Newset Layouts

Hello everyone!

Today I have more layouts to show you.

I've been really moving along on catching up with 

scrapbooking the last couple years.
Most of my pages are of our granddaughter, Marie,

but I've also been scrapping in a lot of family events and pictures too.

Marie loves to get comfortable when she eats

Check out her feet in the pictures on the left page.

I love these pictures that my daughter in law took of Marie

and had to do something special with them.

All the hearts are cut from background papers that I have

created.  I LOVE how this turned out.

Check out our girl with her cool sunglasses.

Yes, I do scrap way out of order, but at least they are

getting done.  Baby's first Christmas.  That's my daughter

holding her precious niece.

The Maynard and Phillips families have been doing things

together since Jaryd and Brian (and the rest of us) met when they

were 3 yrs old.  They are now 29.
I love this layout with my second family.
I have a whole scrapbook dedicated to what 

our two families did together over the years.

Thanks for popping in today, 

come again and see what I'm creating lately.

Until then,

enjoy your crafting!

 

Layouts From My Weekend Crop

Welcome crafty people!

While I was on my little vacation,

I spent a weekend at
Inspiration Inn Bloom

which is located in Ohio.

I spent the time with a group of wonderful friends

and had a fabulous time.

Now I know you are going to look at these and say
"That's all she got done?"

and my answer would be 

"Yes, it is"

I'm a very slow scrapper, I take a lot of time to 

pick the pictures, then the paper I want to use and even 

more time figuring out what I'll do and where to put the 

pictures.

Lately, I've been trying to think outside the box and

do some things that are a little different on some of my

layouts.

I definitely have a style and I'm trying to, not necessarily change

that, but add to it.

"Many Faces Of Marie"
This is one of my favorites of the weekend.

When there are a bunch of cute pictures that don't have 

a common theme or event, this is the perfect kind of layout

to use them.  I love how it turned out.

We are lucky enough to get Marie at least once a week 

for a whole day.  Grandpa plays with her a lot and they

have formed a fabulous bond.

This was her first snow of 2020, 2019 she was too young

to know about snow, but these pictures are so precious.

The second page are a few of the things I made for 

Marie to keep her cozy and warm.
I need to get started on some new ones for this winter.

This was our first Easter egg coloring event for our family.

We had so much fun and Marie did a great job coloring

her eggs.
This is when I realized that we really need to take more pictures

of the rest of us and not only pictures of Marie.  LOL

'2021 Maynard Egg Decorating Contest"

We each colored and decorated one special egg to

put into our contest.  Then on Easter we posted them on

Facebook (with no names) and asked our family and friends 

to vote for their favorite in the bunch.  

If you click on the picture, you

can enlarge it and see who won and what he had to

say about the win.
It was so much fun, we plan to do it every year.

"Pretty Easter Princess"
That's our Marie, she looked like a beautiful little

ballerina.  I used tulle to mimic the skirt of her dress

on the page.  It looks so pretty and absolutely precious.

Here's a close up that shows the tulle.

Yes, it does get a bit crushed in the protector sleeve,

but it still looks pretty.

Thanks for stopping in today to see what I've made.

I hope you'll come back soon and see what else I've been up to.

Until then,

think outside the box!

 

Happy Birthday Baby Boy

Hello!
Welcome to Kristie Kreates.

Today I'm showing you the card I made for my

baby's birthday.
My baby, Jaryd, is 29 yrs old now.
How did that happen?

Here is my little man when he was just a baby.
He was 10 lb 3 oz when he was born, so we called him

a little man from the get go.

Such a cutie!

And I still have that little outfit!

Now my baby boy is 6'3" tall and is a Dad himself.  He's grown to be

a wonderful man and father that we are so proud of.

He has always been a joy in my life and continues to make 

me smile and laugh.
I made a simple card using a picture of him with his daughter.

On the inside I wrote a personal note to him.

You really don't have to do a lot to make a card that has

impact, so use your imagination and any card will turn out

beautiful.

Thanks for stopping to see what I've been up to lately.

Come again soon, you never know what you'll find at
Kristie Kreates!

 

Ohio Paper Crafting Shop Hop

Hello crafty people.
I took a much needed little trip to visit friends, go to a
weekend crop and go on the Ohio Paper Crafting Shop Hop.
I had so much fun with my friends and we hit all 10 shops on  
the hop in just 3 days.  We drove nearly 800 miles around the state
of Ohio.  We shopped, we talked, we laughed (a LOT), we stopped
at parks to have lovely car picnics, went to a rummage sale and a Goodwill store
and even stopped at an Amish fruit, veggie and bakery stand a couple times.
All in all it was a wonderful, exhausting trip.
Here are some of the things I found along the way.

I think this might be my favorite purchase of the trip.
I am a huge fan of watercolors and this paper pad really 
hit the spot for me.  It's just gorgeous!

Here are just a few of the papers in the pad.

There are multiples of each and they are all double sided.

There are all different colors in this pad,

some are bright and some are lighter more subtle colors.

Every single one of them it gorgeous.
Now I have to be sure to use them and not horde them.

Princess paper for my granddaughter's layouts,
and the other is just because it's cool and I'll find a use
for it, maybe as borders or on cards, one day you'll see it on
a project here.

Told you I love watercolor look.  Found these beautiful
individual papers and got multiples of each.  
I've already used some of them.

A variety of random papers that I loved.

And Harry Potter paper is always a plus with me.

Mickey Mouse is always a favorite.

These are hard to see, I know, they are vellum
with a Christmas theme.  One of the shops had them for
4/$1.00, had to get some of each.

Picked up a variety of goodies that I didn't know I
needed. That Elf on a Shelf will sure come in handy.

I was excited to find a storage tin for my Gel Plate,
but I think I might just make a new one to put into this tin.
Stencils are always handy, especially with the Paper Glaze I 
bought to try out.  And that die from Altenew is one I've wanted for a while.
The other thing in this picture is a package of clear envelopes,
can't wait to send something out in those.

I got a nice variety of stamps and a 3D embossing folder
I guess you can see that I love floral stamps.

Here are a few things I got at the rummage sale we stopped
at. I got a lot more than this, but most of it was clothes for my
granddaughter and I didn't think you needed to see all of them.
This was the biggest rummage sale I have ever seen, it was amazing
and we all came out with some great deals.

We took a little drive off the beaten path and happened
to see these beautiful little fawn.
We also saw fields and marshes of gorgeous flowers
and plenty of birds too.

These are pictures of what our passports looked like.
Each shop would stamp our passport and once we were
done with the hop, our names were place into a drawing for 
some wonderful prizes.

Keep your fingers crossed that I win one of their
fabulous prizes.

And last, but not least, my traveling companions.
Mary, Amy, Me, Janice and Peggy.

We had our pictures taken in all but one shop.
I haven't figured out how to make a picture of us at that shop yet.

Where ever we were random people were kind enough to
take pictures for us.

The shops were lovely and the other crafters were
friendly.

Inspiration Inn Bloom is where I had been for the 
weekend crop with Mary the weekend before we did 
the hop.

The local shop in Toledo that we know best.

Chaos is kind of what it was for these three days, running
from one place to the next.

We almost missed getting in this picture.  LOL

This was the first shop we went to, drove about 3.5 hrs to
get here and then made our way back, stopping at a couple
other shops on our way.

Thanks for stopping in today.
Did any of you take in this Shop Hop?
If not, and you can travel around Ohio, you
should give it a try next year.
Many thanks to my traveling companions for the
comfortable ride, tasty food, great company and the
enormous amount of laughter. I haven't laughed that
hard in years.