Kaiser Craft - Factory 45 papers

I have had a very busy weekend with first attending a wonderful workshop at the Vintage Chicks Club yesterday and then busy all day today in the garden and spending wonderful time with the family. 

In between all this and especially after being motivated after the wonderful workshop I did get back into my craft room to create .... create ....and create.                        

I got my order from Craft On Line during the week which had my order of Factoy 45 papers and embellishments from Kaiser Craft.

I put together this little box which I will fill with goodies for my father-in-law for Fathers Day. 

First of all I put White Gesso all over the box and then covered it with 

Factory 45 papers.  

I then added some cog charms, some of the Factory 45 wooden shapes which had been gessoed and coloured and to top it all off I used stone effect paste on the top of the lid and covered in 

Aged Brass Metallique Wax 

The natural look was increased with a piece of string around the top of the lid.

But watch this space as over the next couple of days I will be telling you more about the lovely people I met at the workshop and the wonderful things we made at the workshop and from a kit I purchased.

Celebrating Life

For a while I have wanted to use the 'Clog' die I have for a scrapbook page featuring my grandson. 

I started with the rustic background of green spots on green.  

My next step was to give the page some texture by using a template to add some modelling paste to give the texture of the ground cover in the playground. 

I then had great fun putting all my die cuts and charms together to enhance the picture of my grandson playing in the play ground. 

Lastly I named the page 'Celebrating Life' because that is how I feel my grandson tries when he tackles anything - with laughter and fun having a good time. 

I will be entering this page into the Kaisercraft Blog for their August challenge. 

Happy Birthday

Over the years that I have been scrap-booking I haven't done many cards for the men in the family but when I did start making cards suitable for men then I found my creative juices just flowed. 

For this card I used all those little bits of scrap paper which every scrap-booker has hidden away. 

While at a local scrap-booking show I found some paper which looked like bits of hay all meshed together.  It was a lovely piece that made just finished the card of nicely.  I also added dye cut shapes of cogs which sit nicely behind the heritage picture of a car. 

Wedding Card

As most of you most probably know our daughter got married last year  so I used the occasion as an opportunity to experiment with my cards in an attempt to make sure she had some lovely Wedding cards to remember. 

I love this one and especially the lovely little saying that I found.  I hope the happy couple will write their own love story for a long long time. 

I used Christina Re Design - typewriter paper with its lovely golden hint background which I mounted on gold paper.  I then used Spellbinders Dies  with the Spellbinders -- Love Romantic Die placed just under the saying.  I then added the lovely little roses, ribbon and 

the beautiful jeweled pin.

Little scraps of paper

It was the end of the weekend and I had all my little scraps of paper out and all over the desk.

As I was putting the paper away I found a couple of pieces that I really liked and decided that I needed to put them together to make a card.

I had to choose from making a card or going and getting dinner. As you can see I decided to go with the card.

It is amazing what you can do with all the little pieces of scrap paper you have left over - just remember to keep them all and one day - like me you can make a beautiful card just like this.