Three Kaisercraft Cards

 

 

Hello crafters, Kirsten here again. I can't believe it's May 20 already, the months are flying by. I've got three quick cards to show you today. The first one uses the Cardamom 12x12 paper from Kaisercraft's Honey Chai collection, layered onto black card. I stamped the Kaisercraft Birdcage stamp with Black Versacolor & heat set with clear embossing powder.

 

I wound some string around a length of seam binding, stamped the sentiment from the HobbyArt Butterfly Kisses Musical Print stamp set with White Versacolor ink, then heat set it with

white embossing powder & finished with Hobby House adhesive pearls.

 

 

 

 

On the second card I used the other side of the Cardamom paper on black card as the focal image, with a piece of the Always paper from the Art of Life collection behind. I stamped the Bubble Wrap stamp onto that with embossing ink, then applied Stamp 'n' Bond & gold transfer foil. If you've haven't tried this technique before, see my tutorial in this post.

 

The sentiment is from the Hobby Art Butterfly Kisses Nautical stamp set & I embellished with seam binding & punched out black circles covered with Glossy Accents.

 

For the final card I used kraft card as my base. I stamped the Bubble Wrap stamp randomly with Coffee Archival, stamping onto scrap card first so that I only got faded images. Then I stamped the Birdcage stamp with White Versacolor.

 

 

 

Next I stamped the Birdcage stamp again, this time with Black Versacolor & slightly to the right of the white image. I heat set the black image with clear embossing powder.

I embellished the card with Crafts Too tissue tape, a punched out piece of kraft card, a button, string, a tiny clothes peg & sentiments from the HobbyArt Butterfly Kisses Musical Print stamp set.

 

 

                                    

 

If any of these have inspired you, why not take part in the current blog challenge? See you next time, happy crafting.

 

Kirsten

Distressed Borders Texture Technique......

 

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Good morning everyone and what a beautiful morning it is, long may it continue........

 

As promised, I am going to show you how to get the distressed borders on the texture card below and show you some other textures in detail.....

 

 

Here is how it is done........

 

First take a sheet of Double Sided Adhesive Sheet and cut in to your desired size strips, unpeel one size of the sheet and stick it to your card or area on your project that you are working on.

I have stuck a strip below a piece I have already foiled to give you something to compare to......

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Then remove the other side of the Adhesive Film......

 

Next take a sheet of gold Transferable Foil or colour of your choice and place shiny side towards you on top of the Adhesive Film......

 

 

Using a dry piece of kitchen towel rub the shiny side of the foil evenly to make sure it all transfers to the adhesive.....

 

Once you pull off the foil it will transfer perfectly ( missed this picture, sorry!! ) Then take your finger and rub the foil in areas to remove some of the gold and distress it like below.....

 

Then take a co-ordinating colour foil and put straight on top and then rub vigorously with the kitchen towel to transfer the foil.........

 

 

Keep applying until you are happy with the result......

 

If you look at the card you will notice that I did the opposite on some of the textured panels using the brown first and then the gold to give a great contrast.....

 

The textured panels below are  made various ways........

 

 

The one to the left is a sheet of metal card which I sell at my workshops. I don't put it on the website, because unfortunately, it is a nightmare to post as it bends easily. Here are some examples below that have been put through an embossing folder and sanded back.......

 

 

 

The first is the before and then I have done an emboss and a deboss to give you the contrast....

 

The other panels on the right of the picture is card that has been embossed and then I have inked them up with a Clear Emboss Pad and then added Stamp and Bond on top and heated and then again added the Transferable Foil on top......

 

 

You can use any colour of the foils. Here is a closer look..........

 

 

 

To finish the card I stamped on the background with the Woodware Clear Magic

Cogs & Gears stamp & Vintage Sepia Versafine ink & the sentiment is from the Old Crock stamp set from Hobby Art.

 

 

 I hope that you have enjoyed the technique and you give it a go, it is great fun......

 

 

                           

 

I will be back soon with some more inspiration......

 

Big hugs Lisa.B.xx

 

 

 

 

Layer It Up

 

 

 

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Morning, Kirsten here, I hope you’re all well.

 

For today' card I cut three pieces of kraft card; one central panel & two smaller ones for each side. I used a circle die to cut the semicircles. Using my fingers I began adding paint to the pieces, covering the kraft card in places & leaving it slightly visible in others. I added a few layers of paint, sometimes wiping paint off with a baby wipe & drying in between each layer until I was happy.

 

 

Now for some stamping. I used the Kaisercraft Bubble Wrap acrylic stamp with Coffee Archival ink, holding the stamp in my hand instead of using a block.

 

 

This, combined with only using second-, third-, etc., generation stamping will give you a much more random & faded result.

 

 

Now for some colour. Some inks, like Versacolor, won’t be permanent on acrylic paints, unless you use embossing powder over them, so I used Archival inks, a red & a brown, on the two side panels. You could also use Stazon.

 

Now for the focal image. I used the Kaisercraft birdcage clear stamp with embossing ink & Stix 2 Copper Transfer Foil from the Vintage Tones set.

 

 

If you haven't used transfer foil before, I’ve broken down each step as follows;

 

Swipe your card with an anti-static pad

Stamp image with embossing ink, e.g. Versamark

Cover with Stamp ‘n’ Bond - a heat activated adhesive in powder form -  return the excess to the jar

Heat set the first section

Quickly place the foil onto the sticky image. Make sure the SHINY side is FACING you.

Burnish for a few seconds with your finger

Gently pull the foil away from the image

 

This is the result………….

 

 

Super shiny!

 

Sometimes, you'll get a patchy area, which I like, but if you don’t you can reheat the image & replace the foil, that usually works.

 

After this, I decided the background needed something else, so I added some water to white acrylic paint, loaded a small paintbrush with the mix & tapped it sharply over the panels to get white splatters, which I let dry naturally. You can heat dry, but the mix will tend to be absorbed into the paint underneath, leaving only faint splatters. I used a baby wipe to remove drops of paint from the foiled birdcage.

 

To finish, I added Crafts Too metal brads to each corner of the central panel, tied some seam binding & a metal embellishment to one side panel, added the die cut labels – I used Old Paper distress ink on these, they’re not as white as they look here -  with tiny Crafts Too brads & stamped the sentiment from the HobbyArt's Butterfly Kisses Musical Print stamp set with black Versacolor & heat set with clear embossing powder. I backed the panels with black card & used a 7x7 kraft card for the base.

 

 

 

 

                               

 

That’s it for today see you next time. Don’t forget that, as well as the giveaway, the new blog challenge is up & running. Happy crafting.

 

Kirsten