New Crate Paper

Hello on this fine Thursday morning. Thought I would drop by and share with you some of the delicious new Crate Paper Restoration collection. This collection is absolutely gorgeous and so versatile too. It has a feel about it that would work with vintage photos, but it is still fresh and funky enough that you could use it with newer photos, boy or girl! Can't ask for more than that!

Crate Paper Restoration papers, Restoration border stickers, Kaiser Craft alpha stickers, Slice and Just Chillin design card, Distress Inks - Pine Needles Vintage Photo Old Paper, Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Die

Have I told you about my favourite Sizzix die? Well it would have to be Tattered Florals from the Tim Holtz Alterations range. This die has four different sized flowers and three of them are perfect for layering and creating your own dimensional flowers, while the fourth one is perfect to cut up and use for leaves!

So this is what I have done with my yellow flowers. I have used the smaller two flowers with two of each size for the bigger flowers seen, secured with a bling brad and then four layers of the smallest flower for the small one. Just layer and off-set them and curl up the petals to create great co-ordinating flowers for your own project. The leaves came from the largest flower, but I inked them with Pine Needles distress ink to make them stand out a little more against the same patterned paper in the background! Easy!

And while we are on the topic of distress ink I have used a mini mister spray bottle with Vintage Photo re-inker and a touch of Heirloom Gold perfect pearls to spray the background of my photo mat. This added some interest without adding any bulk! I also used Old Paper ink on my title which was cut from smooth white cardstock using my Slice. I used the ink to age the letters to look a little like the playing cards, and along similar lines outlined the letters too.

Well, that about sums up this page for you. Check out this great range for your next project!

Catch you next time.

New Basic Grey and Tim Holtz

Hi there everyone, Katie here. Well, we are getting into a busy time now with Leisa back from CHA and new stock ordered and on its way. But to keep you keen in the mean time here are a couple of layouts using the soon to be released (yes we were lucky enough to get some samples!) Marjolaine from Basic Grey. This collection is full of beautiful greens, blues and browns perfect for boy pages and lots more!

These pages are based on layouts created by Basic Grey's Vicki Boutin but have my own twist of course! And that is a bit of Tim Holtz magic!!! If you love Tim's stamps be sure to come in store (or jump on line) quickly because we have had a pretty big order of his stamps come in just the other day, but they are already moving so hurry if you are interested.

For my page titled "Meet Brains" I have turned a plain background page into something a little more interesting using the splatter stamp from the Bitty Grunge set and weathered wood distress ink was the perfect match too. I also used my foam blending tool to add some more colour to the edges of the page.

On the title and journaling tag I used some shabby shutters with the scratchy grunge stamp from the same set to add some interest around the edges and also used this colour ink to create some lines for my writing. To do this I used the edge of a plastic ruler coated in ink as a stamp!

The stars are stamped using an older stamp set and vintage photo ink and then coated with vintage photo stickles.


On this next page "The Velocitron", I used the same Bitty Grunge stamp set to grunge up one corner with the scratchy stamp, and all the cut out circles have been inked with vintage photo or shabby shutters to make them blend.

I also used one of the tickets from the Odds and Ends stamp set (one of my favourites and literally hot off the press from July's CHA) which I cut out and added in as an embellishment. Adding a curled paper border and rosette help add some more interest to the page too, not to mention the little paper curls, finish with a bit of dimensional magic here and there (although hard to see!) and its done!

Thanks for dropping by and keep a look out for new stock coming soon!

Katie

Tim Kingdom

Here's Tim's Ideal-ology booth. I stumbled across it accidentally today, whilst I was looking for another company and boy was I blown away. It was simply beautiful. No expense was spared.

Check out all the pretty ribbons above, they all started out as white (tim says why need any other colour) and they they have been coloured with Distress Ink Reinkers mixed with water and sprayed from a Mini Mister bottle. They look so pretty.