Fun at the Fair

Hello craft fans!

Today I have a layout to share with you.

The Erie County Fair is a huge deal in our area.  

It's one of the biggest county fairs in the country.

Last August, G-Pa and Aunt Zoe

took Marie for a visit and had a wonderful time.

I had to do a layout with these adorable pictures.

She does love having her face painted,

and doesn't like it cleaned off later either.

He eyebrows were green for days.

Thanks for stopping in for a visit.

I hope you will come again soon.

Until then,

have some summer fun!

 

Asher's Birthday Decorations

Welcome!

Today I have some things to show you from

my grandson, Asher's, birthday party.

I love when Sara asks for help with crafty things.

I started off by making the invitations for the party.

It took a bit of figuring, but I loved doing it.

I think they turned out adorable.

Sara asked me to make a banner for Asher's high chair.

She showed me a picture with an idea and said to go with what

ever I wanted.  I found pieces of bright colored fabric at 

the Dollar Tree and just cut them into strips.

I tied a few of the strips together and 

attached the "ribbons" to them.

For the Cookie Monster and Elmo,

I printed out the pictures of them, fussy cut them,

then laminated them.  I attached them with
gourd pins

Here's our birthday boy in the high chair with his

Sesame Street banner.

Sara found a cute book for everyone at the

party to sign, so she asked me to make a sign for it.
This is what I came up with.
She sent me the little poem, but I have no idea

where she got it or who to credit it to.

The book started out on the gift table,

but it didn't stay there very long.

Everyone was happy to sign it.

She also wanted a sign to hang near the gift table.

She told me what she needed it to say and to 

have at it.  I had a ball!
I printed the Elmo and fussy cut him.

The number 1, I found a picture and printed it

inside a number 1 then fussy cut that.
All the letters and balloons were also fussy cut 

and glued to the poster board.

Sign with the "It's my birthday" board on the 

gift table.

This was one of my favorite things that I made.

A Happy Birthday banner with all different 

Sesame Street characters.  I love how it turned out.

These were my other favorites.

I love making customized shirts for the kid.

Mr One-derful 

was made using my Silhouette Cameo and HTV
I think it turned out very cute.

Here is Mr. One-derful himself with Mommy.

Abby Cadabby is Marie's favorite character,

so I made this shirt for her.

Here she is in her shirt.

Kelsie and Sara put together

these trays.
Cookie Monster was made with 

blueberries and blackberries with 

little cups of dip for his eyes.

Oscar was made with veggies and olives

with dip for his eyes.

Big bird was cheese and crackers.

Dip with little tomato slices and blueberries

for his eyes.

I thought they did a great job on 

the platters.

And last, but not least,

here is the card I made for Asher.

I used a die from Kokorosa Studio

(unfortunately, I can't find it on their site.)

I printed the picture of the characters and fussy cut them

to add to the front of the card.

The sentiment is one I have in my stash.

I thought it was perfect for his Sesame Street themed party.

The party was wonderful and we had a fabulous time.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you have enjoyed your time here 

and were inspired in some way.
Come again soon, you never know what your find

on Kristie Kreates.
Until then,

just be creative!

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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.

 

Masculine Card

Hello creative people!

Today I have a masculine card to show you.

I recently got these little gears from Temu

and thought it was time to use some of them.

I love how this card turned out.

I have this wonderful burlap "paper" in my stash and wanted 

to use some of it.  It has a paper lining on the back,

so I frayed the edges and cut the edges of the paper off.

I then glued it to the card base with 3 in 1 glue.

3 in 1 glue is one of my favorites and holds just 

about anything.
I then arranged the gears and used the 3 in 1 to adhere

them also.
The "thinking of you" sentiment was stamped onto a 

scrap of kraft card stock, trimmed down and inked around

the edges, then adhered to the front of the card.
I'm very happy with how it turned out and next time I

need a masculine card, I'll have one at the ready.

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

I hope you have been inspired in some way

and will come back soon.

Until then.

use your stash!

 

Spin Painting Clean Up

Hello and welcome!  

Today I have a few cards to show you.

