I go through these phases where I create all sorts of goodies and right now I’m all about digital scrapbooking. I love, love the flexibility it gives me. I can scrap anywhere, at any time. Love it.
Here are a few new pages I’ve created.
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My hubby was out of town this weekend, so I have had lots of time to create. I have been working on some digi layouts and wanted to share them!
I’m still working on a few more and hope to have them done soon … it’s so nice to feel productive!
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Happy Thursday. I mean Friday. Happy Friday. I’ve been totally off this week and have had my days screwed up!
The September kits were shipped out last week, so most of you should have recieved yours by now or will very soon. As you’re getting started, here’s a look at what Grace did with the September Main Kit. I always love looking at what Grace does with our kits. She’s amazing. I’m always inspired with her work.
So feast on her amazingness!
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1st day of 1st grade
This is the first page I made with the kit. I wanted to mat that notebook paper onto brown cardstock to make it stand out more. I cut out the report card paper to create an uneven border with it. I also used the typed paper from Crate Paper as part of my border and tore the top end of it for added interest.
I loved layering all the stickers that was in the kit. There were so much to choose from. And to make them stand out a little against the background I adhered them with dimensional adhesive.
I wanted something large for part of my title so I cut out some words from one of the Crate Paper pattern papers. To make it stand out more I also adhered them onto one of the Jillibean soup journaling block.
Animal Show
I’m into block design lately and this layout shows that. I think it makes it easy to create a clean simple design with it.
Anyways I added my pictures first, then on the black spots, I added papers, journaling block and title.
The journaling block had a sun with a number 2 on there. I really didn’t need that 2 in my layout so I covered it with journaling block and then more stickers.
Preschool
Another block design. I’m digging this style because I can place my pictures first and then just fill the empty spaces.
To break the square feel, I tilted that patter paper strips on the right hand side.
Lots of layering here again with the title against the 4 playing card, the border stickers and papers on top of the journaling block, the flower on top of the jillibean soup circle block and the butterfly with stickers collection.
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To see more photos of Grace’s layouts for September, visit our gallery here.
I am so loving this month’s mini kit. I’m a brown, earthy girl … so this kit is right up my alley. It’s the prefect kit for transitioning into fall and cooler weather!
Check out the adorable (seriously adorable) layouts Kelly Hansen created with this kit. Love ‘em.
To see more photos of Kelly’s layouts, check out our Gallery.
Your kits are being packed up and are about to ship to you. While you are waiting for your kits, here’s a peak at some wonderful layouts from Mara Campbell to spark your creativity. These pages are such a great celebration of summer and family. They make me want to pack my kids in the car, head out on a road trip and enjoy all things summer. Mara, thank you for the fabulous pages!
What are you scrapbooking these days? Are you scrapping your summer photos? Show us what you’re scrapping!
We hope you’re having a great summer. Check back tomorrow for a great July giveaway.
Sweet Baby minibook
By Grace Tolman
The gorgeous MME mini that came in the kit was indeed like the the packaging said- luscious! I definitely had a hard time adding anything to the front because I didn’t want to take away the beauty of the flocking design on it, so I opted with a simple title and a few layered pieces.
I decided to make a baby mini with it because, well, it’s been a while since I’ve made one and there’s a couple of friends of mine that are due in the near future so I’m making this for one of them. *smile*
In the inside, I decided to stick with one design and covered the bottom half of the pages with the pattern papers from the kit. Yes, there’s enough paper in the kit to finish 5 layouts AND this book. I still can’t get enough of how wonderful that is!
I used my trusty border punch to add design to the papers. Since this is a gift, I just cut out some green cardstock that will house the pictures. I also added the great journaling stickers from Crate paper on this project. Adding ready made journaling for the parents to write things down just makes sense. I did make sure I added them with pop up dots so that parts of the pictures can go underneath the journaling blocks.
After I was done, I couldn’t believe how thick it became!
So there you have it. Now go make something “luscious” with your mini book!
Signing off,
Grace
Hello there. Happy Saturday. Christmas preparations are in full swing at my house. I’ve made a goal to wrap at least one present a day, so I won’t be stuck wrapping a mountain of presents late into the night on Christmas Eve. I know already have most of my children’s presents wrapped, so I’m feeling great. My daughter thinks it’s awesome that there are presents under the tree, though she is constantly begging to open “just one present!”
Here are a couple of wonderful layouts from our guest designer of the month, BeckyNovacek. There are more pages coming, but I just couldn’t wait to show you some fun pages from Becky.
I know I say this every month, but I think this is my favorite kit. It’s so festive. I just love, love it!
Merry & Sparkly
Mia
The September kits have shipped (yesterday) and let me tell you … they are super great and super packed. You’ll be able to get tons of layouts out of this kit, along with one cool mini-book.
Dont believe me? Here’s a look at the eight different layouts Trace created with the September Main Kit. Eight. That’s right EIGHT! And she still had enough supplies to transform her Making Memories album into a work of art.
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The title of this layout is “early pancake breakfast traditions.” I wasn’t exactly sure where to fit in my journaling, so I added it to one of the tags from the kit, and slide it behind the picture. To read the journaling, you can just slide it out, and slide it back in to hide the journaling. I wrote the rest of the title “pancake breakfast traditions” on one of the 7 Gypsy’s stickers. I also added stickles to the white design around the paper.
