kro designs

Hi there!   Kim here  to show you a fresh way of using some of the beautiful elements in the August Embellishment Kit! To start off with, we got these beautiful Vintage Doily Acetate Diecuts !   I used them two ways.  I placed them in a random pattern on the bed of my copier and printed a page.  I then cut it to fit as a background for my planner page.  I creates a beautiful, smooth surface to write your day's tasks on in addition to using them physically in other places in your planner as well. I made this tag by using parts and pieces of the journal cards  designed exclusively for Freckled Fawn by Lili Niclass.  I also attached a piece of the acetate doily as well as the floral wood chips  to create some more texture and interest. On the facing page I again, used a ripped journal card as a header for some events happening that Friday and accented it with those incredibly clear phrase sticke...

Sweet Dailies Hi there, Kim here!  #whoohoo!! Daily pages for me care so much fun to create!  I have, basically, 8 x 14 inches of blank standard pages to prettify using the 'Sweet' Kit. After drawing 4 vertical lines to use as columns, I took some pattern paper up top below the day to start with candy striping.  Then, I started to segment my pages even further using ephemera to designate areas of attention. Don't forget to look all your kit options, including packaging, to use on your pages. The kit's large alphas are overlapped here to mimic the handwriting font they are.  The label stickers designate as headers while the phrase stickers help encourage me along my day! In this spread,  much like others, I try to focus my attention on each task by taking a quick second and going over the first letter with my pen.  It's such and easy way to turn any un-perfect handwriting into something a little more polished. Thanks for joining m...

Memory keeping and planning are just about the same thing.  For scrapbooking, pocket page, travelers notebook or whatever form of memory keeping you do,  you have limited space to tell a story marked by time pictures, drawings, any physical things that conveys a memory using supplies you choose.  Everything about planning, I think, is the same as those keepsakes we treasure; you choose the foundation, supplies and content.  The only difference between the two is the story. In planning's case, the story is right now, current, or is yet to come. It's all about thinking ahead to make those future events tangible and creating the story we want to have told by what occasion, task or intention that is coming around the corner (or the next page)! Remember that you are the artist controlling you're own direction creatively in this planning endeavor.  Enjoy it for creating sake and use your killer skills to direct your daily, weekly and yearly path with b...

Making travelers notebook dashboards are quickly becoming one of those things I HAVE to do when I'm feeling crafty.  There's something about creating a girly, bright and cheerful visual entry into a section or at the start of your planner.  I really helps set my mood! So when I saw this free printable on the Fairytale Scrapbook Club Blog I snatched it up and got right to work! Since I loved the 'Girly and Strong' collection so much I had to buy a digital edition to my already depleted contents of the physical version.  I printed out (with my laser printer) the word cut files which were the basis of the gold puffy stickers in the physical kit , onto clear matte sticker paper.  Then, I foiled them in a bright greenish blue that is almost perfect for the kit colors. After the fun foiling, I began work on the design of the dashboard! I ripped off the bottom of my summer card which I had resized for the dashboard and then atta...