Scrap That! January Kit Reveal

I was so in love with this month's kit from Scrap That! The entire collection from My Minds Eye, Lost & Found, is to die for! The January kit is packed full of 10 of these gorgeous papers from Union Square line. I created three layouts and a 10 page mini with this beautiful kit.

My first layout is quite simple in design. I love the pops of colour from my daughter's jacket and wanted to enhance this with some blooms. You can see how well the flowers and red swirls stand out with such an otherwise monotone background. Love this.

I'm all about making the products work for me and I'm not afraid to alter each product to suit my needs. The kit comes with some beautiful fabric flowers that I just didn't feel worked well with my layout. I took apart the flower and used the fabric petals to layer on the top of my page for added softness and dimension.

I made my own roses with the beautiful patterned papers and finished with some XMas Red Distress stickles - also in the kit. (NOTE: The leaves were not included in the kit)

I used very few embellies aside from my flowers as I felt they pretty much dominated the page (LOL). I fussy cut this photo frame, the bird and the birdcage from another piece of patterned paper and finished with some Diamond Glaze (also in the kit).

There was a gorgeous piece of crystal bling in the kit - much too elegant to use on any one area of my project. I cut it (totally hacked it actually) into several smaller pieces and used throughout my layout.

Layout number two! I love how this came together in the end. It actually took me AGES to get the composition just right and I actually thought that I had wrecked it initially. But you know what they say - 'there is no such thing as a mistake in scrapbooking - just an opportunity to embellish' - HA!

To create my vintage blooms, I first inked the lace included in the kit and then stitched them together. I finished with the gorgeous pearl brads. The petals were created using the unique feathers in the kit - very cool addition and the tones work wonderfully with the papers!

LOVE layers - this page is nothing short of TONS of them! I made a unique heart banner and layered with some scallop circles created for the border of my circle.

Just loving tags lately - they add to the whole rustic feel to the page and are super quick and easy to create using scraps of leftover papers.

My last layout is very simple but I wanted the photo to stand out so I kept the embellishments to a minimum and the tones very plain. I love the finished look. My father and daughter at the beach last month. They had so much fun exploring - love watching them together. (NOTE: I added the mini doily to this page from my stash)



And lastly, my mini album. I had so much paper left over after my layouts that I wanted to change it up a little and create a different project. This mini was so fun to do - the only thing I added to the kit were the actual scallop mini album and the mini alphas.




For the dressforms, I took apart another one of the flowers in the kit and used the tulle as a dress for my embellishment!






Phew!! Well, I hope you adore this kit - I loved working with these papers so much - just beautiful (warning - I was totally covered in red sparkles afterwards - LOL!) I hope you all had a wonderful holiday - we're continuing with our festivities into the New Year. My husband's birthday is tonight, relatives come in on the 29th, my brother in law has his birthday on the 30th, New Year's on the 31st, my son's hockey tournament on the 2nd.... AHHHH! I need a holiday from my holiday.