Friday, February 1, 2013

Kiwi Lane Blog Hop




Hi!

Welcome to the February Kiwi Lane Designs blog hop.  If you are looking for the Scrapbook Steal's Blog Hop, please click here.

Welcome to my blog, Mama's Sanity.  You should be joining me from Sherri Thompson's blog. 

Here is the order for the Kiwi Lane Design's hop.  If you didn't start at the beginning, please jump back to Kiwi Lane and follow along.  There is so much inspiration on everyone's posts!!!

1. Kiwi Lane http://kiwilane.com/here/blog/
2. Cathryn Hanson http://www.catscrapcreations.blogspot.ca
3. Staci Jones http://www.scrapbookingischeaperthantherapy.blogspot.com/
4. Rebecca Keppel http://www.myclutteredcorner.com/
5. Melissa Dehne http://abitofscrappygoodness.blogspot.com/
6. Jessica Arrant http://errantscraps.blogspot.com
7. Charissa Miller http://www.akihasmommascraps.com
8. Sherri Thompson http://www.sherrithompson.blogspot.com
9. Kristy MacKeen http://www.mamasanity.blogspot.com <---You are here!
10. Sherri Funk http://faithandscraphappiness.blogspot.ca
11. Roselyn Riley http://prettylittlepackages.blogspot.com/
12. Lisa Anderson http://scrappingobsessions.blogspot.com
13. Leslie Prinkki http://www.scrapsofmine.blogspot.com

Remember to hop through all the blogs.  Kiwi Lane will pick one comment from all the blogs to win a $25 gift certificate to their store (http://www.kiwilane.com/kld_shop.html).  Comments need to be made by 11:59 pm, Sunday, Feb 3rd.

If you haven't worked with Kiwi Lane templates before, I hope this hop inspires you to try some of their templates.  I began scrapping about 3 years ago, but find my pages come together so much faster with my KLD templates.

I thought it would be fun to show you what inspired me for today's layout:


This is actually the cut off from a piece of MME Lucky in Love paper.  I had used Clara Lane 1A facing one direction and then another on a previous layout, and this is what I had left.  It reminded me of a fish, so I decided to grab some of my ocean pictures from last year's summer vacation to make my layout.  I was hoping to incorporate this "fish" in my layout, but it didn't end up working in the end..

The Accent 3 template (star) and Tiny Accent 3T reminded me of starfish (more inspiration here!), with their rounded points, so I cut them out and ran them through the Cuddlebug Tiny Bubbles embossing folders to give them a starfish texture.  I also folded the arms just a little, then added a thick pop dot in the middle and thin glue dots at the ends of the arms to give it a little height and definition on the page.
 
 
The final layout was made using Amy Tangerine's Sketchbook and Trinity paper, some My Mind's Eye trim ands, as well as some Basic Grey tidbits.  I created an 8.5"x11" collage from some of my favorite beach pictures, then split the picture at a natural "spot" to create this two page layout.  The "splashes" of color were made with Heidi Swapp Color Shine.  I used the following templates on this page:

Accent 3 & 5
Tiny Accent 3T
Clara Lane 1A and 3A
Abbie Road 1B
Sweetheart 4
Tiny Tags 1
 
 

Here's a little surprise bonus for you.  I have a set Sweetheart templates to give away to one lucky commenter on my blog.  In order to win, you must be a blog follower, so make sure you click Join This Site over on the right hand side!

Thank you for stopping by.  Hop on over to Sherri Funk @ http://faithandscraphappiness.blogspot.ca and share the love.

Cheers!
Kristy

63 comments:

  1. Great 2 pg lo! I joined your blog followers.
    Hopping on, Have a great day!

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  2. I love your layout and joined your blog followers

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  3. I really do love how you did the 2 pager girl. Keep up the great work!

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  4. I am so jealous your two pages look so nice! I also love the lo you did in the post above this one! :o) I ma a new follower!

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  5. Two hops in one day, what are the chances?! I just adore this 2-pager you've created, it's gorgeous, and fabulous use of the templates. So nice to have joined up with you for this. Thanks to Kristy for brining us all together.

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  6. LOVE the starfish idea, so cute! Great 2-pager.

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  7. LOve the 2 page layout! Great usage of Kiwi Lane templates.

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  8. Gorgeous work my dear and I adore those little starfish.

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  9. Super cute layout! Those starfish rock! I'm a follower :)

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  10. Love the starfish and the journaled bracket. I'm a new follower and it's so much fun seeing different techniques

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  11. Beautiful layout! I am a new follower! Love your blog.

