HK Memory Chest Dec 2015 Kit Club

hi crafters,
2015 is soon come to the last month, and here we are celebrating Christmas!!! This is a happy month, we spend most of the time with our family and we also sending love to our friends. We took a lot of pictures every December  and they were always the happiest memory we kept throughout the year.


This month's kit contains Prima Marketing's new collection -A Victorian Christmas, with glimmers of gold foil adding divine sparkles, paired with deep reds, golden yellows, and olive green, it's a beauty to behold! I used them for two layouts, as well as a banner for home decor!

Papers
Prima “A Victorian Christmas” – Pere Noel
Prima “A Victorian Christmas” – Une Carte De Noel
Prima “A Victorian Christmas” – Un Calendrier De L’avent
Prima “A Victorian Christmas” – Le Jour De Noel
Prima “A Victorian Christmas” – Un Chant De Noel

Embellishments
Prima A Victorian Christmas Snowflake Leaves
Prima A Victorian Christmas Rudolph’s Nose Flowers
Prima A Victorian Christmas Holiday Lights Flowers
Aleene’s Glitter Snow
Prima Marketing Antique Resin Frames
Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst Spray – Brulee Cream
Maya Road Mini Chipboard Snowflakes
Artemio Alphabet Glitter Stickers – Silver
Kaisercraft Holy Night Cardstock Die-Cuts
Ribbons

All Hearts Come Home For Christmas

I applied gesso onto Donna Downey's Random Circle stencil onto the paper for background, and I added the Aleene's Glitter Snow onto the christmas tree, snowflakes and flowers, this magic snow adds a touch of sparkle onto your holiday projects and i really love it!

Those little houses comes from Fiskars border punch - main street, it is so cute with some snows on top!

A christmas red bow will highlight the focus point and created the layers.

Reason For The Christmas

This is a quick layout. Simply just cut out designs from the paper and place them onto the red cardstock, make sure you leave some red edge to create the layers. Place your photo and add embellishments.

A big flower will balance the layout and create dimension. 

I draw lines around and add some stamping!

Christmas Banner

This year Prima Marketing is hosting a 12 days of Christmas challenge, which featuring different products each day and you can use them on your project to enter the challenge. I am entering Day 1 challenge - Victorian Christmas. More details here.

This pretty paper is very good for making home decor, banner, ornaments. cards etc. Today i would like to show you how to work on this quick and easy banner. 

1. Cut out three banner from paper,  match them with red cardstock on the bottom.

2. Distress and edge of banner to create the vintage look. Apply distress ink Fired brick.

3. Cut out designs from paper and layer them together. remember to distress and edge as well.

4. Add embllishments.

 For some details, I choose a paper with right top wreath and add my designs on the left side. Random stamping on the background using Tim Holtz's distress ink Fired brick.

The middle banner is different, i cut out some small banners and link them together on top, stamp JOY on them.

The right side banner, i added Kaisercraft rhinestone flourishes so it will shine. A wood piece from Prima  wood icons collection is a lovely choice.


Merry Christmas,
Erika x x 

HK Memory Chest Kit Club Nov 2015

I had so much fun creating with the new Seven Paper Collection from HK Memory Chest's Nov kit club. Seven Paper is a new brand by Studio Calico started in 2015, It is designed to be a easy way to help every day documenting for those moments in your life without taking up your time. Papers are very nice for pocket pages, you can find beautiful DT albums from their blog, but today I will show you how to use them in a traditional scrapbooking layouts. 

This is the kit :

November Kit 2015
Seven Paper Darcy Paper – Color Wheels/Wide Yellow Stripes
Seven Paper Clara Paper – Cut-Outs/Wide Diagonal Stripe
Seven Paper Clara Paper – Stuffed Animal/Wide Diagonal Stripe
Seven Paper Clara Paper – Watercolor Splotch/Flower Doodle
Seven Paper Clara Paper – Baby Faces/4 Colors
Seven Paper Darcy Roller Stamp – Phrases
Cedar Lane Thickers Stickers – Phrases/Silver & Gold Glitter Foam
Seven Paper Clara Label Stickers – Gold Foil Words & Phrases
Yellow Flower Beads Trim
Green Little Balls Trim
Red and Orange Heart Shape Charm
Fabric Sunflowers
Black and White Feathers
Punctuation Wood Veneers 

Happy

I love this paper at the first sight. It is clean but with different shades of green. As soon as i saw it, i already realise it will match my daughter's favourite dress and this is where the layout idea comes from. We took a lot of photos when she wear this dress and she is always happy when she's on it.

As i can't choose one favourite photo out of a hundred, i just decided to use four which were taken in the same serious - She made many  funny poses here. Even photos are quite small, I positioned them separately in two opposite corners and use a large gold shinny lettering as title to create the balance.

You Make My World Better

This is a quick layout. One single photo in the centre and rounded by title and embellishments. It takes me about half hour. 

I positioned the black feather underneath, fuzzy cut out lovely elephant and bear from another paper (which is super cute). Use circle punch to cut out colourful paper and add some easy drawings on top of each circle.

Similar design at the right hand side, plus wood veneers and gold stickers from the kit, as well as some stamping from Seven Paper Phrases roller stamp. 

Love This Adventure

The third layout is easy too. simply cut out some papers into flags, squares, or rectangles and layer them together. Don't worry about some very nice design will be buried as layers always looks good. I also used the roller stamp starts on top of the paper to create a boarder.

Here above are some close-ups for this layout. 

Discovery Bay Crop  

17th November (Tue)

10:30am - 12:00noon

Hosted by Grace Wong

See you all at crop,

Erika. x x