The Scrapbooker’s Creativity Kit: Prompts And Ideas To Jump Start Your Layouts by Claudine Hellmuth. Memory Makers; Pap/Crds edition (January 14, 2009)

First of all a confession – I am not a scrapbooker and I never will be. I don’t have the patience for it – but this little kit is so totally cute that I am almost tempted and know others will be too. It may be about scrapbooking but it is also perfect for those who collage, do mixed media or just want to experiment with paper and pretty papers and drawing.

This little creativity kit includes prompt cards with ideas and pictures to kick start your creativity and the little booklet includes artwork from scrapbookers such as Rhonna Farrer and Donna Downey and examples of different scrapbook layouts.

Totally cute and not just for scrapbookers.

I like to do a lot of my handwork as I patiently wait for life to run it’s course. It keeps my craft room full of great gift items and my hands out of mischief. Plus, it makes the time go faster than any gossip magazine I have ever read!

I keep a couple of traveling kits always ready to go. I have a small felt stuffed toy kit and an embroidery kit packed up in cute little wicker suitcases which I got at the thrift store. I never unpack the tools in these, to eliminate frustration on the road.

In My Felt Stuffie Kit I keep:
Small sharp scissors
A couple spools of thread
A few cards of embroidery floss on a key-ring
A needle book with pins and needles
A small book I made with envelopes with patterns inside
A baggie with poly-fill
A couple of tiny baggies with eyes ( beads and glass eyes)
And b.b.s to weigh down the bums the top heavy critters
A few pipe-cleaners and a wire cutter for armatures
And, of course, small scraps of felt.

In my Embroidery Kit I keep:
Small sharp scissors
Carded embroidery floss on a ring
A hoop
A project and a folded back up project
Extra needles

It is amazing how much you can accomplish in the waiting areas of the world.

There a plenty of great resources for free and inexpensive patterns (often offering the instant gratification of ‘download-ability’) which you can use to fill your new kits with addictive projects.

Check out:
The Puchi Collective’s Pet patterns
Futuregirl’s Sealife
Allsorts Scottie (I would make him 50% smaller.. because I like them smaller)
Turkey Feather’s Lambkin

I also just gobble up the cute Japanese felt toy books:
Like this one, or this one.

As for Embroidery patterns, I love:
Needlecrafter
Turkey Feathers PatternBee
Florisita’s Vintage Transfer Finds
Mrs. Stitchy Britches

Author: bitty Betty

So, pack it up, and get crafting!
So much to sew, so little time.