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Here’s something a little different… I decorated this Cigar Box as part of a challenge set by some close friends and decided to use Kaisercraft’s beautiful Bonjour collection to give it a sophisticated look.

I covered the whole box in the Paris paper (reverse), then covered the sides with strips of the Moriesse paper and the top in layers of the Notre-Dame (reverse) and Mairie papers. I distressed the edges of the paper and used one of my favourite tools, the WRMK Sew Easy Stitch Piercer,  to add distressed stitching around the top.

The top of the box is decorated with layers of detail cut from the Mairie and Moriesse papers (some of which is highlighted with Crystal Lacquer). I’ve also used a Kaisercraft Wood Flourish Frame (distressed with an Adirondack Paint Dabber and Gold Perfect Pearl Mist), some Kaisercraft Pearls and a Mini Paper Bloom. I finished the box with a Tim Holtz Idea-ology Keyhole and some Tim Holtz Idea-ology Box Feet.

Hopefully you like my altered Cigar Box and thank you for visiting. Please feel free to comment (and many thanks to everyone who has commented on previous posts).

Chrissy   xxx

I changed my mind a few times on how I wanted to decorate this new Kaisercraft Trinket Chest but in the end I chose to use the lovely (and also new) Velvet Ensemble papers.

After painting the chest in Antique White Kaisercolour paint I covered the whole chest (drawers, sides and back) in the costume paper and inked round all the edges to give an aged look. I cut the mask on the lid from the ‘Stage Show’ paper and added a few little embellishments – a feather, a flower and some rhinestones – to it. The Black Organza bow finishes the chest off.

I wanted the feel of the chest to be one of opulence and I hope I have achieved it.

I used the following products to make the chest:

• SB2109 – Kaisercraft BTP Trinket Chest
• P674 – Costume, Velvet Ensemble 12 x 12 paper
• P678 – Stage Show, Velvet Ensemble 12 x 12 paper
• P675 – Performance, Velvet Ensemble 12 x 12 paper
• KC002 – Antique White, Kaisercolour paint
• PL514 – Pearl Flourishes, Black
• RI613 – Organza Ribbon pack, Natural
• KG-024003 – Red Kindyglitz Glitter Glue (for the Red lipstick)
• KG-021552 – Silver Kindyglitz Glitter Glue (on the flower)
• Crystal Lacquer Set
• Glue Stick
• Brown Ink Pad

I started this project just before we went to the Scrapaholix/Kaisercraft Retreat and managed to get some quality time at the Retreat to finish it off. I have used the new (and absolutely gorgeous) Chapter One Collection to cover the lovely Storage Unit and some of Kaisercraft’s beautiful Blooms to decorate it.

For some time I’ve been wanting to make some storage to hold all my Kaisercraft flowers and Blooms and this unit is perfect since its a good size and I can simply empty out all my half used packets of flowers and Blooms into the drawers.

I used a single sheet of the Chapter One Motivate paper to cover all three drawers. I wanted the design to continue all the way up the drawer fronts and I think it has worked quite well. I used the reverse of the Afresh paper to cover the sides and some black Bazzill cardstock to cover the top. I wanted to keep the unit clean and simple to show off the gorgeous design of the paper so just added a few Kaisercraft Blooms, a Rhinestone flourish and some Wood Flourish Leaves to the top and three Blooms and a rub-on to the bottom drawer.

I used the following products to make the storage unit:

• SB2105 – Beyond-the-Page Storage Unit
• P670 – Motivate 12 x 12 paper, Chapter One Collection
• P665 – Afresh 12 x 12 paper, Chapter One Collection
• KC031 – Black Kaisercolour Paint
• FL301 – Wood Flourishes, Leaves
• F631 – Paper Blooms, Sea Breeze
• F632 – Paper Blooms, Sage
• RB920 – Chapter One Rub-ons
• RS459 – Rhinestone Flourishes, Elegant, Island Lagoon
• Crystal Lacquer Set
• Green Ink Pads

This wonderful Friendship Album was made a few months ago by my daughter for her best friends birthday. It includes pictures and a short story about her friend.

The Mini Heart Album is decorated with Kaisercraft’s Shaken Not Stirred collection which is normally used for masculine projects but, in this case, the mainly red papers have been used to give a feminine effect. Paper flowers and rhinestones have also been used along with offcuts of ribbon to decorate the album rings.

