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Design Team: Meet Katie

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Let me introduce you to another member of our 2010 Design Team, Katie Turner. Katie is cool. Way cool. Like hipster cool. Just ask my husband! She listens to very cool indie music (much like my hubby) and she has a fresh funky scrapping style (think Elsie Flannigan). I can’t wait to see what Katie does with our kits!

 

 

“Katie was born in Berlin, Germany in 1987. She lives and works in the Midwest and is a wayward Graphic Design student currently pursuing artistic endeavors on her own.

She is largely self-taught in areas from web design to scrapbooking and doesn’t believe in mistakes.

Some of her favorite things include, but are not limited to: Chicago, indie music, food, art of all kinds, 80s pop culture, the Internet, graphic design, her Zune & mobile device, book & record stores, shows, and constantly learning & evolving.

She likes watching British talk shows, prime time on the CW and AMC, and comedies without laugh tracks. She listens to anything catchy but has a particular fondness for Brand New. She prefers reading Bret Easton Ellis’s works, yet is open to whatever strikes her fancy.

A former assistant to the librarian, she judges books by their covers. Currently, she visits pets while their owners are away and spoils them with treats. She endorses spreading the love and general vibes of well-being.”

 

  

  1. I can’t imagine my life without … My family! They have been such an influential part of my life and have helped to make me who I am today.

2. My least favorite chore is … Scooping litter boxes. Yikes!

3. I would love to win a shopping spree to …Any scrapbooking establishment, of course, and Urban Outfitters! Now that would be awesome. Anthropologie, too, maybe? Barnes & Noble? The possibilities are endless.

4. My must have treat and music when scrapbooking is … Chocolate and anything mellow! Think Bat for Lashes, Duncan Sheik, Fleet Foxes, David Gray, etc.

5. When scrapbooking, I love to use …My imagination, first and foremost. I always try to ask myself how I can create a particular embellishment myself, or how I can alter an existing embellishment to better suit my needs. I’m also fond of kraft paper/cardstock, bright colors and earth tones, funky/retro patterns, animals, lace and other fibers, and smaller photos.

6. My favorite creative project is …Besides scrapbooking? I am really into embroidery and sewing in general lately, whether that’s on paper or on fabric. I like to re-fashion old T-shirts and use them in new ways — for example, headbands!

7. I thought I would never …Try calamari. I did, and I liked it!

8. My worst habit is … My indecisiveness. It can take me forever to make a choice… About anything! On the rare occasion that I do know what I want (when it comes to food, for example), others rarely agree. Woe is me!

9. My favorite scrappy or crafty web site is ….I have spent many hours browsing the jr__nal community on LiveJournal: http://community.livejournal.com/jr__nal

10. You would never guess it, but I …am kind of a romantic comedy nerd. As someone who is not overly girly (a tomboy at heart, even at 22!), I have probably seen way too many rom-coms for my own good. I love Sleepless in Seattle, One Fine Day, and The Wedding Date.



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Check back next week to meet another member of our team. Also, make sure you visit the blog on Fridays to see special guest posts from our design team members. Be inspired by their work!



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DT Guest Post: Inspired By …

Friday, March 5th, 2010

INSPIRED BY…

By Amy Kingsford


 

Thursday evening my husband and I went out to dinner and a movie for our 4 year anniversary (an eternity I know…lol)! We also did a little shopping. And as I was perusing the racks at Anthropologie, I stumbled upon this gorgeous necklace …. I was in love! But not in the way that you’d think.

To be honest, there was nothing in my closet I could wear with this piece and it didn’t really speak to my personality, but I just couldn’t stop staring at those beautiful flowers and thinking … wow they would look great on my next lo! So I studied them carefully and when I got home that night I gave them a try. I was so pleased with them that after I made my first one, I tried them out using several different mediums, including, lightweight paper, muffin tins, and of course fabric …



I get my inspiration from all different places … Sometimes, I look to my fellow scrapper’s work … Sometimes I look to their blogs for fantastic tutorials and project ideas … and sometimes, inspiration is staring back at me from the pieces of my everyday life!

