Cafe au Lait: Another one for the boys

Hi there crafters, 

So another day, another birthday. Is it just me or is this year flying by really fast. 

I have created a very elegant masculine (yes those two words go together, at least they do in my head).

I have used my Cafe Au Lait collection again for this one but I added a few gears and wood ephemera.  The hot air balloon in from one of the older Kaisercraft collection which I cannot recall right now. So what do you think?

I even gave doing some typography a try, which came out rather well. 

Remember I do make custom made cards. You can email me or head over to my Etsy and "convo" me there.

I hope you like. Leave a comment or question and Happy Crafting!

Cafe au Lait: Vintage Layout "Times Gone By"

Hey Crafters, 

I am really loving working with this new collection Cafe au Lait.

Today I have a lovely vintage layout using some of the 12x12 papers which I had printed at a local print shop on A3 paper. This time I went with simple 80gsm paper, which surprisingly still held up well to what I threw at it.

The photo is of, I think, my maternal grandmother's extended family. I am not too sure as there were no names on the photo that I found in my family pictures. I really just like how the photo looked. 

I have used old music sheets stacked behind the photo with a couple old book pages as well. The Donna Downey Studio Damask Stencil in the background was done using Prima's Finnibair Art Extra Vagance Texture Paste - Copper Crackle with a bit of misting over the top. I had a few scraps of the Cafe au lait cardmakers set on my desk which I turned in to tags and tuck them in behind the photo.

The wood flourishes are Kaisercraft Wood flourish Ornate Corner which were painted with Tim Holtz Distress Paint- Antiqued Bronze which came up really well.

 

Product list.

Kerry-Jean Watson Papers-Cafe au Lait

Kaisercraft Weave cards stock- Coffee Bean

Kaisercraft Weave cards stock- Cream

Kaisercraft Wood flourish Ornate Corner

Prima's Finnibair Art Extra Vagance Texture Paste - Copper Crackle

Heidi Swapp Color Shine - Bronze

Donna Downey Studio Damask Stencil

Old music book pages

Vintage Accents-Vintage brads

Tim Holtz Distress ink- Vintage photo

Tim Holtz Distress Paint- Antiqued Bronze

Remember to leave question or comment and Happy Crafting!

Cafe au Lait: Add-ons and alternated cover

Crafters!

So for anyone who liked the Cafe au Lait Book Kit, I have some add ons!

8 extra pages with lines 

And an alternative cover.

Stay tunes to see video of the alternate pages when I post the book kit project I have been working on.

Buy it! Download it! and print it at home! 

Crafting made convenient.

Cafe au Lait: Layout "Mischief"

Well Hello all, great to see you back again.

I have been very busy with this new collection, really loving it and I hope you are as well.

This layout is of a friend, and the title is very fitting. There's mischief in those eyes. He is a big kid and revels in the that fact, be he is very kind and caring man at the same time.



I have used the 12x12 Cafe au Lait collection for this layout which was printed on 80gsm and really held up to the texture paste and spray that I threw at it. The page I used that first glued to a cardstock backing to fill it out to the 12x12.

The "Mischief" title was cut using my cameo, love that thing but i just don't use it enough. I covered the title in some glossy accents for the final effect. The circles and compass rose are from Creative Embellishments which I just love. Adding the Keyhole just broke those circles up a little. All the papers behind the photo are from the cut and create page of the collection which are included in the Digital Paper Pack.

Please remember to leave any questions or comments below and happy crafting.

Cafe au Lait: A steampunk card

Hello crafters and passer-bys, I hope you are all well and looking for some inspiration.

I have another card in the Cafe au Lait collection which I made in a bit of a steampunk theme. Rather than doing is traditionally for a guy, I made this one for a girl.

 I used the cardmakers set for this card which, I feel, gives a good size to work with. The Kaisercraft bodice was coated in some antique bronze crackle paint and the gears in the background where given the old rust treatment. The one thing that I could not get to show up well on the photo was a layer of clear crackle I put down on the background before adding all the delicious elements. 

Please leave a comment or question below and HAPPY CRAFTING!

Here is a reveal of the collection Cafe au Lait

 

Cafe au Lait: Vintage flowers Card

Welcome all you creative geniuses and those who are curious.

Today I want to show you a new card I made with my new collection Cafe au Lait. It may look like a bit of a masculine collection however it is quite variable in what you can do with it. 

Here is a distinctly feminine card I made using the new collection.

I have used some of Prima's Art basic Copper Crackle Medium, which I just LOVE using. The three flowers are some of Kaisercrafts Large white flowers which I sprayed with water and then applied some small bits of color. I added some gold shimmer spray over the top and then left them to dry. 

