Christmas Cuties

Hi Friends!

I'm here with you today to show you how I put together my Christmas Cuties layout!

I love making grid style layouts! You are able to add more than one photo as well as a bunch of clusters fun embellishments.

I decided on 3 inch squares so that there would be a nice balance of photos, elements and the background behind. I trimmed the photos slightly so that I could add a white mat and make them stand out.

 

So lets start with the top of the layout. I used a diecut bow to make this square into a gift! Afterwards I popped up the small green gift diecut and layered it on top to make it look like a pile of gifts.

When I placed the Christmas tree in the top left square it looked a little to lonely to me, so I added the '25'. The tree has very thin pop dots under it and the '25' has thicker ones so that they are at different heights and create depth.

The title of my layout was pretty easy to come up with...how cute are those kiddos!?!? I wanted a word that would fit nicely in the square and the word 'cuties' worked perfectly with the Thickers. A few holly stickers finished it off.

In the bottom left corner I used pop dots once again behind the wreath sticker (I love for things to pop off the page). I used a piece of ribbon from the kit to make a tiny bow and added it to the bottom of the wreath.

The patterned paper in the middle square was just so cute I didn't want to cover any of it up so I left it as it is.

Finally I took the three ornament die cuts and lined them up along the top of the bottom right square. They looked a bit strange just hanging in space there so I added the 'JOY' stickers and it helped.

Well that's it for me today. I hope you enjoyed seeing how I put my layout together. There are SO MANY awesome stickers and die cuts in this kit I'm sure you could make a layout in the same style as me and use totally different embellies! I'd love to see it! Please make sure you share on our FB page.

Thanks for stopping by today

~Becky

MCS December Creative Kit

Hello Friends!

I was excited to get to play with the Creative Kit this month from My Creative Scrapbook! Check it out! It features the Be Merry collection from American Crafts and comes with all kinds of awesome stickers and die cuts!

I'd like to share a few of the projects I created with my kit...

 All the red and green in this kit is so awesome! It makes the pages come together so easily they practically scrap themselves!

I love the milk and cookie embellishments. They worked perfectly for my pic of my little guy with his goodies for Santa.

All the bits and pieces in this kit were great for this layout. They gave me a lot of variety to add to each box in my grid. I added some pop dots under the embellies to give the layout some depth.

 The gingerbread items in the kit are so cute!

I think my most favorite thing in the whole it was this little elf sticker! That Elf on the Shelf is so popular these days, I know a LOT of you will have a use for him!

oh, and that strip of Santa's in the top left corner of my layout...that's WASHI TAPE!.....love it!

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my projects.

I have a few more to share with you so please check back soon!

And don't forget to check out what the rest of the DT did with their kits in our DT Gallery!

Merry Christmas!

~Becky

MCS December Kits!!!

It's REVEAL TIME!

We are so excited to share our spectacular lineup of December kits.

Presenting our December 2014 kits:

Our December Main kit features the beautiful Carta Bella Christmas Time papers and embellishments and is complemented with Simple Stories brads, Bo Bunny petals, and pretty ribbons.

Our December Creative kit features a darling combination of American Crafts Be Merry and Pebbles Home for Christmas along with Echo Park Washi Tape, wood snowflakes, Thickers, ribbons, and trims.

Our December Limited Edition kit features the gorgeous Kaisercraft Yuletide collection and so much more, including My Mind's Eye Joyous papers and stickers, Teresa Collins Tinsel & Company chipboard elements and stickers, 3 different packages of gorgeous Petaloo flowers, Prima resins, Thickers, and trims. 

Our December Album kit features Echo Park Christmas Cheer papers and embellishments.  Also included are Pink Paislee Merry & Bright glitter stickers, Prima lace stickers and pearl crystal, a house-shaped chipboard album, and more. There are even gold bells! This kit is perfect for capturing your holiday memories.

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Details about subscribing to any of our kits can be found on our website at MyCreativeScrapbook.com.  There are several membership options to choose from. Kits are available in limited quantities, so don't delay!

While you're on our website, we encourage you to visit our incredible design team gallery to see all of the absolutely amazing creations that our designers have prepared with our kits.

