It's The November 2015 Kits Reveal Day At My Creative Scrapbook!

 Hello friends! Happy Thursday! Today is the 5th of the month, so that means that it is the reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook.  It's always exciting to see all the designers show their beautiful projects with the upcoming kits.  Here are the beautiful kits for November 2015:

November 2015 Main Kit

November 2015 Creative Kit 

November 2015 LE Kit

November 2015 Album Kit

I am honored once again to be asked to guest design for November and I loved working with the November 2015 Main Kit.  I thought I would share one of my layouts today and I will share the other three layouts throughout November.  This is my first layout:

I decided to make a layout of my daughter.  The kit is based on a Fall/Thanksgiving theme, but I wanted to show you how the kit can also be used to create everyday layouts.  My daughter's sweater was a dark maroon color and I thought it would work perfectly with the November main kit.

I used the Lindy's Stamp Gang spray from the main kit and sprayed the wood veneer word "celebrate" and used it as part of my title.  I used my one inch square paper punch and punched out several squares of different patterned papers.  If they are cut in half diagonally, they create a triangle.  I arranged the paper triangles in a pattern as shown above and machine stitched them down to the background paper in a dark green thread.  I also used the spray to color the creme ribbon.  The chipboard frames are so fun to work with in this kit.  I try to use them not only as frames for the photos, but also with die cuts.

Thank you so much for letting me share this kit with you.  Be sure and come back several times this month for more layouts that I have created from this kit as well as some tips on how I created the layouts.

To see the full reveal of all the designers and the kits for November, please go to the gallery here.

Be sure and order your kits from My Creative Scrapbook today!  

Guest Designer At Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine

Hello friends! Today I am very honored to be a guest designer on the Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine Blog using the November Freebie Digital Cut File designed by the amazingly talented Nicole Nowosad.

I decided to create a Halloween layout of my friend's two little cuties.

To explain my design process, I cut the cut file on a 12 X 12 piece of black card stock with my Silhouette Cameo, turned it over onto the backside and backed the design with some patterned papers from the Crate Paper After Dark Collection.  Then, I adhered it to a white 12X12 card stock background that I first watercolored with some Tim Holtz Dried Marigold Distress Ink.  To embellish the layout, I glued some adorable bat sequins, orange sequins and star sequins that are also from the After Dark Collection, and placed them randomly around the page.  To complete the layout, I splattered with some Liquitex Black India Ink, let it dry and then added three  flair buttons from A Flair For Buttons.  To make the flair buttons pop and to give them more interest and texture, I wrapped the flair buttons with orange sewing thread.

Here are more layout closeups:

 

Here is the Scrapbook And Cards Today Magazine November 2015 Freebie Cut File

Scrapbook And Cards Today November 2015 Freebie Digital Cut File

Thanks for stopping by and hope you have a great day!

November Sneak Peeks At My Creative Scrapbook

Hello friends! Happy November! It is hard to believe that October is over.

Today I wanted to share with you some exciting sneak peeks of the November kits at My Creative Scrapbook.  There is a kit for everyone no matter what your paper crafting style may be.

November 2015 Main Kit

November 2015 Creative Kit

November 2015 LE Kit

November 2015 Album Kit

Aren't they all fabulous? The designers have all been very hard at work creating some fabulous projects and it's only four more days until the full reveal.  

For my guest design team assignment, I was given the November Main Kit to create with and here are some sneak peeks of my four projects:

I had so much fun creating with this kit.

Stay tuned and come back on November 5 for the full reveal and order your kits at My Creative Scrapbook.  

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

Chevron Layout

Hello friends! Happy Saturday! Today I wanted to share a layout I created of my teenage son inspired by a layout created by Paige Evans.  I also wanted to bust my stash and use some older papers.


 I love creating teen layouts and back to school layouts and I also love 6X6 paper pads.
 This layout was created with the Off To School Collection by Fancy Pants Designs way back in 2011.

I cut out the title "Clay" on white card stock with my Silhouette Cameo, watercolored it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Squeezed Lemonade and splattered some Liquitex Black India Ink.

For the triangle paper shapes, I took a one inch square paper punch and punched out square shapes and them cut them in half diagonally.  Then I arranged the paper triangles in a pattern repeating the colors and pattern five times on the page creating chevrons.

Sewing machines are great for adhering papers on a layout so I used some temporary adhesive very sparingly to hold the paper triangles in place and then machine stitched along the papers in a zig zag design with white thread adhering them to the white card stock background.

Matting the photo is simple with the 6 X 6 pads.  I love lots of layering and texture behind the photo.

To complete the layout, I journaled with a black pen below the bottom chevron in a zig zag design, and last but not least, a flair button from A Flair For Buttons and some red embroidery thread to make the flair button pop.

I hope you enjoyed your visit.  Thanks for stopping by and I hope you have a great Saturday!

We Are Family Too

Hello friends! Happy Friday! Today I am sharing a layout at Just Nick Digital Cut Files using the Scribble Circle Background.  I love this fun background and decided to create a layout of my niece's horses.

I cut the background on my Silhouette Cameo on some woodgrain patterned paper and adhered it to the gingham yellow paper that is backed onto white card stock paper.  

  I machine stitched in brown thread over the center of the die cut circles going lengthwise and crosswise.  Then I added all my chipboard embellishments and matted the photo with several layers of patterned paper. 

 I added the title using some chipboard letters and stickers and added some cute wood veneer horse shapes that I had in my stash that would be perfect on this layout.  I wanted to give the layout a rustic, country feel.

Finally, I added some some distress ink splats in Gathered Twigs being sure to cover up the patterned paper so that it would only show up on the white card stock.

Here is a photo of the Scribble Circle Background.

All the patterned papers, stickers and chipboard embellishments are from the Pumpkin Spice and We Are Family Collections by Simple Stories.  

  This cut file and many, many more are available for purchase and instant download at Just Nick Digital Cut Files.

Thank you so much for stopping by and I hope you are inspired to use cut files in different ways.  Have a great day!