Posts from — April 2010

Kaisercraft have recently released a very gorgeous selection of Alphabet stickers as a part of their range of Core Products and the colours are just scrumptious.  Today we have come up with a couple of great projects and ideas for you using the alphabet stickers packs……so grab a cuppa and sit back……

If you’re anything like me, I don’t tend to use up as many of the number stickers as I do the alphabet letters, so we thought we’d come up with some great ways to use them!  In the layout below, I decided to create  a numbered background using a couple of different colours.

“Happy Birthday baby” by Nikki Antonello: Utopia paper collection, Alpha Stickers, RB811 Birthday Cards rub-ons

I cut a piece of cardstock to the desired size, worked out  where my photos would go and used lots of coloured number stickers to create a border.  This made for a perfect background on my layout of Joshua’s 3rd birthday!  To highlight that is was his 3rd birthday, I chose black number 3 stickers to stand out from the others and placed one on chipboard to raise it from the background.

Here’s what Christine has created…..

“3.47kg” by Christine Rumley – Alpha Stickers, Tea at Elsie’s paper collection and black rub-ons, Sandstone and black ink pads, SB524 Script Lowercase rub-ons.

Christine created a background for her layout by using the negative from sticker sheet as a mask, then inking all over the numbers with Sandstone coloured ink. She then machine stitched a frame around the edge of the sticker sheet before finally peeling it off .

Have you thought of any other ways to use up those leftover stickers?

Nancy knew that using the letter stickers, along with the chipboard alphas to make each letter pop off the page, would make a perfect border to frame her page about her daughter’s love of books. You could create the same sort of border, spelling out words within’ the border.

So lets see some of your FAB creations using the fun and versatile KaiserCraft alphabet stickers!

Our very talented Creative Team member, Sandra van der Geest has been busy making hybrid cards!

“Both cards are made with a quilling technique called husking, which means that you wrap the small paperstrips around pins”.

I printed one of the butterfly brushes from the Flutterby kit first, to use as a model. See picture below!”

“The background of the card is a paper from the Candyshop kit. The text circle is a brush also, from the Circles brush kit. I erased the edges and the inner part (so the only thing left was the text itself ) and printed this together with the background paper”.

“After I finished the quilled butterfly I added some rhinestones. The antennas of the butterfly are made of a stamen which I colored black, folded and glued on the top of the butterfly’s body”.

“The flower on the other card (below) is a brush from the Loire Valley kit. Just like I did with the butterfly I printed it to use as a model. I quilled the six separate petals first. First, I attached three of these together, then made another layer with the other three and glued one layer on top of the other to make it more dimensional. The blue background is a paper from the Loire Valley kit, printed with a brush from the Love brush kit”.

“The black came from the Elements set in the Loire Valley kit. There were already some drawn stitches on this frame. I handstitched these with real thread first (also for more dimension) before I glued the frame on the background with some foam tape. I also printed the red colored flower from the Elements set in the same size as my quilled flower. I attached my quilled flower on top of it and glued it on the frame on the card”.

Next, Sandra’s also made a bunch of cards using the Flutterby kit:

“As also mentioned in the Kaisercraft Scrapping Style Alfabet in the Q2 magazine, Q is for quilling! So I used three different quilling techniques on the cards and added some elements of the digital kit”.

“For the card with the flourish and the flowers (below) , I used the ‘side flourish’-element from the Flutterby kit, digitally erased some parts to make room for my own flowers and printed this on a white Kaisercraft card. I quilled some flowers in different sizes and glued these on the card. I also printed a brush with the text ‘For You’ on the card”.

For the second card (below) with the big poppy I used a quilling technique called husking. This technique is about creating figures by threading paperstrips around pins. I printed the ‘flower-frame’ element from the Flutterby kit in a little smaller size than my card.

I used this as a model to create my quilled poppy by sticking pins on the lines and threading my paperstrips around it. First I quilled each of the five separate petals, then glued them together and attached a quilled flowerheart on top of it.

I printed the flower-frame element again, now in full color, cut it out, inked the edges and glued it with some 3D tape on my card. I attached the quilled poppy on top of it and finished my card with a black line around it.

“For the third card with the butterflies I used the paperstrips in a different way again, now by tying a sort of knot in them while wrapping them around my card. I cut two circles out of my card first. Then I used 14 paperstrips and attached them on the inside of the card in between the two circles. The 14 strips are split in two bundles of 7 strips when they come out of the upper circle and ‘tied’ in a graceful knot. I printed some of the butterflies from the Flutterby kit, cut them out and attached them on the card”.

On another quick note before we go….

Scrapbook Magazine (UK) recently had a feature article about digital scrapbooking, one of our talented Creative Team members, Kathleen was lucky enough to be featured on the cover – and her layouts featuring Kaisercraft products are also featured on page 30 – 33. To download your FREE copy of this magazine just head to their website!!

