Author: Jenny Hayward

I am married to Glenn and we have 2 adult children: Josh and Carlie. I live in the Northern Suburbs of Wollongong; just south of Sydney, NSW Australia. I joined Stampin' Up! in August 2008. I'm having a great time playing with ink and paper and sharing my creations with you. Thank you for visiting me in my corner of the blogosphere. I hope I inspire you along the way. I hold regular classes and workshops in my studio in East Corrimal and offer classes and tutorials by mail. I hope I can share stamping with you and your friends soon. Take a look around. If I can help you with any of the gorgeous Stampin' Up! products please don't hesitate to ask me. Happy creating, Jenny

cards, Classes, Personal Ramblings, Stampin' Up!

SOME CARD LOVE!

June 19, 2018June 19, 2018 Jenny Hayward

I don’t often share personal things here on my blog as I don’t like to toot my horn but this is Stampin’ Up! related – and it is very exciting for me.

For those who follow me on Facebook and Instagram will know that recently I achieved a HUGE milestone. It was a big goal and for the most part out of my control. As a Demonstrator we can achieve different titles. This one has alluded me for 3 years. Although I had the team and the sales for some time I needed some other factors to come in to play. Anyway, last month I did it! I made Silver Elite.

It might not be big for you and you may not really care what the fuss is but for me this is big! Thank you to my customers and my team for helping me along the way – and for your support. I received my certificate yesterday in the mail which was exciting. Always good to receive Happy Mail. I also received some other Happy Mail this past week and that is what I wanted to share with you today. I received 2 special cards.

The first one was from my Upline Vanessa. This is using the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut paper that I have been sharing lately but this is one of the other patterns from the pack.

This card was a lovely surprise. This is from one of my blog readers who has become a dear friend, Ruth. It was even in my favourite colour too. This is using the Love What You Do set with lots of lovely shiny silver embossed features. Thanks so much Ruth x

Thanks for indulging me. Thanks everyone for your love and support and visiting me often. ❤

See you again tomorrow.

Jenny

Catalogues, Classes, Stampin' Up!

FIND OUT ABOUT THE STAMPARATUS!

June 18, 2018June 18, 2018 Jenny Hayward

You have heard about the Stamparatus but not sure really what it is about? If you are a Wollongong local then come and see and play with it at this week’s class. You will be amazed!

These are the cards you will make along with seeing some other fun ways to use it.

CARD FRIDAY CLASS – Ways with the Stamparatus

WHEN: Friday 22nd at 10am or 7pm.
COST: $15 $5 extra to use my adhesives.
BYO: Scissors and adhesives. If you have a Stamparatus already bring it along.
PLEASE RSVP: Wednesday 20th.

Look forward to seeing you for this class. You can join us for any class each fortnight though.

Jenny

cards, Catalogues, Classes, Stampin' Up!

FINALLY CATALOGUE SHOWCASE MAKES!

June 17, 2018June 17, 2018 Jenny Hayward

Last weekend I had my Catalogue Showcase. Lots of fun, creating and pouring over the new catalogue and new colours. I have been wanting to share the projects we made all week but I wanted to finish with the Delightfully Detailed projects first. SO, today I can share them.

We looked at the new catalogue and colours. I shared an overview in this post -> HERE.

To try the new colours everyone got to make a bookmark using the Waterfront set.

On the top they could use the Scallop Tag Topper Punch or the new Detailed Trio Punch. We used some of the new Black Cord to tie it off.

For the card we used the fantastic new Stitched Labels Framelits. I have mentioned these previously. These are a must have I think. We used the Love What You Do stamp set and some of the gorgeous Share What You Love Designer Series Paper. A little addition with the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls finished the card off. The sentiment for this is from Happy Birthday Gorgeous. I think everyone was in love by the end of the session. 🙂

I had mentioned the Stitched Labels Framelits back in this post -> HERE. I didn’t share this chart I had made at the time to show how each of the Framelits cut. You might like to see it.

