It’s time to take a break from the CHA sneak peeks and enjoy a highlight from our sponsor, Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits!
Boys Rule Scrapbook Kits is a monthly scrapbook kit club for those of us who love to paper craft boy subjects. Cool embellishments are paired with handsome papers you will love to play with each month. Boys Rule Scrapbook kits also has exclusive embellies with each kit….they are all unique and are included each month just for you. For all of the “boys” in your life, Boys Rule makes it fun to create with complete kits designed for the memories of dirt, grunge and and maybe even slightly sweet 
The Giveaway
Here is one of the previous kits from Boys Rule …. And I have to say it is FULL of the coolest stuff! Check it out …
- Giveaway from Boys Rule Kit Club
This kit is packed full of some of the hottest brands on the market! Including: Lucky 7 Factory Vintage Perfume double sided papers in: 2- Star Dust, 2- Fragile, 2- Crazy Crayon, 2- Photo shoot, 2- Eco dress up, 2- Eye exam; Basic Grey Oxford Element sticker sheet; Maya Road Wood Alterable Buttons; American Crafts Confetti Serenade puffy chestnut alpha; Creative Imaginations off Road Epoxy Stickers; Creative Imaginations fishing epoxy stickers; Webster’s Pages Ladies and Gents buttons and twine; Hero Arts Twine – 2 feet; Wooden Stars – 1 cut out and 2 solid; Crafter’s Workshop 6×6 template –mini bricks; Adirondack Paint dabber – espresso
Enter to Win
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To Enter to Win this kit from Boys Rule, leave a comment here telling us one “creative” thing done to alter a paper or embellishment to make it ‘work’ for a boy layout … Or tell us something zany you’ve seen / heard of someone else doing …. Or tell me the story about how you were able to make that pink flower ‘work’ on your boy layout
Giveaway closes on Sunday night, January 22nd at midnight eastern. (Open only to readers in US & Canada.) Best of luck and have fun! I can’t wait to read your comments!!
for boys, I almost always do distressing on the edges with ink and a distressing tool. Gives it a rough and tough look. Haven’t used flowers “yet” – but I can see using them on pictures from the hospital !
I’m an utter FAIL at making boy cards! I need this kit to help me!! Please!
One way to alter paper to work for a boy page is to ink it. You can darken, dirty or change the color with ink or spray misters.
I almost always use the Tim Holtz texture hammer to give it some “damaged” rough aka tough lol look… I like to emboss with copper, silver or even dark blues embossing powder heat emboss then “hammer” it for an added affect.
I am very distressing here in South Africa !!! because I can not enter!!! xxxxxx
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I have taken my pretty flowers and inked up the wheels of a truck or a car, then driven the car over the flowers.
Snicker … that sounds funny. I’ll have to try that
LOVE Boys Rule Kits! I am a follower on facebook! The funniest thing I have done is covered a PINK GLITTERY Star with cardstock to make it work on my BOY layout!! LOL!! Thanks for the chance to win this AWESOME Kit! Have a GREAT Day,
Me-Ma Kim
Me-Ma – I’d love to see a boy layout with a pink glittery star! How’d you make that work?
I love to alter the embellishments that I use on my boys pages to make them “mine” . I once was told that a boy is dirt that makes noise… my son is just that, some days I can’t believe the stuff he gets in to.
I like crumpling up paper, flattening it back out, and then lightly inking the top for a rough-and-tumble look.
Tim Holtz distress ink works wonders on paper! I’ve even distressed flowers and put them on my boy pages. What can I say!??! I have THREE sons…need to get creative somehow!
I love using things such as Hambly overlays on boy layouts – although most colors aren’t considered “boy” colors, some can give it that industrial look. Also, once I took some of Teresa Collins baby papers and added Tim Holtz gears to make a car book.
Kraft cardstock always works on boy pages!
I use a lot of distress ink and Tim Holtz distress tool to make my pictures look more suitable to an adventerous 5 year old boy.
I like to distress the edges of the paper with a distresser or ink but the favorite thing I did on a boys layout is stamp circles of paint on the background and then misted with some water. I held the paper straight up so that the paint would “run” down the page. It turned out really great!
I love making cards with Kraft papers for boys!I also distress ink the edges of the DP on them too
Once when I was dying to scrapbook and my ‘boy’ paper hadn’t arrived (I only had photos of my son), I took a sheet of paper that had yellow and pink flowers on it, took mud brown paint and let my son ”finger paint” on it. After it was all muddy brown and smeared (it still had bits of the paper showing through; it actually looked surprisingly decent), I tore it into strips and layered them over each other for the background, misted it lightly with water and let it run. It couldn’t have looked more distressed which was perfect for those pictures of my son playing in the mud!! I also splattered my embellishments lightly for that ‘ran through the mud’ look.
Boy stuff is SO HARD for me!! I always gravitate towards pinks and girly themes. However, I NEED a boy kit to make projects of my boy dog Rocko and my hubs
Thanks for the opportunity to win!! I’ve always looked at your kits!!
I don’t really have any crazy stories to tell, but I’m loving all the boy theme products though. Thanks for the chance.
One thing I’ve seen that works well on boy pages is distressing, especially scoring white core cardstock and then sanding it.
Change the color with spray, paint or Copic marker.
I love lace. I have a stash of blue lace for my boy pages. I like to ink it up and sometimes tatter it a bit to fit but I love to use it on boy pages.
Adding masculine paint could work. Thanks!
I use inking and paring things up with deeper colors to make the masculine- I will also cover the more femine aspect of a design to work for a boy.