How about you?! Where do you get your inspiration from? Do you find yourself looking to the same places, time and again? A particular community’s online gallery, or maybe your favorite magazine?! Or… are you in constant search of new resources for inspiration? I must admit that I am a sucker for “familiar haunts“… my favorite Mongolian BBQ joint or the quaint little coffee house just down the street from my home. But there is definitely something to be said about stepping outside of your comfort zone — especially when it comes to searching for inspiration for your artwork.

Inspiration can come in all colors, shapes, and sizes — in a variety of formats, and mediums. And once I realized this … the opportunities for artistic growth and expression became virtually endless! I challenge you all to look at your everyday life for new ways to express yourself creatively. It could be anything from an advertisement whose design inspires the perfect lo, to a funky vintage apron, whose colors and motifs inspire a great page addition to your art journal.

So with that in mind … get out there and ask yourself … WHAT INSPIRES ME?!

 

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Member Spotlight: Heather

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

Our member spotlight is my favorite post of the week. I love the opportunity to see what you all are creating and get to know you a little better in the process. Our latest in Heather Innusa. She won our giveaway a few weeks back and we’re pleased to have her in our little scrappy family.

So here’s a little bit about Heather:


1. I started scrapbooking …I’ve loved everything sticker/paper//pens/glue … sigh … since I was a teenager, however, it wasn’t until my niece was born 9 years ago that I really got the scrapbooking bug. Now that I have 2 babies of my own (Christian is almost 5 and Alivia’s almost 2) there’s just no end in sight.

2. My favorite scrapbooking product, tool or manufacturer is …my Fiscars paper trimmer has to be at the top of the LOOOONGlist along with my crop-a-dile. I use both of them almost every time I scrap!! Glossy Accents is my fave glue for everything!! I’ve fallen in love with making mini books, so Maya Road is a must for that. October Afternoon has beautiful papers and stickers, and American Crafts … gosh, I love them as well … almost nothing can make my day as happy as those cute little “flair” buttons and all those Thickers!! Fancy Pants is always great! Tim Holtz’s products are also on my must haves!!

3. My favorite thing to scrapbook about is … My babies, niece, and my hubby. They inspire me daily and everyday is something new.

4. I scrapbook because … First and foremost, I want to preserve and document our memories. It seems that they fade so quickly in the busyness of life. I want to preserve them for both my babies and myself. I want them to know how we felt at the time, what we experienced … the feelings and stories behind the pictures are very important to me. Secondly, I LOOOOVEscrapbooking because it IS my creative outlet. There is this quote from Michael Bridge “When our eyes see our hands doing the works of our hearts, the circle of creation is completed inside us, the doors of our soul flies open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight”. I feel that way when I scrap. It just makes me happy.

5. I am the happiest when … I think of all of the blessings that God has given me (my wonderful husband, my amazing babies, our families, church, friends, health, jobs, etc.) … and, I’d be lying to you if I didn’t say that I’m filled with bliss every time I complete a scrapping project ;)

And a bonus question:

My favorite scrappy or crafty web site is ….I love October Afternoon, Maya Road, and Two Peas in a Bucket. I check out Ali Edwards, Jennifer McGuire, Elizabeth Kartchner, and Tim Holtz’ blogs often for inspiration, and then I just basically blog hop from there – there’s no telling where I’ll end up ;) !!

As always, I have saved the best for last … a look at some pages Heather created. I love her style. And is’t especially gratifiying to see the pieces of our kit come together to make such a lovely creation! Thanks for sharing Heather … you rock!



 






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Design Team: Meet Mara

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

Marvalous Mara. I think that’s what I’m going to call Mara Campbell from here on out! Mara is one of the new Crazy Daisy Design Team members and we are thrilled to have her. When she responded to our design team call, Jennifer texted me right away and told me to check out her blog. We were enamoured with her from very early on. We are super happy she agreed to join our team.



