Posts from — August 2010

This desk organiser is a definate “must have” for your  craft room. Its a fabulous size, with tonnes of storage space. The back compartment is even large enough to hold your 12×12 papers! I decorated mine using the gorgeous LUSH collection, and have kept the embellishing fairly simple for practical reasons.

large desk organiser by Karen Shady

materials list: Lush collection , Lotus (P533), Bonzai (P535), Bamboo (P536), Printed chipboard (CB110), Paper pad (PP825), Pearl brads (EM930), Paint , antique white (KC002), Wooden flourish (SB724), Brown ink (IP708), Pearls (pewter), other : mod podge, flower punch, leaf die.

To decorate the wooden flourish, I painted it with “Antique white” paint, then when it was dry, I used a makeup wedge, and sponged brown ink around the edges, then added some pewter coloured pearls to finish it off.

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Hello, LG, Nerrida and Karen here, bringing you some layouts & cards featuring the ” Hippy Girl” range of papers and embellishments.

Karen says “This is such a bright and happy range, it makes me think of spring and sunshine, and seeing as spring is just around the corner for us here in Australia, I decided to do a pretty, flowery, spring inspired layout of my daughter.

“More spice than sugar” by Karen Shady

Materials: Hippy girl collection. “harmony” (P554), “Earth” (P550), “Luna” (P555), “Sunshine” (P551), “Delilah” (PS112), Paper pad (PP828), Pearls “champagne” (SB714), “Hot pink” (SB787), Alpha stickers “cream” (AS222), Mini alphas “latte” (MA506), foam tape,  ink “hot pink” (IP713)

To make the lace edge around the large circle, I used 4  strips of the pink “earth” paper, and a lace border punch, I  roughly pleated the lace into a circle shape, and attatched it under the “sunshine” paper with double sided tape. I couldnt resist cutting out some glittery flowers and leaves from the “Delilah” specialty paper, and some leaves from the “Luna” paper. I used foam tape to attatch the flowers to my layout, to lift them off the page a little. I then used some Kaisercraft pearls as the centres for the flowers”.

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LG said “I love the Hippy Girl collection because it’s perfect for girly photos, spring, and fun photos. The combination of colors and patterns is just amazing.”

“Princess”  layout by LG Belarmino – Kaisercraft Hippy Girl Collection 12×12 Double Sided patterned papers, Paper Pad (PP828), Die Cut Elements (DC324), and Printed Chipboard (CB113),. Kaisercraft Wooden Flourishes Leaves (FL301), Alpha Stickers Avocado (AS218) and Mini Alphas  White & Black (MA502)

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Nerrida said: I’m really into cards at the moment and particularly love the 6×6 paper pad for making them. Hardly any wastage & you can make them so pretty – I could have made about 10 or more just in this colour scheme.

Materials used – Hippy Girl Earth (P550), Sunshine (P551) & Harmony (p554) papers, 6×6 paper pad (PP828) & die cuts (DC324), Lace packs – white (EM926)  & cream (EM927), Rub-ons - Birthday cards (RB811), Chipboard alpha #1 (CB107), Grossgrain Ribbon pack – Ocean (R16190), Pearl brad – pink ice, (EM932) Pearls – snowy (SB713), Flowers - snow (F601).

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Today I’m sharing with you just a couple of projects featuring Kaisercraft’s new Pearl Brad’s and Lace Packs!

Pearl Brads are available in 6 vintage colours – Pearl, Latte, Soft Blue, Pink Ice, Ice Green and Chocolate.

Kaisercraft has just released four mixed lace packs – available in four colours – white, natural shades, cream and black.

Each pack contains 5 different types of lace measuring 23 1/4 inches (60cm):

To see all the packs head here.

These little gems are awesome – and are the perfect additions’ to your scrap stash!

Our Design Team have been creating masterpieces with these little beauties, and over the next few days we’ll be sharing with you these amazing projects!

First up… Trudi Harrison…

“You give me HEART wings” layout

Layout ‘You give my heart wings’ by Trudi Harrison.  Materials Used: Pearl Brads – Latte (EM931); Lace Pack – Cream (EM927); Secret Bird Society Collection: Patterned Papers Disguise (P547), Classified (P545), Conceal (P549), 6” Paper Pad (PP827), Die Cut Elements (DC323); Grosgrain Ribbon – Forest (RI608); Alphabet Stickers Cream and Plum (AS217); Chipboard Alpha #2 (CB108) & #3 (CB109);  Turquoise ink.  Other: Doily Lace Border Punch.

The cream lace pack and Latte Pearl Brads coordinate beautifully with the Secret Bird Society Collection.  I have secured the thinner cream lace by machine stitching to a length of grosgrain ribbon from the ‘forest’ pack.

The large cream lace has been gathered into a circle.  To do this; cut a length of lace and then hand stitch a running stitch along the top. Pull gently until if bunches up, using fingers move the gathering until it forms a circle effect.  Secure and tie of.  I have attached a bow to the centre and finished off the arrangement with a butterfly and pearl brad.

Make butterflies ‘take flight’ using Pearl Brads

The Pearl Brads have been used to not only decorate the hand cut butterflies but to also add dimension to the wings by raising them up when they are sitting on the page.

