Kaisercraft is out with their first Christmas collection for this year, Christmas wishes.
I wanted to create a little Christmas present with the collection. I ended up, creating a little Christmas ornament with a church with lights. I also created a little box from for the ornament.
The box has windows on two of the sides, so the ornament inside the box can be seen.
The box opens, and the base is made as a base for the ornament, so it can be seen as a snow globe.
The ornament can be lifted and used as a little Christmas ornament. The acrylic ball is 10cm in diameter.
On the base, the ornament looks like a little snow globe.
Kaisercraft Products: Christmas wishes: P2142 Bauble Gerland | P2145 Pearlescent | P2146 Fur Tree | P2149 Season Greatings | PP1003 Paper Pad | Glitter cardstock Lagoon GC 110 | Decorative Die Oval Vintage Frame DD369.
Other: Acrylic ornament, cardboard, led light, electrical wires, miniature switch and 3v battery.
It is not often I make something to order, but this is one of those things. The minialbum has been created using mostly papers from Kaisercraft and flowers from Prima. The papers are from three different collections, Time Machine, Generations and one of the base coat paper pads.
On the front of the album, I have used flowers and leaves from Prima. I must admit - I am a bit of a hoarder when it comes to Prima and Kaisercraft stuff. Some of the Prima flowers are from old collection, that I have had for a while. I am happy to see that some of the flowers are now being sold again.
I have used one of Tim Holtz stencils and gesso on the background, together with washi tape.
The flowers at the right, are now being sold again.
The album itself is simply decorated. Only the first and the last page is decorated. On the other pages, I have added panels and some diecuts at the edges. I have left it simple, for the recipient to be able to ad her own photos.
The first page has been decorated in a mixed media style. The photo has been covered, as I didn't want to publish the photo of the recipient.
A lot of the pages has different flips, and opens up. The pages closes with magnets.
On some of the pages, I have added pockets with space for tags.
I have used a Tim Holtz edge dies on the end of the tags. A lot of the texts are transparent stickers from Kaisercraft.
In the middle of the album, I have added a tag. The tag is also the gift card, that comes with the album.
The text "Give the ones you love, wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay" is a sticker from Kaisercraft.
The tag at the back, has been designed with a Silhouette.
I often add a pop up at the last page of my albums. This album is no exception. The album is for a photographer, so I wanted to create a vintage pop-up camera.
The idea for the front of the camera (lens part) came from a photo of a card I found online. However, I am not able to find back to the source. I have designed a lot of pop-ups and therefore, It was easy to understand the principal of how to build a basic pop-up camera.
The table and the camera itself is built on "ordinary" pop-up principles.
You can find the tutorial on how I create albums like this, in this blog post.
Have you tried the new Opal Magic colours from Finnabair? It is 8 different colours. This colours have one colour if you paint on a light background and a different colour if you paint on a dark background. The colours are quite thick. They are super to paint over things like metal, gesso and flowers.
Here, I have painted a Small canvas (10 x 10cm) to test the colours on a dark background. The same colours used on a light background can be seen in this blogpost.
After the glue has dried, tha canvas has been painted with black gesso, When the gesso has dried, the canvas was dry painted with the Opal Magic colours. Remember to have very little paint on your brush when you dry paint.
The Opal Magic paint covers parts of the structures on the canvas, and every colour is only used on part of the canvas.
In the end, I have added bling and glitter.
Materials used:
This is Finnabair's demo of the colours, filmed at CHA this spring:
Christmas wishes collection, is Kaisercraft's first Christmas collection for this year. I created a layered layout in pastel and gold. This layout is also featured in Kaisercraft's blog.
The circular paper is one of Kaisercraft's speciality papers with this collection. The flowers and ornaments are from the collectables.
I have used stencils and gesso on the background.
Kaisercraft Products: Christmas wishes: P2147 St Nicholas | P2150 Good Cheer | PS461 Gilded Frame | PP1003 Paper Pad | CT862 Collectables | EM434 Pearl String Gold | DD120 Decorative Die Words Ho Ho Ho | TG124 Template Festive quarters | T623 Template Christmas quarters.
