Create 10 Simple Recipes - share your work

Over the next 10 days and beyond you can share what you make from the Create 10 Simple Recipes classes right here. Leave a comment with a link to somewhere online where you've uploaded your finished project. I'll be keeping a peek out for some projects to win some spot prizes along the way.
Prizes will be given out 10 days after Create 10 has finished, (15th March 2011) so you have untill then to get busy.
Have fun!
xx Leo

More from the Cute Things Quirky kit

As mentioned in my previous post, here are two more layouts I created with the kit.

I really loved the vibrant colours of the Sassafrass papers. This red heart pattern was a particular favourite. We don't have a dog ourselves, but the cute little puppy on the card and sticker were just perfect for a page about my youngest daughter's love of dogs.

I added glossy accents to the puppy sticker and some more of those little heart punches, as well as the arrow on the printed card I used for the title. A few gems and a bit of (very messy) machine stitching were added as extra details.

I had fun mixing up all the different elements and textures on this page. More messy stitching here too (I really can't do anything else with my machine!) and just lots of bits and pieces layered together. The envelope flap has been left open and the journaling placed inside the envelope.

I die cut some circles for the sun and layered with a couple of the stickers, and put the yellow heart pins around to act as sun rays - a simple but fun little touch.

My computer crashed before Christmas and I lost all of my fonts. I only recently had a font downloading session and one I found happens to match just perfectly the fun glitter letter stickers. The font is called Cheri and in the download you also get an outlines version (called Cheri Liney, I think). I printed out the extra words I wanted for my title onto a scrap of white cardstock then coloured them in with a Sakura glitter pen.

I really loved that the cardstock in this kit had such variety. There is the gorgeous orange bling, the beautiful embossed swiss dots as well as the other vibrant colours.

Oh and there are still more creations to come! I'm challenging myself to use as much as I possibly can with what is in the kit.

xxx's

Suzanne

Cute things make me smile!

They do - and this kit was no exception!

Hi there from me - Suzanne Torr (aka fruitysuet online) - and a huge thanks to Leo for giving me this opportunity to guest design with this cute and funky kit. It's filled with goodies and lots of little things to oooh and aaah over (as did plenty of people at crop where I was working on this at).

So far I've done four layouts, half way through a fifth and planning either yet another layout or another little crafty something.

I'm going to break down posting my projects into more than one blog post, because there is just too much to fit into one.

I really liked the mix of papers provided - I have a boy and two girls so it gave me the flexibility to scrap both and even, like on this page, boy/girl on one page. The heart edged die cut paper is very striking and I decided to make best use of it by cutting it down into smaller sections.

I die cut a flower from the grey patterned paper and used my little hand crimper tool to add texture, lightly inking it to emphasise that texture even more. I've layered lots of other textures here too - the 'oh sooo cute' owl fabric, the airmail ribbon and even the dotty tape that held closed the bag of embellishments!

The few additions from my own stash I made from this page were inspired by things left out on my desk (yes, I really am that messy a crafter). A small section of a rub-on phrase, tiny alpha stickers, some embroidery thread, the pointy finger stamp and a couple of brads, buttons and gems.

Oh, and I thought the cannon journal spot was so fun and ideal for this page - poor Chiara is almost constantly tormented by her big brother - sparks are always flying between them!

This next page is simply fun and girly. I used lots of patterns and layered them together. I used the clouds paper LOTS in my layouts from this kit. On this page they are the perfect backdrop for the adorable bird embellishment. I kept the wire attached and folded it to add a hint of a flight trail.

I used a Martha Stewart Border punch and used some of the tiny hearts that are punched out as a result to add some extra detail.

These sheets of journal and title cards that many manufacturers produce now are one of my favourites. I love that they make titling and journaling so easy. For the title on this page, I cut down the 'love' word from one of the journal cards, attached it with foam pads and added Stickles and a couple of gems.

I layered lots of the stickers (another of my favourite products) and die cut a flower from the clouds paper and doodled around it with a white pen to echo the style of the clouds on the top part of the page. I added in some hand stitching for yet more texture and detail.

I hope you've enjoyed looking at these as much as I enjoyed putting them together. Another post with two more pages will be coming soon!

xxx's

Suzanne

Create 10 Simple Recipes!

Create 10 online workshop is back with Create 10 Simple Recipes. Classes will run from February 24th to March 5th although as with all Create 10 classes you can work from them at anytime convenient to you accessing them from the workshop download area.

This time around the workshop is called 'Simple Recipes'. It's all about creating not in a simple style but in a simple way. It'll work to help your creating 'click' into place. The method of creating can often leave us procrastinating for ages about what to use and/or how to use it. With Simple Recipes the aim is to show a simple way to pick out supplies, put them together and make your project. It should keep your ideas flowing after classes too.
You'll be able to choose with each class what you want to make, they'll be a mix of finished samples, greetings cards, scrapbook layouts and home decor so you can make whatever you want to at the time. Along the way you'll also be encouraged to use older supplies, some of the things I've used in my samples are 7+ years old! It doesn't really matter how old your supplies are, the idea is to look upon them with a fresh eye and bring them up to date using new techniques and styles.
If you want to know more about Create 10 and sign up to this latest workshop take a look at all the details here, http://www.craftytemplates.co.uk/create10.html

Hope you can join us, we'll have loads of crafty fun as usual!
xx Leo