March Layout Share - My Creative Scrapbook

 Hello friends.

The beautiful My Creative Scrapbook March Main Kit featured the Simple Stories Fresh Air collection. Even though the winter here in Minnesota was mild, it was refreshing to work with a Spring collection.

 Let me show you what I made.

1. Hello Spring - This awesome Hello Spring cut file is included in your kit subscription and is from The Cut Shoppe. The background paper from 49 and Market is from my stash. Watch My YouTube process video for all the details on this fun layout.

2. Sunny Days - I had to scrap these fun playground pics of my grandson from last Fall. He loves to climb on everything!

3. Family - The March Main kit include the Simple Stories Family Page Kit and it worked well with the Simple Stories Fresh Air pattern papers. 

4. You Make Me Happy - I haven't created a mixed media layout in a while using my acrylic paints and decided to have some fun and create some drips. Watch my YouTube process video to see how this fun layout came together. I used the monthly sketch by Laura Whitaker for this layout. I added canvas flair  from Scrappin Happy Studio.

My Creative Scrapbook puts together 4 kits every month. I used the Main kit. Each kit is put together beautifully. There is really something for every kind of scrapbooker! Go check them all out.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

~Marcia

Urubamba Peru - My Creative Scrapbook

Hello blogging friends!

Have you seen the March Main kit from My Creative Scrapbook? It's full of the Pink Paislee Bloom Street collection and is so beautiful!!! I wanted to pull out some rainy day photos to scrapbook and realized just how few rain photos I have. I live in Minnesota. I have tons of snow photos! I guess I'll need to take more rain photos in the future.

My daughter recently traveled to Peru with World Vets. She spent a week in the Andes Mountains spaying and neutering cats and dogs and vaccinating pets. Would you wait 3-4 hours in the rain just so your pet could be seen by a veteranarian? Well these Peruvians did! and they were so thankful for the volunteers that came to their remote location! I thought I would scrap her rainy day photos to document her trip.

Check out the exclusive cut file I used here, a gorgeous floral cluster on a square frame. I love this photo too. This little girl held this cat for hours in the rain! It's amazing to me that these animals were so content to be held, as if they knew how hard life was for others of their kind living on the streets. There were so many stray dogs and cats wandering everywhere.

I created another rainy mixed media background using some old acrylic paints. The drips made a good backdrop for the white Thickers that came with the kit.

The umbrellas and rainboots were perfect embellishments!

Check out the photo on the right. See those people waiting on the sidewalk... in the rain. That line goes on for a couple blocks!

I hope you'll check out my process video to see how this one came together...

Thanks so much for stopping by!

~Marcia

Cherish | JustNick Studios

Hello blogging friends!

I think I must have Spring fever... I feel like it's been forever since I scrapped a really girly layout. Sometimes I just want to scrap pink flowers and yellow butterflies and imagine that Spring is just around the corner, especially when it's snowing outside (again!). I found the pretty JustNick Studio Boho Florals 3 and the Stems 5 digital cut files and created a gorgeous cluster to ground my photo. I was so happy to receive the new gorgeous Cocoa Vanilla Studios More Than Words collection just before the snowstorm. It's soft pastels were perfect for my Spring layout and this old black and white photo of my two girls. My Little Scrapbook store was awesome to let me preorder this Australian scrapbook manufacturer as it is difficult to find here in the States.

To add color behind my white cut files, I watered down some acrylic paint and painted a line of yellow, orange, and pink across my page and then tapped my paper to make the paint run. Then I added a few paint splatters and some stamped butterflies and I had a beautiful background!

Here are some detailed shots ....

To make my flowers and stems more interesting I added sequins to the center of the pink flowers and drew some lines on the leaves with a marker.

The paint and the grey leaf stems help make the white floral cut file pop instead of blending into the background.

Here are the digital cut files I used today ...

Here is my process video if you are interested ...

I hope the rest of your week is fabulous! Take care,
~Marcia