Monthly Moments: September...

This month, the Monthly Moments products are all about fall...back-to-school, harvest, leaves falling, hayrides, football and autumn days. I've done a scrapbook layout and a pocket page with the Monthly Moments: September products. Here are some sneaks of the stamps, dies and pretty papers available on Sept. 15th at 10pm EST at Papertrey Ink.

On this 8.5 x 11" page, I used some of the Monthly Moments: September Journal Cards in the background.

Then a pocket was die cut with the new Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3 die to hold photos of Kati on her first day back to school this year. I used the lined stamp in the Monthly Moments: September stamps to stamp lines for the journaling.

The cute little chalkboard shapes were made with a die and chalkboard paint! I cut some Tremendous Tags out of thin chipboard and painted them with Martha Stewart Chalkboard paint. Found the paint at Michaels for $1.99. They dry quick and are hard like little chalkboards! So fun to make!

Then the Monthly Moments: September stamps and Tag-Its #6 stamps were used on the little chalkboards - stamped with white ink and heat embossed with white embossing powder to really make the white stand out. To create the "chalk" look, I dipped my finger in white stamping ink and rubbed it over the embossed sayings.

The book saying was stamped with the new Book Club stamp set coming out this month also. Kati loves to read, and I thought it would be cute to add this saying onto a back-to-school page!

Back-To-School scrapbook layout:
STAMPS: Monthly Moments: September, Tag-Its #6, Book Club
INK: True Black, Fresh Snow by PTI; Soft Granite by Hero Arts\
PAPER: Monthly Moments: September Journal Card Collection, White/Sweet Blush/Pure Poppy cardstock, Fine Linen Bitty Dot Patterned Paper
DIES: Monthly Moments: September die, Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3, Tremendous Tags\
OTHER: twine, chipboard stars by Studio Calico, embossing powder - white, chalkboard paint, chipboard, hole punch, washi tape.
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The next one is a 2-pager/pocket style scrapbooking layout from our apple picking days when the girls were little. I used the Monthly Moments: September die and stamp set and the coordinating Journal Card Collection.

From the Journal Card Collection, I chose 3 of my favorite papers from the pack. They make it easy to do a quick page, just fill some of the pockets with these, some pockets with pictures, then embellish a bit if you want, and you're done!

Some of the little chalkboards were used on this layout too, using the same idea of stamping on them and embossing. The long, skinny photo was trimmed down to 2x7" from a 5x7" picture. The pocket was cut with Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3 to hold my journaling. I couldn't resist adding an apple and some sayings from Apple Prints ..."I love you to the core" and "I pick you" were perfect for this!

Washi tape always adds a little bit more pattern and interest to my pages. (I forgot to round the corners of the Fall card like the rest of the pages, will go back and do that.) Anyway, that's it! A quick and simple page.

Fall Into Fun pocket page:

STAMPS:  Monthly Moments: September, Apple Prints

INK: True Black, Fresh Snow, Canyon Clay by PTI; Soft Granite by Hero Arts

PAPER: Monthly Moments: September Journal Card Collection, Vintage Cream cardstock

DIES:  Monthly Moments: September, Tremendous Tags, Monthly Moments: Journal Pocket 3, Apple Prints

OTHER: washi tape, chalkboard paint, chipboard, twine.

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The rest of the Papertrey Ink team has more to share with you also:

Ashley Cannon Newell
Betsy Veldman
Dawn McVey
Erin Lincoln
Heather Nichols
Laura Bassen

Laurie Willison
Maile Belles
Melissa Phillips
Nichole Heady

More Monthly Moments: February...

Today is my second installment working with Papertrey Ink's new line of stamps, dies and papers for February called Monthly Moments. This line was designed for scrapbookers and pocket page scrappers, but of course can be used on cards as well! I made another pocket page, reviewing our highlights from February. Pics are of us on my hubby's birthday and my daughter Kati on the morning of her school Valentine's party. (Just to warn you, my teen doesn't like her pic taken these days, so you may see a lot of Kati. Ha. I will figure out a way to get Taylor into a few pictures as well.)

I had a really hard time photographing this. It's so colorful in real life!

I started with the journaling cards. I know. I know what you're thinking. "You don't start with the photos?" Well, I had an idea of what photos I was going to use, but I tend to work backwards, working with the colorful journaling cards first. I figure out where to place them, then add my photos after. I like to spread out the color!

Often times in my mini albums, I make little fun things to go between the pages. I just like to create fun surprises for the reader. I made a pocket with vellum (fold vellum and stitch sides) and stamped "this" several times, then embossed it with white embossing powder. I added a Monthly Moments journaling card inside, the February calendar from the free download and a letter that I typed up about all of our February highlights! The pocket floats in between the pages.

Next to it, I used the Valentine Stitches dies to poke little arrows in the cardstock. Added some washi tape to the bottom before I die cut the arrows. "Here's The Story" was stamped with Monthly Moments: Library Card stamps.

On the left side, I kept it super simple, 2 photographs, a journaling card, and then a fun pocket made with the Framed Love die. The hearts were cut from one of the Monthly Moments papers. Washi tape adorns the outside of the pocket to match the one on the vellum pocket.

Next, a little pic of my cupcake...hee hee...next to some cupcakes that we made for daddy's birthday. Took this one of her before she left for school on the day of her Valentine party. She was all dressed up, she HAD to get a red dress for that day, so we found one at Target. "Today is a perfect day" was stamped with Monthly Moments: Days of the Week stamps.

Behind the pocket is one more pic of Kati the morning of her Val. party. I used the Wonderful Words: Love die to cut out the word and added it over the pocket.

On the bottom right, I stamped "happiness is us" with the Monthly Moments: Slide Frame stamps. Love adding these little sayings!

Visit Nichole Heady, Heather Nichols, Ashley Newell, and Melissa Phillips to see more!

Love pocket page layout:
(All supplies are by Papertrey Ink unless otherwise noted.)
STAMPS: Monthly Moments: February (this heart), Monthly Moments: Library card (Here's The Story), Monthly Moments: Days of the Week (today is a perfect day), Monthly Moments: Slide Frame (happiness is us)
INK: True Black and Versamark
PAPER: Monthly Moments journaling cards and papers and free download with kit, vellum
DIES: Valentine Stitches dies, Framed Love dies, Wonderful Words: Love die
OTHER: washi tape - unknown, pearls- Melissa Frances, white embossing powder machine stitching.

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