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Friday, October 5, 2012

October Reveal: Fair Fun & Gather Round

I love the Fall season and Fall collections. I was so excited to see Bella Blvd's Thankful line spotlighted in the October kit at My Creative Scrapbook. 

I found this line to be so versatile. used this collection for a non-Thanksgiving, non-Fall page.  On a beautiful (hot!) September day, my family went to the county fair.  It was a great outing. I thought my son, age 3, would be most excited about the animals. And while he did love them, what he really had his eyes on - and his heart set on - were the prizes on the Midway. 


I took this trio of photos, sized them to match the "love life" journaling card in the Thankful collection, and used them as the focal point of my layout. 



Since the colors in this collection are pretty neutral, it's easy to use Thankful with non Fall layouts.  Below is a closeup of the page top.  





Of course, this Bella Blvd' line is perfect for Fall themed layouts. I particularly liked the Thanksgiving theme that ran through this aptly named Thankful collection.  It turned out to be just perfect for scrapbooking a collage of photos from our family gathering last year.



On this layout, I numbered each photo, then journaled directly on the patterned paper below the collage. To do so, I first tested the placement of the journaling on regular printer paper. Then, I cut a strip of patterned paper slightly larger than the journaling area, taped the patterned paper strip on top, and ran the paper through the printer again.


Here's a closeup of that cute turkey. It was part of the "Cute Cuts" sheet in the collection.  The heart button is also Bella Blvd and was included in the kit.


Here's a photo of the kit I worked with, the Creative kit.

 
My Creative Scrapbook has several kits to choose from each month.  You can see all the kits on the MCS website. I'll be back next week with more projects with this kit.

We are also giving away this terrific prize package on Monday of papers and embellishments from Webster's Pages, featured in our Limited Edition kit.


To enter the drawing to win this prize (pictured above), just leave a comment on the My Creative Scrapbook blog by midnight EST on Sunday.  We'll announce the winner on Monday, Oct. 8.

Have a great weekend! 

14 comments:

  1. oh my golly izzy!!! i think these are just stunning!! awesome job!

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  2. Great pages, Izzy! LOVE how colorful Thanksgiving is :)
    Wonderful way to use a non-Fall theme for the second one - very versatile! Love the banner.

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  3. Ditto what Mary Pat said. :) Love the heart button on the turkey cute cut and your banner work on the second page is fabulous!

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  4. WOW!! You totally ROCKED the Bella!!! I absolutely loveeeeeeeeeeeee these!!! LOVING that heart on the turkey on the first one and love love love love that banner on the second one!!!!!! BEAUTIFUL!!!!

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  5. Gorgeous pages!! I love all your little details. The fair layout is adorable!

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  6. Love the kit, the collection, and both layouts! :) Just WONDERFUL!

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  7. You created such amazing layouts with this kit! Love them ALL!

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  8. Love both layouts! I like that you showed a non fall layout using a fall collection.

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  9. LOVE those pages! Our stupid printer won't let me do journaling like that - it just crumples the attached pp and puts a jam message. I've tried just about everything. My old printer let me run pp through like that. I totally miss being able to have computer journaling on pp.

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  10. Beautiful-- love both your layouts! I am gearing up to celebrate thanksgiving this weekend. Enjoy your weekend!

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  11. Your photo collage layout is fantastic, Izzy! I wish I made more of these layouts...all the photos together really capture the entire event. And the fair layout is just adorable....your photos of Cory always make me smile. I"m grateful for your blog and the inspiration I find here :) (It's Thanksgiving in Canada! lol!)

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  12. ADORABLE layouts and photos! Love how you numbered the photos and journaled on the first. Also love how many photos you used on it. The other layout....those photos are just priceless! Love the banner!

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  13. So pretty! Thank you so much for playing along with us at ScrapFIT!

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