Wedding Layouts - Family

Hello and welcome!

It's been 2 & 1/2 yrs since our daughter got married,

and I'm finally getting close to the end of 

creating their wedding scrapbooks.

Yes, I said scrapbooks.
When I did Jaryd and Sara's books I ended up with

6 full books.

I'm sure Kelsie and Brad's will be just as many books.

Today I have a couple layouts to show you.

These are a couple of our family layouts.

I love these pictures of Dave with Kelsie.

So many beautiful pictures that it was hard to not

 choose all of them.

This layout is Dave, Kelsie and Me.

I love how this turned out.

I wanted to do something a little different,

so I cut the large heart with the same paper

as the other background page.
All the flowers were stamped on coordinating 

papers and fussy cut and arranged on the page.
I've really enjoyed working on these

layouts for the wedding.
Now just to finish them all and get them

together for a Christmas gift for 

Kelsie and Brad.

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

I hope you have been inspired in some way and

will come again soon.

Until then,

try something new and different.

 

I Love You Cards

Hello everyone!

Today I'm sharing a couple cards I made for my 

grandbabies.

Every now and then I like to send them cards, just to 

let them know I'm thinking of them and love them.

After all, who doesn't love to get snail mail, 

especially when you are 2 and 4 yrs old?!?!

This card was made for Marie, she is 4 yrs old

and she loved the funny bird I put on the front of

this card.
Inside I wrote, "Flying by to say I love you."

This card was for Asher who is 2 yrs old.

Inside I wrote "Sending you a big sloppy kiss."

He loved the dog on the front.

Both these cards were made with things from my

stash.  I had already stamped the images and 

colored them with colored pencils.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you will come again soon.

Until then,

send someone a card for no reason.

 

Little Envelope Message Valentine Card

Hello craft lovers!

Today I have a Valentine card to show you.

Valentine's Day will be here before we know it and if

you are sending out cards, it's time to start getting

some ideas.

This card was actually very simple to make.
I punched out some hearts and made a few little

envelopes.

The background was a piece from my stash, red is always

good for a Valentine's Day card.
I stamped greetings inside the little envelopes and

closed them with washi tape.

Hearts and envelopes were adhered to the front of

the card.
Happy Valentine's Day was stamped inside and

it was ready to go.

Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you have

been inspired in some way and will come again soon.

Until next time,

think red!

 

A Blast From the Past

For the last week or so, I've been working on 

reorganizing my craft room.
I came across a whole box of things I made

ages ago.  In that box were these cards.
Don't know why I never used them, I really love them.

They are simple to make and are great if you want to 

write a note to someone.

I used a 8.5x11 sheet of card stock and folded it into

3 sections.  I stamped on the front of the folded up card.

I then made a belly band to go around the folded card.  I used

2 tags that I stamped and inked, adhered them together in the 

back and used some fun fibers to tie them together in the front,

then added a bead to the ties.

The belly band easily slides off and on.

These will fit into a #10 business size envelope.

You could easily make this in other sizes by just cutting

down the paper to the size you prefer.

This is the inside of the card.  A couple little stamps

and you have a pretty space to either write a letter or stamp

a sentiment. 
You could embellish this more if you like.

I think this would be cute to use as a Christmas

card and print your family news on the inside.

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

I hope you'll come again soon,

I have a couple more flash back projects that I found

while reorganizing my craft room.

I'll be sharing them soon,

until then,

bring back an oldie, but goody! 

 

Leaves

Hello blog friends!

Today I'm showing you some prints I made.

I was outside with the dog and saw a leaf that I thought

was pretty, so I picked it up along with a couple others.

I used the leaves as stamps with some craft paint.

I simply painted some of the paint onto the leaves and 

pressed them onto the paper.

I love how the prints turned out and have them in my stash

of backgrounds to use when the mood hits me.

Have you ever used something out of the ordinary

as a stamp?

Thanks for stopping by for a visit.

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until next time:

Step outside the box and try something

a little different.

Tags - Plaid

 Hi!
Today is tag series day.
I really enjoyed making these tags.
I have a stamp set that I got used, I don't even remember
where or when.  It has different styles of stripes, so I decided
to try my hand at making some plaids and these are what
I came up with.

