Handpicked for Hedgy - a summer card

The spring is getting here in Norway. We have cold winters with lots of snow and ice, so the spring is always welcome. Today, I am showing a card, using the sweet stamp Handpicked for Hedgy, for LDRS creative. This is a stamp, that gives me that good spring spring feeling. 

The die set, used for the edge around the stamp, is the Fancy Rectangles and layers die set. 

The papers are from Prima's collection - Tales of you and me.

 I often decorate my cards inside. The Fancy Rectangles and layers die set is also fantastic for creating space for a personal message inside the card.

Wishing you a fantastic spring.

Beautiful - a layout with glossy paper

Today, we are showing the glossy specialty paper in the Wildflower collection. This paper is fantastic to spray and mist, and gives you texture and colour effects on the background paper.

The photo is taken from around Uluro, at sunrise.

The "Beautiful" sentiment is from the collectables in the Wildflower collection.

The layout has been created in layers, with stamps, diecuts and paper.

Kaisercraft products used: PS463 Floral Gloss | SS335 Sticker Sheet | PP1016 Paper Pad. CT878 Collectables | DD547 Decorative Die Circle Vines | KM110 Kaisermist Pink | KM 108 Kaisermist Orange | CS153 Texture Hessian Clear Stamp | CS261 Sentiments - Moments Clear stamps. 

Mixed media Easter egg

It it soon Easter, and the Easter egg production has started for a lot of crafters. This is my first mixed meda Easter egg this year, and it's done for The papercrafting.

This Easter egg has been created with left over materials, like flowers, metal, a zip and beads. I have also used Prima's molds and filed them with hot glue. After the glue dried, it was added to the egg and painted.

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How to create projects like this?

Start with finding what you would like to alter. You can find a lot of old things at home, at a flea marked or in different shops. This Easter egg was bought a few years ago (for 1NOK/ 10 pence (GBP)/ 0,1 USD)

For projects like this, you can use old flowers in strange colours, old lace, metal pieces, pearls and molded glue pieces. You can also use pieces from old type writers, computers and sewing machines. Here, you can save a lot of money. Use a good glue. I like to use Liquitex heavy gel. Don't save money on glue, get a good kind of glue. Leave the glue to dry overnight, before you paint. 

At the end, spray paint the project. Let this dry, and then dry paint the project. Use a good paint brush. A good result depends on a good paint brush, and very little paint on the paintbrush at the time. Using the right technique is important.

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I have also used Prima's Prima - Wild & Free collection - Let's Be Adventurers on the side of the egg.

The text on the side is from Prima's Let's Be Adventurers  paper.

Paper pad storage, with tutorial

After crafting for some time, I have collected quite a lot of small paper pads. These has been stacked in my book case for some time, thinking that I really wanted to organise them in another way. The inspiration for the storage boxes came from a close friend of mine Anne Elisabeth Rostad. I wanted a divider in the middle of the boxes to stop the paper pads from slipping, as I remove some of the paper pads from the box.

The box has been covered with wooden papers from the Pawfect collection and simply decorated.

Creating the storage box

Cut out the pieces as indicated below, from card board. Also cut a rectangular piece 18cm x 11cm to create the the middle seperator.

Glue the pieces together as indicated, using thick gaffa tape.

Add the center piece.

Cover the box with paper and add feet and decorate it as you wish.

Kaisercraft products: P2263 Meow | P2264 Woof

Perfect dog - layout shown at CHA - spring 2017

This is one of my layouts, shown at Kaisercraft's stand at CHA - spring 2017. The layout, is a clean and simple layout, created with the Pawfect collection. 

Layouts from Kaisercraft's stand at CHA - spring 2016. Photo: Luciana Warnowski.

Materials:

PAPERS: Pawfect Paper Collection - P2263 Meow, P2266 Ruff, P2267 Pawsome.

KC PRODUCTS: SS333 Pawfect Sticker sheet, CT876 Pawfect Collectables dog. 

Other: Brown and latte cotton (Sewn with sewing machine).

Instructions:

Photo 8cm x 10cm ( 3 1/8” x 3 15/16”).

Start with the background paper MEOW (reverse). The wood is going vertically. Sew, with a sewing machine the boarders on the top right side of the page, and about 10cm up from the bottom of the page. 

Cut out the “Best dog” quote from the RUFF paper. Cut a rectangle of 16cm x 11cm from the PAWSOME paper. Add the photo and the “Best dog” quote to the rectangle, using 3D tape. 

Add the balls from the Sticker sheet. Add the banner and the arrows from the PAWFECT collectables. Cut out a few quotes from the PAWSOME paper, and add these to the top, right side of the page.

Distress ink colouring storage solution

The wildflower collection has so many water colouring effects. I wanted to use the collection to create a storage solution and simple colour palette for my water colour motives, when I travel. 

The folder is hand made, and decorated with papers from the collection.

The binder has been created from altering a larger A4 binder, and reusing the ringbinder inside.

At the inside, I have laminated pages with small pieces with brush strokes of the ink. This makes it easier to see the colours. Since the pages are laminated, they can be used as a distress ink palette while I am painting.

The binder also has plastic pockets, where I can store images while I am traveling. I have used small pockets for this, but altered the size using a fuse tool.

Kaisercraf product : P2269 Vines | P2273 Spring | P2272 Flowering | CT878 Collectables | PP1016 Paper Pad | DD381 Decorative Die Words Hello | DD945 Decorative Die and stamp Love | IT437 Criss Cross.

Other: Gesso, distress ink and platic pockets.

Easter decoration with Easter eggs in a little nest

Påsken er her snart. Her er pyntet en delbar julekule i god påskestil. 

Her det brukt noe rester av hobbymateriell. Fuglen er resirkulert fra en gammel dekorasjon, men hvite polyresinfugler kan du også finne i nettbutikken.

Det er pyntet med blomster fra Petaloo og Mathinablomster.

Bunnen i egget er laget av en sirkel av et mønsterark, Maja Design: Flirty - Summer Crush.

Eggene er laget av vatt. Eggene her er hvite, men kan males. Det ene egget er malt gult. Deretter jar eggene fått en spray av sort mist for å skape litt farge i eggene.

Denne fuglen er satt fast på et sugerør for å skape litt høyde i dekorasjonen.

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