I cannot believe we are already in October and the holidays will be here in no time at all. It was fun to get into the holiday spirit while working with these stamps. There were so many great ones to choose from I used just about all of them except the numbers.

I especially loved the small dainty stamps and knew those needed a smaller scale to really stand out so I modified a digital element that I had to make the tags for the left side of the spread. It was really fun playing with the stamps and just filling the space. I had eight tags printed on my sheet of cardstock so that allowed me to come up with as many combos as I could. After I fussy cut them I decided which ones to use. I had hoped to use six but it looked a bit too crowded so I scaled back to four and it filled the 6×8 page nicely. I attached the tags with some gold brads and that little bit of gold really finished the page off.

For the right side I used a collage I had made and posted to my IG Story and ended up making a little fold out so that I could add more photos and the story inside. On the inside I used some of the bigger sentiments to fill the space and just added some printed journaling and two more photos. I also made those photos a flip up and added in a little tab to showcase that.

I was really happy that I had some holes to fill in my 2024 December album and luckily I had the photos ready to go so I could make this. Christmas season really is the happiest time of the year and I cannot wait for this season too.

And one more thing before you check out the pages here, since we’ve had some renewed interest in Small Time, we are going to keep this  as a regular item in the shop for a little while. Yay! The last preorder has arrived and they’ve been shipped and so we have some extras available currently. But if they sell out, don’t worry, we’ll be getting more in. :)

Hi there, crafty friends, Jessica here with some inspiration using some of the gorgeous new October released sets from the shop. I used the Highgate numbers on 2 of my days, days 01 and 15 and then layered (give me all of the layers) up the numbers with icons and phrases from Holiday Things, A Very Simple Christmas and Christmas Captions. I snuck in A few bits from one of my favorite sets from last month, Layers.

And lastly I added some washi and a couple stickers and these days are ready for documenting in my daily journal. I’m on such a role, I think I will do a few more pages as the possibilities with these new stamps are endless!

And she’s back with a bang on this December planner spread. Look how she used the Highgate brackets as borders for her design elements. And the string of ornaments? I am swooning over it all.

So good to have you again Julie!

I’m pretty sure my jaw dropped when I opened my package for this October release… I love EVERYTHING and it shows in my spread this month… You’ll see little bits from each set.

One thing I love about Kerri’s designs is how they play so nicely together. I love creating little pairings, and her bracket stamp from the Highgate Numbers slid right in next to the amazing text from Noel Nostalgia. Sprinkle in a trio of trees from A Very Simple Christmas and voila! We have ourselves a classy little grouping.

One good bracket deserves another, haha, so I snagged the lovely December stamp from Holiday Things and threw in a versatile grid which quickly morphed into an ornament stand of sorts.  Tis the season!

I couldn’t stop there with the ornaments, of course. I had to dangle them across the open space to the left of my calendar. Love how they allowed me to add in ALL the colors I want to use through the month of December – in a fun, decorative way.  Bring on the holidays, I’m ready!

(Also used her fabulous Over Time set from a while back to set up the weekdays for my calendar). Perfect example of how Kerri’s designs always pass the test of time.

Here’s some festive things I’ve been making with all of them. Oh what fun! And as you can see, they all play nicely together. :)

On Instagram, @desktop_nerd has been using these in his journals for some time. And since his followers always ask about this no-longer-available stamp set, I thought perhaps we might do a special preorder for those that have been wanting it.

I’ve paired it up here with some Christmas stamps coming in October (insert clapping hands here). And that gorgeous paper is from a former December Daily kit by Paislee Press. love.

Hi crafty friends, Jessica here to share a layout I did documenting some fun I had with friends this summer. I used both the brand new Layers set along with the Growing Wild SM set. They work so well together!

I stamped one of the branches from the Growing Wild SM set on a piece of cheesecloth and love that effect for layering! The big stamp from the Layers set was a perfect base for the lower right hand corner of my layout. There are so many possible combinations with the stamp set! Perfect for, well, layers! I can see myself using it a lot in both scrapbooking and in my memory planner.

This Layers stamp set felt like it needed something soft and sentimental so I made something that captured that kind of moment. Dropping your child off to college away from you is one of the hardest things one can do. And man was this past weekend a hard one. The picture on the right is from her move in day and the sunset on the left side was a few days after we got home. We loved watching the sunsets together and it felt like the perfect photo to use to compliment the layout.

I started with one of the grids and I knew for sure that I wanted to use the script text stamp. After that I just started playing around with overlapping and fitting in as many of the little bits as I could. I decided to stamp everything on a piece of watercolor paper that I tore and stamping on it worked beautifully, and it gave the stamping even more texture which I love. A few simple embellishments was all this needed to wrap it all up and of course some journaling to help process the abundance of feelings right now.

September is also when we bring out the new Halloween stamps on account-a ya gotta have them before you get into October, right? This year we have Fright Night to tickle your Halloween fancy.

Additionally, this month, we have Layers and Growing Wild SM. Ohhhh, how I love the Layers set! So many elements to layer up and make something cool and unique. So many possibilities! And they look amazing with Growing Wild SM! A girl needs her options and so I just had to have a smaller version of Growing Wild. I’m just giddy about these. :)

Therefore, we are opening up a preorder window through Tuesday, August 18. This will be your final chance to pick these up. :) Please note that if you order more stamps with the preorder, they will all ship together around mid-September

Healing took longer than I thought it would. And while I have been working my way back up, generally walking a mile a day, it’s nowhere near what I used to do because I would still get little–or bigger–pains while walking. A mile was my safe zone…until yesterday when I walked 2.1 miles in Texas. (Here with hubs while he works.)

I tell you what, it felt marvelous! The past few days I hadn’t been really having any of the random pains that I’d been having so I decided it was time to expand the walk. And the beauty of walking early in the morning (out of necessity in the middle of summer in Texas) is you get to see some pretty incredible sunrises. Loving it!

I brought a stash of supplies with me to Texas and was very much inspired to create a page about all this in my ‘anything goes’ journal. This is the first physical page I’ve made since before my surgery. So yesterday was a really big day for me and it felt great! :)

Stamps: Growing Wild, Franklin SM, A Normal Day (note block), Street Stories (early morning) Keeping Record (saved in a photograph) and Prompted (feeling good).