CSI - Case File 125

Hi Everyone,

The new Case File #125 is up at Color Stories Inspiration.  How gorgeous is this colour palette!! Click on the CSI link above for all the details and while you're there check out all the amazing creations from our DT and Guest Designers.

You Take My Breath Away

flowers and resin accents - evidence criteria

buttons added to my journaling spot - evidence criteria

 I have hidden my journaling on a tag, which has a little green doily diecut attached,

so it can be pulled out.

 Manor House Country Rose flower, floral border punch and scalloped doily diecut border - evidence criteria

Evidence:
flowers - MHC and Prima flowers
wood - frame
buttons
scallops - diecut doily border
quatrefoil pattern - masked stencil
something puffy - texture paste (when dried with heat gun the paste becomes puffy in places)
resin accents - Prima bird
decorative frame - wooden frame layered under pp on left hand side
floral pattern -  floral border punch
Testimony: 
Add buttons to your journaling spot

Product Used:  Melissa Frances, Websters and Basic Grey pp's Manor House Creations country rose, Prima flower spray and resin bird, The Trinket Track wooden frame, Kaisercraft Secret Admirer collectables and text stamp, , Crafters Workshop stencil, texture paste, sequins, Martha Stewart border punch, buttons, pearl thread, WOW embossing powder, glimmermist

Newsflash!! Manor House Creations Attending Brisbane Expo.

Manor House Creations will be at the Scrapbook and Papercraft Expo in Brisbane next weekend. Yes it true! By some VERY last-minute circumstances and arrangements, (as many of you may know, Suzanne lost her already-damaged house to a 2nd fire just a few days ago) MHC has been asked to attend the show representing both Manor House Creations and Molossi.  I will be helping out at the stand on Saturday and Sunday, so if you're there, pop in and say hello. STAND 60 JUNE 7th-9th - all long weekend We will be in Stand 60 - right up near the front door....come and visit us please, say hi and cruise the stand for some stunning new products and some great clearance bargains too. PAPERS FLOWERS CHIPBOARD CARD KITS LAYOUT KITS EMBELLISHMENTS and more...... Wait till you see the newest 'family' wooden hearts stands by Molossi wholesale...you'll be blown away. We hope to see you there!

Manor House Creations - Beautiful You Collection & Cardabilities #99

Hi Everyone,

Cathy here, with a LO to share using the gorgeous new Beautiful You Collection from Manor House Creations.   I'm in love with this collection as it's so soft and feminine and a perfect range if you are into fussy cutting some of your elements.

All Natural Beauty
To create this LO I started with the reverse side of the Beautiful You-Fresh and New pp as my background which I altered with various mixed media techniques and washi tape accents.

Manor House Creations

Beautiful You Collection - Winter 2014

 I love to fussy cut my pp’s to create elements.  I have to admit, sometimes it's difficult to cut into those gorgeous papers, but it's so worthwhile in the end as fussy cut elememts and a little foam tape are a wonderful way to add dimension to your LO's.  Here I used the Beautiful You-So You paper, cutting out some of the beautiful rose accents and attaching them with foam dots. I layered them under the new wooden garden gate embellishment. I cut the gate into 2 parts to frame my photo and altered the pieces by coating with gesso, then randomly applying aged embossing enamel and a few splashes of glimmer mist. Once dry I lightly stamped over the gates with a script stamp.

The country roses fit in perfectly with this range of pp’s. To make them go further, I love to pull them apart into 2 sections which makes a lovely blossom and a sweet rose bud.

There is a title word on the Beautiful You-So You pp which I cut out and trimmed down from the word Beautiful to Beauty, to become part of my “All Natural Beauty” title. I layered this with one of the new ornate frames – elegance white, which I cut in half lengthways. 

The Beautiful You-Journal Sheet is so versatile. The journal labels are a great to add journalling to

your LO’s as well as being the perfect size for cardmaking. I have used the pretty little

butterfly label to frame my title words. 

