Collage frame

Hi all, I was visiting one of my favourite scrapbook shops yesterday and spied this technique, so asked for a quick rundown on it as the next class would be ages away, I went home and created this beautiful collage.

Layer upon layer of chipboard, buttons, beads, embellishments, lace, flowers, charms, letters, cord, pearls, shells, metal bits and bobs. Lots of gesso and I used matt modge podge to glue everything down

It does look awesome in white, however I've used this awesome multicoloured spray. Lindy's stamp gang Sweet Violet Purple Teal, it has the most beautiful shimmer and from the one bottle, this is how the paint dries.  This has two layers of spray on it, it has a few touch up spritzes as well.  Just waiting now for a photo!

Thanks for stopping in to say hello, hope you like my latest creation.  I'm going to do one in black now, not sure how it will go but thought I'd give it a shot.

Cheers,
Kasey

Southern Girls challenge

Hello friends, sadly this is my last Southern Girls DT assignment, I have asked the lovely Tracey and Louise if I can step down from the design team (for now, who knows what the future may bring), I have a lot going on right now.  

I'd like to thank Tracy and Louise they have been the most wonderful and understanding 'bosses' and I count them both as friends.  The entire SGC design team are awesome, supportive and talented and I will continue to keep track of their amazing art as they always provide me with inspiration.  OK enough of the soppy stuff before my eyes start leaking!

For my inspiration card, I've used an image from one of my favourite stamp companies, Delicious Doodles Butterfly Border.  I printed this out and coloured it twice using Copic BGs and Bs and a little bit of spica glitter, the flowers were done in BVs. I then fussy cut the butterflies and flowers to layer on top of the other image. 

The gorgeous leaves from Flourishes with a Bling was snipped to create this lovely vine for the butterflies.

 Here are a few shots from angles so you can see the layers.  I think these colours are gorgeous, if you're a regular visitor to my blog you'll know I seem to gravitate towards them!

Thank you SGC!  Mwahhh

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Fairies and more at Make it Crafty

Hello MiC fans, I'm here with a journal page made using three of the fabulous fairies from MiC.  Did you see that Zoe has just released a sensational new range of mystical images, some amazing backgrounds and some awesomely cute gnomes and delicious fairies.  Check them out here.

Now onto the journal page, I've used three darling fairies and a poem from Yeats.  I've used all my favourite colours in this page, lots of lovely pinks, purples and teals.

 Close up pics of these gorgeous fairies.

 Elven Ardella

 Elven Samenah

 Fairy Dahlia

The fairies are coloured with copic markers and then fussy cut and placed on the journal pages.  This just shows how versatile digital images are, the images have been flipped and printed out larger than I would for a card so the three images fit on the A4 size journal.

My apologies, I haven't listed the colours used this time round.  I forgot to write them down!

I've used Elven Ardella, Elven Samenah, Fairy Dahlia
Hope you find some more fun and creative ways of using digital images!  And again, don't forget to check out the new release!

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Spread your wings and fly

Back again with more journal pages, these ones are A5 size watercolour paper which has been mounted on black cardstock and then bound with my Zutter.  

The first one is a background created using distress inks, stencils, stamps and jellyroll pens.

Another distress ink background, I usually do my backgrounds in batches, the first layers, then as I'm ready to make a page, I add the other layers using stencils and stamps as above or just stamps like this one below.

This one is another rock salt background and I've used a rollergraph wheel down each side, loads of stardust pen and white to highlight the leaf edges.

 And the final page for today's post is this bright and cheery one where I've stenciled a beautiful butterfly and then painted it and outlined in white.  I love that journal pages don't need to be perfectly neat, I'd be a complete failure if that was the case!

 

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Kasey

Starry, Starry Night

Hello, as promised here are a couple more pages for you.  I absolutely love Don McLean's song about Vincent Van Gough.  So sad and yet very beautiful.  

I used sprays and then while the paper was wet, I've scattered rock salt on the ink and left it to dry, some colours and papers give different effects.  This one left mainly deeper dots of colour but didn't have the chemical reaction that happens on other inks.  It also left a salty sparkle to the paper which of course hasn't been captured in the photo.