Here’s a little bit about Mara.

“Hi Everyone! I’m Mara and I’m very excited to be part of the Crazy Daisy team. I live in Southern California with my 2 active children and my homebrewing husband. I work full time as a molecular biologist for a biotechnology company by day and I love to scrap and get crafty at night. I’ve been scrapping for over 15 years and I love the creative outlet. Give me some patterned paper, paint, chipboard, and buttons and I’m a happy girl! I am also very interested in photography and have slowly been trying to develop my photography skills. I love being outside, working out, camping, hiking, running, and chasing my family around with my camera. I also enjoy being in the kitchen, baking, eating and trying new recipes.”


1. I can’t imagine my life without peanut butter M&M’s, my beautiful family and shopping at Target.

2. My least favorite chore is emptying the dishwasher. EWWWW!

3. I would love to win a shopping spree to Target or my favorite cake decorating supply store.

4. My must have treat and music when scrapbooking is red licorice and itunes on shuffle.

5. When scrapbooking, I love to use buttons, patterned paper and flowers.

6. My favorite creative project is everything. Can I answer everything?? I love making layouts, cards, gift packaging, home décor … I love it all!

7. I thought I would never bribe my kids with candy to get ‘one more good photo’ … but I’ve been known to do it.

8. My worst habit is hitting the snooze bar on the alarm over and over and over …

9. My favorite scrappy or crafty web site is … Today’s Creative Blog, Bake at 350, and the other 200 scrapping and baking blogs I have bookmarked!!

10. You would never guess it, but I am a National Champion Swimmer!

To get to know Mara a little better, visit her blog. And of course, we have to show you a little of Mara’s work.


 




 

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Grace’s Corner

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Can you believe that it’s almost March?

It’s just days away.

So before February escapes us, let’s check out a few more layouts from Grace.

And then … we can start showing you all the wonderful goodies for March. But let’s get through February first!


Family Deerest



This page will be the front page of my 2008 family album.  I love that BoBunny title sticker. It’s sooo cute.  I also added the Prima sticker trim, a border sticker from the Basic Grey sheet and more trims.  The imaginesce stamp was also added as an accent.



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My Sweeties




The neutral color of my background papers made my kids’ shirts in the picture stand out more.  I added the round heart transparency as part of my visual triangle. It was continued with the heart border and the other heart sticker.



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Valentine School Party



This two page spread was made easy with the fun BoBunny and crate papers in the kit. I just love the fun, whimsical feel of them.  I used three different elements for the title. I love how the metal, sticker and chipboard came together.




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Design Team Tuesday

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Tuesdays will be all about our Design Team and let me tell you … they are fabulous. I have been reading their blogs and I am in awe. These ladies are super talented and beyond cool. My husband especially likes Miss Katie  … because they happen to have the same taste in music. And yes, my husband has been to all the design team member’s blogs. His response, “These ladies are professionals. They should really do this professionally.” You all have my husband’s approval!

In my attempt to keep things streamlined and consistent (my life is neither of those things) Tuesday here at Crazy Daisy are now going to be Design Team Tuesday. Eventually, our Design Team will be posting on Design Team Tuesdays … but for now it’s me, posting about them … on Tuesdays!

Over the course of the next few weeks, we’re going to be introducing you all to the ladies of our design team. To kick things off, I want to start with Amy Kingsford. I’m picking Amy first because, well, umm … my sister’s name is Amy. Seriously. That’s why. Every time I see Amy’s name, I think of my sister. So, why not?!



1. I can’t imagine my life without … my son … he has truly been a blessing in my life. 

2. My least favorite chore is … doing the dishes … luckily my hubby loves me enough to do them for me!

3. I would love to win a shopping spree to … Dear Lizzie, I could shop for hours in that store.

4. My must have treat and music when scrapbooking is … Diet Coke, Almond Joys, and some Killers in the background.

5. When scrapbooking, I love to use … the packaging from my supplies … what can I say, some of that stuff is WAY too cute to simply throw away! 