MHC Paper Collection:  Beautiful You – Fresh and New, Beautiful You – So You, Beautiful You – Journal Sheet
MHC Flowers:  Country roses – ivory, Idyllic – white
MHC Frames:  Ornate Frames – elegance white
MHC Wood Elements:   garden gate

Other Product Used:  modelling paste, Crafters Workshop stencil, Lindy's Stamp Gang mist, Luminarte pigment powder, Stanpendous aged embossing enamel, Kaisercraft bling, washi tape, Pink Paislee script stamp, archival ink, berry sprays, Silhouette Cameo diecut, Adornit tiny alpha stickers.

Cardabilities Sketch #99
I came across the very inspiring Cardabilities sketch site a while ago and have finally gotten around to entering a card creation in one of their challenges.

Following the sketch I created my card using the yummy Kaisercraft Kaleidoscope paper pad and collectables, with one of the gorgeous new Beautiful You Ballerina flowers in pink and one of my favourites the sweet Minuettes flowers in white from Manor House Creations.

Following the sketch I created my card using the yummy Kaisercraft Kaleidoscope paper pad and collectables, with one of the gorgeous new Beautiful You Ballerina flowers in pink and one of my favourites the sweet Minuettes flowers in white from Manor House Creations.

The background was misted and masked, then lightly smudged with gesso to soften the overall effect.  Using the leftover mist on my craft sheet I dragged the edges of my banner and then used a brush to paint the centre of the teeny weeny rose.

MHC Product:  Beautiful You - Ballerina pack, Minuettes , teeny weenies
Other Product:  Kaisercraft Kaleidoscope - paper pad and collectables, Spellbinders doily die, Martha Stewart punch, Memory Box stencil, gesso, Lindy's Stamp Gang mist, MSE stamp, white cs, archival black ink


Thanks so much for stopping by.

Kaisercraft Design Team 2014 Entry

Hi Everyone,

As my title suggests, I decided to try out for the Kaisercraft 2014/2015 Design Team.  I have always been a big fan of all their gorgeous products.  Every month I ooh and ahh over the new ranges and I am totally addicted to their fabulous stamps, so I thought, why not give it a go.

To apply, we had to create 3 recent projects - Layout, Beyond the Page/Altered Item and a Mixed Media item or Card.

So Very Loved

First up I have created a LO using the beautiful Curiosity range which I have layered and fussy cut to create some depth.  The background was stencilled with the pretty Flutter mask, then stamped over with the Honeycomb background stamp and I also used the Windsor stamp down the left hand side of my LO.  Over the top of this I have flicked some glimmer mist in red to tie in with the flowers accents.  

Kaisercraft Product Used:
Curiosity 12x12 paper collection pack
Curiosity 6 1/2 inch paper pad
Curiosity Collectables
Stamps - Honeycomb, Windsor, Secret Admirer definitions
Stencil - Flutter
Wooden Flourishes - ornate corners
Sparklets - rouge
Other Product Used: Viva Inka Gold paste, Martha Stewart punch, Glimmer mist, Arichival ink

Remember This Moment

Next up is my Beyond the Page project.  I decided to create a small frame using my nephew's recent wedding pics and the gorgeous Limelight range.  I have used various Kaisercraft wooden flourishes elements which I have altered by coating with Viva Inka Gold, then adding some Kaisercraft pearls and paper blossoms.

You can't have a garden scene without butterflies, so I stamped some with the Kaisercraft butterflies stamp and coloured the stamped image with some pigment powder and a water brush, then topped it with a pearl embellishment.

When you think of weddings, lace immediately comes to mind, so I added some Kaisercraft lace accents to the frame in white to soften the green a little.  I also used the woodgrain edge stamp to tie in with the garden theme.

