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Oh What Fun Daily Dairy Kit // Noel Mignon

I can't believe we're nearing the end of 2016! And despite the fact that I have many, MANY unfinished crafty projects that I've resolved to finish I'm ready to see what 2017 has in store! But before heading into the new year I wanted to share my December projects using the Oh What Fun Daily Diary Kit from Noel Mignon. This kit was full of so many adorable holiday cards and embellishments and I had a lot of fun creating my pages.

In addition to the pocket pages that I created with this kit, I also updated my Christmas recipe album I created 2 yrs ago (see more about that here). Every year I add a few new recipes and old favorites that I come across. I don't decorate every single recipe card in this album, some are just printed recipes that I slip into a pocket. My favorites get a little more attention :)

I also like to add a photo here and there like the one from Christmas Eve with Santa's cookies on our new grinch plate and Santa bottle. The photos break up the book a little bit and add a bit more interest. You can see more on the Noel Mignon blog here.

If you have a few holiday projects that need finishing there are still 2 of these kits left!

Now bring on 2017!!!

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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 :)

Oregon mini-album, September stamp release, & a giveaway!!!

Hi there friends!

I have a lot to share so buckle up cause this is going to be a long post! haha

It'll be fun, I promise!! And for putting up with me I'm going to have a giveaway at the end :)

First off, today is the September stamp release over at Sweet Stamp Shop and oh my are the new stamps cute!!! I'm on the kit design team so I haven't "officially" gotten my mitts on these beauties...but I will very soon!!

And check out what Nicole has in store for the next stamp release...coordinating stamps to go with the September release!!!

Aaack!!! Can you stand the cuteness??!!

Don't you love when companies do this??!

I have to say that I have loved working with these stamps. They're super easy to use, stamp really well, and you can't beat the price! Plus, they're made in the USA!

Ok, so now on to my Oregon mini-album. When I took a look at the AHOY! kit I knew it would be perfect for my Oregon trip pics with the nautical/beach/summer theme. I knew I had too many photos for a layout but not quite enough for a full album which is why I settled on a mini-album.

I started with using that "Explore More" card for the cover. I actually created the base of the album ahead of time, creating the cover & cutting up various pieces of patterned paper. That way when I got home it made creating the album much less time consuming.

I added that pressed penny that I got in Seaside with some E6000 glue. I think it added a nice touch :)

Inside the album I added various photos in 3x4, 4x4 and 4x6 sizes and mixed in some things from our trip like postcards & such.

Btw, a neat thing to do when you're on a trip is to mail yourself a postcard! Then when you get home it has the postmark of where you've been!!

I've been doing this on trips for years now. And usually the postcard it waiting for me by the time I get home :)

Sometimes I write a lot, sometimes it's just "having so much fun!!" kind of thing.

It's just a fun little addition to a mini-album or pocket page style scrapbooking. I did the same thing when we went to Disneyland back in June.

To see more of my album and how I put it together & all of the stamp, you can head over to the Sweet Stamp Shop blog for my full post!

Giveaway

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Winner Announced Below!

In "honor" of the new September stamp release I thought it'd be fun to do a giveaway. It might be something handmade, it might be a stamp set, who knows!! But it will be great, I promise :)

You have 3 opportunities for entry:

1) Comment on this post. Easy, right?!

2) Go the the September release page and then come back here and comment with your favorite stamp set. Or, if you see another stamp set from all the others that is your fave you can tell me that, too!

3) If you make a purchase from the Sweet Stamp Shop between now and Friday (either new release or something else) be sure to tell Nicole I sent you in the comment section of your order (Michelle Whitlow...there are other Michelle's on the DT!) and come back here & comment that you ordered something. And be sure to tell me what you ordered...just cause I get excited about others ordering fun stuff!!

Be sure to leave 3 separate comments on this blog post for each item and good luck!!!

Winner!!!

Lisa, you're the winner of my giveaway!!! Please message me your address at 24olivestreet {at} gmail.com!!

summer mini // the beginning

Hey all! I just posted this project over on the Noel Mignon blog. I thought it would be fun to do a summer mini on all things we do from our summer list over our summer vacation. Last week I was anxiously awaiting the mail to arrive with the new South Shore kit because I knew it would be perfect for this project!!

Seriously, this kit is so fun!!!

I started with a We R Memory Keepers 4x4 D-ring album. I was itchin' for an excuse to buy one of these cause they're so stinkin' cute!!

For the cover page I started with the divided page protector, added some of those Jenni Bowlin flowers (stitching the sleeve closed so they don't fall out!) & adding in some of the chipboard accents.

I love being able to see through to the next page in mini books like this!

