Posts from — June 2010

Isn’t the Le Chateau collection just soooo fabulous?! I just love the rich textures and patterns in this line. Definitely a fave of mine for home decor projects. The contrast of the light blue with the black is a surprisingly different color combo, but with the addition of the rich golds to tie it all together, it just creates such a warm, homey feel, which I simply LOVE. I know I say this every time KaiserCraft comes out with a new collection, but this is my all-time fave collection! No, really!

So of course, it was an easy decision to use the Le Chateau collection for my BTP clock. And this clock is especially fun, with all the little windows to fill in with bits, baubles, photos, and other treasures. And BTW, this looks absolutely FAB hanging on my wall if I do say so myself.

“Le Chateau BTP clock” by Nancy Burke. Le Chateau collection papers, 6×6 paper pad, stamps, BTP clock, alpha stickers, wood flourishes, die cut elements, pearls, paper flowers, embellishment pack, black and brown ink, embossing powder, ribbon.  

And next up we have a simple design for a layout by Fran. Here’s what she says

“I love this photo of my Mum and my son reading together and knew I was a very sedate, calm sort of layout. The fresh white in the Le Chateau is a big favourite of mine, with the other colours of the collection looking so cute against it – the black and the pale blue giving the exact look I was after. And I must mention how much I LOVE the new wood flourishes – I think I’ve used nearly 3 complete packets so far!

And just for a little added interest to the page, I’ve applied a rub-on from the Le Chateau Collection and added some rhinestones to add some ‘sweetness’ to it. It is hard to tell in the top photo, so I’ve given you a close up.”

Time with Nana LO by Fran Tynan using Le Chateau papers, die-cuts & rub-ons, kaisercraft black alphabet stickers, cream alphabet stickers, rhinestones, “Frames” wood flourish

First up I’m showing you my “Hey Birdie” layout, and how versatile these papers can be. They have a cute woodsy theme to them which are great for girly pages – but I love the earthiness of the colours. They seemed to suit this old school photo of mine (I’m really showing my age now with my leaving year out there for everyone to see! LOL). My school colours were red and green – attractive I know (not!) and I find it very hard to use those colours together without it looking like a Christmas layout.

So I used the green and brown grid papers, and I loved that the apple felt embellishment suited my school theme also. I simply added some red felt over the top of the pink, while adding that dash of red I needed.Class of ’93 by Fran Tynan using Hey Birdie papers & embellishment, Kaisercraft ‘frames’ wood flourish,Kaisercraft “Numbered” stamps.

And for this second layout, I love how the white grid paper in the Jungle Bug range really made the orange paper ‘pop’. Such a bright fun range!

March ’10 by Fran Tynan using Jungle Bug papers, die-cuts & rub-ons, Kaisercraft Dated stamps, Kaisercraft “Belle’ alphabet stickers.

WOW! Thank you too all the amazing and talented scrapbookers, cardmakers and crafters who applied for our Design Team!

We received so many amazing entries and were blown away by your talent!!

This is one of the hardest decisions we have had to make and we had an enormous amount of entries.

This year we’ve chosen a bakers dozen – 13 lovely ladies to inspire you for the next year!

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Karen Shady, VIC, Australia

Trudi Harrison, VIC, Australia

Nerrida Mitchell, NSW, Australia

Monika Martinson, Sweden

Vicki Morris, New Zealand

Christy Saeger, USA

Kerryn Lawson, SA, Australia

Kirsty Piper, QLD, Australia

Camilla Ekman, Sweden

Lesley Cooper, New Zealand

Leanne Allinson, QLD, Australia

Danielle Wycough, USA

Lady Grace Belarmino, Phillippines

Congratulations ladies!! Please make welcome to your our Design Team!!

Karen Shady

Hi, my name is Karen, I live with my husband Chris, and 5 children in a quiet little corner of  Western Victoria, where we own and run a large cropping farm. In a former life, I was a Nurse, but I am very fortunate now, to be able to be a stay at home mum. I am completely obsessed with scrapbooking, and spend any spare time I have in my little scrap room, it’s my creative escape from life.

