Meet Cute

Hello!

I'm here with you today to share how I put my 'Meet Cute' layout together.

Do you know what the term 'meet cute' means? Basically it comes from movies or tv and it refers to when two people meet each other in an amusing, crazy or zany way but are ultimately destined to be together in the end.

Now my daughter and my brother did not get off to the best start, but I know that she is going to love her crazy Uncle in the end....maybe he needs to shave the beard! LOL

The 'hello' paper worked perfectly for this layout and was the first piece I just knew I had to use. I wanted the layout to have a bit more of a masculine feel so I kept the pink out of it for the most part.

 One of my favorite patterns for masculine project is wood grain. There was not a lot of wood grain in the kit but I made sure to use every piece I could. The wood grain tag was the main focus but I wanted there to be some more of that pattern in the layout to balance it out. The little strips of wood grain around the layout are actually the back side of one of the barcode strips from the bottom of one of the other patterns. I cut the strip up and tucked the pieces around the layout.

Speaking of barcode strips...one of the other barcode strips had those fun little emoticon faces. I chose one that matched my daughter's face in each photos and added them to each photo.

 I think the placement of the photos and the papers help your eye to travel from the top left of the layout, down to the bottom right. The layout follows the story of the photos.

I made this layout with the January Creative Kit.

 Thanks for stopping by! We'd love to see what you do with your kits on our FB page.

Have a great day

~Becky

MCS January Creative Kit projects.

I'm back to share the fun layouts I made with this month's Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook Kit Club.

Check it out!

This month the kit features the Happy Day collection from Pebbles along with a bunch of other fun goodies.

There are a bunch of fun little flags to cut out of one of the patterned papers. When I saw those, I was inspired to create this fun bunting on my layout.

 

There were so many cute images included in the sticker sheet. The little dog collar worked so perfectly for this layout...

And there were so many fun patterned papers in the kit that I had to use just about all of them together on this one layout! Don't you just love that little bike?

The 'hello' paper in the kit actually inspired this layout. It worked perfectly for these photos of my daughter meeting her Uncle for the first time...She wasn't so sure about his beard! LOL

I also really loved the dark wood accents on this layout...they added a little masculinity.

Make sure you stop by the MCS website to see the three other amazing kits this month as well as to take a peek in the Gallery at what the rest of our super talented design team did with their kits.

~Becky

Fall Family mini album

 Hello friends!

I got to switch things up this month and instead of playing with the Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook as I usually do, I got to play with the super fun Album Kit!

The November Album kit features the Sweater Weather collection from Simple Stories....which is just SIMPLY ADORABLE!

I had a ton of amazing photos from this fall of our family and the kids in the leaves as well as our Canadian Thanksgiving dinner so I was so excited to get to play with this kit! The hard part was choosing which photos to include and which photos had to be left out.

 The kit comes with 6 chipboard album pages and 2 binder rings. I prefer to use my binding machine to hold it all together so I just adhered my paper over the holes that came in the chipboard and ran it through my binding machine instead.

page 1-2 with insert over pg 2

pg 1-2 with insert over pg 1

close up pg 1. The added a little ribbon to the tag that comes in the kit.

close up pg 2. Layering

pg 3-4

close up pg 3. I added some twine across the banner stickers.

close up pg 4. I LOVE the burlap ribbon in the kit. It add great texture!!!

pg  5-6

close up pg 5. Such sweet little details in this kit.

close up pg 6. More of the burlap! I used every last bit I had.

pg 7-8

close up pg 7. The pearls are such a pretty detail

close up pg 8. I just LOVE that glittery leaf!

pg 9-10 with insert over pg 10.

pg 9-10 with insert over pg 9

close up pg 9. That chipboard fox is just THE cutest!

close up pg 10. I think I used up all the chipboard embellies that came in the kit. So many awesome pieces!

the back of the album...just a little big pretty.

Well, that's it for me. Thanks so much for stopping by today. 

If you would like to see what the rest of the DT did with their kits please make sure to check out our DT Gallery!

And for all the details about our club and our FOUR different monthly kits please check out the MCS website. 

Have a great day

~Becky

October Creative Kit projects

Hello friends!

Earlier in the week we debuted this months kits from My Creative Scrapbook with a fun blog hop! If you missed it you can check out all the amazing projects by starting here.

Today, I'd love to share the rest of the layouts I created with the October Creative kit from My Creative Scrapbook kit club.

This month's Creative kit featured the Friendly Forest collection from Doodlebug. It is so stinkin adorable! I'm just loving the little critters found throughout the kit.

The extra large leaves are a fun part of the kit. On this layout I lined them up vertically to make them look more like trees.

On my next layout I used items from the kit but I tried to get away from fall-ish look.

This little birdy tag is one of my favorite elements from the kit :)

 

For my final layout. I went with a sort of altered pocket page layout style.

I'll have a step by step for how I put this layout together later on in the month so make sure you check on back.

 

To see what the rest of the DT gals created with their kits make sure you check out the GALLERY! Lots of amazing inspiration to be seen there.

And of course if you are interested in subscription info for My Creative Scrapbook kits you can find it all here.

Have a great day

~Becky

MCS BIRTHDAY BLOG HOP!!!

Welcome to the My Creative Scrapbook October Kit Reveal and Birthday Bash Blog Hop!

IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY!

My Creative Scrapbook is celebrating its 9th year in business!

and We have BIRTHDAY GIFTS, lots of them, to give to YOU!

*** The Grand Prize winner will receive a complete My Creative Scrapbook October Main Kit featuring Echo Park and Carta Bella! ***

This kit is filled with beautiful Echo Park and Carta Bella goodies (and more!) that are just perfect for your Fall/Autumn projects.

