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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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Posted on September 22, 2010 by crazydaisy
Layout from Katie Turner
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Posted on September 16, 2010 by crazydaisy
I am so loving this month’s mini kit. I’m a brown, earthy girl … so this kit is right up my alley. It’s the prefect kit for transitioning into fall and cooler weather!
Check out the adorable (seriously adorable) layouts Kelly Hansen created with this kit. Love ‘em.
To see more photos of Kelly’s layouts, check out our Gallery.
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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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Posted on August 19, 2010 by crazydaisy
I haven’t met a mini book I didn’t love. I love mini books. I love the size. I love the feeling of accomplishment I get when I finish one. I love giving them as presents. In short, I love them.
This mini book, from Amber Zimmerman, is no exception. She took all the goodies from the August 2010 Main Kit and made the most adorable mini book ever. It’s so simple, but so sweet. Love it. Check it out:
To see more photos from Amber’s mini book, visit our Gallery.
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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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Posted on May 11, 2010 by crazydaisy
Hello there. Happy May. If you haven’t gotten your May kit yet … no worries. We’re sure you still have some leftover goodies from your April Kit to create with and the wonderful Miss Amber is here to show you just what you can do with them:
The Leftovers
By Amber Zimmerman
Hello! By now you’ve all received your kits and probably have created some pages with it. I made 5 pages and still had some cute embellishments and papers left over that I wanted to use. I just loved the embellies that Jennifer and Kimberly included in the kit and had to figure out a way to display them where they were the stars of the show. 
Well, since I am a “list” person it didn’t take long for me to come up with something. I love to write lists. I have them all over the house. List of things to do today, list of things to buy for photography, list of meals for the week, etc. My mind is a creative storm of ideas, but they come and go so quickly that if I don’t write them down somewhere I may lose it in the great abyss of my brain forever! So I set to work creating a “message board” if you will, of creative ideas.
The first thing that I gathered were my leftover supplies. Most important was the Hambly transparency, as that would be where I write my ideas (photo above).
Second, I used a vintage book that I purchased at a garage sale for 10 cents. I took off the front cover, and that was my base. I picked out my papers and arranged them how I liked them. I secured the Hambly with double sided tape. I used the cute woman chipboard and inked it. Once it was complete, I used my crop-a-dile to make the holes and found some vintage seam binding to use as my “hanger” (photo above).
To make the scallops, I used one of my go to Martha Stewart punches (photo above). I punched out the circles and arranged them on the edge of the book cover with double sided tape (photo below).
To completeit, I used a dry erase marker (photo below) to jot my ideas as they come to me. My little “message board” is a bit busy, but you could easily use the Hambly alone with just a few decorative brads and buttons so you would have more room to write.
And here’s a look at the finished product:
I thought I would share one of the links to the idea that I am determined to complete this summer for my kiddo’s room, it could also hold scrap supplies!
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by crazydaisy
I feel like I have been neglecting this blog lately, so to make this up to my loyal readers I’m going to try to do a whole lotta blogging this week!
For starters, I have lots of fun layouts to share from our design team.
First up, Kim Whitten. I love this girl. We’ve never met in person. But I look at her layouts, read her blog and feel like we’ve been friends forever. If we lived in the same place, I’m sure we’d been great buddies. But since we live on opposite ends of the country, we’re cyber-amigas.
“Admit”
“This 8 1/2 x 11 layout is from a little photoshoot I had impromptu while out taking fall foiliage pictures. The Basic Grey letter stickers in this kit are perfect sized I think. I cut off the wire edges from the owl ribbon that was in this kit and distressed it a little, then sewed it on my layout. I ended up using those cut off wires as an afterthought on my journaling spot – simply added a brad, wrapped it around the brad, then spiraled it around a pencil. Thought it added a fun, whimsical touch!”