Trudi Harrison

Hi, I am Trudi Harrison and I am so excited to part of the Kaisercraft 2010-2011 Design Team.  I live in regional Victoria with my 2 girls aged 3 and 5 and my ever patient and totally supportive, ‘scrap widow’ husband.  Presently I am a SAHM.  I adore all things beautiful and creative and over the time there have been many hobbies which I enjoyed. But without a doubt, Paper Crafting has become the one which I am truly passionate about. My passion has burned brightly for the last six years and I love absolutely everything about this wonderful craft.  My preferred scrapping genre is 12 x 12 layouts, but I also enjoy creating off the page and cards.  I have a particular fondness for patterned paper and chipboard/ wood products and love combining them together.   When I am not ‘domesticated engineering’ and creating, my world is busy with my young children, husband, family and friends.  I also enjoy photography, camping and reading.

Nerrida Mitchell

Hi, my name is Nerrida and I am so excited about being on the Kaisercraft Design Team.  I have 3 girls - Braylee, Maitlyn and little Indiana and am married to hubby Garret for 14 years. We live on a Stonefruit farm outside of Sydney. I homeschool my 2 school-aged girls, prune & pick fruit trees and, in my spare time, you guessed it, scrapbook.  I love the romantic/whimsical style.  Layouts are my favourite but also enjoy making cards and I am definitely a flower addict.

Monika Martinson

My name is Monika (Moma). I live in Sweden, just outside of Stockholm with my daughter and her father. I work full time at one of Sweden’s biggest companies with communication.
I started scrapbooking shortly after my daughter was born in 2004 and I´ve been totally addicted since then.

Vicki Morris

Hubby (Husband) Jase and I have 3 children, Natasja (10), Mikayla (7) and Jadeyn (4).  I am a qualified accountant by trade and I work from home doing accounts in-between being an taxi-driver/event co-coordinator for the kids – and when that is all done I attempt to scrapbook.

Christy Saeger

Hello!  My name is Christy and I am thrilled to be a part of the design team here at Kaisercraft! My family consists of my wonderful husband and two beautiful children, they are my world!  I am a Radiologic Technologist by day and scrapbooking addict by night.  Scrapbooking became my passion 12 years ago when I created an album for my high school graduation and although my style has changed my passion has not!

Kerryn Lawson

I’ve been married for 10 years to my high school sweetheart, up until this year I was a stay at home Mum to my 2 children.  After a 7 year break, I returned to the work force this year, albeit part time.  I love that I can contribute to the support of our family, but still be there for my children.

I am a self confessed scrapbooking addict, but once upon a time I also enjoyed cross stitching.  I still do really, but there just isn’t the time anymore.  I love reading.  I always have a book (or two) on the go, not to mention a drawer full waiting to be read.

I am absolutely over the moon to be designing for Kaisercraft for the next year.  I cannot wait to get started!!

Kirsty Piper

Hi, my name is Kirsty, I am a wife and mum to 3 kidlets – 2 girls and a boy-  living in a small town in QLD. I work part time as a bank teller and a cleaner and am also studying primary school teaching part time. I have been scrapping for about 6 years now, and love that I now have a room all of my own just to scrap (and make a mess) in!

Camilla Ekman

I’m Camilla Ekman from southern Sweden. I work as a Montessori teacher and when I’m off work I do what I love most – that is of course scrapbooking. I am married to Lasse and we have two children, a girl and a boy. When I don’t scrap I enjoy books, travelling and spending lots of time with friends.

Lesley Cooper

I am 45. I live in Auckland with my husband Ricky and two wonderful children Simon (10) and Amanda (8). I love photography and scrapbooking and the process of being creative. I am a Stay at Home mum and sometime workforce participant. I am a caffeine addict and reformed sweet tooth (for now)! I love to go for walks with my family (and camera).

I am absolutely thrilled to be on the Kaisercraft’s Contributing Design Team.

Leanne Allinson

I have been married to my “University” sweetheart for 11 years and we are the parents to four precious children. DD aged 10, DS#1 aged 7, DS#2 aged 4 and DS#3 aged 1!!! We live in beautiful Queensland, Australia, half way between the Sunshine Coast and the state’s capital. I am totally obsessed with scrapping the details of our family; documenting our history for our future generations and recording all this through the means of words, pictures and pretty paper!!

Danielle Wycough

My name is Danielle Wycough.  I live in Texas with my husband and our 5 children. I am a stay at home mother, and obsessed paper crafter. I started scrapbooking in 2008. In January, I was published for the first time in Cards Magazine. I would describe my style as clean and whimsical. I don’t like for any of my work to look over done, so it tends to be simple. I love patterned paper because you can do so much with it! I like to paper piece, use border punches, and I burn up my die cutting machine.