These are the Framelits

Hope your weekend is going well. It is blowing a gale here so hopefully I won’t get blown away. 😉

Visit again soon,

Jenny

cards, Catalogues, Stampin' Up!

DELIGHTFUL GORGEOUS GRAPE!

June 15, 2018 Jenny Hayward

OK, I know I said I would share my projects from my Catalogue Showcase from last weekend and I will but I have one more card with the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut paper while we are on that topic. I hope you are not sick of them. I just have this one I wanted to share with you and then I will move on. I will come back to this paper down the track though don’t you worry. 🙂

I had a small section of the Laser-Cut paper and thought I would add it to a tag. When I did do that I found that the paper was so fine that it really should be on a card to support it a little more. SO, I added the tag to a card. A Gorgeous Grape one at that. This is a new colour and I think I like it!

The white card is embossed with the new Tufted Embossing Folder. Have you noticed that in the catalogue? It is a little hard to see it. It is like a quilted effect you might say. What about that gorgeous Mini Striped Gorgeous Grape ribbon.

Now have you added this paper to your Wish List yet?? Or better still added it to your shopping cart??? I think you need to.

Order it Online in my store -> HERE now. Please use the Host Code: PUB9TYMG

OR contact me directly to order. (Australian residents only).

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!, Videos

WEDNESDAY’S WOW! #28 – DELIGHTFULLY DETAILED!

June 13, 2018June 13, 2018 Jenny Hayward

I have been sharing a lot of cards that I have made recently using the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut paper. (if You haven’t seen them then pop by the last couple of posts). Since it is Wednesday it is time for Wednesday’s WOW! I have a Youtube video from Stampin’ Up! using the Delightfully Detailed Suite. You might like to see particularly how to cut the lovely paper. (The details on the paper start at about 2.07).

View it below. (If you receive this via email then head directly to the blog post by clicking the heading above and viewing it there).

I shared more details to cut the floral paper in an earlier post too but just as a little review. You can cut it in sections by carefully snipping around the flowers and leaves. When you want to cut between them they may be slightly narrower overall there but you hardly notice. You may sacrifice one or 2 in the process. Also, I laid a card base beside the section I wanted to cut to have an idea of the size.

These are some of the projects shared in the video.

If you notice the scrap page above I took that and was inspired to create this next card on the left using Mint Macaron.

The smaller card is 10cm x 10cm (4″x4″) size. It is just a simple card using an off-cut (don’t waste it!).

I am loving this paper. I do hope you grab this paper yourself. It makes really quick cards in no time – and gorgeous at that!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

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CATALOGUE SHOWCASE EVENTS!

June 11, 2018June 11, 2018 Jenny Hayward

I had my 2018 Catalogue Showcase over the weekend. I still have one more to go tomorrow. I thought I would show you just some photos from it.

With all the new changes I wanted to feature many of the new colours.

Below is a display with some new products. I will show more of these cards in later posts.

Some Delightfully Detailed Laser-cut paper samples. I have been sharing some of these samples recently. (some things get a little messy over the time with lots of touching and feeling. It’s nice everyone enjoys them).

Some serious concentration from one of the groups while they create and study the catalogue. (They were having fun).

Tomorrow I will show you the projects we made.

Jenny

cards, Challenges

COLOUR INKSPIRATIONS #34 AND FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES #340

June 10, 2018June 10, 2018 Jenny Hayward

It’s a rainy cold day here today and what better way to spend it than stamping. I thought I would indulge in a little challenge time. For this card I combined 2 challenges; Colour Inkspirations #34 which I haven’t played along with for weeks, and Freshly Made Sketches #340 which I often follow their sketches but never actually enter it at the time. So here is a double whammy. 🙂

So here is my card I created. The colours turned out a little softer than in the inspiration image.

On Shimmery White card I watercoloured 3 of the colours Daffodil Delight, Calypso Coral and Pool Party. The Basic Gray was the strips down the sides of the panel. As I have been using some of the gorgeous Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Designer Series Paper and had it out I thought I would add that to the panel. It is so delicate. The sentiment is from Petal Palette. I added a little copper dragonfly from the Detailed Dragonfly Thinlits. Also added some Copper Thread under the sentiment.

