Hopping About with Kaszazz

I joined Kaszazz (specialists in selling scrapbooking supplies from home) as a consultant a few days ago. They're a wonderful, friendly, helpful and creative bunch, just like my friend Robyn (who introduced me to this cool company). I was eyeing off this gorgeous scrapbook shop that is for sale but there was no way I could buy it, let alone leave my awesomely incredible job with Country Bumpkin.
For now, I won't be advertising too much that I'm a consultant, but if you do need anything, just let me know! There is an online catalogue at the Kaszazz website plus I have them for sale for AU$9.95 each if you'd prefer to flip real pages.

I attended their Team Training Day on Sunday... I was lucky enough to be included even though I wasn't a Kaszazz member then - I had a totally brilliant day! A quick meeting then right into having a wonderful creative day. Just how meetings should be run!

For the day we could enter a scrappy competition which needed to include their large diecut alphabet and be made only from all things Kaszazz (and any regular household products).

I grabbed this opportunity with both hands and hopped straight for my frog stamps, green and blue paper/card, Smooch paint and spritz, Tim Holtz distress inks and the groovylishus Tim Holtz distress markers (my current fave water-soluble textas). A few hours of stamping, painting, inking, cutting, distressing, spritzing and more painting (mmmm, Smooch!!) and sticking together, created a marvellous 'page' - A 12"x12" (30.5cm x 30.5cm) artwork which I'll frame and hang in the kitchen. I also used a couple of flower embossing dies and punches to create the lilies (attached with tiny brads) and petite daisies (glued with Glossy Accents) floating around the page. Some of the frogs have scrap cardstock layered underneath to life them off the page.

Here are a few pics... I hope you like it!!! I certainly do :D
(All products used are available from Kaszazz. If you'd like more information, let me know or visit their website.)

My finished masterpiece!

Firstly, using Distress Inks, ink the edges of the green backing paper. The blue backing paper has been sanded, ripped, inked and splashed. The lettering was inked in yellow and green Distress Stains then the edges inked in pink and when dry frosted with Smooch Spritz. 

The green backing paper (left) has a big square hole in the centre where I've cut out the lily pads (right).  The frogs that I've cut out after painting were stamped onto a pale yellow paper (because it had a great textured background). These were all stamped with the gorgeous Kaszazz frog stamps with Stayz-On ink.

Pictured left is one of the friendly frogs patiently waiting to dry while I finish his friends. You can see the texture of the pretty green backing paper here. Pictured right is the frogs drying after having the lily pad edges inked in green and pink. 

Finished lilies floating on the page... all flowers are cut from the pale pink paper (using both sides) and have yellow Smooch centres plus a dab of Glossy. 

The hippy frog on the stump welcomes you to check out my favourite shoes... yes, I really do have these shoes and I wear them all the time. I just love them!!!

The word "Frogs" has spotty Glossy highlights added after it was completely dry while the word "Rock" is 'raw' paper - no ink or markers, just diecut and glued down.

You can see how the frog is lifted off the page here... by using a little bit of card, folded with glue between the layers.

If you'd like the names and codes of the products I've used, let me know. I used quite a few and this post is long enough!

Thanks for reading my blog. I hope you have a wonderful day!

:D

Jenny