Lady Grace Belarmino

I am a scrapper from the Philippines with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts Major in Advertising Design. I am married to my very supportive husband, Regie, for 2 years now and a mother to a 2year old baby girl, Hannah. I started scrapbooking almost over a year ago (December 2008) a few months after I gave birth to my daughter. I decided to enter into scrapbooking to preserve my family’s memories and to express my creative side.

My style differs from one layout to the other. I love experimenting and trying out new techniques as I create a page. I am into handcutting, distressing, photo editing and layering. My pages are simple and I always make sure that the photo is always the focal point on my layout.

Over the next couple of weeks our 2009  – 2010 DT will be finishing up their last projects, and you will also see blog posts from our new Design Team featuring their submitted blog post (as part of their application)!!

For those of you who have missed out on our Design Team, this is where our online community (our forum, gallery and blog, twitter and facebook) can be used – to share your work and love of scrapbooking with other Kaisercraft fans. Just because you’ve missed out on our Design Team, doesn’t mean we don’t appreciate your inspiring designs – we are constantly looking through our emails, the online gallery, blogs and on facebook for designs that make us smile!!

We highlight your designs at trade shows, on our facebook page, in our monthly e-newsletter and also on our blog.

So please continue to keep sharing your amazing work with us!

Are you one of those poeple who tend to scrap generally in the one size???? 

Well today Christine, Fran and I are bringing you some Konstrukt layouts in 3 different sizes, the traditional 12×12″, an 8 1/2 x11″ ,a double page layout in 12×12″ and a 6×12″. Hopefully we may be able to tempt you to try something a little different.

Here is my double page layout.  I decided to use the beautiful blues and greens of this collection to showcase some portrait photos of Master Joshua…age 2!

“Picture Perfect” by Nikki Antonello- Konstrukt paper collection, Die-cut elements, Fozz Felt alpha stickers, Small uppercase chipboard alphabet, White alpha stickers, Chipboard Alphabet #2, Organza Ribbon.

On both pages I kept to a simple  design adding some circles to break up all the straight lines and some doodling for defintion.  I didn’t want the double page to be too busy as these photos of Joshua are really cute!

Christine used the black, purple, green and whites from the Konstrukt range to create this 8 1/2 x11″ page of her daughter.  She says “The colours in the Konstrukt paper collection matched the colours in this photo of Bec so well. I tore the edge of the purple paper to add to the grungy feel of the page and used a punch on the edge of the Work Bench paper (P525) to give the feeling that my journaling had been ripped out of a notebook. I also added a recycled butterfly postage stamp and a yellow flower that I hand cut from felt to incorporate a touch of girliness to my page”.

“Play Like A Boy” by Christine Rumley – Konstrukt paper collection, 6×6 paper pad, Die-cut elements, Black and Avocado alpha stickers, Chipboard alphabets #2 and #3.

Fran has also used the black as the background for her layout, scrapping in the 6×12″ size. This is what Fran has to say about her layout.

“I find the 6×12″ size is a great alternative when you have one photo without wanting to put too much on the page, but still have the focus completely on the photo as it takes up so much of the page. I loved this photo of a friend after her team lost the Grand Final, with her nails painted in the team colours clasped around the neck of a champagne bottle – and I thought the bold colours of the Konstrukt range were really suitable for this ‘sporty’ layout.”

“So defeated” layout by Fran Tynan – using Konstrukt papers, die-cut elements and rub-ons, Kaisercraft “Numbered” stamps, cream alphabet stickers.

This one is a very quick and simple version of the very versatile trinket box – if you’ve learnt anything about me this past year, you’ll know that simple is very much my style!!

I love the way the wood flourishes natural colour co-ordinates so well with the colours in Le Chateau, as does the natural colur of the MDF in the Kaisercraft BTP’s - so I left nearly everything un-inked and unpainted.

So if you are in need of a quick present for a birthday party (which I often am!) then try not painting or inking your projects as a massive time saver and see if you like it!

Trinket box – by Fran Tynan using Trinket Box, Le Chateau paper, “Birds” wood flourish, Kaiser chipboard alphabet, Kaisercraft brown ink