I used different combinations of the stripes and
colors to create different looks
and I love how they turned out.
I wanted to make some tags that were a little more
masculine and I think these fit the bill.
I used Distress Inks and my
MISTI Stamping tool as each of
those stripes is stamped separately.
They didn't really take long with the
help of the MISTI.
These were all stamped on manila tags
 and I use a bit of jute twine for the tie.

Thanks for stopping by today to
see what I'm up to,
I hope you'll stop by again soon.
Until then stretch yourself and
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.

Tags, Leaves

Hello, I hope you're having a lovely day.
Today is tag day and I have 2 similar,
but different tags to show you.

I used a polka dot background stamp
and Distress ink on white card stock,
then cut them to size.
The leaves were then stamped with
the same ink, but double stamped to
give a darker image.
Last the sentiment was stamped
with VersaFine Onyx Black ink,
which gives a nice crisp image.

This tag was done with the same technique,
I stamped the leaves, then used the same ink to
stamp the veins of the leaves.
I used a little dot cluster stamp to create the bunch of
berries in the center, I think this gives the tag
a nice little pop.

I'm glad you stopped in to spend a little time
with me today, I hope you are too.
I hope you'll come again soon.
Until next time,
happy crafting!

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.

Tags - Stars

Hi All.
It's tag series day.

These tags were made with white card stock
cut to size then stamped with
stars from a Dyan Reaveley stamp set.
(I can't find this set to link online, but
any set would do.)
I used VersaFine Crimsom Red Ink to stamp the stars
on the tag. I stamped and heat embossed the small
stars with silver embossing powder, then fussy cut them.

I used red metallic thread to make a little
nest of thread, glued it to the tag and topped it
with the silver star using foam tape.

I hope you have enjoyed your visit with me
and were inspired in some way.
Come again soon,
until then
bring a smile to someone's face

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.

Love Layout

Hello blog friends!

Today I'm showing you a layout that I did of

my daughter and her boyfriend.

A while back I found a pad of 12 x 12 coloring pages

on clearance at Michael's and had to have it.

I wasn't sure when I'd ever find a layout that I would use them

for, but the pages were so beautiful that I just had to have that pad.

I'm so glad I picked it up.

There are 2 of each design in the pad and that worked out

perfect for this layout.

I started out by coloring the full page with colored pencils.

I chose purple because it's Kelsie's favorite color

and the red because it's Jason's favorite.

I knew I wanted to use this picture,

because it was their first picture together and the one

that he had printed and framed for me.

I had a 5x7 printed and wished I had it done bigger,

now I'm so glad I didn't, I think the 5x7 works perfectly.

I colored and fussy cut the flowers from the 2nd page

and decided where I wanted them.

Then I decided on their names and the date for a simple

title for the page.

When I was happy with where everything was, I adhered it all with 

ATG tape and called it done.

I am thrilled with how this came out.

It is my first page for my scrapbook about

Kelsie and Jason and I think it's 

beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

Until then, think outside the box,

if you like something, give it a try,

maybe you'll end up loving it!

Autumn Greetings

Happy Autumn!

I'm not crazy about the fall time,

I don't like the cooler weather,

but I do love the colors of fall.

The trees are so beautiful and the leaves on the

ground are so pretty.

The card I have today is kind of a mash up of a

 cards that I saw on blogs.

This is kind of how inspiration works for me.

I see different techniques and designs and end up 

combining them into something that I like.

For this card, I started with a piece of white card 

stock.  I used different colors of Distress Inks to 

cover the front of the card stock.

I then found all the leaf stamps that I had,

 and stamped them onto the 

colored card with brown Color Box Chalk Ink.

I used 2 rectangle layering dies to cut the

 window in the card.

The outside was adhered to the card base.

The frame was layered with craft foam and card stock

 cut with the same dies to give dimension to the frame

around the window.

I used the frame as a guide to adhere the inside piece

to the back of the window.

I used a piece of acetate that was from some packaging

that I saved to cover the frame and adhered the 

colored frame piece on top of it.

