The Cutest Sugar Cookies

The Prima Marketing Inc., Sugar Cookies Christmas Collection Scrap Shotz sent me to play with this month continues to be the prettiest thing on my scrapbook desk! 

The pinks and florals and crystals and retro pink Santa are so, so pretty. Last week I shared two 12x12 layouts that focused on really showcasing the ‘pretty’ of this collection (take a peek) and this week I am all about the ‘cute‘ of the collection - and that includes using photos of my little land shark Bella. 

For my first layout today I created a design to showcase the texture goodies - the ‘Say It With Crystals’ from Prima in the collection and the Picket Fence Moonshine Sequins that were included in my Scrap Shotz goodies. 

Using a piece of 12x12 Bazzill Cardstock in Avalanche, I rubbed some Tim Holtz, Distress Ink in Victorian Velvet through a Vicki Boutin stencil to create an anchor on the page for my photo cluster and the texture. I also added a few Kaisercraft snowflake stamps in Distress Ink Evergreen Bough (stamped off once before using on my page) and Frayed Burlap. Focusing the colour into a sort of diamond shape so a little would show all around the cluster.  

Then I took my photos and some of the Prima Ephemera to create layers - just tucking and adding till it looked busy - and added a gold title from my stash. Once all in place, I added confetti of sequins and crystals all over the coloured background area. And yes, I adhered each sequin individually - a labour of love! 

I finished this one off with some splatters of the Vintage Velvet (smoosh some of the stamp pad onto a piece of plastic or your stamp block, add a spritz of water and then flick the mixture with a paintbrush on to the page) and some white acrylic paint (same approach). 

Little Tip: cover your photo with a scrap piece of paper so you don’t get splatters all over it. Or sometimes I like to make the scrap piece just slightly smaller than the photo, so a few splatters land on just the photo edges. Looks especially good with winter photos and white splatters. 

For my second layout today I wanted to play with all the words! Inspired by the few phrase pieces in the Prima Ephemera pack, I decided to create more by cutting up some of the cut apart pieces and pattern paper. Then I created a long cascade of Christmas-y words down the side of the page. 

Behind the photo and words I needed a little something more - so created this pattern paper circle. I cut a circle from a scrap piece of paper and sliced it up into random pie shapes. Then I used those as a template to cut the actual pieces from the pattern paper. This is a great way to showcase more than one pattern. 

I finished this one off with a few splatters of the Vintage Velvet and a couple of short pieces of gold washi tape from Vicki Boutin, Storyteller collection to anchor a few of the word phrases. A tucked-in cute snowman to the left and right and voila! 

I am getting down to only wee bits left in my kit but think I have enough goodies for one more project - stay tuned! I have something in the works on my scrappy desk right now...

Christmas Cards - So Many to Give

 

The Kaisercraft Emerald Eve collection Scrap Shotz sent me to play with this month continues to bring a touch of Christmas to my scrappy space - never too early to get into the Christmas spirit! 

If you read my post from earlier this week you will have read ... wait for it ... I have never made cards! Nope, never, not a thing in my wheelhouse, too intimidating to give something I made away, reserved for the scrappy experts out there, etc. 

Well Emerald Eve inspired a change of mind and now I can’t stop! Card making is for everyone! The fantastic green tones with touches of country vintage cream and brown and pops of bling Christmas gold in this collection are so much fun to play with that I just had to keep playing and playing and playing. 

Here are a few cards I made with this collection (you can see more in the post link above too): 

Literally the only supplies from my stash I brought to the Emerald Eve card making party was some vellum, Distress Ink (Gathered Twigs), 2 gold washi’s from Vicki Boutin collections, and white card stock for the card base. I did use a stencil and one of my dies too. But wow, so many cards made and I still have goodies left to play with. 

Lots of paper and embellishments and more from this Kaisercraft collection in the Scrap Shotz store! What are you using for your Christmas card or December scrappy supplies? 

Christmas Cards - A First Time for Everything

This month Scrap Shotz sent me Kaisercraft Emerald Eve to play with - what a beautiful collection! All the great greens of Christmas with a touch of brown, cream and gold. The collection gives me a bit of a country feel but with a classic gold Christmas pop thanks to all the beautiful foiling. 

I was a bit torn on what to do with this collection actually. The design seemed to beautiful for my December Daily project (I tend to go on the sillier side because, well, my family is amazingly silly) and I was not quite ready to create Christmas pages. Then I came across a Christmas Card post on the Scrap Shotz Paper Crafting Group on Facebook and just like that, I was inspired! Wow there are some talented card makers in our scrappy community. 

Big caveat folks ... I have never made cards before! I find them really intimidating. Creating something you give away to others where they can see if my glue went over the edge or or or makes me a little nervous. So much more pressure than creating a page that sits in my album in my house! But wow do I love receiving homemade cards. So, give to the world what you hope to get back and all that right? 

To get me started, I scrolled and saved inspiration from cards posted on the Scrap Shotz Paper Crafting Group on Facebook and Scrap Shotz Instagram which included loads of ideas from our resident card making gurus Karla Yungwith and Rosie Neustedter. With my brain filled up on inspiration I laid out the collection and just stared to play - what fun! 

I had a few stencils on my desk, some Tim Holtz Distress Ink to shade the edges of the cards, for the stencils and to give some dimension to the fantastic wood veneer in the collection. I also grabbed the gold washi tape from the last couple of Vicki Boutin collections and that was my kit! 

Next will be to figure out who I can give all the homemade cards to. Maybe a local Long Term Care residence so the wee grams and gramps can send cards this year and not have to venture to the local card store to buy any. Hmm that's an idea. 

Are you a card maker? If you are like me and have never made cards before - honestly, do it! There is something so fun about making something smaller than my usual 12x12 and you don't have to match the design to a story or photo, its pure play! Crafty therapy at its best. 

Happy crafting!

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 :)

Kaisercraft, Let it Snow - Ready for December

If you popped onto our social media channels last month you will have seen that I received the entire Kaisercraft, Let it Snow collection bundle to play with! Pinch me, what a collection! 

Imagine teal, silver and white foundation colours embellished with loads of shiny bits and amazing wood veneers. Wait, don't imagine it, you can see all the goodies in my unboxing video  - caution major enabler alert, the collection is absolutely fantastic and we still have these goodies in the shop!   

Seeing the colours and touches in this collection, I could not resist pairing it with some red cardstock, red/white twine from my stash and a Simple, Stories, SN@P 6x8 Album from the Scrap Shotz shop to create my entire December Daily 2019 foundation album. Yup the whole thing is ready for December! 

A December Daily is a project you create by documenting December memories each day for the month of December. I created my first one a couple of years ago and loved how I found ways to bring the December spirit into our lives so I would have great things to scrapbook. Win, win - I got to experience a great memory and I had an excuse to scrapbook a little bit every day! 

So excited to show you my Kaisercraft, Let it Snow December Daily album ....

Now I just have to wait  the 47 sleeps until December 1st so I can start making holiday memories and loading up this album with photos, journaling and ephemera! I will be sure to do another flip through video once it's complete in January. 

Do you December Daily? We would love to hear about your project!