April marked another new chapter for me- I'm on the Clique Kits International Design Team!! Am deciding on some crafty projects but for now, here's some great things you can pickup in their shop!
You know you want some of this, does anyone already have this journal?? Let me know cause I'd love to see some sneaks!
I'm not sure how people find me, but they do and I'm honored and grateful..my little old layouts must make some folks feel crafty ! So, I'm doing another guest stint in April for a site called Thoughtful Studio- a site created by Marie DeBrass where she makes her own hand drawn kits; some printable and some actual kits. I like being able to download kits when I have bouts of insomnia and wanna buy stuff and create at 2 am lol!
This month's kit is called EMBRACE JOY WITH TESSA and it's full of happiness! It's offered as both a documenters kit as well as a crafters kit!
Hope you'll hop over to Thoughtful Studio and grab their free moon cut file that they are offering and also purchase the Embrace kit! I can't wait for April to get here so I can show you what I've been creating!
I've always been a huge lover of kraft cardstock paper, in fact I probably scrapped on it years and years ago when everyone else was using white cardstock and I didn't own any white cardstock!
Well, I was asked to be the March guest designer at Kraft Plus and I was like heck yeah!!! This month's inspiration mood board is pretty amazing-it reminds me of a combo of mixed media and scrapbooking don't ya think??
Paper tears, bright colors of yellow, aqua and pinks- and of course the kraft!
My first reveal focused on the tearing and the kraft-after all it's the star of the show! Then I focused on stenciling leaves and the pink pops of color...challenging myself to use stencils and pink since I'm not a fan of pink too much...it's growing on me!
There's still one week left in March and if you haven't joined us (ME), swing by their blog or their instagram (@KraftPlusChallenges) and join us!
I'm sooooorrry! I got the papers together but no embellishments. Then I decided to clean up my scrap studio and misplaced the papers! But I still have time to create a mini kit this week MAYBE!
So for now, enjoy my LOAD as I writeup all the March catchup posts!
Went back to using black cardstock as my background! May start doing that more often!
This month, the Counterfeit Kit design team has stumped me again! Their chosen kit comes from the Lily-Pad blog and SURPRISE! it's a digital kit created by Leah Riordan a/k/a Mommyish!
The kit is called Paper Addict and it's bright and cheery and full of color!
A close up look of the paper shows that this was created for all of us who have a paper addiction! Love the mix of black, blue, red and yellow.
So, I'm off to clean my scrap desk and to FINALLY put my kit together. Come back tomorrow to see what I've thrown together!
Cold weather and reports of reported snow always keep me inside and so I signed up for a few mixed media classes this month. I finally got around to completing two of them! The first one was an awesome Zoom class with the talented Shaunna Russell (aka Weekdaybest) and her watercolor art-this isn't the one from the class, I couldn't find the image *
We were given a class pdf to use but you know me, I had to use my own! She was painting an amazing bull terrier doggie but I wanted to practice on our dog, Miss Nova Blue. So here's my attempt and it was so much fun! I do realize that I can't keep painting with Michaels watercolors- no offense to them but they aren't very vibrant...so I'll be treating myself to some BETTER watercolors after my NO SPEND Feb-March is over!
February is designated a Black History month but I've never subscribed to that... black history is history every single day , 365 days a year 24-7... but I've been sidelined by a back problem and have neglected my social media accounts so this week is a catchup week!
Although racism and fate kept him from the major leagues, Josh Gibson was one of the most dominant sluggers in baseball history.
The former Negro Leagues star is credited with hitting almost 800 home runs over his 17-year career and was such a fearsome hitter that many fans called him the “black Babe Ruth.” Some who saw both play even called Ruth the “white Josh Gibson.”
He was considered the best power hitter of his era in the Negro Leagues and perhaps even the majors.
Gibson’s natural skills were immense. His powerful arm, quick release and agility made base runners wary of trying to steal.
But hitting is what made Gibson the second-highest paid player in black baseball behind Satchel Paige, another future Hall of Famer.
The Sporting News, baseball’s written authority for decades, credited Gibson in 1967 with hitting a 580-foot home run in Yankee Stadium. The ball landed two feet from the top of the bleacher wall.
He died in January, 1947 and was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1972.
Late but finally here...created a ginormous kit this month since I haven't scrapped in weeks. I'm in the 100 Patterned Paper Challenge group on Facebook so I pulled 90% off my 12x 12 papers from that stash. This month's Counterfeit inspiration comes from "NOT JUST FOR BOYS KIT CLUB" Flurries kit
So as I said, my kit is huge cause I want to scrap 50 layouts this month! I started with what caught my eye: stripes, snowflakes, trees/nature, wood/ veneers, blues
And here's my kit and of course I also went rogue and added misc wintery/ things from my messy bash-ket....stash busting in January woohoo!!!
No celebrating here and that's ok... sometimes peace and quiet is what we need right??? No partying but plenty of crafting! Listened to/ watched Vicki Boutin on Facebook live and did a quick layout with her!!
Loved breaking out my Vicki B mixed media crayons and stencils...
WELL, I'M OFF TO BED!! See you tomorrow with some layouts or something creative :)
Paper House Productions is the only manufacturer that I know that has these!
Aren't these awesome {and overdue} I must say! These were part of my picks in my Creative Team box this month and I wasn't disappointed! So I had to create a layout of course :)
If you need these in your stash, Paper House Productions and This Is Us.org have a super sale going on this week, click on my link and hop on over to PaperHouseProductions for some SERIOUS STEALS AND DEALS- you can add stuff to your stash for your December Daily and more! Happy Holidays to YOURSELF- treat yourself!
Welcome back peeps! TGIF!! I have to admit that my craft studio is all torn apart right now because I decided this year to get all my Christmas/holiday stuff outta the storage area and go through it ALL...Marie Kondo style...sorted by color ( I gotta lotta red, gold and silver) and to throw away dingy/broken things. And so it is on tables in the scraproom until I get some new totes from Walmart....BUT, even though I blocked my scrap closet, I did manage to rummage through my scrapbag and find some Paper House goodies!
So for my first Paper House Creative Team reveal, I'm showcasing some awesome 3D stickers of the Grand Canyon! It was my first kid-less trip in at least 20 years and it was jut breathtaking...I'll admit that I should've scrapped all the pictures of the trip long ago-I went in Oct 2017 lol! But I'm off to a great start now-FINALLY!!!.
Love how the 3D stickers pop AND, you can add things in between the layers if you want! If you look closely at the binoculars and the compass at the top, I love how they added a ring on them so you could hang them from a clip like I did or add yarn or string to it for more layering interest.
If you are like me and need to scrap some West Coast parks or the Grand Canyon, be sure to use my code 20PHKATHERINE at Paper House for 20% off your entire purchase!
2020 has been a doozy for all of us and the same went for my mojo-it was on a rollercoaster of love some days and other days NOT. So, I did a thing to challenge myself- I applied for 2 Design Teams and today, I'm happy to say that I am officially on the 2020-2021 Creative Team for Paper House Productions!!
After such a long break from being on Design Teams I'm pretty excited about jumping back in and being part of a big crafty team again! Hope you'll join me in creating! If you hop over to Paper House Productions or, for planner goodies This is Us, use my code PH20KATHERINE for 20% off !!