6. My favorite creative project is … altered art … I just love turning everyday things into something special!

7. I thought I would never … buy a Blu-ray player … of course I said the same thing about a DVD player and an MP3 player … so much for NEVER! 

8. My worst habit is … never letting things dry!  Many a projects have met there demise due to my impatience!

9. My favorite scrappy or crafty web site is …. Get It Scrapped!  I love the atmosphere and the classes, and all of the women there are fabulous and inspiring!

10. You would never guess it, but I … have three tattoos, I know … not all that shocking, but other than that I think I’m fairly predictable! ugh. 


And of course, let me show a little bit of Amy’s work … which of course blew us away! It is her scrapbooking that made us want her on our team .. not just the fact that she’s cute and cool!








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A February Mini Book

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Happy Friday.

I am having a CRAZY day. I left my house at 5:30 a.m. headed to the airport. I flew to Los Angeles to visit the Brazilian Consulate. My Brazilian visa request is now being processed and I’m sitting in the LA airport waiting to board a flight home. Holy cow!  The good news it I’ll be home tonight, before my kids go to bed. That means lots of snuggles and kisses from my kiddos.

Adding to the madness … I got a new laptop. Great right?  It is great. It’s faster, has more memory, and just all around better. But it has a Danish keyboard (long story why I have a Danish keyboard), which makes it hard to type. As long as I don’t look at the keyboard, I’m fine. But as soon as I look at it, all the extra Danish keys throw me off and I start typing gobbledygook (spell check says that’s a real word).  

Still not sure what to do with your February Main Kit? Here are some more lovely layouts from Grace  to inspire you and hopefully get you crafting! One of the reasons I loved the February album from 7 Gypsies is because it’s so versatile. There are just so many cool things you can do with it. I envisioned a wall hanging. Grace, she work her magic and got a totally different reult. Check it out:



Home Tweet Home mini book

By Grace Tolman

“When I opened the 7 Gypsies mini book, I was excited to see all the fun shapes in there. At first I thought of using them all up to make an odd shape mini, but the house shapes stood out to me and since we have that cute sticker from the BoBunny sheet, I went with the “home” theme.

I used the brown cardstock to make an accordion style book with the two chipboard shapes as my front and back cover.  I covered them with the wonderful papers in the kit and then layered with the embellishments.

For the front, I decided to use the fine detailed flourish sticker from the Basic Grey sheet. It was big that it overflew to the side so I had the tag sticker hang on that. I also added a small bird brad on their. Then the flowers was cut from the flower ribbon, adhered with glue dots and I added some rhinestones from my stash to glam it up.

The inside pages are pretty simple. I took photos of different rooms in my house and wrote about what we love about those rooms. This will be a keepsake of our home right now. You never know if moving will be in our future.

I used some spots to add some home quote as well. For the page that had the big flower, I stamped the imaginesce stamp on paper, colored it in, used my dimensional adhesive to make it an epoxy type embellishment then added it to the flower.  I also used the heart lace cardstock here. I used them for the inside parts of my chipboard house.

For the back, I cut out a flower from the Prima paper then added a final quote.

Now since I only used two pieces from the mini book pack, you bet I will be making more mini’s and other projects with the rest. LOL.

Thank you for looking and have fun with the kit.”




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Grace’s Corner

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

I’m so excited to be able introduce a new weekly (or maybe bi-monthly, depending on time constraints and such) blog column from our wonderful, fabulous design team member Grace Tolman.

For this week’s inaugural post, Grace shares a wonderful heart themed project that she created using leftovers from our February 2010 Main Kit.


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Heart Frame

By Grace Tolman


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The Crazy Daisy kits are always chock full of supplies. You will always get lots of leftovers. The February one is no exception and here’s a little, quick and easy project that I made with my leftover pattern papers.

