stamping again. I had gotten out of it a little bit over the last few years and it's been so much fun creating fun cards again!! Nicole always comes up with the cutest stamps every month. And the planner stamps...oh the planner stamps. Love them all!!

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So, despite the fact that we are in the middle of baseball season & counting down the days til summer vacation (and our summer Disney vacation!! Woohoo!!!) I have a lot more projects I'll be sharing here :)

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!!

Whoa, where has the time gone??!!

How have I not blogged in over a month??!! Do people read blogs anymore?? I mean, I know I do. I have friends who blog. It seems like there's a lot of blogs out there still. But with Instagram, facebook, Pinterest, etc it seems like a lot of people are on these social media sites to see photos & not read about content so much anymore. But with those sites it's so hard to give explanations of things. They're great to share a photo but not so much detailed content. So I hope the way of the blog is not going away anytime soon!!! And honestly, I don't really think it will.

I've still been on those other sites but my blogging has been slacking with multiple kids birthdays, planning a quick trip to Seattle next month, planning our trip to Disneyland for my birthday (woo hoo!!!), getting my design team projects done. Oh, and I had walking pneumonia in January which I am still getting over nearly 2 months later.

Add to all of that I have given up Coke. And let me tell ya, that first week without the caffeine/sugar rush was horrible. Massive headaches, massive fatigue (more than my usual Crohn's induced fatigue), & all around feeling craptastic. I actually had one night that I woke up at 3am with a massive migraine. Ugh. But 2 1/2 weeks later I'm doing pretty well. I usually allow myself a cheat day a week which usually ends in me feeling like crap and wanting to cut that Coke back out of my diet. I know it's bad, I just wish I didn't crave it! But the cravings are slowly going away. Slowly.

We've had beautiful weather lately that my housework has kind of fallen to the wayside a bit. But seriously, how do you not go out and enjoy temps in the 60s with sunshine and blue skies??!

I have a million and one projects going on around the house that need to get done. But sometimes you just need to play :)

My little one started swim classes last month which she loves!

Not to mention baseball season has begun so we're up to 3 practices a week. I think next week it's 4. And my son is in archery, too. Spring is always crazy busy for us!

And after doing my hair myself for the past 2+ years (mostly to save money) I finally went and had it done. It was such a treat to have my hair done and I realized how much I missed it.

I got about 6 inches cut off and added some blonde. I have really missed having blonde in my hair! I love the ombre look (my hairdresser is awesome!) but I think next time I'm going to get it a little lighter. And after growing my bangs out for the past 3 yrs I think I've come to the realization that I need them back.

Tomorrow I'll have some scrappy projects to share!!

Maple Creek layouts

I just realized I haven't blogged in 2 weeks! Holy cow, time flies!! I have lots of projects that I'm working on and want to share. But first, I wanted to share some of the layouts I created for with the Maple Creek kit from Noel Mignon (and hopefully if you were wanting to get in on the Jan-June subcriptions you signed up because they are now closed!)

Anyway, I've had a lot of fun playing with this kit. So here are some of the layouts I've created so far (and I say "so far" because these kits pack a punch and I still have a ton left over!)

It's a sad day when your daughter wears a shirt for her Halloween costume that you wore in the 80s and thought was cool! haha Actually, I didn't wear GnR but I had many, many band tees!!

I also created a few pocket pages and used a bunch of rub-ons to embellish my photos (loving these Maggie Holmes rub-ons!!)

In the past I would've created a more traditional 2 page layout when working with this many photos. But with the pocket scrapbooking craze I can easily create a multi-photo page in no time flat!!

And now, all of my fall photos have been scrapbooked and are ready to be put in my albums!! 

And, by the way, if you want to see how much is left after created these 5 pages, check this out...

forgot one!

It's been such a crazy busy couple of weeks that I just realized I forgot to share one of my Noel Mignon layouts from last week! Last week Noel posted a request to members to give us DT members a challenge. There was one that was all about using up frames on a layout so I decided to take on that one!

