Tuesday 27 February 2018

XOXO - My Creative Scrapbook February Kit Layout

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing the 4th - and my favorite - layout I created with the February Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook. I so loved working with this kit!!

This layout was created using only the sheet with vintage die-cuts and no extra paper at all! 


And a few close-ups:






For more information about the kit please visit the website from My Creative Scrapbook

February Creative Kit

Thanks for stopping by!
xx Monique

Friday 23 February 2018

My Creative Scrapbook February Creative Kit - Quick Tutorial

Hi everyone! So happy you're here again to see another of the tutorials I've created for My Creative Scrapbook for this month. As I got the chance to play with the February Creative Kit as well as with the Main kit I made two quick tutorials, one with the Main kit and one with the Creative kit!

I love the PhotoPlayPaper "Love Notes" collection in this kit so much and when I saw the die-cut frames and the bags of sequins that are included in this kit I just knew what I wanted to do!!

Here's the page I made and see what I did with the sequins and one of the frames:


Let me quickly show you what I did to create this page. I placed everything I thought I wanted to use on my dining room table and got started:


I really love the little bags of sequins and decided to adhere the one with the pink sequins behind one of the frames. 


Using my sewing machine I stitched the plastic bag closed:



And cut off the top:


Next I put a little of adhesive behind one of the frames and glued the bag behind it (the size of the plastic fits exactly behind the frame with the little hearts):


Next I adhered one of the stickers on top and it was ready to use on my page!


I arranged all the die-cut frames on my white cardstock background together with three extra squares I cut:


I placed my photo, the frame with sequins and a large (cut out) heart on top and voilĂ  the base of my page is ready!


Next I just went wild with all the die-cuts and stickers and this kit. Here are a few close-ups of my finished page. 

First the frame with the sequins how it turned out in the end, with two more stickers on top and also an extra bit of machine stitching:


The heart I hand cut from the sheet called "Lovenotes". It had "Happy Valentine's Day" on top but as that wasn't appropriate for this photo I chose another sticker to adhere on top:




And this is it! Hope you liked it! 

If you're looking for more information about this kit or about one of the other three February kits from My Creative Scrapbook then please hop over to the My Creative Scrapbook website. If you want to see what everyone created with the kits, please visit the DT Gallery!

And last but not least the photo of the My Creative Scrapbook February Creative Kit:


Thank you so much for stopping by today!

xoxo
Monique


Saturday 17 February 2018

Valentine's Day Cards - Pretty Little Studio

To promote the release of the new XOXO collection Pretty Little Studio had a little Insta Hop on Valentine's Day and I had the pleasure to join in! As I don't have the new collection just yet, I used the "Here Comes The Sun" and the "With All My Heart" collections. I did however have free XOXO cut file and created a couple of Valentine's cards for my family with it:


Here are the cards photographed separately:





You can grab the cut file for free until the end of February! You'll find it in Pretty Little Studio paper shop


Thank you so much for stopping by! Wishing y'all a fab weekend!
xxx
Monique

Wednesday 14 February 2018

Happy Valentine's Day!! - 2 layouts from My Creative Scrapbook

Happy Valentine's Day everyone! For today I've got two layouts created with the fabulous February Creative Kit from My Creative Scrapbook! This kit features the "Love Notes" collection from Photo Play Paper (designed by Becky Fleck) and contains so many cute designs (I totally love cute!) This photo is us quite a while ago:


and a few close-ups:



And here's the second page, which I already shared on Instagram, so maybe you've already seen it. My daughter and I on our birthday:


The cut file is also from My Creative Scrapbook! You can find those HERE (after clicking on the link scroll to the bottom of the page).




And here's the photo of the Creative kit from this month. I was soooo happy I got to play with it too. Normally I only get the Main kit, but this month I had two to play with!


If you're looking for more information about this kit or about one of the other three February kits from My Creative Scrapbook then please hop over to the My Creative Scrapbook website. If you want to see what everyone created with the kits, please visit the DT Gallery.

Thank you so much for visiting!!
xoxo Monique

Friday 9 February 2018

My Creative Scrapbook February Main Kit - First Layout and Tutorial

Hi everyone!! Have you seen the February kits from My Creative Scrapbook?! They are amazing!! This month I received not one, but two kits to play with: the Main Kit and the Creative Kit!

Today I'm sharing a layout I created with the MCS Main Kit, which is filled with the "Forever My Always" collection from Pebbles. I did a little step-by-step using the February Main Kit and also two of the February digital cut files, the "xoxo" and the "love you more". You can find the MCS cut files HERE (click and scroll down).


Although most months the MCS cut files are .studio files, sometimes they are .pgn files. For those of you who want to learn more about how to use .png files I thought I would start with sharing how to use these .png cut files in your Silhouette. Then later-on in this post I'll also share how this page came together. 

First I downloaded the February cut files on my laptop, opened my Silhouette software and opened the .png cut file in my Silhouette. : 


I clicked the “trace” button in the top right corner and clicked the "Select Trace Area". Next I selected the shape I wanted to cut:


In the vertical row on the right I “unclicked” the “High Pass Filter” and moved the “Threshold” to the right, i.e. to 100%. I clicked the “Trace” button (also on the right of your screen) and the black images got red lines. I was now able to remove the black images and only the red outlines (the cut lines) remained:


 I clicked on the cut file and draged the corners to the desired size:


And that’s it, you’re done! Very simple, right?

Now on to the next bit, how my page came together. After cutting two cut files I grabbed my kit, selected a photo and got to work:


From the Pebbles "Love Labels" paper I cut a 3" strip and adhered this at the top of the white cardstock. I cut another strip of only one row of words and from the Pebbles "Be Still My Heart" paper I cut one row of hearts and adhered these two strips at the bottom of my page:


The huge XOXO cut file got two pieces of white cardstock behind the "O" and was also placed at the top of my page, half over the Love Labels paper:


Using my tiny attacher I stapled the "Love U More" cut file on the bottom of my Polaroid shaped photo and placed this on top of the XOXO:


From Pebbles "Love Notes" paper I cut the xoxoxo and the pencil and adhered this below the "love u more" together with a Pebbles flower die-cut:


Next came the rosette on the right side of the photo and die-cuts and sticker at the bottom of my page:


Using another die-cut and the black Thickers from the kit I added "U & I" below the photo:


Of course I just had to use the gold foil Thickers as well and chose the word "friend" and adhered this on the left of the photo. A little "s" sticker from the AC sticker sheet made this word complete. These tiny letter stickers were also adhered at the bottom of my page as well as the red/white striped sticker strip below the photo:


Last but not least came the hand journaling, the date stamp, a few drops of Glimmer Mist (own stash) and a bit of machine stitching:


And I was done! Hope you like it! Here are a few close-ups of my page:





If you're looking for more information about this kit or about one of the other three February kits from My Creative Scrapbook then please hop over to the My Creative Scrapbook website. If you want to see what everyone created with the kits, please visit the DT Gallery.

And here's a photo of the My Creative Scrapbook February Main Kit:


Thank you so much for stopping by today!

xoxo
Monique