HARVEST TIME - Scrapbook Circle October Kit

Happy November!

The new kit is available at Scrapbook Circle but I still wanted to share this layout from last month.

This was the best crop of tomatoes we have ever had and I needed to do more documenting that event!

I loved this cork paper as a background making the photo look like it was posted to a bulletin board.

The black and white heart paper from Fancy Pants was such a great contrast to the red that I used

it as the background as well as a piece of the 6x6 scaled down version.

I had planned to just use black, white and cork, but thought I need one more color to help the cork

and photo pop even more.

Thanks for checking it out!  Hope you all had a wonderful weekend and start to a new month!

Soft & Subtle vs. Bold & Bright - Pinkfresh October Projects

Hi there!  I am excited to share my October Pinkfresh Studio projects with you...

I am a fairly diverse scrapbooker, usually basing my specific approach

to each layout based on either the photo or products I want to use.  In this case, I took my

cues from the photos and they turned out very different.  One subtle, one not so much.

I recently came across this box of great black & white photos my Dad had taken 14 years ago and developed himself.

I found a couple die cuts that match the Scribble Circle metal die from Pinkfresh and then

watercolored them all.   I threw in some enamel dot stickers and used the wood drop stickers in clusters,

to echo the triangles in the background paper.

In complete contrast to the layout above, this photo of these sassy

children screamed for bright, bold colors and a fun title!

I used the enamel frame to highlight the Pinkfresh 'Think Less, Live More' stamp

I gold embossed onto a plain white tag.  I also used the gold puffy border stickers in a frame all around the photo.

A few wood veneer color block hearts and enamel label stickers framed the date and other die cuts.

I used the transparent alphas for my title and some wood drop stickers pointing to it.

I love that sometimes a photo inspires a completely different approach, in color, embellishment or theme.

Thanks for stopping by the today...have an amazing day!! 

Scrapbook Circle - One Item Wonder - Stars*

Happy Friday everyone!

This is the LO I did for my Scrapbook Circle October assignment highlighting

the gold & silver chipboard stars, part of the 'On This Day' kit.

Stars are a great staple embellishments, especially for boys.  Stars are great for girls too, but I think of 

butterflies and hearts for girls and stars as more masculine.  There are also enamel star stickers from Chickaniddy crafts that are part of the 'Right Now' Add-on kit.  I wanted to use these photos of my son with this giant Styrofoam plane, which has 5 lbs. of packing tape covering it (thank you Daddy) since it has crashed so many times!

I randomly cut pieces of patterned paper using just my scissors.  I wanted to make those strips the

background from my photos and have the stars and arrows "orbit" around whole cluster.  

The Pinkfresh Studio wood veneer enamel chevron arrows are great because they pick up a bit

of the shine from the enamel as well as the colors from the rest of the embellishments

    

I constantly have my personal soundtrack, to my life, in my head and so the Coldplay Song

"A Sky Full of Stars" seemed to be a perfect fit.  This little man certainly does light up the path

with his smile, and he has had my heart since the moment I first saw him! :)

Thanks for stopping by to let me share this page and I hope you check out all the designs from

this talented group of ladies at Scrapbook Circle.  Head of to the Idea Gallery on the Blog!

Have an amazing day and great weekend!

triple TROUBLE - Scrapbook Circle October Designer's Choice

Hi everyone!  It’s Jenni here to share one of my favorite pages I created using the Scrapbook Circle October Kit – ‘On This Day’ and the ‘Right Now’ Add-On.   There are so many schools of thought about design & color composition, I learned lots of them in college.  We all have heard and/or practice them…use odd numbers to keep elements dynamic, use color or embellishments to lead to your eye around the page and offer balance, yada, yada, yada.  No offense to my art and design teachers, I do agree, but lately have been drawn to use multiple hues of the same color and all in one area.  The October kit is perfect for this kind of design!

As usual, Lisa has done an outstanding job of pulling pieces from different collections that all work so well together.  This amazing painterly paper from Chickaniddy paired perfectly with the Echo Park days of the week paper in a rainbow of colors.  I wanted to use this photo of my daughter and some friends that came over for our Friday Night Movie night, so the days of the week was ideal!  After cutting the two background of papers at a diagonal, I layered my photo onto some of the Fancy Pants ‘True FRIEND’ 6×6 pad, part of the Add-On.

I then chose stickers, chipboard and punched some more from the 6×6 pad to match all the colors.  Again, all the embellishments are from different collections, but such a great match.  I layered the embellishments on top of a similar color in the paper and hid the sharp diagonal line of my two background patterns.  My husband came up with the title for me, very appropriate, although a little scary! 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and letting me ramble about color grouping!  The October kit is a variety of so many patterns and colors that you need to check out Idea Gallery for the range of inspiration from the DT! Have a wonderful day!

RIGHT now - Scrapbook Circle Designer's Choice

This is the page I shared on Scrapbook Circle yesterday and the last using the 'Island Paradise' kit and Add-ons from August.  I LOVE this Allison Kreft paper from Echo Park.  It is my color du jour and add some bokeh = love.

I wanted to keep as much of this paper without covering it up as possible.  It is such a beautiful design and the color is stunning.  One of my favorite reasons for buying the extra paper pack that is offered from Scrapbook Circle is for this reason.  I could use the same piece of the same paper to overlap specific pieces I punched out.

The exclusive 'happy day' stamp fit perfectly into my 1" circle punch.

I inked the edges of both the circle and heart to tie in the other colors.

After lining up the hearts I had punched from one piece with the matching piece of paper I cut,
I stitched through them on my sewing machine.  The Heidi Swapp glitter stickers add some sparkle
without taking too much away from that bokeh paper.

Thanks for checking it out!

Love Is All You Need - Scrapbook Circle Designer's Choice

Today on the Scrapbook Circle Blog, I am sharing this LO about using inspiration from text,

script and most especially patterned papers using song lyrics.  The source of my inspiration
is this love script paper from Echo Park-Capture Life that is in the August ‘Island Paradise’ kit.
I also used both the ‘Tiki Torch’ and ‘Bungalow’ Add-ons.

Even if I have photos and a plan for a scrapbook page, I draw inspiration from the colors or composition

in the photo and most especially the patterns of the paper. I love papers with text, typography and print.

I also love music making the title and theme for this page an easy.

This was actually a photo I had already printed for scrapping and thought a simple, bold, color palette

would work well with the photo. My husband took the photo walking behind us and I never saw it until

I downloaded all the photos off of his phone.  It makes me smile and a little sad that one day,

my little man won't want to hold my hand.  Sniff...

The map print paper from Crate Paper was perfect for vacation photos, and provided

a neutral background. I placed the wood veneer sequins on the cities and intersecting

lines on the map, to emphasize the idea of travel, or destination.

The ‘sounds’ in the Elle’s Studio tag also emphasized my theme.  And I cut this title from my Silhouette.

I know the Beatles song is actually "All You Need Is Love," but I thought this cut file was too perfect.

 I wrapped the twine around the entire photo/mat cluster I created, sort of holding us all

together. That may sound like a stretch of symbolism for a simple scrapbook page,

but I love this song, and it inspired lots of love in me!

Thanks so much for sharing a piece of your day with me!