Thursday 25 December 2014

Weekly Planners printables

Hi Crafters

Over on my etsy store you can now purchase two new weekly planners. They are $1.50 each and can be printed as many times as you wish. For personal, non-commercial use only. No selling or sharing permitted.
Copyright 2014 Kerry-Jean Watson





Friday 19 December 2014

File Folder Mini: Berri, SA Nov 2014

Greeting creative peoples.

AS some of you may know I have not been the best for the last 6 months. Back in June while up in Berri, SA I became mysteriously sick which plagued me for the better part of 5 months. Early November the doctors I was seeing decided after 5 months to finally do some thing and remove my gall bladder. Then came another 2 months recovery.

To help with the healing process a friend and I decided to head back up to Berri for the end stages of my recovery from the surgery. Before leaving I had already started developing a project to do once we return commemorating the closure of the 6 month journey. This is what I came up with.


The entire project proved to be a little tricky to photograph so I did a video instead so you could see how it all worked. The video is at the bottom of the post.


There is further information in the video description when viewed through youtube. 


You are most welcome to leave any comments or questions.

Thursday 18 December 2014

Mixed media Adventures

Hi crafters

Now that I am getting back into crafting mode after my recovery from surgery, I thought I would have a play with some mixed media journaling. 


As a first attempt goes I am rather happy with this. The one downside to doing work with sprays and wet media is waiting for it to dry (and you can't always use a heat tool), so I have worked out a method of working on two projects at the same time. 

Let me know what you think.

Wednesday 17 December 2014

Etsy Store: new items

Hello creative people 

This week saw the launch of my paper collections as digital downloads on my Etsy store



There will be many more to come so make sure you check out the store and bookmark it for future visits.

Friday 12 December 2014

Megs Garden French garden Mini Filefolder book

Hello Crafters 

I finally got to create something with The French Garden Book Kit. I have been out of action for a few months and feel a little rusty of paper crafts but I really like how this turned out. 


I used a file folder mini style for my book style, it was really easy and simple to make. I did change the dimensions of the book to fit the size of the papers from the book kit.


I really wanted to shabby chic this book with the cover especially and I had a lot of the metal embellishments from Meg's Garden in my stash, only they were ...well metal coloured and a bit dark, so I just covered them with gesso using my finger and I LOVE how they came out. There is a bit of everything on the come in terms of charms and metal embellishments really, some Finnabair pieces, some vintage brads, metal charms.


The flowers, lace and flower trim were also from my Meg's garden stash too, which added that gardeny feel to the book cover. 

The in side of this mini has lots of pockets which hold lots of mats and I have able to use of pretty much most of the paper ephemera with the library card pockets, little booklets and matts.




I hope you like this project and if you have any comments or questions please leave them below.




Thursday 4 December 2014

Grandparents wedding day


Hello readers and creative types.

I have been unwell for a few months now and I had some good days recently. As a result I hauled out a couple photos of my grandmother on her wedding day. This one is a lovely photo with the wedding cake, remembering this was taken in 1932.



I wanted too to use Marion Smith's Nirvana Collections from Meg's Garden because I loved the colors which would also match many of flower paper and fabric flowers in my stash which I had added some lovely paper leaves.

Also added to the lay was some dusty attic chippies that I won in a draw a few months back.




I hope you like and please leave a comment or any questions you may have.

Tuesday 2 December 2014

My Grandparents Wedding day

Hello Craters and Readers 


The photo is an informal family picture on my grandparents wedding day in 1932.




Included are some Dusty Attic chippies I won a few months ago.