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We're also excited to tell you about our December Memories kit:

Let us help you get your December memories recorded using this new kit. Papers, embellishments, flowers, trims and so much more. This kit is full of all the Christmas items that you love, just in time to record those everyday events.

You can find this amazing kit on our Add-ons page.
Limited quantities!

MCS December Sneak Peeks!

December Sneak Peeks

It's time for our December sneak peeks!

Get ready to scrap lots of HOLIDAY photos!

We are very excited for you to see the kits that are coming your way this month. Pam has filled each one to the brim with beautiful items to scrap all of your favorite holiday memories.

Have a little look at our December Main Kit:

and because we just can't help ourselves... here are a couple of the layouts that our DT girls created with the Main Kit:

by Brenda Cazes

by Lynn Shaffer

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Take a peek at our December Creative Kit:

okay, sure! We can show you a couple of the DT girls' Creative Kit layouts:

by Kristin Greenwood

by Izzy Anderson

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Here are our December Limited Edition Kit sneaks!

and some of the Limited Edition Kit layouts created by our Design Team:

by Kris Berc

by Marta Lapkowska

by Michelle McDonald

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Take a peek at our December Album kit:

and here's a great big peek at the album!

by Kristin Greenwood

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It's hard to believe that this is the last sneak peeks post of 2014. Just wait until you see what the New Year is going to bring to My Creative Scrapbook and to YOU!

*** Don't forget to reserve your kits ***

Visit MyCreativeScrapbook.com for more information.

See you for the full reveal on the 5th!

Christmas Catch Up

I'm getting caught up on scrapbooking some of my Christmas photos and sharing a layout over on the Pretty Little Studio blog today. I'd love it if you popped over and had a look.

 

 

Have a great day

 

~Becky

I've got a focus on...

Fancy Pants Designs WOODEN PHRASES on the FPD blog today! I hope you'll stop by and check out my quick tutorial on altering these phrases and see how I applied them to my Christmas shadow box.

 

 

 

Have a great day

~Becky

Elle's Studio Thursday Sketch Challenge!

Merry Christmas Friends! I got to create the inspiration layout for the SKETCH THURSDAY Challenge at Elle's Studio this week! I used almost all of the tags as well as the stamp set from the Be Merry Collection by Elle's Studio.

 

 

My layout is based on this sketch which was inspired by the super cool Christmas frame that Kay made. You can check it out here.

 Here are a few close ups so you can checkout all the fun tags going on!

 

Head on over to Elle's sketch blog post and leave a comment or link up your take on the sketch by Dec 26th  for your chance to win a $10 GC at Elle's Studio

 

I think this will probably be my last post of the year so I hope you  have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

 

All the best in 2013!

~Becky

My Creative Sketches: December Sketch

It's challenge time again at My Creative Sketches! Check out this fun new sketch from Kim Keane...

 

 

And here is what I did with the sketch using the Handmade Holiday line from Simple Stories.

 

I just love this line, it is so pretty I didn't even want to cut it up ;)

 

I just love this photo of my parents and my kiddos from last Christmas. This layout is going into the calendar I make for my Mom and Dad each Christmas.

 

This is the fun prize that you could win by participating in our challenge.

 

 

Link up your layout here by January 14th for your chance to win this prize and to be featured on the MCS blog.

 

Good luck!

Merry Christmas

~Becky

We wish you a Merry...

CHRISTMAS in JULY! Today is July 25th, so you know what that means! Only 5 more months till Christmas! Have you started shopping yet? LOL, not me, I'm one of those people who doesn't start the shopping until about the 20th of December. I always have the best intentions of starting early, but lets face it, I'm a procrastinator, I work best under pressure.

I have a layout to share with you today. I made it awhile back for a submission and just haven't got around to blogging it yet. I told you...I procrastinate :) Anyways, this layout has my favorite picture of my kiddos from last Christmas.

They are patiently waiting to dive into the presents, and I just love how I captured the glow of the tree and the wonder on my son's face as he looked at the pretty lights. This was his first Christmas!
All of the product is from Little Yellow Bicycle except for the little red words in the top left corner which are from October Afternoon.  Here are a few close ups for you...

Merry Christmas!!! I hope I've inspired you to get in to the spirit today!

~Becky