May Sneak Peeks

Hello friends! The May sneak peeks are up at My Creative Scrapbook and they are awesome!

I created some projects with the May Creative Kit and wanted to share one of my layouts with this adorable kit that includes some papers and embellishments from Echo Park's Hello Spring and Hello Easter Collections, twine, white pom pom ribbon, white foam alphabet stickers and banner pieces from American Crafts and flower stickers from Pebbles Inc.

I took out my circle paper punches and one of my scalloped circle paper punches and punched paper circles in several colors and stacked them. I added some chipboard stickers on top and arranged the stacked paper punched circles on the white background cardstock. 

I had fun with the white pom pom ribbon and cut it apart and glued five pom poms on the sheep chipboard sticker to give it a woolly look.

I also added a white pom pom on the tail of the chipboard bunny.

For the title of the layout "Easter Fun", I added the two border stickers to the bottom of the page and  added the white foam alphabet stickers that I added various colors of Nuvo Crystal Drops in several coordinating colors to give the title some interest and dimension and then added some more chipboard stickers.

Finally I stitched around the edge of the white cardstock with white thread and my sewing machine.

Here are sneak peeks of all the four May kits from all the My Creative Scrapbook design team.

May Main Kit Sneak Peeks

May Creative Kit Sneak Peeks

May LE Kit Sneak Peeks

May Album Kit Sneak Peeks

Are you excited about the reveal tomorrow? The designers have once again outdone themselves. Check back tomorrow for the full reveal and be sure to reserve your kits today!

Have a wonderful day!

My Creative Scrapbook February Tutorial

Hello friends! Today I wanted to share a tutorial on how I created this layout with the February Creative Kit for My Creative Scrapbook. 

Basic Supplies

Adhesive (liquid, tape runner and scotch tape)
Card stock (white)
Embroidery Floss (I used light pink, medium pink, and red)
Embroidery Needle
Foam Pad
Scissors
Paper Piercer
Paper Punches (heart shaped punches in 3 different sizes - small, medium, large)
Paper Trimmer
Pencil
Ruler

Kit Supplies (from the February Creative Kit)

Ephemera (love word)
Foam black alphas
Patterned Paper (XO paper, small heart paper, red and white dotted paper)
Ribbon (red and white stitch)
Sequins (5 pink)
Stickers (Be Mine heart sticker, heart balloon, three hearts, xo border strip)
Wood pieces (5 hearts, two arrows)

Instructions

Begin with a 12 X 12 inch piece of white card stock.

Cut the XO patterned paper so it measures 7 inches by 12 inches. Adhere to the bottom of
the white card stock.

Adhere the xo sticker strip above the XO patterned paper and to the left and right edge of the white card stock.



















Mat photo with red and pink patterned paper.





















Add heart balloon sticker to the bottom left of photo


























and the three heart sticker to the bottom right of the photo.

Cut the red ribbon approximately seven inches so that it will tuck behind the photo. Adhere.

Center the photo and adhere it to the background.

Using a ruler, add the word "sibling" to ruler and center it to the photo. When it is centred,
,place the alphas down over the photo and red ribbon.

With the letters L O V E from the ephemera pack, tuck them underneath the black foam alphas adhering them down with a dab of liquid adhesive being sure to center the letters.

With a pencil and a ruler, draw vertical lines on the top edge of the white cardstock at 1 inch, 3 inch, 6 inch, 9 inch and 11 inch.





With the paper piercer and the foam pad, pierce holes about 1/4 inch apart on the vertical lines.



With the embroidery floss, select three strands and thread the embroidery needle. With a backstitch, sew though the pierced holes. Beginning from the left edge, I sewed mine in red, medium pink, light pink, and red. Secure the cut threads on the backside with some scotch tape.

Punch the heart paper with two sizes of heart paper punches. I punched four large hearts and four small hearts.





With a tape runner adhesive,  add some adhesive to the large punched hearts and stack the smaller punched hearts on top and fold the small paper hearts in half to give more dimension.

Adhere the punched dimensional hearts to the layout as shown on top of the hand stitching.

