Home Sweet Home with Zelda!

Hi everyone, today I’m sharing a home decor piece that was created using the beautiful September Main Kit.

 It has been a while since I have cross stitched, so when I saw all the home sweet home references in this months kit, the elements gave me the idea to create an embroidery hoop decor piece.

 I painted an 8” embroidery hoop using this beautiful color called catching rays by Art minds. Once the paint was completely dry I sanded the hoop with my Dremel tool to remove some of the paint and added metallic wax in rose gold which gives the hoop a vintage look which I love.

 Using my Cricut I cut out the word home twice, one of the words included in this months cut file.

I choose 4 of the patterned papers from the kit which I fussy cut to back the cut file letters.

 The floral and stem pieces are from the ephemera included in the kit. I positioned the pieces to curve around the hoop, tacked them together with a little tape, and ran them through my sewing machine stitching them together using white thread.

For the word sweet, I used a pencil and hand wrote the word sweet lightly in the middle, then hand stitched it in a mustard color floss, For dimension, 3D foam squares were added to the back of both of the words home and I placed them above and directly below sweet.

The flowers around the hoop were attached using hot glue, and the house sticker was backed with ¼” thick foam then hot glued to the bottom right of the hoop between the flower clusters. I also added some of the gold leaf ephemera behind the flower clusters.

Here is the finished piece which has now found a home on my dining room wall.


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Breath Taking with Rebecca!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! Design Team member Rebecca Genet is treating us to a fabulous process video today. A gorgeous scrapbooking layout with our  September Limited Edition kit!

Limited Edition Kit

To see more beautiful creations made with the contents of this kit, please visit our inspiring Design Team Gallery

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Card with Madeline!

Today I'm showing you step-by-step how to create a beautiful card using papers and embellishments from My Creative Scrapbooks September main kit.  

To begin, I chose a pretty color combination for my background, pink and forest green. I cut one of the papers slightly smaller than my kraft card base, the second slightly smaller than the first...

and layered like so:

Next I made two tags from additional papers in the kit, the black and white houndstooth and another forest green print,

then adhered them to the card:

A little fussy cutting here...

gave me this:

A few die-cuts were also gathered for the front of the card:

First I added the floral circle and "Thank You" sentiment:

Then I added the bunny, house, and heart:

 A bit of fluffy fiber finishes off those tags, and the card front nicely! But there's more to be done...


since I decided that the inside of the card should look just as nice as the outside. ;)

Another rectangle of pink patterned paper, a fussy cut floral, a small tag and green banner pieces come together on the inside...

To create a nice spot for writing and personalizing the card.

When everything goes together, it comes together effortlessly. And cards are the perfect way to use up all those little leftovers after creating layouts from your kits. Try it sometime!

Happy with Marilyn!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! Design Team member Marilyn Rivera is treating us to another fabulous process video today. A gorgeous mixed media scrapbooking layout with our September Limited Edition kit!

Limited Edition Kit

To see more beautiful creations made with the contents of this kit, please visit our inspiring Design Team Gallery

For more information about our kits, visit our website at MyCreativeScrapbook.com 

September Sketch!

It’s time to unveil September 's fabulous Sketch.Everyone is welcomed to play along.

Looking forward to seeing what you create. Love our fans here at My Creative Scrapbook and will be watching this board to pick random winners that will receive a prize. Thank you for joining in the fun. 

 Remember to share your sketch at My Creative Scrapbook Inspiration Central you never know when Pam is watching and you can be a lucky winner to some fabulous goodies!

Here below is a example that our Design Team has created using the same sketch!

Shizuka Hirano

Angel Lebouef

Tracy McLennon

Zelda Smith

Moniquie Liedke

We are looking forward to seeing what you share with us!

Background Fun with Yvette!

Hi My Creative Scrapbook Friends! Yvette here today with a layout using the September main kit! For this page I use the Carta Bella 6x6 Floral stencil to create a strip to use as part of my background.

I started by using some washi tape to secure the stencil to my white cardstock.   

Next, I used a stencil brush to apply the art crayons through the floral stencil. I wanted a soft and subtle look to my background, so I only use shades of orange...and really love how this turn out!

Here is what it looks like when it was all completed...

 

To finish off my background, I added some spatters using some teal watercolor.    

I then added a strip of the 06 pattern paper across both sides to give it some definition from the white background.  I also added some machine stitching to the tops of the paper stripes.

 My photo was placed directly onto the stencil background. I couldn't resist using those gorgeous vellum floral embellishments and arranged them in the right hand corner of my photo as well as a cardstock sticker and that cute rabbit from the Ephemera pack.   

To the top of the layout I stapled two different lengths of bakers twine and then added a cardstock sticker to the top of each one.

A cut file was use to create a title for my page.    

A few more die-cut stars was added around my layout as well as some enamel dots to complete this page.

  I hope you felt inspired today and if you're not a subscriber yet, give it a try. The kits are all so beautiful and you will not regret it!!!!

Thanks for stopping by :) xx

Beautiful Layout with Monique!

Hello My Creative Scrapbook fans! It's Monique here today sharing a step-by-step of my "Beautiful" layout, created with the MCS September Main Kit.

This is the layout I created: 

I'm a huge fan of Pink Paislee and totally adore this month's kit featuring the Auburn Lane collection! I love it so much I didn't want to "spill" any papers and used my kit very carefully. The reason I'm telling you this, is that this is how I came up with the idea for this design, using only 1 sheet of paper: paper 07.

I really like the design of paper 07 with all the small triangles and decided I wanted to use the geometrical idea of this paper, but not necessarily limited to triangles. I toyed with some ideas and decided on the diamond shape.  

First I cut off strips of paper of 3 "rows" wide, like this:

Next I cut diamond shapes consisting of 6 triangles wide and 6 triangles long. After cutting the first, I used that one as a template to cut the rest of the diamond shapes:

I found that I really wanted smaller diamond shapes as well and cut a few of those too. Because the papers in the Auburn Lane collection are all double sided I automatically had diamond shapes in 2 different designs:

Placing the shapes this way and that, I decided on this design:

Using just a tiny bit of adhesive I glued the shapes to the cardstock, so I could always rearrange them later-on. I added my photo, a journaling card from paper 01 and some die-cuts & stickers and when I was happy with the way the layout looked I used my sewing machine to stitch the shapes permanently to my page. 

This is it! Really very easy! Hope you like it!

Here's a photo of the September Main Kit I used: 

For more information about the kit and how to secure one for yourself click HERE! Did you know that this month you will receive a free gift with your kit?!

Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing you happy scrapping!
xoxo
Monique

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Layering Tips with Shona!

Hi everyone! Today I have some layering tips to share. I love to do layer of papers, masking, lace and other pretty things. For the tips I am sharing my two 10 inch tags created with the My Creative Scrapbook September Limited Edition kit.

I started with the background layer, adding a strip of another layer of paper on top. I then did some masking with the kit stencil and 13 Arts Moldeling paste.

Next I added one more strip of kit papers on top of that before I started with the embellishments. I did some fussy cutting and added a them and a paper doily on top of the first paper layers.

Next add more layers with the kit embellishments, the pretty lace, chipboard piece and flowers.

I finished it all off with splashes of 13 Arts Gesso watered down with water.

Look at all of the pretty layers!

That is it for me today. Make sure to check out all the gorgeous kits available this month! I will be back with more shares from the Septemberkit! Take care and happy scrapping!