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We are pleased to now stock some wonderful stamps from Stampotique Originals. We’ve chosen more than 60 designs from three different artists each with their own characteristic style.

From the versatile designs of the British artist Jo Capper-Sandon and the cute, flowery designs of Janet Klein to the funky and somewhat gothic style of Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente, these fabulous stamps include something for everyone.

Each of these highly detailed Stampotique Originals stamps are produced from deeply etched rubber mounted onto solid maple wood blocks for stability and long-life. You can find these beautiful stamps on the Merly Impressions website in there own special Stampotique section.

Along with the newest Kaisercraft collections for February 2011, we’ve added three fabulous new Beyond-the-Page project packs based on the enchanting Magic Happens and school themed Class of ’87 collections.

The Magic Happens Fairy Castle Album Pack and the Magic Happens Bracket Frame Pack provide everything needed to create a wonderfully magical gift for your favourite fairy princess. While the Class of ’87 School Bus Album Pack provides everything needed to create an album in which to record your child’s (or your own) school day memories. With each pack we will also provide a copy of Kaisercraft’s Workshop magazine for February which includes ideas for these and other projects.

These packs are based on the latest Kaisercraft collections for February – we stock all the elements of each collection including all the papers, speciality papers and embellishments. The Class of ’87 collection includes report cards, report card pockets, reward stickers and a fabulous 12×12 pocket page. The Magic Happens collection includes 12×12 glitter and die-cut papers and the popular mini journal tags.

We also stock matching Bazzill cardstock (including match packs) for both of these collections.

We’ve just added the new Kaisercraft collections for August to the Merly Impressions shop. The beautiful Secret Bird Society and Hippy Girl include six papers and a host of other scrapbooking elements.

The Secret Bird Society Collection features earthy tones and a strong nature theme.  The papers include images of birds and plants in a style inspired by botanical drawings from flora and fauna books. Secret Bird Society would be an excellent collection to use when showcasing your love of the outdoors and nature. The Hippy Girl Collection features bright colours and bold flowers drawn in a doodle style. This would be a great collection to capture the lively personality of girl friends.

Each of the collections also include die-cut elements, black and colour rub-ons, a 6×6 paper pad (excellent for cardmaking), a sheet of clear stamps, printed chipboard and a 12×12 die cut paper. The Secret Bird Society Collection also includes an embellishment pack – 15 skeleton leaves in three different size.

Each collection also includes a second 12×12 speciality paper – a foil paper for the Secret Bird Society and a glitter paper for Hippy Girl. There is also a book of Mini Journal Tags (24 printed 5.5cm by 9cm tags in six different designs and two shapes) to coordinate with each collection.

You can find these collections on the Merly Impressions site right now. We also stock matching Bazzill cardstock and other Kaisercraft coordinating products which can be found at the top of the Secret Bird Society and Hippy Girl pages.

While we try our best to include as many details as possible in our product descriptions, some items require a little more space than we have to fully describe them. In this post we describe exactly what is in Kaisercraft’s 6×6 Paper Pads and why we think they are such great value…

Kaisercraft produce a 6×6 Paper Pad to coordinate with each of their latest collections. Each pad is exactly 152mm (that’s six inches) square and contains 40 sheets of heavyweight paper or card. Each paper pad, for each different collection, includes a similar combination of pages as follows:

• 24 sheets of 6×6 paper – two each of 12 different designs (the designs are usually similar to, or based on, designs from the corresponding 12×12 paper collection)
• 12 sheets of speciality paper – two each of six different designs in a combination of spot varnish, foil, glitter and flocked (depending on the collection)
• four sheets of die cut elements (usually a total of 28 different die cuts)

As an example, the Le Chateau Paper Pad, shown on the left below, includes 24 sheets of Le Chateau design paper plus 4 pages of die-cuts, six sheets of foiled paper (in three designs), four sheets of flocked paper (in two designs) and two sheets of spot varnish paper. Also shown below are flocked, foil and glitter pages from the Jungle Bug Paper Pad and a foil page from the Konstrukt Paper Pad.

At the time of writing we stock 6×6 Paper Pads to coordinate with 16 different Kaisercraft collections including the latest Lush and Up, Up & Away and older collections such as Pack Your Bags and Lilac Avenue.

Kaisercraft 6×6 Paper Pads are an excellent way to get a wide range of coordinating paper designs at a great price and are equally useful for both scrapbooking and cardmaking.

We’ve just added the new Kaisercraft collections for July to the Merly Impressions shop. The beautiful Lush and Up, Up and Away include six papers and a host of other elements including some which are new to Kaisercraft.

The Lush Collection is modern and colourful with a strong oriental influence. The papers include oriental style floral patterns, subtle maps, oriental script and, in the case of the Maple paper, oriental style bird images. The Up, Up and Away Collection features earthy tones and a nostalgic carnival or fairground theme. The papers include old-style carnival images, news print, postcards and script.

Each of the collections also include die-cut elements, black and colour rub-ons, a 6×6 paper pad (excellent for cardmaking), a sheet of clear stamps, a 12×12 die cut paper and an embellishment pack (paperclips for the Lush collection and printed envelopes for Up, Up and Away).

Each collection also includes three completely new elements – a 12×12 Spot Varnish Paper, a book of Mini Journal Tags (24 printed 5.5cm by 9cm tags in six different designs and two shapes) and a sheet of Printed Chipboard (die cut colour printed chipboard shapes).

You can find these collections on the Merly Impressions site right now. We also stock matching Bazzill cardstock and other Kaisercraft coordinating products which can be found at the top of the Lush and Up, Up and Away pages.

We are often asked about Kaisercolour Acrylic Paints – how good is their coverage, how thick are they, etc, so we thought we would try and answer some of those questions…

Kaisercraft’s range of Kaisercolour Acrylic Paints includes more than 40 colours although, unfortunately, there is no published colour chart. Our shop includes images of each colour which are useful but their accuracy cannot be guaranteed because everyone’s computer monitor is set up slightly differently. The Kaisercraft Q1 and Q2 magazines each include a page showing all the different colours which is fairly useful although the images are a little small.

The paints themselves are neither runny or thick – think of HP Sauce (the squirty bottle variety) and you’ll be about there. They are best applied in two or three thin costs with a soft brush in which case they rarely leave brush marks on the MDF Beyond-the-Page projects that they are often used for. We would recommend lightly sanding MDF, especially around the edges, to remove rough patches.

Kaisercolour Acrylic paints give a Matt finish – for a Gloss finish we would recommend a final coat of Kaisercolour Gloss Varnish. We also stock Metallic Gold and Metallic Silver.

As far as we can tell the paints keep for a very long time as long as the cap is secured. You’ll sometimes see colour streaks inside the tube (usually when new) but just a brief swirl around with the brush before applying it to the product will make them disappear. By the way, we use paper cake/muffin cases to squeeze the paint into when we actually need to paint something – they’re cheap and easily cleaned up after use.