Kasey's Craft Corner

Black, White and Red inspiration

2012-02-25T16:31:00.001+10:00

Welcome to a weekend post from me, I went surfing for some inspiration and found it easily at the 4 Crafty Chicks site what a fabulous picture this is. I already knew I wanted to do embossing on white to match the ceiling so I went in search of a sketch and found just what I needed at Tuesday Morning Sketches.

Here's what I came up with, I have two lattice embossing folders one large and one small so I used them both here along with black and red mats and a little bit of heat embossing on the flowers and a tiny bit of water colouring on the bird.

I love how the bow turned out, I got this satin and organza ribbon at one of those $2 shops only it was on sale and I paid $1.40 for 5 mtrs! Got to be happy with a bargain like that especially when it is such a pretty ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by to see my latest creation. Please take the time to say Hi so I know you've dropped in. I'll try to slip by and check out your latest posts.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz.

Kiss Kiss!

2012-02-24T17:00:00.000+10:00

I can just imagine the look on my teenage grandson's face if I did that to him! But this week at the Friday Mashup it's all about Kissing. Don't you just love this pic on the graphic that Holly came up with?

The kissing technique is not one I go to often and I'm really happy with the end result here.

I went for making my own background papers and had this square card all figured out an then remembered that Round was also part of the challenge! Oh dear, back to the drawing board, so I ended up keeping the layout and placing it on a large scallop circle, the natrual ivory card is behind that. I ran the circle through the crimper to add something less feminine and heavily sponged Marina Mist and Night of Navy on the scallops

SUs Extreme Guitar is a solid stamp and seemed to be perfect for the Kissing part of this challenge, I used Extreme Elements and Grunge Rock stamp sets as well and just kept layering the images in Early Expresso, Soft Suede, Marina Mist and Night of Navy.

I've also done some pretty special stuff with the guitar image on the background papers, I've inked the stamp up with Soft Suede, then dabbed a sponge in Champagne Shimmer Paint over the top, when you stamp it, you have this amazing copper sparkly colour which is gorgeous IRL.

Here's a close up of the main image and you can see the kissed image more clearly, I've dabbed the Champagne shimmer mist over the image and the background again to add a bit more grunge.

The Friday Mashup DT have outdone themselves this week with an amazing selection of inspiration cards for you.

Can't wait to see your Kiss, Kiss projects!

Cheers,

xxx

Kasey ~ in Oz

PLG 20

2012-02-23T17:30:00.000+10:00

How about this stunning picture for inspiration from the Paper Lovin' Gals this week? Gorgeous!

I had several false starts on this one, trying to replicate the flowers with a stamp. Then I had the bright idea of using reinkers and rubbing alcohol to create that slightly translucent colour and voila that worked for me.

I used a new Cheery Lynne die which has all these lovely swirls and leaves. SU Daisies die and a Kaszazz sentiment.

Head on over to the Paper Lovin' Gals blog for some more fabulous ideas and enter this week's challenge, we'd love to see your creations.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

A very green farewell

2012-02-22T06:44:00.000+10:00

One of my staff is moving on to take up a new challenge in her career so I made her this card, it's an A4 folded in half to allow everyone to write a comment for her. I know she's a bling girl and green is one of her favourite colours so this monochromatic card is what I came up with.

Sorry the pictures were taken under artificial light as I need to get this card to work today for everyone to sign it and don't have the opportunity to take pics in good light.

I've used the Card Patterns Sketch for my card, and really like the way it turned out. Lots of SU stamps used here and the Martha Steward butterfly punches and ribbon edge punch.

Certainly Celery, Wild Wasabi, Handsome Hunter (retired) and Whisper White.

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Sweet Pea stamp sale!

2012-02-20T05:53:00.001+10:00

Wow, 40% off your whole order! Amazing sale from Sweet Pea Stamps. I love colouring their images!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz

Give me wings

2012-02-19T09:03:00.000+10:00

Hello blog friends, it's a bright and sunny Sunday morning here and I've had some inspiration after my little check of the blogs I follow. I was inpsired by Less is More, although I struggle with the whole CAS concept and keep wanting to add detail, this week Chrissy and Manda are challenging us to use Diecuts and Punches.

I've recently added some new dies to my collection. I see it as an investment in tools and I always try to ensure that the ones I purchase are ones that I will get a lot of use out of, not just use ones and leave in my folder. I've used a Marianne Craftable butterfly here along with some Nesties for the lable.

Flutter By Wednesday is Anything with Wings and of course I love linking up to Make It Monday where the challenge is open and you can even link to previous posts that you did but want to feature again.

I've used some paper I made ages ago with the Shaving Cream techinque. Island Indigo and Wisteria Wonder card from SU and some gorgeous white pearlised card. And of course bling in the form of pearls.

Thanks for stopping by. I'm off to the craft room again, I found some more inspiration!

Cheers,

Kasey ~ in Oz