Here is a close up of the cover with the ribbon untied.  


Below you can see the stitching and some of the goodies poking out!


I made the most of the journalling cut aparts, and I made the layered banner below.



I punched the circles out from the 6x6 version of this paper.


Love love that I was able to include the actual mask!  Whilst there are no photos of her wearing it on this page, there are in the mini album.

Hi everyone

Sharon here with my layouts created using the Kaiser All that Glitters collection.

This collection is really pretty! I especially loved the foiled butterflies sheet. I decided it was much too pretty to cover up, so i cut apart the sheet, and used them as accents instead

Just recently I have been digging back into those photos from my kids childhood, and scrapbooking some of my favourites. Its good to get some of these into the scrapbook albums.

Heres my selection of layouts. Love love LOVE the mix of pink and aqua in this collection. Makes for pretty pages I think.

 In this page I secured the butterflies by the base of the wings, and popped up the top, so they look like they are fluttering off the page!!


Again, I gave the butterflies the Flutter treatment, by using foam dots to lift the wings off the page.

THANKS to everyone who entered the February Challenge - Love and Marriage. We enjoyed looking at the variety of entries and are pleased to announce the winners for this month.

Please head to the Gallery to check out the fabulous entries and leave comments to encourage the crafters. We all love positive feedback.

How are you today? Christine S. here sharing a layout & a card featuring the new On Stage collection by Kaisercraft.  This range is perfect for creating any projects of musical, stage, concerts & plays.  It has a beautiful color palette & is very easy to work with.  I must confess, these are not the colors I work with often but I do like stepping out of my comfort zone once in awhile.  So first up is a layout with my daughter & her violin.  This page is a play on curves & straight lines.




Lastly I'd like to share a birthday card which was given to one of my friend's son who absolutely loves theatre, arts & performing.  Again, masculine projects is not something I do often but I do like how this one turned out:



There's lots of great pieces from the collectables, & I especially like the director's take board & microphone.  The tickets & the records are from the sticker sheet.  It has lots of versatile pieces there as well.

That's it for me today.  I hope you're enjoying your summer so far.  Do check out the On Stage collection here.  Thanks heaps for dropping in & I'll see you then.

Christine S.

Hi Bev here with another layout of a very special Birthday Boy who is turning twelve today to share using the Shine Bright Collection By Kaisercraft. 

My background was created by dabbing sunshine yellow and grey paint daubers on white cardstock. Then I sprayed the paper with water and dabbed it with a nappy wipe.  I then used grey ink around the edges. So with some film transparencies, the following papers Buttercup and Bright Side, Collectables and Stickers I created a layered effect under my foam mounted photos. Adding flowers , star sequins and some mist sprinkles finishes the layout off.


That is my final layout using this Collection hope you have enjoyed the inspiration from me and the other Design Team ladies this month! See you next month with some new collections!

Good morning! :) Lisa here again, and this time I'm sharing a couple of layouts made using the new Shine Bright collection. This has been a super-popular one amongst the Design Team, and rightly so, because it's on-trend, fresh and fabulous with lots of word art, patterns and neutral colours.

My first layout has a black cardstock background, which helps make the patterned papers I've used pop in contrast. I started with a sheet of the Canary design, upon which I then layered my two photos (coffee! I'm a fan, needless to say) and then added accents and embellishments in the form of some scalloped borders from the small paper pad, along with a couple of tags and some washi tape in matching colours.


A couple of wooden veneer pieces and some bling from my stash finish it off. A closer shot is below:


My second layout is a bright and breezy one: a burnt orange cardstock base, which I splattered with some indian ink. I then layered a selection of hand-torn patterned papers as a base for my photo (a collage of silly family selfies taken on Christmas Day.) Another patterned border from the small paper pad was used to anchor the photo.


A little cluster of embellishments was added on the right hand corner (washi, a wood veneer heart, a flower) and below that, a word art circle, and a long tag (also both from the small paper pad.) Some small glitter triangles placed randomly, and it's all done. :)

A closer look:


I loved working with this range: so versatile and suitable for all kinds of layouts and projects. The Shine Bright collection can be found here.

Thanks so much for looking, and I'll see you next month. :)

Cheers,
 Lisa

Where has the year gone????
Cannot believe it is the end of February almost!!

I have been lucky enough to be able to play with the Shine-Bright collection of papers this month.
When I first saw the paper, I was a bit dubious about the bright yellow of the collection. ( Yellow is not my go to colour by any stretch of the imagination) Therefore, I was pleasantly surprised at how easily these pages came together, and also the punch that lovely bright yellow gives to the pages.

I was working mainly with the 6x6 pad, which worked well with the designs of my layouts.

Every year, I take a photo of my daughter after her first ski for the season. Loved the yellow elements which matched well with the lifejacket, and complementary with the blue water.
I used a mask and texture paste to create a background initially, then added some spray ink and splattered acrylic ink, before adding the papers and die cuts to the background.


 Another skiing photo!!! This time with my son. In this page I used the grey elements from the pad, and accented the page with pops of yellow.
( The die cut actually reads "SHE believed SHE could......" and obviously this was not going to work. I used my sharpie to black out the "S" to create a more appropriate quote)
Also lots of texture paste through a bubble mask, and black ink through a ledger stencil, to add dimension to the background.

 Last page of the Shine Bright collection I used layers of black gesso through a stencil, and added the prima glass beads while still wet. The paint acts like a glue and the beads have embedded into the black gesso. I also used a little silver embossing powder in places as well, to accentuate the stenciled layer. Layered up papers and string to form a photo mat, and call it done!


The other collection I was lucky enough to play with was the Betsys Couture designed of course, for our very own Miss Betsy!!

I found this paper was perfect for heritage style photos. I layered the papers to make a photo mat, and used a mask to add some texture in the upper half of the layout.
 The second page, saw me take a photo from over 20 years ago, and make a simple layout ( Hard to see on the photo, but the photo and quote cards are liufted up quite high with chipboard. I doodled a barb wire frame around the edge of the layout, to give it an edge, and to allude to the kiwi no. 8 wire mentality
 Last but not least a layout which I have not added my photos to as yet. I have some of my mothers family photos destined for this page, but have to get them from another family member to scan first!!
For something a little different, I added texture paste to the brown cardstock, then used distress inks to rub over the top to colour it a little. I used several different shades to do this.

This page is also a little different, in that the page mat flips up to show another layer underneath, and a wee envelope to hide extra photos/memorabilia in.

That's it for me this month!
See you next time with some more new releases from Kaiser soom!

Cheers
Sharon

Hi there.  Christine S. here today posting a layout featuring the Shine Bright collection with my take on this month's February Sketch Challenge.  Here's a reminder of the sketch:

I've put my own twist on the lovely sketch, while still staying close to it.  The graduating photos slightly broken up by the other layered elements worked a treat for this layout. 

The Shine Bright collection is available at the shop, & it's proving pretty popular.  I hope I've inspired you to join with us this month from the theme, colour palette & sketch challenge.  It's up to you which you'd like to create! You've got until the 27th to load your entry/entries here.

Thanks for popping in & do enjoy the rest of your month.

Christine S.