TKJ 113 - Kraft and your favorite color !

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A really fun and open challenge this week at The Kraft Journal -

Your favorite color with Kraft !!

I love white with kraft the best, but since we did that combo a couple of weeks ago, I chose red as the next favorite with kraft.  I used a couple of themes here, both numbers and harlequin shapes, to tie things together.  I also included the inside, as this is a card meant for someone who needs to be reminded she is so beautiful.

The humble beginning of this card is the always useful Kraft Note Card.  Adhered to that is some design paper, stamped with harlequin shapes.  The "beautiful" Lille Tag was distressed, inked and threaded with Black Burlap Ribbon.  Another harlequin shape was added with pearls, and a Custom Fastener with another number was attached atop, bowed with Natural Hemp Cord.  The edges were inked and distressed.

I made a very simple inside, with more of the harlequin stamp, another Lille Tag, and one more numbered Custom Fastener.

The Kraft Journal has great challenges each week, and a tutorial each Wednesday.  Hope you were inspired by this card - I made it for someone very special !!

All Kraft Outlet supplies are linked above

Other supplies:

Design Paper - 7 Gypsies

Stamp - Tim Holtz

Pearls - Recollections

Ink - Ranger distress, Versafine

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Little driving on a Saturday night

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A wet and gloomy day here in Oregon, just the kind of day to stay inside in your slippers.  However, a 40% off coupon appeared in my inbox today for our Ben Franklin's down the street - cannot let that rest for longer than an hour, right ?

Today's post is for a couple of challenges ...

Mojo Monday with this fun sketch

and

Colour Q with these colors ...

my card

I haven't done this color combo before !

Card stock - Recollections

Paper - Echo Park, Creative Imaginations

Flowers - Recollections

Stamp - Kaisercraft

Bling - Recollections

Washi tape - unknown

Sentiment die cut - Creative Imaginations

Ribbon, jewelry cord - stash

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Papercraft Star 136 - Green

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Check out this gorgeous green picture

Just the look and color of Oregon forests right now !

Papercraft Star's theme this week of course !!

My card ...

Come and play with us this week !!

Card stock - Recollections, Coredinations

Design Paper - Creative Imaginations, K & Co

Image - Graphic 45

Sentiment - Splash of Color

Ink - Ranger Distress

Punch - Martha Stewart

Button, jute - stash

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TKJ 112 - Lucky Green !

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At The Kraft Journal this week our theme is 

Lucky Green !

I am not so lucky at bingo, how about you ...

I made this card as a Random Act of Kindness for St. Paddy's Day.  Inside is a lottery ticket for a stranger, delivered to them by a waitress, sworn to secrecy.
I began with a Kraft Blank Note Card.  I adhered some punched design paper, and a Bingo card, which is actually a Lost and Found Salvage Sticker.  Atop that is a Schedule Card from the Identity Card Set, with Lucky U spelled out from the Hodgepodge Magpie Stickers and popped up. Natural Hemp cord is threaded through the shamrock buttons, and used as a bow on the bingo charm.  This is truly a 10 minute card !  Stop by this week and play along !

All Kraft Outlet products are linked above

Other Products:

Design Paper - Basic Grey

Punch - Martha Stewart

Pin - Karen Foster

Charm and buttons - stash

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Papercraft Star 135 - Kitchen

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I love LOVE the theme this week at

 Papercraft Star ...

Use your own kitchen colors !

Here is a pic of my kitchen ...

I couldn't find the right color of green in my paper so I went with something pretty close ...

 

It would have been a five minute card if I hadn't searched through all my paper for that color green !

Come play at Papercraft Star this week, and show us your kitchen !!

Card stock - DCWV

Design Paper - DCWV, My Mind's Eye

Label - David Tutero

Stamp - Hot off the Press

Ribbon - stash

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March tutorial

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Hi Everyone ! This month's tutorial for The Kraft Journal is here !  We are fancying up a TH memo pin, into a glitter stick pin.


The items you will need are:

Tape
Diamond Glaze
Glitter (I used Martha's coarse white)
Tim Holtz memo pin (from Kraft Outlet)

 

 I worked on a little plastic dish I could lift away from my work table, so as not to disturb the little pin.

 First, tape the back of the pin, like this

 Add some Diamond Glaze in the middle.  It will probably "over fill", but you can always break that part off easily once it is dry.

 Add a pinch of glitter.  And now comes the HARD part !  Put your dish away, and forget about it until tomorrow.  It dries slowly because it is in such a glob.  I know you will want to touch it, I know you will.  But RESIST! 