Back in April, I did some "spin painting" with 

Marie.  Once we were done, there was quite a bit of

paint in the inside of the salad spinner.
I let it dry and then peeled it off.

Me, being the crafty saver that I am, kept the pieces of 

peeled off paint.  I glued them to pieces of paper/card stock.

This week I decided to create from my stash and 

pulled them out.  Here are a few of the cards I made with

the spin painting clean up.

All these cards were pretty simple to make, since I pretty

much had the focal piece ready to go.

I mounted this piece onto pink, then a black mat and 

decided that a piece of hand made paper would be perfect

behind it.  Then onto a white card base and it's good to go.

With this one I decided on some bright colors to match

the paint colors.

I pulled some scraps from my stash, 

then mounted onto a card base.

I had the little sentiment stamp in my stash and have

no idea what company it's from.

Inside I use a sentiment from the same set of stamps, 

mounted on a piece of the purple mulberry paper.

This card is larger than the others, they are A2 size and

this one is a full sheet of card stock folded in half,

so it's 5.5" x 8.5"

It was the largest paint piece and I wanted to keep it

together, so larger card it was.

Simple card with a sentiment.

I think you can see the texture of the paint better in this

picture.  It had dripped down the side of the bowl and then

dried.

One more angle showing the texture.

I love this one.  To me it looks like a flying dragon.

Maybe you don't see that, but that's okay.

I love the drama of it being on black.

The orange at the top and bottom and that the sentiment

is mounted on are from my stash of alcohol ink backgrounds

that I have made.

I didn't put a sentiment inside these cards, except for the

Dream card.  I will either stamp them or write in them

when I decided to use them.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you have been inspired in some way.

Come again soon.

Until then,

use something "different" for a card.

 

Best Treat Ever!

Hello!

Today I'm showing you a layout I did of 

when I took Marie for a special treat.

I love french fries dunked in chocolate milk shake.

Marie and I were out doing a little crafty shopping and

I told her we would go for a special treat.
I took her to Wendy's for fries and a chocolate Frosty.

We each ordered our own and when I went to pay,

the guy cashing us out, apparently thought she was 

stinkin' cute and didn't charge us a cent.
We had a great time eating our treat together.

Thanks for stopping by today.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then,

partake in a special treat with someone you love.

 

Apron for Marie

Hello and welcome!

When my granddaughter, Marie, saw that fabric in the

background of this picture, she said
"That should be for my apron."

That is just what I had planned for it.

So I got my trusty old Kenmore out and started 

planning and cutting.

I pretty much guesstimated the size and got it pretty

good.  She'll be able to wear it for a while too.

Here is the final product.

For the strap around the neck, I used 2 binder rings and 

looped the tie through them and this worked out great.

I made this for Marie from fabric that I got from my local

Buy Nothing Group.

 She wears it a lot when she's 

cooking and baking with Mommy.

She has her own aprons here too.

This picture is taken from a TicTok that 

she did.  You can see some of her on TicTok

saramaynard7

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you are inspired in some way

and will come again soon.
Until then,
Cook/bake with a child.

 

Father's Day or Any Time Cards

Hello crafty people!

Today I'm showing you the cards I made for Father's Day.

I think they would work for any occasion, just change

the sentiment and you'll have the card you need.

I used a die that I have in my stash for this card.

I cut the hexagon shapes in a few different papers.

I then glued the outline to a piece of burlap paper,

I used different sizes and patterns to fill in some of

the spaces and glued them down.
Added the sentiment and glued the whole thing

to a kraft card base.

I really love how this turned out.

Great masculine card.

This die was one I bought from Temu.

My friend Judy gave me the die to cut this one

out.  I used a blue piece for the outline and a piece of

the Disney paper for all the inside pieces.
Now I also have the outline and blue pieces for another card.
My grandchildren gave this one to their Daddy for Father's day.

This die is great for all kind of cards.

This die is from Kokorosa but I wasn't able to find

it on their site.  Maybe it's just me, or they have discontinued it.

Thanks for stopping by to check out what I've been up to.

I hope you've been inspired in some way and will come

again soon.

Until then,

play with some dies.