April Sneak Peeks

Hello friends! Can you believe it's April? I am finding it very hard to believe because there is still a ton of snow where I live and the temperatures are very cold.

The sneak peeks are here for the April 2018 kits at My Creative Scrapbook and they make it feel a little more like Spring for me. The kits are so pretty! Pam, the owner, always does a superb job of putting the kits together. They all coordinate so well!

April 2018 Main Kit Sneak Peeks

April 2018 Creative Kit Sneak Peeks

April 2018 Limited Edition Sneak Peeks

April 2018 Album Kit Sneak Peeks

It's only two more days to wait until the big design team reveal so be sure and check back and reserve your kits today.

Have a crafty day!

Blessed To Be Your Mom

Hi friends! I always love created family themed layouts and this one of my daughter and I is no exception.

The March Sketch for My Creative Scrapbook was my starting point.  Fellow design team member Laura Whitaker designed the sketch. I love the simplicity of the sketch.

I used the March Creative Kit and an exclusive cut file, that are included in the kits, on my layout.

I love the circle alpha stickers included in the kit to add to my title. 

I really love the colors of the papers in this kit and the feather patterned paper that is so trendy. I added some chipboard elements to the layout to give it more dimension and interest.

Be sure and play along with My Creative Scrapbook and the monthly sketches. Check out all the details on prizes that can be won just by uploading your take on the sketch.  

Happy creating!

My Creative Scrapbook February Kits

Hello friends! Every month there are four new kits at My Creative Scrapbook and they are always beautiful and bursting with goodies. February's kits are awesome and this month I created with the gorgeous February Creative Kit. Check out the kits:

February Creative Kit

February Main Kit

February LE Kit

February Album Kit

I created four layouts with the February Creative Kits and they are all about love to Valentine's Day.

For the first layout, I wanted to created a layout of my excitement to be a first time grandma. I cut out the doily, butterflies, and flowers from cut files, that are included free with the kits, on my Silhouette Cameo, backed the flowers with some patterned paper and added some red sequins, which are included in the kit. i also added some computer generated journaling on some white cardstock, added the foam alphas for the title, and also some ephemera and ribbon from the kit. 

 For this layout I began with a white piece of cardstock for the background, handstitched some vertical lines with various colors of embroidery floss and added some punched paper hearts, wood hearts and sequins. This directs the eyes downwards towards the photo. I also added some stickers, and the black foam alphas for the title as well as some wood arrows and ephemera.

For this layout, I began with the vertical hearts patterned paper for the background and punched lots of paper hearts from an assortment of the papers in the kit and embellished with some wood hearts, pink and red sequins, stickers and wood arrows.

For this layout (which is my personal favorite) I drew a freehand heart shape on a piece of white cardstock and hand stitched the heart shape with light pink, red, and medium pink embroidery floss in somewhat of an ombre fashion and then I went crazy with embellishments from the kit.  I also added one flower cut file that I backed with pink patterned paper. This was a fun layout to create.

Well there you have it. My four layouts that I designed with the February Creative Kit and the four February kits from My Creative Scrapbook. 

Order your kits now here and also check out what the talented design team created with all the kits in the February designer gallery here.

Have a wonderful day!

January Kits Revealed

Hello friends! Today is the January reveal at My Creative Scrapbook. 

I know you are going to love the kits. I loved working with the January Creative Kit.  Here are the kits for January 2018.

January 2018 Main Kit

January 2018 Creative Kit

January 2018 LE Kit

January 2018 Album Kit

Hop on over to the My Creative Scrapbook blog and see what all the designers created with these kits. Prepare to be inspired and then reserve your kits today!

Have a lovely day!

January Sneak Peeks

Hello friends! Happy New Year! I hope everyone had an awesome holiday season and that 2018 brings nothing but happy adventures.

Today is the January sneak peeks of the four kits at My Creative Scrapbook. The kits are amazing as ever and I am excited to share them all with you. I created with the January Creative Kit and made lots of layouts and cards with the kit. All the kits are so jam packed with goodies. Here are the sneak peeks:

January Main Kit Sneak Peeks

January Creative Kit Sneak Peeks

January LE Sneak Peeks

January Album Kit Sneak Peeks

Tomorrow, January 5 is the big reveal and also the designer gallery will showcase what the designers created with all the January kits I hope you will come back and see!

Have a wonderfully, awesome day!

So Lucky

Hello! Happy Sunday! Today I wanted to share another layout that I created with the September Creative Kit at My Creative Scrapbook. 

This layout is of my dog Syd when he was a puppy last Fall. He loved going for walks in the forest and it was hilarious to watch him run after the falling leaves and try to catch them in his mouth. 

