Handmade with Jinny and the Creative Kit

 Welcome back, My Creative Scrapbook friends!  It’s Jinny here today to showcase a new project inspired by the April Creative Kit.  This month’s kit is driven by the soft, rainbow prints in Echo Park’s Craft Room Collection.  It also includes a stencil; colorful, Pebbles Fun In the Sun Collection print; white Sticko foam alphabet stickers; and “CRAFT and CREATE” cut file, the latter three of which I’ve put to use on other pages you can find at the bottom of this post.  I did create a page with some of the pictures I took of my creative space in our old house, too.  It was a special loft, dedicated just to me, and you can find it below, as well; but the space where I create now very much belongs to my family.  It is not as organized as the one photographed below, but it serves its purpose.  Anyhow, I chose to highlight the page where I utilized this month’s stencil, in collaboration with all of the Craft Room Collection stickers, die cuts, and prints, for you all, today.  It was the first page I made with this month’s kit contents.  Enjoy!

I started this page by adding a large puddle of yellow watercolor to the center of the 12x12 watercolor paper, background page.  I then splattered it with that same shade of watercolor, as well as pink, orange, and green watercolors.  Once everything was dry, I smudged Tumbled Glass Distress Ink, over the watercolor puddle and through the March stencil.  I then splattered everything once again, but this time with Pure Black and Titanium White acrylic paints.  While everything was drying again, I cut a bunch of 2” squares from the plethora of bitty, Echo Park prints.  I then cut them in half diagonally and anchored the resulting, 36 triangles, side by side, to create a larger diagonal across half of my page, with black-threaded, straight, machine stitching around each triangle, as well as the 12x12 page itself.

My photos were then matted with white cardstock; adhered over a snippet of cheesecloth for texture; and flanked with a collection of sewing-themed, chipboard and cardstock stickers.

I also threw in a few floral, chipboard and cardstock stickers, as well as a number of soft green sequins from a past Creative Kit.  The cardstock, sticker buttons were further laced with white thread for a more realistic view.

I then grounded my whole design with white cardstock strips for journaling…

and topped my photos with a couple of phrase die cuts, one of which was laced with white thread, tied in a bow, and chipboard phrase stickers to complete the look.

Here are a few more of the projects that I alluded to above and created using the April Creative Kit.  I’d love for y’all to stop by my instagram @loftydesignsbyjinny for a closer look!

Thanks so much for visiting today!  As always, I cannot wait to see what y’all cook up this month!  Be sure to stop by the blog, as well as our Design Team Gallery, for lots more fabulous inspiration with every last one of the April kits.  Until next month, happy creating!