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Wednesday, March 10th, 2010March Layouts: Mara
Monday, March 8th, 2010March has been a crazy month. Our Main Kit is full of lots of yummy new goodies that were released at CHA … which means we’ve been waiting on all these goodies to arrive. Some of the papers didn’t arrive until last week, so our design team was late in getting their kits. However, these ladies don’t disappoint. As soon as they got their kits, they went to work and have created some awesome layouts with the March 2010 Main Kit.
Here’s a look at some of the layouts Mara created. Don’t you just love the little banners she used on the her pages?
Kits ship on Wednesday … so if you haven’t ordered yours yet, you still have time. Start shopping now!
A February Mini Book
Friday, February 19th, 2010Happy 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.”
February Projects
Friday, February 12th, 2010Since 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
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.
Get Your February Kits
Monday, February 1st, 2010Here they are … our amazing February Kits.
I feel like we’re giving birth each time we reveal a kit. We’re very attached to each kit and love them like they are our own babies.With each new month, we really feel like we have topped the last with a better kit, crammed packed with lots of scrappy goodness.
So, meet our newest babies:
February 2010 Main Kit
February 2010 Mini Kit
We actually sold out of the Main Kit some time last week. But, we managed to put together a FEW more kits. so make sure you get yours sooner rather than later, because they won’t last.
If you’re new to Crazy Daisy, then let me tell you a little bit about our club. We do things a bit different at Crazy Daisy. We put a mini-book in every main kit. Jennifer and I are busy mamas with demanding lives … just like many of you out there. And we know sometimes it’s hard to get your scrapping started. With our kits, we are trying to make your crafting experience easier and hopefully more enjoyable.
Let us know what you think of our kits. Any feedback you have would be great. And most of all, have a wonderful week!
Grab Bags Reduced
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Out with the old. In with the new.
Jennifer and I just did some major shopping at CHA. So we need to clear our shelves. We’ve reduced the price of our Grab Bags to $15. These bags are filled with tons of goodies from the 2009 kits. Lots of paper. Lots of embellishments. Lots of crafty goodness.
And if that wasn’t good enough, if you buy two grab bags, we’ll send you a third one for free.
If you’re already a Crazy Daisy subscriber, order some grab bags and we’ll send them to you with your February Main Kit for no additional shipping charge.
Go here to purchase your grab bags today.
CHA 2010 Here We Come!
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Next week is CHA. The very cool Craft and Hobby Association’s Winter Convention and Trade Show. This is where are ll the manufacturers come to release their latest products and retailers like us buy goodies for the coming year.
It’s beyond huge. It’s not limited to scrapbooking, and includes every craft corner of the world.
So as CHA gets closer, different manufactures have started showing little sneak peeks of what they will be releasing next week. I am so excited to see all these goodies in person. I have actually never been to CHA. Jennifer has been, since she does pretty much all of Crazy Daisy’s buying. It will be a whole new experience for me to join the shopping fun. I’m sure I’m going to want to buy everything!
I have been paying attention to all the sneak peeks, and here are some of things I’m most excited about.
One of my favorite new lines comes from Webster Pages. I LOVE their new line, Garden Gala (photo above). They are releasing four new lines at CHA and all of them are to die for. I can’t wait to see them and touch them in person. Samples please?
Teresa Collins is releasing a new line. I love how classy her new line is and I really like how much you can do with the black and white color scheme.
I really am liking all the new paper Little Yellow Bicycle will be unveiling in 2010. I especially like the Lucky Me collection (photo above). Now that I’m scrapping for a little boy, I have to think outside my pink and floral box! I like the blues and yellows this collection has.
As usual, Crate Paper has lots of yummy goodies in its next release. I love it all. I always do. I’m a huge Crate Paper fan, and it looks like they won’t be disappointing me.
While at CHA Jennifer and I will be taking a very cool class from Stacy Julian. The class, Finish Line Scrapbooking, is geared toward scrapping fast. It’s suppose to change the way we scrap, at least when we want to scrap fast and accomplish a lot. I’m sure excited about meeting Stacy Julian and applying some of her awesome techniques. I have issues with starting projects and then never finishing them …. I have high hopes that this class will help me finish more projects and start chipping away at my very large pile of projects that are “almost” done!
While at CHA, we’ll share as much as time permits. When we’re in our hotel room each night, trying to decided what will make it’s way to your kits for the 2010 …. we’ll give you some peeks at what we love the most.
Have a great Tuesday!
A little peek at Feburary
Friday, January 15th, 2010Since we’re half way through January and we didn’t have a kit this month, we’re just itching to show off what we have planned for February.
If you haven’t figured out we love Crate Paper products, then our February 2010 Main Kit should seal the deal. In addition to lovely papers from Crate Paper, the kit has tons of other fun goodies including an adorable 7 Gypsies album.
Without further ado …
I’ve added the February 2010 Main Kit to our shopping cart. You can pre-order your kit now to ensure you get your hands on one. Remember, we wil be doing a full reveal on February 1 and the kits will ship on February 10th.
If you order before January 31st, then we’ll throw in a special gift. Tell your friends. Tell everyone. This is one kit you won’t want to miss! If you already subscribe to our kit, then extend your subscription by another 6 months and we’ll send you a free gift as well. Just email us to let us know you want to extend your subscription.