The products used to make the album include:

• Shaken Not Stirred paper collection
• SB156 – Mini Heart Album
• F624 – Midnight Paper Flowers
• F610 – Poppy Paper Flowers
• SB777 – Black Rhinestones
• SB711 – Red Rhinestones
• M024 – Red Book Rings
• Offcuts of ribbon
• Rub-ons

I was looking through some old photographs of relatives and decided that these, taken in the late 50′s, would be fantastic for use in a Display Frame. I used the Kaisercraft Shaken Not Stirred collection because its bold colours and patterns were a perfect match to the pictures.

I painted the frame with Kaisercolour acrylic paint, then a layer of Crackle Glaze and finally another layer of paint – this gave it a distressed, almost leather-like, look. I used some appropriate rub-ons and a tie (tied from a short length of ribbon) to match the “Lads” theme.

This would make a pretty cool gift for Fathers Day coming up in June.

I used the following products to make the frame:

• SB2093 – 12 Frame Photo Display, Beyond the Page
• P468 – Daniel 12 x 12 paper, Shaken not Stirred
• P470 – Timothy 12 x 12 paper, Shaken not Stirred
• P471 – George 12 x 12 paper, Shaken not Stirred
• PP808 – Shaken not Stirred Paper Pad
• EM908 – Shaken not Stirred Embellishment Pack
• CB108 – Chipboard Alpha Set 2
• RB915 – Boys Rub-ons
• RB909 – Laugh Rub-ons
• SB711 – Red Rhinestones
• KC031 – Black Kaisercolour Acrylic Paint
• 2007146 – ScrapFX Chipboard Shape, Broken Circle
• CL-01802 – Crystal Lacquer Set
• Crackle Glaze
• Black Ribbon (for the Tie)

While I was tidying up a bedroom recently I decided we needed something to keep a few bits of jewellery neat and tidy and had a crazy idea of making the Kaisercraft Advent Calendar / Bits’n pieces drawers into a Jewellery Box.

I decided to use the After Five collection as this will match the new colour scheme in the bedroom. I could not find any colour matched fancy hooks to hang the necklaces and bracelets on so decided to cut up some wood flourishes and fix them to the inside of the unit using Crystal Lacquer (which makes a very effective glue). I really like the end result – they are perfect for my little bits of jewellery.

The drawers are perfect for rings and larger heavier necklaces and brooches – I’ve covered the outside of each one in a strip of paper from the After Five collection and added pearls to decorate them. I left the inside of the drawers plain but you could line them with felt to protect your jewellery if preferred.

I added strips of the Debutante flocked paper from the After Five collection around the edges of the unit and a small vanity mirror in the corner (if you prefer you could add a larger mirror to cover the full size of the inside panel of the unit).

Here is a list of the products used in this project:

• SB2066 Advent Calendar
• After Five Paper Collection
• RB883 After Five Border Rub-ons
• KC031 Black Kaisercolour Paint
• SB721 Wood Flourishes Border
• SB793 Black Pearls
• CL-01802 Crystal Lacquer Set
• T301 Kaisercraft Glue Stick
• Wood Glue

My daughter Merley collects and loves anything to do with fairies hence the fairy themed Advent Calendar I made previously. Soon after I made that I also decided to make her an album to capture some of her favourite fairy ornaments and some lovely little fairy poems.

I loved making this album – it is decorated with one of my favourite Kaisercraft collections – Airy Fairy. The layered butterflies and fairies were cut out from the Sparkle paper so you will need at least three sheets of this paper, but I think they add that extra dimension to the album. I used one of each of the other three Airy Fairy papers.

The Lilac Ink Pad was used to ink around the edges of the MDF album. The castle door was drawn with a black drawing pen onto a spare piece of matching card and mounted behind the doorway.

Here is a list of the products used for this project:

• SB186 Fairy Castle Album
• Airy Fairy Paper Collection
• SB1167 Airy Fairy Brad set
• SB705 Lilac Rhinestone Embellishments
• SB708 Dark Green Rhinestone Embellishments
• M012 Blue Book Rings
• SB730 Wood Flourish Corners
• CS721 Flourishes Clear Stamp Set
• F607 Baby Pink Paper Flowers
• IP715 Lilac Ink Pad
• KG-021828 Kindyglitz Crystallina
• CL-01802 Crystal Lacquer Set
• A few odds and ends of ribbons

As part of the preparations for Christmas I decided to make some table decorations to match my colour scheme of black, white and silver. The Medium and Small Flourish trees were perfect for what I had in mind.