Pull off the tape tomorrow, and this is how your little pin will look.  Isn't it so cute !  And only about 3 or 4 minutes of time.

Another tip is to keep all of your stick pins on a piece of foam.  This piece is recycled, an old piece from a set of brads.  I can see them easily, and of course now that they "stick" in my mind,  I remember to use them !

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Karen & Friends 1 - Green

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My wonderful little local scrap store Karen & Friends Creations, is hosting a challenge this month, just for fun.  It will be an ongoing challenge, while we try this out.

Our first challenge is GREEN - whatever that may mean to you !

My green card looks like this ...

 and here is the little tag inside ...

If you live in the Eugene / Springfield area, stop in at Karen & Friends Creations, on Yolanda in Springfield.  All the design team's cards will be on display, and you can get in a wee bit of shopping while you are there !!

Card stock - Bazzill

Design Paper - Bo Bunny, Creative Imaginations, Prima

Flower - Recollections

Stamps - Hot off the Press, Fiskars

Brads - My Mind's Eye

Leaves - Bazzill

Ink - Ranger Distress, Versafine

Hole reinforcer - Hand made

Punch - ek distress

Ribbon, tag - stash

Hemp - The Kraft Outlet

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Papercraft Star 134 - Happy Birthday

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This week's challenge at 

Papercraft Star 

is

Happy Birthday !!

Here is my little contribution ...

I always seem to have trouble with brown and blue, although they look gorgeous together.  

Cardstock - Coredinations

Design Paper - Authentique

Stamp - TCP

Gold Liquid Pearls

Label - K & Co

Flower - Recollections

Ribbon, tulle - stash

Punch - Martha Stewart

Spencer came over last night for awhile, and I took this picture of him sitting on the loveseat, reading his Ipad.

I told him there was no such thing as an Ipad when his mom was his age.  In fact, I said,

people didn't even have computers in their houses !

and he said

Well, that is ridiculous !

How did you ever learn anything ??

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TKJ 110 - Use a Sketch

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This week, at The Kraft Journal, we were required to use a sketch.  I usually work from a sketch anyway, and here is the one I chose.

Well, sketches are only supposed to get us going, right ??  lol

Jan Del Bone

I love those Brown Kraft Blank Note Cards, and used them again this week as a base.  I added some edge punched Buff Ivory Card Stock  and design paper.  A Mini Canvas Rectangle was frayed and adhered with some buttons strung with Natural Hemp Cord.  I free hand cut a heart made from E Flute Corrugated Kraft Paper, added a pink ribbon behind, wrapped with more Natural Hemp Cord and stuck in a pink heart shaped hat pin.  The Love rubbing sentiment was added from the Love Ink Rubbing Collection.

If you use sketches regularly, this is a simple enough challenge !  Hope to see you at The Kraft Journal !!

All supplies from the Kraft Outlet are linked above

also

Punches - Martha Stewart, ek success

Design Paper - We R Memory Makers

Buttons, Ribbon, Heart Pin - stash

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TKJ - White on Kraft

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Is there anything prettier in a card than white embossing on kraft card stock !  I think not !!

That is our theme this week at The Kraft Journal !!

Jan Del Bone

My white on kraft card begins with a Kraft Note Card, that was stamped and embossed in white.  A white card stock was dry embossed and adhered above the lacy image.  I added an embossed Kraft card stock buckle, with a rubbing, and some ribbon run through, and tied in a knot.  Lastly, I included a Tim Holtz flower made from Kraft and Black card stock, with a bow of  Natural Hemp cord.  The only thing not from Kraft Outlet is the HugSnug ribbon, and the brass brad !

What a beautiful challenge this is - I cannot wait to see how everyone interprets it.  See you at The Kraft Journal !!

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Junior's farm

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Today's post is going to only one challenge,

Unscripted Sketches

I desperately needed to do something just for fun this week, and here it is !

Hope you all are having a terrific week !!

Card stock - Coredinations

Design Paper - Bo Bunny, Prima

Chip board - Prima

Tag - K & Co

Crocheted flower - Recollections

Stamps - Hot Off the Press, Cavallini

Ribbon, Jewelry cording, Button - stash

Ink - Ranger

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Papercraft Star 132 - Red

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Our theme at Papercraft Star this week ...

RED

While I was thinking of Valentine's Day tomorrow, I ended up with this instead.

