It Takes All Kinds

Handmade Flowers Technique Book

Hi everyone!

This is my very first post here on the blog! I was absolutely delighted to get an invite by Francine to join the design team here at It Takes All Kinds. I am somewhat active on some of the scrapbooking message boards but have never been invited to join a design team or anything similar. So this is a new endeavor for me!

I guess I should first give a little intro! My name is Monica (Monica B on many of the message boards). I am 24 years old and live in Kansas City - tornado alley! I recently graduated from college with my degree in Elementary Education. Jobs are sparse right now, so I am substitute teaching for the time being and am enjoying having so much extra time to scrap after a busy year of student teaching and final courses! I am not married and have no kids, but I have a toy chihuahua named Dinky that you will see often in my layouts! That's just a little about me =)

Okay, on to the purpose of this blog post! I thought it was a coincidence when Francine told me that this month's theme is handmade flowers because I had just finished a mini album with different techniques for making handmade flowers. I have seen so many cool techniques for handmade flowers that I wanted to put them all in one place for an easy reference when I am scrapping.

Here is a look at the book:

 The cover: Cosmo Cricket flower paper, Making Memories script paper, Crate Paper letter stickers, K&Company rubon letters, October Afternoon label

 Lollipop Flowers

 Rolled Flowers

 Flower from a Heart Punch

 Layered Scallop Flower

To see the entire book, check it out here in my gallery: Flower Technique Mini

xoxo Monica

We're Back!!!!

After an unexpected hiatus, the It Takes All Kinds team is back! We thought that September would be the perfect time to relaunch, as it is the month of so many things starting up again. We've reorganised and rethought the blog (and also redesigned it!), and we'll be adding some new features including challenges and guest posters.

Each month the blog will focus on a specific theme, but as usual, team members may post pages and projects unrelated to the overall theme. This way we will keep with the original intent of the blog which was "scrapping those subjects that are important to you". As you are aware not everyone scraps on a seasonal or thematic basis, so I am sure there are many readers, for example, who won't be doing Back to School layouts this month.

With that in mind, the theme for September is Learn - a topic that can encompass a wide variety of ideas. Here is the page I did for the theme

 

Learning by Reading by Francine Clouden

The page talks about how I love to read. Not just novels, but that I use books as a way to learn whatever I am interested in. Our house is full of books on a variety of subjects!

We hope that this month you will be inspired to do a project with the theme of "Learn". Everyone who links us up to a project this month will be entered into a random drawing for a prize! (We will post the prize details soon).

We will also be doing a welcome back giveaway this week, so please do check back to enter that drawing!