Some CHA Photos Plus a Step By Step Layout Tutorial with Zoe

Guess who's at CHA ordering like crazy to bring us all of the coolest new products?!

Pam Rangel and Delaina Burns, of course!  Look how lovely they are together!!!  We all wish we could be there with them, but we know that they are getting us all of the latest and greatest for our kits.  YEA!!!

Next, we have a wonderful step-by-step tutorial from Design Team member Zoe Nemburt today!  Here's Zoe...

Hi Ladies, I have a step by step for a layout I created using the brand new and super gorgeous Carta Bella line. 

I'm using Carta Bella Damask as the background, with the sheet of paper named Chickadee cut 3 inches from two sides away from the bird though as he's pretty and we will use him in our design. 



With the 3x12 strip you just cut away punch 4 strips... or you can trim each edge with decorative scissors.



Optional - Ink all your edges. I use a ditress ink from Tim Holtz this colour is Pumice Stone.

Now we will attach the punched edges to the back of the 9x9 square leaving approximately 1/4 inch edge peeking from the back. Use a good glue or tape runner.







Next cut a 2 inch strip from the Stipes Paper and a 5x7 piece from the pink side. Ink edges if you wish.

Using stencils is a great way to fill a space or to create extra texture on your page. I do this before I glue anything downbut I use my pieces as a guide so I know I wont be covering everything up when I add my additional papers. To ink just hold your stencil in place with one hand and with your other hand using a ink applicator make small circular mothiong refreshing your ink applicator often.



with the 2 x 12 inch strip from the stripes paper tear almost an inch off from each end then glue down, then layer a 5x7 piece into the bottom right corner of your 9x9 piece and adhere

With the Cherish Paper cut out a border of 5 diamonds, Adhere a length of ribbon accross the length of the striped paper and then adhere the diamond border on top.



Next add your picture into the 5x7 space, and decorate as you wish ir copy the picture below. Also add a title for this one I used one of the included sticker "Beautiful Moments" and mounted it onto cardstock and then added it into place on my page.

Introducing an Additional New Member of the My Creative Sketches Design Team!

*This is our second post today...  to read our Carta Bella collection packs winners announcement, please scroll down or click here*

The fun and excitement continues!  Today we have an additional new member of the My Creative Sketches Design Team to announce!

Cynthia Renaud

My name is Cynthia , a scrapbooking addicted artist from Brazil. I have been scrapbooking for years.  In fact, I love this Art because I learn every day more techniques and it provides me to express myself in style, mixing paper, embellishments, colors, memories and a message. So, scrapbooking to me is not only a way to preserve my memories but, it's the way I do Art.

I love papers. One of my life’s little pleasures is to cut, tear and distress them, creating anything that translates the story. I don´t have a style, my style is eclectic, crafty and  I also love shabby and vintage styles. I love to create my own embellishments and I love all the themes in my pages. I love texture, sewing, painting and love to distressing my works. I love to make my own embellisments. The most I love is layers....I really enjoy that. My philosophy is make scrap, with love, with passion and mostly make scrap with are hart and inspiration!!!!!

I will love to be part of your team, because I love challenges and I love to meet friends all over the world. I´m a funny person and I love to create different things I love to inovate !!!!!!!

 
We are thrilled that Cynthia will be joining Becky, Bonnie, Debbie, Jodi, Veronica, and Yuko to bring you AMAZING sketch layout inspiration at My Creative Sketches!

The July sketch contest is up and running!  Of course there's a delicious prize package up for grabs... check it out!

We Have Winners x5!

Hello everyone!  If you've been following along with us this month, you know that Carta Bella is graciously giving away their brand new All Hallows Eve or Paris Girl collection packs to 5 lucky My Creative Scrapbook blog and facebook followers in honor of our beautiful reveal of Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our July Main Kit.

Thank you for your wonderful comments!
We have winners to announce!

From our blog:

From our blog:

From our facebook page:

From our facebook page:

From our facebook page:

Winners, please email your shipping information to MyCreativeScrapbook@gmail.com (please put Carta Bella Giveaway Winner in the subject line) so that we can provide it to Carta Bella for your prize.

Please keep in mind that these are brand new releases and that with CHA in progress, shipping might not occur until early August. Thank you!