I chose the sentiment because our little Spencer has been talking about going to France for awhile now, he wants to see the Eiffel Tower.

Oui Oui !

Cardstock - Coredinations

Design Paper - My Mind's Eye, Authentique

Stamp - Inkadinkado

Flower - Recollections

Brad - My Mind's Eye

Lace - Stampin' Up

Corners - Momenta

Ribbon and heart pins - stash

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The Kraft Journal - Not a Card !

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The Kraft Journal starts out the week with an

Anything but a card Challenge !

I chose a tag for the "Anything But a Card" challenge, for no reason except tags are always my first love !  I began with a very large tag, to which I adhered some design paper and this very cool Old Newspaper Washi tape !  A Large Manila Shipping tag was embossed, inked, sprayed, backed with some Kraft and Black Cardstock, and the same cardstock torn to make a pocket on top and stapled to the first tag, leaving room for a pocket.  An "open this" sticker was adhered to the striped pocket.  A reinforcement sticker was adhered to the largest tag, threaded with ribbon and some Earthy Hemp cord,
along with an alarm clock charm.

Inserted into a pocket is a Small Kraft Shipping tag, finished with some  Black burlap ribbon.  Both the Journal ticket and the small tag have rubbing sentiments from the same package.  Everything was finished off with inking, and a teeny paper clip.

These little journal tags are just as cute as can be !!

Come play along !!

All Kraft Outlet supplies linked above

Other supplies:

Black design paper - Prima

Polka dot ribbon and charm - stash

Ink - Ranger

Paper clip - Tim Holtz

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Papercraft Star 131 - Love

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Papercraft Star's challenge this week is ....

LOVE

Who would have guessed that, lol !

Our inspirational picture ...

and of course, the week when I actually probably should go with my usual browns and krafts, I pick black, purple and pink  !!

Everyone is making a valentine this week, how about joining us over at Papercraft Star with your idea of LOVE !!

Card stock - Coredinations

Design Paper - Prima, K & Co

Sentiments - K & Co

Ticket - Made by Janet

Tape - Tim Holtz

Metal flower - Momenta

Ribbon - Hand Dyed Hug Snug

Ink - Mix'd Media, Ranger

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Tutorial for TKJ !

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Hi Everyone !  Today The Kraft Journal posted my tutorial, or I guess I should say, some tips I have found.

 I often see other bloggers talk about losing their mojo, and that can be something hard to work through.  Here are some tips on jump starting your ideas, and getting yourself back in the flow !

1.  Keep a sketch book.  There are a lot of sketch challenges, and Feline Playful shows the actual sketch each day for many of them.  Don't hesitate to copy a sketch from a card you absolutely LOVE - it is not stealing.

Kraft Outlet's journals

2.  Keep an idea book.  Often I see cute ideas I really want to incorporate in a card someday, and I may sketch that idea, or keep a list.  My list is very long, and includes things like "try different kinds of folds" and "try using wax on a card."

3.  Pour over the papercraft magazines or books you have in your stash.  If you haven't looked at it in a year, you will find something you forgot about, or overlooked.

4.  Try a new technique !  Here at The Kraft Journal we have a tutorial every Wednesday.  Our archives are full of wonderful opportunities for you to learn something new.

5.  Explore some different papercraft blogs.   Design team members on challenges may have something you admire, and will spark an idea.

6.  Pinterest.  If your Pinterest  page doesn't have a papercraft board, it should !!

7.  Go shopping !  Oh, did I even have to say this.  Nothing sparks your imagination like something new to play with, does it.  We have our own shop here at The Kraft Journal,  Kraft Outlet.  Pop on in, and you will surely find something you can't live without !!

8.  Try a really difficult challenge.  Maybe it is a tough sketch, or some odd color combination, an unusual photo or theme.  It sounds as if this would be at odds with your missing mojo, but when we stretch our imaginations something new often comes with it !

9.  Sit down with your paper, and set a deadline.  Try 10 or 15 minutes.  If nothing comes, put it away, and try again later.  If something gets going, you won't want a deadline !

10.  Exercise, take a walk or go for a bike ride.  These are proven methods of clearing your brain, and rejuvenating your soul.

My dad did a lot of crafty things, but he always felt it was so difficult to do something better than the last thing he did.  Sometimes we fall into that trap, worrying too much about the end result, and we wind up paralyzed.  Instead - remember all the joy you have in simply creating !  That is really why we are here in paper craft land, right ??


And this week at The Kraft Journal our theme is "seeing red."  Love to have you join us !!

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