Let's Go - August Main Kit Reveal from My Creative Scrapbook!

Hi friends! Happy Saturday to you! Are you in the mood to scrap like me? I thought before I get started on my next layout I'd show you the first layout I created with the fabulous August Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook! Today it's Reveal Day and on the blog of My Creative Scrapbook you'll find all four August kits revealed!! The Main Kit is soooo perfect for all the travel related photos I've got! Today I'm posting the first layout I created, I'll post the other 4 over the course of the rest of the month.

Let's Go (home):

The kits consists of lots of Echo Park (Go See Explore) and some Photo Paper Play (Boarding Pass). Such fabulous travel collections, just what I needed right now! 

A few close-ups:

To create the large title I used the Mini Alphabet Punchboard from We R Memory Keepers, which I use quite a lot lately. I just love huge titles! 

And here's a photo of the MCS August Main Kit:

Fabulous right?! For more inspiration & information please visit the My Creative Scrapbook website! On the MCS blog you'll find photos of all four August kits and in the MCS gallery you'll find all the layouts the DT created with all the kits! 

Thank you so much for taking a look at my blog post! Wishing you a great weekend and hope you'll find time to get crafty! 

xxx

Monique

Pebbles Heart of Home Mini Cards

Hi friends! I just got back from a warm & sunny family holiday in the south of France and thought it was high time to update my blog! I noticed I didn't get around to post my last two Pebbles projects and guess that's a good way to start ...

Here's a project I created for them using their brand new Heart of Home collection.

When I saw the new collection from Jen Hadfield “Heart of Home“, it was love at first sight! What an amazing collection this is! I adore the soft colors and the beautiful designs! I decided to create a couple of mini cards, but once busy I couldn't stop and ended up creating 20!

I’ve always had a special love for small sized cards.  Whenever I see them in a store, I can’t resist buying them. They are so versatile! Not only can you send them to someone, they are also perfect to add to a present or hang from a bottle. If I won’t be home for a few days, I like to leave a little card on my kids’ or husband’s pillow with a little message inside. I created these cards with a single sheet of “Love of Home”  patterned paper and I didn’t even use all of the squares (there are 36 in total and I used 20 of them)! I also used 4 different colors of cardstock (white, kraft, pink and a light yellow).

Whenever I get started on a project, I like to see the entire collection (even though, in this case, I only used the Love of Home sheet). I used my trimmer to cut out all the squares:

The squares measure 5 cm x 5 cm and I cut two pieces of cardstock just slightly larger as a mat, both about 0.7 cm larger. The finished cards measure approx. 6.5 cm x 6.5 cm.

Before adhering the squares on the card base, I first made 20 sets as I wanted to decide on the color combinations and also add some machine stitching.

When the machine stitching was done, I glued the stitched squares on the cardstock bases and I was done!! It really took no time at all, but maybe that’s also because I had such a great time making the cards … time just flew!

Here’s one of the cards, aren’t the soft colors and pretty designs fantastic?!

And here are a few more:

When I was finished making the cards, I wanted to be able to see them rather then put them in my desk drawer with my other cards. I hung them in this We R Memory Keepers Clip Frame. I really love my collection of Heart of Home mini cards and hope you do too!

Supplies:

Jen Hadfield Heart of Home Double-Sided Cardstock 12″x 12″ Love of Home (733751)
American Crafts Textured Cardstock Pack 12″x12″ 60/pkg Neutrals (AC712P12-52)
American Crafts Textured Cardstock Pack 12″x12″ 60/pkg Spring (AC712P12-53)
American Crafts Cutup Scissors 7″ Pink (64201)
We R Organization Gallery Shadow Box Frame 17″x17″x2″(660876)

Pebbles Christmas Gift Boxes

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Hello everyone! Today I'm sharing a little last minute Christmas DIY project I created for Pebbles with you! How are enjoying December so far? I love every minute of it, but sometimes I wish it would be a little less hectic. It doesn’t matter how many lists I make, I always end up with last minute things, like buying just a few more presents or wrapping those last gifts. This year was no exception! Here’re a couple of bright and colorful gift boxes I created using Pebbles’ fabulous Holly Jolly collection and the Pillow Box Punch Board from We R Memory Keepers.

So here’s what you do, gather your supplies: patterned papers for the boxes and something to decorate your boxes like die-cuts, tags, twine, stickers & ribbon. To create the boxes in the photo you have to cut your papers in the following sizes: 4″x 6″, 6″x 6″, 8″x 6″and 10″x 6″:

Following the instructions on the punch board the four papers look like this in no time at all:

Fold the papers and use double sided tape to glue the long/straight side of the box closed:

And now comes the fun part: decorating the boxes!

I totally adore the cute die-cuts in this collection: the elf, santa, the deer, the gingerbread cookie … I just love them all!

And I think it’s fabulous that a whole packet with tags and banners is included in this collection! They are just perfect for those gift boxes!

This is it! Thank you so much for stopping by today! Wishing you a wonderful Christmas!

