December 2010 Main Kit

Ho, ho, ho!

It’s the most fabulous time of the year! Or as my daughter says “the most lovingest time of the year.” December 2010 with Crazy Daisy is all about celebrating the most lovingest time of the year. The rich holiday colors and seasonal goodies are perfect to use to create gifts for your family or document all the wonderful memories we’re sure you’ll be making this month.

Embrace the season in all its glory. Scrap and craft your holiday away!

December 2010 Mini Kit

Still need to make some last minute Christmas cards? Or how about an special layout for a friend or family member. This Christmas-themed kit is the perfect for all your last minute Christmas crafting needs. It’s festive, fun and full of yummy holiday goodies.

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Kits ship on the 10th, so go here and get yours now!

I was looking at some of the pages the Crazy Daisy design team created with our October 2010 Main kit and I’m feeling more inspired to get my Halloween pictures scrapped. Maybe this will help you too.

From Amy Kingsford:

For more photos of the goodies Amy created, check out our gallery here.

By Grace Tolman

I’m in awe at how many unique albums we have out there now and how great Kimberly and Jennifer are at finding such fun albums. Well this leaf chipboard one from Kaiser Craft is no exception. It’s so darling. The only thing I have to say though was because there’s only three parts/sheets to it, there’s not enough room to actually put photos in. That’s why I added a couple of cardstock pieces in between the chipboard so I can have more room to “play” with.
   

The papers in the kit were perfect for this layout to make it a themed project. Because the papers were heavily designed for “fall”, anybody that takes a first glimpse of the cover will now for a fact that it is an autumn album. That was another reason why I opted not to have a formal cover/book title. 

In the inside I kept the design simple and made sure I have room to add my photos when I’m ready to. The Karen Foster stickers were the perfect embellishments too. I added most of them here with dimensional adhesive for some added touch of bulkiness to the book.

And the best part of it all, because I had everything I needed for this book included in the kit, I was able to make the album (start to finish) in a night. There’s nothing more enjoyable than that!

By Grace Tolman

So for this month’s extra project, I went with something that might easily be used for this year’s Thanksgiving dinner…..place cards. We know we need them, especially when you have a big group for dinner and what better way to use up all the fun and perfectly themed products from the main kit!

I used white cardstock as my base and settled in with a basic, simple design. I had fun hadcutting the leaves and flowers from the WeRMemory Keepers paper and using them as my embellishments here. I used some small white letter stickers from my stash to make the names, but I’m sure you can easily use the stickers from the kit for this project. My suggestion would be to use it as a monogram instead since it’s pretty big sized letters.

The size of my place cards are 3″ squares but you can have yours smaller or bigger, whichever would work for you and your table setting.

I’m also thinking since the place cards were created to be a little notecard (so it can stand on top of the plate) I can use them later on as thank you notes to my guests.

So try it for this year’s gathering, you can even have your kids help you out with this. Let them write or stick the names of the guests. It’ll be fun!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

November 2010 Main Kit:

Be grateful. Enjoy your family. Find joy in the cooler, fall-like weather. Autumn is here and it’s time to celebrate it and all the goodness it brings. Crazy Daisy’s November 2010 Main is a love letter to Fall with its warm, rich hues and it’s focus on gratitude and family. Order now and get your Fall scrap on!

November 2010 Mini Kit:

Homey, vintage and the perfect way to ease yourself into a scrapbooking. The November Mini Kit from Crazy Daisy features one-of-a-kind vintage finds and lots of Crate Paper goodness … two of our favorite things.

Kits ship on the 10th, so go on over here and get yours. Have a wonderful day!

   
Though many of you may have children that aren’t quite in school yet, you can still put all of those beautiful school-themed chipboard elements and papers in September’s Main Kit to good use…by building a pre-made mini album for your child’s first year of school!

I put together this 1st Year of School album for my son Caleb, who is currently 2! Now some might call this a little over zealous, but I choose to call it “being prepared!” Something every parent longs to be, but rarely is…lol! So here is a peak at some of my pages and some ideas for creating your very own premade 1s Year if School Album for you little one!