The Tea for Two kit came with several chipboard frames so I started with some of those along with 3 photos that would fit perfectly inside of them. Then I used Britt's layout (see here) as a springboard for my layout. I loved how she used lots of different elements of the kit on the bottom of her page so I started adding & moving things around til I liked it.

I also added some stitching around the outside of the layout to frame it up. Super simple layout but I really like how it turned out!

1 layout 2 ways

I posted on the Noel Mignon blog yesterday about creating multiple layouts using the same layout design. I sometimes do this when I have multiple pages I want to create with the same theme, usually with my kids (school, sports, etc). It makes it much easier to use one layout design to create these. And you can make them look totally different by using different papers, embellishments, etc.

Here's what I mean. The first layout is for my oldest daughter's 1st day of school.

I used this layout I found on Pinterest as inspiration. I like the use of one 4x6 photo as the focal point, adding embellishments around it.

I found those great chalkboard printables on Pinterest, too! (found here)

And here is the layout I created for my son's 1st day of school...

You can see the design is the same but the layouts look quite different.

And doing it this way saves me a bit of time. Since the layouts are going to go in my kids' individual scrapbooks I don't really need to come up with totally different designs.

The great thing about these layouts is I was able to use the same Noel Mignon kit (Tea for Two) for both. At first this kit seems very feminine but you can see there are still many ways you can create a more masculine layout as well!

right now

It's been a while since I've done a layout like this - a snapshot in time type of layout. Actually, I probably haven't done one since before I had my little one! I like to do these every once in a while, not about anything too "deep", just likes, interests, stuff like that.

I used the Tea for Two classic kit from Noel Mignon on this one. I'm in love with this kit. The papers are just so adorable and the embellishments...well, Noel always knows how to add such great embellishments to her kits!

I cropped the photos at approx. 3x3 with a white edge because I knew that would leave me a little bit of room on the edges of my layout.

That yellow doily added a bit of color and a nice background for my title.

I hope you're enjoying your Labor Day if you have the day off! My kids go back to school this week so we'll be getting into new routines (and I'll probably be requiring more than average amounts of caffeine!!)

Reflections

I am so happy to share that I have been one of those chosen to be on the Sweet Stamp Shop design team!! So excited to see what Nicole has in store for us over the next few months!!!

Today is the release of the Reflections kit which is a 2nd bonus kit for August. At first I will admit I was a little intimidated by this kit...I'm not one to get super personal in scrapbooking. But once I got started I had a lot of fun with this kit!

So here's a pocket page I made with the kit:

There's lot of quote cards in this kit that I utilitized along with the cute polka dot cards. A couple of the 4x6 cards I cut down to 4x4, added some journaling, wood embellishments & stamping...I'm kind of crushing on wood embellishments lately :)

I love being able to see through a page to give a sneak of what's behind it so I used the leftover 'right now' card, stamped on it, then put it inside the pocket along with some sequins & more wood embellishments (those are actually leftover from the Ahoy kit). Then I stitched it shut making sure to also stitch on my card to keep it in place.

Be sure to head over to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog for more inspiration from this kit!!

Supplies used: Reflections kit // Ahoy kit // Design M pocket page // Color Theory ink pad - clean slate // Elle's Studio everyday moments wood veneers // Freckled Fawn wood chips - speech bubbles

Summertime!

Our summer vacation is winding down. Just a few more weeks and the kiddos will be back in school & it'll just be me & the little one during the day :)

So I'm savoring every last bit by scrapping some of our fun summer moments.

I have family scrapbooks (including Project Life) and also scrapbooks for each of the kids and this one will go in my little one's book since it's all about her :)

I used the South Shore kit for this one and even though it's sold out you can still snatch up some of the papers from the kit here.

It worked out well that the photos of the splash pad had an orange background since they matched so well with the papers in this kit. Don't you love when that happens??!

I created a sort of starburst with some of the papers & stitched them to my cardstock. I printed out my photos at roughly 3x3 with a white edge & added that fun pink glittered photo frame around one of them.

Then a bit of layering with all the fabulous embellishments that always come in Noel's kit!

By the way, you might notice that my page doesn't have an "offical" title. I do that sometimes and I'm totally ok with it :)