This month I gave each of the 4 kits available from
My Creative Scrapbook a test drive, and boy are you in for some Yummy fun!! If your preference is vintage/shabby-chic style then the
February Limited Edition kit is the one for you! I had a blast working with this kit, a wonderful combination of papers by Fancy Pants, Prima and Pink Paislee! The l/o above is one I made going after a kind of shabby-chic look. This l/o was inspired by a page I had seen done by Nic Howard. I used a soft pink cardstock and gave it a little distressing using some ink and watered down paint.
TIP: to get the look of the thin random lines at the edges of the paper (see l/o above) take an old plastic credit card, dip the edge in some slightly watered down paint and just run the edge of the card across the paper!
Here are some close-up pic's, the butterfly was cut from some of the Fancy Pants paper in the kit and then I simply machine stitched the edges (just take it slow around the corners and it's really quite easy to do).....
Here is a 2nd l/o I made with this same kit. This is a photo of my youngest daughter a few years ago when she was about 4 years old....love that age, where they just walk around the house wearing tu-tu's for no reason other than they love it! Here she was counting while playing hide 'n seek, there is something so vulnerable and sweet about the back of her cute little pig-tailed mussed up hair!.......
I did a little paper tearing and inking for this one and then a little corset stitching at two of the corners. I did a ruffle edge on this page, for a video tutorial on how to do this please see this link
Ruffle/Distress Edge Here are a couple of close-up pic's of this l/o....
In this 3rd l/o I made with this kit I went for the soft pink/brown colour palette. The photo is one of my niece, my brothers youngest daughter. She has always been a thumb sucker and I had to smile when I found this photo of her as a newborn!....
This kit is packed with beautiful Prima blooms and some cute cute velvet blooms that to me say 'vingtage' to co-ordinate with the papers... and these really fun envelopes. I added a few rub-ons and stickers to dress up this envelope inwhich I put some fun little facts about my sweet little niece! Here are a few close-ups.....
And, while I normally do about 2-3 l/o's per kit, I enjoyed this one so much I made up a 4th l/o for it!! (and there is still plenty of leftover goodies to make more!) This is a photo of my 2 nieces, they have such a sweet relationship, the older one is almost 'motherly' with her little sister.
TIP: To make the scallope circle edge you see in this l/o I simply punched a bunch of 1" circles from some of the patterned paper in the kit and tucked them under the edges of my cut circle.
Moving on to the February Main Kit....here are 2 l/o's I made with this amazing kit!! It's just jam packed with papers and embellishments that make you think of dark chocolate and spun sugar!! Can you tell that I raided my relatives photo stash? Another l/o of my cute little (thumb-sucking) niece! LOL! ...a little older here.....
I made the blooms on this page using some brown cardstock and cutting various sized wavey circles and edged them with some white ink. I then pressed them into the palm of my hand with the 'eye' of my scissor's to get the cupped shape. I also gathered the edges of some of the pink sheer ribbon in the kit to get the frothy looking centers. Here are some close-up pic's.....
Here is a 2nd l/o I made using the February Main Kit
This was a favourite photo I have of my 2 girls. When I was pregnant with Meagan I found these cute little footie PJ's at The Gap and just had to have them....I still wasn't sure Meagan was going to be a girl but I went for it anyways!! ......I used scallop edge/w holes punch to make the base for the corset stitching on the bottom strip of paper. Here are a few close-up pic's (there are a ton of felt, paper and transparent die cuts in this kit to decorate you l/o's and cards with!)....
The Creative Kit this month is a wonderful mixture of Pinks with a hint of grey. I played up the greys in the kit by using a grey cardstock (thank-you Simply Scrapping! ...love that I have a wonderful place closeby to pick up cardstock, inks and stickles to round off my kits!) Here is a l/o I made using the fun February Creative kit!....
I used a bunch of the blooms included in the kit to make up this fun heart embellishment. I simply cut out a piece of pink cardstock in the shape of a heart. Added the crochetted red trim around the edges and just started adding the blooms in a symetrical pattern. I can't claim the idea of the floral heart embellishment, I saw this idea on a page of a friend at sb.com name Nike, I was looking at a l/o she said was inspired by my work and funny enough I was inspired by her addition of a heart bloom to her l/o!
And last but not least I did a couple of l/o's for the amazing Album Kit for February! This kit featured the wonderful Bo Bunny collection called 'Persuasion'! I just love their die-cut papers!! I made this l/o of my dear husband and I using the die-cut paper. When I was visiting my sister a couple of weeks ago I was skimming through here photo stash and found this photo my nephew had taken of my husband and I when we were on a walk up at the cottage last summer.
I mounted the paper on some corrugated cardboard sprayed with some Tattered Angel's Glimmer Mist and dry brushed with some white paint. I made the little red roses from some of the red patterned paper in the kit using this 6 Petal Punch Technique I made quite a few of them but I find they actually go quite quickly once you are on a roll! Here is a close-up pic.....
Here is a 2nd l/o I made using this fun kit! There are some really cute embellishments in this kit including some fun little Prima heart gems!
TIP: For those of you who like to mix in a little Hybrid digital scrapping into their l/o's and cards, the Prima Hybrid site has some wonderful digital images that can be combined with the Prima heart gems to make some really playful cards and l/o's Prima Hybrid ....they are fairly inexpensive and some are even Freebies! Below is a card I made using the February Album kit along with the Prima hybrid digi elements.
To all of you who so kindly visit my blog each month and read through some of my very lengthy pieces and especially those of you who even take the time to leave a comment, this is my 'Thanks' to you!
Thank You!!
~Gabrielle xxx
