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March Layouts: Mara

Monday, March 8th, 2010

March 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!


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!



 






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.


 




 

Member Spotlight: Kristen Stewart

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

One of the best parts of starting and running Crazy Daisy has been the opportunity we have had to meet really cool people. Jennifer and I live in different states. We have know each other forever. Even with the distance, she is the person I talk to and confide in the most. Jen has a lot of girlfriends, whereas I’m a little more isolated and have had trouble making friends since moving to Arizona (I know, pathetic!). But I find great joy and comfort in the virtual friends I have been making thanks to Crazy Daisy. I look forward to your emails. I stalk your blogs. I think it would be really awesome if we actually meet some day!

Why do I tell you this? ‘Cause I want to introduce you to one of my new “virtual” friends: Kristen Stewart. Kristen is a member of Crazy Daisy, super cute and of course a mama like many of us out there who love to scrapbook. I was checking out some of the scrapbook pages she created recently and I LOVE, LOVE her style.

So, meet my new friend Kristen!


 

1. I started scrapbooking … somewhere around 2000, I think.

2. My favorite scrapbooking product, tool or manufacturer is … Right now it would have to be chipboard; letters, number, shapes…heck anything chipboard.

3. My favorite thing to scrapbook about is … My kids (cliché I know). But, specifically, when they were little, because now they are teenagers and scrapping pictures of them when they were little reminds me that they once loved me and didn’t think I was the meanest human being on earth.

4. I scrapbook because … It exercises the left side of my brain…I work with my right as a tax accountant, this makes me balanced.

5. I am the happiest when … I am on a scrap retreat with my friends…lots of food, fun, laughing, and of coarse scrapping.

And a bonus question:

My favorite scrappy or crafty web site is …. I love Cathy Zielske’s blog, Bits & Pieces. She just cracks me up. She is open and honest and I love her style.


And of course … here’s a looksy at some pages Kristen has created!



Kristen, thank you so much for sharing! It’s been great to get to know you better and see some layouts you’ve created! We are happy to have you in the Crazy Daisy family.

If you’d like to be featured in our Member spotlight section, send me an email.  Have a GREAT Thursday.

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.




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.”




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


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.






Design Team Call 2010

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

DesignTeamCall


Ladies and ladies (unless there are some male fans of Crazy Daisy out there who aren’t my husband or Jennifer’s hubby … and we wouldn’t want to exclude you) it’s time to submit your Crazy Daisy Design Team 2010 application.

Who: All you fabulous scrapbookers out there (current design team members are allowed and encouraged to apply)

What:  Be a part of the Crazy Daisy Design Team 2010

When: Starting today, we’ll accept entries until Sunday, February 7th. We’ll let you know if you made the cut by February 15th. And then, we’ll ask that you get started designing with Crazy Daisy Kit Co.’s March 2010 Main Kit.

How: We want to see three layouts (whatever size you want to create) and a mini-book of some sort. When you’re all done, take pictures of your projects and email those pics to info@crazydaisykits.com.

What’s required of you: If you’re selected to be a member of the Crazy Daisy Design Team 2010 you’ll be asked to create 5 layouts a month and a mini-book using the mini-book provided in the current month’s kit. Additionally, we ask that you place a Crazy Daisy blinkie on your blog or Web site; as well as post something on your site regarding Crazy Daisy and your design team work at least once a week.

What do you get? In return for your hard work, you’ll receive an awesome Crazy Daisy Main kit for six (6) months (March 2010 through August 2010), great exposure on our Web site and heaps of praise from the Crazy Daisy team. We might even toss in fun gifts along the way!

If you have any questions, please send them our way … info@crazydaisykits.com.

December Layouts: Grace Rocks

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Christmas 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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christmas baking


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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light show


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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santa and me


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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trimming the tree


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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splish splash


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.”


 

I heart our December kit!

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Love, love love it. I can’t it enough. I love our December Main kit. If you haven’t gotten yours yet, don’t wait.

Here’s a little something from the amazing Ms. JJ Sobey using the December Main Kit.


"Caught in the Act" by JJ Sobey

 

“With one of the stamps in the kit, I used StazOn ink and stamped on a blank sheet of transparency. That allowed me to test where I wanted the stamp before using it on my layout. It also allows me to stamp across neighboring surfaces and still get a consistent image.”

 

caughtintheact-detail

 

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