April Crafting Retreat Make and Takes

Hello Friends!

I'm back today to share the make and takes from my April crafting retreat.  As I mentioned in yesterday's post, this month's theme color was Daffodil Delight so I wanted to use that color in all of the make and take projects.

Here they are:

I am particularly in love with the 2nd one (with the Pool Party card base).  I didn't realize how well Daffodil Delight and Pool Party would go together, but I just LOVE that combination ... and you just can't go wrong when you put a doily on a card!  ;)

Keep watching for details on my May Crafting Retreat coming soon.  Or subscribe to my blog on the left hand side of this post so that you will automatically get an email when I post my events.

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim

April Krop with Kim Crafting Retreat Recap

Hello friends!

This past Saturday, I held my April Krop with Kim crafting retreat and I wanted to share the details with you.

Every month I choose a color to be the "theme" of our day and April's color was Daffodil Delight.  I just love that color so much and it was so easy to do lots of cute things with it.

Before I get in to the details, here's a peek at the room we meet in.  All those huge windows provide FABULOUS natural light for crafting!  (And the view is pretty great too!)

Each person had their own reserved space with goodies waiting for them.  I also set up a "make and take table" for my guest to use to make their make and take projects for the day.  Here's a peek at that table:

I'll share the actual make and take projects with you tomorrow, so be sure to check back!  Now ... let's take a peek at all the goodies the ladies had waiting for them:

As you can see, I had a pretty good time with my inspiration color this month!  Everything at this space was for my guests to keep.   Let's look at all the details.  

Each guest had a name card waiting for them:

This month was the first month I issued a "Kim's Kollectable" purse charm and I just love the idea!  Every month, my guests get a purse charm they can hang on their purse or craft bag that coordinates with the theme for that month.  Here's the April Kim's Kollectable charm:

I had an idea that I wanted to give my guests lemon scented sugar scrub, so I reached out to my friend Quinn (QuinnEssentials on Facebook) to help me make some.  Not only did she help me make some sugar scrubs, but she also made my guests some cute little lemon scented soaps!  She's awesome and the ladies really liked those added goodies.  Here's a picture of the sugar scrub, soaps and their little trash can for their craft spot:

I wanted to provide a beverage for the ladies to enjoy during their crafting time and these cute little holders went perfectly with my theme this month.  I just tucked a little packet of Crystal Light lemonade in there.  So cute!

Finally, I mentioned that there were make and takes.  I provided three cards for the ladies to make.  I always like to type out some instructions for them (including helpful tips) and then I like to package their make and takes up in a cute little package.  Here's the instructions cover page:

And here's the cute little package of make and take supplies.  (Try not to take note of the less-than-perfect coloring job on the letters .... I had a little 8 year old helper who might not be as much of a perfectionist as his mother).

Well .... that's it!  It was a really great day and I believe the ladies had a really enjoyable time.  (I know I did!)  I'll be posting details on my May Crafting Retreat soon (think "new catalog sneak peek").  Tomorrow I'll have our make and take projects up for you to check out.

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim

Come Craft with Me!

Hello friends:

I am so excited today to share news about my next Crafting Retreat.  Before I announce the date and theme, let me share a little bit about the event with you.

Krop with Kim Crafting Retreat is a full day of crafting fun (and a little spoiling) for you and your friends!  Who doesn't need that?  You pay a small $20 fee and here's what you get:

• A six foot table all to yourself from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  You can stay all day, come and go, or just come for a couple hours.  Your space is yours all day to use as you choose!  You can stamp, scrapbook, make jewelry, knit, sew, whatever will make for a relaxing and fun day for you!  (If you will need electricity, I need to know that when you make your reservation.)
• I provide three make and take projects with everything you need to create them except for adhesive.  If you need to buy adhesive, I will have some on hand for $6.95 or Stampin' Up! refills for $4.50.  Our make and takes will usually be cards, but may sometimes be gift items. When we make cards, I don't provide envelopes, but I do provide an envelope punch board if you would like to make your own envelope.  (Just bring your favorite paper with you.)
• You get access to all of my paper crafting tools which includes my Big Shot die cutting and embossing machine, all of my cutting dies and cutting framelits, all of my embossing folders and all of my punches.  If you are a paper crafter, you'll enjoy punching and cutting lots of different shapes to use in your creations.
• You will get an exclusive "Kim's Kollectible" gift for each retreat you attend that ties in to that month's theme.  
• I provide other little gifts to help make you feel special during your day with me.
• We have an optional pot-luck lunch.  Everyone brings a dish to share with the group.  I provide the plates, napkins, cups and plastic ware. 

