Mixed Media with Yvette!

Hello, My Creative Scrapbook friends!  Yvette here and I'm so excited to share this beautiful mixed media page with you today. Every once in awhile I like to get messy and challenge myself to create a mixed media background.  Included in this month's main kit is a flower stamp as well as a circle stencil, I decided to mainly use the stamped flowers as well as a few die-cut pieces as my only source of embellishments for my page.

Gather my supplies..... 

I started the layout off by creating a watercolor effort on the background, using various shades of blue, orange and yellow. I mixed the Gelatos with a little water onto a piece of plastic packaging and applied it using the 'kissing' technique...(gently kiss the packaging to your cardstock)      

I keep building layers of colors, working in a diagonal design until I was happy with the end results. 

        

Here you can see, I also used a small water brush to move the colors around a bit. Which created some movement and interest on my page.

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I then stamped the flower image multiple times on some white cardstock, using charcoal ink and fussy cut. 

Next, I applied gesso, using a palette knife through the circle stencil. 

Once everything was dry, I decided to add a few stamped flowers over the top of the paint using the charcoal ink. 

Some machine stitching in black was added of texture and interest.

Once my background was done, I was ready to start embellishing using the fussy cut stamped flowers. 

  

A phrase found on one of the cutout cards was fussy cut to create a title.

A few die-cut vines and flower shapes was add to the layout to finish it off.

   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

Card Making by Marta Lapkowska!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! Design Team member Marta Lapkowskal is treating us to a fabulous process video today. A gorgeous scrapbooking layout with our March 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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Heather with a Double Spread Layout Video!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! Design Team member Heather King is treating us to a fabulous process video today. A gorgeous scrapbooking layout with our March main Kit! 

Main Kit

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

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It's Time for our March Reveal!

Our March kits are filled with lots of goodies ! You'll find a lovely assortment of patterned papers and perfectly coordinating embellishments.  Whether your style is clean and simple, shabby chic, or something in between our kits offer something for everyone.

Presenting the My Creative Scrapbook March 2019 kits:

***February 2019 Main Kit*** 

***February 2019 Creative Kit***

***January 2019 Limited Edition Kit*** 

***February 2019 Album Kit*** 

 Please welcome our Guest Design Team Members!

Kavitha

Hello everyone,

I am Kavitha from Southern part of India.I always loved being creative and I am fortunate enough to be a full time artist now..Art keeps my ever active brain engaged :).I started my art journey with paintings and then moved on to crafts, and now i am into mixed media where i can use both art and craft and i am absolutely loving it ,it helps me to get the best of both worlds.My most favorite style is shabby chic with lots of layers, flowers and details but i absolutely love trying each and every style possible.I love creating layouts, cards, tags, canvas ,albums and 3d projects

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It's March Sneak Peak Time!

We are so very excited to bring you these fabulous Sneak Peeks of what our talented design team members have been creating with March's beautiful kits.

Our March Main Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Zelda Smith

By Monique Liedthe

By Tracy McLennon

By Yvette Weber

By Heather King

Our March Creative Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Yvette Weber

By Yvette Weber

By Yvette Weber

By Tracy McLennon

By Patty McGovern Pugh

Our March Limited Edition Kit Sneak Peeks:

Our March Album Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Patty McGovern -Pugh

By Angel Lebouef

  Has this gotten your creative juices flowing?

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Dry Embossing with Marielle!

Hello everyone, Marielle here today to share a quick tutorial on dry embossing with a stencil.
The February main kit includes this great plastic Confetti stencil from Heidi Swapp.

I loved working with this wonderful kit !

This is my finished card. I love these shades of blues and purples !

Step 1

Place stencil over white cardstock and adhere stencil with tape.

Step 2

Flip the stencil and cardstock over on the cutting plate of your favorite die cutting machine.

Step 3

Using the correct embossing mat and plates for your machine, run through machine to emboss your piece of cardstock.

Step 4

Here's a look at the embossed piece. I love adding texture to my projects !

Step 5

I created a tag for my card using the embossed circles only.

Step 6

I punched out a few of the larger circles and fussy cut the small hearts from the papers in the kit.

The process of finding the perfect placement of embellishment is always a long one for me. I always step back a look at everything and make changes that pleases my eye. 

 

Step 7

I machine stitched the hearts to the circles and added splats of white paint.

Step 8 

To finish my card, I adhered a few flowers, sentiment, twine and chipboard foliage.

Thanks for visiting the blog today. I hope you can find a bit of creative time to try this dry embossing technique on your next project.

Happy crafting !

Marielle

BookMarks with Zelda!

Hi everyone, today I’m sharing  some cute bookmarks that I created using the adorable February Creative Kit, Loves Me Collection from Pebbles.

With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I designed some sweet bookmarks using this wonderful collection I thought these would make cute Valentine cards especially as I like to give my kids books on Valentine's Day.

Using the patterned papers and white cardstock  I cut  2”×7” rectangles and punched the shape of the tag and the hole at the top using a Stampin’ Up Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. If you don’t have a tag punch you could use a corner round punch and a hole punch or simply cut the corners off at an angle.

There was a red dye ink pad and clear chevron stamp included  in the monthly kit which were great to use for the back of the bookmarks. I stamped the white cardstock  using the red ink and chevron stamp, inked all around  the edges and adhered them together.

To embellish the bookmarks, I decided to make some origami hearts to hug them. And because they have a little pocket I was able to use some of the sweet tags and ephemera  tucked in the hearts. Lastly I used some DMC floss to make  tassels.

*To make the hearts cut a 4 ½” square piece of paper.

*Fold it in half and half again and open up.

*Fold the bottom of the paper up to the middle crease, and then quarter turn your paper and fold up the bottom corners to the middle creating a triangular edge.

 *Quarter turn and bring the bottom center point to the top and fold, quarter turn again.

*Use your finger to make an opening in the middle and flatten to form a triangle, fold a triangle from the outer edge and a tiny triangle from peak. Repeat on other side.

*Turn over and fold the areas behind the heart.

And there you have your origami heart which can also be used as a bonus bookmark!


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