Inking It

Thursday 27th of August 2009

7.30pm

Using Alcohol Inks on Transparency
This class will cover a fun technique for using alcohol inks on transparencies.

Supplies needed:
One photo 10cm (4") in diameter.
One photo 7.5cm (3") in diameter.
One sheet of printed 12" x 12" transparency.
Scrap of transparency (does not need to be printed) to practice on.
One scrap of patterned paper.
Assorted buttons OR flowers, brads, stars etc.
Embroidery thread for button centres.
Alphabet for a title.
Permanent pen for journaling if you wish to hand write journaling, otherwise we will stamp our journaling.
If you have alcohol inks that match your colour scheme, feel free to bring them, otherwise inks and associated tools will be supplied in class.
Foam mounting tape/dimensionals.

Techniques used:
Alcohol ink technique, journaling, paper and photo shaping.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Heavy Metal

Thursday 13th of August 2009

7.30pm @ Keepsake Krafts


"Heavy Metal"

This class focuses on the technique of creating faux metal frames for your photos. We will make two photo frames and incorporate these into a layout. This technique is great for masculine pages, but can just as easily be adapted to create fun and funky girl pages! So as not to waste anything, we will be making some metal "tiles" for a card or another project from the left-over pieces.



Supplies needed:
Two photos, one 3" x 4" (landscape) and one 4" x 3" (portrait) or any combination that suits your photos.
One piece of cardstock.
One large alphabet for a title.
Ink to suit your layout.
Versamark if you have it.
Embossing powder if you have it.
A favourite small stamp if desired (I will have a small selection).
Needle and embroidery thread to match your chosen colour scheme (or gel pen and hole piercer).
Mat pack if you have one.
Basic tool kit.

Techniques used:
Faux metal, embossing, inking, hand stitching or fake stitching.

Hope to see you there! Supper for this class WILL be caramel slice!!

The above specifications may change without notice.

Flower Workshop

Thursday the 30th of July, 2009
7.30pm

This week we will be doing a workshop all about flowers - girl flowers, boy flowers, paper and fabric - we will be covering a wide range of fun flowers to use in your scrapbooking. You will go home with a bag full of flowers that you have made and you could even win a technique book on how to make all of these gems (3 to win on the night)!

Cost:
$11.80 for the class kit (on top of the class fee).
The kit includes:
Loads of fabric swatches.
Interfacing.
Flower centres.
Paper flowers.
Buttons, beads and crystals.
Brads.
Ribbon.
Gauze.
Use of the class supply of cardstock and patterned paper scraps, metalic thread, paint, ink, stamps and many other bits and pieces on the night.

Supplies needed:
Basic tool kit, including scissors.
Embroidery thread and needle.
Fiskars circle template and star template if you have them.
Star punches if you have them.
Scallop circle punch if you have one.
Foam push pad if you have one.

If you have any queries, please let me know.

Looking forward to seeing you Thursday night!

Friday Inspiration

Friday 23rd of July 2009

7.00 pm to midnight

$10 to crop, plus there are some great kits available.

Come along to the friday inspiration crop night this friday at Keepsake Krafts!

As well as our usual midnight crop, there will be two overlay page kits available, showcasing the Karen Day grasses overlay and also the Scrapware circles overlay. To view the layouts, see in store.

Bring a small plate to share!

See you there and happy scrapping.

Frame It - Make and Take

Weekend Inspiration Crop Night

Friday 10th July 2009

7.00 pm

Our crop night is on again on Friday night. Stay tuned for challenges!

We are also having a make and take which includes techniques that you will be able to put into use in your scrapping, card making and off the page projects. It would make a fantastic piece of art in your scrapping space, or a gift ready for Christmas, birthdays or just because.

Our project is a square frame with four technique tiles using some great product from Keepsake Krafts. The colour scheme for the frame is cream, brown and antique copper, but this can easily be customised to suit your needs. Add some green and blue, or some purple and silver and you will have a great frame for a young person!

All items to make the cream and brown frame are included in the kit for $18.50.

If you wish to change the colour scheme, all you will need to bring is a 2" square of your favourite patterned paper (please let us know if this is your plan so we can have the right supplies on the night for your colours).

To book in for the make and take frame, or just for the crop night please ring Keepsake Krafts prior to Friday and let Renaye know you will be there!

To view the frame, just pop into the shop for a visit.

Happy scrapping!

Time For Term Three

It is that time of term again and I have been madly getting feedback so that I can schedule classes that you have had input into.

Classes have been moved to a Thursday night due to a large number of requests to do so, and will start in week two of term so that we all have time to settle into schedules again.

Single class: $15
Course of five classes: $65

Term Three, 2009

Class One: Thursday the 30th of July 2009
Workshop: flowers.
This class will be a mega workshop to make a heap of feminine and masculine flowers to grace your craft projects. It will be jam packed with ideas and techniques to make unique flowers. There will also be a bonus layout idea for you to use your newly made flowers on when you get home.

Class Two: Thursday the 13th of August 2009
Heavy metal!
This class will focus on faux metal technique, which will be used on our class layout. This technique is heaps of fun, versatile and great for masculine layouts but can equally be made to look funky and feminine for those with girls or scrapping about themselves.

Class Three: Thursday the 26th of August 2009
Transparent layout.
This class will use transparency as a background, with a twist! We will be revisiting some of our alcohol inking techniques so that you can get the most out of your inks.

Class Four: Thursday the 10th of September 2009
Grungeboard.
This layout will feature grungeboard, a fantastic type of chipboard that is extremely versatile. Wait and see what we will do with it!

