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Kraftie Kreations Thankful Swatch Book

     With Thanksgiving right around the corner, the design team over at Kraftie Kre8ations was asked to create swatch books of thankfulness.  If you’re like me you went..swatch book…what’s that!  Think of a mini album designed like a fabric sample book.  

     The thought was to be able to write down what you are thankful for.  I couldn’t just leave it there though because what’s journalling without pictures! I did a combo of journalling spots and places for pictures.  

     I also made the pages pockets so that you could store extra photos or memories in there without adding a ton of pages.  The pockets would also be perfect for tickets or brochures if you travel around the holidays.
    Does your family write down anything at the holiday to keep memory of what you’re thankful for each year?  Would something like this make you do so?

Kraftie Kre8ations Pop-Up Halloween

     Happy Halloween everyone.  Today is my day to inspire you as part of the Kraftie Kre8ations design team.  We were tasked with either making a pop-up Halloween card or a 3-D Halloween layout.  If you’ve read my previous Halloween entries you’ll know that we don’t “do” Halloween so a layout was out, and I’d never made a pop-up card…well I learned pretty quickly!  

     I had recently purchsed a wonderful paper piercing from Scrap’n With Flair, and she graciously included the Hallowen items as a bonus.  At the time I didn’t know what I was going to do with them, but since I knew I’d never make anything Halloween of my own I stuck them in a safe place until the right time…now!  
     I added some washi tape to mimick a spider coming down it’s web, added some stickles, and viola!  I used another of her Halloween items as the pop-up inside my card.
     Did you make any Halloween items this year?  If you did leave me a link and I’ll come check them out.
 
Challenges:

Kraftie Kre8ations Girl Power Pink

      October is Breast Cancer awareness month so for the  Kraftie Kre8ations design team we were asked to make/alter a box, in pink, and fill it with encouragement for someone who’s been through any type of cancer.  
     I chose to make my box, embellish it, and leave a blank spot for when I decided to who to encourage with it.  I also made an itty bitty mini to write the encouragement in.  Oh…the box also holds a few chocolates because that cheers anyone up.  I didn’t feel like the pictures did the box and album justice so make sure to check out my video too.  

Kraftie Kre8ations Winnie The Pooh Frame

September is National Honey month and Kids Creative Week is this week as well. The KK8 DT was challenged to create a card, layout or project that had kids and Winnie the Pooh. We all know Pooh loves his honey and that no kid can resist that lovable huggable bear…Winnie the pooh. 
Winnie is not something I would normally choose to work with so this was a bit of a challenge for me. I also went to the local craft store and they have two Winnie the Pooh stickers…nothing else! After quite a bit of thinking I borrowed the Winnie the Pooh cricut cartridge from a friend and come up with the following altered frame.
I used a 99 cent two sided from from Ikea and cut the honey pot from the cartridge. I then placed the pooh sticker to look like he was holding the pot up. The front is also from the cartridge. It worked perfectly for the hospital photo I used of our little honey since he was in blue the day they took the photos. Who am I kidding…he was in blue everyday for like the first year of his life. He looks wonderful in baby blue!


I challenge you join the design team, and to share your creation over on the KK8 blog. One lucky winner will even win a prize.

Kraftie Kre8ations Fall Blog Hop

    Fall is such a beautiful time of the year, it’s when the leaves start changing colors and everything around us is beautiful. It is also the season of Thanksgiving, which reminds us to take a moment to reflect on all the things we are most thankful for.
     We were asked to create a project using at least four of the five fall colors given.  It also needed to be either fall related or have something to do with being thankful.
    I created a gift bag out of four tags using the colors and fall stamps.  The larger leaves and pumpkins are a Stampin’ Up set Paisley Prints.  The smaller items I stamped with Denami’s Autumn Set that I then colored with a blender pen and my stamp pads.  I scored it and attached with red line tape.  To make the handle I just tied a length of ribbon in each of the opposing tag wholes.  Really simple to do. 
   To give you an idea of how big it is I placed a bottle of glimmer mist in the bag.  As you can see it just barely peaks out the top, and it does wiggle side to side.  I think if you were going to a swap or white elephant scrapbook event it would be the perfect gift. 
     Now make sure you head on over to the Kraftie Kre8ations blog to link up your creation using the fall palette. KK8 is also giving away a prize during the hop. One lucky hopper will receive a gift.  All you have to do is:

  1. Visit each blog
  2. Leave each one a comment
  3. Follow the KK8 blog
That’s it! I heard tell that some blogs in the hop are even offering prizes beyond what Kraftie Kre8ations is!  Oh, and look up the group on facebook too as we have games and swaps on there regularly.  Next,  make sure to visit Becki