Created with our December 2009 Kit by Janine Rachau.

- Use the back side of One Day as the base – distress & ink the edges, (I used a dark blue ink from my stash but the ink from the kit would work well also)

- Cut a 9” square of Mother Duck

- Center Mother Duck onto the base and adhere (I darkened the edges with a dark ink)

- Cut tags at various points to make a tag border, eye-balling some various sizes that fit well. Create a pattern and leave in place as you proceed to the next steps. I added two Chatterbox Fabulous tags from my stash and cut two fancy edges to a manilla tag from the kit to add a little more visual interests, …but you could easily get the same effect with just the tags included in the kit as they are.

- One by one, crinkle up each tag, and straighten it again putting them back into place so you do not have to start over arranging them.

- Ink the edges and creases of each alternate tag with the blue from our kit, and then the alternate with the green.

- Experiment with the different patterns on your tags with the penscore and the various clearsnap tips to use the “other” color on each tag. For example, if you used blue on the creases, use green to stamp. I included a few images of some of the patterns I created with the penscore for stamping.

The above photo shows a piece of the Penscore cut to fit on the acrylic piece from the Clearsnap Terrific Tool & Tips.

The following photos show different textures on penscore. 

- Double mat a photo using first the opposing side of One Day, and then Granny Apple & place it in the center.

- Use some scrap strips to add some layers below where your photo will lay (I added some Magic Mesh: Dottie Ann self-adhesive mesh – lime from Scraptivity’s August 2007 kit to some kit scraps).

- First adhere the strips, then the matted photo and finally the tags so that they lay on the top a little of your photo and/or strips.

- Add an appropriate title.

Created with our December 2009 Kit by Anne Pennington.

Take one piece of 5 Little Ducks Collection One Day (photo 1).

Use this as your background. The design pattern from this paper inspired the Pac Man/Nintendo theme for this particular layout.

Cut a half inch wide strip 7.75” long of 5 Little Ducks Collection Play with stripes running vertically.

Place 4.5×5.5” photo diagonally on page as you wish (photo 2).

Use Memory Essentials Terrific Tool & Tips with square-shaped end to spread Color Box fluid chalk Lime Pastel ink just under photo to add a little more emphasis to lettering. By obscuring the definition of the paper underneath, I hoped to make the lettering pop out from the page a little more for emphasis (photo 2).

Cut lettering as you wish to place underneath photo on top of inked area (photos 3 & 4). Anne used the Cricut.

Place striped strip 5 Little Ducks Collection Play underneath photo. (photo 4).

Ink edges of embellishments. Place embellishments as you wish on remainder of page. Pac Man images were printed from the internet in various sizes and used to emphasize this layout theme (photo 5).

Created with our November 2009 Kit by Stephanie Zito.

Use 7 Gypsies Catalonia as base for background. Ink edges with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

Using Hypnotic Core’dinations Black Magic cardstock, trace a design freehand or use template (extra – Stephanie used Technique Tuesday Swanky Frames).

Distress edges using Heidi Swapp Edge Distresser from March /09 S! kit.

Sand cardstock using sandpaper or sanding block.

-Crop photo to 4″ 3/4 x 4″. Using Hypnotic Core’dinations Black Magic cardstock on red side, cut photo mat 5″ x 4″ ½.. Distress and ink edges with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

-Using Hypnotic Core’dinations Black Magic cardstock, cut out label square using Spellbinders Labels #1 die (extra). Distress edges with Black Soot Distress ink (extra) and sand cardstock.

-Using Hypnotic Core’dinations Black Magic cardstock on red side, print out journalling and cut out with Spellbinders Label #1 die (extra). Ink edges with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

-Trim 4 pieces of 7 Gypsies Catalonia paper (reverse side) to: 3″ 3/4 x 4″ ½, ½” x 3″ 3/4, ½” x 5″ and ½” x 6″1/4. Ink edges with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

-Distress and ink edges of 7 Gypsies Ephemera with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

-Ink edges of Prima stamp packaging with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

-Machine stitch with red thread around 3″ 3/4 x 4″½ Catalonia piece.