My crafting retreats are held in the cafeteria of on the campus of St. Pius High School.  Here's a peek at the space:

As you can see, we have LOTS of space (this picture actually only shows half of the cafeteria).  Each of those tables has three chairs at it in the picture.  Your fee secures one full table just for you for the full day.  You can also tell from this picture that we will have lots of natural sunlight and a gorgeous view for our crafting day.  Here's a look at the view from our crafting retreat:

Are you ready to invite a friend and come join me?  Here are the details for my next retreat:

Retreat Date:  Saturday, April 25th 

Retreat Time: 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Location:  St. Pius High School Cafeteria (Coors and St. Joseph's Place)
Theme:   Every month I choose a Stampin' Up! color to create a theme around.  April's color is Daffodil Delight!  

Fee:  $20 per person

RSVP is a must!  The deadline to RSVP and pay for the April retreat is Friday, April 17th at noon.

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR THIS RETREAT

I hope you will be able to join me for this relaxing day of fun and friendship!  If you have any questions, please call, text or email me.  I am excited to spend some crafting time with you!

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim

Krop with Kim ~ March Make and Takes

Hello Friends,

Welcome back!  Today I am sharing the make and take projects my guests made at my first crop.

Since we were only a week away from Easter, I decided that an Easter card was in order:

Unfortunately, the stamp I used on this card (Easter Blessing) is retired, but I love it so much and it worked so perfectly with the current Designer Series Paper (Painted Blooms) that I had to use it.  We used our Blender Pens to color the image in and added a Tea Lace Doily to give it a nice finish.  I love the way this card came out.

The second card we did was also inspired by some Designer Series Paper (Birthday Bash).  The card is not really a birthday card, but the paper works great with it.  The sentiment (which I LOVE) is from the Blessed by God stamp set.

I neglected to take a good picture of our final make and take, but I think you get a good view of it on the far right in this picture I took of our Make and Take station:

I decided to do a Paper Pumpkin kit for our final make and take and this Wish Big Paper Pumpkin kit was one of my very favorites!  It came with all the supplies you need to make SIX cards and SIX boxes!  (And they're totally adorable!)  If you are thinking about subscribing to Paper Pumpkin, TODAY is THE DAY.  Today is the final day of Sale-a-Bration and our three month pre-paid subscription is on sale through today.  AND ... if you get the three month pre-paid subscription, then you also qualify for a FREE Sale-a-Bration item!  Today is the last day, though, so if you want to take advantage of that deal, CLICK ON OVER to my website to subscribe today.  

Thanks so much for stopping by today.  I hope you will consider coming to my next Krop with Kim event (details coming on Monday, April 6th).  

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim

Krop with Kim is Born

Hello my friends!

I hope you all had a wonderful and restful weekend.  I spent part of my weekend hosting an all-day crop and I wanted to share all the details with you.  When I decided to host this crop, I didn't really have a name for it so I just called it a crop day.  (Boring!)  I had so much fun, though, that I decided I want to make this a monthly event and so I needed a better name.  I'm not sure it's a lot more exciting, but I settled on Krop with Kim for all my future crops.  (Yes, I know Krop is spelled wrong, but I was being clever.)   ;)

So anyway ... let me share the details of our weekend.   I was blessed to have seven lovely ladies join me.  I provided three make-and-take projects that they could work on during the day (more on that in tomorrow's post) and then they just spend the rest of the day working on whatever projects they wanted to do.  Throughout the day the ladies worked on various projects like scrapbooking, making Easter gifts, preparing card swaps for events they were participating in, and making wonderful gifts for a family reunion.  There was so much creativity in that room and it was SO FUN hanging out with all these ladies.

Here's what the room was set up like (it's the best "wide angle" shot I could get):

You're actually only seeing half of the room in this picture, but I'll get down to some details in the following pictures.

The ladies had access to all of my punches, my Big Shot, all of my dies, embossing folders and framelits.  (My good friend, Michelle was my inspiration for how I set the punches out ... under each punch is a piece of paper with that shape punched from it.  That makes it easy for my guests to see that I have a particular punch but that someone else is using it and it makes it easy for me to make sure everything gets put away before I pack up for the day.  Michelle's so smart like that!  More on her in a bit.)

Each guest had an entire six foot table reserved just for their use for the day.  I set up the tables with goodies before they arrived (another great tip from Michelle).  Here's what their spots looked like when they arrived.  (As you can see, I ended up kind of going with a red and black theme for the crop.)

