Christmas Printables

 Christmas is upon us. What better way to celebrate than engaging in some Christmas crafting. 

Head on over to our  Etsy Store and check out our Christmas section for a selection of craft printables. 

Journal Flip Through - For The Love Of Rose's

Hello Crafter's

Today I am showcasing my completed "For The Love Of Rose's" junk journal. 

For this journal, I chose to use a soft cover as opposed a hard cover which is what I would normally use. To make the cover I used a patterned piece of A4 card. 

This journal is both a mix of a printable kit and patterned papers from my personal stash. 

When ever I print out journal pages, I use patterned paper on the back of the printed page. This then gives me a double sided page. 

As I have mentioned previously, I absolutely adore images of vintage rose's so making this journal was a pleasure. 

The printable journal pages are available in my Etsy store. Click HERE to purchase it.

Also available in my Etsy store is the printable ephemera kit click HERE to purchase it. 

Shabby Loaded Tags

Hello there Crafter's,

It's been a rather grotty day here in Te Kauwhata, New Zealand which makes for a perfect crafting day!

Today I made two sets of loaded tags. Both sets are 'shabby' themed as I just LOVE shabby chic.

The first set is the 'Shabby Romantic' set. This set features a pink & white striped background.
These tags are available in my etsy store. Click HERE to find them.

Once I print the tags out, i them stick pretty paper on the back from my ever growing stack of patterned papers.

Once this step is completed, I then create the pockets. This can involve gluing and sewing. So much fun! 

Once that's done, its on to the ephemera used to fill the pockets. 

Last step is creating the folio. The folios I used today are my digital designs.

 I printed them out and glued pretty fabric to the back then sewed around them just to reinforce the fabric. 

To finish off the set, I've used pink lace and tied a bow.

Set two is the 'Shabby Angels' tags (also available in my etsy store HERE.

Pocket tags are always fun to make

Happy crafting

Shazza

Baby Boy Mini Album

Feast your eyes on the cutest baby album ever! 

Front cover

This little gem took me a couple of days to make. It all started with the Cricut machine and an SVG file to cut the album out. For this I used powder blue cardstock. 

Next up after cutting the album out, I fished through my ever growing collection of patterned papers and found all my baby related one's ( I swear I spend half my time looking for stuff when crafting as there is just SO much stuff!)

There is 3 page sets with this mini album that fold up concertina style so I like to glue patterned papers to these page sets which are cut from powder blue cardstock. 

Once the page sets have been completed with the patterned paper its time to unleash the lace and make some pockets (along with paper tuck pockets etc) 

Tuck pocket

Mini ephemera card

Tuck pocket

These little albums are fun to make (although the can be a bit fiddly at times), the end result is always very pleasing. 

Tiny envelope & journal cards

Check out the video flip through 

Time to get back to the craft desk. 

Happy Crafting 

Shazza 

Fussy Cuts

Hello Crafter's

Hope all is well in your world. We are still currently on 'lockdown' here in New Zealand so crafts have been keeping me sane!

Today I'm going to talk about 'Fussy Cuts'

What exactly is a 'fussy cut' image? It's an image that has a shadow or outline around it where you cut.

What can fussy cut images be used for? The ideas are endless! but here are a few to get you started:
junk journal pages, scrapbooking, pocket tags or tags, cardmaking, note paper, mixed media projects, masterboards, decorative photoframes and MORE!

Before I became a digital designer, I would search the internet for hours looking for images to use in my work. Most of the time when I found a decent vintage image I liked, it would have a background, take for example the image below. So I would have to print the whole image which would suck a lot of printer ink. Imagine printing numerous other images this way just to cut out the rose!

Now that I design, I am able to turn these kinds of images into fussy cut images and then create collage sheets with multiple images to be fussy cut. 

Background removed

Check out these videos for a little inspiration on fussy cuts and crafty ideas

For more printable Fussy Cut sheets head on over to Kiwi Card House On Etsy

Happy Crafting and stay safe xx