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, Sale-A-Bration, Stampin' Up!

LAST DAYS FOR SOME SALE-A-BRATION ITEMS!

February 15, 2016February 15, 2016 Jenny Hayward

Today is the day we say Good-Bye to some Sale-A-Bration items and I will say it is a bit sad. I have loved these products. If you want to grab any of these items TODAY then let me know and remember they are FREE!!!!!

Here are some cards I have made recently using ‘Sky is the Limit’. I have CASED these cards. The one on the left we made at my class on Saturday. The one on the right I changed a little and added a few twirls of the Burlap Ribbon. I used the ‘World Traveler’ Embossing Folder. Some people brayer or ink over the embossing folder before they emboss to get the effect. I tried it a few times. In the end, I embossed Very Vanilla card with the Embossing Folder and sponged over the raised parts with Crumb Cake ink. I found that more effective.

This ‘Sky is the Limit’ set is great for your Masculine cards. I think you need this set. 🙂

I had a quick play with the ‘Perfectly Artistic DSP’ yesterday. I wanted to keep the card simple to show off the paper. It was harder than I thought to be honest. 🙂 I used the ‘Amazing Birthday’ set with this. I cut the greeting with the ‘Tags and Labels’ Framelits. The black piece I embossed with the ‘Softly Falling’ Embossing Folder. I finished the card off with the Black Satin Stitched Ribbon and some Silver Thread.

Now for the details. How do you get these items for Free??

Choose one of these items (or one of the other items in the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue for Free when you place an order of $90. So easy! I am sure you have more than $90 on your wish list don’t you??

To order: Order directly by contacting me TODAY.

Order Online HERE. Please use the Host Code: 6ZRUDB6Z

I will be back tomorrow to show you the new Sale-A-Bration items that will replace these.

Have a great day,

Jenny

3D projects, Sale-A-Bration, Stampin' Up!, Tutorials

PERFECTLY ARTISTIC BAGS!

February 12, 2016February 12, 2016 Jenny Hayward

I know I told you I was going to share some more Bloomin’ Heart Thinlits cards and I will, but I HAVE to show you these bags. I realised the other day that there was less than a week left of some fantastic Sale-A-Bration products. I still had so much of the lovely ‘Perfectly Artistic’ DSP that I just HAD to use. What better way but to use it but to make some bags.

Here they are for you. I thought I would make 3 different ones. I will show you how to make them too.

BLUSHING BRIDE MINI BAG

This cute little pink one is very simple to make. I found the idea on the internet somewhere quite some time ago but I am not sure where now – sorry 🙂

Cut your paper to 15cm x 30cm. (6″ x 12″)

On the 15cm (6″) side, score at 4cm. (1 1/2″)

On the 30cm (12″) side score at 10cm, 14cm, 24cm and 28cm. (4″, 5 1/2″, 9 1/2″ and 11″)

Cut up on the score lines on the 30cm (12″) side up until it meets the other score line. Cut off the small tab at the end. Add adhesive on the small tab at the side and assemble. Add adhesive to the bottom tabs and fold up and adhere.

Decorate as you like. I have used the greeting from a Sale-A-Bration set ‘Botanicals For You’. I added a strip of Silver Glimmer Paper too for the dazzle factor. To close the bag I simply used a Wooden Clothespin over a folded Paper Doily.

MINT MACARON BAG

Here is a side view.

The Mint Macaron is another quick bag. You can find the tutorial to make this bag at ChicNScratch HERE.

LARGE BASIC GRAY BAG

This large bag is so easy to make. I don’t know why it has taken me so long to make one of these. You can find the instructions on a number of blogs.

For mine, I took 2 sheets of the Basic Gray pattern from the pack. On 3 sides, score at 5cm (2″). Cut up on the tabs at the bottom. Place adhesive along the bottom of one sheet and join the 2 sheets together. Place adhesive to the side tabs on one sheet and assemble together.

TIP #1 you could if you like score on the top edge as well when you are scoring and then fold that score line forward to show the inside colour on the outside, if that makes sense? I had decided that I wanted a black edge. I cut strips from black card stock approximately 5cm (2″) wide and adhered that along the top edge. I think it makes a striking contrast.

TIP #2 for your ribbon handles. I didn’t punch holes in my bags to add the ribbon. I added the strong Tear Tape to each end of the ribbon and adhered them to inside of the bag. To cover the ends I punched out an oval in card and adhered this over the ends. It gives a neater finish I think.

I hope you like these bags. They were fun and I was surprised how easy they were to make. Go and make some yourself. 🙂

Until next time,

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!

A BLOOMIN’ HEART!

February 9, 2016February 9, 2016 Jenny Hayward

I have had the ‘Bloomin’ Heart’ Thinlits Die for a little while now but only managed to make some cards with it last week. I have to say I was a little intimidated by the delicateness of it. It was going to be fiddly pushing out those extra little bits that you don’t want. I braved it though and had a go. Now I had my new Die Brush to use too.

