How to Create Filler Flowers by Guest Designer Lydell Quin

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My Creative Scrapbook Guest Designer Lydell Quin has a wonderful flower tutorial for you today featuring our May Limited Edition kit.

Here's Lydell:

"Everyone loves using flowers on a page sometimes, I am sure. I love creating little floral arrangements on my girly pages, but sometimes feel like all the larger flowers don’t always sit well next to one another. What I find I need are smaller flowers, to act as filler flowers in the gaps, which are very easily made from any left over printed paper that co ordinates with your page, using punches. Let me show you how I made them. They are so simple.

I used the paper with Music notes on it for all the flowers I created, and just punched oodles of Larger and smaller daisy flowers

I used another tiny flower to use as my base to glue it all onto, but you can use a small circle if you like….this is optional, just makes it easier to handle.

Fold all the flower petals up on each flower and add a drop of glue to the base of each, and slip it inside the first. Make sure the petals are offset from the layer underneath.

Once I had all my layers together I used my paper piercer and pressed down firmly in the centre to squish all the layers together more, it also causes the petals to pull up a little more.

And you are done!

So a recap…..

I got out my glitter glue and edged the edges of each flower to match them to the glittery Prima ones.

I also punched some leaves from a Martha Stewart leaf punch and filled even further with these. So pretty!

I hope you will give these easy little flowers a try.

:) "

Lydell Quin

My Creative Scrapbook Guest Designer

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and here's Lydell's beautiful work using the kit:

Thanks for joining us this month, Lydell!

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Burlap Tips & Tricks by Guest Designer Joan Bronson

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Today My Creative Scrapbook Guest Designer Joan Bronson is sharing some great tips for creative uses of the burlap sheet included in our May Album kit.

Here's Joan:

"I love all the extras included in the kits each month, they challenge me to try new techniques and products to create with. This month my new challenge was to use the 12x12 red burlap in the album kit. The weave of the burlap is very loose so it didn’t take me long to figure out I couldn’t do much with it as it came. This is my attempt to make a rolled flower!

After my failed attempt at the flower it was suggested I try a fabric stiffener or Mod Podge. Both work well but I stuck with the Mod Podge to complete my projects. I used a sponge brush (my kids ran off with that so I finished with a makeup applicator).

Here are a few tips you might find helpful.

1. The red bleeds a little so be sure you are working on a surface you don’t mind turning red or can be cleaned.
2. Soak the burlap with Mod Podge well but without leaving much excess behind. I used a Gloss Mod Podge and it left some residue behind in places I had too much Mod Podge.
3. Use a heat gun to help speed the drying process if you can’t wait – like me.

Once the Burlap is dry I had a blast working with it.

Burlap Rolled flowers:
1. I cut a square of burlap for each flower. One was around 2 ½ x 2 ½ the other was about 3x3.
2. Cut a spiral circle from the square.

3. Starting on the outside of the spiral roll it up tightly. (If you’ve never done this before try with a piece of scrap paper first). After you roll the flower you can loosen the roll some if desired.

4. You can use the inside of the spiral the base of the flower. Add a strong adhesive to the inside of the spiral and stick your flower to it (or adhere your flower to a small piece of paper to help hold it together). Once the adhesive was dry I used my palm to smash my flowers a little so they sat a little flatter and opened a little more. Then I added them to my layout.

Burlap Border:
1. I used the cork scallop border from the sticker sheet as my template. Just stick it to the burlap and cut it out. A small fine tip scissors works best to snip between the scallops.

2. With the border sticker still in place, I used my Crop-A-Dial II Big Bite to punch the holes in the burlap. Any hole punch will work as long as it will punch through the burlap.
3. Now, carefully peel the sticker off the burlap and you should have a great looking boarder.

Burlap banner background:
1. Adhere the sticker banner to the burlap.
2. Using a fine tip marker, trace the banner on the burlap slightly wider than the banner.

3. Cut out the burlap banner, remove the sticker, and adhere the chipboard banner. *I used the sticker to outline the banner rather than the chipboard because I thought it would stick to the burlap better and be easier to trim around than the chipboard."

Joan Bronson

My Creative Scrapbook Guest Designer

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Here's the May Album kit:

and here is Joan's beautiful work using the kit:

Thanks for joining us this month, Joan!

My Creative Scrapbook kit club is all about you and helping you preserve your memories in a fun and creative way. For information about subscribing to any of our monthly kits, please visit our website, here.

A Beautiful Canvas with a Video Tutorial today...

Hey Yáll, Delaina with you today and I have a Video Tutorial that I want to share. Pam packed an awesome May Off the Page Project Kit. I got to play with it and I mixed in some of the gorgeous LE kit. I made a little video showing a step by step of the painted/sprayed background. Hope you enjoy! Go here to purchase the kits.

Here are a few close ups of the Canvas.  Click on each photo for an even closer view...

I purchased a frame separately for this project...

Creating a Lace and Beaded Frame by Sandie Edwards

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We have a wonderful tutorial to share today from My Creative Scrapbook Design Team member Sandie Edwards featuring our May Limited Edition kit. Read on to learn how to create a lace and beaded frame.

Here's Sandie:

"1. Cut photograph into an oval shape, trace using a household object, or old photo-frame.

2. Thread a long length of cotton, double threaded onto needle and tie off. Use smallish gathering stitches along edge of lace, and pull to gather, measuring around photograph as you work to get exact length needed. When you have achieved this, join the two lace ends, and tie off securely.

3. Apply several glue dots to the edge of gathered lace, and adhere to back of photograph as pictured in Photograph 2, and 3.

4. Work your way around the edge with glue, making sure all edges are well adhered, and gathers are even.

5. Apply a light beading of liquid adhesive around very edge of outside edge of photograph, and adhere pearl strand.

6. Optional: Adhere magic mount to back of lace framed photograph, and adhere onto a larger cardstock base ready to be used in a project. Adding an extra base aids in stability and also helps keep the gathered lace in place perfectly."

 Sandie Edwards

My Creative Scrapbook Design Team member

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Here's Sandie's completed layout:

 

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and here's more of Sandie's beautiful work using the kit:

Thank you, Sandie!

My Creative Scrapbook kit club is all about you and helping you preserve your memories in a fun and creative way. For information about subscribing to any of our monthly kits, please visit our website, here.