Posts from — March 2010

Hi all! It’s my blogging week here at KaiserCraft, and I have so much to share!

First off, I am excited to share my layout using the GORGEOUS Devonshire collection. I finished this page well over a month ago, and I have been just dying for my blog week to hurry up and get here so I can share it and all of my other projects and pages with you. All week long the blog is sure to be jam-packed with lots of eye candy and inspiration!  There were so many fab collections for the Q3 release, and I loved playing with all of them, but I think the Devonshire collection is my fave thus far.

“Green Eyed Boy” by Nancy Burke. Material used: Devonshire collection papers- Victorian Rose (P479) (back), Clarabelle (P482) (front), Aurora
 (P478) (front and back); diecuts (DC312); rub ons (RB849); ink pad (IP708); embellishment pack (EM910); pearls (SB789), Other: crocheted lace doily, leaves, flower punch, scalloped border punch, sewing machine, thread.

While knee-deep into Spring cleaning, the idea for this pretty page background hit me! I had been washing and freshening up all of my linens and washable decor, and came across a pretty cotton fabric doily with crocheted lace edging and a single lace butterfly sewn into it. I realized that the doily was the perfect size for a scrapbook page! The crocheted lace was just around the edges, so it was easily trimmed off, as well as the butterfly. I had no second thoughts about cutting apart such a pretty decor piece, since afterall, I had plenty more doilies where that came from, and it was done in the name of scrapbooking, so it was for a good cause. I stitched the lace edging to a circle cut from patterned paper and voila! Instant background!

For the butterfly, I simply created a tiny paper tube “bead” by rolling up a 6-inch by 1-inch triangle around a bamboo skewer. I then attached it to the center of the butterfly “body”, gave it tiny pearl “eyes”, and used a black pen to hand draw the antennae and dotted line. 

For the layered flowers, I hand cut several from the patterned paper, curled all the edges of the petals, and shaded lightly with brown ink. I also used flowers punched from the paper as well as flowers from the embelishment pack. I used a variety of pearls for the flower centers. I finished off the flowers by tucking velvet and paper leaves under the petals.

So lets see some of your inspired creations using some odds and ends decor items from around your house! 

Thanks for looking!

One of the great things that sets Kaisercraft apart from other manufacturers is their outstanding range of Beyond the Page projects.  Thing is with the BTP projects…as much as I love them, I really like to try to make my finished project look different from everyone else who is starting out with the same raw materials.  It also needs to be something that I can actually use, rather than just a pretty display item.

This time around, I decided to combine more than one of the pieces to make a co-ordinating set to help keep my family organised. Rather than a photo stand, I thought it would be fun to make a place to sort out the pile of mail that seems to accumulate on the counter each day. The front faces were perfect for an embellished title plate.

Materials used: Devonshire papers, paper, pad, Kaisercraft chipboard alphabet, Kaisercraft mini alphabet stickers, Devonshire embellishment pack and rubons.

You only have a few short days left to get your March sketch entries in! Here’s one last sketch for the month!

Enjoy!!

Here’s what Renee had to say about her layout:

“I rotated the sketch and used two 6x4in photos rather than a 5x7in photo”.

Materials: La Di Da papers, die cut elements, embellishment pack, blach rub-ons, La Di Da 6 x 6in paper pad, wooden flourish (SB730), rhinestones (soft pink), paper flowers (baby pink), rub-ons (SB544 and RB806), mini alpha stickers (MA501), Chipboard (small numbers and punctuation).

Don’t forget to share your creations into our March sketch gallery – you can win a $25 collection pack!

At the end of March (in only a few days) we will be selecting a winner from the March sketch gallery to win a $25 collection pack of their choice (6 patterned papers, die cut elements, alpha stickers and rubon pack)!

And for our digi followers, here’s this week’s FREE digital template and sketch made by Sandra,

“I created this template based on my layout which I made for the Loire Valley release a while ago. I made my layout with the Candy Shop kit”.

To download this week’s template, just click on the image below!

And here’s the layout Sandra based her sketch on:

And here’s another layout she created using the template:

For any of our digital kits, head to our digital site to grab one today!!

Show us how you’ve used Sandra’s digital template for your chance to win two digi mega kits of your choice, valued at $19.98. Before the end of the month, upload your creation here to be in the draw!

Did you know Kaisercraft have 19 digital collections to choose from?

Head over to our Digital website to check them all out!

This week Leah has created a gorgeous simple layout using our rough and tough kit

“I loved working with the rough and tough kit! The grungy patterns and textures are perfect for scrapping our boys…”