Kraft+: July 2018

Hello Krafters!

Here in Australia it is the last month of Winter

and gardeners are out in their gardens

getting ready for Spring.
Pruning their roses, fertilizing their soil, re-potting plants etc.
And, speaking of pots.. terracotta pots that is... we have our next challenge for you!

Be inspired by Terracotta

You could be inspired by the pots themselves and create a garden page.

You could be inspired by the colour terracotta and team it with another colour to create a stunning colour combo (think teals, yellows or blues!)
Or you could find inspiration in Amanda's brilliant graphic.

We look forward to seeing what you come up with!

We welcome all kinds of craft as entries for our challenges, from traditional layout, cards, digital layouts, art journalling and tags etc. but please remember that it is all about the Kraft!!

You can share your K+ creations with us either in our

Facebook Kraft Plus Community Group
OR via the inlinkz in the sidebar

The Design Team

have come up with some stunning and clever ideas to inspire you all

I was inspired by our graphics with the terracotta tiles and also this

colour scheme that I found on pinterest.

Using my distress oxide inks (again!) I created my background with a stencil and stencil brush (best new tool ever!), and I thought this photo of Uluru was a perfect match for this colour scheme!

For this challenge Louise has used some terracotta coloured paint with a favourite stencil, to create a background for a coordinated colour photo

I struggled to get started with this one.

But Sandra Brimelow wisely advised me to start with the photo and go from there. This photo was taken at a local botanic gardens which has a desert garden (a great terracotta colour) and then I have used some paint in the background to tie it in.

I've made a card for this month. Stamped woodgrain background on Kraft

This challenge had me scrabbling around in my hundreds of travel photos for inspiration.

I finally came across a few photos of a mural in a little country town in S.A. and managed to stitch a few of them together with the help of you tube.

As suspected I had lots of trouble finding terracotta in my stash! I picked my photo based on the terracotta hues in it and then took inspiration from the Aztec-type patterns on my scarf (one of my favourites). The photo is a recent one of my sister and I on her 40th.

I was inspired by the colour of the bricks, but also the different colours in the challenge graphic. I wanted to try to replicate the look of the bricks in the photos, so did a lot of mixed media to them. Terracotta comes in so many different colours, so I have tried to represent this with the flowers.

The terra-cotta reminded me of bricks... so created my bg based on them.

Hi..Here is my layout for August to be inspired by Terracotta.. I love this older photo of my two sitting in a big pot I bought for my garden.. My they have both grown so much since this day!! TFL!

My inspiration came from the shape of the tiles, hence why I grabbed this stencil, which I used with the gel plate, then misted after it had dried.

I broke a small terracotta container to add to the layout Inspired by the idea that we are but fragile vases but that we can be remade to be whole again.

Kraft Plus Guest Designers

Melinda Sweetman

I was truly stumped with the prompt this month and whenever I don't know the answer I ask my friend Dr Google! Dr Google showed me a tonne of photos of the Terracotta Army and lots of terracotta pots. I then googled terracotta pots and got lots of photos including cactii! Which lead me to google Cactii quotes and I ended up with this one!! The lovely Gwen will be releasing the cactii cut file in a few days and I knew it would be perfect for this page so off I went!

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Lisa Marie-Watling

For this one, I allowed my mind to wander far. My first thoughts on tiles was 'roof'. And from there it snowballed to house, home and a poster I have up in my home titled "What I love most about my home is who I share it with". Home is not just bricks and mortar; home is those you love. My daughter is my home, my love, my life, my everything.

I love where the inspiration took you Lisa-Marie

Lisa's Blog

And there is our challenge for you this month.
How will YOU be inspired by Terracotta?
We hope you play along :)
Until then
Happy Krafting

Hello again Krafters!

I'm not sure where the months are going,

it is hard to fathom that it is already

JULY!!

