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

Garden Dreams Concertina Journal

This wee gem was made using 2x A3 art pad covers (cut to size and glued together) and the Garden Dreams 12" x 12" paper pad by Craft Smart.

The journal when fold up is: 12.5cm x 16cm 

When unfold: 12.5cm x 63.5cm 

Check out the video walk through of this journal

Latest Card Makes

Hello crafter's 

Today I am showcasing some of my latest card creations inspired by  Make Cards magazine which I love. 

I find when making cards I tend to stick to the same design... tent fold! 

Now don't get me wrong, the old tent fold cards are fabulous BUT life can get a bit mundane when we stick to the same old thing right? so this time round I've branched out a little and tried some new designs including: Pocket Cards & Dutch Fold Cards. 

The pocket cards are super fun to make. They have two pocket on the front with an assortment of ephemera inside including: mini tags, sentiments & cut outs . These cards are a great way to use up scraps too, and trust me, I have large amounts of scrap paper!

The second design I tried was the "Dutch Fold" 

This design is wonderful and relatively straight forward to make. 

The main flap opens up reveling 2 smaller flaps that are kind of like little doors, very cute. 

Rocker Cards are super easy to make and look great! 

Simply trace or die cut a circle shape (mine is a 14cm diameter circle). Cut of circle, layer with patterned paper and add sentiment/s & embellishments

A few other cards I have made this week also. 

Time to get back to the crafts

Happy crafting

Shazza 

Victorian Children

The Victorian period dates from 20th June 1837 - 22 January 1901. It was the time in which people lived during the reign of Queen Victorian. 

Life could sometimes be very difficult for children back in Victorian times, those in particular, from poor families. Many of these children worked from a young age to support their families and worked for long hours!

On the other hand, children from rich families did not work, had expensive toys and were well dressed. They probably also had access to many wonderful books!

It is the illustrations from the Victorian era that I absolutely love. Vintage seed catelogs from this period would be my all time favourite and also Victorian people.

I was lucky enough to find some very gorgeous Victorian children images from the public domain which inspired my latest designs which are all available in my Etsy shop

https://www.etsy.com/nz/shop/KiwiCardHouse

Are you a fan of the Victorian era and the many beautiful illustrations that were created in this time period?

Printable Tag
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/793472403/printable-victorian-children-tags-gift

Printable Pockets
https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/779633672/printable-victorian-children-junk

There are 6 pockets in total + bonus booksmarks & butterflies with this download

Happy crafting folks

Shazza @ Kiwi Card House

Bookmarks

Hi Crafter's

Are you an avid reader like me? ( I LOVE books) than making bookmarks will be right up your ally as one can NEVER have too many bookmarks right? and if you do need to give a few away they make great little gifts.

Over the last few weeks I have been working on bookmark designs and printed a few off this week to make whilst we are all in lockdown and pulling all the books out of storage!

First on the list of  ' To Make'  were the Victorian Hat Ladies Bookmarks. I love the colour's on these and also love anything Victorian.

To make these bookmarks I cut out the 4 bookmarks and then made a larger template to use for cutting out a base card for the bookmarks. I chose pale pink & cream coloured card to match the striped background of the bookmark images. I used distress ink to go around the edges of the base card and prettied the bookmarks up with lace and faux pearls.

Bookmark design is available in my Etsy store https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/774507124/printable-hat-ladies-bookmarks-digital

Second on the craft table to be made up was the Spring Birds Bookmarks. These are absolutely gorgeous and need to be gifted to loved ones (make sure you keep one for yourself too)

To make these bookmarks I used my larger sized bookmark template (as mentioned before) to cut out four base cards using blue & teal coloured card. I then glued the bookmark images on and used distress ink around the edges of the base card ( I love distress ink!) I also used distress ink to colour in the white circle at top of bookmark as when I designed these bookmarks I never intended on using a base card with the printed design, rather, I was going to hole punch were the white circle is and add a ribbon.

Spring Bird Bookmarks available here

https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/788199241/spring-birds-printable-bookmarks

This next lot of bookmarks was created using my Vintage Seed Catalogs Collage 

You can download this FREE from my Facebook group 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/junkjournallove/

The butterflies used for the top of the bookmark are available in my Etsy store 

https://www.etsy.com/nz/listing/785205767/printable-butterfly-ephemera-vintage

Making bookmarks is an enjoyable pastime and a great creative outlet. Even though I used the printed design I was still able to put my own spin on these bookmarks. Very satisfying indeed

Happy Crafting 

Sharon @ Kiwi Card House