December Layouts: Grace Rocks
Friday, January 8th, 2010Christmas has come and gone .. but I’m sure if you are anything like me, you’re just getting started on scrapping your holiday photos and stories. I’ll be honest, I have yet to finish any of the Christmas related scrapping I started … I have lots of projects in various stages of readiness. I was looking at Grace’s pages below and was feeling a tad but guilty I haven’t done more, but mostly feeling motivated to commit my stories to something permanent … since my memory will fail me sooner, rather than later.
So if you’re a little like me and need a crafty kick in the pants, check out what Grace Tolman did with our December Main kit. Then, get out your photos. Start journaling. And remember all the wonderful things that happened over the last month. Isn’t that what scrapbooking is all about?
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1. Christmas baking
“The kit definitely helped me feel the ‘festive’ appeal of the season with its bright and fun colors and products. This page was brought by that inspiration. I used a lot of the products in the kit here like the papers, Prima letter stickers, flower, brad, the fun Kaiser scrapbook rubons and the stamp set.
I used the rubons to create my visual triangle. I love the ease to transfer of these rubons.”
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2. Light show
“Continuing my goal to show you that the products in this kit can absolutely work with double page spread, here’s mine for this month. I love that the papers are double sided and provides lots of ways to add them to the layouts.
Since my pictures were on the dark side, I used a white background and kept the pattern papers to simple designs so they don’t overpower the pictures.
I used the Kaiser rubons to hold my journaling and played around with my stitching as well combining the zigzag and regular straight stitch.
I also created a cluster of embellishments on the right corner of the two page spread to add some interest.”
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3. Santa and Me
“This page is about my daughter’s preschool party last year. I love that this kit contained so much products and inspiration that I was able to dive into a lot of my last year’s Holiday pictures and get a lot of them scrapped.
The Santa ribbon was perfect for this page. I also used the ornament glitter stickers to emphasize the theme.”
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4. Trimming the tree
“This one was inspired by the big ornament design on one of the Making Memories Mistletoe papers. I cut them out and used them as accents on the page. I also loved the Christmas tree ribbon which I used as a border here.”
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5. Splish Splash
“Who said that you can’t use a Christmas kit for a summer page? Well, I sure didn’t listen. LOL.
I was inspired by the green scalloped paper, I cut the inside part and used the outside as a frame for my pictures and papers. It was a little challenge to get the pictures on there and trim the edges but with a few tricks with the adhesive, I was able to get them to stick together seamlessly.
I added a cluster of embellishments on the top corner so the eye can go all the way around the page.”
December Mini Books
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010I really love the mini book in the December kit. It’s just so beautiful and the color isn’t a traditional Christmas color, but it works so well with all holiday paper in the kit.
I have been working on my own December mini book. What I’ve decided to do is create a book I can use for the years to come. I am putting in the photos of my kids with Santa this year (we went to see him twice!) and including a list of what they asked Santa for. Then, next year I’ll add the new photo and their Santa wishes … I think it will be fun to look back on how much my children have changed and grown years from now.
Here’s what Kim Whitten and Grace Tolman did with their December Mini Books.
Kim's December Mini Book
“I try to think of new ways to utilize mini-books. This particular book was used in a very new way for me: a guestbook! My mother-in-law, whom we all call “Memaw”, turned 90 years old on December 16th and we’ve been planning a surprise birthday party for her for months. I wanted some kind of guest book for the party so she would have a record of everyone attending.
Enter: December’s mini-book!
I thought it would be cool to incorporate a guest book and a scrapbook of pictures from the party into one. What I did was set the mini book and a Sharpie out on the gift table. I added a note for everyone to write her a message but to please write on the right hand side of the pages. (Some people didn’t follow directions, but that’s okay too. I made it work!)
Of course, we took tons of pictures that day, so I scrapped those into the guest book using the awesome papers and embellishments from the December kit.
Some of the children even drew pictures in the book for “Memaw” which adds to its charm I think! 
Now, Memaw has an instant scrapbook which includes messages and sentiments from all her family and friends!”
“First of all, I just want to say how lovely the Chatterbox mini included in this month’s kit was. I love the flocked cover and the pages have a dry embossed edge. I just think it’s so gorgeous.
So since the theme of the kit was Christmas/Holiday, it was just fitting that I focus my mini book to that topic as well. I printed some pictures from last year’s celebrations in 3×4 sizes, matted them and divided them into date categories.
I love the dry embossed edges of each page but I knew it would not show very well in picture, so to make it come alive a little more, I rubbed ink pad on it so it creates some dimension.
Another thing that I really liked in the kit is the big thick white lace. At first I didn’t know how to incorporate it in my project but then I realized that it should just take center stage and that’s what I did, using it in the front page of my book.
I used a simple design sketch for all the pages and added tabs made from various papers in the kit on top of the pages. I incorporated pictures about our Christmas baking, candy making, kid’s school celebration, family time and even our official Christmas card and picture in the mix.
At the very last page of the book, I added a chipboard quote that I thought summarized the book very well.
To dress up the very ornate cover, I just added some velvet ribbon, tied it to make it look like a gift and added a flower in the middle.”
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