The medium tree is an ideal size for the centre of the table and the small flourish trees are ideal for the name placements I want to make.

First I painted both trees with white Kaisercolour paint and, once they were dry, stamped all the pieces using the Script Background Stamp and a black ink pad. I then painted each of the bird and flower shapes with black Kaisercolour paint and covered the same areas with Crystal Laquer. I added Pearls, Kindyglitz Glitter Glue, bows and, on each corner,  black hanging beads (that were made using black Kaisercraft Pearls stuck together with a piece of cotton through the middle).

The Small Flourish Tree was finished in a similar way – I just added the name to make a perfect name placement.

Here is a list of the products used for this project:

• FL313 Medium Flourish Tree
• FL312 Small Flourish Tree
• KC001 Kaisercolour Paint – White
• KC031 Kaisercolour Paint – Black
• CS752 Clear Stamp – Script Background
• IP707 Ink Pad – Black
• SB713 Pearls – Pearl
• SB793 Pearls – Black
• EM926 White Lace Ribbon (for the Bows)
• CS760 Clear Stamps – Tags
• EM923 White Tag Pack
• KG-021828 Kindyglitz Crystallina
• CL-01802 Crystal Laquer Pack

Our Christmas preparations continue with a Hanging Tree decoration styled with Kaisercraft papers.

My daughter Merley (aged 12) created this fabulous Scallop Hanging Tree decorated with papers from the Kaisercraft Home for Christmas collection. All the presents, birds, words and even the Christmas pudding were cut out from the papers. Merley has also added some Kaisercraft Pearls and highlighted some parts with Crystal Lacquer.

The separate parts of the tree were joined with some matching ribbon offcuts and the presents were hung from the bottom with thread.

Here is a list of the products used on this project:

• SB2079 Scallop Hanging Tree
• P296 Egg Nog paper (Home for Christmas collection)
• P297 Kris Kringle (Home for Christmas collection)
• P298 Santa’s Delivery (Home for Christmas collection)
• P299 Sleigh Ride (Home for Christmas collection)
• SB786 Pearls – Rose
• SB784 Pearls – Ice Green
• CL-01802 Crystal Lacquer Set
• Ribbon offcuts

I know it’s a bit early but I’ve decided to get into the spirit of Christmas, so my first Christmassy project this year just had to be the Holly Wreath made with some of the papers from the Be Merry Collection.

After separating and lightly sanding down all the pieces of the Kaisercraft Holly Wreath (SB2078) I arranged all the Holly leaves on the circle frame and, once I was happy with the layout of them, I then thought about which papers to use on the leaves. I decided that I wanted to use more than one colour of paper on the wreath and that I definitely wanted to incorporate the very cute reindeer from the fabulous Chirpy paper.

I used the back of the Chirpy paper (P559) to cover the largest of the three pronged leaves and then used a brown ink pad (IP708) to stamp with the Script Background stamp (CS752) over them. On the smaller three pronged leaves I used the Cheer paper (P558) and on the large long leaves with the berries I used the green side of the Happy paper (P560). I finished the edges of the all of the leaves using a brown ink pad. I then cut out some berries, approximately 25mm across, from a scrap of red card and used Crystal Lacquer on them. I also cut out two large Reindeer, two smaller reindeer and one Christmas Tree from the Chirpy paper, finished them all with a coat of Crystal Lacquer and then added some red Rhinestones (SB711) for a little sparkle.

The next bit may seem a little obsessive but its a great way of making sure you are happy with the final effect. Once all the pieces were decorated I rearranged them back onto the wooden inner circle and took a photo of the finished wreath. I then took a couple more photos removing a few pieces each time. I then used the pictures I had taken to reassemble the wreath, gluing each piece with PVA adhesive. Once all the leaves were glued down I used foam pads to attach the Reindeer and the Christmas Tree.

The finished wreath is a modern looking take on the traditional Holly Wreath. For a slightly different look, here is the Kaisercraft Star Wreath (SB2064) I made last year using the papers of the Belle Collection.