I love the woodgrain background paper so I chose it for the background. The papers, stickers and ephemera are from the A Perfect Autumn Collection by Echo Park Paper. For the title, I used the Amy Tangerine woodgrain chipboard alpha stickers from the kit and the word "lucky" from the Heidi Swapp Gold Acetate Words.

I matted my photo on brown patterned paper and added a little phrase sticker. The journaling cards in the kit's ephemera pack were added to the right side of the photo and I popped a little squirrel up on some pop dots. 

I wanted to create a fun, whimsical layout. I knew I wanted to use some of the ephemera and stickers of the bear and owl in this kit.  

I added my journaling to the journaling card and added the jar sticker, a tiny journaling tag and the twine that I tied in a double bow and added a sticker to the center of the bow.

Below is the September 2017 Fall Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. I love Fall and I love this Fall themed kit. 

September 2017 Creative Kit

Now is the time to reserve your kits. All the details can be found here. September is also the free gift month to all members. There will be a free gift included with each September kit purchased. There are four kits each month to choose from. The Main Kit, The Creative Kit, The LE Kit and the Album Kit. 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Hello Fall

Hello friends! I hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend if you live in Canada or the U.S. It's a great time to get some scrapbooking done.

Today I wanted to share a layout for My Creative Scrapbook that I created with the September Creative Kit.

The full reveal of the September kits is September 5, but the sneak peeks are up on the My Creative Scrapbook blog.

I loved working with this kit. For this layout I cut up lots of patterned paper strips. This is a great way to use up the leftovers from the kit. I sewed the strips down to the background with my Stitch Happy sewing machine and some aqua twine. I didn't want to cover up my layout too much so I clustered my embellishments around the matted photo.

This is one of six layouts that I created with this kit so I will be sharing some more after the full design team reveal on September 5. Thanks for stopping by and reserve your kit today at My Creative Scrapbook.

Lemonade Layout

Hello friends! Are you ready for summer? I know when I created this layout for My Creative Scrapbook with the June Creative Kit, that I had summer on the brain. Of course lemonade is something that came to mind when I saw this lemon patterned paper.

The papers, stickers, chipboard stickers and ephemera are from the new Pebbles Sunshiny Days Collection. There was a lot of fussy cutting for this layout but I actually sat on the deck with a cold drink and cut away. I find it so relaxing.

Here are some more closeups of my layout.

I wanted to stay with the yellow color for this layout. I also added some machine stitching to tack down the chipboard title and also the fussy cut lemon wedges and around the outside edge of the layout with some yellow thread. Sometimes it's fun to stitch with different colors of thread as I tend to use white thread for most of my layouts. 

Be sure and check out all the June kits at My Creative Scrapbook. Have an awesome day!

It's Reveal Day At My Creative Scrapbook

Hello friends! It's reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook and what a fabulous reveal it is! Be sure and order yours today here before they are gone. They are surely going to sell out quickly because they are all so gorgeous.  Here they are:

May Main Kit

May Creative Kit

May LE Kit

May Album Kit

I created six layouts with the fabulous May Creative Kit. I LOVED creating with this kit. It is totally my colors and style. The patterned papers are all from the American Crafts Hello Spring Collection. Here is one of my layouts with this kit:

There is a LOT of fussy cutting on this layout. 

1. To create this layout I began by adding clear gesso onto the white cardstock and when it was dry I splattered the white card stock with white acrylic paint thinned down with a touch of water and a paint brush. I watercolored with yellow, orange, pink, green and teal. 
2. Once it was dry, I trimmed the white card stock to 10 inches wide by 12 inches long and backed it with a sheet of the floral paper above and then machine stitched it on both sides with pink thread.  
3. After I matted the photo, I machine stitched around the mat and placed it on the white cardstock. 
4. Next came all the embellishing. I placed my fussy cut eggs (for these I used one of the egg stickers from the sticker sheet as a template, traced around it, and cut out the shape on several sheets of patterned paper), flowers and butterflies around the photo trying to layer and alternate the shapes. I also added some dimensional foam tape that I adhered to the back of the shapes to give the shapes more layering and dimension. 
5. Finally I added some stickers from the kit that I popped up with foam tape as well and added the dot stickers around the page.

Also, an extra tip I have is when I add patterned paper behind the white card stock on my layouts, I try to conserve my patterned paper so I can stretch the kit further so I usually use my circle cutter and cut out a large circle and use it for another project. You would never know because nobody sees the backside of the layout and I hate to waste such gorgeous paper. 

Thanks for staying with me here to the end of my blog post. Be sure and order your kits before they are out of stock. They go fast and also check out the design team gallery for inspiration on all four of the kits.

Check back later this month as I share five more layouts from this kit.  Have an awesome day!