Thank you to everyone who played along with the
Dr Seuss challenge, we just loved seeing all of your

interpretations of his quotes and also to those who have embraced

our new direction and have been joining in on the

conversations and games in our Facebook Community

This month the challenge is...

Warp and Weft.

Incorporate some
WEAVING

onto your creation.

Graphic designed by Amanda Hall

Criteria : Kraft + Weaving

We welcome all kinds of craft as entries for our challenges, from traditional layout, cards, digital layouts, art journalling and tags etc. but please remember that it is all about the Kraft!!

Your work MUST be on a KRAFT BACKGROUND (not merely mounted on Kraft) to be eligible.

**Please take the time to read the RULES before participating.
you can participate by uploading your entry via the inlinkz section in our side bar or via our
Facebook Kraft Plus Community Group

A Sad Goodbye …

It is with sadness that we say goodbye to

Belinda Jane Spencer

from the K+ Design Team.

Belinda has amazed us time and time again with her amazing talent

and with her stunning interpretations of

the K+ Challenges and has also been

wonderfully supportive behind the scenes.
Thank you BJ ( ;-) ) for your support and friendship.
We wish you all the very best with your future endeavours.
xx

and an Exciting Introduction

We have

TWO NEW

talented designers joining our K+ Design Team

I am sure these girls will knock your socks off with their

future K+ inspirations.

Please Welcome

Sandra Brimelow

(I think it is safe to say that Sandra has always been an unofficial

K+ girl right from the start.. playing along with all but one K+ challenge.)
Thank you Sandra for your continuing support and it is so wonderful to make you an official K+ Girl :) x

and

Rachel Rigden

K+

Design Team

Inspiration

(Wow Girls!! Such brilliant inspiration! )

"For this challenge, I have woven ribbon through lace, used hessian with a very woven texture. I also used Threads from the hessian to lay across the hessian, essentially appearing like it is woven, The Charms heart has woven fabric on it as well."

I started with the large cut file and an idea to weave some paper through that. It didn't really work as well as I'd hoped. I love working with embroidery thread so I decided to make the large heart instead (also a cut file). When I put some Crate Paper Good Vibes paper behind the large cut file it looked awesome. I just love how well the purple-blue in the Good Vibes works with the Kraft. I popped up the Kraft chevron with a couple of glue dots to give it dimension. In the end I was really happy with how this one turned out.

"I saw some paper weaving using book paper and that is where I started! I used my gelli plate to add some colour with distress inks to my book paper and also took some prints on deli paper and plain paper at the same time. I used all three types of paper to weave a background mat for my photos and decided to also weave directly into my background. I love how it turned out!"

"Don't you just love it when a skerrick of an idea comes to life on the page, just the way you hoped it would? My weaving was done with ripped up jeans, kindly donated by this Girl's Grandfather."

Janice has used plasterers tape and some brightly coloured thread to create stunning focal points

and has also included some subtle stamping of a woven pattern.

When I put the weaving on the paper, it looked like more of a weaving challenge than a kraft one. Pulled out some stamps and made some matching paper and embellishments to put a bit of focus back on the Kraft

I used a stamp with a weaving pattern, weaving patterned paper, hessian, some charms with weaving material, dies with a weaving pattern and chipboard too. I think that is it!

"She weaves magic everywhere she goes" I used my old Creative Memories cutter for this...too easy! I'd lose half my fingers with a blade & ruler

The underside actually looks so good that I'm tempted to use the back too. Thanks for the challenge Sandra, not sure I'd have done paper weaving otherwise

"I did some paper weaving then cut stars out from it!!"

"Ten cms of weaving made it on the page!"

"Loved this challenge.

I did some "chunky" weaving on my back ground and added some ribbon in the weave too.. TFL!"

Louise has incorporated weaving in the most brilliant way and in typical Lou style.
*sigh.

Using some paper weaving for my take on the challenge

Used my Gel Plate to make backgrounds, cut them into strips and wove them. Stuck to some card, then die cut all the circles!!! Loved this challenge, although, it did test my patience a little