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  12. OMG the starfish! How clever. I like to incorporate the embosser on my pages as well. The brown paper you used as your background, was it already splattered or did you add that? It reminds me of sea glass. I am a new follower. YAY!

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  13. Your starfish are GREAT. the embossing is perfect. Love the waves.

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  14. This layout makes me want to go to the beach! Too bad it's the dead of winter and the closest warm beach is a bit farther away than I'm willing to travel today ;) Great layout and I'm in love with the starfish!

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  15. Your beach layout is perfect on this wintry day! Love it!

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  16. Love the LO! Thanks so much for the inspiration in using my Kiwi DT's.

    Darlene
    desaucier at bellsouth dot net

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  17. Great job! I just love seeing 2 pagers! this one is beautiful!

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  18. Love everything about your layout!

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  19. I LOVE the starfish!!!! What an amazing idea to use with my cruise photos!

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  20. So much to love about this LO Kristy!!! The embossing, the starfish, the little clusters, the misting, the SMILE picture frame!!!! You are one crazy talented girl....and I am so happy I get to be inspired by your work everyday!!!!

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  21. Great LO !! Love the colors you used too !!! Already a follower :-)

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  22. I am so glad I signed up for Kiwi Lane's Blog Hop to be delivered to my inbox :) Awesome ideas for a tool I have absolutely LOVED using!!! Can't wait to get my $25 prize ;)

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  23. Great Layout! Gonna follow you now

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  24. I really like the beach theme and I love the tiny star fish..Must have these...

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  25. Love that you have so many pictures in the layout. Always a challenge. Especially love the yellow square which highlights one particular picture. Never thought of that. Will definitely recreate this page for my albums. Thanks.

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  26. How neat that you used the left over piece for inspriation for your layout! ;)
    Blessings,
    Valerie
    P.S. I am a follower! ;)

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  27. What a fun layout! I am a follower now

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  28. I love the way you made your starfish, how extremely creative!!! Your whole layout is very appealing to the eye and I love the colors that you used. Thanks for sharing in this blog hop, and I am now a follower...would you like to follow me? www.aworkofheart.blogspot.ca I would be honored to have you!

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  29. Clever, clever textured starfish. Also love the yellow "polaroid" frame highlighting the lower picture. Really creative work.

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  30. SO CUTE!!! I love the photo collage and how you used the die cut Polaroid especially.

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  31. I love, love love the starfish! Love the texture it brings the layout! Thank you for sharing!

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  32. Fun layout and I love the creative use of your templates!

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  33. I love how you textured your die cuts, Great Job!

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  34. Gorgeous layout design. Love these templates, they do speed things up.

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  35. Love your layout. The piles of layers on either side of the photo block is awesome.

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  36. FUN layout, Kristy! Using the star template to make a starfish was a great idea!

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  37. thanks for the inspiration and explaining your thought process for your layout, love the layers really set off the photos

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  38. great texture idea for the starfish

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  39. Such a fun layout! Love the starfish.

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  40. I like the look of waves from your templates. You are a wonderful designer.

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  41. Love that texture on the starfish and the splashes of color on this layout

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  42. Those patterns work so well as waves!

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  43. Ok, I am totally impressed with the starfish. Simple idea, but I wouldn't have thought of that, so neat!! :)

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  44. Love what you did with the star! I do pictures of beach layouts so new embellishment ideas are always helpful!

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  45. love the starfish...and the whole layout :)

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  46. I like where your inspiration came from - that free association thing. Too bad the fish didn't work in the layout.

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  47. The textures make the cut-outs jump off the page - great job!

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  48. Kristina, I am simply SMITTEN by that layout!!! love it all (esp. the craft!)

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  49. Really cute two pager. Thanks for some great ideas

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  50. I love how you used so many pictures so beautifully!

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  51. OMG! I LOVE this! I am working on beach pictures now and can't wait to do the star fish! Thank you for the idea. Joined your blog!

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  52. Love to see what inspired you and I absolutely love your layout! The paper you chose is so fitting and the pictures look really fantastic on this layout!

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  53. Beautiful layout. I am a follower of your blog. Thanks for sharing and the chance to win.

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  54. What a beautiful 2 page layout about the beach. Thanks for sharing it.

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  55. Great layout Kristy! And I LOVE those adorable starfish - great added dimension on those babies! And of course I'm a follower!

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  56. Cute layout. Love the texture on the starfish.

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  57. What a great spread! Love the way you texturized the "starfish" :-)

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  58. very cute. love the smile frame

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  59. This is such a fun summer, beach LO! I love how it turned out and especially the texture you added to the stars! Great Job!

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