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Grace’s Place: Nov. Layouts

Posted on November 24, 2010 by crazydaisy

Looking for some inspiration on ways to use your November Main Kit? Look no further. The amazing Grace has done it again … lots of fabulous layouts to give you ideas on how to get started!

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1. Dentist time


I used the Jillibean Kraft paper as my background and layered some pattern papers over it. I love the Crate Paper border stickers and used up everything in the sheet in my projects this month. For this page, I also added the MME die cut journaling block and centered it along with my title. Since the kit was heavily themed for Fall layouts and I just so happen to NOT have any Fall layouts with me, I had to improvise a little to make the most of the products. I did this to show that you don’t have to use themed products for only the suggested theme/event/holiday it’s meant for. The title sticker said “It’s Pumpkin Time”, so to match my layout I added rubon letters to spell out dentist onto white cardstock and adhered it over the word pumpkin to complete my improvised layout.

I also fell inlove with the Making Memories butterflies. I used them here as my visual triangle elements. I broke some of the pearls from the Basic Grey pack and added some in the middle of the butterflies to create a finished look.

 

 

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2. Happy to have you

 

I love this page. Not only because my son’s the star on it but because it gave me a lot of room to journal on which lately is hard for me to do. Anyways, I cut out the lined paper part of the circle paper and added the half circle on the bottom of the page. The big ricrac was also a nice addition to the page.

I love the MME block and decided to use that for my title. Because there’s an empty space in the title block, I added a layered butterfly plus some more of that Crate Paper border stickers, gosh I love those stuff!

I used some more butterflies here, again for a visual triangle element plus added a round M sticker from the JBS pack.

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3. Park day

 

 

I’ve been digging the shaped papers in the kit. They provide the best frames for my layouts. I used one of them here. I layered more of the strips of paper here plus the Crate Paper border sticker.

I made my own flowers to add to the page. I handcut the circles from one of the papers and then added strips of green paper in the back, layered on top of each other. Secured with lots of glue and reinforced by threading the embroidery floss through the flowers and button.

To create the visual triangle, I used the blue embroidery floss as the element,adding it to the flowers and handstitching some lines for my journaling.

 

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4. Peruvian dinner

 

 

This is my two page spread share for this month. I went with a smaller size but fit for the 5 photos I have of me and my family.

I used the loaded text paper from Imaginesce here to emphasize some of the words in my journaling. Since the paper was fall related and my page was not, I had to improvise some of my sentences to fit my words like “fall” and “bountiful”.

To balance the scallops from the border sticker I added scallops around the top and bottom part of my title block using 1/2″ circle punch.

 
 
 

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5. Vegas Circus

 

Another layout using the shaped pattern paper as my page frame. Because my photos lacked enough color in them, I used a bright orange background to make the black and white photo stand out more.

Another page utilizing the Crate Paper borders and I even added some liquid pearl to the dots of the border for extra texture.

I added one of the Kaiser Craft envelopes here and I’m planning on storing some of our Vegas memorabilia in there.
I wanted the white letter stickers to stand out against the background so I opted on adhering it to the photo.

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For more photos of Grace’s layouts, visit our Gallery.

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November Mini: Grace

Posted on November 22, 2010 by crazydaisy

Leaf Album

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!

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Grace’s Place: Thanksgiving Place Cards

Posted on November 20, 2010 by crazydaisy

Thanksgiving Place Cards

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.

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Grace Place: October Mini

Posted on October 28, 2010 by crazydaisy

 

Halloween Checklist Mini

By Grace Tolman

This mini was inspired by one of the papers in the kit. It was the MME kraft paper that had fun things noted about Halloween. One part there was the Halloween checklist. I decided to cut them off and use that as the spring board for the mini.

Of course I used the wonderful Basic Grey mini. I covered the more part of it with pattern paper. I used the Pink Paislee paper for the front page because I loved the tree and tombstone designs on it. With that on my front page, I knew that I didn’t have to dress the cover too much just to emphasize the theme.

I added some orange glitter glue around the front and back covers and placed the title block on the cover.

For the inside pages, I visualized it to be simple and repetitive. I feel there’s nothing wrong with the inside pages being the same basic design. It actually brings all of the pages together.

 

This book will most likely be for this year’s Halloween’s activities so I left lots of spaces for pictures with precut white cardstock. These cardstock will also act as matting for my photos when I’m ready to print and add them to the book. It’ll save me time in the future.
I also sprinkled the JBS buttons in there. The acted as my one constant embellishment all through out the book.

And for the back (above), the Pink Paislee paper again and added a simple strip of paper to add my signature.

Hope you like it!

-Grace

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Grace’s Place: Cards

Posted on October 25, 2010 by crazydaisy

  

 

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.

