Two New Projects from the Hello Fall Cycling Team! Introducing Ashley Horton!

Hello all! No post yesterday - thought I'd give you a day to take in the wonderful apple tree centerpiece from Shellye McDaniel. Whew! Pretty cool, huh? In case you missed it, you can find it here.

And today, I'm back with two equally wonderful Hello Fall! projects from the very talented Ashley Horton! These yummy layouts will be absolutely perfect for your fun fall memories.

So let's get right to it, why don't we? Here's Ashley!

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"A Harvest of Fun"

One of the great things about working with coordinating products, is how quick and easy your pages can be. You don't have to sit for hours trying to pick out the products you want to use and and lose time working on your pages!! That's what I loved about this fun page, using the Hello Fall line from Little Yellow Bicycle! It took less than an hour to get my page completed. I started by cutting a scalloped frame in the Burnt Orange Knit paper and attaching it to my background Autumn Tree paper. I then cut 5 inch squares from Golden Flourish, Harvest Rings, Green Splendor, and Walnut Knit. Then I inked the edges of each of the papers to add a little more definition. I created a grid with the 5 inch squares and then placed my photos in the center of the layout. There were a few scraps of paper after cutting, and I used those to create a few border strips under my photos. There are some adorable alphas included in the Family Tree kit I received, and they were perfect for using in my title. I adhered each letter to a scrap piece of the Walnut Knit paper to make them stand out a little more against my background paper.

Finally, I started adding some of the adorable embellishments in the Hello Fall line. The Chipboard Shapes worked great on the right hand side of my page, and I decided to add a little bling to my border strips with the Jewel Stickers. I finished my title off with the word "Fun", which was included in the Chipboard Sticker Words package. There are so many fun banners and penants also included in this line, and I decided to balance out the left side of my page by adding several of the pennants.

For a little fun touch, I added one of the Clear Cuts Shapes to the center of the yellow pennant and attached it with a brad.

For my journaling strips, I just used a Desktop Publishing program to type up my journaling and printed it out on a scrap piece of the Autumn Tree paper.

Products Used:

HF-101 Autumn Tree

HF-106 Golden Flourish

Harvest Rings

HF-103 Green Splendor

HF-105 Burnt Orange Knit

HF-104 Walnut Knit

HF-279 Chipboard Shapes

HF-310 Family Tree Kit (Letters)

HF-135 Cardstock Favorite Pieces

HF-308 10 Things Pocket (Pennants)

HF-165 Chipboard Sticker Words

HF-197 Jewel Stickers

HF-230 Clear Cut Shapes

Other:

Font: Plantagenet Cherokee

Brads: The Paper Studio

Pen: Zig

Ink: Memento

"Little Pumpkin Picker"

Since I had so many fun products to work with from Hello Fall, I decided to do a double page layout for my second project. I began this page by getting my papers cut and layered. For the background paper, I chose Delicious Autumn Text and then used Burnt Orange Knit, Golden Flourish, Harvest Rings, and Walnut Knit for layering. Then I placed my photos and added the title and journaling area. There are some great shapes and embellies in the Clear Cut Shapes package and I used two of the orange flourishes near my title and journaling block.

Since the flourish on the right hand side was over the Orange Knit paper, I decided to add the Golden Flourish paper behind it, to help it stand out. I used some of the cute little leaves from the Cardstock Favorite Pieces package to scatter across the two pages and I outlined thiem with a brown Zig pen for more definition. I decided to add a little bit of Baker's Twine, in matching colors, to give another fun element across the layout. There are some adorable banners in the Mini Banner package and I LOVE the little owls that are included here and there in this line. This banner was the only one I had and it was only 12 inches, so I decided to use part of it under the photos on the left side of my page and then used the remainder, for a little emphasis, under the landscape photo on the right side of my page. I finished off the layout by adding the cute little acorn and tree from the Chipboard Shapes package.

Products Used:

HF-107 Delicious Autumn Text

HF-105 Burnt Orange Knit

HF-106 Golden Flourishes

Harvest Rings

HF-104 Walnut Knit

HF-161 Crepe Paper Lace Stickers

HF-279 Chipboard Shapes

HF-134 Journaling Cards

HF-309 5 Things Envelope

HF-310 Family Tree Kit

HF-230 Clear Cuts Shapes

HF-135 Cardstock Favorite Pieces

HF-307 Mini Banners

Other:

Pen: Zig

Baker's Twine: The Twinery

Thickers: American Crafts

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Just beautiful, aren't they? Oh I meant layouts ... but those kids are adorable too! Thanks so much to Ashley Horton for sharing her talent with us today! Be sure to hop over to Ashley's blog and leave her some love!

Can't wait to see what this Cycling Team dreams up next! And oh, by the way, it's one week 'til Thanksgiving...will YOU be making an Apple Tree Centerpiece?

Happy Thursday!

Peg