To achieve a similar effect attach a pearl brad to the centre of the butterfly and push the prongs of the brad flat against the back – I have positioned the prongs to sit across the wings.  Now bend the prongs gently upwards – for a subtle result they do not need to be bent too much.

Wear your pearls

The pearl brads are gorgeous and I reckon that they a good enough to wear.  This got me thinking about using them to create a piece of costume jewellery.  I found this piece:

And added some chocolate pearl brads (prongs removed) and some Secret Society Patterned Paper to come up with this,

The patterned paper has been sealed with dimensional magic and the pearls have been attached with hot glue.

‘Pearl Bracelet’: by Trudi Harrison.  Materials Used: Pearl Brads – Chocolate; Secret Bird Society 6” Paper Pad (PP827).  Other: Bracelet, dimensional magic, hot glue.

Card – Special Day

Lace is not only pretty, but it provides a lovely textural effect and adds a touch of softness to a project.  This time I have layered a length of lace from the natural pack over patterned paper.  I have sprayed it lightly with some patina glimmermist to add a touch of shimmer and a hint of blue to it.

Card ‘Special Day’ by Trudi Harrison.  Materials Used: Lace Pack – Natural (EM928); Secret Bird Society: 6” Paper Pad (PP827), Clear Stamps (CS748); Wood Flourishes Frames (FL305); Rubons – Romance (RB808). Other: Cardstock, white embossing powder, glimmer mist, machine stitching, heat gun

Next, a pretty vintage card by Karen Shady,

Here Karen has made a lace flower…. Gorgeous!

Vintage Card

Next a cute headband tutorial from LG!

Girl’s Headband

“Altered Headband” project by LG Belarmino – Kaisercraft Lace Packs white (EM926) and cream (EM927), Pearl brads pink ice (EM932), Grosgrain ribbon Little Girls (RI602) and some Shimmerz paints.

My 2year old daughter just started attending school a month ago, I decided to alter one of her old headbands because I find the new Kaisercraft laces to be perfect for this project. The patterns and the texture is so amazing for a gorgeous and fun hair accessory.

To achieve a colored look for the lace, dip it or use a brush to add some paint. By using the white lace, it will allow you to achieve the color you wanted. On my project, I have used some pink and yellow colors. Here is my daughter wearing this beautiful headband. She loves it so much!

Next, a cute gift bag from Christy!

Gift Bag – Christy Saeger

Decorate a simple brown (or white) paper bag with your favourite scrapbooking embellishments!

Stay tuned for more Pearl Brad and Lace Pack projects in the coming days!

Hi everyone! Nerrida and LG here sharing more projects.

The Secret bird society has been so easy to use because I can make my projects soft-looking, which is just my style.  This wreath took me quite a while to do but I’m really pleased with it. I used the small leaf stamp to make the branches and (now don’t laugh) the stems by stamping the fat edge of a knife between the leaves – its all I had with me on holidays when I made this wreath.

Front door Wreath by Nerrida Mitchell.  Materials List - Secret bird society papers – Conceal, Shh, Undercover, Classified & 6×6 paper pad, Secret Bird Society stamps, ‘Flourish’ rubber stamp, Kasier Gold paint, Pearl brads – chocolate.

This layout was quicker and I love the new lace packs from Kaiser – so pretty for girly pages.

‘Gorgeous Girls’ by Nerrida Mitchell. Materials List – Secret bird society ‘Shh’ paper, 6×6 paper pad, printed chipboard & Printed die-cuts, Chipboard alpha #3,’ Grid’ background stamp, ’Script’ background stamp, Pearl brad – pearl, Lace pack – white, Flowers – baby pink, pale green & white, Pearls – pale green, Organza ribbon – pink.

LG also made a BOP project and this is what she has to say:

“It has only been less than 2years since I started this hobby so I really do not have the right storage or organizer of my stash. When I received this BOP from Kaisercraft, I was so excited! Now I have something I can call ‘The Perfect Storage’ for some buttons, stamp pads and blings.

With the Secret Bird Society collection, I can achieve the vintage and grungy feel that I want for this organizer. The patterns, the colors and the texture is just right.”

“Large Desk organizer” BOP by LG Belarmino – Secret Bird Society paper collection, 6×6 paper pad (PP827), Die Cut Elements (DC323), Rub Ons (RB872), and Mini Journal Tags (JT603); Large Desk Organiser (SB2084); Kaisercraft Pearl Strips (PL505), Paper Flowers, Foam tape and Pearls.

“I played with layering here and used a lot of leftover scraps.”

“How to make a paper rose”

Materials: Tea at Elsies paper collection, 6×6 paper pad, Paper flowers – baby blue & white, Sandstone, rose and Vintage blue inks, cream cardstock.

Step 1 : Cut three different size flower shapes from you paper (I’ve used Tea at Elsies ” “) – they don’t have to be perfect or uniform – and one 1cm strip. Ink the edges (or sand them if using a dark colour).

Step 2: Scrunch each one up in a ball. Fold the strip in half, lengthways. Ink them again over the rough bits.

Step 3: Twist the long strip of paper into a tight spiral, let it loosen slightly, glue the end and add to the centre of your rose.

Step 4: Unfold and nest them into each other using glue or 3D foam to secure them. Add leaves if you wish.

And here’s the end result…

Gorgeous, thanks Nerrida!!