This week’s Happy Planner layout is flowery — because, well, people in Manila are currently bringing flowers to the cemetery for All Saints’ and All Souls’ Day. Haha! Joke lang. What actually happened was: what I wanted for this layout didn’t quite work out, so I ended up adding flowers and leaves instead. Hence, that curved floral thingy smacked right in the middle of the spread. Such an ugh layout, but oh wells. I used the Happy Memory Keeping Floral Memories and The Encourager sticker books for this week’s spread. Sentiment for the week: Girl, you are super amazing. Crafty things I worked on last week I finally turned my Bee Happy Weeklies Aall & Create “paper dolls” into cards ! It was a little #Inktober inspired project I worked on one afternoon just so I could play with my Distress Oxides again. I made a hybrid scrapbook layout for Traci Reed’s Sketchy Sunday — it’s a layout for my...
As a Potterhead, I am loving this collection! It all begins with a sorting into different houses using a quiz Kelly designed herself. Many in the Design Squad were sorted into The House of Winnie, described as “those who seem quiet yet have a bright spirit.” I myself was sorted in the House of Winnie — and I am not complaining. It’s me to a T!
This collection is a little different — it’s interactive! It starts with the Charm School Quiz and an Admission Kit. If you’d like to be sorted, you can take the free quiz here:
Here’s the little Admission Kit I made for the House of Winnie, using the admission packet I received.
As always, the full collection is massive — packed with die cuts, ephemera, journaling cards, and patterned papers. My favorites are always the flowers, and the Charm School flower set did not disappoint!
If you’re new to my blog or socials, my very first project with each of Kelly’s collections is always a 5 x 6.5 mini album. For Charm School, I added lace and Little Birdie flowers to make it extra special and pretty. Out of all the albums I’ve made so far, I think this one has the most tuck spots and pockets!
A little side story about these Little Birdie flowers…
On my birthday, my mom surprised me with a big bundle of them in all sorts of styles and colors. I loved that she remembered me asking if she could bring some back from her trip to India earlier this year.
Of course, when I opened the gift, I couldn’t help but tease her: “Ito ata yung mga binili ko sa Shopee eh!" ("Are these the same Little Birdie packs I ordered from Shopee").
I also had fun using my We R Memory Keeper’s frame puncher — it made creating frames so much easier and faster! I used to cut them manually, which sometimes made me too lazy to add as many frames as I wanted. Not anymore! Haha!
On top of that, I joined Mommy Guide Inc’s Stashtember Challenges, where we use supplies from our stash that we bought but never used. For Day 1, I created a mixed media art journal spread with Charm School — and it was so much fun! Check out the whole September prompts here!
Here's my #Stashtember2025 project for the Day 1 Oldest, never used stamps - Not the absolute oldest in terms of stamps, but definitely one of the veterans of my stash — Lawn Fawn Quinn’s ABCs finally got inked! Paired it with another first-timer, Paige Evans’ Floral set, on a mixed media journal spread of my KBC Charm School Admission Kit (yes, complete with a little paper doll of me!).
New-to-me supplies I played with today:
- Ohuhu Honolulu B markers
- Distress Spritz
- Masking technique (used on “Charm School,” Winnie & the sunflowers!)
Day 1 done — and it feels so good to finally give these stamps some love! I will make a separate blog about this by the end of the month but since this is Charm School related, I'm adding my Day 1 project here.
If you’d like to be part of Charm School too, here are the important links:
And that’s my little crafty adventure into Charm School! Whether you’re a fellow Winnie like me or sorted into another house, I hope this collection sparks as much magic and fun in your projects as it did in mine. After all, school is always more fun when it’s Charm School.
Your big craft stash brings out the creativity in you. So many choices that it allows you to mix and match thus helping you create a unique piece with an expression of personality. The dauntless mixing of different styles, colors, texture and patterns make you achieve a “one-of-a-kind” look reflecting your personality and style.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I tried to check on the Charm School Quiz and as expected from an old and not techy person wasn’t able to. Won’t push it , I’m too old to be joining the house of winnie, mickey , or whatever house there is. What’s important is I have a house and it’s HOME for all of us.
And the flowers, yes, its my gift. We ordered the same design which shows we have the same taste.
-aMOMymous