P.S. There is still LOTS MORE to be won here at My Creative Scrapbook!  There are two entire July Main Kits featuring Carta Bella Beautiful Moments up for grabs... so get your name into the hat!  You can find all of the details here. 

Introducing the New Members of the My Creative Sketches Design Team!

We would like to shout a great big THANK YOU to everyone who applied to our sketch blog design team call.  We really appreciated and loved each and every application!  We're so glad that so many talented scrappers applied, and we wish we could have picked everybody.

We're keeping the team fairly small for now.  If you weren't selected at this time, please know that we are keeping your application on file for consideration for future sketch blog design team and sketch blog guest design team spots.

The new members of the My Creative Sketches Design Team are...

 

Becky Litz

Hello Everyone! My name is Becky. My partner Trevor and I live with our two kiddos; Olivia 9 and Sullivan 1 in Cranbrook BC in the heart of the B-E-A-U-tiful Canadian Rocky Mountains. I am a Elementary School teacher but I am taking some time off to stay home with our son. I got started scrapbooking about 10 years ago and later started making cards and other projects. Most recently I have started playing around with Mixed Media as well.  Papercrafting is my passion and I am so excited to be able to share it with you. I am thrilled to be a part of the My Creative Sketches Team! Please stop by and visit my blog at www.scrapcircus.blogspot.com.

Bonnie Friesen

Hi! My name is Bonnie aka Cinnabon,

I am a wife to George of 26 yrs, a mother to two young adults. Jerica is 23, married almost 1 yr, and lives in Wpg and works in a hair salon full time. Jordan is 20, and works at our local Bible Camp as their "techy" sound man and in charge of the climbing wall. This is his 4th summer working there. Its amazing how time flies! I was a hairstylist for 24 yrs and am now retired due to health issues. Here are a few things you need to know about me... I have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, I LOVE slurpee's and the color pink! In any form! I started scrapbooking in September/08, after my dear Mother passed away from cancer. It has been a life saver for me as I work through my grief and allow my creativity to flow. Scrapping has become a big part of my life, and it is something I love to share with anyone who is willing to look at my work. I consider my scrapping as art. I am very detailed orientated and therefore have great difficulty keeping my layouts simple with alot of "white space". I love doing sketches as they stretch my creativity and prevent me from getting stuck in a creative rut! I am extremely happy to be on the Design Team for My Creative Sketches! Check out my blog at:  pretty little somethings

 

Jodi Baune

I am so thrilled and honored to be a member of the My Creative Sketches team! I am a dedicated, fun-loving country girl with two boys ages 18 and 23, and an amazing husband. I am very blessed that they are extremely supportive of my hobby.

I am the shy, quiet type...most of the time :) I am a weird mix of girly girl and tom boy. Pedicures are awesome, but I'm not afraid to dip my pretty toes in a puddle or two! Pretty much, I am just the girl next door. During the day I tend to 8 precious small children by operating a daycare business in my home. Some of my other interest include gardening, reading, and browsing through antique shops for inspiration. I love vintage!

Veronica Goh

I hail from the sunny island of Singapore, and am a full-time working mother of two beautiful girls, who form the subjects for most of my layouts and projects.

 

I was introduced to scrapbooking in 2007, and it has become a passion with me, as is art and photography, all three of which I think go hand in hand beautifully, capturing and preserving those very special moments in our lives.

 

I enjoy designing projects in the shabby-chic style, with lots of flowers, inking, tearing and distressing, fussy cutting and layering. Very 3-dimensional, with lots of texture. And I also enjoy trying out new styles and learning and experimenting with new techniques that I can incorporate into my projects, as I think these allow me to stretch my boundaries and to grow and evolve in terms of my creativity.

 

I often draw inspiration from a variety of sources - from the photo or products I see before me, to online galleries and unusual art pieces, to beautiful sketches I come across. I'm currently also teaching on a freelance basis at a leading LSS here, and am very honored and absolutely delighted to be joining the super talented team at MCS!

 

My blog: http://scrappychic-pages.blogspot.sg/

Yuko Tanaka 

My name is Yuko Tanaka live in Japan with my husband and one beautiful daughter. She was born this year, I enjoying child-rearing. I started sorted our wedding photos and organizing so that I could start “scrapbooking” in 2007. Now absorbed in leaving a proof of a daughter's growth.

