Beautiful With Monique!

Hello friends! It's Monique here today and  I'm sharing a step-by-step for one of the layouts I created with the April Main Kit. This kit contains mainly Carta Bella's Flower Market collection and I totally adore all the beautiful papers in this kit, especially those b-sides! Red is my favorite color, and when you see the b-sides of the papers in this kit you'll understand why I love them so much!

For today I chose to do a step-by-step of my "Beautiful" layout. The photo of my daughter was taken a few years ago when we were in Greece. I love the flowers behind her in the photo and how they match not only the color of her clothes, but also the colors in this kit!

When I start with a scrapbook page I always gather my supplies close around me so I have a good look at all the products I can use:

I started with a white cardstock sheet and adhered two strips of patterned paper on the left side. The photo was matted on two pieces of patterned paper and in the largest piece of paper I cut a v form at the bottom. The photo was then placed on top of the strips of paper on the left side:

I wanted some flowers to add to the corners of the photo, but as I had no flower die-cuts left I decided to hand-cut some flowers from the "Garden Floral" paper:

When I had the flowers placed where I wanted them, I decided the white cardstock was too white and using a blender brush and a light pink ink pad I colored the cardstock around the photo a light pinkish color:

Next I wanted to use the white foam "You Make Miso Happy" Jillibean Soup alpha's for the title, but I wanted a colored title instead of a white one and tried coloring them with a few different pens before deciding the Copic Markers were the best choice to hand color the letters (the others pens didn't dry quick enough for my taste):

Look what a beautiful result. Against the white cardstock, this looks much better than a white title I think.

After adding a few more die-cuts, machine stitching, a date stamp and a few drops of ink I was done!

Here are a few more close-ups:

Here's a quick look at the April Main kit:

If you want to see all 4 April kits hop over to the MCS website and for photos of projects created by the design team with the various kit, please visit the Design Team Gallery.

Thank you so very much for stopping by! I really appreciate it! Wishing you happy crafting!

xoxo
Monique

You can find more of my work here: Instagram / Blog / Pinterest

Naturally Beautiful by Heather!

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 April Main Kit! 

 April 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 April Reveal!

Our April 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 April 2019 kits:

***April 2019 Main Kit*** 

***April 2019 Creative Kit***

***April 2019 Limited Edition Kit*** 

***April 2019 Album Kit*** 

 Please welcome our Design Team Member!

Elena Martynova

My name is Elena Martynova and I live in Russia, Astrakhan.

I have two kids aged 19 and 14. They are the most beautiful of my creations!

 I love to do practical things, and just beautiful. Wife, mother, passionate, adored felines.Have the care of three baleen-striped. I really appreciate in people sincerity, kindness and sense of humor. I dream to travel a lot. But not like too long to leave home. At home I'm always fine. Scrapbooking is a hobby that makes my life happier and more interesting. Gives a lot of communication, new friends, the joy of self-realization in work. And of course, happiness of owning a scrapbook treasures. Even in the fifth year of fascination with the scrap does not get rid of the habit to buy any particular paper or embellishment to just "own" for aesthetic pleasure.

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It's April 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 April's beautiful kits.

Our April Main Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Yvette Weber

By Monique Liedke

By Yvette Weber

By Alicia Giess

By Dorymar Perez Lopez

Our April Creative Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Zelda Smith

By Tracy McLennon

By Tracy McLennon

Our April Limited Edition Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Zelda Smith

By Rebecca Genet

By Maja Nowak

By Matlika Kejriwal

Our April Album Kit Sneak Peeks:

Sneaks by the Design Team!

By Angel Lebouef

  Has this gotten your creative juices flowing?

   Be sure to reserve your kits today!

Vacay with Monique!

Hello My Creative Scrapbook fans! It's Monique on the blog today sharing another step-by-step for one of the layouts created with this month's kit.

For today I chose to do a step-by-step of my "Vacay" layout created with the March Main Kit and Pebbles' Chasing Adventures collection. I'm a huge fan of Pebbles and totally adore this collection. When I had finished three layouts with this kit I had a large amount of ephemera left over and because I really love each and every one of the cute die-cuts I decided to do a layout where I would use all of the leftover die-cuts I had!

This is the page I made:

As I really loved the result I thought I would show you how I created this. 

First of all I gathered all of the supplies of the March Main Kit I had left (which was quite a lot, considering I had already created 3 layouts with it):

Next I drew a large circle on a sheet of white American Crafts cardstock using a chipboard circle template from Technique Tuesday (from my stash):

Now I had to decide where I wanted which die-cuts on my layout. I started with the flower die-cuts and divided them evenly on the circle I had drawn:

The next step was to fill in all the white spaces on the circle. I started at the bottom:

And in this way I worked my way around the circle. The next part I filled in was the bottom right corner:

I continued my way around the circle, at first only using the die-cuts, but as I neared completion of the circle I also added in some of the fun stickers:

Doesn't it look fun? Those die-cuts in this collection are my new favorites!! 

Now I only had to add my photo to the layout. I chose a photo of my daughter where she has this similar pose to some of the die-cuts of the die-cut girls. I matted the photo on to a piece of yellow patterned paper (from the sheet called Savanna) and placed it on the right middle side of my page:

With a journaling card from the sheet called "Adventure", one of the Thickers phrases and an extra chipboard piece and sticker my layout looked almost finished:

With the addition of some machine stitching, hand journaling and a stamped date (twice) the layout was complete!

The layout was done in no time at all and it felt so good to use all of those die-cuts. Normally when I really really love scrapbook supplies I save them for a very special occasion which often means they stay in my stash gathering dust. Using them felt so much better!

Here's a look at the March Main Kit I used:

If you want to see all 4 March kits hop over to the MCS website and for photos of projects created by the design team with the various kit, please visit the Design Team Gallery.

Thank you so very much for stopping by! Happy crafting!

xoxo

Monique

You can find more of my work here: Instagram / Blog

Heather King's Scrapbook Space!

Hello My Creative Scrapbook Fans! Today we Bring to you a Peek In Heather King's Scrapbook Room. 

A few Still pictures so you can get a closer Look! Such a nice Space to play and so much Organizational Ideas.