Using What I Have

Hi crafty people!

Today I'm showing you a couple cards that I 

made, using some of the things in my stash.

The background piece is a piece of card stock 

from my stash of gelli prints.  I've had it a long time,

so have no idea exactly how I made it.  Probably just 

craft paints on my gelli plate.
The leaves are some eco printing that I did, by placing 

leaves onto card stock and running them through my 

Cuttlebug

The shine sentiment is from a random set in my stash.

Once it was stamped onto a piece of the eco print card,

it was layered onto a piece of the gelli print card.

This purple and turquoise background piece was made with

Dylusion sprays that were sprayed onto a piece of photo paper.

The leaves were an eco print from my stash.

I decided to leave this with no sentiment on the outside

or the inside to make it a note card to be used for 

whatever I need at the time.

I'm glad you stopped by today to see what I've been up to.

I hope you've been inspired in some way and 

will come again soon.

You never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates!

Until then,

use your stash!

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.

 

Hand Made Journals

Hello everyone!

I hope you're having a lovely day and

that you are happy and healthy.

Today I'm showing you a couple journals

that I made recently. 

Mike Deakin is one of the artist/crafters

that I follow on YouTube and he posted

this video showing how to make these 

journals.  As soon as I watched his video,

I knew I had to make some of these journals.

For this cover I used a piece that I had drawn

and colored with colored pencils.

I also learned how to draw these

stylized poppies from another of

Mike's videos. 

This one I used some eco-print background

pieces that I recently made.

These prints were made using some leaves

from a Japanese Maple tree.

I put these eco-prints on both the front and

back of the journal.

One of the things I really love about these journals

is that they open flat, there is, of course, a crease in the

center of the page, but it opens nicely and lies flat.

Making a layout or painting or whatever across the 

2 pages is no problem at all, it isn't interrupted by the binding.

The reason that they open so nice and flat is because

the binding is fabric.  I had some fabric in my stash that

was the right color and that's what I used. 
I love the look of the fabric binding on my journals.

Thanks for stopping by today, if you are interested

in making a journal, I encourage you to watch the

video linked above, it's really pretty simple, you 

can make then any size you want and

they turn out great.

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

will be returning soon to see what

will be next for

Kristie Kreates.

Bird and Eco-prints

Hello blog friends!

Today I have a couple cards to share with you.

My friend Becky's birthday was coming up and

I wanted to make a card for her.  She loves birds, so 

I pulled out my bird stencil to make a card.

I used some metallic paint from Art C to paint over

the stencil and was pleased with how it turned out.

I love the contrast against the black card stock.

I pulled out some of my eco prints that I had in my

stash and tore around a couple leaf prints.

I loved the way these worked with the nature feel of

the card.

This is the other card that I made.

The prints along the edges are more

eco-prints, they are left over pieces from

another project.  You'll see the project they

were left from in a upcoming post.

All in all, I'm pleased with how these cards turned

out.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have enjoyed

your visit and were inspired in some way.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on

Kristie Kreates!