Kaisercraft| Under the Gum Leaves Showcase PT.2

Hello!

Welcome back to the second half of my Kaisercraft Under the Gum Leaves projects, my youngest celebrates his birthday right after Christmas and can I be honest? I decided to use this line because it coordinates with Grandma's jacket perfectly! I have also used the Creative Scrapbooker Magazine December sketch:

I fussy cut the leaves from one of the patterned papers, these are the same leaves I used on all my tags in my previous post. The evergreen bough and floral die-cut are from the Under the Gum Leaves card stock die-cuts. The red accents are Wooden Flourishes which have been sprayed with Dylusions Ink Spray in Postbox Red and, once dry, coated with Sheer Shimmer Stix in Gold and adhered with liquid glue.

To create the title I applied embossing ink through the Altenew Feathered Leaves stencil, coated in Altenew translucent embossing powder** and then heat set. Letters are cut with the Altenew Bold Alpha die**.

This next layout documents a family day trip taken to the Royal Tyrell Museum or as we refer to it: the dinosaur museum.

This layout began with the fussy cut leaves from the "Gum" paper and was also inspired by the November CSM sketch:

After trimming the photos, papers and laying out everything on a sheet of Vicki Boutin foundations paper I felt like something was missing so I dug through my stash and pulled out an old 12x12 Prima stencil and sprayed the pattern with Hickory Smoke distress ink. I then added large patches of color with Ken Oliver Colour Burst powders and water.  After all was dry, I applied texture paste through the same stencil.

The final colour applied was Altenew Grapevine ink** over the texture paste. 

The layout is embellished with fussy cut leaves, flowers and die cuts and journaling handwritten on kraft card stock.

Here is a look at all the products available in this line in the store:

Die-cuts

12x12 Collection Pack

Curios

6.5"x6.5" Paper Pack

Sticker Book 

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Holidays!

Product Showcase: Kaisercraft Under the Gum Leaves

Happy Holidays All!

I hope you have been enjoying a wonderful holiday season, Rosie here to share a few projects using the Kaisercraft Under the Gum Leaves line. This is a unique Australian-themed holiday collection, in lovely muted Christmas greens and reds.

The card stock die-cuts contain a number of animals native to Australia so I figured a good way to make use of them was on Christmas gift tags.

I die cut tags from Kraft card stock and a Tim Holtz die from my stash. I then layered patterned paper, fussy cut leaves from one of the patterned papers, the die cut. The sentiment on this tag is from the sticker sheet.

I used the sticker letters to make this sentiment and added some Nuvo Crystal drops.

This sentiment is from the card stock die-cut pack. I added interest to this background by applying embossing ink through the Altenew Feathered Leaves stencil, then heat embossing with Altenew Translucent Pearl embossing powder.

Lastly, I lightly inked it with Black Soot Distress Oxide ink.

All the animal die cuts are adhered with foam adhesive to add dimension.

Autumn Red Nuvo Crystal Drops embellish the sentiment tag and bird die-cut.

I now have gift tags ready for next Christmas! I'll be back with more projects in a few days so stay tuned!

Thanks for stopping in :)

Taylored Expressions| Poinsettia & Pine

Hello All! 

Rosie back with a couple more Taylored Expressions Christmas cards, featuring the Ponsettia and Pine stencil. 

First up is a card front stencilled with Nuvo Glacier Paste in Frostbite and the Ponsettia & Pine stencil over navy (admiral) bazzil card stock.

I taped the stencil to the back of the card stock to hold it in place while I applied the paste, then removed the stencil and set the card stock aside to dry.

Make sure you clean the stencil right away or at least place it in warm water until you can wash it off. The paste likes to stick to the stencil.

The sentiment is from the Taylored Expressions Simple Strips Christmas stamp set which is a genius stamp in combination with the coordinating die. It stamps 18 sentiments all at once which can then be die cut all at the same time with the matching die, such a time saver!!! 

I kept this card simple adding just the embossed sentiment strip and Autumn Red Nuvo Crystal Drops.

This card combines the Poinsettia and Pine stencil, Pine Clippings die and Christmas Simple Strips.

I inked white card stock with Iced Spruce Distress Oxide ink and then used my heat tool to dry it.

Next I inked the stencil with Evergreen Bough Distress Oxide ink. The pine boughs are cut out of glitter white card stock with the TE Pine Clippings die and adhered to the card front with liquid adhesive once it was dry.

