Splat Attack – new technique

If you’re feeling a bit down in the dumps today then looking at these cards will surely perk you up!  They are bright, fun and totally awesome.  At our last Kaszazz monthly meeting we made these cards which were featured in Australian Cardmaking, Stamping and Papercraft.  I’m pretty sure they are by a Kaszazz consultant as all the products used were Kaszazz.  When I get hold of her name I will put it on this post.  EDIT:: Michelle Smith designed these cards and they have been submitted to Kaszazz hurrah!

Don’t they look fantastic?  It’s great to see people being brave and injecting bright colours into their creations.  These cards use a technique that is just as fun trying out as the end result.  We used paint dabbers and mini misters to achieve our “splats” and the images were coloured in with aqua colour crayons.  I hope this makes into the Kaszazz workshops as I know lots of ladies would love to try it out.

Time for a poll…

Have a great day craftsters

Kris

Blog Wars – metal embellishments } #4

Hello friends

Just a quick post today with my project…

I have to let you in on a little secret…I don’t really like this card!  It was actually the first one I made for the metal embellishment challenge and though I do like the idea of it, I don’t think I’ve pulled off what I had envisioned.

The card base is the purple from the funky pack, stamped with pearl paint dabber and edged with black.  The purple piece on top has been rollergraphed with cherry blossoms and the plastic sheet stamped with the black paint dabber.  I do like the idea of this kind of layering but I think I need to try again!

What do you think?  Do you like it or do you agree that it’s not quite right?  Let me know via the comments please; I really want to hear your thoughts on this one!

Kris

Blog Wars – Acetate/Plastic {day 5}

The last project for this week.  I hope you enjoyed my creations and you got some ideas and inspiration to play with acrylic sheets.

acrylic card day 5

It’s a bit hard to see the detail but I’ve used Pearl paint dabber on the base card and butterflies.  I love Pearl paint dabber, it is simply gorgeous.  This was a real quick card, I placed the organdy ribbon over the stamped message to soften it a bit, it actually looks more subtle in person.  Everything used is Kaszazz.

Wow what an exciting week it’s been.  Don’t forget to see what the others have been up to and come on back for next weeks challenge!

Kris

Blog Wars – Acetate/Plastic {day 4}

It’s so great to be organised this week.  I’ll let you in on a little secret…all this weeks projects were made in one sitting!  I find it so much easier to be creative and come up with new ideas while I am already making something so I decided instead of trying to make one per day I would do them all at once and just post each day (thank YOU scheduling!!!)  I am really happy with my creativity and the way the ideas just flowed from one project to the next.

acrylic layout day 4

Can I just say that I think this is my favorite project from this week?  It’s a mini layout!  A 6 x 6″ scrapbook page.  I really enjoyed doing this little beauty, it was so much easier that a 12×12 ha ha.  Because your space is limited you don’t have to worry about trying to “fill it out” and you can keep embellishing simple.  now using the acrylic sheet as part of the base page was not my own brilliant idea – I was inspired by my favorite Kaszazz creator Naomi Elliot.  Naomi made a gorgeous 12×12 layout which you can see right here.

All my stamping was done with pitch black paint dabber as it works really well with acrylic sheets.  The snowflakes were cut out using circle punches then I cut a few in half to put along the edge of the page.  I really like the one that is hanging off the top, it’s seems to bring the page to life.  By the way that’s my mum blowing out the candle on her birthday cake.  I thought it was so cute that I captured her making her wish!

All supplies Kaszazz.

More tomorrow

Kris

Blog Wars – Acetate/Plastic {day 2}

Welcome to day 2!  I’m doing well so far right?

acrylic card day 2

This is an all acrylic base card with stamping using paint dabbers (demin) and rubber stamps on the front.  The white cardstock you can see is actually on the inside top of the card to hide the super tape and I attached the red cardstock on the inside back to make it easier to write a message.  This is a very quick but effective card made that little bit special by the acrylic card base.  All products Kaszazz.

See you tomorrow!

Kris

making friends…again

Wow I have been on facebook chatting with people I went to uni with way back in 1993 God I cringe whenever I say 1993 and uni in the same sentence, makes me feel sooo old.  I was a bit apprehensive about talking to people just because it’s been so long but so far everyone has been cool as.
Today I spent some time surfing some creative blogs, one that I visited was Elizabeth Kartchner’s blog; she was 2007  Scrapbooker of the Year.  She has the most gorgeous little family and some fabulous photo’s on her blog.  I love checking on other scrapbookers blogs as everyone has their own style.  That’s something that always stumps me – I don’t think I have a certain style.  It’s like if someone asks me what my fashion style would be I couldn’t answer that one either.  One day it will be skater chick, the next flowing skirts or platform wedges.  I guess I could just say eclectic?

ec⋅lec⋅tic 

–adjective

1.	selecting or choosing from various sources.

2.	made up of what is selected from different sources.

3.	not following any one system, as of philosophy, medicine, etc., but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems.

4.

noting or pertaining to works of architecture, decoration, landscaping, etc., produced by a certain person or during a certain period, that derive from a wide range of historic styles, the style in each instance often being chosen for its fancied appropriateness to local tradition, local geography, the purpose to be served, or the cultural background of the client.

