Clique Kits | September Pep Rally

Hi everyone!

It's Pep Rally day over at Clique Kits today and I'm joining in with a TN spread created with the September Farmhouse Traveller's Notebook kit.

The lemon paper from the 8x8 Websters Pages papers was perfect to document this super-size-me lemon that we harvested from our 2 year old lemon tree in July.

I fussy cut some of the lemon patterned paper to fill the top left of the spread and adhered it to look like it was hanging like a tree branch over my title.  I wanted to document the fact that our little tree is only 2 years old, so I used some of the mini alphas from the kit to add the year that it was planted to an ephemera label.

I'm trying to incorporate more stamping into my projects, so I pulled some Elle's Studio alpha stamps from my stash and stamped out Gardening as a large title, then used a sticker from the kit to finish it off as Gardening Favourites.  Loved how this worked out!

For the right side I trimmed some more of the same lemon paper into a tag and added a reinforcing hole from my stash and some twine from the kit to use in my layers behind my photo.  

Finally I added some strip journalling and called this spread done.  I'm so happy with our little lemon tree that could, and happy that I got to document this memory in my TN.

Thanks for stopping by today, and be sure to check out the other Pep Rally projects using the September Travellers Notebook and Main kits from Clique Kits!

Week 18 // Project Life 2018

Hi guys!  

I hope you'll forgive me, but I'm jumping around with my weeks in project life shares at the moment.

I'm back to week 18 today with a spread created with the Studio Calico Golden Hour Documenter Kit.  I also grabbed one of the add on paper packs and some puffy stickers from the Studio Calico shop this month.

I let the neutral browns and red tones in my photos guide my colour palette this week, and added some contrasting black elements as well.

I put together the title card by recolouring one of the Studio Calico label stickers in my digital stash to black, and adding text in Photoshop Elements for the week number and dates before printing it on white cardstock and trimming it.  Those star wood veneers were perfect to add a little finishing dimensional touch.

I'd been saving this amazing beer from Hawaii for a special occasion (yup, I'm weird like that!) and I wanted to record why I'd chosen this day, 5 May, to open it.  One of the puffy stickers was a number 5 - perfect match to the day I wanted to record!  So I added that and a couple more teeny star wood veneers to my journalling card.

I just adore the scripted font cards from Studio Calico.  I decided to add a few accents in wood veneer and chipboard to this one.

Not counting date stamps, I've always been a little scared to use stamps in my project life.  But I've been so inspired by awesome scrapping friends that stamp... a lot... like Heba Alsibai, Meghann Andrew and Diane Williams that I've started using them more.  For this journalling card I printed the text on my printer first, and then stamped the 'Here + Now' Title and red accents.

And finally my favourite filler card for this spread!  This came together quickly with a 3x4 card and banner cut from the paper pack, the chipboard tag threaded with some embroidery thread, and a strip cut from one of the gold foil 3x4 cards from the kit.

I know I say this a lot, but this is totally one of my faves so far this year!

Thanks so much for dropping by today.