NOTE: Please read to the end of the Blog! I have an awesome giveaway!
This is always such a fun time of year! Pam (the owner of My Creative Scrapbook) just got back from the Winter CHA show and has ordered all of the latest/greatest goodies for the kits!! Can you say Prima??? This month's
Limited Edition kit is just packed with amazing new papers from Prima along with blooms, blooms and more blooms!! Pearl flourishes? ~ check! ...lace, ribbon, tulle? ~ check, check, check!!....Specialty items? ~ you bet! This was such a fun kit to work with!....I was inspired by the dressmakers form (included in the kit) when I made up this page. There was this pretty moss green tulle included in the kit, so I made up a little 'outfit' for the dress-form with it. Here are a few close-up pic's.....



TIP: To create the look I got for the photo here I used photo-editing software to create edge fading on the photos, then I printed out the image as a 4x6 and a 5x7 and layered one on top of the other.
This kit allowed for so many different looks from soft and whimsical to dark and rich....here is another l/o I made using this kit....

I did a little hand-cutting of the paper designs as extra embellishments to this layout. Here are some close-ups....


And in a third l/o I used a specialty paper included in the kit. This paper has such a lovely texture and already has some beautiful stitching already added.

The only stitching I added was the stitching on the aqua matting paper behind the photos. I also used a little of the Prima packaging on this page. Here are some more close-ups....



Now for the
Main kit! MORE new Prima!!! The design team girls just couldn't get enough of working with this one!! We got such an amazing variety of looks out of this kit! Here is my first l/o done with the Main kit...

I was making up a few pages for a gift album for my parents anniversary. That flower Meagan is holding in this photo is a real Dahlia from her garden. My sister special ordered these from Holland and each Spring my Dad makes sure to plant the bulb in her garden to make sure it comes back! I did a lot of fine-hand-cutting for this one from the patterned paper. Here are some close-ups.....


Another l/o I made with this kit I went with the aqua colours in the kit papers. I used the ruffled edge finish I shared in a small video tutorial
HERE ....

TIP: Rather than chopping up a beautiful piece of paper for some butterfly embellies, I like to take a colour photocopy of some of the elements on the patterened paper and print it out on some plain white cardstock, then cut out and use it as above. You can adjust the size they way too! and you'll still have your beautiful paper to work with! Here are a few close-up pictures....


One more layout I made with this kit, I went with the soft pink colours in the kit. This photo makes me laugh, Meagan at the beach in front of the cottage...caught stomping down the sand castles.....

I used an older die-cut paper I had as a template to cut the frame, and did a little masking with the cut butterflies I used on this page (just turned them over and used a little pink watercolour paint (in the right top corner) I tinted the white blooms included in the kit with a bit of pink water colour paint too....here are a few close-ups....



And a third kit I got to play with this month was the
Creative Kit. This one was packed with unique and beautiful papers from GCD Studios with some really fun finishes, glitter, velvety flocking and gloss! You have to see these IRL to believe them! Here is the first l/o I made with this one, it was a really tough one for me. I know many of you have seen our beautiful dog in other l/o's, we were so heartbroken to have lost her recently, she'd been very ill the past 1/2 year and we lost her just end of December, this was kind of theraputic for me, I still tear-up with I think of her.....


A second l/o I made using the Creative kit, I went with the pinks and greens in the kit. I've used one of these photo's before on one of my l/o's but I went with it another time for the album I'm making up for my parents......


Okay, so now for the fun part!! Pam sent me all 4 kits this month from My Creative Scrapbook. But I only had enough time to work on 3 of the kits. I still have my album kit untouched and you can have a chance to win it! Here is a picture of the Album kit (to see work done by the design team with this kit be sure to visit the
DT Gallery at MCS!).....



Please note, that I usually get the whole album kit but without the chipboard album (to make l/o's) so the bracket frame chipboard album in the top photo will not be in the kit, but I have added a 'purse' chipboard album from my own stash to the kit!
How can you win this kit?? We would like people to get to know the My Creative Scrapbook Blog. Julie Howard one of our multi-talented designers has recently taken up the reigns of getting the blog going and she has so much fun to share with everyone each month. Just go to the MCS Blog
HERE ......in the right hand column you will see a link to follow the MCS blog. Become a blog follower and then take a moment to check out Julie's article featuring one of our designers Liz Qualman.....find the answer to this question......Who is Liz's celebrity crush? Come back to my blog and leave me a message with the answer to the question and let me know you've become a blog follower. I will then enter you into a draw that I will do on the 15th of March! I'll announce the winner at my blog and send this kit off to you! Easy-peasy!
Thanks for stopping by!
~Gabrielle xxx