Layers of Inspiration...

Hi everyone! This is Kristy from craftin-on-my-door and I want to thank Sheila for allowing my to be her guest designer again today! I look forward to my monthly She's a Sassy Lady posts! I have a fun tutorial for you today! Have you heard of Kiwi Lane Designs?

My sister-in-law introduced me to these fantastic products! The super crafty ladies over at Kiwi Lane Designs sent me some of their fabulous products to play with. They have fantastic templates for scrapbooking and card making! Here are just a few of them:

I am LOVING the large brackets and the photo sets. You can watch a video tutorial HERE on their website. I started out by placing the bracket templates where I wanted a bracket, and then played around with the photo templates. I LOVE how they give you multiple photo templates of the same size. I also love the small photo templates.

(Disclaimer....this is a LONG awaited Halloween scrapbook page, as a second grade team we decided to surprise our classes and dress up as the Jonas Brothers. We looked horrible, and decided that we were more like the "reunion tour," but we had a great time and our students LOVED it! Please don't be scared!)

Here are the bracket templates:

As you can see with the photo templates you can place them right on top of the photos. This lets you see if the size is right for the photo you are using and if they will all fit on the page.

The templates have the photo sizes printed on them.

After I decided on picture placement I chose the bracket (which are 12 x 12!), flipped it over, and traced it onto the back of my pattern paper.

I decided that I wanted a shadow for this bracket so I traced, just the front part of the bracket, onto black paper.

Next I put down a line of Zips glue and ruffled black crepe paper for a border.

 Then I added a strip of blue paper and and a border by K & Co.

I used my friend's Gypsy and her Hannah Montana cart to cut a title. I glued the title down and then doodled around the "J" and the "B."

I then measured and cut my photos according to the photo templates. I also matted my pics with coordinating paper.  I glued the top and bottom picture straight to the page, and then used foam adhesive to "pop-up" the middle picture. I also added K & Co. stickers and Making Memories buttons to the page.

Next, I added twine and a fun Halloween pin to the title and glued it down.

Here's the final page (remember don't be scared!)....

I love how it turned out! A new scrappy friend of mine, Jayne, wanted to play around with the brackets too.  She need a way to showcase some brochures from a friend's trip to Hawaii. We used a bracket and made it into a pocket.

She also wanted the the second page to coordinate so she used the same bracket to match.

As I said my fantastic sister-in-law, Kali, introduced me to these great products. She also wanted to make a double page spread for one of her daughters. I LOVE this page!!!! She started out with brackets and then also shadowed them and added some doodling.

She added a title, from Rock Princess, and attached it to a silver star she had from another daughter's birthday party.

Then she played around with the photo templates.

Even after playing around the great thing about these templates is that you can always change your mind!!! She decided to go with larger size pictures down the side.

Don't you just love the colors and the doodling?!

These templates are fantastic for scrapbook layouts and cards alike! They make designing soooooo easy! If you would like to see video tutorials and all the Kiwi Lane products click HERE, and let the crafty ladies know that Kristy from craftin-on-my-door sent you their way! You can also check out their blog HERE.

Thanks for stopping by today! I hope I was able to introduce something "new" to many of you!  <3Kristy

Eight is GREAT! - A Birthday Invite Tutorial

 Hi ya everyone this is Melissa from MelissaMade!  Thanks Sheila for letting me share with everyone today!
  My sweet Anna is turning 8 this month and wanted a purple monkey cake - so specific for 8!  She also wanted monkey (Create A Critter) invites hanging from the number 8!  Again specific...she is all about the details! LOL - so I've decided to do a short tutorial on making single layer invites.  Instead of a card I wanted to make a flip over card basically because the monkey hanging from the 8 would be a little unsteady unless I placed it directly on a rectangle piece of paper.  I also like to use as little paper as possible.  I laid each element out on my Gypsy first and then split them up and made multiples.

Monkey Shadow (Brown Bazzil) and Monkey Front (Purple paper from Basic Grey stack Oh Baby! Girl)

Monkey Middle (Yellow Basic Grey stack Oh Baby! Girl and 8 backing in Green Basic Grey stack Oh Baby! Girl)

Front of 8 in Basic Grey elephant paper from Oh Baby! Girl stack and Brown Bazzil for shadow

I chose the following papers and cut out each card.

I also cut out an extra 8 with the holes shadowed for the information portion on the back.  Here are all the pieces cut and ready for assembly.

I adhered the 8 with my ATG.

I glued the top layer of the monkey onto the yellow paper and then adhered that to the shadow in brown using the ATG.

I then adhered the monkey to the 8 with glue and ATG.  I used both to make sure the two were adhered well together.

Sometimes I would use a bit too much ATG and it would hang over.

This is why I love the ATG I have because even though it's incredibly adhesive it can be rolled off gently.  I roll in slightly with my finger and then tear it off and use the glue ball to get any extra off.

Last, I grabbed my $1 Studio G stamp set, Versafine black ink and an acrylic block.

I lined up my stamps on the back of the invite first and then pressed the acrylic block to them.  I covered the stamps in black ink and stamped them to the invite! 

Thanks for checking out my tutorial!  I LOVE Comments and your encouragement is truly appreciated!

Love Making Multiples

I have to tell you I had so much fun doing these 3 little cards. All I used was 6 sheets of letter size paper and some twine that I purchased from My Craft Spot. Yesterday I recieved my Barnyard Pun stamps from Joyslife.com and had to give them a whirl. I used my Create A Critter cart and placed the designs 3 up on a 12x24" mat and made 1 cut. Nope it doesn't get much easier than that!

Isn't this just too cute. I just love this little thank you card.

Look I finally have a stamp for a belated birthday card! I should make about 3 more of this one just for my stash!

And finally a wonderful get well card. I really really like this stamp set I bought and can't wait to make more! I hope you enjoyed today's post and come back and visit real soon. Be sure to leave a comment as I am always inspired and encouraged by your sweet sweet words.