For this month’s Outfit to Scrapbook feature, I have with me Nora Griffin, from Just Make Stuff. She selected this preppy, Autumnal outfit from Gal Meets Glam to use as a jumping point for our scrapbook pages. I love the simple, sophisticated style, and definitely can get behind a Fall color scheme! Check out our creations below, and if you play along, please link your projects in the comments section below! We’d love to take a look!

Nora kept her page really simple, drawing inspiration from the color palette and traditional patterns of the outfit she chose. For the patterns, Nora stamped a grid onto a manilla tag and made a cute little bunting for her page with red striped paper and twine. I really love the Americana feel of her design, and it works great with her subject matter!

For my page, I grabbed a few elements inspired by the featured outfit, focusing my arrangement around a big painted splotch of red. Strips of striped and plaid patterned paper bring in the pattern we see from the outfit, but keeping everything simple on a neutral background.  For that traditional feel, I kept my photos black and white and used a simple, timeless font for my title.

Follow Katie as she shares her everyday adventures in discovering her personal fashion, healthy recipes, and enjoying life in her home outside of Chicago, Illinois. Katie’s most recent adventure has been creating and maintaining a lifestyle magazine called Off Switch. Off Switch is full of beautiful images and words with the intention of sparking ideas and motivating mindfullness of self and surroundings, Off Switch is first and formost a reminder to live life fully…without an off switch.

Kara is a quirky, creative gal who captured my attention when she was just a young teenager cranking out angsty and arty scrapbook pages. Her style and sense of design has developed through the years, and now as a college student, she supports her creative life with the help of her online art journal classes. Kara helps her students open their minds to creative ways of exploring their journalling skills and combining paper crafting techniques with mixed media and artistic expression. I’ve taken a class of hers before and definitely recommend it to anyone who is new to art journaling or anyone who wants to push themselves outside of their comfort zone in new, creative ways.

Play That Song is a great class for music lovers, and while the live class started a couple of days ago, you can hop in now and have access to the entire class PDF for 6 months after the class has ended- great for busy people who want to work on the class at their own rate. And really, you can’t beat the $12.50 price!

Little Boo & Pie is a delightful Etsy shop full of cute clothing and accessories for the little girl in your life. You’ll find pretty patterned headbands (as seen above), little skirts made from vintage fabric, hair accessories, and even kiddo flair made with love and available to you at very reasonable prices- PLUS – receive 15% off your order with the discount code: nice15. Little Boo & Pie is run by a friend of mine, Martha, who recently set out on an adoption adventure, and consequently a new life as a stay at home mom to her new daughter. This Etsy shop is now her part time job, so it’s great to know that when you purchase something here, you’re supporting a young family!

As I figured would happen, I’ve been feeling less and less like taking outfit pictures, as less and less looks good on my changing body. I’m really trying to stick with it, though, because I need some kind of incentive to think of new outfits to work with a baby belly. Lately I’ve been falling into the same selections- a tie front short and stretchy skirt. Not that this doesn’t work. It just gets old! I really wish I could just wear stretchy pants and tees most days, but it’s just too hot for stretchy pants. Saved by the thermometer, I ‘spose!

I made these trousers early on in my pregnancy by altering some baggy, khaki maternity capris from the thrift store. Check out the instructions here to make your own (maternity or not) candy-colored trousers!

O U T F I T   D E T A I L S :

blouse: thrifted (about 7 years ago!) | trousers: thrifted and altered here | shoes: thrifted