Beautiful | My Creative Scrapbook August Step-By-Step | Pink Paislee 5th & Monaco

Today I've got another step-by-step of one of my My Creative Scrapbook layouts. This time I used the August Main Kit to create my page. I'm a huge fan of everything Pink Paislee and was so happy to see the 5th and Monaco collection in this month's kit!

For today's step-by-step I selected this beautiful flowered paper called "paper 8" to create this layout of my daughter and our sweet Spaniel.

As soon as I saw the number 8 paper I knew I wanted to fussy cut it, but as I love color I couldn't just leave it b/w! It had to be painted first! I went with the colors of the photo: pink, light blue and a bit of orange/yellow. I grabbed my little distress ink pads and dabbed some of the ink on my glass plate and added water. 

With a large soft square brush I painted the paper 8 with the water color in large slow strokes. I tried not to add too much water as I didn't want to damage the paper. Afterwards I dried the paper with a heat gun.

Now came the fun part: the fussy cutting. I cut the flowers I wanted to use and (hand) cut them out.

Meanwhile I also prepared the background for my layout. I sprayed pink ink on a white cardstock and added drops of pink and blue ink. 

Using the Maggie Holmes template that's included in the kit and my little distress inks and a soft brush I added a few extra bits to my background:

Next I placed my (matted) photo and all the cut out flowers diagonally on the background cardstock and adhered them. I tried to do this in a way that some of the leaves were still curling a little: 

Using lots of the stickers and die-cuts from the kit and a date stamp I finished my page. Here are a few close-up shots:

  

Isn't this another awesome kit?! I'm so in love with the designs in this collection! 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 one last photo of the kit:

Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing you a happy day!

xxx Monique

Hello Spring | Step-By-Step for My Creative Scrapbook

Hello friends! Today I'm sharing a step-by-step for one of the layouts I created with the awesome March Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook.

I was thrilled when I saw the contents of this month's kit! Lots of Pink Paislee's/Paige Evans 'Bloom Street' collection and also some products from Shimelle's 'Never Grow Up' collection. I love all collections designed by Paige Evans and this collection was on top of my wish list! Here's the layout for which I wrote the little step-by-step:

I got started by displaying the entire kit on my desk and the photo I wanted to use: 

Paper 10 stood out immediately and so my decision to go with that paper was made very quickly. I got out my craft knife and cut several diamond shapes from this paper:

At least one diamond shape had to be large enough to be placed behind my photo:

 I organised all the shapes on a white cardstock paper to determine a design for my layout:

Before adhering all these diamond shapes I got out my pink stamping ink and Nuvo blender brush and colored the background paper in a subtle pink shade:

Next I adhered all the shapes: 

and glued a long pink machine thread on top:

The matted photo, a journaling card and a flower die-cut & word die-cut came next:

The journaling card needed a bit of machine stitching:

Now I just added a few more stickers and die-cuts, like this sun die-cut:

These two beautifully colored word stickers:

Another word die-cut with beautiful foiled accents:

And I added some extra flowers as one can never have enough flowers! 

With a few paint drops and a written date my layout was done! Hope you like it!

Here's a photo of the March Main Kit: 

Awesome, right?

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.

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Wishing you happy crafting!

xxx 

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You Make Me So Happy | My Creative Scrapbook March Main Kit

Sharing another layout created with the March Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook, the Bloom Street collection from Pink Paislee/Paige Evans. Love this collection so much! I scrapped yet another photo of my English Cocker Spaniel puppy.

Here are a few close-ups:

I just adore all the colors in this collection!!

Here's a quick peek at the March Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook:

For more information about the kit please hop over to the website of My Creative Scrapbook.

Wishing you a wonderful week!
xoxo

You Are My Sunshine | My Creative Scrapbook March Main Kit

Hello everyone! Are you enjoying your Sunday as much as I am? I love my days off, so I can have coffee at a friend in the morning, take long strolls with my puppy, catch up on my reading and scrap a bit of course! 

Today I thought I'd share one of the layouts I created with the fabulous March Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. This kit is filled with the Bloom Street collection from Pink Paislee/Paige Evans (papers, stickers and die-cuts), but also has an extra packet of flowers from Shimelle. 

For this layout I mostly used paper 24. My favorite paper in this collection!! 

And a few close-ups:

And a photo of the March Main Kit:

For more information about the March kits 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.

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to look at my page!

Wishing you a wonderful week!

xoxo

Feels Like Fall | Pink Paislee/Paige Evans

Here's a Fall layout I created for JustNick Studio using the beautiful new "Leaf Circle Background" cut file and the Truly Grateful collection from Pink Paislee/Paige Evans, combined with a few sheets from her Horizon collection. This cut file is so perfect for a Fall layout, when I saw it, I just had to use it! Here's what I made:

And this is the "Leaf Circle Background" cut file I used:

I cut the leaf circle from the multicolored sheet (Horizon, paper 3) and love the result, with all the leaves in different colors! Just like Fall, right?!

Except for the "Leaf Circle Background" cut file I used two other cut files: the "Feels Like Fall" cut file:

and the "Fall Leaves" cut file:

Fall is my favorite season and every year I'm so happy when it finally arrives. It goes without saying that I love all the Fall cut files and all the Fall scrapbook collections! Here are a few close-ups of my page:

To every cluster of leaves in the circle I added a few more embellishments and also some extra leaves. Some of the leaves I cut with my Silhouette and some of them are from the ephemera package from the Truly Grateful collection. I love all the die-cuts, cardstock stickers and puffy Thickers belonging to the Paige Evans collections and used many of them on my page!

I machine stitched a few of the leaves but not all of them as I really like it when they curl up a little. It gives a bit more depth to the page

I used two photos of my daughter, reading her book in the park. She's a huge fan of reading and always has one or two books with her, wherever she goes.

I hope I inspired you to scrap your Fall photos! So if you're looking for some fun Fall cut files as well you can find them in the JustNick store!

Thank you so much for stopping by today! Wishing you a wonderful day with lots of crafting!

xoxo

LOVED | Pink Paislee | My Creative Scrapbook

Today I'm sharing another layout created with the October Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. I wanted to do a boys layout with this kit and found a recent photo of "my" three men: my husband and two sons. that I wanted to scrap. This is what I made:

I really like the result even though I used some paper with a flower design! The colors of the papers match exactly the colors in my photo. I so love it when that happens, lol. 

 

Those puffy stickers are my favorite kind of stickers! 

Thank you so much for stopping by! If you want to see the kit I used, filled with the Truly Grateful collection from Paige Evans/Pink Paislee, hop over to the website of My Creative Scrapbook! 

Happy crafting!

xoxo