I cut the heart from the ‘It’s My Party’ DSP stack and using the Die Brush and the foam pad that comes with it I gave it a few rolls over the back of the die and Voila! out popped the heart with very little effort. I don’t think I minded this Heart die now.

I thought I would show you the card that I made with the pretty little heart.

I stamped the flourish from ‘Timeless Textures’ on Sahara Sand card. Then matted that on to Whisper White and then adhered that to a Thick Whisper White Card base. I cut some flowers from Pool Party using the little flowers in the ‘Bloomin’ Heart’ Thinlits and adhered those on. Some Adhesive Pearls adds a little Elegance.

The greeting is from the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Sky is the Limit’. Have you got this set yet from Sale-A-Bration? There is less than a week left to grab it and then it is gone. Some new sets are being added after the 15th. I cut the greeting with the ‘Project Life’ Framelits and added Pearls to finish.

I have now made a few cards with the ‘Bloomin’ Heart’ Thinlits so I will show you those over the next few days.

Have a Happy Day,

Jenny

cards, Classes, Sale-A-Bration, Stampin' Up!

FLOWERING FIELDS FLAP FOLD!

February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 Jenny Hayward

Say that 10 times quickly! Seriously, sometimes it is hard to come up with names for blog posts!

Anyway, you want to see a card not my posting dilemmas. Today I have a sweet card for you using the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Flowering Fields’. I stamped and coloured this a few weeks ago at a team stamping day. I wasn’t sure how to put it together then so put it aside until later. Well later was a week or two later!

I decided to go for a slightly different style card. The flowers are so pretty so I wanted to show them off a little. We were told at Onstage last year when they showed this set that the flowers are based on Australian natives. I really struggle with colouring these different colours to what they are meant to be especially the Waratah. I think I used the aquapainter and inkpads to colour them – or was it the blender pen?? It was so long ago I can’t remember.

It is a standard size card but I cut off about 5cm (2″) from the bottom on the front of the card. I adhered some of the Sale-A-Bration paper ‘Wildflower Fields’. Isn’t it pretty?? I wrapped around some Calypso Coral Seam Binding Ribbon to the front. The finished stamped piece was adhered to a black mat and then adhered to the front with Dimensionals. Just add your dimensionals to the top sections of the panel.

Then it came to the greeting. Do you struggle with where to put your greeting on your cards? You don’t want to overshadow the main image but you don’t want it disappearing in the mix. The greeting I used is from another Sale-A-Bration set ‘Botanicals For You’. I love the greetings in this set. Did you have a close look at the greeting on this card? The smaller framelits or punches weren’t going to work and then the next sizes were too big. What to do? I have used the “ledge shape” die in the ‘Heart and Home’ Thinlets Dies. I was really happy how that turned out. I will have to keep that in mind to use again.

Here is a photo of the inside of the card. I stamped one of the flowers on the inside in Calypso Coral and under the paper strip I adhered a strip of black card to give it a lift.

Phew! Thanks for sticking with me with all my dilemmas for today’s post. 🙂

I hope you have a happy day wherever you are in the world. Thanks for visiting me today.

Jenny

Did you know you can get free products during Sale-A-Bration? Ask me how you can.

cards, Catalogues, Classes, Stampin' Up!, Workshops

LAUNCHING THE NEW OCCASIONS CATALOGUE!

February 1, 2016February 1, 2016 Jenny Hayward

On Saturday I had my Occasions and Sale-A-Bration Launch. I know that the catalogue has been around for nearly a month but with our School Holidays on it is a bit hard to get people together. So it was Launch day on Saturday. It was fun! Thanks to all the lovely ladies who came and it was nice to see some new faces and some regular ladies too.

So what did we do?? Well, it was a party of course. With all the fun party products in the catalogue, why wouldn’t we. There was balloons and cake and treat bags for everyone. You know I got so busy and I forgot to take photos of everything. 😦 I will share what we did though.

I can show you the Treat Bags I made. I was inspired by a couple of projects I had seen recently on Pinterest and shared by Stampin’ Up! too.

These are 2 versions of them. I have used some lunch bags and cut part way down the front and folded down the flap. I added a strip of the ‘It’s My Party’ DSP and then cut a strip of card with the star Thinlets from the Mini Treat Bags. The cake from ‘Party Wishes’ was stamped on white card and then it was cut with a mid-size Circle Thinlets. I added a punched flower from the Itty Bitty Accents Punch pack, a Dot from the ‘It’s My Party’ Enamel Dots pack and finished off with a bow from either the Melon Mambo or Mint Macaron Baker’s Twine. The greeting from ‘Party Wishes’ was stamped down the bottom of the bag.

I filled the bag with some 6″x6″ pieces of the ‘It’s My Party’ DSP stack and a square of the Blushing Bride Glimmer Paper. Of course there may have been some chocolate and other treats in there too. 😉

I had some different products set up to have a test run like the ‘Bloomin’ Heart Thinlets Die and Die Brush and the Confetti Embossing Folder and ‘Wink of Stella’ Brush. All good fun too.