Kaisercraft Product Used:

OTP - Small Photo Display
Limelight 12x12 paper collection pack
Stamps - edges, butterflies, Secret Bird Society
Wooden Flourishes - frames, iron gate, remember this moment, ornate corners
Paper Blooms - coconut
Mini Paper Blooms - white
Lace Pack - white
Rubons - After 5 collection quotes
Pearls SB713
Other Product Used: Viva Inka Gold paste and Pearl Pen, Luminarte pigment powder, Arichival ink, pearl centres

Moments Card

Lastly I have created a card using the beautiful and vibrant Kaleidoscope range.  I layered and machine stitched various papers for my background and used my silhouette Cameo to create the pretty diecut layer - you could also use dies if you don't have a Cameo - then stamped the flutter stamp lightly in both corners.

The lovely wooden frame went beautifully with all the pretty coodinating collectables, which I layered with foam tape and accented with paper blossoms and pearls.

Kaisercraft Product Used:

Kaleidoscope 12x12 paper collection pack

Kaleidoscope collectables

Wooden Flourishes - frames

Stamp - flutter

Mini Paper Blooms - white

Paper Flowers - snow

Pearls SB713

Kaisercraft Cardstock - smooth white

Other Product Used:  Silhouette Cameo diecut machine, stitching,archival ink.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Colour Stories Inspiration - CSI #123

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So are you ready to see the new challenge?  Grab your forensics kits, CSI members, and get ready for some serious sleuthing as we open case file #123 at Color Stories Inspiration this week.  Pop on over to the site for some amazing inspiration from our Designers and Guest Designers as well as our Special Detectives from Flying Unicorn.

The World of Imagination is Boundless
My son Luke is a huge Anime (Japanese Animation) fan and loves to put together a costume and become one of his favourite characters for the day - I think this one is a Yu-Gi-Oh character.   Look at that hair spike!!  You wouldn't believe how much scultping gel and hairspray it took to mold his curly locks.

I loved playing with my mists on this LO to create a mixed media background which was one of the evidence criteria.  I didn't have the right shade of pale blue paper for my background, so I lightly misted some white cs with denim glimmer mist then sprayed over the top with white dylusions mist to soften to a pale blue.  The background was created by stencilling a chevron mask with clear croco crackling, then once dry, misting close to the paper to achieve a deep colour and allowing to the colours to drip down a little.  I sprayed one colour at a time and dried off, otherwise the colours can sometime blend together and become drab and mucky.

Evidence:
mixed Media background
rubons/stamps
border punch

Testimony:  Write your journaling in the background, directly on your paper.

Product Used:  Fancy Pants and MME pp's, Crafters Workshop chevron stencil, Viva Croco Crackling - clear, Glimmer mist - sapphire, bahama blue, jack frost, scarlet and denim, Dylusions mist - white, Stamps - MME, Teresa Collins and Kaisercraft, Martha Stewart border punch, Kaisercraft rubon, Archival ink - red and black, Viva turquoise inka gold, camera charm, ticket, Silhouette Cameo title word.

Manor House Creations - NEW 2014 Collection - Wandering Thoughts

Hi Everyone,

Manor House Creations have released 3 new gorgeous paper ranges as part of their Winter 2014 Collection and today I am sharing a LO created with the Wandering Thoughts collection, teamed with some of the delicious new flowers and frames.

The Most Beautiful View

This collections is all about travels, holidays and dreams and is both masculine and feminine with touches of greys, brown, denim blue through to a purple/pink colour.   This range also comes with a coordinating journal elements paper and a diecuts sheet.

To create this LO I decided to alter the reverse side of the Wandering Thoughts-journal pp with a coat of watered down gesso to soften the pinky/purple colour into a mauve.  I then added some gesso with a sponge diagonally across the paper as a base for my background.  Once dry, I used texture paste to mask over the gesso with a Tim Holtz floral doily stencil, then misted and inked over the masking to define the doily pattern.

