justem: little bits of this and that

scrappy sunday!

the november midnight rooster kit is now available!  i wanted to share with you my first (and favorite) layout this month!  i have seen a lot of people using punches in such creative ways lately, and i thought i'd try my hand at it! i love how it all came together...and it includes one my all time favorite photos!  hope you are all having a great weekend! :)

journaling: the other night i overheard justin talking to mirielle.  "of course i will take a kiss," he said..."someday you probably won't be giving them out so freely."  it is so true. she is growing up way too fast. we better get those kisses while she is still offering!  11.11

Puddle Jumper

A quick layout to share today! This is from the Midnight Rooster October kit. :)  

Midnight Rooster September

Happy Saturday! This has been one crazy week.  I keep hoping things will settle down, but we seem to have a steady stream of busy-ness!! ;)  I forgot to share with you my September layouts for Midnight Rooster. As always, this is a fabulous kit and the layouts I made put a smile on my face! :)

This was the first layout I made. I just knew the Cosmo Cricket letters needed to be used with the sharpie photos!!

This layout features one of the Midnight Rooster exclusive stick pins...

My next layout was really quick and easy to make, but I just love the result. I've been making this kinds of layouts (a mess of patterend paper w/inked edges!) forever and ever, but they never get old to me! ;)

And finally, here is a crazy simple layout of Justin and me.  I know it's nothing fancy, but I really, really love it. :)

Funny thing to note...the bottom little strip is a Crate Paper sticker...and it has a typo!! It says "iebruary" instead of "february."  Crazy, huh?!  Anyway, be sure to check out the Midnight Rooster kit! This month we have a great (and super nice) guest designer this month, Keshet, who I was lucky to meet at CHA. :)   Hope you all have a great weekend.  

Midnight Rooster August

I have some layouts to share with you today! The Midnight Rooster kit went live a week ago, but I was so busy I forgot to share my projects!  I made three layouts with this fabulous kit, and I really like them all.  As you probably know, I am pretty honest about my work when I don't like it, so I hope there is no shame is sharing when I really *do* love it! ;) 

The first layout I made was super feminine with all kinds of little touches like the handmade pins that are exclusive to this kit.  These are photos I took of Miri on Valentine's Day. She was SO excited to eat the sucker that she got at day care, which was made obvious by the fact that she let me take her photo over and over without turning away from the camera!!

**Published: Scrapbook Trends, February 2012**

It's hard to believe that this next layout was made with the same kit, as it is pretty much the opposite of feminine. That's what I love so much about the Midnight Rooster kits...they are super versatile!! The Studio Calico wood veneer alphabet was really easy to customize.  I loved it!

**Published: Create: All About Babies Idea Book, May 2012**

 

Finally, I created another layout  of Miri. Coincidentally, these photos were taken the same night as the first layout, but I had them printed in black and white and she was in a much sillier mood than when the first set was taken! I used the Crate Paper label stickers to cover the Maya Road butterflies and the result was so cute!

two to share

I have been busy...
and CHA tomorrow. yay for scrappy times!
for now, two more layouts to share!

(for the Ormolu creative team...check out today's post...there is a fantastic giveaway!)

(another July Midnight Rooster layout. can't wait to meet up with the MR girlies tomorrow!)

she's two!

I have another July Midnight Rooster layou to share.  I can't claim total originality on the idea...as there have been a lot of people using this Sassafras paper in similar ways. But I pretty much love everything about it. :)  The butterfly embellishment comes just like that in the kit.  Super fun!

Scrappy shares...

I have a couple things to share today!  The first is a card that I made for the Ormolu design team. It is a 60th birthday card for my mom, though by the time she actually got the card the tag had been bent and the O was ripped off.  I suppose there's nothing like the special "Miri touch"! ;)

The second thing to share today is one of my July Midnight Rooster layouts! This month's kit "Butterfly Stampede" is now available, and as always it's a fabulous kit filled with great papers, fun embellishments, and unique one of a kind items.  I can't believe how much Miri has grown since these photos were taken last summer!!

It's funny..the layout started out looking pretty much nothing like the finished product.  I started w/ a bunch of layered pattern paper at the top (pattern on pattern), but it was too messy looking. So I ripped off the elements...though then there were a few little "oops" spots where the adhesive had been. I then, very selectively placed the buttons over the "oops" places! ;)  And finally, totally on a whim I added the bakers twine and the date and age flags...and I'm loving the result! Sometimes those mistakes happen for a reason! ;) I have some more layouts to share with you later this week!  But for now, be sure to check out the kit and the work my fellow designers created!  Have a great Wednesday!

(PS: Speaking of "oops"...I just realized I put Miri's age as 29 months, which is her age THIS August! Last August she was 17 months...I'll be changing that!)

Last layout...

This is my last Midnight Rooster layout to share with you. Incidentally it was the first layout I created. Because I'm brutally honest when I talk about my layouts, I'll say...this one is just okay for me. I think Mirielle is adorable. And I like that I used black as my background because I very rarely do that. However, it just seems like it's missing something. I should have put something in the buttons...maybe I'll go back and do that later.  Anywho...here is little miss fashion plate... ;)

OH MY GOSH. Okay in retrospect I realize part of the reason I don't like it!!  This was the second version I did...the first one I screwed up the journaling and had to dismantle the layotu and redo the entire ledger section. BUT, when I just looked at it now again I realized that I forgot to replace a strip of paper that goes in the middle of the photo/ledger paper. Somethign really is missing!  So crazy that I didn't realize it until now. I'll have to fix that!  Happy Tuesday everyone!

two to share...

a couple more midnight rooster layouts today!

this first one uses an october afternoon wagon sticker, which is like HUGE for me, because i always get these sheets of stickers of very specific "things" like bears or cars or red wagons. i never ever know what to do with these stickers.  flowers and pinwheels and generic things like that i can do...but never the really specific stickers. but it just so happened that i had a red wagon photo to go with the sticker! score!  i also used my favorite tool the star punch...i can't get enough of it. it's a problem, really...

the next one...hmmm. not sure how i feel about it. i like the idea of it.  but the design just isn't want i wanted it to be (not to mention it didn't photograph very well).  the one thing that i am a fan of, however, is the journaling. i am not a great journaler. in fact, it's a bit embarrassing how many layouts i have made with not a spec of journaling on them.  so, my new goal in life (well, scrappy life) is to put more than one sentence on a layout. i *think* i did that on every layout this month. go me! ;)

there were some super cute exclusive products this month...and i realized after i made my layouts that i don't think i used a single one! silly me. i am going to try to whip up another layout or maybe some cards to showcase them.  tobi does a great job of creating some really unique items for the kits.  check out the kit this month! everyone who purchases one will have the chance to win some odds and ends from cosmo cricket! 

Midnight Rooster June

Today is the ninth, which means the Midnight Rooster Reveal!  I have one layout to share with you tonight. It is definitely my favorite layout this month, which is funny because it was the last layout I made, and I finished it in about a half hour.  It's funny how I can spend hours making something that I just don't like and can spend such a short amount of time on something I love! :)  And...I used...my cricut. Shock and awe!  I don't think I've used my cricut in like...years.  But it worked well to make my seven...maybe I'll start using it more!  Have a great weekend!