The Little Details | Layle By Mail

Hello Friends! 

Our Fall season is in full force here on the East Coast and the colors are so beautiful.  As much as I love the fall colors I really love Sweater Weather! I created a layout using the Season Pass 2.0 Fall|Holiday Collection. Concentrating on the colors yellow, blue and some burgundy. Of course this paper collection matched my niece's weather perfectly ;) 

I did something a bit different on this layout. I didn't want to crop my photo so I left it as is and I used 3x4" cards and pattern papers to highlight my photo. It's okay to mix and match ;) 

I also wanted to add some kraft or beige color to frame my layout and papers. I had a piece of cardboard that I just cut and made it about 11x11 in size to frame my 12x12 layout. I then cut the blue flowered paper to frame the entire layout. I really like the way this looks. 

I did not want to use white cardstock so I cut up small strips of the striped paper to create my journal strips. I really like this because it goes quite well with the title card.  

Of course my page would not be complete without adding some of the matching Season Pass diecuts. 

I hope you have a wonderful end of October and you can enjoy some of those changing colors and if not maybe a Sweater! 

Products Used . 

Season Pass 2.0 Fall | Holiday Collection

Season Pass 2.0 Fall | Holiday Collection - Diecuts

3D Foam Squares

Sharpie Pen

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OCT 31 | Layle By Mail

 Hello Friends! 

Don't you love this time of year? Here on the East Coast of Canada the leaves are changing color, the mornings are crisp and afternoons are nice and sunny. It's also the season of SOCKS! I love my comfy socks this time of year ;)

Although it is Fall in the air it is also time to start thinking about those Halloween Costumes. I have a cousin who LOVES Halloween. I had this picture of her from a few years back and although I did a layout with it once before it was hard not to do it again for that Halloween themed layout using the NEW Season Pass 2.0 Fall|Holiday Collection. 

Of course if you know by now I love my diecuts. This layout was no exception! Although this time I used different thickness of dimensional adhesive it gave my diecuts more dimensions. 

I also used one of Layle's favorite techniques and that is the doodled border around her papers ;)  It is not something I do often but when I want to add a little playfulness to my project I do add those little doodles. (Thanks Layle!) 

I wanted to add a little extra detail to my journaling instead of typed words or strips so I added some doodled lines and then added my journaling. It is a fun way to add little personal details to your page. Try It and Make sure you try a Halloween Layout with the NEW Season Pass collection.

Products Used . 

Season Pass 2.0 Fall | Holiday Collection

Season Pass 2.0 Fall | Holiday Collection - Diecuts

3D Foam Squares

Sharpie Pen

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Fall Memories | Layle By Mail

 Hello Friends! 

It's Kristine here today and I am showcasing a layout I created with the Summer/Fall Season Pass. 

I used the fall themed papers for my layout.  I used quite a bit of 3x4" cards from the collection to create some embellishments and my title. 

I did the same last week with the summer papers. LBM has so many diecuts included in this collection but I wanted to add a few more. You can never have enough diecuts am I right? I cut out the "collect moments not things" as well the title of the page "Fall Memories" from these 3x4" cards. 

I used a small "september" stamp to add the month and also a little subtitle "it's fall y'all". I love that on my little flags. So many options for these little mini stamps. 

I hope you get the chance to create with the Season Pass papers. 
Have a great day creating!

Kristine 

Products Used:
Layle By Mail Season Pass 2.0| Summer/Fall
Layle By Mail Season Pass 2.0 | Summer/Fall Paper Pack
Layle By Mail Season Pass 2.0 | Summer/Fall - 4x6 Stamp Set
Layle By Mail Season Pass 2.0 | Summer/Fall Wordstrip Stickers

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Summer Fun | Layle By Mail

 Hello Friends!  I

It is such a pleasure for me to be here with you playing with paper again. It has been a few years since I created so I must admit I am a bit rusty! It was really nice to be able to play with the LBM Season Pass Summer/Fall Collection. It made it so easy for me to create a layout using elements from the diecuts and matching papers. 

I took inspiration from a sketch I recently created with 4 squares as a base. Since the LBM Season Pass collections feature a few sheets from each "season" it was great to pull out 3-4 pieces and cut them into squares.. they all match! 

I used pieces of diecuts and I also used a few pieces from the 3x4 insert cards. 

These are so convenient because you can trim, cut, or stamp on them. I cut up a few pieces to add more details to my page. You can see in this image that I used a few cut out pieces.