I knew I was in love when a package of KaiserCraft goodies arrived on my doorstep and I opened the box to find this Teapot Album BTP! I have seen some very cleverly shaped albums in my time here with KaiserCraft, but this teapot has got to be the cutest thing I have ever seen! I could fill a china hutch full of these adorable little albums and still not tire of them! 

I decided that since I am flying to New York City in a few days to spend time with my very best friend, this little album would make a perfect gift for her. So I filled it to the brim (pun intended) with lovely friendship sayings to let her know how much she means to me.

“Teapot Album BTP” by Nancy Burke. Materials used: BTP Teapot Album (SB2774); Utopia collection papers- Oasis (P502- back), Tranquil (P504- back), Euphoria (P506- back), Bliss (P507- back); Paper Pad (PP820); Die Cuts (DC316); Rhinestones (SB775); Rub-ons (RB809); Paint (KC043); Ink (IP701) Other- binder ring, scalloped scissors, ribbon, lace trim.     

  I know there are some serious teapot collectors out there (several of them are very dear friends of mine and are reading this right now). With the endless selection of patterned papers available from KaiserCraft, you too could create your very own collection of lovely little teapots- either to keep for yourself or to give as thoughtful gifts from the heart. 

I don’t know about you, but I can’t bear to throw out cards people have given us, especially ones given to my children. We received so many lovely cards after our daughter was born 3 weeks ago and I decided that I wanted to create a special keepsake to hold them all.  I was having trouble thinking of a storage technique that wouldn’t involve punching holes in the cards or damaging them in any way when I realised that they would fit perfectly inside the Framed Album beyond the page and the Kaisercraft A5 storage wallets! 

“Cards” Framed Album BTP by Christine Rumley – SB2061 Framed Album, Tea at Elsie’s paper collection, Devonshire embellishment pack, A5 storage wallets, White alpha stickers, Album rings

I ended up including a few storage wallets and separating the cards into the ones we received at my baby shower and the ones we received after her birth. There’s plenty of space to add more wallets later for her first birthday too! I decorated the album using papers from the Tea at Elsie’s collection and I made labels for each wallet with the same papers and also the Devonshire embellishment pack.

I might have to make some more for the other kids too!

Many years ago I saw the most gorgeous little mini album that was created by Lisa Bearnson (Creating Keepsakes magazine founder) for one of her daughters.  It contained some little facts about her daughter that she thought were important for some-one to know if anything happened to her.  I loved the sentiment and emotion behind creating such an album and when I looked at Kaisercraft’s beautiful floral tags, I decided to create something a little bit similar of my own.

Bed Timeby Nikki Antonello: Floral Tags, Tea at Elsie’s Papers, Paper Pad, Pearls, Pearl Strips, Chipboard Alphabet, Alphabet stickers, Lace

Miss Isabelle (at 5 years old) has a string of little things she has and does before going to sleep each night.  I’m quite sure some of these began purely as diversionary tactics, but have somehow ‘stuck’ and become a part of her bedtime routine.  So I thought I’d fill the tags with photos and comments about each one of these special little things.  I took photos of each of item I wanted to write about and placed them on the back of each tag, like this one below of  ”Floppy Rabbit”.

I really wanted to focus on the story behind each one of  Belle’s routines, so I created a little pocket on each of the tags and made a journaling tag so I’d have more room to write on.  I kept the embellishments fairly simple  as the main focus for me was the story.

One day when she’s all grown up and maybe even has children of her own that are driving her crazy with bedtime rituals and routtines……I’ll will turn her attention to her little tag book…..and quietly smile!

Do you want another BTP made with the Tea at Elsie’s collection.  Renee has used the Kaisercraft Recipe book and converted it into a family history folder.

“Family History”-Renee Ludlow: Kaisercraft Recipe Book, Tea at Elsie’s papers, die-cut elements, colour rub-ons, clear stamp set, ink (brown and sepia), 6×6 paper pad, chipboard alphabet # 3, Alpha Stickers (avocado and brown, pearl strip.

“In starting to research my family history, I found that there is a lot of information to work with.  I decided to convert this recipe book into my Family History folder, so that all the information I find can be stored together and in a safe place.To make the plaque on the front cover I removed the top layer from a piece of corrugated cardboard that I found in a soft drink box.  I then painted this with Gesso.  Once dried I sponged Sepia ink randomly over it, followed by the darker Brown ink.  The flower is made using the doily stamp and stamping three times onto brown paper”.

“I have machine stitched around the dividers and added rub-ons.  I have used the paper from the 6×6 paper pad to make mini layouts of any photos that I find. They are just simple layouts that tell me who is in the photo and are scattered throughout the folder. I backed two pieces of the 6×6 paper together to make these pages, so that when you turn the photo over there is still patterned paper on the reverse”

We hope we’ve given you a little inspiration and some ideas on how to use different BTP items to tell those all important stories and preserve our special memories.