For the First Tutorial of this new year, I’m sharing a little instructive video on how to wrap chipboard with design paper. Think mini album (or junk journal) covers, or as I did, a layout that you’d like to mount on chipboard.
I mostly used Kaisercraft’s Christmas Edition papers to get an elegant black & white theme.
Have fun creating!
Hello everyone!
This week I’m sharing a layout with you, for which I chose the beautiful Ma Cherie collection by Kaisercraft – with its soft burgundy color scheme, full of lovely florals. Of this collection, the Exquisite sheet, covered in absolutely gorgeous butterflies, simply demanded to be fussy-cut – even though that’s not my favorite thing to do.
The layout is centered around my mother, who as an Autumn Type was the perfect subject for this project since she can really rock an ocre jacket like no one else, especially when standing next to her own Burgundy & Gold acryllic painting 🙂
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Enjoy the show & tell video – and don’t forget to check out the lovely close up pictures below!
Altered a frame with metallic (red copper) paint and some flowers
On the wall, next to one of my other layouts! 🙂
Today I’m sharing a little layout with my lovely mom as its center of attention 🙂 .
I used Kaisercraft’s wonderfully feminine and slightly oriental Ma Cherie paper collection for this fun little project, which has a chipboard base and measures only 6×6 inches (15×15 cm) instead of the usual 12×12″ (30.5 x 30.5 cm).
This smaller size makes it a very practical gift, for not everyone has room in their homes and hearts for a relatively large addition to their interior decorations – especially when the gift is a complete surprise. A smaller size is a lot less threatening and – more importantly – a lot easier to assign a nice little spot to somewhere in their house.
On the creator’s side, the small size makes for the perfect opportunity to use the 6×6″ (15×15 cm) cutaparts that sometimes come with collections, like the Fine sheet in this Ma Cherie paper line.
I used the top-left cutapart of the sheet called “Fine” for my layout
I embellished my mini layout with some Ma Cherie Collectables die-cuts, some flowers from my stash and some Stickles. I also fussy-cut two butterflies from the Exquisite sheet of the collection.
Exquisite
All in all I was very pleased with the end result – and more importantly, so was my mom! 🙂 So enjoy the video and pictures, and feel free to let me know what you think!
Curled up the lower left corner, added the word “treasured” that I cut from one of the sheets, then decorated the rest of the corner with some flowers and die-cut leaves. I also added two Collectables die-cuts right above the curled up paper.
Added a simple hanging mechanism, which I got in a home improvement store (very affordable!)
As of yet scrapbook layouts have not been my core business when it comes to paper crafting, but I do love to do them when inspiration hits me. For some examples of my personal style, may like to check out my layout-in-altered-frame, but also my two calendars: 12 months of Place in Time, and 12 months of Time to Flourish.
The focus of this new layout is my mother’s dog Nita, a beautiful black labrador mix. The picture itself immediately reminded me of Kaisercraft’s Limelight paper collection, which echoed the green and black, plus the white florals. A perfect fit!
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Emjoy the video and pictures below! 🙂
Framed, hanging from my wall:
As you may have discovered by now, I’m doing a four-part blog series on two perpetual calendars with Graphic 45 paper collections:
I’ve created two calendars at once because one, the Place in Time calendar, is for my mother, the other for myself.
Now that I’ve finished both, I must say that although the calendars have been based on a layered layout principle, they weren’t so alike as they may seem at first glance. Not only are both calendars different in size – Place in Time is 12×12, Time to Flourish is 8×8 – but the design and atmosphere of each collection are so uniquely their own that they felt like two completely different projects to work on.
And I can’t make up my mind which I like best! Except maybe for size: in hindsight, I liked to work with the 12×12 cutaparts more – mainly because all of their gorgeous pictures were larger, and therefore more fully enjoyed. 🙂
Well, without further ado here’s the video of the fourth and final part. And don’t forget to enjoy all of the beautiful pictures in the photo gallery below!
Back in January of this year I shared the first six months of my new 12×12″ perpetual calendar. Well, I’m glad to be able to share the entire calendar with you today, all 12 months!
I’m actually creating TWO of this type of layout calendar, one for my mom and one for myself. I’ll share them both, in four parts:
So here’s part 3, created with Graphic 45’s beautiful Place in Time collection, which I truly enjoyed working with, so enjoy the video and the photos below!
