September Layouts for My Creative Scrapbook

 Hello everyone!

So sorry I'm late in sharing my September layouts created with the Main kit from My Creative Scrapbook. This pretty kit featured the Jen Hadfield Live and Let Grow collection from American Crafts. My Creative Scrapbook puts together 4 kits each month so there is something for every type of scrapbooker you are.

1. Love Always was the first layout I created. I wanted to scrap more of the photos from my son and his girlfriend's maternity photo shoot. The "Piece of My Heart" cut file which is included in your kit subscription was perfect to frame my photo and is from The Cut Shoppe. I used my Lindy's Magicals to create my background. Check out my YouTube process video to see how it came together.

2. Gone Fishing was the second layout I created. I was so excited to see the fish pattern paper that is part of the Live and Let Grow collection. After all, I live in Minnesota, the land of 10,000 lakes and then some! We love to go fishing! This is a photo of my sone from years ago. I am using a cut file I purchased from PearTree Cut Files. Check out my YouTube process video to see how I created it. I am also using some epoxy fishing flair from Scrappin Happy Studio .

3. Catch of the Day is another fishing layout with a more recent photo of my son and husband with their humungo northerns. This is another cut file from PearTree Cut Files that I purchased. Here again I used some epoxy fishing flair from Scrappin Happy Studio .

4. I Love You This Much was my final layout, I am scrapping photos of myself and a grand furbaby that belongs to my daughter. I’m documenting the first time I met my daughter’s new rescue dog Teddy. I was preparing to sleep on her couch when Teddy decided I needed company. The look on his face when my daughter told him he couldn’t sleep on top of me was priceless. Poor Teddy. The cut file is from The Cut Shoppe and is included with your kit subscription. I added some @lovemytapes washi tape to my die-cut title and ran it through my Silhouette Cameo a second time. 

So here is one of the reasons I am late posting my layouts ... new gransdson Jameson arrived at the end of August. 

And the other reason ... We foster failed with our latest rescue dog Allie. She is not quite a year old and so sweet and gentle.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

~Marcia

Lockdown Life - Quarantine Scrapbooking YouTube Hop

 Hello blogging friends!

I hope you are all well. Today I am participating in a Quarantine Scrapbooking YouTube Hop. We need to remember to document the good as well as the bad and ugly. Today is the bad and ugly. I hope you watch and check out the other scrapbook youtubers as well.

Thanks so much. Have a great weekend!

~Marcia

Summer Fun - My Creative Scrapbook

Hello blogging friends!

I am sharing another layout with the July Main kit from My Creative Scrapbook. This awesome kit features the Simple Stories Summer Farmhouse collection. I had so much fun with the kit!! I used the fabulous July sketch for this layout....

Here is my layout ... I did not stray far at all.

One of our favorite summer destinations is Itasca State Park in northern Minnesota. It's a beautiful park with boat and bicycle rentals. We almost always rent a boat for a day and try our luck fishing. We had no luck at all on this outing, but we enjoyed being outside on this gorgeous lake! I decided to use a cut file from an earlier month. The sun on here seemed a must for summer. I added the Simple Stories foam titles on top for my title.

Here is where I deviated just a little from the sketch. The top of my layout felt like it needed a clothesline for this cute swimsuits.

You can see lots of gorgeous layers here. I tucked my journal card underneath my photo.

I played some more with my Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals to create my watercolor background. These powdered pigments are so fun to play around with.

You can see how it all came together here...

Supplies:

My Creative Scrapbook Kit Club

Simple Stories Summer Farmhouse collection ... http://shrsl.com/2d8wd
Fineline Glue Bottles ... https://amzn.to/3cGaVbx
BowEasy - https://amzn.to/3eYpZmh
Cutter bee Scissors - https://amzn.to/2YdgXei
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magical Jar Set, Beauty School Dropout - https://amzn.to/31P5XY1

Bazzill Marshmallow—12x12 Cardstock | 100 lb Heavy White - https://amzn.to/2YqNFJD

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great week
~Marcia

Travel Berlin - My Creative Scrapbook

Hello blogging friends!

Today, I am sharing my second layout with the June Main kit from  My Creative Scrapbook. I loved this kit so much!! It features the Vicki Boutin Let's Wander collection including a star stencil. That inspired my to play with some of my Magicals powdered pigments from Lindy's Stamp Gang and try out some of Vicki's Creative FX iridescent glaze. My photos really do not do it justice. That iridescent glaze is so pretty.

This nightlife photo of the Friedrichstadt Palast just needed a starry night sky to set it off perfectly. The colorful rays on this pattern paper seem to be radiating from the photo as well. To balance the color, I placed the chipboard city-scape in the opposite corner, layered on top of some other fun travel die cut ephemera pieces.

I used some PinkFresh Studios alphas from the Everyday Musings collection to add Berlin over the buildings.

A camera and a vellum map went in the opposite corner.

This layout has a magical quality to it that makes me remember just how awesome the theatrical production was that we saw here. Vivid Grand, you did not disappoint! 

You have got to watch this YouTube process video, just to see how this fabulous background came together .... there is a reason those powdered pigments are called Magicals ...

Supplies:

My Creative Scrapbook Kit Club (These kits are amazing!) Vicki Boutin's Let's Wander collection Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magical Jar Set, Jingle Bells American Crafts Iridescent Vicki Boutin Mixed Media Creative FX Glaze American Crafts Vicki Boutin Stencil 3PKG, Starstruck, Let's Wander Heidi Swapp Minc Foil Application Machine Starter Kit Bazzill Marshmallow—12x12 Cardstock | 100 lb Heavy White Fineline Glue Bottles

Let's Stay Home - My Creative Scrapbook

Hello blogging friends,

How are you all holding up? In Minnesota the governor has ordered us to stay at home. I have been working remotely for 3 weeks now. I am lucky that my daughter is doing all my grocery shopping for me now. My son also ran some errands for me before the lockdown started to make sure I had enough cat and dog food and then some to last a couple months. I worry about my elderly parents and aunts and uncles though.

It helps to pass the time inside playing with pretty papers like the My Creative Scrapbook April kit. It is gorgeous!! Check out my kit unboxing here...

Paige Evans shared a FREE Let's Stay Home cut file on her Facebook Happy Scrappy Page and I could not resist using it for my first layout with the kit.

 Here is a closer look at the cut file...

The April kit include 11 amazing cut files as well. I used a few of the flower cluster cut files to tuck under my title. I added some fussy cut flowers, chipboard pieces and die cut ephemera.

Lindy's Gang Magicals were used to create my watercolor background. I like how they add some color underneath those cut files.

Here is my sweet guy whom I get to be isolated with. Love him!

Please check out my process video ...

Thanks so much for stopping by. Stay home please and stay safe!
~Marcia