I also had a few Silhouette die cuts in my stash that I added in the background and a couple vintage brads.

After putting everything together I then added some gesso over the top of the die cuts and flowers just to soften everything.

Here is a flip through of the entire collection

Cafe au Lait: A Man's Cards

Hello crafts and welcome to my blog again.

I want to share some cards I made with the new Cafe au Lait collection. I made this collections JUST in time for my brothers birthday which was last week. Here is the card I made him. 

This collection while not steampunk in its own right can be used to create a great steampunk genre card or layout. Add some airships, some gears and clocks along with some distressed edges and tada there you have it. I really like this card. 

Here is a flip through of the entire collection

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New Collection Cafe au Lait

Hello avid crafters and passer bys.

I have a new collection to share with you today.

The inspiration comes from the idea of vintage Paris cafes.

There are some lovely rustic and grungy textures with coffee cup ring stains on the corners. All giving the sense of sitting out at a cafe on the streets of Paris drinking coffee while reading through the newspaper or inspecting a map with the idea of adventure. Travelling to exotic stores and buying precious merchandise.

The collection comes in the usual sizes:

I am considering doing A4 for those who live in countries with sensible paper sizing.

For now here is the full reveal of this collection.

I have a number of ideas in mind for this collection, I would love to see that you do with it to.

Leave a comment and let me know what you think!

Making of the Forgotten Meadows Mega book

Hello everyone. Great to see you here again. 

My last post was of a mega book I did using my Forgotten Meadows collection. While cleaning up my computer I came across from video footage of me making the book, so I decided to edit it all and put it up on youtube for you all. 

Enjoy

Forgotten Meadow Mega Book Project

Big project to share with you today. It took me a while to get completed as I was very busy the last 2 months. 

I really liked the Forgotten Meadows collection through my webstore and wanted to make a project that really complimented it. There is a video at the bottom of the post.

I managed to use all the ephemera in the Book Kit for the collection. The metal embellishments that were used were all gesso'ed which added a lovely old work feel and totally changed the textures within the page layout.  I used a lot of Imaginarium and kaisercraft chippies and wood embellishments coated in crackle paint and then distress inked after they dried.

A Birthday Card For a Sister

I made a card for a friends sister. It was well received. 

This was a very simple care and I used Prima's Cartographer collection which I haven't used yet. 

Correspondence The traveling mans brother

Greetings to all the bloggers out there.

This dashing young man is my maternal grandfather, Adriaan 

Back 2006 mother and I arranged for a large suitcase of family photos to be sent to us in Perth, Australia.

I was amazed at many of the picture mostly because they showed my mother parents younger than what I knew them as. It was like being introduced to total strangers. My grandparents were well in to their late 70's early 80's by the time I was born, so I never saw them as children or young adults. My grandfather would be in his mid thirties in the portrait.

So for this layout I wanted to combine the new Correspondence Collection with some of the previous Meg's Garden collections and some French Writing Ephemera. The Hot Air Balloons were a nice add to the photo and the feel of the layout. 

Gentleman Collection: Tags

Hello all you crafters out there.

Today's post features tags created using my new collection The Gentlemen Collection that has been created through Meg's Garden.

 For all of these tags I have used the mini pack papers from the collection for the bases. 

For the first two tags I wanted to go all out with masculine elements and where else do you go for this but to Tim Holtz. I made my selection from Meg's Gardens very own Tim Holtz Studio category. Choosing Mini Gears and Word Brands, Pen Nibs, Film Strip Ribbon and Ornate Plates. I also threw in a few of Finnabair Vintage Trinkets from Prima that I had left over from a previous project. In the background of the first tag you will also see a little bit of a vintage Advert poking out the side, this is from the Transparencies section titled Ink. I really do love using transparencies in my work, as you can see a clock face which comes from Old World Time Transparency as well. The writing ephemera on the second tag is from the Correspondence Cut & Create. The mini bottles are also available from Meg's Garden where she has a good range to choose from.

These next two tags, as you can see, are a bit different from the first. I have fussy cut the image from the mini pack page stuck them down with some foam tape ( which you can't really tell with these photos). Behind the both cut outs I added the lovely vintage ephemera also from the Correspondence Cut & Create. There is another clock face from Old World Time Transparency and some of Tim Holtz Film Strip Ribbon. I added one of Tim Holtz Keyholes on one and a Pen Nib on the other to enhance to whole look. 

For these last two tags I used similar items to the first 4 but added the corrugated cardboard to add some dimension and again I have snuck in another Tim Holtz Plaquettes to add to the grunge look.