Tent cards

Hello!

Today I have a wedding project to show you.

Sara asked for a few reserved signs for the tables at the

reception and for seats at the wedding.

These are what I came up with.

They had a loose nautical theme to the wedding,

thus the knotted rope.

These were simple to make, just create and print

then fold into tents cards.

We had a couple vegans and vegetarians at the wedding

and rehearsal linner. (Linner is late lunch - early dinner)

 So I made some to designate what

they could eat safely.

The kids asked for a taco bar for the rehearsal linner,

so that's what I did for them.

I wanted to be sure everyone knew what they were

getting to eat, so I made a few signs for them.

These were quick and easy to make.

They made things easy for people at the linner.

I'm glad you came by to spend time with me today,

come again soon.

Until then:

Happy Crafting!

Black Friday Goodies

Hello and welcome!

Yesterday was my annual 

Black Friday Crop.

This is my favorite crop of the year.

I always have a "goodie bag" for the scrappers,

and this is one of the things I included in their goodies

this year.

I made little gift boxes for each scrapper.

They were inspired by this post from one of my 

favorite blogs.  I just adjusted the dimensions to what

I needed for the tags.
If you have never visited Pootles.co.uk, give it a try,

she has some wonderful projects.

Inside were 6 handmade gift tags.

I made all of them and love how they turned out.

Do you make your own gift tags for Christmas and/or

other occasions?
Thanks for stopping by today.  

I hope you've been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

Happy Crafting!

Sun Glasses

Welcome!

Today I'm showing you one of the

projects that I did for Jaryd and Sara's wedding.

Since the wedding was outside, 

they ordered sunglasses for all the wedding party.

They asked me to personalize them for everyone

with names and what part they were had the wedding party.

These were the attendants on Sara's side.

These are the attendants on Jaryd's side.

They all looked great in their sunglasses.

Thanks for spending time with me today,

come again soon.

You never know what you'll find on

Kristie Kreates!

Nursery School

Hi all and welcome!

Since my son just got married, I thought it would be

a good time to show y'all this layout of him in nursery school.

As you can tell, I'm WAY behind on my scrapbooking.

To be fair, I wasn't scrapping when my kids were little,

so things are a bit late, but I think I have all his school

pictures done now.

I loved that they let me have a picture taken with him

at their photo day.

If you click on the pictures you can see them larger

and his best man at the wedding is in the class pictures.

Best man, Brian, is in the top row, 2 away from the teacher.

In this picture, Brian is in the back row, right in front of

the teacher.

Best buddies since they were 3 yrs old.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you will pop in again soon.

Until then,

Happy Scrapping!

Practice Hair

Practice hair,

Have you heard of it?

Today's layout is about going for "practice hair"

Most of the girls had never had the hair stylist that

Sara uses to have their hair done.

So one day we all went to have April do their hair,

and see if they liked what she did.

Here are the 4 girls from the wedding party,

with their hair done.

For each girl I wanted to do something a little different

for their pictures and layout.

To see the pictures better, click on them and they

will enlarge for you.

Bride

Sara had a practice session too, since she doesn't 

wear her hair up, ever!

Her background piece is made using alcohol inks

on silver card stock.

The embellishment along the sides, I designed

and cut with my Silhouette.

Her sister, Maid of Honor

This background was made with alcohol inks on

deli paper. the border and the heart embellishment,

were cut on my Silhouette.
And that layout isn't as crooked as it looks,

sorry about the bad picture.

My daughter

Best Lady

For this background I used some embossed paper.

I used an ink blending too to add Distress Ink 

to the raised areas.  I cut out some of the flowers

from the inked paper as embellishments.

Bridesmaid

This background is 2 different papers that I cut into

strips and then wove together.

For the embellishments I cut the vines, leaves and flowers

with my Silhouette to mimic the flowers in her hair.

Bridesmaid

And finally, one of my favorite techniques.

I stamped and heat embossed with clear embossing powder,

then used Distress Ink to ink over the embossing.

Buffing with a clean cloth helps remove any ink on

the embossed areas, so they show up nice and white.

I cut pieces from the same pattern to 

use for embellishments.

I'm very happy with how these layouts turned out.

I had a lot of fun doing the different techniques for 

each layout.

I hope you've enjoyed these layouts and are inspired in

some way to try something new and different.

Thanks for coming by and spending time here.

Come again soon!

Until next time,

Think Outside the Box!

Note the links are only to give a reference so you can

see what the products are.
I didn't necessarily purchase from these sites,

except where specified,

and you may find better prices elsewhere,

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

Beautiful Fall Engagement Pictures

Hi all!

Today I have another layout for Jaryd and Sara's 

wedding scrapbook.

This one has some beautiful fall pictures from their

engagement photos.

I'm trying to do some different techniques and

embellishments for their layouts.

For this one, I made a sign to mimic the one

that they made, shown in some of the picture.

The proportions are a bit different, but

I think it came out cute.

 I also used Distress Inks in fall colors

to color some paper, then stamped the large flower 

and leaves onto that paper.

I then fussy cut them to add to the layout.

I love how the overall layout turned out,

I think the flower and leaves are just the right

addition to bring it all together.

Thanks for popping in,

I hope you've been inspired in some way today.

Come again soon.

Until then,

try something a little different on your

layouts and/or cards.

Bridal Fair

Welcome to Kristie Kreates!

Today I'm showing you a layout I did for 

Jaryd and Sara's wedding scrapbook.

This one is about the Bridal Fair that we attended.

We had such a great time and found the photographer and

baker that we used for the wedding.

What's going on in that picture of me?
We were walking through the fair and I felt something

odd on my arm.  Low and behold there was a sock up my sleeve.

Guess it was stuck there from the laundry.  I promptly

removed it, handed it to Jaryd, he stuck it in hit pocket

and no one was the wiser.

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you'll come again soon.

I'll be showing more layouts for the wedding book as

well as cards and other things I'm working on.

Until next time,

happy crafting!