My Happy Scrap Space: Kaisercraft DT

Hi all!!

Today I am sharing with you my creations featuring the AWESOME August collections!!

I am absolutely loving all of the gold accents in both the A Touch of Gold and Holy Night Collections as well as the perfect grunginess of the Time Machine Collection.

So let’s start with A TOUCH OF GOLD.

This stunning range is all about celebration, so my first project is a layout celebrating my son’s 7th birthday.

‘Celebrate’ Layout

The ‘Sheen’ patterned paper was the perfect dark background to make those fabulous gold accents really POP. And who doesn’t LOVE a good text patterned paper? So striking as a background.

Here’s a closer look.

In this photo, you can see the ends of the balloon strings hanging down. This gave me the idea to create balloons with some of the die cut elements. I created the strings of my balloons with some wire thread. They looked a little bit lost on the background so I added some wooden flourishes to ‘tie’ it all together (pardon the pun!). ;-) I sprayed the wooden flourishes with Antique Gold Kaisermist and it gives a stunning result with a really lovely shimmer.

Other: chipboard | wire thread.

Next up, I wanted to show how this is also the perfect range for Christmas. I have gone off the page for this project and altered the awesome Christmas Bon Bon.

‘Christmas Bon Bon’

This is one of the easiest wood projects to put together and so fun too!! It makes the perfect Christmas gift especially when you fill it with lovely gold foiled chocolates!! I know I would love one full of chocolate. Just saying!

Here are a couple of views from different angles.

I had some of the gold doily left over from another project so added that over the Pin Stripe Specialty Paper as well as some gold accented paper from the Paper Pad. I also created the poinsettia using the Layered Poinsettia Decorative Die.

HOLY NIGHT COLLECTION

There are so many gorgeous die cuts in this collection that I wanted to create a layout where I could cluster as many of those die cuts as possible!

‘Sparkle’ Layout

The reverse of the Baby Jesus patterned paper has such a lovely star pattern on kraft coloured background that I couldn’t resist using it. I created a really layered look using some coordinating papers from the Paper Pad to form a matt under my photo. I have also used Foam Dots to create lots of dimension. I altered the background paper with Antique Gold Kaisermist too.

Oh and those gold flowers on my layout started off as Honey Paper Blooms. I sprayed them with the Antique Gold Kaisermist to get this stunning result. I can’t get enough of that Kaisermist, I tell ya!

Other: wire thread | sequins.

‘Christmas’ Easel Card

Easel cards are my favourite sort of card to create and it has been a while so I leapt at the chance to create one using this collection. I stuck to a subtle colour scheme of green cream and kraft with touches of gold.

I created the base of the card by distressing, inking and layering patterned papers. I fussy cut the flourishes, angels and stars from the gorgeous Angels Foil Specialty Paper. At this point I laid the top and bottom of the card on my desk with all of the sweet fussy cut bits arranged on top. I like to play around with things for a while until they are exactly where I want them. At this point I walked away. Upon my return, I discovered that my charming cat had been exploring on my desk, overturned a jar full of dirty black paint water ALL OVER MY CARD!! Needless to say, she was none too popular for a while!! After a freak out moment of panic and a couple of days of drying time, I managed to salvage the card. It is slightly more grungy and a little more watermarked than I would normally strive for but I love it all the same. And that is life with cats. (Note to self: Always empty the paint jar.) LOL

If you look closely you will see a little sneaky peek at an upcoming template. I have used it with some molding paste on the background green paper. While the paste was still wet, I sprinkled it with gold embossing powder and heat set to create lovely dimensional gold dots.

Other: Molding Paste | embossing powder.

TIME MACHINE COLLECTION

I have to say that this is my favourite collection this release. I love the colours and I love the grunginess. So perfect for boy layouts but then also can be adapted for girl layouts too.

For my first layout I used a photo of my daughter when she was 5 years old sitting in the hay shed having a sweet conversation with her daddy.

‘Remember This’ Layout

I really loved the gorgeous blue papers in this collection and I love to layer them together to create a border around my layout. I used a black cardstock base to co-ordinate with all of the black accents and stamping.

I created even more layers by stamping over my background, adding Charcoal Kaisermist and then clustering elements around the photo.

For my last project, I created a layout focusing on the gorgeous brown in this collection.

‘Adore’ Layout

I have created more layers and clustering just like the previous layout but this time using mostly the brown tones. The colours worked perfectly with the photo of my son just chilling at this bus stop made of logs in our little town.