January REVEAL for My Creative Scrapbook!!

Just a quick note for those of you looking for the Bo Bunny Blog Hop....it's the post right below this one and Yes! it is still going on ....just scroll down a wee bit and you'll find it :) ...I also wanted to take a second to thank all you beautiful ladies for the sweet and kind comments you posted, I read each and everyone and want to say your words mean a lot to me!

Now on to the MCS Reveal!! Yesterday I shared 2 layouts I had made with the January Album kit on the Bo Bunny Blog hop post.....but I waited until today to share the rest of the kit's with you all. I made the above layout with the January Limited Edition kit. This is such an amazing kit....the papers are just so pretty and the embellishments so unique and beautiful!! I just love the sweet vintage style tag sheet she included in this one....I'm just loving bird images lately for my l/o's so this was such a nice addition to the kit! Pam really outdid herself with putting this one together! (To see a full list of the products/manufacturers of the goodies in this kit just click on the picture of the kit when you are at the MCS website and you'll find a full list.....I know that some of you have asked me for the names of the products in my l/o's....you'll find it all at the MCS site :) The photo in the above l/o is one I took of my youngest daughter a couple of years back when we were up North at a resort.....it was twilight and there was such a lovely glow in the sky. For this l/o I did a little machine stitching and handstitching (on the buttons) and to give the page a little 'weathered' look I drybrushed some white paint on it.......the circles are just the edges of my paint cap stamped onto the page. Here are some close-ups.....

I just love those Prima blooms and the creamy Pink Paislee 3D stickers in this kit! For my 2nd layout I went with the soft aqua tones in the kit. Again I did a little machine stitching and also used some of the packaging from the Prima blooms as a decorative element (the white lace transparency)....

I'm just a sucker for those creamy white little buttons she added to the kit.....I feel like they always add just the right finishing touch to a shabby-chic page!....here are some close-up shots...

For my 3rd layout with this kit I snagged some cute shots of my new baby niece Kiera off of my nephew's wife's Facebook....thanks Danielle! I just loved the creamy Prima vine flower that was in this kit and I liked how it looked against the pale pink paper!

Yep, that's a little acorn in her hand! how cute is that shot! I have to smile at how every little thing is an amazing wonder to a little one like that. Here is a close-up shot of the page....

I also made a 4th layout for this kit.....and still had loads of pretty papers and embellishments to play with (I'm going to have to revisit this kit for sure!)

I decided to do a little handstitching on this page rather than using my machine, I wanted the stitches to show up a little thicker. To make the pretty Battenburg lace heart embellisment (also in the kit) show up a little better against the light background I added a piece of pink cardstock behind it. Here are a couple of close-up detail shots of this page....

Another AMAZING kit I got to work with this month was the MCS Main kit.....this one was filled with the Beautiful Sweet Season Collection from Webster's Pages!! I just love how WP papers allow for some intricate detail cutting. There is a really cute paper with a dress form in this collection. Included in the kit there are some really sweet trims and tulle....I used these to dress up the dress-form on the page below.....

The photo is one of my nephew's oldest daughter Jade, she is so cute in her stylish little outfits!TIP: My friend Sandie shared this great tip last month at the MCS site and I gave it a go.....you can use your fancy edge punches on curvy edges.....just punch a straight line, cut the strip about a half centimeter below the punched edge, lightly moisten the strip and give it a little bit of an accordian fold, this will allow you to curve the paper around the edges as I did in the photo above....it worked beautifully! ( I used the Martha Stewart Loopy punch for this one) Here are some close-up pic's.....


For my 2nd l/o in using this kit I used the Webster's die-cut paper and mixed it with some smokey grey cardstock. I did a little handstitching on the paper and some faux stitching with a white gel pen to make the edge design of the die-cut paper stand out more....

TUTORIAL: Sometimes Pam includes these cute stemmed blooms in the kits, this time she included these creamy roses. I decided I would make a floral vine using these blooms and I got my oldest daughter Chloe to take a video clip while I was making it so you all could see how easy it is to do. To watch the video tutorial just click on this link and you'll find my tutorial post ~~> Floral Vines. Here is aclose-up pic from this page....

And Finally a third layout I made using this kit....I went with the aqua colours and went with the 'sweet' theme of the collection. I'd been wanting to scrap this picture of Chloe baking cookies at my sisters house a few years back. I finally found the perfect collection to us for this page! ...

And here is a close-up detail shot of the above page (the red/pink bloom is in the kit but I extended the size of them with some cardstock using the Water Distress method that I shared in a tutorial on the right side of this blog.....

Want to see more inspiration? Check out the Design Team Gallery for this month and you can see all the pretty things the rest of the DT girls have put together! Thanks so much for stopping by again!

~Gabrielle xx