My Creative Scrapbook November Reveal!

It's Tuesday the 5th, and that means it's reveal day for the November kits at My Creative Scrapbook!  I always work with the Main Kit, and this one is full of Fall goodies from Echo Park, Prima, American Crafts and My Mind's Eye.  Scrapping typical Fall photos is difficult for me because we live in Florida, and we just don't really have Fall weather.  We don't have the beautiful leaves changing colors, especially :(  So for my five pages this month, I had to get creative.  It goes to show that even though a themed kit can go in a totally different direction if you get creative :)

Here's the Main Kit:

Here is the first page I created.  The photo was taken in September, which is technically kind of in the Fall season...so I embellished with some Fall leaves and colors.  I added in modeling paste and blue paint to bring in some contrast, and I painted one of the Prima flowers.  The only other things not included in the kit are the cord and the stitching floss.  This is definitely a more muted color scheme than I usually go for, but I really like it...plus, she's very serious in the photo, so the colors match her mood.  And even though she doesn't LOOK happy, she is.  She has a leaf and that's one thing this kid loves to do is find the perfect leaf.  I think the camera being in her face made her look not so happy in the moment...but she was :)

I love these wood shapes!  I painted it to match, and it was really easy to do.  The wood just soaks up the color...it was just watered down mist.  And the Prima flowers also soak up color well.

Love the fun chipboard shapes and buttons, too!

These MME brads coordinate wonderfully...I really love these blue and brown ones!

Be sure to visit the MCS gallery and check out everyone's projects for the month.  Also, go HERE to check out the other available kits!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a GREAT Tuesday!

My Mind's Eye / Lost & Found Record It!

Happy Monday, friends!  I'm up on the My Mind's Eye blog today with a layout featuring the new Lost and Found collections.  I wanted to showcase how you can use the Project Life cards on a layout.  I don't do PL, and I probably won't.  It's just too much and too overwhelming for me.  But I still love the cards, and here is just one way I used them on a good ol' fashioned layout :)

Regardless if you do PL or not, these adorable Record It! cards are definitely usable on your layouts.  I love using them for embellishments, journaling, fussy cutting…you name it.  They are very versatile and can be used in a lot of different ways.

I decided to scrap a photo of my husband and me dressed up for a nice date night at a fundraiser event for our daughters’ school.  I really liked the different shades of pink and red in the Heirloom collection, so I centered everything around that.  I dug into my MME stash and pulled some papers from the Find Your Wings and Fly collection to mix in.  I used NINE different Record It Cards on this layout.  See if you can spot them all!

I used one of the cards for a checklist, and I layered another behind it.  I cut the “today” banner piece from one, and I tore the hearts from another one.  To me, they’re just like mini pieces of patterned paper.

I fussy cut more words from more cards, and I used one of the 4x6 behind my photo.  They’re also great for layering.
 

Here’s another angle of the layers.  There are probably pieces included that you don’t think you’ll use…they’re great for building dimension and layers behind your photos or embellishments.

Here you can see closely two of the cards.  I just love shuffling through them all and pulling out the ones that go with my project!  I love the pops of pattern and color they add.

I hope this inspires you to give the Record It cards a chance…especially if you don’t do Project Life, like me.  I had lots of fun making this page, and it was surprisingly easy to put together because of the adorable cards.  You don’t have to do a lot of cutting or trimming.  They’re already the perfect size!

Thanks for stopping by today!

My Scraps Pinspirational Crop!

Happy Saturday, friends!!  The My Scraps and More Design Team is hosting a super fun Pinspirational Crop over on the boards this weekend!  Lots of fun challenges going on inspired by various pins from Pinterest.  You don't have to be registered there to play...we're providing the image and challenge, and you just get to scrap!  Sounds like fun, right?!

Here's one of the pages I created for one of my challenges.  It's inspired by a colorful quote I found.  You can visit our boards to see the full quote and the challenge to go along with it.  I used some American Crafts Sketchbook papers for this page. It's one collection I can't put down these days :)  It's no longer available in the store because it's an older line, but there are a lot of new AC products there! 