–noun

5.	Also, ec⋅lec⋅ti⋅cist  /ɪˈklɛktəsɪst/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [i-klek-tuh-sist] Show IPA Pronunciation . a person who follows an eclectic method, as in philosophy or architecture.

Yes after reading that definition on dictionary.com I think I shall now refer to myself as an eclecticist.  Hmm bit of a mouthful though.
I finished another sample for Kyabram, the Fun in the Sun Stand Up Page.  I will post the photo tomorrow when I have some natural light to take it but for now here’s the bits and bobs I used to make it, courtesy of Kaszazz.  The Large Frangipanni’s are stamped on Java (mmmm) Bazzill and have had turquois  Perfect Pearls applied to them, ahh so pretty.  Not sure if it will show up properly…

Yes it did!  The hardware was originally gold but I painted it white with the snow cap Paint Dabber.  I really love working with Oatmeal cardstock.  I guess it’s the equivalent to what some people call kraft paper?  So very versatile and it makes colours really pop.  I used Oatmeal cardstock on my first workshop submission but alas I didn’t take a photo – what was I thinking – so you’ll have to send happy thoughts to Kaszazz in the hope they accept it.
chat soon
Kris

crackle paint

oh my goodness, Crackle Paint has arrived at Kaszazz, so very exciting and I can’t wait to get my hands on it even though I have no idea how to use it.  Don’t worry that will soon change and I’ll find some links for you guys too.  We also have another 20 new colours added to out Adirondack Paint Dabber range – looking forward to seeing them too.

Ok I just picked up my goodies from the post office from my $300 Kaszazz voucher so I’m off to open it and have a play.  It’s like Christmas every time an order comes in, I love it.

See ya

Kris

where has the week gone?

It’s Friday already and I’ve hardly written any blogs while on holiday, my bad.  So what was more important than posting…ummmm…well…honestly I don’t know where all my time went!

I have some photo’s from our Kaszazz training day

Here’s Sharynne’s arms guiding us through the first 5 Projects Quick card using the new papers from All Boy.  This card uses paint dabbers on acetate to make a semi see through card with a motorbike stamped on it – great for all those extreme sports boys.

and here are those arms again demonstrating one of the other cards in the 5PQ workshop using fluid chalk on gloss card and one of the new car stamps which I believe is a Holden Monaro?  I love this stamp and will HAVE to buy it because James is somewhat a car nut especially Holdens.  Just look at those brilliant colours in the Fluid Chalks aren’t they gorgeous?

and this is a new SB page workshop using the All Boy papers, but don’t be discouraged if you don’t like boys – this example shows how the papers can be easily adapted for a girl, ain’t she cute?  I love these papers, they are so bright, modern and versatile.

Ok last photo (for now) is this new 2H workshop layout using the new Ebony and Ivory range which you will fall head over heals for when you see it.  It’s simply stunning and I’m so happy about it I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

So you too can check out the new product release here.  Just scroll down to the new products flyer SEP08.  And for a gander at the new workshops go here for 2H (two hour worklshops) and here for 5PQ (five projects quick).  There are heaps and heaps of pretty and funky products to sort through, let me know what your fave is.  The two new paper ranges have matching stamp sets which are available cut to to the contours (very handy just jump straight in and get stamping) or uncut which lets you stamp them all together in one go or cut them out yourself to save on expense.  If you want to keep them whole there is a new jumbo size acrylic block to make it easy peasy.

For those of you who have been looking for journaling stamps we now have them available as part of a set or individually.  The car etc stamps I mentioned before include the Monaro (correct me if I’m wrong) an MG looking sports car, an old Rigley (?) and we also have a wicked bi-plane, train and motorcross rider on his bike.  Totally appropriate for the men (boys) in your life.

Now I’m off to do some research on mini misters and aqua brushes…and to take some photo’s of the front yard as I had to wait for the prunings to be hauled away.  I think that’s the worst part of gardening – cleaning up the pile of mess you have at the end of the day!

Back soon

Kris

PS credits go to Sharynne for all the examples above – thanks love )

cards, cards, cards

Card challenge for July 08 – Tombow pens

OK so here I am trying ever so hard to create a gallery where I can post all my photo’s for you to view but I’m not getting anywhere fast.  So until I can work it all out I will just slap the pic’s in here with my posts for now.  The card above was for my July card challenge using Tombow Dual Brush pens.  I was really worried about getting it done so I procrastinated right up to the last minute then was surprised at how well it came out.  It’s just a simple sweet little card.  I used the Tombows to colour the rubber stamp which I’d never done before.  I love the effect and will be definetely buying some Tombows for my own stash.  All the tools and materials used were from the Kaszazz range as it was a consultant card challenge group.  The Challenge for this month is the Adirondack Paint Dabbers so I’ll have to find some inspiration and start creating.

On Friday night I held a 5PQ Workshop where we made Ooh La La cards using various techniques like embossing, stamping, punching and so on.  Here’s a pic…

5PQ Ohh La La Cards

Wow you have no idea how long it’s taken me to get these photo’s sorted – I wish I knew what I was doing instead of just learning as I go.  Hopefully this post will come out looking ok, apologies if it doesn’t!

Check back later for some pictures of my upcoming workshops

Kris