I totally adore the MHC ornate frames, and was very excited to find a bunch of new frames to play with in my parcel of goodies.  I have used the Ornate Frames elegance white, which I cut into 2 sections.  I misted the floral section and added some pearls, to become part of my main flower cluster... how gorgeous are the new white lace and country blues denim flowers!!!  I then used the other frame section for my title.  I randomly stamped the frame with turquoise ink and a lace stamp, then backed the frame with Wandering Thoughts-beautiful pp and added the rubon title.  To tie in with my main flower cluster, I added one of the new turquoise country roses and a Wandering Thoughts blossom in the demin colour, which I softened with a little gesso.

Manor House Creations Product:
Papers: Wandering Thoughts- Journal and Beautiful
Flowers:  White Lace, Country Blues-denim, Country Roses-turquoise, Wandering Thoughts-blossoms. Rose Leaves-lge.
Embellishments:  Ornate Frames-elegance white

Other Product Used: Memory Box floral die, Prima bling flourish, washi tape, Kaisercraft rubons, pearls and lace stamp, Tim Holtz doily stencil,Silhouette Cameo diecut, Chalkboard mist -white, Glimmermist-denim, Versamagic ink-mint, modelling paste, gesso

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Color Stories Inspiration #122

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The new case file is out at Color Stories Inspiration and this week challenge comes with a fabulous sketch designed by Emma Stafrace.  Pop on over to the CSI site to see all the gorgeous examples from the Design Team and Guest Designers and be inspired to give this week's case file a go.

Summertime

 Love this photo of Brittany being happy and carefree, enjoying a beautiful Summer's day, which was the inspiration for my LO on this week's case file. 

It took me a while to figure out the banner aspect on Emma's fabulous sketch.   I wasn't quite happy with how my original banner turned out, so in the end I fussy cut some hibiscus flowers to create a banner effect and was much happier with the outcome.

I wanted to add some tags to my LO as it was one of the evidence items, so I altered a few tiny tags with glimmer mist to blend in with the colour scheme, then topped them with mini word stickers and attached them to my banner along with some metal leaf charms and sprigs which cut with my Silhouette Cameo machine, which were also on the evidence list.

I found this lovely Kaisercraft flourish which has been sitting in my stash for quite a while and decided to alter it to fit in with the colour scheme.  I gave it a coat of gesso first, then coloured the leaves with some Viva Inca Gold in gold green.  Next I randomly coated the leaves with Stampendous aged embossing enamel to give them a bit of texture.  I randomly flicked the flourish with key lime glimmer mist and once dry added some highlights and texture to the branches with tiny orange microbeads applied randomly with fast drying glue.

Colour Scheme:  main colours used were Guacamole and Herb Sprig with touches of Orange Sherbet, white and black

Evidence:
flowers - love my flowers!! - fussy cut flowers in my banner
leaves - well what goes better with flowers than leaves! - metal leaf charms, leaf diecuts and chipboard leaf flourish
metal - metal leaf charms which were altered with some Viva Inca Gold in green gold
grid pattern - grid stamping on background
cursive font - my title
tags - tiny tags hanging from my flower banner
sprig - sprig leaves cut with my Silhouette Cameo in my flower banner.

Testimony:  Handwrite your journaling in cursive.
This is a big thing for me, as I'm not too keen on my handwriting.  I came across this lovely quote, which reads 'Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is a jeweled balm for the battered spirit.  A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all is right with the world' ~ Ada Louise Huxtable

Product Used:  Fancy Pants and MME and G45 pp's, black cs, Kaisercraft wooden flourish, tiny tags, MME word and banner stickers, Pink Paislee and Tim Holtz stamps, Crafters Workshop woodgrain stencil, metal charms, microbeads, modelling paste, olive green and tiger lily glimmermist, Viva Inka Gold-gold green, Stampendous aged green embossing enamel, Anita's butterfly sticker, Silhouette Cameo sprig diecut, Craft Queen washi tape.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Manor House Creations - Country Estate Collection

Hi Everyone,

Manor House Creations has just released 3 gorgeous new collections of papers and embellishments.  They are all beautiful, but I have to say I was quite taken with the Country Estate range, which was designed around family, home and garden using bright and bold primary colours.

