i thought i'd share my layouts for the october kit, yearbook, at studio calico.
i chose to get add-on one, fall festival. i love all of the add-ons, but i'm always wary about accumulating too much "stuff', know what i mean? i enjoy creating much much more when i'm not overwhelmed. so i thought long and hard and decided that fall festival was the best fit for me.
these photos of harper in the dead central texas leaves always crack me up.
i decided to document the fact that we don't really have a "fall" here in TX, but that i'll fake one if i have to.
i cut one of the maya road envelopes in half, and framed the photos with them. they make a great place to add journaling.
don't be scared of tilting your photos. it adds a nice "collage" feel to this layout.
i painted the corrugated letters with making memories paint in acorn
and outlined them with my white uniball signo pen.
the splash of blue paint on the label sticker is making memories paint in lagoon
it's the only color of paint i use regularly, and it seems to go with so many colors.
these basicgrey and bo bunny papers just screamed out for "fall" photos. and considering i don't have too many (see above;) i chose to do a layout about harper's love of pea coats and how i think it's genetic. the cluster of flowers are the bo bunny rubons layered over jenni bowlin journaling cards. i cut them out and embellished them with brads, some more of the basicgrey stickers (LOVE THEM), and i cut some of the green fleece american crafts squares into leaves. the journaling pen is the uniball signo and the corrugated letters are painted with my white sharpie. i depressed the tip and "blobbed" paint onto the cardstock, then rubbed it in with my fingers. as a final touch, i outlined the patterned paper block with my .01 american crafts precision pen. i'm really liking adding that touch lately. it adds a bit more "pop". as soon as i took these photos a few weeks ago, i knew i had to document them via a two-pager. there were just too many photos that were meaningful out of this batch, and i didn't want to limit them to a one page layout. i really enjoy doing non-traditional military pages (without camo, insignia, etc) and this kit provided the supplies i needed. i was surprised to find there was enough khaki, gold, brown, and olive green to make a military layout. i framed two of the photos with inked pattern paper. the fancy pants pom-pom trim added the perfect simple touch. i topped it with a sassafras bloom, a fleece american crafts flower, and a die cut circle/sequin raja center topper. i was almost out of the woodgrain alpha and the cardboard alpha, but i found that i could combine them to make a funky, masculine title. i punched the "september" from studio calico exclusive patterned paper using this mcgill tab punch. as soon as i saw the studio calico patterned paper with the months, i knew i wanted to use it to document growth. i printed small photos of the girls over the past year, one for each month. i matted them with the sassafras patterned paper edge, and mounted them on the calendar paper. i tucked the strip of paper with the months under the calendar paper, and numbered each month and photo. note that that october, november, december have question marks by them. i have no problem with that. is it perfect? no. but i really wanted to use this idea and i didn't want to wait until 2010 to do it. i made the title with the cosmo boyfriend stickers, layered over the bo bunny tree rub-on. once again, i outlined the patterned paper blocks with my precision pen and a ruler. the background here is the back of the sassafras sunburst paper. and no, i did not sew on it...it came that way. LOVE that. they made this paper for sew-phobes like me. i cut a piece of white cardstock and misted it with orange maya mist. on top of the cardstock, i adhered maya road kraft envelopes (back side up) a scattering of flowers and raja sequin flower topper added to the romantic feel. i printed photos of j and me in a photostrip and tucked them into one envelop. the title went on top . one envelope is used for the (mushy) journaling and the other is simply for decoration. i might add another note there later. and you KNOW i had to add a bow somewhere. ;) these photos of harper on her first day of preschool make my heart so happy. i wanted to scrap them, but not in a completely traditional "first day of school" sense. the background paper here was a no-brainer. the scantron paper made a great photo mat, and SHOCKINGLY i had to punch it with my apron lace punch. the row of embellishments is layered sassafras papaer whimsies, AC fleece shapes, and my mind's eye brads. the journaling shapes are cut from the same Studio Calico calendar patterned paper i used on the "wish" layout (well, on several of the layouts). and more bows, of course. at this point i had TOTALLY run out of letter stickers. but i decided to cut the negatives from the sheet of chipboard alphas. i glued them and stapled them (didn't want those suckers to fall off). the "sunshine" above the title is a sassafras paper whimsy flower that i cut to look like a sunburst.