 

My style of scrapbooking is constantly changing and I always look for new techniques and ideas. I currently love mist ,ink on my pages. I'm excited and honored to be join this team!!!

Our July Main Kit Giveaway x2!

Hello everyone!  We hope you're having a really great weekend.  We're back today with a reminder about our July Main Kit Giveaway that's twice as nice!

To celebrate CHA and our appreciation for our wonderful blog followers and facebook fans, we're giving away TWO ENTIRE JULY MAIN KITS featuring Carta Bella Beautiful Moments!!!

YES!!!  We are giving away TWO of our July Main Kits!

Here's how to enter the contest, twice:

1. Follow our blog (Click the "Join this site" button on the "Followers" widget in our right sidebar) and leave a comment on this post telling us what you would create with this beautiful July Main Kit.

2. "Like" our Facebook page by clicking the "Like" button on the page and leave a comment there telling us what you would create with this beautiful July Main Kit.

It's as simple as that!  Be sure to do both, as we will be drawing one winner from our blog and one winner from our Facebook page.

Winners will be announced on Friday, July 20th. 

Some fabulous July Main Kit inspiration from our Design Team:

We have more beautiful inspiration to share using Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our Design Team Gallery.

*** Don't forget about our Carta Bella Paris Girl and All Hallows Eve collection pack giveaways!  Those giveaways are still open but hurry, those 5 winners will be announced on July 17th *** 

There is SO MUCH FUN going on at My Creative Scrapbook!

Another BIG GIVEAWAY, Twice!!!

Hello and happy Friday!  How would you like to kick off the weekend with ANOTHER BIG GIVEAWAY?!

Yes, it's true...

We love giveaways so much that we can hardly control ourselves

and we're doing another one.

To celebrate CHA and our appreciation for our wonderful blog followers and facebook fans, we're giving away TWO ENTIRE JULY MAIN KITS featuring Carta Bella Beautiful Moments!!!

Kit Contents:

• Carta Bella Beautiful Moments 12x12 double sided papers
• Remember paper
  Damask paper
  Stripes paper
  Banner paper
  Thoughtful card paper
  Chickadee paper
  Borders paper
  Cherish paper
  Happy Thoughts paper
• 12x12 Beautiful Moments element sticker sheet
• 12x12 Beautiful Moments ABC sticker sheet
• White Doily
• Zva Crystal flourish
• Prima Vintage Metal trinkets - bird cages (3 per pkg)
• Prima flower pkg Parfait butter cream pkg of (2)
• Prima flowers pkg of Elle flowers pkg of (2)
• 12 antique cream roses mini
• 2 burgandy roses mini
• Custom chipboard doily circle flourish
  
• Cream lace
  Brown Sheer
  Pink Satin ribbon 

YES!!!  We are giving away TWO of our July Main Kits!

Here's how to enter the contest, twice:

1. Follow our blog (Click the "Join this site" button on the "Followers" widget in our right sidebar) and leave a comment on this post telling us what you would create with this beautiful July Main Kit.

2. "Like" our Facebook page by clicking the "Like" button on the page and leave a comment there telling us what you would create with this beautiful July Main Kit.

It's as simple as that!  Be sure to do both, as we will be drawing one winner from our blog and one winner from our Facebook page.

Winners will be announced on Friday, July 20th. 

Some fabulous July Main Kit inspiration from our Design Team:

We have more beautiful inspiration to share using Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our Design Team Gallery.

*** Don't forget about our Carta Bella Paris Girl and All Hallows Eve collection pack giveaways!  Those giveaways are still open but hurry, those 5 winners will be announced on July 17th *** 

There is SO MUCH FUN going on at My Creative Scrapbook!

Adding Color to Flower Embellishments with Angel

Hello!  We're back today with a wonderful tip from Design Team member Angel Rodrigue.

Here's Angel...

To add some light hint of color to my roses I used a distress Marker from Tim Holtz and brushed the tips lightly...

Then I spritzed it with Maya Road Glitter Spray...

Even More Carta Bella July Main Kit Inspiration + Chance to WIN + FREE Prima!

Hello everyone!  We don't want anyone to miss out on the fun that's going on at My Creative Scrapbook, so today we're sharing even more Main Kit inspiration from our design team and recapping how you can WIN some gorgeous Carta Bella as well as how you can get FREE Prima!

