Thank You Cards: Ruby Rock-It & Fiskars

Hey all, I just wanted to share a pair of cards that I have up on the Ruby Rock-It blog today.

We're featuring the Arcadia, Reminisce, and Mother Nature collections this month, so I have used products from those lines to create these cards.

Aren't the trims beautiful? I've added a pink butterfly chipboard accent and a trio of sweet off-white heart stickers.

The second card follows the same design as the first but moves from serene blues to pretty peaches and pinks. I loved the trim so much that I doubled up on it this time!

The flower focal point was made using dies from my stash and centered with a pearl-adorned floral chipboard piece. I added additional pearls along the bottom of the card to further dress it up.

I've been enjoying our collaboration with Fiskars this month and love the pretty detailing that the hearts border punch added to my cards.

If you stop by the Ruby Rock-It blog, you'll find my supply list as well as a beautiful canvas created by my teammate, Pattie Beltran.

Thanks for stopping by!

Quick Clean & Simple Cards from Scraps: Ruby Rock-It

Hey there, today I would like to share some quick tips for creating sweet handmade cards when time is of the essence.

While many of us love to add layer after layer of paper and embellishments to our projects, sometimes life just doesn't slow down enough to be able to devote a lot of time to crafting. Still, giving a handmade card over a store bought one is almost always preferred.

Ruby Rock-It understands how quickly life can move and offers a whole line of pre-cut, scored, embossed card bases with envelopes, called Imprints. Awesome, right? Such time-savers they are.

Here are the Imprints that I chose for today's cards:

If you're like me, you couldn't imagine tossing your scraps, and you've got quite an assortment of them in your stash just begging to be used on a project.

I pulled some scraps that I had saved after my last Kinda Krafty project and laid them out on my table.

I grabbed a couple of my favorite punches and punched out a handful of shapes from the scraps.

For my first card, I glued 7 of the punched butterflies directly onto the Imprints card base. I adhered the "Good Job" sentiment, which was cut from the Kinda Crafty Chatterbox cardstock, using a foam square for dimension. Then I pulled some pearls from a Bella! Bling Borderlines pack and glued one to each butterfly.

For my second card (hey! challenge yourself to make your cards in pairs or sets- you'll be glad to have the extra cards in your stash), I glued the larger butterfly directly to the Imprints card base, added a little pearl, and then used foam squares to adhere the smaller butterflies in a whimsical fashion. I added a sentiment again cut from the Chatterbox cardstock sheet and called it complete.

So quick and easy but still handmade!

Thank You Card: Ruby Rock-It & Fiskars

Here's a card that I created for the Ruby Rock-It blog this week featuring the lovely Arcadia range.

I layered an Arcadia tag and bling as well as butterflies and the oval sentiment base from one of the decoupage sets onto three of the Arcadia papers. I added the bright white punched butterfly to bring out the white in the patterned paper and in the card base. The sentiment is a stamp from my stash.

Ruby Rock-It and Fiskars are cross-promoting this month. Here's the Fiskars Sea Pearls 3-in-1 Corner Punch that I used to add some detailed corners to one of the paper layers:

 Thanks for stopping by today!

More My Creative Scrapbook: Doodlebug Take Note

I have one more Doodlebug Take Note layout to share that I created with the Creative kit this month from My Creative Scrapbook kit club.

Such a simple layout but one of my recent favorites. I think the simplicity helps let the fun bubble-filled photos take center stage.

Here's a photo of the May Creative kit:

The kit contains lots of super cute Take Note papers and stickers along with Prima flowers, ribbons, buttons, a 12x12 piece of canvas, and even paper clips. Such a happy kit!

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

Well that does it for my May kit work for My Creative Scrapbook. I'm off to dig into the June kits... just wait until you see what's coming :)

More Doodlebug Take Note: My Creative Scrapbook

I have another Doodlebug Take Note layout to share that I created with the Creative kit this month from My Creative Scrapbook kit club.

Just a day at the park running around in the grass playing kickball- we don't have grass in our yard, so the grass at the park is always a nice treat.

I used a little modeling paste with a stencil to add some interest to the white background, mimicking the polka dots on her outfit.

Here's a photo of the May Creative kit:

The kit contains lots of super cute Take Note papers and stickers along with Prima flowers, ribbons, buttons, a 12x12 piece of canvas, and even paper clips. Such a happy kit!

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

I will be back tomorrow with one more layout. Thanks for stopping by!

My Creative Scrapbook May Creative Kit: Doodlebug Take Note

The Creative kit at My Creative Scrapbook this month features the bright and fun Take Note collection from Doodlebug Design.

The kit contains lots of super cute Take Note papers and stickers along with Prima flowers, ribbons, buttons, a 12x12 piece of canvas, and even paper clips. Such a happy kit!

Here's one of the layouts that I created with it:

Lots of paper layers on this one! I added a white doily from my stash to soften things up a bit.

The orange flowers are die cut from the canvas sheet. The canvas did need a bit of preparation to stiffen it up enough to make a crisp cut:

First, I cut out 3 squares of the approximate size of my flower dies.

Next, I applied a fairly thick layer of mod podge.

and I used a high-tech (LOL) apparatus to hang them to dry.

Once dry, the canvas was able to be die cut.

Here's a photo of the May Creative kit:

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

I will be back tomorrow with more. Thanks for stopping by!

