Kerry-Jean Watson

Today I attended the Kaisercraft shore in Park Side for what would be a fantastic day of card making, chatting and general fun. Our lovely demonstrator Helen had 7 cards for us to make today.
The techniques were great fun and the out comes spectacular.

The first two cards were made using Kaisercraft’s These Days Collection.

Then we had some high end fun creating 3 cards pretty much at the same time with the Tiny Woods Collection.
The final two were made up using the off cuts and left overs from papers use in the previous 3 cards.

A good days work 5 hours later.

Each fortnight Monday, I head off to the lovely Helen’s for a scrapbook class. Last night layout turned out very nice.
I am rather proud of completing a layout with photos and journaling to boot.

The last three weeks of classes for card making have been fun and interesting. Some of the layouts I found challenging mainly cause my brain was still asleep.

The Magic Card.

Faux Wood frame

The Waterfall card.
As you pull the tab down the next layer is revealed.

So I have been a bit busy with study as well as not at home (house sitting), which had cause a bit of a back log with updates.

High Tea Scarp ‘n Chat
Kaisercraft ETC. Adelaide held a lovely function a couple weekends back called High Tea. Helen Clifton, our delightful demonstrator, walked us through some card layouts and a double page scrapbook layout. Some of us dressed up for the event and we all enjoyed the lovely catered light lunch.

For anyone interested in attending the next Scrap n Chat on the 19th May at Kaisercraft ETC go and check out their site Kaisercraft Adelaide

After learning how to do a basic popup card a few weeks ago I set out to make a steampunk styled one. The end result came out rather nicely.

Arriving at 9:05am to see a very very LONG queue of people, I was very glad that I got my tickets earlier in the week. There were some great stalls, with great merchandise, how ever the prices were a little high for my liking. However, I did still manage to walk out with 2 Final Fantasy items ( which will be photographed later and posted on here) for a decent price. There were a lot of people in the function area even at that early time of the morning.

While standing at one of the stalls looking at an Buffy Vampire Slayer: anya figerine with bunny suit I saw a 1:1 scale R2-D2 in the crowd where people were stopping and taking photos, I joined in and got some shots and then saw the remote controller. Asking him nicely if he would mind breaking the facade and sand next the the droid. He was kind enough to play along for me. The best part was he has DROID CREW on the back of his shirt.

Of course there was heaps of cosplay outfits around, as well as many Stormtroopers. Some more elaborate custom outfits and some game cosplay youngin’s. I didn’t get a shot of the guy in a very well made dog outfit and the bottom jaw moved when he spoke. I saw a number of Harlequin’s and many many more Star Wars costumes, no Princess Leia’s though.

 

These arrived in the post the other day. Had to photograph and share

This is Jade. She is a love dog who is part of my Friday morning Card Class. She has a wonderful temperament and character, who loves playing and getting lots of attention.

One day during class, while I was feverishly in the middle of making a card, I felt resting some thing on my knees under the table I was working in. It turned out that Jade wanted to play and had gently placed her tennis ball on my crossed knees.

New Years day proved to be horribly hot and too boot I was not feeling well. In order to raise my spirits and distract me as much as I could from the heat and me feeling ill, I started working on my Kaisercraft Off the Page large Desk Organizer. Below is the finished product and the work in progress.