The July Main Kit... Carta Bella, Beautiful Moments:

Click here to purchase your Carta Bella Main Kit!

FREE Prima flowers with every Carta Bella Main kit new purchase in July!!  Back by popular demand, we are offering Free Prima flowers with every Main kit subscription of 3 months or longer that is purchased in July. Yea!!!  CLICK HERE to join the fun!

Some fabulous July Main Kit inspiration from our Design Team:

We have more beautiful inspiration to share using Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our Design Team Gallery... to see more, go here.

Would you like to WIN one of five Carta Bella collection packs? On behalf of My Creative Scrapbook's beautiful reveal of Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our July Main Kit, Carta Bella is giving away brand new collection packs to 5 lucky winners, right here on our blog!!!

The brand new releases up for grabs are Paris Girl and All Hallows Eve!

All it takes for this incredible chance to get one of these new CHA release collections in your hands is... follow our blog and leave a comment here letting us know what you love about My Creative Scrapbook and Carta Bella.  For an extra entry into the drawing, "Like" our Facebook page and leave us a comment there.

The 5 random draw winners will be announced right here on the blog on July 17th... the first day of the CHA 2012 Summer show.

The fun doesn't stop there... we've put together some fabulous prize packages for our blog followers and our Facebook fans, so watch for those contests later this month!

Creating a Beautiful Background with Jolaine

Today Design Team member Jolaine Frias is sharing how she transformed plain white cardstock into a beautiful background for her layout.

Here's Jolaine:

I love the look of white backgrounds on layouts but for some reason I always reach for pattern papers. As a personal challenge, I created a page with some white space for my LE work this month. This is how I created my background:

I started by pulling some of my mists that I thought coordinated with the beautiful, bright colors in the kit. I used Glimmer Mist in Sun Sisters, Hoola Hoop, S.W.A.K. and Trunk Bay. I also used an old Prima stamp I had in my stash along with StazOn ink in Timber Brown.



Next, I stamped randomly around an 11x11 piece of white cardstock. I chose a solvent ink pad because I didn't want my stamped image to bleed when I used the mists. I used a combination of misting and splatting.



I used the zigzag stitch in my sewing my machine to sew my background onto a sheet of pattern paper.



I finished my page by adding photos, cut-out design elements from the papers, flowers and other embellishments.



Hope you enjoyed my tutorial!

More Carta Bella July Main Kit Inspiration + Chance to WIN + FREE Prima!

We're kicking off the week with more fabulous design team inspiration with the July Main Kit.

But first... we would like to take a moment to say A VERY BIG THANK YOU to our loyal blog followers and new blog followers alike.  We really appreciate you!  We hope you'll continue to visit us to find out about all of the kits, contests, prizes, giveaways, fun, and excitement happening at My Creative Scrapbook.

Next... how would you like to WIN some gorgeous Carta Bella?!

For your chance to win one of five Carta Bella collection packs on behalf of My Creative Scrapbook's beautiful reveal of Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our July Main Kit, Carta Bella is giving away brand new collection packs to 5 lucky winners, right here on our blog.

The brand new releases up for grabs are Paris Girl and All Hallows Eve!

YES, 5 random draw winners will be announced right here on the blog on July 17... the first day of the CHA 2012 Summer show.

All it takes for this incredible chance to win and get one of these new CHA release collections in your hands is... follow our blog and leave a comment here letting us know what you love about My Creative Scrapbook and Carta Bella.  For an extra entry into the drawing, "Like" our Facebook page and leave us a comment there... go here.

The July Main Kit... Carta Bella, Beautiful Moments:

Click here to purchase your Carta Bella Main Kit!

Free Prima flowers with every Carta Bella Main kit new purchase in July!!  Back by popular demand, we are offering Free Prima flowers with every Main kit subscription of 3 months or longer that is purchased in July. Yea!!!  CLICK HERE to join the fun!

Some fabulous Main Kit inspiration from our Design Team:

We have more beautiful inspiration to share using Carta Bella's Beautiful Moments in our Design Team Gallery... to see more, go here.

And..... Have we mentioned how much we appreciate you?  We've put together some fabulous prize packages for our blog followers and our Facebook fans, so watch for those contests later this month!