This one shows the lines that come from the chemical reaction you get with the salt and ink.  You can see it quite well around the words Laugh and Dream.  I've used lots of silver on the doodling.

Hope you like these two pages, I'll be back to show some more in a day or so.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

Just one step

 More journal pages, this first one is using distress inks, I've sponged the ink over a Dylusions mask for the leaves and stamped the dragonflies, swirls, words and diamond shapes on the background.  I like the softness distress inks give the pages.  Watercolour paper is used here and it is fabulous for layering and blending the inks.

 This one shows the chemical reaction of Ink and rock salt better than any I've posted so far.  I love the patterns it makes and you never know what will happen, I usually make a few different sheets and leave them to dry overnight, you really do need to have patience for this technique, using a heat gun doesn't work!

This is mushrooms, but a friend says they look like jelly fish!  I really need to work on my freehand writing although I think it's probably too late to teach this dog that sort of new trick!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Journal pages obsession

Hello everyone, my apologies for being such a slack blogger of late.  I've been playing with my latest obsession Journal pages using lots of luscious inks from Dylusions and some masks and stamps as well, I've also used some Lindy's stamp gang sprays the starburst and flat fabios, Tim Holtz Distress Inks and doing some Zentangle inspired drawings.  I've used some masks from both Dylusions and The Crafters Workshop or TCW.  Chipboard butterflies are from Make it Crafty, the words are from scrapfx (I think)

I've posted a single page and a double one for now and then I'm going to schedule some posts to go live over the next week or so.

I've also had a short stint in hospital, more tests to come so I have to take it easy and reduce my stress levels.  Ah ha....yep that's easy, all I need to do is win the lottery and then I can retire and be an artist!  Yes, I know dream on.

 This one is done on watercolour paper using Lindy's Stamp Gang flat fabio sprays, I've also drawn over a stencil to put the damask shape, the gold spray just didn't show up on the yellow and orange.  I then coated some chipboard pieces with gesso and then sprayed two tone LSG starburst sprays to create the glimmer.  

My all time favourite pages so far are these, I love this saying from the Lorax by De Seuss, it just went so well with the Dylusions leaves and ghosting technique.

Closeup of page 1, I've used the negative of my Hippie Chick cuttlebug alphabet die to do the letters.  Love this font.

Close up of page 2, freehand is not my strong point!

OK so there you see a short look at what has been taking my attention craft wise, I just wish my copics would call to me.  I intend on mixing some copic images into these pages as well.  I love that I can print out digi images to whatever size I want, this should make for some interesting pages!

Cheers for now,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Bingo! @ Southern Girls

Hello, yes I am still around, I've been challenging myself to try something new for me but shhh it's not ready for sharing just yet.  

What I do have for you is the Southern Girls latest challenge 'bingo card'.

 I am stretching is just a little with my 'gems' I'm using the flower centres as my gems.  The spots are included in the background paper that comes with this amazing image from The Paper Shelter called the Dragon Whisperer.  I just love the little dragon.

 I've used lots of distressing and distress ink to give that aged look.  Hope you're inspired by the choices in our bingo card.  Love to see you playing along.

 Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

 Hello everyone, sorry I've been a bit missing in action lately, but I'm back with a post for you that I hope inspires you to try merging images if you haven't already tried it.  I've created this picture on one sheet of A4 Make it Colour Blending card (fabulous stuff!)

This was my very first attempt at merging images using Paint Net.  I know I've shown a few of my merged pieces since then, but I thought I'd show you this one to show that while it is far from perfect, it's still pretty good for a first attempt and I've found as I have practiced and gained experience then you can too! 

 I used Far Away Castle; Enchanted Unicorn and Exquisite Princess
Let me tell you it was at first quite daunting, this was the first time I'd tried merging images and then of course there was all that colouring ahead of me.  What I did though was work on it in sections, that broke the whole project down into more manageable pieces.

Check out the tutorial section here and also ask questions in the MIC facebook page for advice from the DT, Youtube also has some amazing tutorials.  All you need to do is try and you too can create beautiful pictures and artwork using MiC digi stamps and colouring them with your favourite media weather that be Copic or other alcohol markers, distress inks or pencils.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz

My creative space almost finished

I'm still in quite a mess, I've updated my creative space page with pics of how I have the new room arranged.

