Hello!
From Kaisers Wooden Tidy I have made a big decorative piece using papers and embellishments from the Q2 Dear Santa range.
Along with poinsettias and some glittery sticks I also decorated some foam balls with brads and glitter and stuck them on a wooden skewer.
What do you think?
Thanks for looking!
Marijke
Good Afternoon!
Using the Lilac Avenue paper pad, a Kaiser pen tidy, purple paint, rhinestone strips and some ribbon I created this little flower pot.
Inside I filled it with florist foam and some artificial lavender.
Now I just need to decide who I will give it to.
Till next time!
Marijke
Hello Everyone!
I would just like to show you some things I made yesterday using Kaisers Q2 Christmas Carnival Collection.
I was a bit stuck with what to give my daughters school teacher as a Thank You for this year, so I started playing around with the Carnival papers and this is what I came up with: (comments will be appreciated!!)
Its a little tote made from 1 sheet of 12″ papers, 2 brads and a strip of paper for the handle. For inside I made a little box out of pink cardstock which will be filled with either chocolates or toffees.
I then made a magnetic shopping list for on the fridge. (using some more of the pink cardstock, piece of ribbon, a couple of rhinestones and a small pad from king kong)
And I made a cover for a packet of post it notes. It has a little loop up the top for a small pencil or pen and I used the Carnival puffy stickers as an embellishment.
With a scrap of the cardstock I had left I made a little holder for either a gift voucher or lottery ticket.
I then decided I needed to make a table center piece for Christmas. Finding nothing else suitable I used the smaller square tissue box cover from Kaiser, turned it upside down, put a bit of cardboard in the bottom to seal the hole and painted it red. After I finished embellishing it, I filled it with florist foam and pushed a candle in. To cover the rest of the green I used some silvery tinselly stuff (sorry forgot the name!!).
Then I made a couple of quick cards:
Tomorrow I will show you what I have been making with the Lilac Avenue Collection.
Hope you have a great day!
Marijke
Hello Everyone!
For the past week I have been making Christmas Presents for my daughters teachers and some people who are very hard to buy for and have everything already anyway, so I thought to share them with you.
These are fabric covered 6 x 6″ note books I picked up at Target at a clearance price. I’ve had them for over a year always meaning to do something with them and now I finally have.
For the above note book I used the new Kaiser Christmas Carnival paper pad. These paper pads are great! Each pad includes 10 specialty papers (2 x flocked, 2 x spot varnish, 2 x foil and 4 die cuts) as well as 24 sheets of designed paper. I have also used Prima Flowers, our brand of crystal brads and AC Thickers.
For the purple note book I used the Lilac Avenue paper pad from Kaiser, Lilac Avenue Alpha Stickers (with matching chipboard) as well as Prima Flowers, Crystal Brads and Kaiser Adhesive Pearls and Ranger Ice Stickles.
Tomorrow I will show you the candle holder I made using the New Kaiser Christmas Carnival Range of papers.
Hope you have a great day!
Marijke
The Hema is a well known department store in Holland. It was one of my favourite stores when I lived there! I especially have a weakness for their “worsten broodjes” Yummy! (like a sausage roll – but different!).
Anyway, they have just set up a website so you can do online shopping, Have a look at their product page, you are unable to order anything as the site is not accepting orders yet – but just wait a couple of seconds and watch what happens. Make sure the sound is turned up on your computer!
Personally I think its brilliant!
With the way the world is financially at the moment, we all look at ways to save money. So I have challenged myself to create a few layouts spending $10 or less.
Here is the first one:
Here is what I used:
* the white page inserts that are in the albums – $0
* 1 sheet of patterned paper, making memories – $1.45
* sheet of vellum stickers from EK success – $2.99
* 4 eyelets – $0.10
* 1 sheet of Cardstock – $0.70
* 1/2m ribbon – $0.50
* Metal ribbon slide, alpha beads, washer and rub ons from stash, but probably valued at $3 (as they are not full packets)
So total spent: $8.74 (less than $4.50 per page!!)
And here is the 2nd one:
Has any one else made some budget pages? How much did you spend? Are you willing to share your layouts here? What are your best money saving ideas?
I will list all ideas here next week. The person with the best Scrapbooking money saving idea will receive a bag of 100 mixed shaped brads from my online store.
Till next time!
Marijke
I have just received this e-mail…and I thought all the mum’s out there would appreciate it!
When I first started Scrapbooking about 5 years ago, eyelets were all the rage! Everyone I knew used them to adhere photos, add accents etc, but now most of my friends (myself included!) rarely touch an eyelet and always use brads. Although I have seen in some of the Scrapbook Magazines – eyelets are making a comeback! So I was wondering…..
What do you prefer to use? Brads or eyelets or both?
On average how many brads or eyelets would you use per page?
Thanks!
The painting is done in a different factory, and I will be receiving those photos in the coming weeks.
Above are the images of our brads which should arrive in our store in about 10 days. They still need to be packed and the 5mm ones still need to be sprayed with glitter.
If you are interested in making your own design of brads, any shape or size, contact me and I will get you a quote from the factory.
On Saturday Western Australia will once again go to the polls to vote on the topic of Daylight Saving.
Here are some wise words just e-mailed to me…..
