Love Is In The Air

It's reveal time over at My Creative Scrapbook and I get to finally share the layouts I created with the February kits. Today I'm sharing my creations with the Main kit which feature the sweet Paper Hearts collection by Crate Paper, just perfect for lovey dovey projects to celebrate Valentine's Day.

Here's my first project with the kit,

If you have young kids, then you know how hard it is to get both kids on the shot to pose, so this is what I get. It' life, and love it! This photo totally reflects my children's personalities at the moment, Emily is a ham and Dylan is funny beyond belief. LOL!

The quote is something I found on Pinterest and I edited it slightly.

The next page came together incredibly fast, for me anyway, because this kit was so easy to work with. Just some stamping, some punch work, and a little bit of detailed cutting and it was all done! Sometimes the designs in the paper call for simple!

Here's a closer view,

For my third page, I got a little bit artsy as I played with modeling paste with this masculine page.

My final project with this kit is an altered project. I altered this little paint can from Michael's with heaps of embellishments from the kit!

Another quick and easy project thanks to all the stickers and punch-outs included in the kit. After altering, I filled it up with Dove milk chocolate hearts and it's now ready to be gifted!

Thanks so much for stopping by. I'll be back tomorrow to share my creations with the Limited Kit. For now, be sure to check out MCS DT gallery for more beautiful inspiration!

October Reveal At My Creative Scrapbook

Hello again! Today is reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook. I had the pleasure to work with this month's Main and Limited Edition kits. Today I'll share with you my work with the Main Kit. This kit has cuteness written all over it and it's jammed packed with fun papers and embellishments in the most beautiful autumn colors. The featured paper collection is Farmhouse by Crate Paper, take a look... and read on for a FUN GIVEAWAY!

Here are the projects I created with this kit. My first layout is titled Home Grown.

Though an older photo of Dylan, I just had to scrap it! The colors in the paper collection are the same ones as the ones on his sweater, I love when that happens!

For my next layout, Leaf Collector, I created my own burlap banner inspired by the cute wooden clothes pins included in the kit.

The chicken wire chipboard piece was a great addition to this kit. I embossed it to give it some texture.

The colors were perfect for a pumpkin picking LO so I totally went for the obvious, LOL! This one is titled Today Is Worth Remembering.

Did I mention I love this kit? LOL! I think my favorite part was the stacked tea cups, so sweet!

Lastly, I created the following recipe book by binding together some recipe cards and dividers with chipboard panels I cut using my Fiskars trimmer.

I really enjoyed creating with this kit and I know you will too!

And now for a fun Reveal Day Giveaway! Visit My Creative Scrapbook's DT Gallery and check out all the beautiful creations with the October kits; then come back here and leave a comment letting me know how many projects we have for this month. I'll draw a winner from the correct responses to receive a fabulous Prima flowers prize pack courtesy of Pam, MCS owner.

I hope you play along, who doesn't like Prima flowers, right?! Good luck everyone!

Toy Box Printer's Tray

Hello again! Today I'm sharing something completely different from what I've been doing lately. I wanted to make an altered project just for fun and I've been wanting to use the fun Toy Box collection by Crate Paper, this is what I came up with...

I love, love, love this fun collection and its nostalgic images just perfect for fun-loving little boys like Dylan. This printer's tray will be hung on our playroom, the kids loved it so much that Emily already asked for one of her own so I think there's a girlie one in my near future!

I sprayed the entire printer's tray with Suede Glimmer Mist to give it a brownish-golden tone and just added chipboard pieces, tags and paper from the collection along with a few photos. Here's a closer view:

Thanks for stopping by! I really appreciate you taking the time to visit and leaving sweet comments. Have a great week!

My Creative Scrapbook July Reveal

Two posts in one day?! I know!!!! Bear with me, I have lots to share so here I go...

This month's Limited Edition kit at My Creative Scrapbook is drop dead gorgeous. It's LOADED with beautiful Webster's Pages Country Estate and Prima flowers, bling and lace. I was in girly crafting heaven when I saw it yet I managed to create this boy page. I think I can get away with it because Dylan is still a baby in this picture.

Lots of fussy cutting here. I also used a lot of my favorite Ranger Pop It shapes to add dimension to my cutouts. Take a closer look...

For my next layout, I used softer tones and went totally romantic. This collection is full of soft floral patterns which I love! 

I did a lot of machine stitching here and put my Martha Stewart border punches to work, some of my favorite tools lately!

Next, I wanted to create a totally vintage, yet shabby chic page with this gorgeous gazebo image. I used a Photoshop action (free from Pioneer Woman) to edit my photo and get just the look I was going for. I heavily distressed and inked the papers and layered lots of cutouts from the collection to achieve this look. I really like how it turned out, it's much prettier in person.

Here's a close-up...

For my final layout with this kit I tried to create a scene of tranquility to go with the picture. I caught Emily just sitting quietly and dangling her legs, such a sweet childhood moment.

Once I was done with the LE kit, I got to work with the Main kit. This month's main kit is fun and femenine. It features the beautiful Emma's Shoppe collection by Crate Paper and Life Is Good by Echo Park along with pretty Prima and Petaloo flowers. I had so much fun creating with this kit!

My first page was created by tracing an old die cut paper and cutting it out using scallop scissors then punching each scallop with a tiny hole punch. I got the awesome tip from the super talented Gerry. I also did some masking and lacing.

For my next layout, I tried to create a fun and playful design while maintaining my usual layers and distressed look.

As you could probably tell, one of my favorite things to do is to use my border punches around die cut shapes. I created a tutorial on how to do this which you can view here.

I tried Puffy paint on the pink Prima flowers and loved the effect! I think there's a lot of Puffy paint in my future!

On this layout, I pulled some of the fun and bright Echo Park papers. There were so many stickers on this kit that it was hard to stop myself from adding more!

My final layout couldn't be simpler. I just punched the borders of some layers and accented the photos with flowers, easy peasy!

Thanks so much for joining me once again. Please take a moment to see what the other DT gals created with this month's kits and check out MSC's awesome DT gallery.This was a lengthy post, I hope you found some inspiration today!