Now every child’s school experience will be different, but here are a few ideas for generic pages to include before hand and then when the time is right you can tailor the album to your child’s specific school experience!

• A My School Page-perfect for a picture of your new academic in front of his school’s flagpole!
• An Introduction Page-Include your child’s name, school name,their grade and their teacher’s name.
• Projects Page- to chronicle your child’s assignments, creations, and projects.
• A Report Card/Grades-to keep track of grades or report cards.
• A Friends/Children at Play-perfect for pictures of friends or fun school photos.
• A Fieldtrips Page- to showcase some of the places your child visited in school.
• A Sports Page- pages for sports team photos and memorabilia.
• An Awards and Certificates Page-to showcase your child’s achievements

Note: The idea of creating a book BEFORE the event is super cool and takes some of the stress out of recording your memories. You could do this for Halloween, Thanksgiving or Christmas …. Amy used the September Main kit for this project, but you could use anything in your stash.

Card trio

By Grace Tolman

 
I love, love, love the Crazy Daisy main kits. There’s enough products to give you a whole month’s worth of projects. Here’s what I made with my leftovers.

Yes, most of the items in these cards are leftovers from 5 layouts AND one album! You really can’t beat a kit like this!

For the cards, I used the MME journaling blocks as my main inspiration.
For the Sending Happy thoughts card (photo  below), I used the bike block. I think it’s soo cool and vintage. I kept the card simple as to not overpower that wonderful bike image. I also used the MME flocked diamond paper as background to add to the sophisticated look. The tape was used here too.

For the Only you card, I used a green background to make the rest of the neutral colors to pop. I added a purple ribbon (from my stash) to compliment the green.

For the Happy Halloween card, I used the bird MME block as my inspiration then added the Happy Halloween strip and Oct. 31 which was cut from a MME paper.

Hope this set inspired you to dig through those October main kits and make something today.

So, here’s the latest kit from Crazy Daisy Kits.

October 2010 Main Kit

And here’s a look at our October 2010 ”Dead Darlene Halloween” Mini Kit. Our fabulous friend Darlene loves, loves Halloween, so we asked her to design a “scary’ Halloween kit for us. This kit is adorable and features all of Darlene’s favorite spooky things:

If you haven’t gotten your October kits yet, you still have time. Kits ship on the 10th, so go ahead and get yours now!

The September kits were shipped out last week, so most of you should have recieved yours by now or will very soon. As you’re getting started, here’s a look at what Grace did with the September Main Kit. I always love looking at what Grace does with our kits. She’s amazing. I’m always inspired with her work.

So feast on her amazingness!

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1st day of 1st grade

 
This is the first page I made with the kit. I wanted to mat that notebook paper onto brown cardstock to make it stand out more. I cut out the report card paper to create an uneven border with it. I also used the typed paper from Crate Paper as part of my border and tore the top end of it for added interest.
I loved layering all the stickers that was in the kit. There were so much to choose from. And to make them stand out a little against the background I adhered them with dimensional adhesive.

I wanted something large for part of my title so I cut out some words from one of the Crate Paper pattern papers. To make it stand out more I also adhered them onto one of the Jillibean soup journaling block.

Animal Show

 
I’m into block design lately and this layout shows that. I think it makes it easy to create a clean simple design with it.

Anyways I added my pictures first, then on the black spots, I added papers, journaling block and title.

The journaling block had a sun with a number 2 on there. I really didn’t need that 2 in my layout so I covered it with journaling block and then more stickers.

Preschool

Another block design. I’m digging this style because I can place my pictures first and then just fill the empty spaces.
To break the square feel, I tilted that patter paper strips on the right hand side.

Lots of layering here again with the title against the 4 playing card, the border stickers and papers on top of the journaling block, the flower on top of the jillibean soup circle block and the butterfly with stickers collection.

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To see more photos of Grace’s layouts for September, visit our gallery here.