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Scrapbooking & Beyond Kit Kraze
| Have you ever thought about joining a kit club? In the last few years, this niche in the scrapbook industry has exploded with possibilities. Visiting a craft store and choosing your own product can be a satisfying venture. However, if you must take a few sidekicks with you who would rather spend their time at the nearest toy store than wait for you to choose embellishments, shopping for scrapbook supplies, it can be more stressful than fun. This is where the kit club comes in. There are actually people out there who will put together very thoughtful kits with perfectly coordinated parts. Many kit designers will choose a manufacturer’s line and include many elements of the collection, but then add the perfect flower, button or ribbon from other manufacturers to make the kit complete with everything you need to create a beautiful project. This series will show readers what it is like to receive a scrapbook kit and some possibilities for projects as shown by the four designers participating in this series. Get inspired to create fabulous pages by checking out the work of these talented designers, grab your own kit, and get to scrappin’. |
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Crate Paper’s Season Collection of playful patterned papers and a vibrant, autumn color palette was chosen for this issue’s kit. The chipboard and stickers, which coordinate with the papers, feature birds, clouds and rainbows, makes this kit a natural for fall layouts. |
| Fall 2010 Kit includes: |
| Crate Paper Season Collection |
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Double-sided Patterned paper in Fall, Friendly, Love, Rainbow, Showers, Spring, Summer, and Winter, two each |
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Die Cut in Friendly |
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Art brads |
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Rub-Ons |
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Stickers, two sheets |
| BoBunny |
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Flowers in Pet Shop |
| Pink Paislee |
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Alphabet Stickers in Holly Doodle |
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Pink Paislee Ball Fringe |
| Berwick Offray |
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3⁄8"-wide Satin Ribbon in brown |
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Layouts from the Fall 2010 Kit:
| Materials |
| Color photo(s) of choice |
| Provo Craft Cricut |
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Expressions Personal Cutter |
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Plantin School Book Cartridge |
| Dymo Label Maker and Clear Cartridge |
| Martha Stewart Punch in Leaf |
| Clearsnap ColorBox Ink pad in Chestnut |
| EK Success ZIG Writer in Black
and Brown |
| DMC Embroidery Floss in brown and orange |
| Beacon Adhesives Zip Dry |
| Scissors, ruler, pencil, gel pen in white, embroidery needle, piercing tool, string |
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Enter our drawing for a chance to win the kit featured in this issue.
Enter our drawing for a chance to win the kit featured in this issue. Write your name, mailing and e-mail address, and phone number on a postcard and send to: All American Crafts, 7 Waterloo Road, Stanhope, NJ 07874, Attn: Scrapbooking & Beyond KIT KRAZE, or enter online. All entries must be received by October 1, 2010. Winner will be notified by October 15, 2010 and announced in our Winter issue, on sale November 30, 2010.
Another exciting kit will be offered in our Winter 2011 issue! |
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Cutie Pie
Designed by Liz Qualman
I really adore the Cloudy die cut that comes in this kit and thought the white background was a great contrast to the super bright papers. I chose to use one of the smaller patterned papers and some of the solid colored back sides from the kit so that the chipboard pieces would really stand out on my layout. The large brown zigzag design was cut with my Cricut. Then, I added the multicolored strip from the cardstock stickers and used my white gel pen to make faux stitches. The little heart-shaped chipboard piece had precut button holes, so I tied some string through it and then added a little leaf with the date that I made with my punch. The journaling was created with my label maker using a clear cartridge. |
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Our Rainbow After the Rain
Designed by Susan Dupre
Inspiration for my layout was the darling smile on Kynli’s little face. Even when things go bad, a smile can change the day.
Matting the chipboard shapes and letters and using a marker
to trace around the outside perimeter of the patterned papers help them to pop off from the background papers.
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Face Painting
Designed by Robbie Herring
Because this kit is loaded with embellishments, I wanted to really take advantage of being able to use a lot of them on my page. When using so many embellishments, I tend not to use quite as much paper so that my page doesn’t become too busy visually. I also went with a smaller print paper and used some of the backs of the papers for this reason. Double-sided paper is really perfect for giving you either a more monochromatic side or even another great print. One of the journal stickers that I used had white printed dashes around it, so I added brown stitches in place of the white and carried that idea over to frame my page. I used hand stitching. I really like the dimensional, yet subtle look that stitching
can give. I also used a brown sharpie to outline some of the stickers for a bolder look, and then I added some rub-ons directly to the stickers.
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Friends Fur-Ever
Designed by Julie Howard
This is a 12" x 12" layout of my nephew, Tyler, and the family pet, Nova. It’s clear to see from the photos what a sweet dog Nova is and how much Tyler enjoys having her to pal around with.
For the “Friends” portion of the title, I printed the text onto patterned paper and cut out each individual letter. The font is Action Jackson and it can be downloaded for free from www.dafont.com. As for the ribbon, I simply folded it at random lengths and then did two simple cross-stitches over each fold to tack in place.
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