More of My Kaisercraft/ Prima Mini

There are quite a few pages to this mini. So instead of inundating you with a super large post with way too many details I am going to break it up into more manageable sections like I did for the cover. I will also try to share in the order they are in the book as each part is for a different place we went to in a two day period.

That being said, I forgot to take pics of the third and fourth pages :( lol. They were taken in the butterfly enclosure at Wild Life Sydney Zoo and had papers from Prima Fairy Rhymes and a couple of die cuts with some K&Co 3D butterfly stickers.

Next I made an envelope page using the Lifestyle Crafts Basic Envelope set using the largest envelope. I then used the insert as the basis to make a flip out panel that has 3 photos on one side and two on the other with a journalling spot as well. The paper flowers are from Prima with an added  resin flower (same as on the cover but pink) and some brads.

I cut the koala using a quickutz die from the Australia set (can be found on ebay). I have been itching to use this set! lol The jouranlling spot was stamped with worn lipstick. ( I will gather all my supplies and have a full list of what I can find/remember with my last post. Promise!)

As you can see a little bit in these pics I edged them with Adirondack Snow Cap paint dabber. I also did this around the blue matting. I also added a lil snow cap to the Koala to tone down the grey and because Koala's do have a lot of white in their fur  :)

Next up is a page that flips open and has a tag tucked up behind it as well. The flip pages were pics taken in the Kangaroo enclosure and in front of the Rock Wallabies.

The tabs are from Lifestyle Crafts Tab It kit, the  boarders are from a KaiserCraft stack. You can really see in this pic how each page of this album has been edged with snow cap paint and then distressed with spun sugar and worn lipstick.

The jounalling spot is is taken from the middle of another Lifestyle crafts Whimsical die (a leftover from using this die on page 2 to frame a pic). It is not actually stuck down yet, ready for journalling. The Kangaroo is another from the Australia set used for the Koala. I edged the roo with rusty hinge to make it more in line with the giant Red Kangaroo statue.

For the tag both pics are very large. You can see in the background of this pic the Crocodile in the background. Let me tell you that is one huge croc! The zookeeper told us his story and why he was there. Suffice to say he is the male version of a black widow ;) lol.

Anyway that's it for today lol. in the next installment there is a window page and another flip out book :) Feel free to ask any questions! I will answer the best I can. All cutting has been done with my trusty Ebosser.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

My First Mini Album with Prima, Kaisercraft and Some Distress - Front

 Hiya everyone. Sorry I have been so absentee lately, but it's been mega busy last month lol. I can finally share one of my mega projects though yay! I Don't want to inundate you with it all at once so I will start today with the front cover. First off the reason I have been waiting to post this is the recipient hadn't opened it yet! lol. Now that she has we are off and running. I probably won't be able to tell you where every little thing came from now though as I only have the pictures to go by an who wants to make detailed list and interrupt the flow of crafting?  Ok Ok I know some people do but erm... I am not that organised lol.

Well I am sure you all recognise that die! Tim Holtz' Sizzix Caged Bird die :) I added some blue flatback pearls to cover the holes. I filled the holes with glossy acccents so they would stay put. The paper on the cover is from the new Prima Divine stack cut with the Sizzix Sizzlit Ribbon Insert. I think it's my new fave die lol. Can't wait to make some cards with it :). The yellow flower on the cage is one I won from prima :) The rest are I am Roses Flowers coloured with distress stains and spritzed with home made pearl mist.

The doily dies in the background are all various Lifestyle Crafts Dies. I have the mini doilies as well as various bigger ones. Love them! The lil bird is from Tim holtz (my die cut bird was not co-operating :(...) Idea-ology Adornments. Chain is just some cheap stuff off ebay as are the jump rings.

What have I missed? The words are Thickers that started out cream. I added a couple of coats of distress stain over the top to turn them white. The lace  I got off facebook :) It was cream and I coloured it with stains. Thats the only unfinished part of the book as I ran out. I will have to buy more and colour it and send it over so the book can be finished.