I used a variety of sequins in the shaker window

as well as a few acorns and leaves that I stamped and fussy

cut.  I then stamped the sentiment and fussy cut that

and adhered it to the front of the shaker area.

For the sentiment inside I used a stamp that I borrowed 

from a friend.  Sorry there was no company name anywhere

on the stamp.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you are enjoying the beauty of autumn.

See you again soon.

The supplies I used are:

Darice Embossing Essentials Nesting Rectangles

Inkadinkado Autumn Foliage Stamp Set

Large Skeleton Leaf (#90312) Biblical Impressions

Leaf (#3901)  QKR Stampede

Open Maple Leaf (#10501) and

Lg Open Oak Leaf (#10402) from

Eureka Stamps

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.

MMFS

Hello y'all!

I hope you're having a lovely day.

Today I'm showing you a little bag that I 

"made" for my friend.

I was going to visit and wanted to take

her a little something and thought this

bag would be perfect for her.

MMFS are her initials, to put them on the 

bag I found a font that I liked for her

and used it to make a stencil with some acetate.

I used my Silhouette Studio Designer Edition program

and my Silhouette Cameo to make the stencil.

I then used Aleene's Spritz-on Reposition-it Tacky Glue

on the back of the stencil to be sure it didn't move while

I was working.

Now I have to say, I've had this glue for a while

and although it worked great, it sure didn't spritz.

I had to paint it onto the stencil, which worked fine.

I positioned the stencil and covered it with

Dreamweaver Embossing Paste

While the paste was still wet, I covered it

with pink and purple glitter.

I did find that the glitter didn't stick as 

well as I expected.

 I used 

VersaFine Onyx Black Ink

to stamp most of the images and the 

sentiment, the "flowers" were stamped with

white ink.

The sentiment says

"Smile

you're my best friend

and there's nothing you can do about it"

which is from the Sassy Smiles Stamp Set

The "flowers" are from 

Casual Comfort set

The zigzag stripes are from

Holly Jolly Borders

All these stamps are from

CAS-ual Fridays Stamps

The "person" and hat are from 

Man About Town

by Dyan Reaveley

I thought it looked more like a woman,

so I colored it as such.

The small images on the front of the bag

are random stamps that I found in my stash.

Once I had stamped the images I used my 

Fantasia Colored Pencils

to color them.

Did you know that you could color on canvas

with colored pencils?

You can, just start with a light hand

and color in layers.  You can see that it works beautifully.

My only worry is that it may wear off.

I didn't use fixative on this one, but will 

give it a try to be sure it doesn't damage the 

canvas in any way.

If that works I'll have Mary spray hers with a 

fixative to be sure it doesn't rub off at all.

I know she has some in her craft room.

Here is a closer picture of the initials,

glitter on embossing paste.

I think she liked this bag and I'm sure she'll

find a use for it, what crafter can't use a little bag like

this one?

I have more of these canvas bags in different colors

and sizes and I'm sure I'll be making up some more as

gifts for Christmas.

Thanks for stopping in today,

I hope you've been inspired in some way

or learned something.

Come again soon,

you never know what you'll find on 

Kristie Kreates.

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.

Inspirational Quote Projects

Hello my blog friends!

A while ago I showed you this project

and I wasn't sure how I was going to hang it.

Well I figured it out.

What I did was put the 12x12 project into a scrapbook

page protector, I used some scrap matting to cut 

strips for the top of the piece.

I punched holes where the holes were in the 

page protector and adhered the project between

2 strips of matting with ATG tape.

I then used a ribbon to make a hanger.

Here is a close up of the final project.

My daughter and I went over to 

My Happy Place,

the scrapbooking/crafting studio that a 

couple friends and I run, to hang it and some

others that I've made.

Here is Kelsie, bravely standing on the table

to find the correct spot for this piece.

"How's this Mom?"

Perfect placement!

These 3 that I'm showing you today are all

on walls at the end of the tables where we create.

The next wall says Laugh, unfortunately, my camera

dies and I didn't get a picture with the whole wall,

but this is the one I placed there. 

Not sure if you can read that last line, 

it says

"Projects Half Done"

Don't we all have some of those?

