My Creative Scrapbook February Kit Reveal!

My Creative Scrapbooks "month of love" comes to you in February with the most gorgeous kits!!!

• The MAIN kit is full of Making Memories and Adornit, with beautiful pinks and browns.
• The CREATIVE kit features Little Yellow Bicycle "Sweet Love" with pinks, reds and greys
• The ALBUM kit is full of Bo Bunny, gorgeous colours and patterned papers.
• The LIMITED EDITION kit is a mix of Fancy Pants with lots of Prima loviness too.

I had the Creative Kit to play with this month, and I have to be honest the amount of "pink" panicked me a little. As this is not a colour I automatically scrap with, but hey I'm all for working out of my comfort zone, so I set to work.

I used a few extras of my own, on this page to embellish and change the flowers. I changed the colour by using some Shimmer Mist (Creative Impressions) and added Glossy Accents to the edges. The roses in the centre were made from a tutorial on the message board by Gabi, which you can find here.

To my second page I've added black stickle dots for a border along the paper, and made a crumpled flower from cutting one of the large flowers from one of the sheets of patterned paper.

My 3rd page I did a bit of colour altering! The chipboard trim (Pink Paislee) was bare to start with, so I inked it with a chalk inkpad to a shade of red then added stickles over it. The white glitter thickers were given a red ink treatment too to tie the page together, and I used black swiss dot cardstock to give the kit a different look.

With the paper I had left over I put togethe 3 simple Valentines cards, using square Kraft card blanks. And used up some of the rub-on sentiments that I hadn't used on my pages.

The Design Team Gallery is live if you'd like to take a look at the rest of the incredible work with this months kits, or alternatively click on the links for each individual blog! Our Guest Designer this month was Gerry Van Gent, who created some amazing pages!!

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Challenge #3 at xoxOGirls!

Challenge #3 is live at xoxOGirls today, with a fabulous sponsorship from Random Shenanigans where you can win this gorgeous flower notebook!!

Here is my page, using lots of Pink Paislee, Prima Flowers and handmade paper roses. The photo is Hannah when she was just a tiny 6 months old!

Check out the rest of the Design Teams creations at the blog, and get scraplifting for a chance to win that notebook!! We are currently voting on January's scraplifts and will be announced soon, and also with Valentines Day looming Lynette will be running a second blog candy prize from her own stash, so look out for that too!!

Pop back in a few days time to see what I have been busy working on for Februarys MCS Creative Kit ;-)

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Sneak Peek Time!

xoxOGirls February Challenge goes live on the 1st!!

My Creative Scrapbook Kits go live 5th February!! Sneak peeks from the Creative Kit.

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More Cake!

It has been a while since my last blog post, but if I'm honest I haven't had a thing to blog about!! The snow took over really for a few weeks, and with everyone home my mojo for scrapping up and left LOL!

I'm busy this week though working on DT kits for My Creative Scrapbook, and preparing for February classes at Sparkle Dreams. I'm also working on a page for Feb 1st challenge reveal over at xoxOGirls. The one page I can show you is my crop class that I'll be teaching on the 29th, its a "re-make" of an older page I did from a Pencil Lines sketch a few years ago. I've kept it quite simple, with the emphasis on the "photo tree".

Other than that I have this scrummy victoria sponge cake I made last week to show you, although its almost gone now LOL!

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Kit Reveal Day at My Creative Scrapbook

This months Album Kit is Prima Bloomin' Retro, gorgeous gorgeous papers, and I just loved working with them, in fact I had a job to stop!!! Here are my projects...

The Main kit, Creative Kit and LE Kits are amazing, and the DT have done a stunning job with them, check out the rest of the Design Team Gallery HERE

Don't forget to check out the xoxOGirls scraplift challenge, which runs until January 16th!

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Lots to share!

The xoxOGirls first challenge has now gone live, if you haven't had a look at the blog yet, now is the time you should!!! Here is my layout....


I am on Team X, and its our turn to go first, we are all given the same list of criteria to put our layout together. Its fabulous to see how we all took different elements from that list and created completely different pages. Your job however is to scraplift one of them, or all of them if you like, leave us a comment linking us to your page, at the end of the month the xoxo girls choose a winner and you could be the lucky new owner of this gorgeous custom made headband named after the xoxOGirls from Ink & Button our sponsor this month. Good Luck, and I can't wait to see your creations.

Also, I can now share that in April I will be teaching at my very first retreat! I will be at the Scrapping Angels Retreat run by Anna Bowkis on 24th and 25th April teaching 2 classes alongside:-

Anna Bowkis, Michelle Mogford (MJM) and Tracie Hudson

I believe there are still a few spaces available, so if you haven't booked your place yet, you still have time! Click here to take you to the Scrapping Angels website.

Tomorrow is reveal day at My Creative Scrapbook, so I will be back with more layouts from the January Album Kit!

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Brand New Inspiration

I'd like to introduce you to xoxOGirls, a brand new inspiration blog being launched in January. On the 1st and 15th of each month new layouts will be posted by a fabulous design team for you to scraplift! And why am I telling you all this?? Because I have been lucky enough to be chosen to be part of this fabulous blog!! We were all asked to produce a layout with a "xoxo" theme to introduce ourselves on the blog and here is mine...


Remember to check back on the 1st January as our very first scraplift challenge goes live! Click on the blinkie on the right hand side to be taken to the blog. Look forward to seeing you there!!

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