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Grace’s Place: Name Tags

Posted on September 13, 2010 by crazydaisy

Name tags

By Grace Tolman

 

 

So the September kit is a school themed one and this month is usually when all our kiddos go back to school so why not make something for the kids to use RIGHT NOW with your leftovers from the kit.
I made name tags for my kids with my scraps. I still can’t believe that both of them are in school. Yippee, more time to scrap for me. *wink*

Anyways, because I was using scraps, I didn’t make this too complicated for me. I started with a cardstock and then adhered those cute small report card blocks from the Crate pattern paper. I also added more stickers. I knew this needed to be functional so I didn’t make it too bulky or chunky. Also I knew my kids would love it to be a little different from each other. They are in the stage right now where they want their own identities so when I rounded the corners on one, I left the other squared.

And then on the back, I added some decorative border edges and the Scenic Route lined paper where I added their names with letter stickers and room (because I did this ahead of time, I don’t know their room numbers yet) and also a letter or number of their grade.

I wanted to somewhat waterproof it and I didn’t have my laminating roll in hand so I went the cheapy way and added some strips of tape. I know that looks bad but you can go with the “right” way. *wink*
Finished it off with a tie, in this case baker’s twine and viola- something to use up the hodge podge of products left from the kit and at the same time making something functional for the kids.

 

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Grace’s Place: July Layouts

Posted on July 23, 2010 by crazydaisy

Check out what Grace did with the July 2010 Main Kit:


Layout #1 Beautiful Friend


 

In this layout, I used a bunch of the products in the kit. You will find rub ons, embellishments, paper and stickers in this layout. I because I ran out of the maroon “f”. I punched out a circle from a paper with the same color and layered the white/beige sticker on their. This technique still kept the word in the same color scheme. I punched out decorative borders from pattern papers and created a frame for my photo with it.

 

 

 

Layout#2 Cream Puff Heaven



This layout is pretty symmetrical. Everything was assembled in a “lined up” fashion. To break all the lines, I added some buttons, used a scallop edged journaling block sticker and added a cardstock strip with a border punch. I also liked the sugar/flour pattern paper. I thought it was the perfect thing to add to my cream puff layout.



 

Layout #3 Food trip

 


This is by far my favorite of all the layouts I made with this kit. I love it because I was able to play with the round scallop piece cut from the pattern paper. I was also inspired by the definitions rub on that I used it to describe our fun food “activity”. I added a strip of pattern paper to point to the title so that it’ll be connected to the rest of the layout.



 

Layout #4 Kindergarten Buddies



In this page I used the stars and the ruler ribbon to emphasize the “school” theme. I also used the a lot of “three” in the layout like the number of kids in my picture, the three stars in the bottom and the rub on three.



 

Layout #5 Swing me silly



In this page, I layered a lot of pattern papers. I added about four in this page. I also used the two sets of letter stickers and added a rubon bird. The journaling block sticker had some vintage edge that didn’t match really well with my page, so I cut out the unwanted frame before adding the block sticker to my page.



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Grace’s Place: Save the Date Mini

Posted on July 7, 2010 by crazydaisy


Save the date mini book

By Grace Tolman

The cute JBS mini book that came in the main kit was adorable to say the least.

The idea of making a “save the date” book out of it was inspired by the Glitz sticker, the number paper and the stars.

Since dates are numbers, I decided to use the number paper to cover my front and back pages. I then used the save the date sticker as my title tag.

In the inside front page, I used some of the Pink Paislee stickers to add birthdays and then cut out a star from the GCD Studios paper.

In the back page I added another journaling sticker and hand wrote a little “note for me”.

This mini came together pretty fast and the best part of this project- it’s small enough that I can tow it in my purse and NEVER, EVER forget a birthday, anniversary or any other special dates ever again. *wink*




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Grace’s Place: Daydream Journal

Posted on June 24, 2010 by crazydaisy

  

Daydreaming Journal

By Grace Tolman

I’ve been really impressed at the Kaiser mini books that has been featured in the May and now in the June kit. I love that they’re so versatile and that the chipboard covers can be covered with so many different mediums- paper, paint, pen, ink, etc.

With this journal book, I kept some of the raw chipboard showing and then adding my pattern paper inside of the covers. I also inked the edges a bit.



I used the thick lace, some cut out flowers and die cut to complete the cover. Since I cut out the leaf portion of the cover, I added a pattern paper on the first page so you wouldn’t see the white from the front side.

It was so easy to personalize this journal book and I can’t wait to start writing my “daydreams” in this book.



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Grace’s Place: Souvenirs Envelope

Posted on June 21, 2010 by crazydaisy

 

Souvenirs Envelope

By Grace Tolman

The cute clear envelopes that the Kaiser stickers and die cuts came in was not going to be passed up without getting altered.

In the kit, I got a sheet that had a packing list on it and I liked the pictures of the transportation symbols. I loved it and the idea of a souvenir envelope came to mind.

I used some papers, letter stickers and the cut out transportation symbols in the front of my envelope. I also added the lace and a charm to the envelope.

This can be a cute and “useful” addition to any travel bag.




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