So that's it the cover of my finished mini album. Quite an achievement for me as I have never finished such a big project before :) This is my DT project for Eclectic Ellapu as well as it contains plenty of 'B' items. Bird, Bird Cage, Blue, Butterfly and Bead Spray. I thought there was one more but I forget what it is lol. All cutting was done with my Ebosser.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Mini Doliy Die Flower Card with Sweet Treats

 Hi everyone. Thanks to all my new followers for following me :) Sorry I have been so quiet lately lol. We had a visitor from England for a couple of weeks so things have been a little bit hectic! Anyway here is this fortnights DT entry for Eclectic Ellapu. This week I am using KaiserCrafts Sweet Treats 12" stack. Here you can see the papers my helper, miss 9, and I decided to use although we did change one at a later point lol. In the upper right corner you can see the Mini Doily Dies from Lifestyle Crafts that we used.

 To make our flowers for this card we used my new toy the Ebosser to cut five of each of the three different mini dies we had chosen. Miss 9 thought using the Ebosser was lots of fun and I think it's the best thing since sliced bread lol. She also helped to pop all the little bits out of the dies :)

 As you can see I then put her to work colouring the Mini Doily Dies with Picked Raspberries Distress stain. She coloured the edges on the front side and as the paper is white on the back we then flipped them over and coloured a fair bit of the back as well so that when we folded the flowers we would see pink instead of white (we didn't colour the back of one as this would be the base of our flower).

Miss 9 attempted to do some folding but she bailed out very quickly... Too boring for her lol. To fold the flowers I folded them in half, being careful to try and match up the scallops, and then folded them in half again. For each flower I made four of these. I then inked the edges of the folded petals as you can see below.

This was the hard bit! Figuring out which way to place my "petals" so no two opened right next to each other lol. My Glues are MIA so I added some double sided tape to my base mini doily die cuts and then carefully lined up my folded pieces so they would meet in the middle.

Here is where we changed the background piece as the first piece was way too busy. Miss 9 had fun flipping through the stack until she found this pattern and declared it perfect! I then cut a thin strip off  the end of a piece of green and white leafy pp from the same stack for our flower stems.

Miss 9 Chose the ribbon for the bow and I opened up some new stamps I received in the mail this week to create my sentiment. The die and stamps are from Whimsy Stamps. Stamps are Celebration Mini Tickets (I also have the Love Mini Tickets) and the die is the Mini Ticket Die. I stamped the two mini tickets with picked raspberries to tie it in with the rest of the card.

Hope you enjoyed my DT entry this fortnight. I have an exciting project that has been taking up a lot of my time lately to share really soon hopefully :)
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Design Team News and a Pirate Princess Card

Guess what! I am one of the new members of the Eclectic Ellapu Design team :) Wooohooooooo. This is my first design team and I am extremely excited :)

We have new challenges every Sunday. This weeks challenge is pink and black with a skull. I am on the purple team and we post every second week. So I didn't have to make a project for this week as we only just found out we were the lucky ones but I had an idea with some of my supplies and ran with it. The card is pretty basic but but I think it would be perfect for a pirate princess!

 All the dies I used on this card are from Lifestyle Crafts. Skull and Crossbones Punches, Nesting Squares and Nesting Squares (Rounded) and were cut with my Ebosser (love this machines sigh lol). I used Multi - Medium Matte to adhere the skull and crossbones and double sided tape under the pink and and small whites squares to add dimension.
Happy Scrappin'
Purple

Ahoy Matey with Mpress Journeys

After an extensive Google search that shows me nothing.... lol I am pretty sure the stamp set I have used for this card is Mpress Journeys. Unfortunately it seems like you can't get it anymore :( I eventually had the  brainwave to go check previous orders on the website where I bought it.

As you can see here the mat for the card was stamped with the map, then crumpled and flattened back out and distress ink added to the ridges and spritzed with water to move the colour around. Then a good amount of distress ink was added around the edges to add a border and the edges distressed with the Tim Holtz Distress Tool.

I stamped and fussy cut around the ship and lighthouse before distress inking around them. A little too much ink ended up on the lighthouse lol . . . I added these to the card with foam tape. I used two Lifetsyle Craft Nesting Labels dies and my Ebosser to create the mount for the sentiment. No I didn't miss stamp. That's how the sentiment is :P

I love this stamp set. Such a shame you can't get it anymore :( All the elements were stamped with Timber Brown Stazon onto white cs then distressed brown. Some elements came out a lil darker than I wanted but as this card is for a boy I figured he would hardly notice lol...
Happy Scrappin'
Purple


PS I have been posting from my stack of drafts as it has been school holidays and crafting has been on the down low. Should have some exciting new projects to share very soon :)