scrap with stardust

#butterflies #scrapstudio #stamps Hi everyone! Here's my second blog post for the year (I promise to blog much more frequently). I haven't been blogging but I have still been papercrafting. There are number of cards I've made for friends over the past few months but haven't been documenting the process, so I have recreated them (to the best of my memory) to share here! *** For the base of the card I used a 6 1/8 x 4 1/4 inch white notecard. I used Kaisercraft's 'Scrap Studio' papers to create this card. It's just a gorgeous collection! Using one of the patterned papers from the 6 1/2 inch 'Studio scrap' paper pad, I tear it in half, and then tear along the other edge as well. This should give you a strip of patterned paper with two torn edges and is 6 1/2 inches long as shown in the figure below. Using the patterned paper with the butterflies on it I fussy cut some butterflies. I also pop out one of the sentiments from the paper p...

#galaxy #mists #space Hi everyone! So the last month has been a very stressful and intense time (probably the most stressful in my uni life so far), but I have finally submitted my honours thesis! Yay! So I can get back to papercrafting guilt free! So I'm making some thank you cards for some of the people that got me through this stressful year, and given that they do astrophysics I thought I'd make them 'galaxy' themed! :) I used a 12 x 12 piece of white cardstock and sprayed it with different coloured iridescent mists (blue, teal, pink and purple) and let this dry for about 15 minutes. Then I mixed some white paint and white iridescent mist and flicked dots of this mixture onto the same piece of cardstock to look like stars! I let this cardstock sit for a few hours to make sure the white dots were dry. The next step was to prepare all the pieces needed for the card. I used black 4 1/8 x 6 inch notecards for the base of the cards. Next, I die-cut some stitc...

#thank you #flowers #fleur Hey papercrafters! I haven't made an explosion box in a while, and I've been wanting to work with Kaisercraft's 'Fleur' collection for a few months now, so here's a project that combines the two! I am more comfortable working with darker colours, so this was a bit of a challenge to work on :) The structure of this explosion box is different to the basic  4x4 inch explosion box  I usually make , there is only one layer (the layer which has 4 x 4 inch panels) and only two of the corners pieces have been cut out. Make sure you cut out the corners that are opposite each other as shown below. Then I cut one edge of the remaining corner panels to create a flap as shown below. The next thing I did was add some magnets to make sure these flaps snap shut. I used a thin magnet sheet that has adhesive on the back and punched out some hearts. Then I added them to the edges of the flaps as shown below. This is the interior of the box. ...

#bombay sunset #shaker card #scraps #sequins I love shaker cards, they are so much fun to make and I'm sure that they are a lot of fun to receive too. I think Kaisercraft's bright and colourful 'Bombay sunset' collection is great for fun cards like these! I also made another card (a very simplistic card) with the leftover cutouts from the shaker card. For the shaker card I used a 5 1/2 x 5 1/2 inch black note card for the base of the card. I cut out a 5 x 5 inch square from some patterned paper and then die-cut a circle from the centre of it.  To create the shaker window I used a piece of heat resistant acetate and heat embossed a sentiment using versamark ink and white embossing powder. Then I cut the acetate into a circle and then adhered it to the patterned paper with the circle cut out. For the shaker part of this card I used pink iridescent circle and star sequins. To put the card together I put the sequins in the centre of the black note card th...

#thank you #patterned paper #die-cut inlay Hey everyone! So here is a thank you card that you can easily customise. It is very easy to make a bunch of these in one go so you will never run out of cards 'just to say thank you' :) You can use the negative space of one card to make another card, which is exactly what I decided to do. I used a 5.5 x 4 inch white top folding note card for the base of both cards. Using a patterned paper of your choice, cut it down to 5 1/4 x 3 3/4 inch piece and adhere it to the front. I used a piece of paper from a paper pad I bought from the reject shop. Yes, the reject shop. They have a few paper pads by 'The Craft Stall' that have some very pretty patterns. For the sentiment I first die-cut a frame from both white and black card stock using a project life die. Then I die-cut the 'Thank you' from the middle of these frames; make sure not lose any of the pieces.  Tip : to make sure you don't lose any of the s...