Here are some of the details of what was at each spot.  They had everything they needed for their make and takes in a nice little package (tied with a red bow, of course):

I found these adorable little pinwheel flower clips and had to get them for my guests.  They were a perfect little finishing touch at their spots.  I neglected to buy one for myself!  DOH!  Next month, I'll remember to treat myself as well!

Each guest got a morning gift and an afternoon gift.  This was the morning gift ... one of our Stampin' Up! spritzer bottles filled with alcohol and some re-inker.  

Every crafter needs to stay hydrated, so everyone got a bottle of water coordinating with our red and black theme (that blue lid KILLS me, but I digress)

Since I went with a red and black theme, I decided to give each person some Real Red cardstock, Basic Black cardstock and a few sheets of paper from the Stacked with Love Designer Series Paper Stack.

I wanted to put a name tag at each spot and I think these ones came out pretty cute.  

I mentioned my friend, Michelle.  Well, I never attended a crop before until I attended one of her Scrapbook Weekends.  She is AMAZING at hosting these events and after attending her last event, I was inspired to start hosting crops myself (although I'm not quite ambitious enough yet to host an ENTIRE WEEKEND)  So basically everything I've learned about hosting a good crop, I've learned from Michelle!  

You should definitely CLICK ON OVER TO MICHELLE'S BLOG to see what she's up to.  Thank you, Michelle, for being such an amazing inspiration to me!

I mentioned that everyone got a morning gift ... everyone also got an afternoon gift!  (Originally I was going to do a morning gift and then door prizes, but I decided I wanted EVERYONE to be a winner and feel a little spoiled, so I opted to do afternoon gifts for everyone too.)  Here's their afternoon gift.   I used our most recently released photopolymer stamp set called Just Kidding.  I think it is super appropriate for a crop gift, don't you?  Inside the bag, everyone got a package of our Tea Lace Paper Doilies.

Well, I think that sums it up for today!  Tomorrow I'll be sharing the make-and-take projects that I provided for the crop and then on Wednesday I'll show you what I worked on all day on Saturday.  I'll take a break from blogging for the Easter Triduum and then I'll return next week to share my plans for April's crop.  I hope more of you can join me in April.  I love spending time with my fellow crafters and I love being able to pamper you just a bit in the process.

Until next time, friends, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim

Butterfly Beauty

Hello friends,

It's been a little while since I blogged, but when I made this card for my mom, I just knew I would want to share it with you.  I just love how it came out:

The butterflies are from the Sheer Perfection Designer Vellum Stack, which you can only get FOR FREE with a $50 purchase during Sale-a-Bration (which ends on Tuesday, March 31st!)  The vellum is kind of a grey tone and comes with 2 each of 12 different prints.  I colored the back side of the vellum with markers and I just love the way it came out!

If you want to snag some of this paper, be sure to place your $50.00 order before the end of the day on Tuesday.  You can shop online at my store by CLICKING HERE.  Once your merchandise totals $50, you can order this vellum (or another Sale-a-Bration item of your choice) for free.  The code for this vellum is 138639.

Be sure to check back next week (hopefully Monday) for all the details on the all day crop I'm hosting tomorrow.  I am expecting seven wonderful ladies and it's going to be a great day!  I'll share pictures on my blog on Monday.  Hopefully you can make it for my next crop which will be on Saturday, April 25th.

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim

All Day Crop!

Hello friends!

I am getting ready to host an all day Crop and I want YOU to join me!  First, check out all the details below:

Do you not currently have any projects you are working on?  Would you like a project to do that doesn't require that you purchase all kinds of supplies?  Check out all the awesome kit's Stampin' Up! offers.  You can view the kits and order directly FROM MY ONLINE STORE.  Orders placed by Friday, March 20th should be received before our Crop Day.

Another option you might be interested is Paper Pumpkin.  If you aren't familiar with Paper Pumpkin, it's a great little kit that comes with everything you need to make fun projects.  Most projects can be completed within 30 minutes.  Read more about Paper Pumpkin and SUBSCRIBE HERE.

If you have any questions about this event, please call, email or text me.  The deadline to RSVP for this event is Friday, March 20th.  (If you place an online order by March 20th, I will contact you to see if you wish to RSVP for the crop as well.  However, you are not obligated to place an order in order to come to the Crop.)  Whether you place an order or not, the Crop Registration is $20 due by March 20th.

I look foward to seeing you there!  It's going to be a fabulous day and this is an event I am planning on repeating on a monthly basis!  You deserve this little retreat!

Until next time, here's wishing you many creative adventures and a very blessed day!

Kim