Posts from — October 2009

Have you ever wanted to put some buttons on your project but not been able to find the right size or colour?  By using your patterned paper and some chipboard, it is really easy to make your own buttons that coordinate perfectly every time.

1. Simply cut out some chipboard either by hand or with a cutting machine.

2. Then cut a piece of coordinating paper the same size.

3. Glue the paper onto the chipboard and when dry punch two small holes.

4. Ink around the edges and your button is done.  You can even jazz it up further by stamping, or using rub-ons and adding a clear dimensional gloss over top.  It’s that simple.

Materials: Lilac Avenue paper collection, Lilac Avenue Die cut element, Lilac Avenue Black and White rub-ons, Ink (amethyst), Rhinsestones (SB705), Paper Flower (Snow).

Hi all! We hope you had a fantastic weekend!

We did, and came back refreshed for another fun week! This week we’ve got our usual Tuesday’s Tips, MONSTER inspiration from our Design Team, sketches and more! Next week we’ve got a special blog post planned just for Christmas Crafts! Stay tuned on Tuesday 3rd Nov for some fun Christmas Crafts, cards, layouts, projects and giveaways!

Although…. now for today’s inspiration!!!

A sweet layout from Fran showing us how to jam 5 photos into an 8.5×11 inch layout!! LOVE IT!

And Rona’s gorgeous layout featuring our 4th sketch from the Q2 magazine, check out the sketch on last Sautrday’s blog post….

Now! Have you seen us on The Scrap Review? The gorgeous Ashley gave Kaisercraft’s Pennyroyale and Offshore collection an amazing review. Head on over to check out her amazing work she created using our lines and the review!

And now for some inspiration from YOU!! Wonderful layouts and projects we found in the Kaisercraft Gallery, thanks so much for shairng your amazing work! Make sure you upload yours, and you might be selected for a feature on the blog!!

The first, a cute photoframe for “Kerryn Lawson”, “I made this to show off our yearly santa photo . It uses a Kaisercraft photo frame and wooden christmas embellishment as well as one of my favourite christmas lines, an oldie but a goodie – Winter Wonderland.”

Why not grab a triple frame set (SB2062) and make your own Christmas keepsake?

Or how about this cute layout from “Crystal” using our Sugar Sugar collection! How ‘sweet’!!

Or how about this cute layout from ‘Sonia Thomason’? We loved her sweet photo and gorgeous embellishment cluster using our paper flowers and Belle collection!

And this cute layout from ‘Belinda Spencer” in our Dear Santa collection caught our eye in October’s sketch gallery! Love your style Belinda!

And who could resist this cute layout from Kerry?? Awwww…

Thanks so much for sharing your amazing work guys! Till tomorrow….”Happy scrapping”!!

From Rough and Tough to floral delicacy, we know you want more choice when it comes to digital collections…so here comes Bloom!

Feedback about our most recent release showed us that you love boys’ kits, but now we’re hoping you’re just as keen for a pretty, girly collection in cute pinks and greens, all ready to scrap up with delicious bows, journalling tags and plenty of cute flower elements.

And if you’re lost for inspiration, we won’t let you down – you can always check out what our talented designers have done with this gorgeous collection on the digital site, where we’re featuring layouts and pics of hybrid projects created using each of our mega kits.

Just click on each of our mega kit links (found under either the kits or collections tabs on the digital page) and look in the image gallery to find four great – and very different – projects using the products in our mega kits.

Here’s just one layout made using Bloom, click here to see more…

And if you haven’t already used your 30 per cent off digital purchases coupon, which is on page 5 of your Q2 magazine, get to the digi site before October 31 and download something cool to get your discount…there’s plenty of awsome stuff to choose from so don’t delay – go digi today!

A super sweet and super fun sketch this week! Renee show’s us that themed sketches, like this weeks don’t have to be used for that theme (Christmas in this case).  We love your work Renee! Gorgeous layout!!

Materials: Lilac Avenue paper collection, Die Cut Elements, Brads, Alpha Stickers, Chipboard Alphabet #3, Amethyst Ink Pad, Black and White Rub ons.

Now it’s your turn! Don’t forget to share your creation in the October sketch gallery!!

Oh my goodness, get excited…here comes our first digital quick page and it’s available to download for FREE right now!

This funky little number, called Dare to Dream, was created by one of our very talented digital fans, Carole House, using nothing more than our free Tag This kit and her imagination.

Can you tell how much we love it??

Quick pages like this make digi scrapping a breeze…just follow these four easy steps and you have an adorable layout ready to print or email to friends in just seconds! All you need to do is:

• Open the quick page in Photoshop Elements
• Add a photo
• Right click on the photo
• Click “send backward” to place your photo behind the photo frame

And just like that, a brand new layout featuring your own photo, quick as can be and easy as pie! This is perfect for anyone who’s ever wanted to try digi but wasn’t sure how to get started, and is an easy way for traditional scrappers to test the waters of digital.

We hope you enjoy playing around with it as much as we did – don’t forget, you can also embellish your layout once you’ve printed it, to get the best of both worlds!

You can find Carole’s awesome quick page here…and once you’re done, you know where to find the gallery, because we can’t wait to see what you can do using only YOUR imagination.