I had fun creating the elements on this,

but it was difficult to leave things half done.

That little knitting project was fun.

I took a couple bamboo skewers and made little 

knitting needles and knitted that piece with 

embroidery cotton and rolled up a little ball of it

to glue onto this project.  

The last one is the word Create and I thought this was 

appropriate for that wall.

This hangs right above the end of the table where I always

work.  I do draw a lot of inspiration from different

beautiful things and projects that others have done.

I think it's very important to remember this,

use it as inspiration and don't try to 

re-create it.  I think trying to re-create things exactly

makes for disappointment.

Inspiration is the key,

see something and then put your own twist on it.

For all these projects I stamped or traced onto the

paper and colored with colored pencils.

For the last one, the writing was painted on with

pearlescent watercolors.

That's it for today.

All in all, Kelsie and I hung 7 projects.

I have a few more in the works and will be posting 

them all in my next few posts.

I like the idea of having some inspirational projects

hanging where we are creating.

I sure hope the ladies at 

My Happy Place

will enjoy them.

I had a wonderful time creating them and plan to 

make plenty more.

I hope you have enjoyed my projects and are 

inspired in some way by them.

Thanks for stopping by today,

hope you'll stop by again soon.

Now go create something and have fun! 

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,

and you may find better prices elsewhere.

I am in no way promoting any particular site.

1st Birthday

Happy Day!

My great nephew turned 1 yr old this week.

It's hard to believe that a little over a year ago we didn't even know

we would have another great in the family.

Then on the morning of March 16th my nephew and niece

received a phone call that there was a baby for them to 

adopt.  So off they went and they met their sweet baby boy.

This last year has been a long and crazy ride, filled with

joys and worries, but everyone got through it and 

in February his adoption was finalized and Emmett is now 

and ever more a legal part of our family.

Here is the card I made for his 1st birthday.

I love the bright colors!

The words and 1st birthday were cut on my 

Silhouette Cameo.

These animals are all from Paper Smooches,

the set is called Chubby Chums

I stamped, colored and fussy cut each animal.

I then adhered them to the card with Action Wobblers.

I'm sorry I don't have the name of the font stamp set

that I used for the "celebrate".

Here is a video of how the animals wobble.

I hope it works for you.

I know Emmett is going to love the 

wobbly little animals.

As always, thanks for stopping by for a visit,

I hope you enjoyed my card and will try out some 

Action Wobblers,

they are so much fun!

Come again soon.

Until then, Happy Crafting!

     

Happy Thoughts

Hi all!

Today I have another card I made using some of

the backgrounds I made with alcohol inks

I glued one of the papers onto a manila tag with

gel medium then stamped the image with 

Chestnut Roan ink.

I used gel medium to adhere the other paper to card

stock then adhered it to the card base, then simply 

adhered the tag to the front.

For the inside, I stamped the sentiment onto a scrap

of the background paper and cut it down and ATG taped it

to the inside of the card.

Here is a close up of the sentiment I used.

So glad you stopped by today,

I hope you'll come again soon.

I hope you're having a better than average day!

If You're Feeling Blue ~

Hello crafty friends!

My last post showed how to use 

deli papers and alcohol ink to make 

background papers.

Today I'm going to show you how I 

used some of the backgrounds that I made.

I used gel medium to glue the background paper

to card stock.

The paper on the front was glued to a piece of

black card stock.

Then it was adhered with ATG tape to the

white card base.

The sentiment was stamped onto a scrap piece

and then layered onto white card stock then onto 

the card front.

The inside piece was glued to kraft card stock

and stamped with the rest of the sentiment.

Here is the stamp I used for the sentiment.

I simply used some tape to mask the area I didn't

want to stamp, inked it up, removed the tape and stamped

the sentiment onto the card pieces.

Sorry, I don't know the company that made this

stamp, I borrowed it from a friend and 

didn't make note of it.

Thanks for stopping by today,

I hope you enjoyed this post and maybe

are inspired to try the technique I used to make 

these backgrounds.

They are fun to make and do give projects

a unique look.

Until next time, Happy Crafting!