Funky Pebbles Girl Squad (Travel) Mini Album

Can I say I adore mini albums?! I love making them and I love picking them up and look through them ... but why is it that I find them so hard to finish?! I think I have at least 3 unfinished December Daily's and 2 unfinished Project Life albums and lots of other unfinished mini albums.

Having said that, here's an album I did finish!! (just have to add photos, lol)
For Pebbles' "journaling week" (which was this week's theme) I created a (travel) mini album with Pebbles' awesome Girl Squad collection. I decided to create a travel journal small enough to bring with me to France and that needed only a couple of pictures and handwritten stories to complete. Most of the embellishing I did beforehand at home. The journal includes 20 different pages & 2 tags; it measures 5.5″ x 8″.

Here’s a photo of the cover of my “Fun and Funky Girl Squad Journal”. I just love all the papers, die-cuts, stickers and washi tape in this collection!

Before I got started on my project, I gathered everything I thought I would need, including a piece of heavy cardboard for the front and back of my journal and my Zutter to punch the holes:

I’ve used almost every patterned paper from the Girl Squad collection for my album, as they are all equally fabulous!

What I find so fabulous about the Girl Squad collection is that it can be used for almost every occasion. When you look at my album, you see that it’s not a travel album just yet—my photos and texts will make it that—but I could also easily turn the album into a family or girls-weekend-out album… the possibilities are endless!

Let me show you a couple of pages from my journal. Here’s the first page. I left most of the left side blank as I want to adhere a large photo there. From the right page (the first of four tab pages), I cut out a large ampersand and adhered it in the same spot on one of the next pages.

Every page in this Funky Girl Squad Journal is different. The sizes, patterns, forms… everything is different. In the photo below, you can see I stitched a triangle in one corner to create a space for all the bits and pieces I tend to collect during my vacations. Have you seen that coffee cup paper? Isn’t it awesome?!

 have also included a few products from other Pebbles collections, like this foiled sheet w/gold from the Simple Life collection and the word stickers from the Tealightful collection:

From the “You Got This” paper, I created a bag with a tag inside by folding the paper in two and stitching the sides closed. The outside of the bag is perfect for journaling.

I think that a large photo on the left side will look great! and I love the houndstooth paper!!

Woohoo for coffee cups!! that one just had to be included!! I have to admit that I didn't use a whole lot of glue there, just in case I have to replace it later-on to a page where we are having coffee...

And here's another pocket with a large tag:

Another triangle to tuck in bits and pieces from our holiday. How I love that bicycle paper!!

When my album was finished, I realized that I had been inspired by the mini albums by Amy Tangerine. If you look them up, you’ll see just what I mean.

This is it! My Funky Girl Squad Journal. I’m going to use it for a travel journal in the south of France. Together with my Instax camera and some stickers and washi tape, I’ll journal all the fun memories we make. I’ll make sure to show you the result as soon as it’s finished.

Supplies:
Girl Squad 6×6 mini paper pad  (733714)
Girl Squad Cardstock Stickers Icons & Accents w/gold foil (733715)
Girl Squad Washi Tape Rolls 5/pkg (733717)
Girl Squad Puffy Sticker Mini Icons (733718)
Girl Squad Cardstock Ephemera Die-Cuts 10/pkg (733719)
Girl Squad You Got This Patterned Paper (733702)
Girl Squad Go Girl Patterned Paper (733703)
Girl Squad Besties Patterned Paper (733704)
Girl Squad Fri-Yay Patterned Paper (733705)
Girl Squad Good Vibes Patterned Paper (733706)
Girl Squad Food On The Go Patterned Paper (733707)
Girl Squad Cool Treat Patterned Paper (733708)
Girl Squad Happy Day Patterned Paper (733709)
Girl Squad Soda Shop Patterned Paper (733710)
Girl Squad Girl Squad Patterned Paper (733712)
Girl Squad Hello Friends Patterned Paper (733713)
Simple Life Foiled Cardstock w/gold (733494)
Tealightful Word Stickers 3/pkg (733544)
American Crafts Textured Cardstock Spring Seasonal (71253)

Thank you so much for stopping by again today! Would love to hear what you think!
xxx Monique

Layouts created with the July Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook!

As I totally forgot to schedule some blog posts when I went on vacation I haven't shared all of the layouts I created with the July Main Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. As it's almost time for the August layouts I thought I'd share the 3 July layouts I haven't showed you yet all together in this blog post! 

Here it goes: layout 3: Happy (my youngest had just been to the hair dressers, can you tell? lol!)

and the close-ups:

Layout 4: Summer Chill

close-ups:

And layout 5: Summer Fun

And the close-ups:

How I love summer scrapbook collections with all the bright colors! This one from Simple Stories (Summer Days) and also the collection from Photo Play Paper (Summer Bucket List) are definitely among my favorites! 

Hope you like these projects! For more July Main Kit inspiration hop over to the MCS Design Team gallery! And stay tuned for the August projects ... coming soon! 

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to take a peek at my project!

Hugs,

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)

Water color tutorial for My Creative Scrapbook

Hi friends! Last Friday I shared this step-by-step tutorial for the "I heart Summer" layout on the blog of My Creative Scrapbook and I thought I'd share it here as well. I used the MCS July Main Kit with all the Simple Stories and Photoplay Paper products. How I adore the bright & sunny colors and designs in this kit!! Here's the layout I made:

For this layout I started with one of the MCS digital cut files: the palm tree, but instead of cutting the palm tree I removed the Silhouette Cameo cutting blade and inserted a brown Silhouette sketch pen. In the Silhouette settings I easily adjusted the settings (see on the right side, at the bottom):

After resizing the tree to almost page size I inserted the paper I wanted to draw on and pressed "Send to Silhouette":

The next step was water coloring the palm tree image. I used my Studio Calico water color paints and got to work:

I used large brush strokes to "roughly" color the image: 

After I finished coloring I set the paper aside to let it dry and selected the paper, photo and embellishments I wanted to use. Next came the designing of the page. Before adhering anything I placed everything I thought wanted to use on my paper and kept rearranging until I was satisfied with the look: 

After adhering everything I added some machine stitching, journaling, a date stamp and a couple of paint drops and I was done!

Here are a few close-ups of the finished page:

Hope you like it!! For more July Main Kit inspiration hop over to the MCS Design Team gallery and if you're interested in information about the kit club then you can find the details HERE. 

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to take a peek at my project!

Hugs,

Monique