Happy Monday! Melanie here today with our Monday Challenge "Let's Celebrate Fall". Some of us are lucky and get to enjoy beautiful Fall weather and October Afternoon has the perfect collection to go with all your Fall pictures - Apple Cider.
For this project I selected one of my many "where I stand" picture that I've taken this Fall. I have a very hard time resisting a lovely pile of leaves, so I've induldeged more than once. To create this layout I used the Apple Cider collection paired with the Daily Flash Stars and Hearts, Daily Flash Navigate Letters and Daily Flash Tin Pins. I wanted the leaf pattern paper to be the focus on my layout, I therefore added a block of paper and kept the embelishement on the paper to a minimum. I used my punches to create negative images that I added throughout my layout. As usual I added a small cluster of embelishements using photo corner, tin pin, star chipboard and diecuts. I like adding these fun clusters they really create lovely accents on my layouts.
Playing along with me today is the fabulous Emily Spahn! When I opened her email and saw her layout, I gasped, I am blown away by this amazing layout and I know you will be as well. Here's what Emily had to say about her layout;
The Apple Cider line is one of my favorites in the Daily Flash Collections and I have a plethora of fall photos right now, so I was super excited when Mel chose "Let's Celebrate Fall" as our Monday challenge! A few weeks ago, I used the Apple Cider collection to create a fun Fall banner for my dining room, and I had a few large leaves left from the project that I thought I could work into this week's layout. I used two of the Apple Cider leaves as the main focal point of my layout. I sewed them down (It was the first time I've used my sewing machine in a year!!!) and added some cute Apple Cider embellishments around the leaves. I originally planned on titling my layout, "King of the Fall" like a play on "King of the Hilll," but unfortunately I just could not make the long title look good, so I cut it down to "Fall King." My favorite thing about the October Afternoon collections is how seamlessly they work together. This layout, while prominently featuring Apple Cider, also includes bits and pieces from at least five other OA collections!
Up for the challenge? Think you can bear to use these cuties on your project? Share what you make with us in the OA Flickr Gallery. Share on Instagram and/or Facebook and use the hashtag #octoberafternoon. Tag me on IG @melblackburn05, so I can see what you have created!