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The title of this layout is simply “feb.” I love that your kits include more patterned paper then cardstock, because 85% of the time I prefer to use patterned paper as the base of my layout. I used stickles to decorate the flourishes on the journaling tag. I used my treading water border punch for my lower strip of patterned paper
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The title of the layout is “09.” I chose this for my title because the layout is about my new years eve together with my son. I cut the owl out from the little card (included in the kit) added a staple to each wing (strictly for decorative purposes) and then adhered to the layout using a pop dot for dimension. I used the treading water punch for the side edge of the cardstock, and then used 7 gypsies circle stickers to decorate the holes in the design.
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The title of this layout is “lunch time….” I don’t often place my pictures and other elements at a slant on my cardstock, but wanted to try something different with this one. I used an edge punch for the top patterned paper strip. I used the mini-card envelope to store my journaling in, so that I could tuck it in beside the pictures.
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The title of this layout is “genius batman.” This was the last layout I made using the kit, so my goal with this layout was to use up a lot of the patterned paper I had leftover. I layered 6 different pieces of paper (patterned, cardstock, and bingo card). With the large rub on, I trimmed it in half so that I could use the one rub on to create 2 identical flowers on my page.
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The title of this layout is “kiss me.” I used a scrap piece of cardstock(leftover from the kit) to create a long tag along the right hand side of the layout…to create a layered look with it, I adhered a tag from the kit, and stapled it all together. I added 3 of the chipboard pieces to the patterned paper and covered it with stickles.
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The title of this layout is “oh……” I wanted to keep the picture the focus of the layout, so I kept it rather bare and simple. I added a few rub ons to fit into the design of the patterned paper, and worked the chipboard pieces into the design as well.
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Used stickles to highlight around the letter “m.” I dug out my sons watercolor paints and colored in the design on the patterned paper (the paper held up surprisingly well to the paint and water).
See great pages. Feel inspired. Get scrappin! Here’s what Trace Geworsky did with the August kit. I have to point out that Trace managed to make nine (9) layouts, a card and a mini book with the August Main kit and still has stuff left over! Talk about a really awesome and crammed-packed kit, if I do say so myself.
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“Good Stuff”
A card by Trace using the August Main kit.
“For this card titled simply “good stuff” I used one of the chipboard butterflies as a stencil and traced it over a folded piece of cardstock, so that after trimming it, it would stand open. I used diamond glaze and some beads I had lying around to decorate the body of the butterfly(unfortunately you can still see some of the diamond glaze on the cardstock). I rolled up two small pieces of scrap patterned paper to use as the antennae.”
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“Relax: This is Fun”
“I just couldn’t think of a creative title for this one, so I just used the words from the paper as my title! I really liked the Pink Paislee stickers in this kit..On the back of the package there was a piece of paper with samples of each sticker, so I trimmed each design out to also use on my projects. I used the “relax…” paper as the flower center.”
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“Fetching Fella”
“I’m really not at all creative when it comes to my titles, so I tend to use rub ons, stickers, etc. to act as my titles.
I wanted to use up some of the numbers from the thickers, so I used them to mark the date from the pictures on my layout. I cut out the little tree design from the paper and adhered it to the matching paper using pop dots.”
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“Our Family”
“I LOVEworking with patterned paper that has a busy print because it “allows” me to keep the layout quite simple. You dont want to add too much to make it overly busy. I added very short journaling, a rub on, sticker, and for my focal point, I added 3 buttons, the AWESOME crochet flower with ribbon..I wanted my focal point to be a different color then the rest of the layout.”
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“Pure Joy”
“Because I don’t often add my own title to a layout, I like to use the alphas for other things, like the date, or as decoration. I used some of the thickers as the centers for the flowers on the paper. I added the friend rub on to a scrap piece of blue paper(from the kit) so it would blend in, but still be noticeable at the same time. I took one of the transparency pages out of the mini album , so I could cut out the green butterfly to use on this page.”
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“enjoy these good memories”
“I had fun using the stickers to form a sentence/title. I loved the journaling paper because it was 4 inches in height same as the picture, so the design worked together. I applied a rub on onto a piece of paper (I cut this paper out that matched the sticker, from the scrap piece) and then adhered a confetti butterfly with a pop dot onto the paper… To make a custom flower around the circle design I trimmed each petal off the fabric flower, and then adhered it pedal by pedal.”
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“ms flirt”
“I like this picture of my puppy because she looks as though she is flirting with the camera … I chose these Jenni Bowlin papers with this picture because I find her paper to be bright and flirty too. I didn’t want my title to really pop out, so I used the white thickers over the white cardstock and blue & white patterned paper. I layered a strip of ribbon with the flower. Using pop dots, I folded and adhered the confetti butterflies over the printed butterflies on the paper.”
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“escape reality”
“I went with a 6×8 picture that had a lot of empty space on it, so that I could add my journaling, and the title directly onto the picture. To make it look as though I tied a piece of ribbon around the paper (and to save ribbon). I cut a strip that fit the width of the paper, and adhered it. Then I tied a know on a second piece of ribbon, and adhered the knot onto the ribbon strip.”
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“before and after”
“I wanted a before and after picture of my son with his haircut, so I used scrap strips of paper to create a large grid design on the background paper. I used a chipboard butterfly from the mini album, applied a rub on to the body and added a button to the center of that design. In the other grid, I layered 2 fabric flowers, with the large button as the flower center.”
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