Hello February!
I swear I was only just
welcoming in the New Year the other day! This year is certainly off to a speedy
start...which made it especially good to see all of your CAR; LIFE IS A HIGHWAY
CHALLENGE layouts. Thank you to all who participated in last month’s challenge,
the K+ Facebook Community page is looking fantastic!
Now, onto the February
challenge.
INSPIRED BY THE
SEASONS
As always, the graphics were created by our very talented Amanda Hall.
Seasons Challenge.
The Kraft Plus Design Team
We had the fabulous
opportunity to live in Ontario, Canada for 3 years - we certainly embraced
living life with lots of pretty white stuff!
Winter has always been
my favourite time of year. And in the midst of a dreadful hot summer, I find I
am pining for it. Living in North Western NSW we don’t often get snow close to
us but a particularly wet & cold winter brought snow to the top of the famous
Mount Kaputar just an hour & a half’s drive from us. Bring on Winter.
‘To find she was so perfectly alone’- I have here a
photo captured on a mornings walk in the midst of winter. I have tried to
capture blue hues here to set with the winter theme. Those who know me, I tend
to do a lot of walking especially early mornings, my favourite time of the day.
Winter might be cold, but I do find it invigorating to be in the outdoors and
starting my day this way. TFL, Amy
Autumn is my favourite
season, mild days and cool nights. This photo was taken outside my classroom a
few years ago, the colours looked so vivid in front of the blue sky.
Guest Designer
This month we are
thrilled to have 2 fabulous Guest Designers join us, please welcome...
Archie Fleming
I am Archie, I am a few weeks off 80 & began
scrapbooking & crafting in my early seventies, inspired by my friend Raquel
Manson, a regular contributor to the Kraft challenge. I think of the Four
Seasons as nature's colour wheel, creating an infinite number of beautiful, but
very different, images around the world, images that change every moment in
time.
Kylie Gw
I have been IRL scrapbooking for over 20 years now,
but moved to digi scrapbooking about 10 years ago. I love the freedom digi
gives me and I can use my photo computer skills and creativity combined. I find
Kraft+ challenging and really enjoy sinking my teeth into it. I work full time
and love painting (artwork). I try to make my digi scrapbooking pages look like
an IRL page most of the time and rarely go to a full Photoshopped type style. I
love including journalling and the story-type aspect and getting the balance of
colour, textures and items just right on the page. I have been a guest designer
for many different challenges and groups over the years and won many accolades.
But I mainly 'scrap' to record my life, if only for me to look back on and
remember things that happened or the tidbits that usually get forgotten. For my
layout…Frank is a very special person to me. He and his wife were like second
parents to me. I wanted to highlight the colours and feelings from the
challenge example without being too literal and display the scrapbooking pages
I did that included Frank over the years. I tried to include highlight items
that Frank loved - movies - the film strip, his garden - the rose, and cats and
all our talks together - the cat item. All those seasons we spent talking and
sharing good (and sometimes bad) moments.
You can find Kylie and her blog HERE.
You can find Kylie and her blog HERE.
Thank you to both Archie and Kylie for joining us this month :)
Each month we are on the lookout for eye-catching
projects for potential Guest Designers to join us. There is nothing extra you
need to do, just share your layout or project in the Kraft+ Community Facebook
page. We hope you all embrace the opportunity.
We welcome all kinds of Kraft
entries for our challenges, from a traditional layout, cards, digital layouts,
art journal and tags etc., just please remember that it is all about the Kraft, so we want to see Kraft as the base or
‘hero’ of your creation.
You can share your K+ creations
with us on our
We no longer have the ‘linky’
tool on the blog, but would still love to see your creations. Anyone who is not
on Facebook, can email us their creations and if you have a blog, a link to
that so we can still visit.
Our email is kraftplusaust@outlook.com
That's it for the February
challenge. I do hope you enjoy and find time for this month’s challenge.
We can't wait to see what you
all come up with this month :-)
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