Mad for Plaid with Zelda!

Hi everyone, today I am sharing a layout I created using the October Creative kit Mad for Plaid by Photo Play Paper.

  We recently took a family road trip to the valley to visit Dakeyne Farms, we brought a picnic lunch, flew some kites and wandered through the beautiful sunflower maze. It was such a wonderful day and we had lots of fun. I chose to scrapbook a picture of my daughter standing in a field of sunflowers and immediately I wanted to create my own sunflower. I sketched a sunflower onto plain printer paper. I then matted the picture with an ephemera frame and the torn edge of a paper bag placing my picture onto the sketch to the bottom right so I could mark around the picture where I wanted it to be placed on the sunflower.

I picked out the patterned papers for all the petals, leaves and the center of the sunflower.

On the sketched sunflower I numbered each petal and leaf as I was paper piercing and cutting them out. I did this so I would be able to glue them in the correct order on the background. For the center of the flower I used my cuttlebug and a scalloped circle die.

I was left with a pile of petals and leaves to be put together but not before I chain stitched around each one.

 I glued the sunflower together on the burgundy patterned paper which I fussy cut all around leaving a burgundy bordered edge around the sunflower which stood out nicely on the cream cardstock background.

 I placed the sunflower to the top left and added the picture to the bottom right. I decided to add a couple strips of paper on the left vertical edge of the layout. One strip I had used a scalloped border punch.

To the bottom right I added a smaller horizontal cluster of strips of paper, again using the same border punch. I added some stickers and the vellum title along with some nuvo drops all around to finish off the layout. Here is the finished layout and a couple of close ups.

 
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Remember This with Elena!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! Design Team member  Elena Martynova  is treating us to a fabulous process video today. A gorgeous Layout with our October 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

Quilt Inspired Layout with Yvette!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! It's Yvette here, with a Quilt - Inspired layout. Here's the layout I created....

I choose a Quilt image I found on Pinterest, as my inspiration, and used it to create a string art background for this layout.         

Pinterest image:

Step 1:  I started by using a large plate as a template to draw a circle. 

Step 2:  Fussy cut the small triangles from patterned paper 24.     

 Step 3:  Using the circle as a guide, I glued the triangles in place by slightly overlapping each one, until the circle was completed.     

Step 4:  Punched the holes using a paper piercer, one in the center of the circle and the others, along the inside area of the triangles were I have the arrows indicate in the photo above. Starting from the center for the circle with your floss/thread and then over to the opposite side. Continuing with this process until the entire inside of the circle is covered.     

Step 5:  Create a second circle of fussy cut triangles, and repeat the same process from step 4.  Once this was finish I felt like something was missing, so I decided to add some back stitching around the perimeter before adhered it to the larger circle.     

Step 6:  At this point I added my photo and title.  

Once my title and photo were in place, I created a couple clusters of layered embellishments using the beautiful floral die cuts, as well as a few fussy cut pieces. Some of the embellishments were added with foam tape to create extra dimension.   

  

A couple of close-ups.....

I hope you like this page and it has inspired you to create your own!

Thanks for stopping by :) xx 

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Come join our contest using Paige Evans cut file designed for My Creative Scrapbook Paige Evans Design Contest  MyCreativeScrapbook.com Paige Evans is guest designing for My Creative Scrapbook for October 2019.  Come join the fun!  We are having a contest here are the rules ! Follow My Creative Scrapbook on instagram and Facebook Use the hashtag #MyCreativeScrapbook #PaigeEvanscontest  Upload your layout using the My Creative Scrapbook kit using Paige Evans cut file and you will be entered in a drawing to win a free kit.  Contest ends Oct. 30th 2019. Winner will be drawn at random, have fun!

Truly Grateful by Monique!

Hello friends of My Creative Scrapbook! It's Monique here today sharing a step-by-step for one of the layouts I created with the October Main Kit. I think this kit is my favorite to date! It's filled with the awesome "Truly Grateful" collection from Paige Evans/Pink Paislee. I love how colorful this kit is!

A few weeks we had this furry sweetie joining our family and of course I only want to scrap her photos now. Here's what I made:

And here's how I created this page. I gathered all my supplies:

I used some templates from my stash (Technique Tuesday) to draw 6 different sized hearts and hand cut them:

I adhered the largest heart on my layout and machine stitched two times around it: 

Next I glued the other hearts on top with just the minimum of adhesive, machine stitched right through the middle and folded the sides a little upwards:

I love that all the papers in this collection have two awesome sides! Before I stitched the hearts in place I had a hard time choosing which side should go up! 

Next I decorated the inside of the top heart with words from the Truly Grateful cardstock sticker sheet:

After decorating the heart a bit more with some of the Truly Grateful puffy stickers I started on the photo of my puppy. I printed a square 10 cm x 10 cm photo of her and matted it on a piece of patterned paper. Both at the bottom and at the top of the photo I added a die-cut with a few puffy stickers:

In the right bottom corner of my layout I added a few more cardstock and puffy stickers and the date stamp:

On the right side of the hearts I added a few more die-cuts and puffy stickers and around the entire layout I drew a black line.  

A few drops of ink and my page is done!  

Thank you so much for visiting the MCS blog! I hope you have enjoyed my step-by-step.

For more information about this kit (and the other 3 kits of this month) please visit the My Creative Scrapbook website and if you want to see the photos of all projects created by the design team with the various kits, please visit the Design Team Gallery.

Here's the photo of the October Main Kit I used:

Thanks again for stopping by! Wishing you happy crafting!

xoxo Monique

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Imagination with Elena!

Hi, My Creative Scrapbook fans! Design Team member  Elena Martynova  is treating us to a fabulous process video today. A gorgeous Layout with our October 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

October Sketch !

It’s time to unveil October'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 are examples that our Design Team has created using the same sketch!

By Shizuka Hirano

By Angel Lebouef

By Zelda Smith

By Tracy McLennon

By Yvette Weber

By Dorymar Perez

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