One of my ultimate favorite scrapbook tools are popdots! That's no secret. Adding popdots to my diecuts gives the image and layout more dimensions. I create small clusters of elements giving my page that "3d" look. 

I hope you enjoyed my first layout for LBM and yes my first layout in quite a few years. I look forward to creating more layouts for you using the Season Pass collections. You will see how versatile these collections are to create so many layouts using the die cuts, stamps, papers and so much more included in the collections.

Products Used: 

Layle By Mail _ Summer/Fall Season Pass 2.0

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Artsy Memories Made | Simple Stories

Hello Friends!

It's Kristine here today to share a fun layout using the NEW collection called "Hey Crafty Girl!" It is filled with so many great elements such as sewing machines, flowers, paint bottles and so much more! It's super cute in color and you can really create fun pages with this collection. I can't wait to create a little mini album and a few more layouts with my kit.

 My layout is called Artsy Memories Made. My friends and I attend this Crop and Create event every year and we have so much fun together. This is a layout showing us being silly at a photo booth.

I used a silhouette cameo to cut out a background for my layout, then i added small pieces of patterned papers, elements and cute little pics. To finish off my layout I added Bits & Pieces as well as a few pieces of thread to make it a bit more " crafty " of a page.

I hope you get a change to play with " Hey, Crafty Girl" You will enjoy it!

Supplies:

Hey Crafty Girl
11900 Collection Kit
11901 Combo Stickers
11914 Simple Basics Kit
11923 Bits and Pieces
119524 Journal Bits and Pieces

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Believe | Simple Stories

Hello Friends!

 I was fortune to be able to create using the newly released Holiday collection called “Country Christmas” from Simple Stories. This collection is filled with so many gorgeous Bits & Pieces and I used a few to create clusters on my layout.

 Let’s take a look !

 To start my layout I used a piece of paper from the Basics Kit that matches this collection. It is perfect for background papers and allows me to add so many other pattern papers to my page and not have a standard white piece of cardstock.

I added a 1”x12” piece of red & white polka dotted paper to the top and bottom of my page to give some highlights to my layout. I added a larger piece of plaid paper 5x12 to the top and a 1/2” x 12” strip to the bottom.
The green paper was placed at the bottom of the plaid paper to tie up the layout. I added sewing for texture to the paper strips.

The Bits & Pieces for this collection are plenty. I created a cluster of stickers and diecuts on the left of my photo, added another cluster to the bottom of the layout using a border from the Combo Sticker sheet. So many options with these diecuts, it’s unlimited what you can create with them.

I added a title for may layout which is a sticker with the word BELIEVE. I added some dimensional adhesive to the back of the sticker to give it some height on the page.

I hope you enjoyed my layout and could find some inspiration in creating your own layout using the Country Christmas collection.

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Snow Day | Simple Stories

 I'm here today to share a layout I recently created using the Winter Farmhouse collection from Simple Stories.

I wanted to use so many patterned papers from this collection so I decided why not use them in strips. I took a few of my favorite papers and cut them in assorted sizes. What a great way to use many patterns and colors.

This isn’t hard to recreate. You can also do this with leftover or any of your favorite simple stories collections!

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Grins & Giggles | Simple Stories

Hello Everyone!

It’s Kristine here today to share one of my latest layouts using the So Happy Together Collection. This collection is so perfect for a variety of pages and projects. It contains cute little flowers, word diecuts, colorful houses and so much more. Going to a house warming party soon? Perhaps an anniversary? Or just want to document the love your shared with your family a few weeks ago? All of these topics and more can be documented using this collection. My 12x12 layout is called Grins & Giggles.

My cousin spent the afternoon with her daughter and all they did was laugh and play outside. The most memorable moment of that day was this sweet selfie they took. I love the smile they both have and the laughter they shared together. I started my page with a piece of Green paper from the Basics Kit. I backed it up with a Blue piece of paper from the same Basics Kit and both of these then added to a piece of white cardstock. This created a great base for all those pieces of patterned paper I used.

I had an 6x8 paper pad and used quite a few of the papers included in this collection. I created layers and started embellishing with the Bits and Pieces.

Adding a small die it for my title “grins and Giggles” was perfect for this picture. I wanted to add a few sentences of journaling but decided to keep it simple with two strips of journaling as I usually do.

This was really a fun layabout to created and I absolutely loved creating with this collection. Don’t forget to share your layout using some Simple stories by using the #simplestories and tagging us @simplestories_

Have a great day!

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