Class Five: Thursday the 24th of September 2009
Fast album formulas.
This class will use a great new product to make your albums come together in super quick time. This style is great for holiday albums and baby albums where you want to get it scrapped quick, with a minimum of fuss or time.

Classes include personalised one-on-one help, full class notes with a picture of the layout for future reference, some specialised products to be used on the night, use of specialised tools specific to class, tea and coffee making facilities and a yummy supper. You will also have full access to the shop during class time.

Just a reminder that class payment is required at the time of booking and no places will be reserved without payment.

The above class timetable may change without notice.

3 Hours of Power!

Tuesday 23rd of June 2009

7.30pm

This class uses simple but effective schemes to complete 6 layouts. Most of the layouts include a quick technique tip so that you are learning new skills for your scrapping at the same time as getting your layouts completed.

Layout One: "Contented"/"Happy"
This layout uses repeated circles to create a visually interesting background for your layout, either from patterned paper or by including rows of stitching.


Supplies needed (based on the layout "Happy"):
One sheet of cardstock for a background.
One photo 7cm x 10cm (portrait orientation).
Two pieces of patterned paper (don't need full sheets).
One scrap of cardstock or patterned paper for journaling strips.
One alpha for a title.
One paper doily (I have some available for use in class) or other large circular embellishment/piece of patterned paper approx. 13cm in diameter.
One circular embellishment, die-cut, star etc to layer over your doily.
One paper flower or other embellishment.
Pearls or gems.
Corner rounder.
Sandpaper.
Gel pens.
Scissors.
Pencil.
Hole piercer or mat pack.
Wet glue.

Techniques used:
Sanding, hand made embellishments, hand cut circles, use of everyday items, hand journaling, fake stitching.

Layout Two: "Painting"
This layout builds on a technique learned in our first class of the term. The multi-photo layout helps get those photos scrapped faster!

Supplies needed:
Three photos 10cm high and any width to make up to 30cm wide in combination.
One piece of cardstock.
One strip of patterned paper.
One large alphabet for a title (I used one word only).
Scraps of patterned paper for circles.
Gel pen for fake stitching.
Gel pen to journal onto one of your photos.
Date stamp or sticker.
Rubons if desired.
Brads, buttons etc if desired (to alter the distressed circles).
Edge distresser.
Hole piercer and mat pack.
Sandpaper.

Techniques used:
Distress and roll, distressing, sanding, hand made embellishments, journaling onto photos.

Layout Three: "Blur"
This layout focuses on a great stamping technique to create an unusual and effective background.


Supplies needed:
One photo 6" x 4" (portrait orientation) - I trimmed mine down slightly.
One sheet of cardstock.
One notebook printed patterned paper or cardstock to mat your photo.
Scraps of patterned paper to make die-cut embellishments.
Favourite ink and glimmer mist (if you have it) to create your background.
Alphabet for a title.
Tiny alphabet stickers or a gel pen for journaling.
Gel pen for fake stitching.
Hole piercer and mat pack.
Date stamp and ink.

Techniques used:
Background stamping, die-cutting, hand made embellishments, fake stitching, journaling.

Layout Four: "Enough"
This layout focuses on telling a story with your photos (and a heap of journaling if you want to include it) and incorporates the great technique of adding a bit of pizazz to your page with foil.

Supplies needed:
Two photos 15cm x 7.5cm (landscape orientation).
Two pieces of patterned paper (one with a low pattern to mat your photos), or two pieces of cardstock for the layout "Green" (I used two of the same colour - white).
"Fab foil", glue pad and a stamp if you have them (or a strip of patterned paper 4 cm wide).
Scrap of patterned paper or a die-cut embellishment or journaling card.
Pearls or gems (or buttons, brads etc).
Ink to coordinate with your layout.
Alphabet for a title.
Stapler.
Gel pen for journaling.

Techniques used:
Inking, hand journaling, foil application.

Layout Five: "Our Family"
This layout is made up of inchies framed with a chipboard frame that has been altered using colour sprays and then crackled.

Supplies needed:
Five photos 1" square.
One piece of cardstock.
One chipboard frame that is 4 squares across and 4 squares high (or strips of chipboard, ribbon, patterned paper, embroidery thread and needle, etc, to make a frame).
Rubons (I used a combination of words, birds and branches).
One die-cut flower, star, circle (plus an eyelet for its centre), brad, button etc for an embellishment.
One string button (as per button class) with a pre-made button stitched in the centre.
One ticket stub or a scrap of patterned paper.
One patterned paper strip 17cm long.
One small rubon title or gel pens to hand write a title.
Gel pen for journaling.
One button or pre-made embellishment.
Embroidery thread.
Ink pad to coordinate (I used white for a soft look).

Techniques used:
Inchies, hand made embellishments, altering chipboard, hand journaling, inking, paper tearing.

Layout Six: "Dreams"
This layout focuses on hand made embellishments and hand journaling to tell the story of your photo.

Supplies needed:
One photo 7" x 5" (landscape).
One piece of cardstock.
One strip of patterned paper 19cm long to scallop.
Tissue paper if you have it (I have a range of colours available on the night).
Flower/star/circle embellishment (I layered two flowers and a brad).
Two gem or other fancy brads.
One embellishment to layer over the patterned paper strip.
Small title to layer over your photo.
Sandpaper.
Corner rounder.
Gel pen.
Pencil.
Scissors.

Techniques used:
Hand made embellishments, hand journaling, sanding.

To view all layouts for this class, please see the album in store once you have paid for your class. Viewing the layouts may help you make some colour/embellishment choices if you are in doubt.

And please, never hesitate to contact me if you need any help or need to discuss any issues regarding classes!

Christine