I started by cutting out all those arrows on my Cameo on white cardstock.  I went through and chose all my papers and adhered them to the back of the cardstock.  I outlined some of them, and then I added in lots of arrow stamps.  I cut out my title and added in some alpha stamps to complete my smaller titles.

Here you can see the cuts better.  I also added in some fun brads.

I just love arrows!  And rainbow colors!  And stamping....the list goes on...haha!

We would love for you to come visit us on the boards for this Crop!  It's going to be so much fun, and we'd really enjoy having you participate with us.  Lots of fun prizes up for grabs!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a wonderful weekend!

Halloween Layout / My Mind's Eye

Hey there, friends!  This has been one of the busiest weeks ever!  Nonstop things going on and no time to sit and scrap, or even post, for that matter!  I'm looking forward to a nice, relaxing weekend of catching up.

I was up on the MME blog yesterday with a Halloween layout featuring the Happy Haunting collection.  My favorite part about this line is the orange glitter!  There are touches of it on a lot of the papers and embellishments.  This is one of my favorite Halloween photos of my little Reese from a few years ago.  It was at her school's Fall Festival, and one of her therapists dressed as Tigger.  She was quite excited to pose for a sweet photo :)

I layered several papers together and threw in some vellum.  And I just love the large brads!

I added in some wound up cord...one of my favorite things lately.

Isn't this skeleton the greatest?  I love that it looks like he's presenting the photo in his hand :)  And all that glitter....yes, please!

Fun bats, banners and brads, oh my!  :)

This layout was fun to make...Halloween is my favorite holiday to scrap!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Upside Down

Happy Tuesday, friends!  Today I'm sharing a page I created for My Scraps and More and the latest Lily Bee sketch challenge.  I really loved the sketch and wanted to dig into my Sweet Shoppe and Pinwheel collections for this one.  I love rainbows, so I decided to create my own rainbow-ish background with mists, gelatos and modeling paste.  The rest is layers behind my photo with lots of fun embellishments added in.  I love the variety of color and patterns on these papers :)

These layers look like a set of stairs to me :)  I love adding black pen details to my pages...especially the paste.

More details.  I used pop dots for this arrow to give it some dimension.

I also added ink splatters and lots of stamping...one of my favorites!

I hope this inspires you to create your own background and get a little bit messy!  I promise you, it's FUN!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Creative Scrappers #254

Are you ready for another awesome sketch from Creative Scrappers?  Yes!  When I first saw this sketch, I knew right away that I wanted to dig into the New Elle's Studio Penelope collection.  I LOVE this line...so fun and girly!  I decided to scrap this photo of my Reesie Cup...I just adore action shots of her being giggly :)

I threw in some paint splatters, washi tape and vellum here and there.  Aren't these colors just great together?

Elle's has the cutest embellishment pieces...adding those in was my favorite part of this layout.

Check out the amazing sketch by the super talented Jenny Evans!

Make sure you hop on over to the Creative Scrappers blog and check out the full reveal!  So much inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Grateful for Her *My Creative Scrapbook*

Happy Friday, friends!  Today is a teacher work day, so the kids are home from school.  We all slept in...it was awesome!

The page I'm sharing today is one of my projects for My Creative Scrapbook this month.  I used the October Main Kit, which is mostly Bo Bunny.  There are a few MME pages thrown in, and that gorgeous coral background is one of those papers.  Isn't that color just beautiful?  Once I saw it, I knew it had to be used as a background.  The hard part was the other side...it was gorgeous, too!  See the biggest background paper with the hint of flowers peeking through?  I cut the coral out and then flipped the trim around and used it, too.  I added in a piece of white paper to cover up the gaps, and you can't even tell! I also added some modeling paste over a lattice stencil...it matches the pattern on the coral paper.

Bo Bunny goodies and a Prima flower.  I misted up the flower to match my blues.

A Petaloo flower, which I inked, and the rest here is Bo Bunny, MME and a Leaky Shed chipboard circle.

Layers...love them!

I just love this picture of my baby goose...she's so photogenic and doesn't even try :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today...you can check HERE to see all the available kits from My Creative Scrapbook!

Have a great day!