More Simple Stories Vintage Bliss: My Creative Scrapbook

I have another Simple Stories Vintage Bliss layout to share today that I created with the Main kit this month from My Creative Scrapbook kit club.

This is one of those photos of Allison and her daddy that just melts me!

Here's a photo of the May Main kit:

There are lots of lovely Vintage Bliss patterned papers and stickers along with Prima flowers, a Maya Road flower, a 10" doily, Basic Grey bottle caps and layered stickers, a gorgeous length of pink trim, and sheer ribbon. Truly a beautiful kit!

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website, HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

See you Monday with the Creative kit.

More My Creative Scrapbook: Simple Stories Vintage Bliss

I have another Simple Stories Vintage Bliss layout to share today that I created with the Main kit this month from My Creative Scrapbook kit club.

Her love for the simple things just warms my heart so much.

Here's a photo of the May Main kit:

There are lots of lovely Vintage Bliss patterned papers and stickers along with Prima flowers, a Maya Road flower, a 10" doily, Basic Grey bottle caps and layered stickers, a gorgeous length of pink trim, and sheer ribbon. Truly a beautiful kit!

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website, HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

See you tomorrow with more!

My Creative Scrapbook Mother's Day GIVEAWAY

We have a very exciting announcement today from My Creative Scrapbook owner, Pam Rangel!

Girls, we Love Prima so we are having a Prima Prize giveaway!!

Grand Prize:

Plus 3 random draw prize Prima packages to be drawn on June 1st.

That is right 4 chances to win!!

We want to give YOU this awesome prize package. You can win just by being a My Creative Scrapbook member or by buying one of our kits in the month of May.

Want to have more chances to win? Just refer a friend that buys a kit in May and both of you will have your names added to the drawing.

So come join the fun , we want YOU to be the winner!!

- My Creative Scrapbook Kit subscriber will be entered in the drawing for each kit that they purchase in the month of May.

- All new kit subscribers will be entered in the drawing

Even more chances to win... refer a friend that signs up and get your name added to the drawing. Just e-mail MyCreativeScrapbook@gmail.com with the name of the person who joined. You both will be entered into the drawing a second time.

Just to make this more fun, we are offering our May Limited Edition kit filled with Prima Lyric, available for a one time purchase... Yea!!! You asked that we offer this, and we aim to please, so grab one while you can. This offer is only for the month of May.

Dates of the contest: May 8th through June 1st, 2013

To purchase any of our kits, please visit our website, HERE.

My Creative Scrapbook May Main Kit: Simple Stories Vintage Bliss

The Main kit at My Creative Scrapbook this month features the really pretty and sweet Vintage Bliss collection from Simple Stories.

There are lots of lovely patterned papers and stickers from the collection along with Prima flowers, a Maya Road flower, a 10" doily, Basic Grey bottle caps and layered stickers, a gorgeous length of pink trim, and sheer ribbon. Truly a beautiful kit!

Here's one of the layouts that I created with the kit:

I made the pink flower by simply rolling the length of pink tulle trim, securing it with hot glue as I rolled. Then I hot glued one of the sweet little Basic Grey bottle caps to the center. So easy but so pretty.

I backed the photo with a piece of corrugated cardboard that I tore from the box that the kits were shipped in. I'd like to say that I applied a layer of Gesso onto it with a sponge, but, Allison gets the credit for that :)

I LOVE that she had a part in creating this layout!

Here's a photo of the May Main kit:

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

I will be back this week with more. Thanks for stopping by!

My Creative Scrapbook May Album Kit: Simple Stories 24 Seven

*For the Ruby Rock-It blog hop, please scroll down a couple of posts, or click HERE* 

YAY! I love when the time comes that I can start sharing what I've been up to with the beautiful kits from My Creative Scrapbook kit club. It's such an exciting time!

Today I'd like to show you the mini album that I created using the May Album kit. This kit features the awesome Simple Stories 24 Seven collection and is totally loaded with beautiful products including layered stickers, chipboard stickers, cardstock stickers, phrase and alpha stickers, Prima flowers, ribbon and twine, wood buttons, a 12x12 burlap sheet, custom chipboard circles, and canvas hearts. Whew!

I created this as a gift to my mother-in-law as a little souvenir from her most recent visit. I hope she likes it!

Here's a photo of the kit:

For information on purchasing any of My Creative Scrapbook's monthly kits, please visit the website HERE. While you're there, I highly recommend viewing the Design Team gallery!

I will be back tomorrow with more. Thanks for stopping by!

My Creative Scrapbook May Kits Reveal

This is my second post today. For the Ruby Rock-It Blog Hop & Giveaway, please scroll down to my previous blog post, or click here (the giveaway is really beautiful... I hope you'll take a look!)

With the 5th of the month comes a new reveal at My Creative Scrapbook kit club. Today I'm excited to show you the totally gorgeous kits. Then, over the next several days I'll show you what I created with the kits that I worked with.

May Main Kit featuring Simple Stories Vintage Bliss

May Creative Kit featuring Doodlebug Take Note

May Limited Edition Kit featuring Prima Lyric

May Album Kit featuring Simple Stories 24/7

May Off the Page Project Add-on Kit

May Mixed Media Add-on Kit

May Flowers and More Add-on Kit

For information about purchasing any of these kits, please visit the My Creative Scrapbook website, here.

(Don't forget to get in on the sweet GIVEAWAY for hopping along on the Ruby Rock-It blog hop- just scroll down to my previous post today, or click here.)