That's not all.

Yes! They have been super generous to provide not just one, not just two, but THREE beautiful gifts to give to YOU!

*** Three of you will win the gift below! ***

 Here is how you can win...

Complete our blog hop. It begins on the My Creative Scrapbook blog and takes you on an inspiration-filled journey through several MCS designers' blogs. You won't want to miss any of it!  You’ll find the links to the participating blogs at the end of this post.

Be sure to leave some comment love on each blog... the gift winners will be drawn from the comments!

and now...

Presenting the My Creative Scrapbook October kits:

October Album Kit

October Creative Kit

October Limited Edition Kit

October Main Kit

Are you a My Creative Scrapbook kit club member?

If not, now is a great time to join!

Subscription information can be found here: http://www.mycreativescrapbook.com/kits.htm

*** 

Here is one of my projects created with the October CREATIVE kit: 

This kit features the super adorable Forest Friends collection from Doodlebug!

the fun twine in the kit adds great texture to your projects!

these large die cut leaves are awesome! They are double sided so they would work perfectly for your scrapbooking or home decor projects.

aren't these little critters to die for!!! The racoon was printed on the tag but I fussy cut the Fox, and Owls from on of the patterned papers.

The colours are so bright, fresh and fun in this kit!

There is a fun sheet of letter stickers in the kit too with 3 different fonts on it!

Before you go, remember to leave a comment to be entered into the prize drawings!

We would love it if you would follow us on Facebook, too.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/My-Creative-Scrapbook/130352440344752

The blog hop ends on Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.

Winners will be announced on the My Creative Scrapbook blog on Monday, October 13th.

The next stop on the blog hop is Heather Binnie's blog.

http://heatherlb.blogspot.com/

In case you get lost, or if you just stumbled across our hop, here is the complete blog hop lineup:

My Creative Scrapbook: http://mycreativescrapbook.blogspot.com/

Echo Park Paper Co.: http://www.echoparkpaperblog.com

Angel Rodrigue: http://scrappalace.blogspot.com/

Alicia Giess: http://inspiredandblessed.blogspot.com/

Kris Berc: http://stashofprettypaper.blogspot.com/

Izzy Anderson: http://www.izzyanderson.com/

Marilyn Rivera: http://marilynrivera.blogspot.com/

Yuko Tanaka: http://wihtcolors.blogspot.com/

Kristin Greenwood: http://kmgreenwood.blogspot.com/

Nicole Doiron: http://www.scrap-utopia.blogspot.com/

Joan Bronson: http://scrappyjoan.blogspot.com/

Lydell Quin: http://lydellquin.blogspot.com/

Sandi Clarkson: http://softsideofsandi.blogspot.com/

Jodi Wilton: http://luvalotland.blogspot.com/

Becky Litz: http://www.scrapcircus.blogspot.com/

Heather Binnie: http://heatherlb.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth Hellum: http://www.elizabethmhellum.com/

Marta Lapkowska: http://artistycrafty.blogspot.com/

Lynn Shaffer: http://linnie79.blogspot.com/

My Creative Scrapbook: http://mycreativescrapbook.blogspot.com/

Road Trip Selfie: Step by Step

Hello friends!

Today I'd like to show you the steps to how I put my Road Trip Selfie layout together using the August Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook

I started off with a base of Kraft cardstock and then layered the diagonal rainbow stripe, the wood grain, the clouds and the pink scalloped papers. I made sure to use a piece of the woodgrain paper that had a diagonal that was the opposite of the diagonal on the rainbow stripe.

 On top of that I placed a mat of the red heart paper and tucked one of the clear frames just under the right side. I adhered the clear frame with adhesives under where the yellow frame is so that you can't see it.

 Next I stuck my photo down and attached another fun clear overlay on top of it to get the cute dots down the right side of the photo. I used small glue dots underneath some of the colored dots on the clear overlay so that it would stay stuck over the photo but you wouldn't see the glue.

 Here's a close up of that...can you see where I glued it on?

 

Next I layered the word 'selfie' using letter stickers from the kit on top of the peach hashtag diecut and attached it so it overlaped the photo and the yellow frame. I layered the I {heart} summer sticker next and then cut a three blue hearts from the rainbow heart border sticker and layered it over the other items.

 The 'ROAD TRIP' diecut and the awesome bus diecut went on next. I don't know how well you can read it in the photo but the bus says 'road trip' on the door. I attached the bus so that it covered up the word summer on the I {heart} summer sticker because I wanted to add another layer there...you'll see that in a minute.

 Below the bus I fussy cut the banner from a piece of patterned paper and tucked it under the wheels of the bus. I also fussy cut out the other road trip sign from a piece of patterned paper and tucked that under as well.

 As an after thought I realized that I needed a little something more at the top of my cluster of embellishments and so I cut the windmill sticker out and attached it so it was sticking out from the road trip sign. I put some baby powder on the points of windmill so that they would not stick to the page and bent them up to give it a little dimension rather than being a flat sticker.

And remember how I covered up the word 'summer' before? Well I replaced it with another word summer that I fussy cut from the chalkboard paper.

 To anchor the page and create some balance I added another little cluster of embellishments to the bottom left corner of my photo. I used the camera diecut, layered on top of a circle I punched out of the woodgrain paper. I then layered some more of the rainbow heart border sticker with the word #summertime that I fussy cut out of the chalkboard paper, and finally a little word sticker.

 

So there you have it...my completed layout. I added a little journaling below the pink scalloped paper and it is complete!

I hope you enjoyed watching how I put this layout together. I'd love to see what you create with your Creative Kit this month! Make sure to share your projects on our FB page.