October Afternoon Farm Girl Blog Hop/Project Life 2012 Week 37

Welcome to a stop on the October Afternoon Farm Girl Blog Hop.  Today, most of the October Afternoon Design Team is sharing a fun post featuring Farm Girl products.  You can find the lineup of posts on the October Afternoon blog.  You can find the Farm Girl collection of products here.  

Today I used Farm Girl products on my Week 37 Project Life inserts.  This was the week I did my first big cooking day for crock pot freezer meals.  I thought the homespun papers of the Farm Girl line were perfect to highlight some grocery lists and cooking related photos.  

This first photo shows my entire weekly spread with the 2 inserts.  I like to show these photos with all the inserts so that you can see how I do my inserts.  They're almost always smaller than a 12 x 12 size so that the main weekly spread shows through.  I used a 6 x 12 insert and an 8 x 10 insert this week.

Here's the main weekly spread on it's own.

Here's the left page of the weekly spread.

And the right page of the weekly spread.

I particularly liked this 4 x 6 insert showing Jordan and Josey face to face.  Poor Josey just isn't growing any more and she's coming to terms with it.

Here's my 6 x 12 insert where I'm using the October Afternoon Farm Girl collection.  This golden yellow/aqua/brown paper is one of my favorites from the line.  I tucked my grocery list for my big cooking day into the 6 x 12 page protector then stitched it shut.  I then tucked in the 4 x 6 portion which has my title and journaling. 

Turning the page, here's the back side of the above 6 x 12 insert along with the front size of my 8 x 10 insert. The 6 x 12 insert has my menu plan for the week. The "meal plan" insert uses the back side of the OA patterned paper.  The 8 x 10 insert has photos of my new slow cooker, my new slow cooker recipe books and our new refrigerator that came at just the right time.

Here's the back side of the 8 x 10 insert.  Here I highlight photos from my big cooking day.  I used more of the Pickling Crock patterned paper along with chipboard letters and journaling. All of the little snippets are from the Farm Girl line too.

Here's a close up of my 2 coordinating insert pages.

I have one more cooking themed project for you today.....a recipe card.  If you've been visiting my blog very long then you know I love to make handmade recipe cards.  You can click on the label at the bottom of this post named "recipes" and all of my recipe posts will show up.  This recipe is a favorite crock pot recipe that comes from my mom for Scalloped Potatoes and Weenies.  

I used my favorite paper patterned papers from the Farm Girl collection  along with a label from the Word Stickers sheet + a label I cut from the Almanac patterned paper. 

The red ric rac sticker is from the 12 x 12 Shape Stickers sheet. The red stitching just seemed fitting since I've been using it for all my holiday projects. 

This was so fun to make.  I'm a true farm girl right down to my roots so this fun Farm Girl line is going to get good use.  I can't wait to use it for more homespun type projects and scrapbook pages of my canned good, garden veggies and life in the country.  But remember, one of the things I love best about October Afternoon is that in each themed line, there are gobs of products that will work for everyday type projects.  You're gonna love it!

To wrap up my post today, I'm giving away a rubber stamp set from the Farm Girl collection.  The winner will be announced on December 12th.  To enter for my prize drawing leave a comment on this post telling me either what you would create with the Farm Girl collection and/or if you're a crock pot user.  Please note:  I've had some issues with spam comments.  You can log in anonymously but you must leave your full name in your post if you do so.  Good luck!  Oh, and there's a grand prize drawing over at the OA blog so be sure to check in there. 

I'm the end of the blog hop so you can visit Danni's blog if you need the starting point. I'll be back soon with a big honkin' post kicking off my slow cooker and freezer meal fun! Thanks for stopping by today.