You can check out the other entries and why not play along too.

Colour Inkspirations Facebook group: Head -> HERE

Freshly Made Sketches: Head -> HERE

Jenny

cards, Catalogues, Techniques

BLUEBERRY BUSHEL DELIGHTFULLY DETAILED!

June 8, 2018June 8, 2018 Jenny Hayward

This card I have for you today is another one using the Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Designer Series Paper. This one is similar in layout to the one I showed you yesterday but this one is in Landscape orientation. Also, this one is showing the white side of the paper.

The sentiment is from Eastern Beauty stamp set again. This time layered on a scallop cut with the Layering Circles Framelits from Silver Foil. The Blueberry Bushel mat that the diecut was adhered to was then adhered to a piece of Whisper White card mat and then adhered to the card base.

I mentioned some tips in cutting this paper in yesterday’s post but I forgot to mention how I adhere them down on to the card. For mine I added really small drops of the Multipurpose adhesive. I found it helped by adding a “blob” of the adhesive on to scrap paper or on to the silicone mat. Then picked up a little with the small tip of the adhesive bottle to dab it down on to your piece. That was better in case when I squeezed the bottle I got a great big dollop on my project. Not pretty!

More to come with this delicate paper. Thanks for visiting.

Jenny

cards, Catalogues

MERRY MERLOT DELIGHTFULLY DETAILED PAIR!

June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 Jenny Hayward

Have you seen the gorgeous Delightfully Detailed Laser-Cut Specialty Designer Series Paper? Just beautiful! I have been creating with this paper this week and thought I would show you. I have made lots so watch out for the next few posts.

Firstly about this paper: this Designer Series Paper comes in 8 light-weight sheets and delicately cut. There are 4 each of 2 designs. One is the lovely floral patterns and the other design is frames and borders. They are Vanilla on one side and White on the other side so you can choose depending on your project.

You can cut the patterns out to use them. I used the floral design and cut various sections of the paper. You can see it below. It does take time to cut it but I think it is worth it. JUST A TIP: I laid a base card near the section where I was cutting so I could see what size to cut it out to. This was better than just randomly cutting and I can see how the sections fitted on the card as I went.

For these cards I went with one of the new colours – Merry Merlot.

I used the Vanilla side of the paper for these cards. You don’t need to add much to the cards. The sentiment is from Eastern Beauty set. I used the Layering Circles Framelits to cut the vanilla circle and a scallop one in Copper Foil.

This card below was inspired by a card I received this week from my upline – Vanessa. I made mine to a standard size card adding one of the detailed flowers at the top of the Very Vanilla card base. The sentiment from Southern Serenade is stamped on a square of Very Vanilla card and then layered on a square cut with the Stitched Shapes Framelits. I added some loops of Copper Thread and also Adhesive Pearl around.

I have more cards to come with this paper so check back in very soon.

Jenny

cards, Catalogues, Videos

WEDNESDAY’S! WOW # 27 – THE POPULAR ROOTED IN NATURE BUNDLE!

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 Jenny Hayward

With so many wonderful new products in this catalogue I thought I would focus today for Wednesday’s WOW! on a very popular bundle. This is the Rooted In Nature bundle. Have you seen it yet? I think it is one that will rival the long lasting Lovely As A Tree stamp set.

The stamp set has a number of different trees and leaves and it also has some lovely sentiments. You get 16 stamps all up. The matching dies cut out most of the trees and leaves. In addition there are a couple of leaf dies that will emboss the leaves. Here is the bundle below.

Here are a couple of projects made by Stampin’ Up! artists using this bundle. You can see the diversity of projects with it. Not just for the masculine cards but suitable for anyone. I think this will be great for Christmas cards too. What do you reckon??

Do you want to see it in action? Check the video below. (If you receive these updates by email be sure to go directly to the blog post by clicking on the blog title above so that you will be sure to see it).