Supplies:
Holly Jolly Patterned Paper Christmas Greetings (733159)
Holly Jolly Patterned Paper Pajama Party (733160)
Holly Jolly Patterned Paper Oh Deer (733162)
Holly Jolly Patterned Paper Holliday Village (733169)
Holly Jolly Ephemera Pack (733128)
Holly Jolly Decorative Tags (733131)
American Crafts This To That Double Sided Red Tape 1″x 5yd (61755)
We R Memory Keepers Pillow Box Punch Board (71335)

Pebbles Fall Banner using the Woodland Forest Collection

Hello friends! A few days ago my DIY project was on Pebbles' blog: a fun and easy banner to bring an Autumn feel to any room! As Autumn is my favorite season of the year I love creating projects like these to brighten up my home. For today’s project I chose the awesome Woodland Forest collection with the beautiful patterns and cute die-cuts.

To create the six pennants I chose six different patterned papers and three different colored sheets of cardstock. The 6 pennants each measure 7.5″ x 5.5″.

Before adhering the patterned papers to the cardstock pieces I embellished and machine stitched them first. I cut the word “Fall” from the Apple Cider sheet, using the mini alphabet punch board from We R Memory Keepers:

This was so much fun and so super easy to do! The punch board comes with an instruction booklet with instructions on how to create each letter of the alphabet, plus the & and the ! and the numbers 0 – 9.

Once the letters and the embellishments were in place I assembled all the pieces of the banner and used some orange colored twine to string them together. I really love the result!

Here are close-ups of the separate pennants. I adore the cute die-cuts in the Woodland Forest collection!

I hope you like this DIY Fall project and can’t wait to see yours if you decide to make one too.

Supplies:
Woodland Forest Leaf Toss (733426)
Woodland Forest Pears (733428)
Woodland Forest Stitched Floral (733429)
Woodland Forest Apple Cider (733430)
Woodland Forest Pumpkin Patch (733432)
Woodland Forest Fall Florals (733434)
Woodland Forest Woodland Critters (733435)
Woodland Forest Ephemera Die-Cuts (733437)
Woodland Forest Wood Veneer Shapes (733439)
Bazzill Mono Cardstock 12″x 12″ Candle (1646)
Bazzill Orange Peel Cardstock 12″x 12″ Orange Juice (3049)
Bazzill Mono Cardstock 12″x 12″ Pomegranate (9234)
American Crafts Baker’s Twine Value Pack 5YD Spools 24/PKG (366303)
American Crafts This To That Double-Sided Super Sticky Red Tape, .5″ x 5 yd (61754)
American Crafts Cutup Scissors 7″ (64201)
We R Memory Keepers Banner Punch Board (662565)
We R Memory Keepers Mini Alphabet Punch Board (663004)

Thank you so much for stopping by! For now, happy crafting!
xxx Monique

Pebbles Warm & Cozy Cards with Foil Accents

Hi everyone! I've got two cards up on Pebbles' blog, created with the wonderful "Warm & Cozy" collection and wanted to share it here too.

A little while ago I got a Heatwave Foil Pen from We R Memory Keepers and I couldn’t wait to use it! While creating the Warm & Cozy cards for today’s blog post I realized that this was the perfect opportunity to give the Heatwave Pen a try. The colors and beautiful designs of this collection are perfect to add some extra foil accents to. Here’s what I created:

The Heatwave Pen came with a couple of foil sheets and I also got some fun templates for it. I used the top template (Script) for both my cards and chose a red and a gold sheet of foil.

The cards I created measure 4″ x 6″ and 6″ x 4″ and have a white cardstock base and two layers of patterned paper. Before adhering the patterned papers to my cardstock base I added the pennants and machine stitched along the outer edge of the top paper. Now I was ready to add the foil accents. Here’re a few photos how I did this: I used some washi tape to (temporarily) adhere my papers, template and foil to my cutting mat, so everything would stay in one place while foiling:

Because the foil pen becomes very hot you need a cutting mat or a glass plate as a working surface. The foil pen can be held just like you would a normal pen and without adding a lot of pressure you just follow the template.

It’s very easy and I really like the result! Next I adhered the papers to the white cardstock base and I added a few embellishments. Here’s a closer look at the cards. On this card you can see what the gold foil looks like:

And on this card you can see the red foil:

I really like the extra texture the foil gives!

Hope you like my Warm & Cozy cards! I can’t wait to see what you’ll do with this collection!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. Wishing you a fabulous day!

Supplies:
Warm & Cozy Warm Quotes Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Logs Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Antlers Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Cozy Tweed Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Cozy Comfort Patterned Paper
Warm & Cozy Ephemera Die Cuts
Warm & Cozy Chipboard
Warm & Cozy Rub-Ons
We R Memory Keepers Heatwave Stencil 7″x7″ Script
We R Memory Keepers Heatwave Pen Tool Starter Kit
American Crafts Twine
American Crafts White Cardstock
American Crafts Precision Pen Black 05