Friday, September 15, 2017

Kitty Love- My Creative Scrapbook & Stuck ?! Sketches blog hop

Hello friends!  We have something special going on for our September 15th challenge!  Along with the reveal of a new sketch challenge, and 2 amazing sponsors, we have loads of bonus inspiration for you, in the form of a blog hop with our generous friends at My Creative Scrapbook!!


We are teaming up with My Creative Scrapbook to bring you a super fun blog hop, to share loads of inspiration from both design teams and to give you an extra chance to win their prize!  The My Creative Scrapbook design team members will be using a variety of their fabulous September kits to showcase our sketch. Each of the blog hop commenters will earn a ballot and have the opportunity to win one of My Creative Scrapbook's gorgeous September main kits (shown below)!  Read on to find out how you can earn a second ballot to win this prize!



As usual, we have a second sponsor! Thank you also to the amazing, supportive and long-time friend to Stuck?! Sketches, Creative Embellishments  who are also sponsoring this challenge with a $25.00 gift certificate to their online shop for our second randomly chosen winner!

Creative Embellishments is a new family owned company that was created by Michael and Nicolle Kramer. We are a husband and wife team who design and manufacture unique, high quality chipboard, wood and rubber stamp products. It is our mission is to offer fun and inspiring products to bring out your inner creativity that you can add to any project. In the near future we will be expanding into other mediums such as rubber/acrylic stamps and acrylic embellishments.

ALSO, We want to show you how much we appreciate that you play along with us and share your designs and talent with us so we will be choosing one scrapbooker from this challenge to guest with us for our November 15th challenge!


Of course, we still need to share our sketch with you, check it out:



You can also earn a second chance to win the My Creative Scrapbook September main kit by playing along with our September 15th sketch challenge and linking up your entry as usual!  As always all winners will be chosen randomly, though we will be doing a random manual draw for the My Creative Scrapbook prize, and our usual random.org draw for the Creative Embellishments prize.


Hello from Marielle :)
Here's my take on this wonderful sketch !


Kitty Love





And now here is your hop order!













Thanks for visiting my blog.
Hope you have fun viewing all of the other projects from all of the other talented ladies !

XO
Marielle

Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Handsome Fellow by Marielle LeBlanc

Hello friends, Marielle here today to share how I created this layout for @ My Creative Scrapbook..
The Heart of Home collection from Pebbles from the main kit is just perfect to use with this vintage photo of my dad ....wasn't he handsome ?


Handsome Fellow

Step 1- Using a 1 1/2" circle punch ,cut a variety of circles from your favorite patterned papers from this collection, then cut them in half.


Step 2- Adhere to wood grain patterned paper ( 8 rows of 5 half circles). Machine stitch into place, if desired.


Step 3- Add splats of white paint , let dry.


Step 4- Fussy cut a few of the flowers from the floral patterned paper.


Step 5- Mat photo with white cardstock then 2 of the pattern papers of your choice.


Step 6- Adhere flowers with 3D foam, as shown.



Step 7- Add a variety of tags and ephemera on the right side of photo.



Step 8- Add wood grain chipboard title. Machine stitch into place, if desired.

Hope you've all enjoy today's step by step post. 
Stay safe out there and happy crafting !!!
Hugs,
Marielle