“A Wii bit obsessed”
“The 12×12 is my little cousin Jake playing the Wii and the title is “A Wii bit obsessed” (get it? HaHa)
I used some of that awesome Basic grey Ambrosia patterned paper and grounded it on a piece of light grey card stock from my stash. I took the textured Grungeboard and cut into circles, distressed with gesso, black ink and a little glimmer mist and added some Pink Paislee brads that are included in the kit. Also added some of the Maya Road rubons to a scrap piece of orange cardstock and used those as embellishments. For my journaling simply sewed strips of some coordinating patterned paper and handwrote my journaling onto the strips. Makes it look underlined! To bring out his green shirt I added some green Thickers from my stash as part of the title and those white foam Thickers are some really old ones that were in my stash – I thought they looked a lot like the Wii font.”
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Now here’s a mini-book from Jackie Laing. I alway love how family focused Jackie’s layouts are. You can really tell just how much she loves her family when you see her layouts. This month is no different.
“Family Mini Book”
”I really love the mini book in this month’s kit. I decided to make a mini book about my Family. I used the gorgeous ribbon in this month’s kit to make a bow for the front of my book. It is a really easy way to make a fun embellishment! Simply tie your ribbon into a bow. Then I took my drop-a-dial and punched a whole right in the middle…then used a yummy brad from this month’s kit as the center! The perfect touch to keep the bow in place! I LOVEthe Maya Road rubons in this kit. They went along way… I used some on all my layouts and this mini as well!
I’d like to share more layouts from November, but since I’m trying to write this email on my iPhone while on an airplane, I think it’s time to stop, publish and move on! I’ll share more tomorrow, I promise.
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Posted on October 13, 2009 by crazydaisy
with Claudine Hellmuth and her collage book, “Collage Discovery Workshop – Beyond the Unexpected: New Techniques Using Color, Personal Imagery and Creative Surfaces.” Seriously, I’ve been carrying the book around in my purse. I read it whenever I get a chance and when I’m not reading the book I’m thinking about it. I’ve dreamt about the book and all the things I can do with the ideas Claudine shares. I’ve come up with a bunch of different collages I want to create and I can’t wait to get to work. For the most part, I own everything I need to try out all the different techniques Claudine teaches in her book, but yesterday I picked up a few last supplies and I’m ready to go.
Today I’m going to create my first project, it is inspired by the Beatles, since there has been a lot of Beatles Rock Band playing going on in my house! I was listening to the lyrics of one particular song last night and I was stuck by how much the words mean to me right now. It heard exactly what I needed to hear … which is interesting ’cause I’ve heard this song about a million times and have never been so moved, inspired or buoyed by it. Don’t you love how things speak to you in different ways, at different times in your life?
I can’t wait to show you what I create. After this particuly collage, I have another one planned (also inpsired by a Beatles song), and I’m going to be using items from the current Crazy Daisy Kit to make it! There are so many cool ways you can use your kit … it doesn’t just have to be on a scrapbook page.
Are you doing anything cool today? What’s inspiring you? Do you any fall projects planned? Do tell, we want to hear and share!
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Posted on June 10, 2009 by crazydaisy
Kim's latest creation
Are you a little bored with scrapbooking these days? Need a little inspiration? Or do you want to try something new?
Check out this really cool canvas/wall hanging that Kim created.
How exactly did she do it?
“This project is 8 1/2 x 11 wall hanging using an awesome paint technique I learned from the multi-talented Lucy Folch in a National Scrapbooking Day challenge she did over at Scrap In Style TV. I cut down a piece of chipboard (or use cardboard), placed several pieces of the Basic Grey chipboard stickers down and Gesso’d the whole thing.
After that dried, I selected several colors of acrylic paints and added enough water to start painting over the layout. (The consistency should be thicker than water color). Then using an old rag, I blotted around on the paint so that the white gesso would show through to give it that weathered look. If the paint dries you can dip the rag in some water and blot. If you decide you’ve blotted off too much just add more paint!
After all that dried, I took my trusty black Sharpie and started outlining. Then I used the negative part of the chipboard shapes to cut out pieces of patterned paper from the kit to embellish those. Added my picture and used some gesso and more outlining on the cardboard monogram letters & Thickers. I added the ribbon and some buttons to turn this piece into a wall hanging.”
What kind other crafty projects are you working on? I’ve been working on a collage for a couple of months now. I think it’s time to finish it up. What about you?
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