You can actually add nice touches with buttons and ribbons in boy colors. If the colors don’t work, you can paint, spray and alter them (crackle finish, frayed ends). When I die cut accents I use Smooch and inks to alter the color, and distress a lot! I like texture too so the Cuttlebug is my best friend! I did not know about this kit – sounds great! The zaniest thing I did was use actual wheels of my son’s trucks to mark the page leaving “mud” tracks and adding Lego pieces to a layout.
I have taken pinkish paper inked it a darker red and cut flames out of it fr a page for my son:) I have also spent a couple hours making the letter “MOHAWK” look like a mohawk! I have done a lot of work on the pages for my son:)
I’ve cut apart the petals of a flower to make bug wings… button bodies, flower stamen antennae, and flower petal wings. It works great whether you are using silk or paper flowers. Embellish the wings with pens to alter the color or add details such as the veins in a dragonfly wing.
I use glitter, felt, and florals frequently and they work really well if you keep the color scheme in mind. Glossy Accents and some distress ink will toughen up just about any die-cuts or fussy cut images from a sheet of paper.
Tamara – Oh my goodness that is fabulous! You deserve a gold star for creativity!
I think that when you distress the edges it can work really well for boyish pages, and also anything metal helps! I like using staples alot…
- April W
You’re so right! I need to remember to use my Tim Holtz tiny attacher more often
I once turned velvet flowers into butterflies with a title of “I hope you fly”. It had nothing to do with the picture- just a generic but cute pic of my son- but it made em feel so accomplished to find a way to use flowers AND my butterfly punch on a boy page
Ha! Love it!
I cannot tell a lie… I have been scrapping for a few years, and I have done several albums as gifts, and tried to keep up on my travel album. I have yet to start scrapping anything else. I have one son and three grandsons, and this would be perfect. I have found, over the years I have scrapped, that collections are most definitely geared more for the “girl”. I think it is awesome that someone is paying attention to the “men” in our life. Thanks for the chance to win.
Well this is a rather unimaginative answer, but the best I can confess to is distressing and inking to “grunge up” things to make them more masculine.
I’m with many other- grunging and simply sticking to blues, greens and reds is a way of life for me. I guess my biggest secret is that I truly don’t care for pink or pastels so I don’t shop for them.
I find that adding brown or black ink to edges and perhaps the whole piece, makes an embellishment more boy friendly.
I’ve actually used flowers and pink on boys pages.
As the mom of two boys, I am always using distress ink and mists to alter the color of embellies that may be a little to girly for my boys! I love that there is a kit just for boys! Would love to win one of these great kits!
I have a boy and try so hard to find rough, tough boy stuff but some of it is just to cutesy for my little fella. So I distress, distress, distress. Make it look super dirt. I am attracted to girly stuff and in a pinch I can make it work by dirtying it up (I know that is probably no a real word…LOL) Brown ink is my favorite to use. These products look great, would love to give them a whirl.
Very cool! I would love to try a kit from this company!! I really don’t have any problem using “girly” items on boy layouts, I’m more of an ‘if it works with the theme of the page’ girl. But if I had something that needed to be changed, I’d probably grunge it up with some brown or black ink.
This is awesome!!! I have used mists to chance the colours of embellies so I could use them on boy layouts!
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For boy cards, it is almost always distressing. I have done some train type cards too. They are always a challenge though.
I have two boys and often find myself distressing the edges and using a vintage photo type color around the edges. I sometimes even blend the ink over the entire page especially if it’s of a lighter color.
Oh are you KIDDING me!!! Where have they BEEN all my life!!! I have 2 boys, and it’s soooo hard to get boy stuff!! I’ve distressed, inked, painted, glimmer misted, stickered, you name it, to get the look I want! This kit looks like it is incredible!! Thanks for the chance to win….and I’m off to check out this site!!! TFS!!!
Well, since I have two boys and I have completed a bunch of layouts on them . . . I always distress whatever I am working with to make it “rougher looking”. The distressing I do consist of sanding it, inking the edges. making folds in it or I have even wadded the paper up and then smooth it back out to use.
I like to use the Creative Memories distressing tool to rough the edges up a bit for boy stuff.
I think inking in a darker color like black/brown/navy helps to make a paper more boyish
I have a boy who LOVES purple & pink(at least right now lol)! I do try to tone down the brighter purples & pinks w/paint, tearing, crumpling…I had this beautiful glittery purple pare that he wanted for a page…so I had our dog walk through paint(safe, non toxic!) then over the paper! It was a page about them together! It actually turned out beautifully and he loved it so much we framed it & its hanging in his room. I did have doggy prints everywhere but…who cares! This kit would be a great help in creating pages for the boys we get in foster care.
I once put some car tracks on a layout by running the tires of a hot wheels through some mud mixed with paint. Worked out great! Have also used distressing on many a page.
I alter papers for boy layouts by stamping and inking; also by distressing, sanding and embossing. Completely changes the look. Thank you for the chance to win!
I love inking and tearing paper and using unusual things on my layouts…..just used duct tape…..fun!
Any embellishment that is pink or girly looking can be colored with a colored sharpie. I often use brown, blue, yellow, orange sharpies and color pink candies, brads even bling to use on my boy cards.
I really like using distressing tools and inking the edges of paper in brown/black to get a more masculine feel.
Distress,distress,distress, Thanks for the chance to win a great prize.
Hate to copy what so many others have said, but it’s true – distress, distress!!
I usually add ink, monsters, and rough the page up a bit – my son’s exhausting and I liek the page to reflect this! ha, ha!