Since it’s the love month, I decided to make an altered wall art.

To make it, you’ll need a few things….
* Your leftover papers from the kit
* A styrofoam heart (or circle if you prefer)
* A ribbon (long enough to cover your styrofoam and a little bit more for a ribbon to hang the project on the wall)
* A few embellishments (flowers, buttons, sequins, etc)
*A die cut machine (this just makes the process faster, but if you don’t have any, get a template for the flowers and cut by hand)


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After you’ve grabbed your supplies, start by cutting out flowers from your pattern papers using your die cut machine. Cut them in varied sizes.


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Then cover your Styrofoam with the ribbon. Since the heart was an odd shape, I decided not to cover the top and bottom pointed corners. I thought that the whites won’t show after I cover it with the flowers. Use a glue gun to adhere the ends of your ribbon.


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Start layering and adhering your flowers onto the heart. There’s no science to this, the more random it is the better.


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Add flowers to the middle of some of the flowers. I only used three here but you can add more.


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Tie a bow from the leftover ribbon and adhere the tips of it on the back of the heart.


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After looking at my heart, I was not happy with some of them not having centers so I grabbed some buttons and glue gunned them onto the centers of my flowers. This gave each piece a finished look.


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If you have everything on hand, this project should only take you no more than 1 hour.

Here’s a few more close ups…


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Good luck and have fun with the February kit.


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Thank you Grace for sharing your talents and creativity. You really rock and we are so grateful to have you on our team!


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CD Design Team 2010

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

To say this was a hard decision would be an understatement. Jennifer and I agonized over this decision. We have been beyond excited by the response to our design team call and feel just so blessed. All of you ladies who applied are ultra talented and we’d be lucky to have you on our team. But. Here’s the tough and sad part. We did have to narrow the entries to pick just six ladies to join our 2010 Design Team.

We are excited to announce that the following ladies will be our wonderful design team starting with our March 2o10 kit (in no particular order):


Visit Grace’s blog here.

 

Visit Amber’s blog here.

 

Visit Amy’s blog here.



Visit Kelly’s blog here.

 

Visit Mara’s blog here.

 

Visit Katie’s blog here.

 

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Jennifer and I are thrilled to start this great journey with these new ladies. We’re sure you’re gonna love them and what they create. Check back in the weeks to come as we spotlight each of the Crazy Daisies. And check out their blogs in the meantime … you’ll be inspired.



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February Projects

Friday, February 12th, 2010

Since the February Kits are somewhere between us and you … I thought I’d share some fun layouts created using the February 2010 Main Kit.

A big thanks to Grace Tolman for helping us out and creating some awesome layouts this month. I’ll be posting her mini-book (as well as more layouts) some time next week, so make sure you check back. If you haven’t been to Grace’s blog, check it out. She is super talented. And don’t be surprised when you see her layouts in tons of magazines (Creating Keepsakes and Scrapbooking Trends to name a few). This girl is all over and so worth checking out.


"Bowling Baby" by Grace Tolman

"Bowling Baby" by Grace Tolman


Bowling Baby

I love the combos of green and pink. It screams girl to me so that’s what I used to make this page about my daughter in her first bowling experience.

I had a few pictures to scrap but I still made room for the title, enough journaling spot and spot embellishments.

I used the Pink Paislee stickers as part of my title and hand wrote the rest. I also created a visual triangle between the white on the journaling block, the sticker embellishment and rub-on butterfly.







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Curly Q

I love this picture of my daughter. It just so happened to fit the bill of the theme of my page which is all about her curly hair.

I used the lovely shaped paper from Fancy pants. I added some subtle hearts on the paper by using the heart lace cardstock as a mask and spraying glimmer mist on the paper. It’s subtle but I love the added effect of it.

I used the flowers from one of the pattern papers and used them as accents. I added the flower trims here too. One as a trim and another cut out to make separate accents. The ticket stub was added here too.






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