The phone move meant no internet for a week or so and I still have a few odds and sods to put away yet from the move.

I'm hoping to have some posts for you all soon.

Cheers,

Kasey

Taking a little break...

Hey all, just a quick note to let you know I'm taking a little break.  I'm moving my craft room and that involves so much!  I never ever have to buy another piece of patterned paper, I have so much of it.  I'm sure there are quite a few out there who are in the same boat.

I'll share some pics in a few days once I get sorted. 

Have fun creating!

Cheers,
Kasey

Butterfly Trinket Box

Oh my, have you seen these boxes?  Aren't they amazing? 
These gorgeous Butterfly Trinket Boxes are available for a limited time only from Make It Crafty.

 I've painted the decorative sides and lid in gold metallic paint and the actual box sides and base were painted flat black outside.

 Of course, no project is really complete without adding bling!

 After the gold paint was dry, I gave the lid a couple of coats of UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Powder) This has sealed the lid with a high shiny coat.  The black border and gold painted Ornate Corners chipboard corners were added later.

I got some sticky backed felt and lined the inside of the box, I think I might have forgotten to paint the edge black!  LOL Don't you just love noticing things like that when you go to post the pictures!

Here are the details on this adorable little box

Size once assembled: (all sizes are estimates)

Approximately 10cm (4")

Height: 50mm (2")

What you receive:

1. All pieces come pre-cut for you to assemble
2. Step by Step photo instructions

What you will need:

1. Wood Glue
2. Undercoat Paint Sealer

Cheers

Kasey

It's SHOWTIME!

Let us Entertain You!!
It's SHOWTIME at Make it Crafty!

We're a tapping our heels together with a tap a tap tap,
Clanging the symbols and beating the drums with a bang a bang bang,
Pulling rabbits from hats and lifting our legs - oooooohhh ahhhhhhh,
Singing our hearts out and jamming to the beat -  doo do do daaaaa...

It's time to be entertained at Make it Crafty with the
new Entertainers Collection of digi and rubber stamps!

You'll find all the new digital stamps here and you can now pre-order the rubber stamps here!

You can't have a GRAND SHOW without a DOORPRIZE!
Hop on through to be inspired and leave comments along the way for your chance to
win hidden prizes and be in the draw to win one of the grand door prizes!

One person will win the full collection of digi stamps
and another will win the full collection of rubber stamps!

ENJOY THE SHOW!!

Hop List

Zoe - http://makeitcrafty.com/crafts-blog/

Jenny - Special Guest - http://jenniferds.blogspot.com.au/

Barbara - http://forgottenscraps.blogspot.com

Asa - http://www.scraphorse.com

Aeryn - http://www.aerynkelly.com

JennD - http://just4funcrafts.blogspot.com/2013/04/party-like-rockstar.html

Kay - Special Guest - http://kaym74.blogspot.com.au/

Bronwen - http://www.bronsspace.blogspot.com.au/

Ruby - Special Guest - http://rubyonlywrote.blogspot.com.au/

Delphine - http://delphinesplace.blogspot.com

Kasey - http://kaseyscraftcorner.blogspot.com  (You are here)

Trudie -http://trudiescakesandcards.blogspot.co.uk/

Stephanie - http://mycardshack.blogspot.com

JennD - http://just4funcrafts.blogspot.com/2013/04/its-not-over-until.html

Store Blog - http://www.makeitcrafty.com/store-blog/

Wow, you will be literally blown away by this release.  The images in this collection are so AWESOME.   I certainly was and loved so many of them that I created several projects.  So grab yourself a comfy seat and a cuppa and settle in for a fabulous show.

Meet the Paper, Rock, Scissors Band!  These guys really rock.   I have to say that my background was three different things before it became a backdrop of all C9!  Yes I had to order a refill, next time I think I'll just use black card and fussy cut them all out!  LOL at least I had fun with it. 

 The lead guitar and lead singer are both fussy cut and mounted on foam squares to give a 3d effect.

Let me introduce you to the Paper, Rock, Scissors band.....

On the drums we have  Drummer Dude


I realised too late that his belly was showing, after I'd coloured it blue!  Sigh











Our super cool base player Rocker Chick ads some rockin back beat to our sweet music. 

