Step by Step with Monique!

Hello My Creative Scrapbook friends! It's Monique here with you today and I've got a new step-by-step for you! I created this layout with the July Main kit and some new watercolor paints I bought. For my layout I chose some photos of my eldest son playing on the Nintendo Switch, which he just got for his 21st birthday.

As I always do, I started by unpacking the kit and placing everything on the table to decide what I was going to use:

Next I got out my new bottles of watercolor paint and my (colorless) gesso. I applied some gesso first and after that had dried I drew a few large circles on my white cardstock. I started with yellow, then orange and then red paint and once that had dried I added some blue, orange and red drops: 

To straighten the paper I placed it under something heavy for a night and when that didn't help I cut off a thin strip on two sides and glued the white cardstock onto the red cardstock. It looked much better then! 

With a Coluzzle I cut circles from two photos and I cut lots of circles from a few sheets of patterned paper:

First I matted the photos and then I divided all the circles over my page in a vertical line:

I made a start with placing embellishments here and there and also stamped a few images from that that beautiful stamp set from Pebbles. 

For a nice crisp stamped image I placed a soft mat underneath my paper and stamped the images I wanted: 

I fussy cut them both and placed them on my layout.  

I really love the pop of yellow!

After adding the rest of the emellishments (die-cuts, chipboards, stickers) I added some machine stitching and wrote a few lines of journaling and I was done! Here are two more close-up photos:

Isn't this kit amazing?! I'm totally in love with the colors and designs! For more information about this kit (and the other 3 kits of this month) please visit the My Creative Scrapbook website and if you want to see the photos of all projects created by the design team with the various kits, please visit the Design Team Gallery.

Here's one last photo of the kit:

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Wishing you a wonderful day!

xxx Monique

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