Creative Cucina

Using the Simply Scrappin Kit Just For You, I’m making a baby scrapbook.

This page uses the kit elements plus I added a brown button from Button Latte and some Chocolate Chip 1/4″ grosgrain ribbon. The white strips were scalloped using the Scallop Edge Punch. In the center, I also used the Scallop circle punch and paper piercer to jazz up the self adhesive die cut.

I love how this page turned out! The background is DSP from the Just for You SSK, layered with textured card stock and embellishments from the kit. Across the top, I looped a piece of Rope Twine from last year’s Holiday Mini through two Jumbo Eyelets. Then, I clipped on the “Things I Love” banner using the paper clips from Clips Assortment. The banner was stamped using Things I Love stamp, colored with Chocolate Chip, Bashful Blue, and Certainly Celery markers. I used the Spiral Punch along the top of the Whisper White layer, and adhered it to Bashful Blue and Chocolate Chip card stock. To make sure it didn’t move around too much, I added a couple dimensionals to the back.

I found this retired Simply Scrappin Kit called Just For You at my upline’s retired item sale. This kit was so cool–it even came with beautiful, wide, So Saffron ribbon!

Page 1 of the baby scrapbook I made. It turned out so much better than I thought it would. I’m a little rusty with scrapbooking–it’s been almost a year! Working with the kits is sometimes hard for me, because it’s a little stifling when you’re constrained to the contents of the kit. Normally, I use the paper and some of the self adhesive stickers (because they’re repositionable I love them!) but add my own twist on accessories. Once I got going with this kit, it came along pretty quickly!

Page 1 also incorporates So Tweet Chipboard and the Good Friend stamp set. I used the Top Note Die to create the “stats” area and an Ice Circle Rhinestone Brad gives the bird some bling.

On page 2 of the scrapbook, I used Thickers Alphabet Stickers in White to title. The squares along the top and bottom were made using a 7/8″ square punch.

Page 3 was made for the new baby’s Big Sister Emily. I used the 1 3/4″ Circle Punch and Thickers Alphabet Stickers in Brown for the title. In the center of the page, there’s a spot for journaling, which I made using the Kit’s self adhesive die cut rectangles and Certainly Celery ribbon.

I’ll post the rest of the pages, along with scrap maps, soon–check back in the next few days! WAIT TIL YOU SEE THE LAST PAGE!!!

I can’t decide which is cuter–this card or the one I made earlier. I had the idea to paper piece the turtle shell and raise it up with a dimensional or glue dot. It’s a great effect, especially with the paper pieced spots!

The image from Very Thankful was stamped twice: once on whisper white and once on Old Olive, both in Basic Black ink. I colored in the image on White with SU Watercolor Pencils and Blender Pen. Then, I trimmed out the shell from the Old Olive card stock and adhered it to the stamped image with a thick glue dot. The spots on the turtle shell were made using the small hole of the Crop-a-dile and a regular office supply hole puncher. Crushed Curry and Kiwi Kiss were the colors I used for the spots.

I layered the image onto Bermuda Bay and Crushed Curry. The card base is Kiwi Kiss, with a long panel of Striped Kraft running vertically down the front. Horizontally, I added a thick strip of Chocolate Chip layered with a thin strip of Real Red. On either side of the focal image, I added 2 White Jumbo Basic 5/16″ Brads.