Archiving

Archiving

Hi Everyone!

Louise Thomson is with us

today to show us a super 

simple way to get the most

from those paper pads we

tend to use a couple of pages

from and then store the rest

"I’ve been playing with a gorgeous paper pad 

from kaisercraft this week. 

There are so many bits included I think it’s one 

I’ll get a lot of makes out of. 

Some of the papers inside are totally white with

 a glossy pattern added to them. This makes them 

perfect for adding colour to. 

I experimented with adding watercolours 

and brushos, using the gloss as a resist. 

For this make I started by swiping my archival pad 

over the gloss several times and then wiping

 the excess off with a damp cloth.

I chose to mount this on to a watercolour design 

from the pad and ran the archival ink pad around

the edges of both papers to give them a subtle border.

I cut a large and a small flower from one

of the page designs and edged them 

with Potting Soil Archival ink

Using the back of my thumb nail 

I curled the petals and layered 

the flowers together. 

In the centre I added a little button 

coated in alchemy wax.

I completed the card with a sentiment

stamped in Archival aquamarine. 

Again I edged it with the Archival ink. 

The card is finished with a little

Wink of Stella and some liquid pearls"

Materials list;

Kaisercraft paper pad -wildflower

Archival ink (aquamarine, potting soil)

Kaisercraft Ma Cherie stamp set

Alchemy wax – Japanese Jade

Button (from stash)

Liquid pearls – platinum pearl

Wink of Stella

Thank you Louise - I do like a card

that can be used for many occasions

I shall be spending this evening making

cards - I do seem to have accumulated

a paper pad or two................!

'Til tomorrow

Mickie xx