I added the spot on her singlet with a sparkle of pink an gave her John Lennon blue glasses, perhaps they need to be a little darker, I also put some glossy accents on her guitar to make it shine.














Slammin' it out on lead guitar is Rocker Dude


 His guitar has also had a glossy coating so it shines.

This groovy Rockstar Singer makes up the Paper, Rock Scissors band and what an amazing line up it is.

These guys and gals are awesome, head on over to the Make it Crafty store and grab them so they can rock your world!

  

 Copics used for the Band

B91; 93; 95; 97; 99
R14; 17; 43; 46; 56; 59
BG72; 75; 78
B0000, 00; 04

E000; 00; 01; 11; 13; 15; 19; 21; 25; 29; 31; 35; 37; 40; 50; 51; 53; 93

YR000; 01; 02; 04

RV14; 17; 19

V0000; 000; 01; 04

C1; 2; 3; 5; 7; 9

Y26; 28

0; 100; T2

  

My next act is a far cry from a rockin' band, it's a Night at the Opera!  with these amazing characters. 

 Tenor Opera Singer (male) and Soprano Opera Singer (female)

 Grand Opera Theatre

 I've actually altered the Grand Opera Theatre for this piece there are private boxes on the walls either side of this amazing stage.   You really have to see it to believe how awesome this collection really is.  

I flipped the male singer around so the singers were facing each other rather than soap opera style with his back to her.

Copics used for the Grand Opera 
Y26; 28; R14; 17; 22; 27; 35; 46; 59; E000; 00; 01; 04; 11; 21; 25; 29; 37; 39; 35; 81; 93; 99; B00;W0; 01; T2; C2; 5; 7

And now for the finale, here is something just a little bit saucy!  One of the fabulous things that Zoe is doing is releasing some of the images in rubber!  How exciting is that?  

Here is one of the amazing Can Can Dancers, I just love the sentiment! I decided to make another smashbook page, I seem to be creating a lot of them lately.   I created her with greyish hair because to me that made the sentiment mean so much more!

 

I used some frosted lace stickles on her petticoat.  Love how it sparkles.  I apologise for the photos, they aren't as clear as they could be. 

Colours used R56 and 59 on the petticoat, R81, 83 and 85 for the dress and feather.  C3; 5; 9 for her hair and boots and E000, 00, 01, 11 for her skin.

Well congratulations on making it this far.  Thank you for taking the time to get this far, it was a very long post full of entertainment for you. 

Don't forget the door prize, you could win the entire Entertainers collection!  so leave comments on all the stops along the way!

Cheers,

Kasey

Make it Crafty inspiration ~ Voiding the Warranty....technically no, but the idea is to think outside the square and use something for other than the intended use.  My project turned into a tutorial!  I've been playing around with some Impasto Paste and thought about using the Chipboard negatives to create my own unique embellishments.    

To get started you will need some chipboard negatives, I've used Delicate Butterflies, I removed all the chipboard and sprayed the negative with a matt sealer to help protect the chipboard from the moisture in the paste.

 Next using a flexible pallet knife, and Impasto paste (not gel as this dries clear), lay the template on some cardstock and spread the Impasto paste onto the area you want to use.  I'm using the three largest butterflies.

Very carefully dab over the impasto with some lightly balled up plastic wrap, this adds texture to the paste, you could leave it smooth if you wanted to.  The next two photos, show you both ways.

This takes a little while to dry, so put it aside for a few hours and come back to it to colour them with your copic markers.  I've used very juicy markers and gone over the colours, remember to wipe the tip of your marker clean when you do this.

  I've used the large butterfly to make my card, I have a gold leaf pen and rubbed it gently across the highest parts of the texture to add a touch of gold.

And here is the finished project.  I've sponged Rusty Hinge and Wild Honey distress inks on to apricot card, stamped the swirly flourish in Gathered Twigs DI and added some pearls and ribbon.  No sentiment as yet, I'll add one when I know what I want to use the card for.

So while you may have thought to use your chipboard negatives as part of your project, I hope you will give this a try so you get more for your crafting dollar and use your items for more than their original purpose.

Cheers,
Kasey ~ in Oz