It's a Beautiful Wonderful Day

Red is one of my favourite colours, so when I caught sight of the reverse side of the "Cabbage Moths" pp I knew it would be the background for my LO.  Couldn't resist adding a mixed media background, which I left predominantly white to created a striking contrast with the red, then added a few green highlights to blend in with my flower clusters.  

I also used the reverse side of the "New Day" pp which has a lovely book print pattern and made a great frame for my red and white background.  To make the paper go further, I always cut out the inner square of the pp if I am using it to frame my background.  I used part of the inner square to stamp and cut some circle elements to add to my layered background.

 One of the new release items are some fabulous wooden embellishments and wooden frames which are very popular right now.  Here I have used one of the frames and kept the natural wood colour, as it went beautifully with my colour scheme.  I just highlighted the word with green glimmer mist using a fine paintbrush, then backed the little hearts with red pp to make them pop.

My flower clusters were made with the new blossoms which colour coordinate with the new range of papers... these are great filler flowers.  I used them to create my own flower by layering 2 of them together  and adding some green stamens to their centres.  These were mixed in some ivory country roses, Mayglo flowers and green leaves which I layered amongst the floral diecut.

MHC Product Used:  

Country Estate papers – New Day (reverse side book print), Cabbage Moths (reverse side), Country Estate diecuts

Flowers – Country Estate blossoms, Country Roses– ivory, Mayglo-green, rose leaves medium,

Wooden frame – love

Other Product Used:  Crafter's Workshop stencil, EK Success border punch, modelling paste, gesso, glimmer mist-blarney, Teresa Collins, Prima and Kaisercraft stamps, Heidi Swapp resist tag, Craft Queen chevron ribbon, Tim Holtz distress ink-shabby shutters, Ranger Archival black and red ink, wooden button

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Mother's Day Cards - Manor House Creations

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With Mother's Day almost upon us, I have been inspired to create a couple of cards using some of the gorgeous new 2014 Manor House Creations  paper collections and product.  Click on the Manor House Creations blog link to see all the new product and for your local stockists click on the link at the top of the MHC blog.

Country Estate paper collection

Today is Your Day

As I have said before, I LOVE the ornate frames, they are the perfect size for cardmaking, but are also great to use on LO's.  They come in black and white and can be altered with any medium you have in your stash, like ink, mists, paint, glitter, microbeads, gesso, crackle medium, the possibilities are endless.  Manor House Creations has a gorgeous new range of ornate frames and some new feature frames designed by Nerrida.

 The country roses have been split into 2 flowers to make a open blossom and a rosebud.

 I have altered the feature frame by cutting out one of the hearts, baking with pp and using a foam dot to make it pop. 

MHC Products used:

Paper -  Country Estate Collection - elements

Frames - feature frames - romantique white

Flowers - country roses - lemon

 Thoughts Wandering paper collection

Love You to the Moon and Back
Two of the new paper ranges come with coordinating diecut elements sheets.  I have used the bird from the Country Estate range and the clock from the Thoughts Wandering range to create my 2nd Mother's Day card.

  I have altered the beautiful rosette ornate frame with 2 coordinating glimmer mists.

I have used the new country roses again, but this time in the azure blue shade.

MHC Products used:

Paper -  Country Estate Collection - elements, Thoughts Wandering - beautiful, elements

Frames - ornate frames - rosette white

Flowers - country roses - azure blue

Other Product used:  Crafters workshop dot stencil, Memory Box diamond mesh stencil, Kaisercraft rubons, dictionary stamp and washi tape, Prima metal flower, butterfly charm, MME pearl brads, Silhouette Cameo diecut leaves, Glimmermist - denim and key lime, Lindy's Stamp Gang micas - blazing sun yellow and blimey limey, modelling paste, Versamagic ink - tea leaves, night sky.

Thanks so much for stopping by.