Kaisercrafts Wildflower Collection March 2017

Just a few of the samples made with Kaisercrafts Wildflowers Collection for the Stitches Trade Show that was held at the NEC a week or so ago. I absolutely love this collection, it's so pretty and one of the new Kaisercraft releases for March.

Elizabeth x

Kaisercraft Hanami Garden Collection February 2017

Another one of the stunning new February releases from Kaisercraft, this one is called Hanami Garden, and I have to say it's another beautiful collection. The Jones Crafts stand will look amazing at the Stitches Trade show with all these fabulous papers on display.

I love the mixture of red, pinks and black that have been used, it works beautifully.

The foiling and speciallity papers are just gorgeous.

Just look at the shine on that foil!

This is such a great collection, and would cover any occasion for both male and female.

Well maybe the parasols are a little more for the Ladies.

Again there are great sentiments, collectables and stamp sets to accompany the new collections.

Check back next month as I share a few of the new March releases ;)

Elizabeth x

Kaisercraft February 2017 Island Escape Collection

How beautiful is this new collection from Kaisercraft. It's called Island Escape and it's one of the February 2017 releases. I've been making samples with lots of the gorgeous new collections for Jones Crafts ready for the Stitches Trade show taking place at the NEC.

The sandy beach papers are just stunning, they look like you could just dip your toes into that warm water!

The Seahorse is one of my favourite Kaisercraft dies, they cut so beautifully and don't stick!

I love a little fussy cutting and these flowers make the perfect embellishments.

The speciality papers take the ink really well, with the embossing creating a great resist for ink.

I just love all the tropical designs, bright flowers and beautiful patterns.

And as always Kaisercraft have such great sentiments in their collections.

I'll be sharing another of the new collections on Saturday.

Elizabeth x

Kaisercraft Advent Calendar - Silent Night Collection

I had so much fun putting the Kaisercraft Advent Calendar together and then decorating it. I chose a selection of papers from the silent Night Collection, one of which has small square images that are the perfect size for the drawer front and backs.

I left all the numbers in the chipboard surround and brayerd over with Martha Stewarts Lake Fog paint and popped aside to dry. Then I brayered the drawers with the Sycamore Bark paint, making sure they were all dry before turning over and doing the other side.

Once the drawers were dry, I glued them together with a good strong wet acrylic glue, before dry brushing some of the Lake Fog paint around the edges.

 The Advent Calendar itself needs a a little patience and a few spare hours to put it together, before you can start the fun part of decorating it. I used Lake Fog to paint the main Calendar.

I cut out all the drawer fronts and backs, then using a 3/4" circle punch, punched half circles in the paper that would be on the front of the drawer, before using wet glue to attach them. I covered the back of the draws, so that when the day had past and the draw had been emptied, it could be turned around so the numbers no longer showed.

I chose a busy pattern to cover the outside of the calendar, as you need a strip of paper longer than 12" this way it was easy to disguise the join.  With a happy Santa paper to decorate the centre panel, and a sentiment cut from another sheet, all that was left to do was add some glitter to the now dry numbers and add them to the drawer fronts.

A Mermaids Tail Kaisercraft Album for Jones Crafts

I've been having a play with one of the Kaisercraft Round 3 1/2" Albums. They are a great size to play with, whether it be for a mini brag book or for themed album. I chose to use one of this months new releases from Kaisercraft called A Mermaids Tail. The papers are such beautiful shades of lilacs, pinks and blues.

 The Geo Quarters stencil has a fabulous "scales" section, just perfect for a mermaid tail, used here with clear paste and glitter.

There are some fabulous word strips along the bottom of the papers, so be careful not to chop them in half, I cut mine off before I start working with the papers, then they are safe.

 I also used the Nautical Die and Stamp set elements as they match in perfectly with the papers.

And of course lots of sequin bubbles!

I used texture past through the Geo Quarter stencil on the outer covers, gave it a couple of coats of gesso and painted it with the new Kingfisher Blue Metallic paint from IndigoBlu.

There are also a few floral papers mixed in along with the seaside theme.

And I just love this saying............

See you soon, Elizabeth x

Kaisercrafts Coastal Escape Collection

I love the Coastal Escape Collection from Kaisercraft, and made this 8" square canvas out of some of the left-overs from the Stitches samples, I waste nothing!!!

The background started with lots of die cut pieces glued into place and a coat of gesso added over the top.

When that had dried I added Glass Bead Gel and spritzed with a mix of Perfect Pearls and Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays, before building up they layers of distressed papers.

The frames are from the £1 stall at the craft shows and the birds and heart I made using one of the Mod Podge Molds. The square frame fitted the sentiment from the Coastal Escapes 6 1/2" paper pad perfectly.

To finish off I added Nuvo drops and of course I have to have sequins, I am an addict lol.

Elizabeth x

BoBunny - Garden Journal Collection

I love my DT box from Jones Crafts, Nottingham this month, it was absolutely crammed with gorgeous products. Candy Box Crafts have brought out a new stand for Distress Inks that holds 60 of the pads. As with all of their products it was so simple to put together as all the pieces have letter's to match up, and then add a little glue it couldn't be simpler!

The new Garden Journal papers from BoBunny are just yummy, soft beautiful greys, creams, pinks and teal, all with a garden theme including birds, journal pages, eggs and plants.

I gave my stand a colour wash of watered down gesso and finally decided to use the beautiful grey feather paper to decorate the outside. Then to add a little more colour and to loose the very clean look, brushed over some evergreen bough distress ink, perfect, now I have a very pretty shabby chic ink pad stand.

Finally time to print out new colour labels from Sir Tim and get my rainbow of inks in their new home :)

Elizabeth x

Rustic Harmony from Kaisercraft

I've been catching up on making samples for my demo next month for Jones Crafts, and over the next few weeks I'll be sharing my projects here on my blog.
It's been ages since I did any scrapbooking, but when the gorgeous new Rustic Harmony papers from Kaisercraft landed, how could I resist!
The papers are all double sided, which makes choosing which side to use the hardest decision, as everything mixes and matches so beautifully.

The colours are so beautiful, soft and vintage, I didn't want to add too much else to them, just some plain card, Prima Flowers, pearls and cotton lace from my stash.

There are card embellishments and also a sheet of gorgeous clear stamps to match, which will make an appearance soon!
This photo is one of my favourites, my big Sister, my beautiful Mum and me scrubbed up! We didn't know the picture was being taken at the time, so it's very natural which I love.
Will add another page on soon, thanks for looking, Elizabeth xxx