Step by Step Layout Tutorial plus Detailing Tips by Marilyn Rivera

My Creative Scrapbook design team member Marilyn Rivera is up today featuring our February Limited Edition Kit!

Here's Marilyn:

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Hello everyone!! Here's Marilyn today to show you step by step how I made my page "Cute" with the gorgeous February Limited Edition kit and also I will show you how I added dimension and textures to the heart stickers in my "Sweetheart" page. Let's get started with my page "Cute" ...

How to create dimension and textures with the heart stickers from the Limited Edition kit....


In my page "Sweetheart" I used the heart stickers from the kit and gave them dimension and textures for a shabby chic look and I will show you how I did it....

I made two more pages with this gorgeous kit....

You will love this kit, go...HERE

Until next time!

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Be sure to take a look at Marilyn's beautiful work in our Design Team Gallery!

We invite you to join us and experience the possibilities that our coordinated monthly kits offer. To purchase a kit, please visit our website, here.

Detailing Tips by Joan Bronson

My Creative Scrapbook design team member Joan Bronson is up today with a tutorial featuring our February Creative Kit!

Here's Joan:

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I admit it. I look at the My Creative Scrapbook design team gallery sometimes and think - "hay I didn't get that in my kit" or "where the heck is that?". Amazingly the products are really in the kit! The design team is so creative with the products they are given that they are sometimes hard to recognize. I thought I'd share some of my not so secret tips on how I created my layouts this month.

My first layout features my son, Charlie. I created my own chalkboard looking background using a piece of black cardstock, a white gel pen, white ink pad, and the rub-ons from the kit. I just drew a boarder around the cardstock using my gel pen then added some ink on the edges. A few other white lines around my rub on and I had a chalkboard background.

A couple other notes on this page; I tore apart one of my flowers so part of it is used on this page. I also created the small flowers using a flower punch. Lastly, I did add some of my own red twine.

You may have noticed red bling on the "My Guy" layout and wondered where it came from. Did you know you can color bling? I used a permanent marker to color my bling. I used the bling that came with the black rub-ons. I colored the bling, then let it sit for a bit to dry. Now I had red bling!

The last thing to note is that this Pebbles line has some decorative bar code strips. I used several of these. One example is with the layout with squares. I used the black and white I love you strip above the XO paper. I also used parts of other strips in the top left corner. You'll find these strips used in several of my layouts.
 

I hope you enjoy creating with your My Creative Scrapbook kits as much as I do!

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Be sure to take a look at Joan's beautiful work in our Design Team Gallery!

We invite you to join us and experience the possibilities that our coordinated monthly kits offer. To purchase a kit, please visit our website, here.

Using Stamps and Watercolors by Missy Whidden

My Creative Scrapbook design team member Missy Whidden is up today with a tutorial featuring our February Main Kit!

Here's Missy:

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Sometimes it's fun to use stamps to create your own design.  I loved that the February Main Kit was full of papers with hearts on them!  You can't go wrong with hearts :)  I pulled out a little heart stamp and used watercolors to add some color to them.  It's super simple...check out this little tutorial.

Here's the finished product on my card.  I added more color to a few of the hearts to make them a little darker.  I wanted the look of hearts just flying out of the mailbox.  Mission accomplished!

Here's a closer look.

I hope this inspires you to add some stamping to your projects.  It's fun and easy, and you can create a design all your own this way.

Here are the layouts I created using the February Main Kit:

And here are the other cards I created: 

This kit is so full of scrappy goodness...look how many projects I created with it!  And I still have some left over.  You don't want to miss out on it!

Have a great day!

Missy

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Be sure to take a look at Missy's beautiful work in our Design Team Gallery!

We invite you to join us and experience the possibilities that our coordinated monthly kits offer. To purchase a kit, please visit our website, here.

Play Along with our Sketch Challenge

As you head into the weekend for some scrapbooking bliss, why not play along with our latest sketch challenge? :)

We would love to have you join in the fun on our My Creative Sketches blog.

There's a sweet prize package up for grabs:

Here's the sketch:

This challenge is open to everyone, everywhere, using any products.
Entries will be accepted through March 14th.

All of the details can be found on the My Creative Sketches blog, here.

We can't wait to see your take on the sketch!