-Using Hypnotic Core’dinations Black Magic cardstock on red side, die cut title (Stephanie used Quickutz Zoe alpha and ran it through her Cuttlebug) and ink with Black Soot Distress ink (extra).

Recycled paper flowers:

Using 5 sheets of Scraptivity shipping labels / and or invoices (from your S! boxes) stack sheets together and draw circles (size will depend on size of flower you want). Stephanie used a lid and a flower bottle as a circle template.

Cut your 8 x 11 paper in half and stack together (so you have 10 pieces stacked). Cut out your circles.

Once your circle is cut out, (10 sheets stacked) cut slits around your circle.

Now separate your 10 stacked circles. This step is important so your flower petals do not stick together. Re-stack your circles.

Staple your stacked circles together in the middle.

Now with your stapled circle cupped in your hand, squeeze together and crinkle up the paper. Then fluff to form a flower (you may lose a petal or two here at this step but that’s ok).

Using Glimmer Mist from Oct /09 S! add-ons, spray your flowers, using your fingers to separate the petals for even coverage. Set paper flowers aside to dry.

Assemble your layout as shown, starting with framed, sanded Hypnotic cardstock over 7 Gypsies Catalonia paper. Adhere title to Prima packaging and adhere. Adhere matted photo. Machine stitch around layout with black thread.

Attach 12″ length of Prima lace (Nov/09 S! add-on) to bottom of Catalonia paper.

Attach paper flowers to layout with glue dots. Add a button with floss (extra).

Attach Catalonia (reverse side) paper strips to layout with stapler.

And here’s the final product!

Created by Anne Pennington using Scraptivity’s November 2009 monthly kit.

Pretty exciting to receive my first kit from Scraptivity in my mail! I just sat and looked at all the lovely items for the first few minutes, then my brain got too excited to just create in my head. I had to get out the glue, cutters, and ink and start working with it!

I lost my mother this year after a devastating stroke, and whatever else I did with this awesome kit, I wanted to give her a tribute with one layout. The postcard included with the kit’s embellishments was just the thing to write her a lovely note to honour her memory!

I used the brown paper with the embossed swirl for my layout background. I found that by sanding the embossed swirls on the paper lightly, they seemed to “pop” out on the page a little more.

I then carefully removed the stamps from their packaging in order to use the green boxboard backing from their packaging. I sanded off the bit of labeling on the upper side of the green boxboard gently and distressed the sanded area to give it a bit more interest.

I added coordinating ribbon to the lovely shaped holes that had been pre‐cut on the packaging. To coordinate with the brown cardstock used for the background of the layout, I stamped brown ink “corners” with the kit stamps. I added two rhinestones embellishments from the stamp packaging for decoration to the boxboard. I now had a lovely “frame” for the photos I would add later.

I created the title for the layout with my Cricut, using Cricut Design Studio and Cursive 101 font (photo four). I love how Cricut Design Studio allows you to weld letters together, creating a continuous lettering script, mimicking handwriting.

The words “Missing you” captured my sentiments simply but well. I coloured the edges of the lettering with brown ink. There was leftover “bling”, so I used two more rhinestones from the kit to dot the two letter “i’s” in the title.

The photos I used were smaller than the sketch instructions, in order to fit proportionally in the green boxboard frame I had created. To create, I placed all 3 of my photos in a 3.5 x 5 canvas in Adobe Photoshop, allowing for a white border around each, and printed them as one 3.5 x 5 photo. During assembly, I substituted the postcard for the circle symbol on the scrapbook sketch. 

The final result was pleasing to me, and will be the first page in the scrapbook I am making with my mother’s mementos.

I hope you have as much fun as I have had with this month’s kit!

Annie