Write Your Story: My Creative Scrapbook GDT

Hello there! Here is my final layout using the main kit from My Creative Scrapbook for September. (Tomorrow will be a card.)

I did a lot of fussy cutting for this layout. It's definitely a doable option if your supplies are limited. 

I dug around in my photos and found this gem of my sister for this layout, taken 3 years ago. Remember my post from two days ago where I said we needed to scrap more about ourselves?

This layout also follows the September sketch with MyCreativeSketches.

Sorry this photo seems a little gray. My handy light box was torn down because we are moving. Hubby is just gonna have to make me a new one!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Supplies:
My Creative Scrapbook: September's Main Kit

My Stash:
AC White Cardstock (background)

My Wish for you: My Creative Scrapbook GDT

Today I'm sharing with you my second layout using My Creative Scrapbook's Main kit for September. 

The hardest part about this layout was coming up with a title. The photo is very special to me. It is of my first exchange student on his birthday. He came to visit us one year later!! He made a huge positive impact on our lives and we were so happy to see him on his actual birthday. 

Somehow during his first 10 months with us, we did not get a single photo of the two of us. It doesn't help that I tend to always be behind the camera and shy away from the front of the lens.

Well, I got my one photo and love it! 

I hope you find inspiration with today's reveal. Thanks for stopping by today.

Supplies:
My Creative Scrapbook: Main Kit September

My Own Stash:
Dymo Label
Large Gold brads
Wooden camera embellishment
Title: SCAL 3

Beautiful You: My Creative Scrapbook GDT

Hello there! This week I would like to share with you my projects that I made with My Creative Scrapbook's Main Kit for September. This is my second month being a guest designer and I loved being part of the team.

It is a beautiful kit, especially if you love anything pink and girly. If you have been following me for a while, you know I tend to scrap more "boy" and less frilly. 

But here's a confession . . . some of my best work comes from being "forced" to think outside the box. This kit gave me an opportunity to scrap about my sister and myself. Her and I really don't scrap about ourselves nearly enough. Being moms, we want to scrap about our boys. But we are beautiful women now and that should not be said casually, and definitely said more often. Our sons will one day (hopefully) look back on our work and want to know who we are now. . . at this moment.

If you are a mom who usually only scraps about your kids, I encourage you to take the plunge and scrap about you. You are a woman. You are beautiful. Embrace it . . . for at least a couple pages.

I hope you are inspired. Thanks for stopping by today. Come by tomorrow for more inspiration with My Creative Scrapbook's main kit.

Supplies:
My Creative Scrapbook Main Kit - September
Stash:
Black Twine
"Beautiful" Title - Silhouette Online Store

Sit Back and Relax

Here is a quick card I worked on for both Scrapping Bug Designs and the Die Cuttin' Diva's sketch challenge for this week.

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Supplies:
Scrapping Bug Designs file
My Craft Spot stamp and die
Red/White Twine
Simple Stories 6x6 paper
Silver brad (wheel)

PDE Linky Party: Anything Goes

Hey there! It's Linky Party time!! This week's theme: Anything Goes!!

This card is from SVGCuts. Beautiful, isn't it? Made it for my sister who likes pink.

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Supplies:

BoBunny Paper

SVGCuts box card file

Die and stamp from My Craft Spot

Enamel heart dot

Pink gems

PDE Linky Party: Sunshine

Hello and welcome to this week's PDE's challenge: Sunshine. Not too hard, right?

I just went right back to my favorite die cut sunshine and clouds from Treasure Box Designs. This one is just so much fun to make and use on any project.

PDE Linky Party

Supplies:
Paper:
--MME: Find and Dandy 6x6
---AC Cardstock: Coffee
Treasure Box Designs: Sunshine and Clouds
My Craft Spot stamp
Spellbinders label die
Glossy Accents: Sunglasses
Embossing swirls: clouds

Darling

Did I ever mention that I have a fabulous sister? Well . . . I do. Just saying.

Lots going on with this scrapbook page. Not only did I make the page and follow "Let's Get Sketchy" August Week 2 sketch, I'm also the photographer behind the actual photo of my sister. We had SO MUCH fun taking pictures that afternoon.

The second best part was making a feminine page. Most of you know I usually make "boy" layouts. I really do enjoy making paper flowers and reaching for bling for my pages. The trick is actually having girly papers in my stash to work with. Not to worry, I've been slowly building that up just for this occasion!

I'm also a huge fan of BoBunny. Thrilled to work with those papers again!

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Flowers are handmade. Also tucked a little metal frame
behind the flowers.

Birdcage from CreativeEmbellishments

Yep, I fussy cut those butterflies. Not something I usually do.

Supplies:

Paper:

--BG - Teresa Collins - Tell Your Story

--BoBunny's Country Garden, Little Miss and Gabrielle

Handmade Flowers

Metal Frame

Bling

White Lace from Michael's Deals

Teal Lace from Michael's

Pearl Centers

Wooden birdcage: Creative Embellishments

Amy Tangerine Thickers (title)

Let's Get Sketchy - Sketch

1st Day of School

Every couple months I rotate scrapbook pages that I have featured on a wall. The rotation is based on the "season". Well, in my house it's back-to-school season. Except, as I was switching out the pages I noticed that I had not scrapped about my son's 1st grade year yet. Oops!

