This is Us Layout - September Sketch - My Creative Sketches

The new sketch is up at My Creative Sketches for September, with a fabulous prize to be won for a random winner.  You can find all the entry details 'HERE', and the sketch below. 

For my interpretation of the sketch, I turned the sketch on its side for something different, and added in an extra photograph at one of the focal points.  It was a fun sketch!!

The photographs are of me and my brother at a young age.  Mum used to take photographs of us in this one part of her flower garden all the time - it must have been a favourite place for her.  Later as we are growing older, a lot more flowers and shrubs can be found in the photographs.  My parent's built this house, so I guess at this point the flower garden was new.

I used the My Creative Scrapbook, September, Limited Edition Kit to create the layout with - full of all sorts of wonderful products, and fabulous embellishments.  You can find all the details of the Limited Edition Kit 'HERE'.

I hope you will come and join in the fun of the My Creative Sketches challenge this month!!

Happy Creating

Sandie

My Creative Scrapbook - Septemeber Reveal Layouts and Cards

Hi everyone,  Its time for the September reveal for My Creative Scrapbook!  This month, I worked with the Limited Edition Kit, which was full of the new release Prima Marketing - Anna Marie.  Also lots of other wonderful items, including Wood icons, Tickets and Tags, Chipboard, Mechanical (metal) New Pendants, Pink roses, Yellow silk flowers, and Wishful thinking flowers.  Kit content image can be found at the end of my post, and to purchase please visit 'HERE'.

This kit is going to be a fast seller, so please make sure you get in fast to order, before it has sold out!

My first layout is of a dear friend of mine, this particular night, we all dressed up in 'days gone by' attire, had a few glasses of bubbly and laughed like school girls all night long.  It was a cold night, the fire was blaring .... and the hours just ticked on by.  We took oodles of photographs, and they are so much fun to look back on.

The 2nd layout is of my daughter Tayla, and myself when she was 'little'... my gosh, she has grown since this was taken.  It only seems like yesterday that she was a little girl, and now she is a woman.  At the time this photograph was taken, Tayla had been pretending to be a tea-pot. When she wanted to disappear, she would put her hand on her hip, her other hand in the air to replicate a teapot spout and would stand as still as anything.  She seriously thought she would vanish and turn into a teapot!  Where she developed this idea I have no idea, but it was a very funny aspect of her childhood for around 18 months. I can still remember calling out 'where is Tayla' .. and the other children would chime in 'being a tea pot'.

Mist splatters, and oodles of fussy cutting ... was a lot of fun creating this LO.

This Anna Marie paper collection really has the most amazing and beautiful papers.  I adore the tiny rose pattern in the layout above and didn't want to waste one little bit.  I also teamed the papers with the packaging from one of the Prima flower packets, as it really matched perfectly and used it to journal on. 

The photograph of my cousin Annette, and myself on one of our many treks to Ballet.  Ballet was a big part of my life for 13 years, also tap and jazz ... you wouldn't know it now! LOL

With left over products I created a Friends Tag, and Birthday Card.

A wonderful kit to create with, and I will be returning around the 15th/16th for the September, My Creative Sketch challenge reveal with another layout created using this beautiful kit.

Till then,

Sandie

Kits Available 

Limited Edition Kit

Main Kit

Creative Kit

Album Kit

Post Card, A Love Story - My Creative Sketch - August Challenge

 The latest sketch for My Creative Sketches has just been released for August, you can find all the details 'HERE'.  I loved this sketch by Liz Chidester, and had fun interpreting the sketch in my own way.  I used the August, Limited Edition Kit, from My Creative Scrapbook.  You can find all kit information and products 'HERE'....

What an amazing kit it was to work with this month, including Kaisercraft's 'One This Day' paper collection, Prima Marketing Flowers, Pink Paislee Artisan Elements, Glitz Cardstock Stickers, Doodlebug Alpha's, Laces, Ribbons and More. 

The photograph is one of 'me' as a baby, with my Mum.   The postcard area is hidden journaling, and I journaled about my Mum's thoughts on her first born child... loved Mum's thoughts, words... precious plus.

August Sketch, My Creative Sketches

Hope you'll consider coming and joining in the fun of this months sketch, there is always a beautiful prize put together by Pam... to be won by a random winner!  

Thanks for visiting...
Sandie

August New Kit Release LO's - Limited Edition - My Creative Scrapbook

 Today, My Creative Scrapbook release all the new kits for August and wow, what a wonderful assortment of amazing kits Pam has put together for us this month.  As always, I worked with the Limited Edition Kit, which was so full of glorious products, including: Kaisercraft's 'One This Day' paper collection, Prima Marketing Flowers, Pink Paislee Artisan Elements, Glitz Cardstock Stickers, Doodlebug Alpha's, Laces, Ribbons and More.

The only other items I used to complete my layouts was distress ink, and several Martha Stewart Punches. 

The top layout is a photograph of my eldest daughter, Amanda in her prime of 'I love Me' - each day on facebook there is a new image of 'her' - no doubt all 'selfies' LOL LOL  I couldn't resist capturing this moment in her life, and had a good chuckle over the title.  I know, Amanda will laugh too.

 The 2nd layout is of John and myself - the photograph taken on Christmas Day (2012).  Lots of fussy cutting, and various punches used to decorate, along with layers of papers, and elements.