To keep the sun brad in place I actually cut up one of the page protectors & attached my embellishments to that & then slipped inside the sleeve (learned that trick from Ali Edwards). That way I don't have the brad sticking out on the backside of my page. I added a chipboard sticker on the backside to help cover up the brad but I don't stress out about things like that showing through in my books.

On the next page I simply added a photo of our summer list that we put on our big chalkboard at home. At the end of the album I'll probably do a wrap up page of all the items we were able to accomplish this summer. So far we're just past halfway through summer vacation and we've done about 20 out of 37. Not too shabby!

Throughout the album I kept things pretty simple, adding a few embellishments here & there & most of the photos are from my iPhone. I didn't worry about doing much journaling because anything that's important enough will be in my Project Life or get put into a layout. This album is merely meant to be a fun little snapshot of our summer :)

And other than a couple sticker sheets from previous kits (alphas & labels), a date stamp (Project Life) & a roll of washi from my stash everything is from the South Shore kit. It's super easy to create a mini like this when you stick with one kit!

I'll probably tweak a few things as I go along. I'm thinking of adding the white felt flower from the kit to the spine. But after realizing I wouldn't be able to lay the album flat I decided to wait til I'm done working on it.

Looks cute there, doesn't it??!

The journaling on a few of the photos was done through A Beautiful Mess app. I didn't do a lot of photo editing for this album. I simply took photos from my phone/Instagram & printed them off. Easy peasy!

Supplies list: South Shore kit / We R Memory Keepers album / Scotch ATG / Crop-a-dile / Sweet & Simple kit (OA alphas) / 4x6 photo collages / BH date stamp / clean slate ink pad /

Halloween mini in progress...and some applesauce

Before we get into the holidays & I start working on my December Daily I really wanted to complete a project that's been on my scrappy to do list for quite a while now.

And thanks to Project Life I was able to pull this one together pretty quick.

It's not finished...yet. But at least I have photos and journaling cards in the album and I just need to find a couple more pictures that were from the pre-digital age.

I'm using the Project Life mini album in Midnight (purchased on Amazon) along with the Halloween mini kit (purchased at Hobby Lobby). After filling in 12 yrs worth of Halloween pics I discovered I probably should have bought 2 mini kits...so I'll be running back to Hobby Lobby this week to get that!

I just need to fill in some journaling and maybe some simple embellishments & this album will be done. It's already been really fun for us to look through the years of Halloween costumes!

And once that's finished (hopefully this weekend!) I'll share some more pics!

And one of the reasons why I haven't been blogging much in the last week...

Canning up lots and lots and lots of apples! I made up jars and jars of homemade applesauce and apple butter. Along with that I also made up 4 bags of apple pie and 4 bags of apple cobbler for the freezer. Now all I need to do is make up some pie crusts for the freezer and I'll be all set for Thanksgiving!

If you've ever canned or peeled a lot of apples & used one of the corer/slicer do-dads (a must have for sure!) then you know how you end up with those looooong noodle like slices of apple skin. Well, we had a little fun with the dogs...

What a nut! He slurped that thing up like it was spaghetti!! haha

Well, you know, as much as a dog can 'slurp'!

mini smash album

For my daughter's birthday party I mentioned that I set up a photo booth for the girls. I also had an album sitting on the table for them to write some stuff in after they took their pics.

I wanted to have a book that had no page protectors to mess with, something that was quick and easy to use. I thought about making my own book but then found one of the mini smash books at Target & thought that would be perfect...and it was. I glued in the photos & then let the girls write in it.

After the party I decorated the cover with some papers from the Noel Mignon Soda Shoppe kit (the thickers are the same as the ones in the last layout from my stash).

I also printed off some of the photos that I had taken during the party with my 'good' camera. I used photoshop to crop them all to 2x3 (perfect size for this book) and then printed 4 of them on a 4x6 canvas.

Then I put them all in the book, added a little washi to some of the photos, and Olivia can now go back and add in any journaling that she wants...like, how good the cupcakes were :)

And I've said this 98459384573 times but how fun will this be to look back on in 20 years?? It's not just the photos but the journaling...the silly, goofy journaling :)

summer journals

Yes, this is the scene around here. I have some kind of nasty sinus summer cold that is kicking.my.butt. I'm hoping with a little pharmaceutical help I can get rid of this thing cause being sick during summer vacation is no fun!

We have our summer list up and have 3 things checked off. I also made up these cute & simple summer journals for the kids to record all of their summer activities, what they want to do, what they did, fun stuff...whatever they want to write about summer!

Of course, I tried to keep Ben's not too girly...something I always struggle with when I'm making stuff like this!

For the cover I simply used some chipboard & on the inside I cut some cardstock & held it all together with my bind it all. Super easy!