Grateful

Hello everyone! I hope that you are well. Today I am sharing some cards with you that I made over the weekend. I bought a while ago the Gina K wreath maker template , but I only had a chance to play with them now! Can I just say that I am a fan!! I made two cards in record time. The longest part of the process was deciding on the colours of inks to stamp with!!!

I decided to use the 4" x 4" template, so once you get into a rhythm using your MISTI, you are right. TIP: Remember to close the lids of your ink pads. I didn't and I picked up the wrong one and I made a mistake in my stamping...never mind!

I used my Hero Arts ink pads to create my wreath. When I have another chance to make more, I will look at all of my stamps to see what other designs I could use from my stash...Christmas is coming!

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Wandering Ivy Mini Album

Hello everyone! I hope that you are well. I am so thrilled that we had some rain this week. I just hope that those who need it most (the farmers) have been as blessed as we have in the cities and have received a few drops. Hopefully our prayers have been heard and this will have happened.

I took the opportunity to make an album for fun. I am keeping it as a gift for Christmas time in the hope that I will have someone to gift it to. I selected the Wandering Ivy Collection from Kaisercraft because I just love it. It's vintage, has beautiful floral elements and I just adore the muted tones it offers. I also used my paper Dream templates from Jen of Eve Designs to create this album as well.

Here are some pictures of the inside of the album.

Below is a video walkthrough of the album, explaining how I created my album.

Supplies:

Kaisercraft Wandering Ivy Collection, Jen of Eve Designs Paper Dreams, Prima Crochet Doily, Die-namics Pierced traditional tag stax and Wild Orchid Cfrafts Flowers.

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Kindness

Hello everyone! Happy September to you and Happy Father's Day to all in Australia.  Every now and then, I pull out some stamps and colour, for relaxation and also to practise techniques. I had finished this card a few weeks ago, but felt it needed 'something.' I added some extra flowers and now I am satisfied.

I have had this Kaisercraft clear stamp in my stash for a long time. I bought it specifically for colouring practise. I used copic markers and then I masked my image and used distress ink to blend around the background.

I used some dies to create the branch, flowers and leaves for the owl.

Supplies:

Paper: Kaisercraft Rose Avenue Paper Pad PP1030, Cardstock Coffee Bean CD108, Forest CD 114, XPress It Blending Card

Stamp: Kaisercraft CS951 Owl

Ink: Distress Ink Tumbled Glass, Simon Says Stamp Intense Black Ink

Dies: Hero Arts Infinity Oval, Memory Box Flower Mound, Impression Obsession Die and Leaf Cluster, Spellbinders Fleur de Elegance

Copic: R81, R83, R85, V12, V15, V17, Y18, YR14

Other: Kaisercraft Pearls BR202 Latte. Lace, Double Sided Tape, Nuvo Crystal Glaze, Prima Flowers, Wild Orchid Crafts Flowers.

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Making Spirits Bright ~ Sparkle ~Kaisercraft

Hello everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend. As I write this blog post I cannot believe how cold it is here at the moment!! I am sharing my second card from the Sparkle collection which features some of the rose gold papers which I love.

I also love the combination of the pink and the black of this collection....a nice variation of the traditional colours that we always have access to.

If you love this collection and would like the chance to win a card pack OR you are interested in making my card, click this link to go the Kaisercraft blog post which has all of the mentioned information.

Supplies:

PAPERS: Sparkle Collection – P2592 Auroral, P2590 Vivacity

KC PRODUCTS: CT943 Collectables, Card Pack Square – CD503 Black, Cardstock – CD102 Licorice, Decorative Dies – DD755 Lace Borders and DD705 Swirl Flourish, , T321 Craft Glue, T302 Mounting Foam

OTHER: Scallop Scissors

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With Sympathy

Hello everyone. Sadly,there comes a time when we make these cards. Hopefully the handmade component, can help to ease the pain the recipient is feeling during a difficult period. I will be passing this card to someone who sadly is saying goodbye to her son who passed in tragic circumstances. When called to help a friend, his life was taken. This story was on the news two weeks ago. The mother is a close friend of my mother, and is very religious. She has been a support to my family during our sad times in the last two years. Hopefully this card will bring some respite to her during this time.


I stamped the flowers and sentiment using Versmark ink and embossed both using gold embossing powder. I watercoloured the flowers using Tombow markers and then to create a vintage look, inked the edges using antique linen distress oxide ink. 

Here are some close ups...

Supplies:

Paper: Prima Tales of You and Me paper pad, Strathmore watercolour paper

Stamp: JustRite With Sympathy, Prima Read to Me #960841

Ink: Versamark, Versafine Onyx Black Ink, Distress Oxide Antique Linen

Dies: Dienamics Fishtail Flags stax and Spellbinders Oval Floral

Other: Tombow Markers 076, 158 (leaves) and 772 (rose), Zing Gold Metallic embossing powder

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Sparkle Shaker Card Tutorial

Hello everyone! I hope you had a lovely weekend. Today I am sharing a tutorial that I have made of my shaker card. The one featured on the Kaisercraft website has step by step photos as well as an an instructional video. My post is the extended version. I hope you enjoy and feel inspired to create one!

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Sparkle ~ Shaker Cards

Hello everyone! I hope that you are well. Today I am sharing another of my Christmas projects, featuring products from Kaisercraft's Sparkle Collection. I created a shaker card as I felt that the collections was so 'sparkly' that it needed even more sparkle!

Over on the blog, you can download the step by step instructions as well as view the instructional video of how to create my card.

Meanwhile, here are some close ups....

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