Friday focus on Kaisercraft Digital

Our very talented Creative Team member, Sandra van der Geest has been busy making hybrid cards!

“Both cards are made with a quilling technique called husking, which means that you wrap the small paperstrips around pins”.

I printed one of the butterfly brushes from the Flutterby kit first, to use as a model. See picture below!”

“The background of the card is a paper from the Candyshop kit. The text circle is a brush also, from the Circles brush kit. I erased the edges and the inner part (so the only thing left was the text itself ) and printed this together with the background paper”.

“After I finished the quilled butterfly I added some rhinestones. The antennas of the butterfly are made of a stamen which I colored black, folded and glued on the top of the butterfly’s body”.

“The flower on the other card (below) is a brush from the Loire Valley kit. Just like I did with the butterfly I printed it to use as a model. I quilled the six separate petals first. First, I attached three of these together, then made another layer with the other three and glued one layer on top of the other to make it more dimensional. The blue background is a paper from the Loire Valley kit, printed with a brush from the Love brush kit”.

“The black came from the Elements set in the Loire Valley kit. There were already some drawn stitches on this frame. I handstitched these with real thread first (also for more dimension) before I glued the frame on the background with some foam tape. I also printed the red colored flower from the Elements set in the same size as my quilled flower. I attached my quilled flower on top of it and glued it on the frame on the card”.

Next, Sandra’s also made a bunch of cards using the Flutterby kit:

“As also mentioned in the Kaisercraft Scrapping Style Alfabet in the Q2 magazine, Q is for quilling! So I used three different quilling techniques on the cards and added some elements of the digital kit”.

“For the card with the flourish and the flowers (below) , I used the ‘side flourish’-element from the Flutterby kit, digitally erased some parts to make room for my own flowers and printed this on a white Kaisercraft card. I quilled some flowers in different sizes and glued these on the card. I also printed a brush with the text ‘For You’ on the card”.

For the second card (below) with the big poppy I used a quilling technique called husking. This technique is about creating figures by threading paperstrips around pins. I printed the ‘flower-frame’ element from the Flutterby kit in a little smaller size than my card.

I used this as a model to create my quilled poppy by sticking pins on the lines and threading my paperstrips around it. First I quilled each of the five separate petals, then glued them together and attached a quilled flowerheart on top of it.

I printed the flower-frame element again, now in full color, cut it out, inked the edges and glued it with some 3D tape on my card. I attached the quilled poppy on top of it and finished my card with a black line around it.

“For the third card with the butterflies I used the paperstrips in a different way again, now by tying a sort of knot in them while wrapping them around my card. I cut two circles out of my card first. Then I used 14 paperstrips and attached them on the inside of the card in between the two circles. The 14 strips are split in two bundles of 7 strips when they come out of the upper circle and ‘tied’ in a graceful knot. I printed some of the butterflies from the Flutterby kit, cut them out and attached them on the card”.

On another quick note before we go….

Scrapbook Magazine (UK) recently had a feature article about digital scrapbooking, one of our talented Creative Team members, Kathleen was lucky enough to be featured on the cover – and her layouts featuring Kaisercraft products are also featured on page 30 – 33. To download your FREE copy of this magazine just head to their website!!