The last layout is of 'me' as a baby.  I still have the pink doggy-bear to the left of the photograph - it certainly doesn't look like 'that' anymore though!! Hidden journaling to the top of the photograph poking out with a bow, and the wording to the left are words from a poem my Mother used to read to me as I was growing up.  My Mum lost several babies before me....the first to survive, followed by two brothers.

Do call on over to the My Creative Scrapbook Blog, and you can find the website with all kit details 'HERE'....

and there is a new add on kit arriving this month, full details can be found 'HERE'.

My Creative Scrapbook is thrilled to introduce a new add-on kit:

Spotlight on Your Life

If you love Project Life, Life Documented, Photo Freedom or Smash books then this is the kit for you. This kit will have additional embellishments and items just for your Project Life style pages.

Limited Edition Kit

Album Kit

Creative Kit

Mixed Media Kit

Main Kit

Project Life Kit

 I'll be back again with My Creative Scrapbook on the 16th of August, for the My Creative Sketches, Challenge Sketch reveal.

Sandie

Beach Babes Layout - My Creative Sketches - July Sketch

The July sketch has just been released on the My Creative Sketch Blog, with a wonderful prize for a random winner which Pam has put together for some lucky winner.  Pop on over and 'see' for yourself - gorgeous prize!

I used the July, Limited Edition Kit from My Creative Scrapbook for my sketch.  A kit full of the most glorious papers, and embellishments.You can find all kit information 'HERE'.

 I love this photograph of the 3 ladies on the beach, I have a few of the same photography session all in various poses - I cannot wait to scrap them.  I love their hair styles, and wonder how on earth they kept those curls with being near the beach!!

 Hope to see some familiar faces join in with the sketch

Sandie

Doris Layout, Mini Album and Cards - My Creative Scrapbook - Limited Edition Kit

My Creative Scrapbook's Limited Edition Kit this month is just divine.  You can find all the details and beautiful creations from the design team 'HERE' (scroll down through the design team gallery).

The only item I added into my kit was the large paper doily, and a few punches, tiny pearls, distress ink, and mists.

 The photograph is of a relative of mine, called Doris Pugsley.  I believe she is sitting to the side of my Great-Grandmothers house in Yarrawonga, Victoria.  I remember my Great-Grandmother sitting in near the same place when I was growing up.  Great-Grandma had a beautiful, very large garden - it really was amazing all the flowers, fruits and vegetables she used to tend to. 
The butterflies in the kit were perfect for this layout, as I always remember the garden to be full of butterflies.....I love my childhood memories, they are so precious...

..and from my left over kit contents, I created several gift cards, and a small paper bag mini album.

 The kit contains several tiny, fancy paper bags, so I created the above Mini Album using them.

 Two of the paper bags, I turned into gift cards - the mini paper bags hold special sentiment cards inside.

Thanks for calling into visit...

Happy Creating

Sandie

My Creative Scrapbook June Reveal - Layout, Cards and Flower Tutorial

The June reveal up for My Creative Scrapbook - to view please see end of this post and for kit content images, and for more inspiration and details, please click 'HERE', and scroll down the page for each 'kits' reveal.  The design team have done an amazing job in bringing some wonderful inspiration, techniques and tutorial's and these will be hosted throughout the month, on the My Creative Scrapbook Blog.

 For June, I worked with the Limited Edition Kit, totally full of awesome products. 

The flowers were misted with Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays, and I also added in some small punched flowers, stamens and leaves to highlight the arrangement.

I tried to use up all the various elements of my kit in the below layout... a re-creation of the 1800s, with four beautiful woman, no doubt all family.  Not really sure the view-finder really matches, but I loved the look of it in the layout.  :-)

This month I have completed a few techniques to share on the My Creative Scrapbook Blog, including how I highlighted flowers, paper creases and edges, and more with Gold paint.

Also, I have completed a tutorial on the ribbon flowers below and how simple they are to create. I will link back 'HERE' with the tutorial, once it is up on the My Creative Scrapbook Blog.

I added in a few paper doily's from my stash to create the above card, with left over elements from the LE kit..and decorated the hand-crafted flowers using buttons from my stash.

I will be back next month with the July reveal and am eagerly awaiting my package to arrive!!!

Happy Creating
Sandie

Kits available:

Album Kit

Creative Kit

Limited Edition Kit

Main Kit

How to create a flower from trims

Photograph 5

 

1. Using the larger of the two trims in the June Kit, cut off a piece which has 7 points.  Double thread a needle with strong quilting cotton, and tie off end well.

2. Run small gathering stitches along the non-pointed edge, as shown in Photograph 2.

Photograph 2

3. Pull threads tightly as pictured in Photograph 3, to form flower shape, tie off well on back of flower.  Please Noter: Tiny stitches aids in getting a nice gather in the flower and it will sit a lot lower, and be less bulky.  AND, adding a touch of glue to your knots will keep flowers from unravelling. 

Photograph 3

4. Use metal elements as shown in Photograph 4 from June’s kit, to create a flower centre. Any embellishment can be used, including buttons, beads, pearls, jewels, etc. for the centre part of flower. 

Photograph 4

5. Apply to your crafting project (Photograph 5).

 

Please Note:  The colour of your flower can be change easily, by using spray mist.  You can create flowers which will match ‘any’ craft project.