Once again I forgot to look at the new January inspiration board before beginning my layout, however, I was pleasantly surprised when I realised that the main colour I had chosen was on the mood board. Lucky me! I also used a layout by Kelly Barron to scrap lift this week.
Here in my layout: 
This is Kelly’s layout I scrap lifted.
Aloha!!
It’s Hannah here and I wanted to stop in and say hello!! I want to thank you all for following The Crafty Maven Getaway!! We love inspiring you and creating content that helps you want to create, craft and share what you are working on.
This year you are going to see a few new changes especially as the year goes on. I hope you are as excited as we are about these changes.
Change 1, we are switching to only have a monthly Inspiration Piece. As much as I love making these pieces, or sharing ones the team has made. It really makes more sense to have one a month. This will give you more changes to see the team use a piece in many different ways.
Change 2, We are adding more tutorial and organizing type videos to the channel. We would love to do product reviews, and other videos that can help you in your crafting. If you have ideas or things you would love to see us talk about in the videos add it to the comments or in our FaceBook group.
Change 3, We are bringing back For The Love Of Homemade Kits!!!! I hope you are excited for this one. Khristina is going to be making her own kit from the inspiration piece and using it all month and sharing videos on Sundays. Many of the other team members will be joining in with the homemade kits too. I really hope you play along with us and share your kits and layouts with the hashtag #ForTheLoveOf HomemadeKits or share it in our Facebook Group!!
Change 4, You are going to see more of me. I am planning on doing a weekly FB Live or YT live video. I really want to encourage you all to create the things you love and love what you are creating. This month I am working out the best days to share with you all. But I promise you will see plenty of me. I will also be bringing on some of the group with me to talk about scrapbooking topics in the facebook group.
Change 5, something you may have noticed already, the design team will be sharing their layouts and videos on the blog as well. I want you to really get to know them. They work so hard to share with you. This blog is a great place to start to build that relationship. Help encourage them by leaving them lots of love and comments on either their youtube posts or their blog posts.
Change 6, We will be having 2 online crops next year. I am also hoping to do a few more youtube hops throughout the year for your viewing pleasure.
Change 7, this year I am working on highlighting scrapbooking companies that we enjoy and want to share with you. I am hoping to get product in my teams hands to help inspire you. Last year we highlighted Cheeky Studio by my lovely friend Tuesdae who is a veteran Youtube Scrapbooker and such an inspiration. I would love to highlight more scrapbookers who have worked hard to follow their dreams. So look forward to seeing some cool things from us, and maybe even some giveaways.
As we start another scrappy new year I really look forward to getting to know you and giving you inspiration that you want to see. That is my highest priority. I can’t wait to bring you some great stuff this year!!
I look forward to more chit chats and more inspiration!! Until next time stay inspired!! 
PS
Here is a look at the inspiration piece for January!
Hi! Khristina here with a super exciting new addition to The Crafty Maven Getaway in 2018. Each month, we are going to have a mood board to work with throughout the month. Hannah and I were talking and thought that it might be fun to share with you a homemade stash kit that coordinates the mood board and talk a bit about how and why each piece was selected. Then, on Sundays throughout the month, I am going to be back with process videos showing you what I create with that month’s kit. It gives you an extra special sneak peek into how my brain works to put together kits like those that you might have seen from The Secret Not Secret Kit Club.
Here is our January mood board and the source of the inspiration for this kit.
Using that piece as the inspiration, I pulled together several different patterned papers from my stash. If you want to see how and why I chose the ones that I did, please check out the process video! There is an amazing cut file from Just Nick that matches the geometric pattern in this mood board perfectly and you can find that by clicking here.
After the paper selection, I chose alphabets as well as some stamps and all of my embellishments for the kit. I wanted to make sure that I included enough different colors and elements that I wouldn’t get bored with my kit throughout the month.
Overall, I am super excited to work with this kit and I truly hope that you will put together your own stash kit inspired by this month’s mood board. I would love to have you play along with me! Please make sure to stop by and check out the video for lots of detailed information about how I pulled this kit together.
Here’s the video with all of the really good stuff!
xoxo,
Khristina