Julie Kelley's Design Gallery

Sometimes, when you make something...

It comes out even BETTER than it originally looked in your head :) (now, sometimes it certainly DOESN'T come out the way you think... but that's OK too :)  Anyway, at Late Night Croppers, we have a monthly Card Club... We make 4 cards in a class format, and we also participate in a card swap with each of the members... We have a theme, and make cards to share with everyone... This month we had 8 participants, and the theme was Birthday :) I made 2 each of THESE... They currently have yummy teas in them, but could easily be replaced with chocolate or a gift card... I found a pattern at Split Coast Stampers, but altered it (of course :) ).  The patterned papers are American Crafts, and the birthday stamp is Stampin' Up. There were 2 in each color...

Here's one all put together...

Here's the belly band by itself...

Without the band...

Open to the inside (with 2 different teas)...

The other colors... this one was my favorite!!

A fun and easy card

I like to have a stash of ready to go cards... That way, when I realize that I am about to miss someone's birthday, or I need a quick congratulations, or feel better card, then I have something I can use right away!  There isn't a sentiment on the card yet, 'cause I'm not sure where it's going to go :)  The pretty flowers are cut out of beautiful American Crafts patterned papers, and then I used a quick scallop punch and a couple of gems :)

Pinewood Derby

Sean had such a fun time designing his very first Pinewood Derby car!! It didn't go all that fast, but he didn't come in last!!  Here's the 2 page layout I created... I used the fun and fabulous American Crafts Travel line... The patterned papers, the cardstock, the "pinewood" and the ribbon are all American Crafts... I cut the "Derby" using my QuicKutz Diesel, and then added some faux stitching with a white pen around the edges... The arrow is pointing to his car in the big line-up :)

June Crop Shop Projects!

I am so honored to have been chosen to be a part of The Crop Shop's Design Team!! It's quite a little ride to get there, but well worth the trip :)  Here are the projects that I completed for June...

Using the FABULOUS American Craft summer papers and elements, I created these 2 layouts and card... There may be a couple more cards coming, I still have a pile of scraps to use up... These 2 layouts will be a class at the store a little later in the summer :)

Summer Lovin' 12x12 Layout using American Crafts Patterned Papers (I cut the titles from a patterned paper) American Crafts Cardstock, and the adorable little Crab is also American Crafts :)

This layout was also created using American Crafts Patterned Papers, Cardstock, and the title cut from the same paper as the above titles...

 

And then this adorable card:

 

In my package I also got a big stack of Basic Grey Patterned Papers, and the Chipboard Shapes from the Cappella, I made this Father's Day album using the Maya Road Chipboard TShirt Album and those pretty papers... The Alphabet on the front is QuicKutz Diesel.

 

 

I made a matching card...

 

Then this layout, featuring a few photos from Sean's First Communion...

and a few cards with some of the scraps...

 

Summer Fun!

This little book is going to get filled in throughout the summer... There's pull out tags, paper bags, and pocket pages for memorabilia, plus photo mats and plenty of space for journaling :) The patterned papers are AC, Dear Lizzy, Zutter 8x8 white chipbard covers, and 1.25" owires.  The "summer" title is QuicKutz Vixen, and the "fun" is QuicKutz Katie mini... Had so much fun putting this together, and now I'm on vacation, so will be filling it in pretty quick!!

 

 

It's hard to see in the photo below, but the right side page is a pocket... I scored a piece of 12x12 white cardstock at 7.5 and then folded it up... then scored again in half, and decorated the bottom half... makes a great little pocket for anything I want to add!

 

 

 

 

 

 

All American Boy

Another layout that hasn't been posted... This one uses Kaiser Craft papers, Maya Road Chipboard shapes, some Thickers and CI bling, along with adorable (if I say so myself) pics of Sean in his baseball uniform last spring!

 

Quick and Easy gift giving!!

My friend Katy came to me with an idea that she wanted to do for her day care providers... She wanted to give them a few small gift cards, kind of representing a "day out" so starting with a Starbucks card, then maybe the book store, then maybe Target or something like that... She figured she'd come up with 4 cards... and she asked if I could find a way to package them :) Here's what I came up with... Each mini-book has 4 "pockets" to hold the gift cards, a little tag to write the amount on, and a little space to write something clever :)

Both use the Zutter BIA, the Zutter 4x4 acrylic covers... Zutter OWires and the pink Zutter corner rounder. The first uses American Crafts papers, and some of my favorite Quickutz, the snowman from the "SnowDay" gift set, Maggie alphabet, circle tag, 12inch scallop border.  The second uses My Mind's Eye papers and cut-outs, along with the scallop border and circle tag... You can see more Zutter designs at the Zutter Zister's Website

Happy Holidays mini-book

For this book, I used the colored and scalloped paper bags by Creative Imaginations, and of course the super-fun American Crafts Christmas line... The QuicKutz fonts are Bright (from Merry and Bright) and Uptown Girl. I also used my big old red Sizzix machine and snowflake die to make the felt snowflakes (with some stickles and a silver brad). All bound together with my Zutter BIA and some pretty Bazzill and American Crafts ribbon!! If you want to see more fabulous Zutter projects, check out the www.zutterzisters.com site where all of our December projects are shown!

 

A fun little Sneak Peek!

Laurie at the Scrapbooker's Dream is planning a special event... the details are still a secret... but here's a little sneek peek of part of it :)

Oh... and another little mini-project... I found the template for these adorable little gift bags at one of my FAVORITE blogs: http://www.chicnscratch.typepad.com/ She has the most wonderful ideas on her site... She filled them with a snack mix, but I think they would be the perfect size for giving gift cards as well, and way more fun than just an envelope!! Here's the one I made this weekend...