Punch the red patterned paper with the small heart paper punch. Adhere them on top of the hand stitching as shown.

Adhere the wood hearts with liquid adhesive on top of the hand stitching.

Adhere the pink sequins with a tiny dab of liquid adhesive and adhere to the hand stitching.

Adhere one wood arrow to the left of the photo with a dab of liquid adhesive.
Adhere another wood arrow to the right of the photo with a dab of liquid adhesive.

Add the "Be Mine" heart sticker to the photo as shown.

The layout is now complete.

I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and try hand stitching. Machine stitching would also be perfectly fine. It adds a homemade feel to the layout.

So Sweet

Hello friends! Today I wanted to share a girly layout that I created for design team work at A Flair For Buttons.

 I added three flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons to the middle of all three flowers to add some whimsy and dimension.

I used a hole paper punch to punch all the confetti and a heart paper punch for the flowers. The flowers were inspired by a technique of Paige Evan's where she created flowers from a heart punch. 

 Whenever I can, I try to use up every morsel of patterned paper so for this layout, I chose the bright, happy colors from the Petite Prints Collection (Gingham And Linen) by Doodlebug Designs. All of the patterned papers were from the 6 X 6 pad.

Recently, I bought a Stitch Happy sewing machine from We R Memory Keepers so I stitched some of the hearts below the title with the aqua thread. 

I also used my We R Memory Keepers Typecast Typewriter to type my journaling on the white cardstock paper strip.

I added some puffy stickers from American Crafts for my title and embellishments. 

Thanks for stopping by and I encourage you to try and use up your paper scraps by adding confetti and punched shapes on your projects.

Have a lovely day!

Flair Used On Layout

Fun Flair 1

Woodland Creatures Flair

Using Circle Punches On A Layout

Hello friends! About a week or so ago it was the April kit reveal at My Creative Scrapbook and I had promised a tutorial on how I created one of my layouts with the April Creative Kit so here it is.  Get ready to put your circle and scalloped paper punches to work.

Kit Supplies

Snap Cards
Yellow Polka Dot Patterned Paper (For paper strips and matting the photos)
Butterfly Paper (handcut a green, yellow, aqua and pink butterflies)
Stickers (Spring Banner, Bloom Where You Are Planted, It's A Beautiful Day Today! and Butterfly Circles)

Additional Supplies

12X12 sheet of white textured cardstock
Adhesive - tape runner and dimensional foam dots or squares
Craft Paint Or Mist (I used Heidi Swapp Colorshine in Mustard Yellow)
Paper Trimmer
Pencil
Ruler
Scissors
Circle Paper Punches (in a variety of sizes if possible)
Scalloped Circle Paper Punches (in a variety of sizes if possible)
Collage Maker For Photos (I used Turbo Collage on my iphone, but any collage maker will do)

Instructions

Cut the yellow polka dot paper in strips with a paper trimmer and adhere to top and bottom edge of the 12X12 sheet of white textured cardstock.

Add paint or mist splatters to the top left, top right and bottom left of white cardstock as shown. Be sure paint or mist is dry before moving to the next step.

With the Snap Cards, which are included in the kit, select several colors and sizes of snap cards.

Punch the selected Snap Cards with circle paper punches and scalloped circle punches.

Using the pencil and ruler, draw pencil lines across the 12X12 sheet of white cardstock as shown.

Hand cut the punched paper circles in half with scissors.

Arrange the paper circles, that are cut in half,  flush along the pencil lines being sure to overlap and alternate colors.

When you are satisfied with the placement, adhere the paper circles down with adhesive and if you would like, add some dimensional foam dots or squares to the backside of some of the circles to give more dimension.

Create photo collage and print.

Mat photo collage with yellow polka dot paper and adhere to the page using dimensional foam dots or squares.  Make sure that the matted photo collage is beside the punched paper circles as shown.

Fussy cut the four butterflies and adhere to the page with foam dots or squares.

Add circle butterfly stickers to the page with foam dots or squares

Add Spring Sticker Banner to the page as shown and also the other stickers as shown.

Your layout is complete.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial and give it a try. Happy creating!