kro designs

After Week in the Life  and Little Paper Projects , I have become kinda addicted to supplemental albums to highlight different themes or special times of this year. December Daily is my first holiday excursion!  I will eventually put them in an 6 x 8 album but first I wanted each of my creations to be on display as my holiday decorations since we don't have many at our hotel room.  I purchased 31 6x9 clipboards and attached them to the wall using command Velcro picture hanging strips in the shape of the December calendar.  And yes I tested them and it really does come off walls without damage :) As base of each one of my scrapbooking layout, I purchased Clique Kits, Clique Into December kit featuring Pink Fresh Studio. LOVE this kit!  So many possibilities! Here are days 1-10! Background stamping is how I added messy, one dimensional texture. Grid design with the puffy stickers and button flair. Accordion folded the October Afterno...

Thank you for stopping by for the November Clique Kits Tapestry Pep Rally!!   I was complely impressed with the deep rich tones of this kit! Clique Kits made a fall entrance with all its elegant offerings from We R Memories Wildflower collection to the dear Lizzy gold thinkers!  Working with a kit such as this was such a treat! My layout for this pep rally starts with a large 8x8 picture with a boarder of butterfly paper. I also thought that the adventure stickers could be just lovely on a similar colored sunset picture that was taken that evening. Trimming it made it look more like a tag than a picture. This is exactly what I wanted, to make sure the focal point was the large picture.   Fussy cutting some butterflies and placing them on the paper added a solid color dimension.   The paper designers did a little tricky bit, which I wonder if anyone else caught.  In between the corners of the tags, they place a 'hello...

I'm playing along this week with Mandy over at Turquoise Avenue in her weekly prompt - #hashtagthisweek. This time around we're tackling guilty pleasures.  I have many (many, many) that could be labeled under obsessive.  But currently, I'm obsessing  feeling guilty over knitting.  The onset of winter is make me feel all sorts of nesti-ness. I made a scrapbook page and cut it up to fit it in my Project Life.  Thought it could use one more dimension I couldn't put my finger on so I thought this would make it pop.  Used some acrylic from Color Cast Designs and made that dimensional as well. I used Laura Lane designs for all the journaling cards. Now...back to some knitting!!  XOXOXOX -Kim

When working on special theme albums such as Week in the Life   , #31minutesfor31days ,  or Love Where You Live,   I intentionally choose to put them in a different album than my weekly Project Life because they differ in format, size, and composition.  It's hard to understand the continuity of the projects unless your living in my brain.  Say my 15 year old is looking at my weekly album.  He won't know that I focused that month or that week on a special project if he was just flipping through the big album. My solution to this chronological dilemma is to include a little snapshot of the album and place it in my weekly album. In the case for this yellow mini album I did for #31minutesfor31days of October, I took a Becky Higgins Design I sheet ( 3 vertical 4x4 spaces) and cut off one of the pockets. Then I placed an outside and inside cover picture in the remaining two pockets and  place it in between pages of my bigger album at the app...

Signs and Signals.  Seems easy enough doesn't it - taking pictures of signs that are meaningful to you and where you live.   This is a great wrap up prompt so you can end by documenting your local roads, favorite hangout or just the simple things that make where you live unique, something that every town may not have. For this prompt I knew I could just as easily slip some pictures into the sleeves with a few journaling cards and call it done.  Now, there is absolutely nothing wrong with that approach, and I have been known to be in get'er done mode too. But... Let's finish strong.  Let's think outside our simple pocket pages or whatever type of album you're working on and make something creative with our sign pictures.  I'll show you what I did and I'll give you some ideas on how to create yours along the way. I felt like each week deserved it's own title page under the LWYL umbrella.  This Week 4 was  brighter than my normal color...

Welcome back!   I'm glad you have come to see what's been going on in my #lpplovewhereyoulive 6 x 8 project life album. We left off at the end of Week 1 with an inside home tour and a peek at some special places that I dearly love. For week 2 we are prompted to have an exterior home tour.  Since outdoor spaces is one of Southern Oregon's special charms, I was glad to oblige.   As I stated last time , I have an interior title page for each week's prompt.  I saw this upon her new release and thought it would be perfect as a cover card.  Although it would be fun, our house numbers they do not look like that on the exterior of our home:)  Just thought I would present it in a funky way. When thinking about documenting he outside around our home, I thought the time of day was a great sub category, hence you'll notice the morning, noon, night journal cards. Morning's light is always so soft and gentle here.  I appreciate it ...