Birthday Card

We are going to a friends 60th birthday celebration on Saturday night so I have made her a card. I got the instructions off the internet, a video by Collette Mitrega that you can see here.

I have used the same sheet of cardstock for the two layers and a old Papercraft Designer 6" paper pad for the decorative papers.

The sentiment is heat embossed with white embossing powder and the flowers are made using Leane Creative Multi Die flower 006.

I have left the centre panel clear so that we can write our greeting there.

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Julie

Large Album using Kaisercraft Recipe Book

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I have been busy making this album for a friend to give to her friend as a birthday gift. The Kaisercraft Recipe album is 12" high by 9.5" wide, so quite large. The 5 internal pages are made of 1mm chipboard. The album will hold 56 photos in total.

My friend wanted to decorate the front cover herself. The large cake is stuck on but the other decorations are just sitting there for the photo and will be replaced by whatever she decides to put on it.

I have created this page for an 8" x 6" photo, maybe of the birthday girl or her favourite photo of the night.

This waterfall of photo mats will hold 9 photos. The 2 parcels at the top of the photo mats are stamped and heat embossed then fussy cut. All of the tabs throughout the album have been created using the McGill File Tab 3" punch.

A couple of pockets to hold some photo mats. Room for 10 more photos.

These two photo mats are attached to the page. A bit of stamping, heat embossing, fussy cutting and die cutting used here.

Another pocket to hold some photo mats. This one has a punched edge along the diagonally cut top edge. The hats and cupcakes are once again stamped, heat embossed and fussy cut. Room for 6 photos here.

A simple page for 2 photos. Die cut journal spot and the cup cakes have glossy accents added to the icing section

The ribbon on the photo mat section unties to allow the star to unfold. This will hold 9 photos.

Side pocket used here to hold the photo mats which will house 8 photos

This page has a belly band to hold the photos in place. The balloons are a purchased wooden embellishment.

Page 12 of the album (inside back cover) is a plain white page so people can leave a hand written message to the birthday girl.

The back cover is in a dark colour to take the wear and tear as best it can.

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Julie

Kaisercraft Exchange

I am here today to share with you the items I am sending to the person I got in the Kaisercraft Exchange draw for September. We had until 30th September to send a parcel of some handmade paper crafts to the person we got in the draw. Today I posted my parcel to Ros Watson.
I made 4 cards for her and I hope she likes them and can use them.

This photo shows all four of them

A bit of a closer look

This is the female birthday card. I have used paper pleating with the floral paper, embossing on the top panel. the bottom background panel and the velum butterfly.

This christmas card has the centre section of the front panel cut away so that the christmas trees hold the top and bottom panels together. I saw this idea on Pinterest and just loved it. The top and bottom panels are covered with some wrapping mesh and the baubles on the trees are covered with Kindy Klitz.

This male birthday card includes some die cuts, washi tape, stamped and embossed shapes that have then been hand cut. There are lots of layers and some foam tape.

This child's birthday card is a shaker card. I have stamped and heat embossed the birthday sentiment on a piece of green cardstock to use as the back of the shaker section then filled the shaker with foil stars. The bird embellishment has been hand cut from the pattern paper

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Grandparents Day Layout

 Hi there,

A quick post tonight to show you two layouts.

This first one I completed recently as I wanted to repeat the background I used on my Sassy layout using Mists and Gladwrap. Just love the effect this gives.

Each year Charli's school has Grand Parents and Special Friends Day when we get to go to her classroom and see what she has been doing at school. Each child shows their grandparents through their work and what they have on display around the classroom.

This layout I did some time ago but forgot to share it. On the background I have stamped and clear heat embossed a christmas tree and then sprayed with Glimmer Mist. The christmas tree on the side of the photo is a sticker that comes with stick on decorations. I have had it in my stash for so long and wanted to use it. A piece of glimmer mesh tied around the bottom of the photo gives a nice bit of dimention to an otherwise simple layout.

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Julie

Stuck?! Sketches Challenge

I have created this layout using Stuck?! Sketches sketch that you can find here.

This is the sketch.

I created the background using Glimmermists Yellow Daisy, Starfish and Turquoise Blue and Glad-wrap. It has made the most beautiful gold shimmery effect which does not show up in the photos unfortunately. I then used TCW 6" x 6" stencilMini Labyrinth and Texture Paste in a rough circle around where I planned on putting the photo. I have used a Kaisercraft transparency Clock Face, which I cut to suit, behind my patterned papers. The patterned papers I have used are the Kaisercraft Confetti range. I have mounted my photo on a piece of cardboard for added dimension. The word Sassy is a rub-on from Kaisercraft. i have added some cotton threads in matching colours at the back of my title a few enamel dots and a little circular embellishment made with Sizzix dies and another rub-on

Why not pop over and have a look at the other entries or better still create a layout and enter the competition. Lots of great prizes to be won.

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Julie

Birthday Card and Book

Hi there
It is a friend's birthday next week and i have been busy making her a card and a photo book.

This is the card and I have used the same range of papers on her card as I used in the book. The are a variety of Kaiser papers.

For the book I used an old novel that I bought from the Op Shop. I cut the story out of the book just using the cover. I wound Cloth Tape (Duct tape) around the spine of the book to give it some extra strength. I made up 3 signatures using 10 sheets of double sided patterned paper, giving each signature 20 pages. As it turned out this was too many for this sized book and I only had room to decorate the first and last signature otherwise the book would never have closed.

I covered the outside and inside of the cover with patterned paper leaving the tape on the spine exposed. Depending on the cover of the book you use you could leave this step out.
I then used fishing line to bind the signature into the cover

Then the task of decorating the pages. Some of the pages have pockets but most of them have tabs to slip the photo behind. I have used a sewing theme as my friend does her own dressmaking.

The cover

The page on the left has a little booklet on it that will hold 3 photos

I made this dress out of patterned paper using instructions I saw on youtube. Unfortunately I did not note the name of the person who posted the video.

The page on the left once again has a little booklet. This one holds 4 photos and there is a journalling card at the back of the booklet

 Wow that is a very long post. If you have made it this far thank you.

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Julie

A Layout and a Card

This is a layout I did recently and forgot to share on here. I have heat embossed the butterflies on the patterned background paper and also fussy cut some heat embossed butterflies that I did at the same time. All the edges of the patterned papers are distressed and I have used a punch to highlight several areas. The flowers were hand made using Kaisercraft DD707 Layered Flowers die. The title was cut using my Cricut. I have added Dimensional Magic to the title.

I made this card for a friends birthday. Lots of layers here. A hand made flower, some die cutting and punching along with some embossing and glimmermist

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Julie