A sentiment strip adhered with foam adhesive over the area the pine boughs are layered and a few Autumn Red Nuvo Crystal Drops complete the card. So easy to create different looks with one stencil!

Thanks for stopping by!

Think Outside the Pocket

Christmas is here! Well at least it is for me!

This month I am playing with a new line from Kaisercraft called Let it Snow. Wow! Enabler alert, check out this unboxing video to see all the goodies Scrap Shotz sent me to play with: 

You can find all these products and more from Scrap Shotz at https://www.scrapshotz.com/searchresults.asp?Search=kaisercraft+let+it+snow&Submit=

As soon as I started riffling through the papers and embellishments I knew I wanted to create my 2019 December Daily with this amazing collection. I love teal and silver as a Christmas color combination and knew if I threw in some red cardstock from my stash this would make a perfect December Daily 8x8 mini pocket page album. So fun!

Today I wanted to highlight the pages in this mini album that are outside of the pocket. Yup, outside of the pocket! When creating a pocket page album, I like to make sure I add some embellishments to the outside of the pocket and some themed shaped cardstock pages too. I find with mini albums you can do so many fun things to add texture and interest to the album.

Here are a few examples from this project to help inspire your plans for this year's December Daily (which is approaching too quickly, its almost October already!)

Cluster your embellishments with some in and some out of the pocket:

Consider not using a pocket page protector and making a feature or title page:

Include a few pages that are cut and decorated to match the theme of your mini album:

I will be sure to share more of this album as I create and cannot wait to post a full flip through video too. Are you thinking about your December Daily already? I would love to hear about it and see what you create! Please tag us @scrapshotz on your social media when any of the fabulous products in our store are part of your projects, we would love to ohh and ahh!

Less is More, Sparkle City Sure Does Sparkle

Hello crafty friends!

This month the amazing Scrap Shotz team sent me some of Shimelle's Sparkle City collection to play with and, wow, talk about colour and vibrant and silly and fun. My favourite!

As with all of Shimelle's amazing collections, this one is full of purples, pinks, reds, greens and all the amazing patterns. The puffy stickers are gorgeous and the die cuts are so cute (think smiling cartoon pigeons and little french fry containers) - some of them are even holographic!

Take a peek ...

To be honest with so much colour and so many options (the paper pad alone has 48 sheets), I was a little overwhelmed. I wanted to play with all the things. So I started small. Small photos and a small amount of product. A 'less is more' approach to get the Sparkle City spark going.

My approach ...

In my photo stash, I had two tiny (2x2 inch) colour photos of my crazy nephew following me around a tourist shop in Victoria, B.C. wearing a plastic horse mask. I was laughing so hard at his antics I could barely take the photos  - so they are horrible. But good photo or not, this memory had to be scrapbooked. Besides how good does a photo of an 11year old in a plastic horse mask need to be?!

Now usually with a bright collection, I use neutral or even black and white photos and very large photos to help bring some calm to the layout. However, this is Shimelle's collection and I feel she is all about colour and would appreciate a more vibrant approach, so I went for it - a big colour, but a small product and photo, approach.

You can probably see that I used very little product - less is more with the super bright and cute collections for me. I used 4 die cuts (the camera and the little city building), two small scraps of paper behind my photo and roughed up the edges to bring some mess and dimension to the layout, 3 tiny stars, 3 phrase stickers and a title. A lot goes a long way with this much sparkle!

I really wanted to draw the eye to the tiny photos so decided to place the photos cluster on a two-tone watercolour 'mess'. I chose purple and red as those are two of the colours of the little die cut buildings but also because I just love these two colours together. I simply found some red and purple watercolour paints in my stash and used the packaging technique to smoosh a puddle of wet paint onto the page. Yes, smoosh is a technical term - all the mixed media gals are using it (wink, wink). 

Once assembled, I finished off the layout with some journal pen stitching around the border of the page - this is where you literally freehand lines down each side of the page with a couple of random squiggles as if the "sewing machine" got all caught up. Then added a few matching purple and red splatters. I like white space but only so much. 

I love how this layout turned out! Off camera and before it went in the page protector, I added some freehand horizontal lines below the photo to the bottom of the page and added my journaling. I was chuckling to myself as I wrote- what a ham my nephew is. Oh he makes me laugh! 

Now that I have cracked open the Sparkle City vault - I am dying to make more, off I go!  Hope you all have a few mins to get crafty this weekend too.