2020 Calendar - November

Description

The moment I saw the bulk of the submissions for the "Fall In Love" PS blog train, I knew I wanted to use it for November. The color scheme just works, and there were a lot of excellent contributions. So many, in fact, that I couldn't include all the ones I wanted to use and not have the layout too busy.

I decided to use strips of some of the pretty papers as though they were ribbons, even inter-leaving them properly like the basket weave paper strips on the covers of this calendar, though the photo and cluster end up mostly hiding where I wove the strips. Oh well.

The cluster happened because I wanted to do a leaf "bouquet," but the leaves were different enough from each other that it wouldn't work without some help...which ended up being using a selection of nicely textured papers with the chosen leaves as clipping masks, to unify the look. Using any kind of digital scrapbooking leaf as a clipping mask is a great way to "cut out" paper shapes.

Layout elements come from the following designers: Songbird Scraps, DigiDewi, Crafty Moose, Designs by Magnolia, Dezines by Nae, Robin Sampson, Lady22/Bourico, Promethean Concepts, Jessica Dunn, Diane Hiller, Lil MonkeyShine Designs, Greene Edition, and me!