catchup!

Its not that i haven't been doing a lot of crafting the past couple of months, I really have! Its just that I haven't been great in documenting it. I'm trying to turn that around this week so there will be a flurry of entries to try and get me back into the blogging swing of things! Above is a drawer bookend by Kaisercraft decorated in Konichiwa papers from basic grey. pretty yes?

Saturday Sketch

January #1 Kaisercraft Saturday Sketch challenge using the Hummingbird collection. This is the perfect summer collection with a lovely mix of brights and pastels.

Long time no see!

Sorry for my long absence. I had a very busy handmade Christmas and was generally offline most of the silly season. I didn't even upload my xmas projects! But things have settled down and I'm back to some totally self indulgent paper crafting. Kaisercraft's January releases were quite different. I steered away from 'lil primrose' but really loved the saturated colours of Hummingbird. There will be at least two other projects using this collection. Loved it!

Long frame

My daughter bought me a whole stack of great scrap supplies for my recent birthday. It seemed only fitting that I create something that centered on her and her little brother. These kaisercraft frames are great because there isn't too much painting t o do and they look great really quickly. I have visions of filling my walls with these things!

Little Toot

After taking a bit of a break from it I am back on the Kaisercraft bandwagon. There latest ranges have been fantastic. I particularly impressed with Little Toot - a great boy range that is perfect for my little guy. I think what Kaisercraft are trying to do is provide the 'complete' project. The papers correspond perfectly to the mini albums and frames and the embellishments can be used in so many different ways. Cute I think.

Little Toot

I had a lot of fun playing this weekend with Kaisercraft's new range Little Toot. It's rare for me to get my hands on new release papers at the start of the month. I usually like to see what the design team present first to get a good idea of the flexibility of the collection and buy things week three. Is that weird?I knew when I saw the preview at the end of June that this one was a must have for me so I actually had it arrive on the 1st July! My son Thom is an avid train fan (not just Thomas the Tank Engine, we are talking real trains - its crazy!)
In fact he likes anything the toots, beeps or honks. He seems to also really love looking at the minis I make of him, he is the star of the book after all.
Kaisercraft have recently introduced sticker sheets to the collections and they are fantastic. The chipboard elements in this range are great too because they have lots of dimension (see the cloud? awesome)
I was going to use their train wooden album but I've already used it twice! So the arrow worked well I think.
A really really fun Sunday afternoon project and a great new range for Kaisercraft.

Saturday Sketch June #1

I've been away for a while, with not much time for scrapbooking. It was exciting to get home on Sunday to find lots of little parcels from my favourite online stores. I thought I'd stretch my scrap muscles a bit last night and do a layout based on a Saturday Sketch from the Kaisercraft blog. Because I'm more of a card maker and a Beyond The Page project gal I find sketches really helpful in pushing me in new directions. It's great to be home!

Materials: Up Up and Away range - papers, chipboard and rub ons

Wooden frame, dots all Kaisercraft - title American Crafts Thickers.

Ribbon box

Kaisercraft ribbon box for a crafty friend. Love the Class of 87 papers. Easy 1 hour project.

door plaque

I absolutely love the Party Animals range by Kaisercraft. I have 16 different kids in my world (my own, friends, family, neighbours) so there is always opportunities to do kid friendly stuff. Wolfgang turns One next week and at the same time is moving into a room of his own. So of course a door plaque was in order!

More Tags

Enjoyed making my Christmas tags so much I went ahead and did another set, this time using the very pretty Chanteuse collection by Kaisercraft. I'm not so sure, but do those rosy blooms look a little like spooky eyes with the pearls in the centre?

Bug Boy Mini

Mothers Day Project
What can be a better treat for mothers day than for the whole family let me just scrapbook all afternoon? And that's exactly what I did. Last week Thom and I found a caterpillar in the garden and decided to give it a little home in the cubby. He was fascinated by it, feeding it leaves, putting some dirt in a container for his new pet to roam around.

I used Kaisercraft Jungle bug papers, mini leaf album, green paint and rub ons. A lovely memory and a lovely way to spend mothers day.

Card Making

For Christmas this year (you know you are already thinking about it crafty ladies) I'm giving some overseas friends sets of cards that they can use throughout the year. Some birthday, generic, get well soon, bon voyage and baby cards. They are for non crafters who love receiving hand made gifts especially useful ones.
I've used Up Up and Away for the more masculine and Secret Bird Society (both by Kaisercraft) for the feminine cards and I just love them. I call this my TV crafting - Masterchef is perfect for that! I also used Basic Grey card stock, it's lovely and matte and takes glue and tape really well.

placecards

well it's a busy week for me! so much Easter crafting to do before Sunday. Bubblegum Hills again - great fun. I picked up the rhinestone bling for $1 - gotta love the bargain bin at the Kaisercraft outlet

cutie

I'm really interested in doing a 6x6 album. I prefer the smaller scale I think, it suits my style. Kaisercraft paper pads are perfect for this. I'm really loving the Bubblegum Hills collection for my Easter crafts and I think it really worked well on this too.

Experiments

Using Bubblegum hills a lot because of Easter coming up. stretched my making muscles late last night and did these little artworks using scraps. frame stamp is from the Lullaby collection. everything is Kaisercraft at the moment because I'm getting a DT application ready.

foily butterflies

I'm doing a tonne of Easter projects at the moment and Kaisercraft's Bubbblegum Hills collection is perfect for this. I'll show more of these next week but for now a quick card. inspired by the work of scrap genius Kristina Werner - if you haven't seen her work jump here...

Cafe Life

The Kaisercraft Saturday sketches are a really good way of picking up new lay out ideas and techniques. This is there 2nd one for April and it was great to try and adapt the sketch to my own design.

Mix it up

Using Kaisercraft's Hippy Girl paper, Lush die cuts, wood flourish, paper flowers, small and large alphas, green and black pearls. This is for the Kaisercraft April Mix it Up challenge. Too much fun on a sunny autumn afternoon

Tin

Once in a while in our house we treat ourselves to a TV dinner. Last week I broke the beautiful porcelain beaker I usually put the cutlery in. I think this tin, decorated with Kaisercraft's new Nan's Favourites range, with wood flourishes, mini alphas and gingham ribbon will do the trick from now on.

coasters

Great quick project made easier by using my Martha Stewart circle cutter. using Kaisercraft's Secret Bird Society again - plan to use every last scrap of this collection I love it so! I also used kaiserpaint - a base of sea breeze and distressed with raw umber and coated 4 times with mod podge. It was a nice way to spend an hour in the evening that's for sure. A nice birthday gift too!