AUSTRALIAN KOOKABURRA CARD -CCDT 0519

My finished 'Australian Kookaburra' Card

Card Size - 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm  (1/4 of and A4 Sheet)

Hello Everyone,  

Thanks for joining me with today's project using Couture Creations' SUNBURNT COUNTRY COLLECTION.  Hope you can find something in it that you might like to try for yourself.

1. I started by cutting a piece 14.3 cm x 9.8cm of  ULT200002 Delicate Medlar cardstock and embossed it with the CO727268 Kangaroos Emboss Folder.   Starting from the bottom upwards, the 'sandwich' I used was:-  base plate, embossing mat, embossing folder with cardstock inserted in it, lastly the top plate.	2.  Next I stamped the CO727200 Kookaburra Postage Stamp onto ULT200002 Delicate Medlar cardstock and coloured it with a water-brush.    From the Card Deco Essentials Ink Dyes, I used the colours  -    CDEIPU033 Pale Brown,    CDEIPU032 Cappuccino,     CDEIPU024 Olive Green,    CDEIPU018 Light Blue, and    CDEIPU019 Deep Sea Blue
3.  Prep all of the elements - Die-cut the pieces and ink their edges, rip the  patterned paper to fit across card, trim the blue and glitter card for matting and distress their edges, cut a piece of seam binding and tie a knot at each end and lastly fussy-cut around the postage stamp.  The elements I used were:-   CO727233 Mini Die- Fenced In ,   CO727214 -Australia                    Mini Cutting Die,   CO727221 - Eucalyptus Branch Mini Cutting Die,   CO727200 Kookaburra Postage Stamp ,   ULT200017 Cardstock - Blue Diamond ,   ULT200002 Cardstock - Delicate Medlar ,   CO727174 Glitter Card - Lagoon Blue ,   Sheet 11B from 6.5" x 6.5" Sunburnt Country PaperPad	4.  For the bigger matting pieces I adhere them to cardboard - it makes them firmer.
5.  Play with the arrangement of the elements until it feels right for you, then glue them into place.	6.  The finished product with all elements attached. This card is a Top-fold measuring 15cm x 10.5cm. The mats all have a 2mm border difference from the one they sit on. I put a some glossy accents over the feathers of the Kookaburra and some glitter paint on some of the leaves.

Couture Creations Products used:-

To find a store near you that stock these Couture Creations products, click on the following link:-  https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store-locator

My Blog Link is: Card Craft Kaylee

Thanks for joining me...

G'Day Mate Protea & Dragonfly Card CCDT - 0919

My finished ' G'Day Mate, Protea & Dragonfly card

Card Size - 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm  (1/4 of an A4 Sheet)



Hello Everyone and welcome to my next project.  You can make a vast variety of cards with the Sunburnt Country Collection from Couture Creations.  This one I tried a few different techniques as well just because I wanted to see how it would look, like working with vellum, clear embossing and jaggered edge mats.

1.  I started by embossing the G'Day Mate, Dragonfly and Proteas.  On the vellum I used the platinum embossing powder to make 1 sentiment, 4 proteas and one dragonfly.  The other 3 proteas were stamped with Cappuccino ink onto Delicate Medlar cardstock.  I turned the dragonfly image over and placed it on a foam pad then gently moved a stylus all over to create a 3D effect.	The dragonfly was embossed with clear embossing powder when I was embossing the other elements, this photo shows it a bit better.
2.  Using the water brush, I coloured all the flowers with the green and pink inks.  The Pearlescent inks were used on the tips of the petals and along the centre of the leaves as highlights.	3.  Fussy cut all the flowers and dragonfly.  I didn't colour the dragonfly,
A close up of the vellum dragonfly.	4.  All the elements are all prepared ready for assembly.   Stamped, coloured, die-cut, inked and embossed.
5.  The wood-grain paper was an off-cut from another project, so I cut around the outside to try to re-create a used timber plank effect.  The edges were inked heavily with the Pale Brown ink to give it a burnt aged look.  The green cardstock was trimmed to size,  embossed with the Gumnuts embossing folder, edges distressed and inked with Pale Brown ink.  Adhere all these papers to cardboard then tie a string bow around the whole lot.  This then was attached to the white card front with double-sided tape.	This view shows the build up of many layers.  I used double-sided foam tape under each layer.