So I went "hunting". First I needed the photo. Then I needed a sketch. . . which sent me to my Pinterest page. Since I have more free time these days, I have also been looking for challenges to enter my projects into. Yesterday I discovered an absolute gem of a scrapbook sketch site: Scrapbook Challenges: Sizzlin Summer '15- 01. Go check it out!

It was easy to reach for my favorite boy colors for this layout, as they are also the popular choices for back-to-school colors. The rest speaks for itself.

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I layered a variety of stars here. I also enjoyed reaching for
my stitching template for the "x's".

MissKateCuttables

Supplies:
Paper:
--AC White Cardstock
--Simple Stories 24/7
--Doodlebug Designs: Back to School
Maya Road Rub-Ons
Wooden Embellishments from Creative Embellishments
Daily Flash Enamel Dots
Jenni Bowlin Felt Shapes
Paper Pizazz Easy Stitches Template
Die Cut Title:
--MissKateCuttables
Scrapbook Challenges Sketch: Summer Sizzlin '15 - 01

Sweet Friend

Hello. Today I would like to share with you a quick project that I put together for the Die Cuttin' Diva Challenge.

The mouse is from Treasure Box Designs. I followed the sketch provided by the DCD sketch challenge.

That's all for today. Thanks for stopping by.

Supplies:
Paper:
--AC Black Cardstock
--MME "Follow Your Heart" 6x6
Tag
Kite - Paper Embellishments by Michael's
Stamp = My Craft Spot
Pearls - Paper Studio by HL
Treasure Box Designs - Bobble Head Mouse

Fun in the sun

Ok peeps . . . here is my final layout using My Creative Scrapbook's July kit. They have asked me to be a guest designer after winning last month's sketch challenge and I had fun working with their creative kit.

This layout comes with a bit of background. I have been following Ashley Horton for quite some time. Love nearly everything she makes. She has an Etsy shop, The Cut Shoppe, full of unique die cuts. Her cuts are meant to be large and page filling. This is my first time trying it out and I loved it!

The fun, colorful backdrop is actually a reverse die cut pattern. I'll definitely be incorporating more of this type of background into my layouts in the future.

I did not follow a sketch. It's more of an idea from having watched Ashley's layouts for quite some time.

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I took a journaling tag, cut it down, and made all these individual
tags for this layout.

I love layers. The end. LOL

You are my sunshine

Hello there! Today I'm here with my second page featuring My Creative Scrapbook's July kit as their guest designer.

This one also follows their monthly sketch challenge that goes until August 14th. Check it out! I won last month's challenge and then they asked me to be a guest designer. So you never know. . . take the plunge!

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These are some of the cute embellishments that came
with the July Creative Kit.

Splash

Hello there!!

Recently I've won the My Creative Sketches challenge and following that was asked to be a guest designer using one of the kits from their sister site, My Creative Scrapbook.

I made three layouts using their July Creative Kit. Here is my first layout. I just had to make the cute sunshine and cloud die cuts from MissKateCuttables.

I loosely followed this sketch from Pinterest.

Thanks for stopping by today!

The pinwheel is from my own stash.

Love wooden buttons!

Supplies:

--My Creative Scrapbook 

-----July's Creative Kit

Miss Kate Cuttables

-----Sunshine and cloud

Pinwheel

Dymo Labeler

AC White Cardstock

Circle Template and thread

...Handsome...

This is going to be a long post . . . sorry.  Not really!

I have more time these days to participate in challenges and am loving it. Challenges help push a creative person to do more than their comfortable with - at least for me. I can't really say that I was uncomfortable making this layout, but I do tend to shy away from large titles and multiple photos usually.

The photos taken are of my son and nephew during my sister's wedding. They knew they were handsome and cute! My son usually hides from the camera these days and I am always very happy when he cooperates . . . even loosely.

At first I thought I was going to go with "summer" colors for these photos, but that just didn't seem right. Then I came across Simple Stories "24/7" in my stash and just loved the color combination. I just "felt" like these photos really needed red to go with them. I LOVE how this turned out. Even my husband commented on it. My sister will be jealous of all the hearts cause that is her thing.

I am entering this into two different challenges.

Scrap our Stash Challenge: P-A-P-E-R
P - Pendant - Tim Holtz
A - "Arrow" sticker
P - Pop dot heart
E - Best Day "EVER" frame
R - "Really?" sticker

Sketchabilities #144 - obviously I followed their sketch.

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Random washi tape behind the title.

I love layering my embellishments.

Supplies:
Paper:
--Simple Stories: 24/7
--AC Light Kraft cardstock
Scrap our Stash Challenge: P-A-P-E-R
Sketchabilities #144
Stickers from Simple Stories (all over)

Tim Holtz Pendant

Dymo Label

Thickers - title

Pop Dot Heart - Michael's

Wooden Frame