Today and Everyday using Gums and Roses

Posted on January 2, 2021 by Roxanne Smith

Hi Everyone,
Today I would like to share with you a quick and easy multi photo layout using the Gums and Roses Collection. I wanted to challenge myself to use more than two photos on a layout this month, so I have created this layout to achieve that goal. I have also made my own flowers for this first time that are featured on this layout. I love the 3D effect that these flowers have.

To create this layout I have followed the steps below:

Trim Bushland Beauty to 12 x 12 inch
Apply Texture Paste diagonally onto the Bushland Beauty, from top left to bottom right, through Diamond Flourish 6X6 Designer Stencil

Find the centre of the layout and make a cross
Adhere two landscape and portrait photos (all 11 x 10.2 cm) alternating to the centre

Fussy cut the “today and every day” element from Everyday Moments and foam tape to the centre of the layout
Fussy cut some of the small flower clusters from Fussy Cuts Eucalypt Posey and layer under the “today and every day” element

Fussy cut more flower clusters from Fussy Cuts Eucalypt Posey and layer in the top left and right corners of the layout
Use Decorative Die – Flourish to cut four flourishes from Kaisercard White Premium Cardstock and add them to the clusters

Use Decorative Die – Small Succulent to create 4x pink flowers and use Rhinestones – Soft Pink to make the centres (I have used some pink foam from my stash but these would also look beautiful made from cardstock)

Glue Pink Flowers to the flower cluster in each corner

Embellish with foam flowers, more elements from Everyday Moments and Rhinestones – Island Lagoon

I hope I have inspired you to create a beautiful multi photo layout with the Gums and Roses Collection today.
Stay Safe and Happy Crafting!

xX Roxanne Xx

Family Christmas – Emerald Eve Collection

Posted on October 9, 2020 by Chrissy Tingey

Hi Everyone,
I love this photo of me and my sisters and brother taken…….well over 45 years ago (I think) we don’t have many photo’s of us when we were young, but I do love this one. The Emerald Eve collection was just perfect to scrap it, the colours matched beautifully.

Other Products Used: UCE1729 Gold Pearls|SB713 Pearl Pearls|KM132 Gold Kaisermist. For the wood effect base paper, I used one from my own stash – You can use P2967 Rejoice paper

Here are some brief instructions to create my layout

Cut the Fir Springs paper down to 12 x 12 to form your base.
Cut the Fir Tree paper down to 29.5 x 29.5 cm, mat onto base, leaving only an edge of the base showing on the right hand side and bottom.
Cut the Rejoice paper down to 28.5 x 28.5 cm, mat this onto your layout.
Sew around your layout.
Splatter some gold Kaisermist all over your layout, mostly in the top left hand corner and bottom right hand corner.
Fussy cut lots of elements from Christmas Pine’s & Emerald Leaves papers and the stars from Mistletoe Magic papers.
Mat your 10cm wide x 14cm high photo onto your layout, then arrange all your fussy cut elements around it, in the top left hand corner and bottom right hand corner, use foam pads to give height and dimension. From the other paper, cut some 0.5cm green and gold strips, tuck these around your layout, top left hand corner and bottom right hand corner. Add some gold and pearl pearls to the centre of your stars.

Below are some close ups of the layering, you can also find more on my Instagram page – The Fussy Cutter

I really loved using this collection and hope I have inspired you to create with it also. Please feel free to join the Merly Facebook Group where you can share your creations using our products and where you will see sneak peeks of my kits.
You can find these products on the Merly Impressions Website

Happy crafting, stay safe

Chrissy xXx

A Great Aussie Christmas

Posted on October 18, 2019 by Roxanne Smith

Hi Everyone,

Today I would like to share a layout that I created using the UNDER THE GUM LEAVES Collection by Kaisercraft. This collection really inspired to hunt down some “Old Aussie Christmas” photo’s from my childhood. This double layout contains two photos from the Christmas Party my family attended every year at the Great Aussie Resort. Santa would come and give all the children presents and sometimes the adults too. For this layout I have gone for an Australian flora (and fauna) wreath which the emu and Kangaroo are holding up, similar to the Australian Coat of Arms. As this was the first time I had the chance to play with Kaisercrafts newer style sticker books, this layout also contains many of the stickers from this.

To create this Layout I followed the following steps:

Cut 2x KAISERCARD WHITE PREMIUM CARDSTOCK to 30.5 x 30.5 cm and tape together at the back. Stamp CLEAR STAMP – SCRIPT BACKGROUND in DISTRESS INK PAD – AGED MAHOGANY down the left and right-hand sides of the layout. Use an ink blending tool to ink edges of the layout in DISTRESS INK PAD – AGED MAHOGANY.
Cut 2x NATIVE TREE – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION (reverse) to 29.5 x 30 cm, ink edges in DISTRESS INK PAD – AGED MAHOGANY and attach to the middle of the layout.
Cut COCKATOO – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION (reverse) to 27.5 x 30.5 cm ink edges in DISTRESS INK PAD – AGED MAHOGANY. Cut two pieces of WILD FLORA – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION to 15 x 30 cm, ink edges in DISTRESS INK PAD – AGED MAHOGANY and attach to the middle of COCKATOO – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION. MOUNTING FOAM TAPE combined piece to the middle of the layout.
Cut four pieces of WATTLE – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION (reverse) to 4.5 x 8 cm and tuck under each corner of the combined, foam taped centre piece. Randomly spray KAISERMIST SPRAY INK – GOLD SHIMMER 50ML.
Take two photos (15.4 x 10.2 cm) and attach to the middle of the layout. Using the flower clusters in the STICKER BOOK – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION, stick them around the photos to create a wreath. Take the Cockatoo and Koala stickers and foam tape to the top and bottom of the wreath, respectively. Ink the edges of each sticker with an ink blending tool and DISTRESS INK PAD – AGED MAHOGANY.
Take a green and a gold foil sheet from FOIL PAPER PAD – FESTIVE and cut with a Kaisercraft Flourish Die Cut (Suggestions: DECORATIVE DIE – DECOR FLOURISH, DECORATIVE DIE – ORNATE FLOURISH, DECORATIVE DIE – SWIRL FLOURISH). Cut each of the flourishes in half and swap to have a multi colour flourish and glue one to each side of the wreath, coming from 4 and 8 o’clock.
Take the holy strips from the STICKER BOOK – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION and stick to the left edge and right edge of the layout, in the WILD FLORA – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION section. Also take the present strips then cut and layer on each side of the wreath. Fussy cut the Emu and Kangaroo from FAUNA – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION and foam tape to the left and right of the wreath, respectively.
Fussy cut the red flowers from the miniature version of HOME FOR CHRISTMAS – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION (reverse) from the PAPER PAD – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION and foam tape in the wreath to give it more dimension. Take some of the flag stickers, word stickers and sticker strips from the STICKER BOOK – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION and embellish the layout.
Take bottom strips from WILD FLORA – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION and HOME FOR CHRISTMAS – UNDER THE GUM LEAVES COLLECTION and embellish the bottom of the layout further.
Do the final embellishment with RHINESTONES – DEEP YELLOW