Finished card

Couture Creations used:

CO727220 Mini Die - Gumnuts

CO727221 Mini Die - Eucalyptus Branch

CO727198 Stamp - Dragonfly
CO727204 Stamp -  Protea
CO727209 Stamp - G'Day Mate

CO727269 - Emboss Folder- Gumnuts

CO727278  Sunburnt Country 6.5" x 6.5" Paper Pad - Sheet  8A & 10B

ULT200002 - Cardstock - Delicate Medlar

ULT200024 - Cardstock - Verde
ULT200031 - Cardstock - Cypress Pine

CDEIPL008 - Pigment Ink - Pearlescent Pearl White

CDEIPL018 - Pigment Ink Pearlescent - Olive Green

CDEIPU008 - Dye Ink - Bright Pink

CDEIPU009 - Dye Ink - Candy Pink

CDEIPU024 - Dye Ink - Olive Green

CDEIPU032 - Dye Ink - Cappuccino

CDEIPU033 - Dye Ink - Pale Brown

CO724824 Gocut and Emboss Machine

CO723978    Multi Purpose Heat Tool
CO725662   Static Pad

CO724959 - Embossing Powder - Clear
CO724973 - Embossing Powder - Platinum

Other products used:

White card, Cardboard, Vellum, String, Adhesive Pearls,  Water brush, Foam tape, Double-sided tape & glue.

To find a store near you that stock these Couture Creations products, click on the following link:-  https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store-locator

My Blog Link is: Card Craft Kaylee

Thanks for joining me...

Made In Australia Pop-Up CC DT 0719

My finished -  Made In Australia Pop Up

Hello Everyone,

Welcome to my next project for Couture Creations using the interesting Sunburnt Country Collection

 I created a Pop Up using iconic elements of Australia.  It's just an idea that happened.  It's not really a card - but with craft it doesn't have to be, just as long as it brings you pleasure. 

1. I started by stamping all the elements with Black dye ink onto Cardstock - Delicate Medlar and coloured them with Dye inks Dark, Ocher, and Olive green.  Next,  fussy cut them all.	2. I then die-cut the GDay mate die, from Cardstock - Avalara and Obsidian.  Before gluing them together I offset them a little to create a shadow.  Die-cut the Fenced in,  Eucalyptus Branch, Acacia Branch, Made in Australia and the Australia and Kangaroo dies from their correct colour cardstock.  The Australia die is cut from the Sunburnt Country 6.5" x 6.5" paper pad - Sheet 8B
3.  Die-cut the Kookaburra from Glitter card - Copper, glue it onto black card then fussy cut around the outside edged.	4. I measured the width of the Made In Australia Cut foil and emboss die, added 3cm and cut 4 strips from the orange card - 2 at 1cm high and 2 at 1.5cm high.  At each end of these strips fold at the 1.5cm mark. I used alternate height strips and adhered  them  behind the back of the die.
5.  I split the Fenced In die, and attached it at varying heights on 2 of the strips.  I added a strip of acetate to the back strip to give extra support and to keep it sturdy when standing, Once the framework was in place it is just a matter of adhering all the elements in place.	6.  This a view from the back
7.  Side view	8. Top view

Flattened ready for mailing

Added a short video clip showing it's placements and movement.

Couture Creations Products used:

CO727214 Mini Die - Australia & Kangaroo

CO727221 Mini Die - Eucalyptus Branch

CO727222 Mini Die - Kookaburra

CO727227 Mini Die - Acacia Branch

CO727230 Mini Die - G'Day Mate

CO727233 Mini Die - Fenced In

CO727194 Stamp - Koala

CO727206 Stamp - Acacia Blooms

CO727207 Stamp - Australian Wonders

CO727208 Stamp - Gumnuts

CO727295 Cut, Foil & Emboss Die - Made In Australia

CO727172 Glitter Card - Copper

CO727278 Sunburnt Country 6.5" x 6.5" Paper Pad - Sheet 8B

ULT200002 - Cardstock - Delicate Medlar

ULT200007 - Cardstock - Obsidian A4

ULT200024 - Cardstock - Verde

ULT200059 - Cardstock - Avalara

CDEIPU002 - Ocher

CDEIPU004 - Dark Orange

CDEIPU024 - Olive Green

CDEIPU032 - Black

Other products used:

Acetate, Double-sided tape, glue a bit of Glossy Accents on the Kookaburra's black inlay and gumnuts.

To find a store near you that stock these Couture Creations products, click on the following link:-  https://couturecreations.com.au/pages/store-locator

My Blog Link is: Card Craft Kaylee

Thanks for joining me...