Time to Create ...: October 2015

Thursday, October 29, 2015

Kaisercraft Christmas Mini Album with the "Holly Jolly" Collection

Christmas Mini Album using "Holly Jolly" by Alicia McNamara

Today I'm sharing a Kaisercraft Beyond the Page Project - a Christmas Mini Album. Here I used SB2379 BTP Gift Album to make a chunky album of photographs from last Christmas. My husband loves to take photographs and when he gets behind the camera he takes LOTS! So I had many photos from this particular part of our Christmas day last year. It also helped that the kids were in Christmas clothes which meant they matched in with the red colours in the papers! Must remember to get them to wear red again this year on Christmas Day! I had a lot of fun embellishing this project with lots of embellishments and lots of Kaisercraft Decorative Dies. The Kaisercraft Dies are amazing for decorating projects quickly and easily and because you can use the coordinating papers and everything matches. This DD327 Holly Die is perfect for Christmas. I used it a lot in different colours throughout the album.

: Album Standing Up

The Album happily stands up on its own due to the chunkiness of the pages and embellishments.

: Inside Front Cover

I used the CM601 Mistletoe Kisses Captured Moments pack for all the little cards in this album and added some Collectables for extra embellishments.

CM601 Mistletoe Kisses captured Moments Kit

: Page One

I used two different Captured Moments Pocket Pages; CM951 Pack 1 (6x8) and CM952 Pack 2 (3x4s) for the pages of my album.

: Page Two

To hold my Album together I purchased M013 Album Rings in Mint. I chose this fresh colour to match the aqua colours in the papers.

: Page Three

This Die DD506 Foliage is one of my all-time favourites. It is a must-have for your collection. It fills spaces really well and adds detail and class to any project.

: Page Five

I glued most of the embellishments to the outside of the Pocket Pages. This allowed me to add different textured embellishments of varying thicknesses.

: Page Six

I had a few of the painted white hearts left over from my Advent Calendar so I added them as embellishments on this project too. I slipped a snowflake die cut underneath.

: Page Seven

I had a play with Templates, Impasto and Kaisermists on the base page for some of my full page layouts. At the bottom of this page (underneath the word December) you might be able to see the row of presents from the T62612x12 Christmas Strip Template below.

: Page Eight

On this page I used T623 12x12 Christmas Quarters Template (the writing in the top left-hand corner) to add some dimension to the layout. You can see it if you look just under the red Holly die cut.

: Inside Back Cover

I added one of the red tags from the Holly Jolly EM427 Tag Pack on this page tied with some red Kaisercraft Organza ribbon.

This album was really fun to make! I had a lovely time putting it all together. Its a lovely way to record Christmas memories.

Kaisercraft Products:

Other: Red and White Twine | Green and White Twine | Mont Marte Impasto

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Kaisercraft Chimney Advent Calendar

Chimney Advent Calendar using "Holly Jolly" by Alicia McNamara

I have wanted to make a Kaisercraft Advent Calendar for a couple of years now, so I was super excited when I received the Chimney Advent Calendar in my Design Team Box. I wanted a bright and colourful Advent Calendar so I saved this project for the Holly Jolly paper collection. This particular Beyond the Page kit is a big project! It took me quite a few days to put this together, but then I did take my time because I wanted it to be perfect!

I used the DD721 Decorative Die Advent box die to cut out all the little box coverings from the 6 1/2 inch Paper Pad. I covered the boxes and then I used white paint to distress the edges of the front of the boxes. I added FL440 Heart flourishes and painted these with two coats of white paint and then a coat of Kindy Glitz to make them sparkle. Once that was dry I took my numbers from the AS251 Ebony Alpha Stickers. I ended up needing more stickers ( I think it took 3 or 4 pages of stickers to get all the numbers) so I used Alpha stickers from other colours as well. Then I ended up colouring them all over (the Ebony ones as well) with black marker to make sure they were all matching in colour. I liked the darker black because it made the numbers stand out better.

After I had all the boxes ready to go I covered the walls of the chimney with papers from the collection, painted the edges and assembled it all together. Then it was time to decorate!

I painted the TM815 Metal Door Knockers white, but left them a little shabby to add to my white, distressed look.

I also painted the edges of the papers on the doors and walls roughly with white paint to match the little drawers.

I added some sprigs of Holly and white lace to the roof and some stickers from the Sticker Sheet.

At the base of the chimney I set up a little Christmas Tree scene with round mat (doily from the Collectables) white Christmas tree and matching presents. I chose papers from the collection that looked a little like wall paper, the kraft and white stripe for the walls and then some plain red paper for the carpet. I added red pearls to the tree for baubles and also on the presents. I added paper to the presents in red, aqua and craft colours.

Then at the top of the chimney I added Santa's sleigh and two reindeer.

I used the FL573 Flourish Sleigh Scene for the reindeer, tree and presents. I painted them and kindy-glitzed them. I added some red paper to the back of the sleigh and some red and white twine for the reindeer's reins.

Here is another view of the Holly and lace. I love this mesh lace from the EM926 White Lace Pack.

This is a really fun project to make and great to get the kids (and adults) on the countdown to Christmas! Sometimes we all need a little motivation ; ) Why not get this project completed in November all ready for the start of the Christmas Countdown on December 1st.

Other: Red and White Twine

Saturday, October 24, 2015

Kaisercraft "Fairy Dust" Layouts

I really do love the "Fairy Dust" Collection by Kaisercraft...I love the fairies and flowers and the colours...this collection is perfect for scrapping little girl photos. I chose this photo Ben took of our niece a few years ago...she was playing in her back yard one late afternoon while we were babysitting her and her siblings...it suits the collection I think.

I added the sticker " Go confidently in the direction of your dreams" which I felt was a good message for this beautiful girl who is now ten years old and growing up so fast! Maybe she might like to keep this Layout and hang it in her bedroom?

I had lots of fun decorating the layout with lots of embellishments from the collectables and made my own with the Kaisercraft die cuts.

I digitally edited my photo to black and white with a touch of turquoise to match the papers.

Then, the next challenge over at the Kaisercraft Blog was to create a Male Layout with the same paper collection. This was tricky!!! It took me while to get my head out of pretty and fairylike and into thinking masculine! I ended up using this photo of my brother pretending to eat a little lizard. I kept the lines of this layout very simple and added lots of black to make it more masculine. I couldn't resist a few swirly leaves for a bit of embellishment. I also added some doodling to try and jazz it up a little without making it too feminine.