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I know from the looks of things here, you wouldn’t guess I’ve been making a big stack of new stuff to share with you, but I really have! I’m really looking forward to truly being back in the swing of things as a blogger with plenty of projects, tutorials, and videos throughout November and onward. Now I need to take all those projects and get them translated into blog posts and get all those edited videos uploaded to share with you! Obviously.

Since it’s the first of the month, I’d love to share my November product picks with you, and I’m delighted to say you really will be seeing how I go from kit to finished projects with these products in a nice timely manner (along with with projects from the remaining earlier kits, in clearly what is not a timely manner, but I still want to share them with you). This is what I’m scrapping with right now. (Well not right now. Right now I’m typing. But when I’m not typing. Also when I’m not eating pumpkin pie. Because I’m not very good at typing while scrapping and I’m even worse at eating pie while scrapping. Therein lies disaster, I tell you.)

Click here to shop the Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit for November 2013.

This month, I’ve gone with autumnal notes in the form of woodgrain and stitches, but with a turquoise twist on the usual mix of browns, yellows, and oranges. When earth tones were a very big trend in the scrapbooking world, I made more than my fair share of very, very brown pages, and when I look back at them, I’m still happy with the designs, even if they are dated, but the overwhelming sense of brown makes even the happier memories seem sad at first glance. That very limited colour scheme just doesn’t work for me, and yet I find the colours of autumn really beautiful! I’m sure that’s because in the real world outside my scrapbooking supplies, I see those lovely autumn leaf colours against a background that includes blue and grey skies, green grass, and the odd colourful shot of a late-blooming rose. I’m a terrible gardener so I’m very thankful to live in a neighbourhood with more talented people for that and I can just look from a safe distance! But it’s those shots of colours that make the autumn colour scheme really work for me, so that’s what I was after with this kit. I hope you like it too, of course! I also really like that turquoise is a colour that works easily for boys or girls, and it can be casual or more formal depending on what you put with it. Same goes for the bronze color shine mist!

As always, you can shop the kit to suit you. I love that big woodgrain stamp and have been using that for a few months now, but if you don’t use stamps much, that’s a quick way to reduce the price of the kit. If you tend to do double page layouts, duplicate some of the papers to make that easy for you. And if the motifs, fonts, or colours don’t work for you, you can always make a change.

Click here to shop the Best of Both Worlds Scrapbooking Kit for November 2013.

Also, while we’re talking about kits, a word to those who have made a deposit for a Christmas in a Box kit (either UK or rest of the world): I’m just finishing a few final steps on that and will be sending emails to everyone this coming Monday with all the info you need! Thanks so much.

Have a great weekend, and happy scrapping!

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01 November 2013

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