My Creative Scrapbook Limited Edition Oct. Reveal

MATT & RAY
I am so honored to have been asked to serve as a guest design team member at My Creative Scrapbook for the remainder of the year. Pam puts together the most gorgeous kits! This time I had the pleasure of working with the Limited Edition kit that was just chock full of Webster's Pages and 7Gypsies and Prima goodies, not to mention all the gorgeous trims!

This first page features my son Matt making friends with my sister's Golden-doodle Ray on our visit to Phoenix last month. Matt really wanted to bring him home with us!

BFF's

My niece Keilani and her best friend.

GROW

My grandson Gary up our old apple tree in the back yard.

SWEET KISS

My step-daughter Katie and her flower girl.

WONDER (FALL)

My sister Catherine, niece Kelani and nephew Connor on a farm in Salina picking out pumpkins.

The flowers are hand made using both the crepe paper flower tutorial and water distressed bloom tutorial. The swirl was cut with my Silhouette and is not included in the kit.

3 GIRLS AND A FOUNTAIN

My niece Paige in the middle and two of her college friends on the campus of the University of Arizona in Tucson from whence Paige graduated this past spring.

I cut the vine with my Silhouette, but kit subscribers could easily hand sketch and cut out a similar vine. I then bent the leaved and inked the crease as well as the outside edges. The flowers are cut from the yellow lace included in the kit, to which I added sparkly brown puffy glue for the centers. I used the left-over leaves from the lace as decoration on the chip board butterflies.



ENJOY LIVE

My niece Paige and one of college friends.

I cut the swirl with my Quickutz Silhouette, along with the leaves, so that is why you won't see this layout in the DT reveal. I also made my own flowers using the water distress method and Silhouette cuts.

Today’s scrapbook inspiration is the "New Friends" layout by Jackie Anderson. Jackie says, "The photos are of my sons, Ben and Matt, getting acquainted with my sister's Goldendoodle, Ray, during our visit to Phoenix. The butterflies are hand cut from a sheet of Prima paper. I added Stickles to their centers for some extra sparkle and bent the wings up for dimension. The swirl is handmade. I scanned a Prima flourish, printed it out and used it for a pattern. I placed a sheet of clear transparency over the the pattern and added the white puffy glue. The blue flower centers are also homemade and I provided a step-by-step tutorial on my blog."

Visit Jackie's blog and gallery to see more of her fabulous scrapbook pages.

Product list:

Adorn It
- Tiny alphabets

ColorBox
- Blue ink

DCWV
- Green cardstock

Martha Stewart
- Flower punch

Prima
- Alphabets
- Flowers - Eclatte
- Pearl Penache - Candle Glow
- Patterned paper - Strawberry Kisses and Flight of Fancy

Puffy Glue
- White Shimmering Satin

Signo
- White Gel Pen

Stickles
- Copper

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Jackie is one of eight members of the Gone Scrapbooking Creative Team. Team members will be providing card-making and scrapbooking inspiration for readers of Examiner.com's National Scrapbook Column through July 2011.

Truly...madly...deeply

My oldest son, Bryant and his wife Danielle. The wonderful thing is that six years later they still look at each other just like this!

Products:

Basic Grey
Cappella collection - patterned papers and cardstock diecuts

handmade lace and cardstock flowers (water distressed blooms) and pearl swirl

Lace - gift from dear friend Betty

Martha Stewart
border punches

Prima
mini roses
E-line pearls

Quickutz
Silhouette diecuts
heart banner
"engaged" title
green swirl

Ribbon - gift from dear friend Luzma

Love

This is my oldest son and his new wife Danielle having their wedding dance clear back in 2004. My, the time does fly! I did a wedding album then, but my style and scrapbooking itself has changed so much since then that I wanted to re-do some of my favorite pictures. I am going to frame this one and have a wedding wall with a page of each of our children on their wedding day.

Products:

Basic Grey
Cappella collection

A collection of Prima and handmade "water distressed blooms"

FISKARS
Zipper paper edger

Handmade pearls

Heidi Grace
edge distress-er

Martha Stewart
clear crystals (love title)

ribbon - gift from my dear friend LuzMa

Quickutz
Silhouette _ hearts, butterfly

Single hole punch

Tim Holtz
distress ink -walnut

My Creative Scrapbook LE sneak peeks

All you LE kit subscribers at MCS are going to be soooooo thrilled when your Oct. kits arrive. You just won't believe all the goodies included. I made SEVEN layouts with mine and still have some things left over. If you love flowers and trim, like I do, you are going to be just thrilled! Of course if you love flowers on every single page, you may have to make some of your own, and it's so easy to do since there are so many great tutorials on the MCS tips and techniques thread. And for you MK, Album kit and Creative Kit subscribers, I've seen the kits and you are going to be so excited too!

The leaves and flourish on this page are Silhouette cuts and not included in the kit. I made the flower also. You can find instructions in my Aug. archive under water distressed blooms.



The swirl on this one is cut with my Silhouette and is not included in the kit. I also made the blue crepe paper flower and yellow water distressed bloom.

PhD

I scrapped this photo of my middle son Ben before for his graduation album, but love this expression of his humor, so scrapped it again for me. He isn't actually a doctor yet, and his doctorate will be in Communication, Political Rhetoric, but I am anticipating! I no I have mentioned this once or twice before, but it bears repeating, over, and over, and over again. Me, proud? Nah!

Products:

Basic Grey
Cappella Collection
patterned papers
Dollie
Journaling cards with transparencies

Prima
Antique Branches - Truffle
Rosseti Roses - Lola
Guava Peony Collection - Brahms

Behold the Beauty

My son Ben and some of his colleagues on one of his Communications trips to California.

Products:

Basic Grey - Cappella Collection
patterned papers
element stickers
journal cards with transparencies
alphabet stickers

Prima
Tiffany Petals Multi Platinum
Tiffany Petals paired Platinum
mini roses

Webster's Pages
trim
bloomers