Lil Primrose

In March we used the gorgeous Lil Primrose girls from Kaiser to create these 3 lovely cards.  

These cards featured in our classes and we had lots of fun teaching our customers how to recreate them. 

In the card above we stamped the little girl on Buttercream Bazzill and onto the green print. We trimmed around her body leaving a small border and them trimmed around her hat and dress cutting along the line. The dress and hat was then glued onto her body. Any small print can be used for this technique. It is a great way to put colour into a stamped image without having to colour it. She was then mounted onto the die cut circles which were adhered to the printed paper and then the card base. Rub ons and ribbon were also used to embellish the card.

The card above is done in the same way as the first card. Another small print was used for her dress and hat. If you have 6" paper pads at home go through them and you will find that you have a great collection of paper that has a variety of small prints on them. Kaiser, Doodlebug and American Craft papers often have great prints that you can use for this technique on the back of their main prints. The image was then mounted onto the die cuts which were mounted onto the printed paper and then the card base.

The card above has been stamped with Staz On and coloured in with Tombow pens. A "water colour" look was created here by picking up colour with the clear blender pen and colouring in. No shadows were included as we wanted a soft look.

Did you know that raising the layers on your card with Magic Mount (double sided sticky foam) will make even the most basic layout look more complex than what it is. In the card above we have mounted the girl onto the top die cut. This layer is then mounted onto the larger die cut. Sometimes we also double mount a layer if we want to make a feature of it on a card.

 Magic Mount comes in 2 colours (black and white). White is used a lot of the time but black is very handy when you are working on dark cards (as white stands out against dark cards). 

Why not try using some on the next card you make.

All items used above are available at you know where -

Crafty Capers!!!!!

More flowers.

Here are another 2 samples of how we used the organza flowers on our cards. 

Both of these prints are from Bo Bunny - Ambrosia collection. 

The 12" page comes with 4 printed sections on 1 side and a heap of other smaller matching pictures on the reverse. As the sheet is full of great prints on both sides and you want to cut them all up to put on a card or in your album most people end up buying 2 pages. 

They make a very quick and easy card for when you need a card in a hurry or are great to cut up and put together to put in your card box so you have some spares.

 All we have done is  separate the layers and put the print back together by mounting/double mounting the layers back in place. Above we have cut out part of the green section, turned it into a flap, put a piece of card behind it to stamp on and put it on a card base. 

Below we have cut around the printed orange scalloped circle. We then used a scalloped die to remove a section from the larger orange layer and stamped on it. The yellow section is adhered onto the card base, the larger orange section is double mounted onto the card base and the stamped orange circle is adhered to the card base.

All items used on these cards are available at Crafty Capers. 

If you are local why not pop in for a look.

See you at Crafty Capers!!!!

Beautiful organza flowers

Recently we got these gorgeous organza flowers into the shop. 

We have heaps of colours to choose from and they have a beautiful little pearls in the center of each flower.

See how easy they are to use on your cards. Products used on these cards are available at Crafty Capers.