Now for the Make and Take. I can’t take credit for these cards. I CASED them from Janet HERE. I loved how you can use the Rose Garden Thinlets as a mask. Everyone loved the idea too and started thinking of other dies that they could do this with.

For this card we cut the rose and leaves out from some Whisper White card. Then placing it on to a Whisper White card mat carefully sponge the Watermelon Wonder ink over the rose adding more ink to the centre. Sponge the leaves with Mint Macaron. It doesn’t matter if the ink merges with each other or goes out of the lines. It’s all part of the effect. We then embossed some dots in gold from ‘Timeless Textures’ and heat embossed the greeting from ‘Rose Wonder’ in gold too. The card piece was adhered to a Mint Macaron card base and the greeting was raised up with dimensionals.

I showed everyone then how to use the mask you have sponged. Don’t waste it, you can create another card. I have used ‘Timeless Textures’ again stamping in Sahara Sand on white card. The greeting was stamped in black, cut with the framelit and sponged around the edge. This was all adhered to a card base in Watermelon Wonder.

Here they are together. A nice matching pair.

If you would like me to come and share some fun, creative ideas with you and your friends then let me know. OK maybe not my international visitors. 🙂 With Sale-A-Bration there are lots of extra free products you can receive. Let’s fix a date now!

Thanks for visiting me today. Visit again soon,

Jenny

cards, Catalogues, Classes

IT’S TIME TO PARTY. COME AND PLAY!

January 27, 2016January 27, 2016 Jenny Hayward

I am officially kicking off the stamping year this weekend with my Catalogue Launch. By now you would have seen it??? Or have you been hiding under a rock this past month. 🙂 So if you are local in Wollongong come by and try out some of the fun new products and get to make a card and chat and have a great time. That’s what it is all about really, hey!

Here are the details.

OCCASIONS AND SALE-A-BRATION CATALOGUE LAUNCH!

WHEN: Saturday 30^th January at 2pm

COST: $10 which includes catalogues, make and take,
Product playground, Thank You gift and Afternoon Tea.

** RSVP: Thursday 28^th January. Message me or leave a comment to reply.

Here is a sneaky peek of what we will be making,
so make sure you join us.

So what do you think? Come on and join us. We don’t bite and we don’t have 2 heads really. 😉 So if you haven’t been before you will be fine.

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!

WORLD TRAVELER IN BERMUDA BAY!

January 22, 2016January 22, 2016 Jenny Hayward

When I was creating the other day I thought I would CASE a few cards from the catalogue for my upcoming Launch next week. This card started out as a CASE of a card on page 39 of the Occasions catalogue. It took a life of it’s own very quickly though.

This is the original card if you haven’t got your catalogue handy and then I will show you my card – and the thought process that went behind the making of it. 🙂

When I started to emboss with the World Traveler Embossing Folder I realised that the orientation of the World map on the folder was different to the card, and I didn’t want to double emboss the map to cover the card front. That’s what I would have to do to cover my size card front. I just couldn’t get my head around doing that. To me that is not how the world map is depicted. Petty I know but …. ??

So I thought I would change the orientation of my card but that’s when the whole card changed. I didn’t have the ‘Going Global’ stamp set but I could use ‘Guy Greetings’. That’s all good. But now that it was landscape what was I going to put on the front? It needed more than just a greeting. I stamped the anchor in Bermuda Bay but I couldn’t have it just floating there. I punched a tag with the Note Tag punch in Delightful Dijon. That colour was chosen after looking at the colours in the ‘Bohemian’ DSP. I looped up some Linen Thread and tied it in a bow and adhered that on.

The greeting is from ‘Guy Greetings’ and I stamped that on a piece of Whisper White and flagged the ends. But still it needed something more! I added a strip of the black arrow paper from the ‘It’s My Party’ DSP stack. It still needed more! I added just a strip of the silver Foil under the greeting. I just finished it off by sponging some Bermuda Bay ink over the embossed edges. OK, I think it was done now. I was going to brush over some Wink Of Stella in the Clear but decided to leave it.

See how you can take a card and use it as a springboard to create a completely different card. Sometimes you just need a little inspiration to get it going.

I hope I didn’t bore you with the whole creating process of this card. It just shows you what goes into creating at times. Maybe that will help you when you are in a rut.

Thanks for visiting today,

Jenny

cards, Sale-A-Bration

HELLO HONEY FOR BOTANICALS FOR YOU!

January 20, 2016January 20, 2016 Jenny Hayward

We had a HOT day today. Phew! I felt I was melting. A change in the weather has come through now which has lowered the temps a bit. I still managed to get a little stamping in. The fan was roaring but I was in a creative mood. I did have to stop though in the end after 3 cards because it just got a little too much.

I will share all the cards over time but I thought I would show you the last card I made today. Maybe it was my favourite from the day, then again I don’t know. 🙂

As I was melting the brain got a little foggy so I CASED this card. This is a sample of the card on page 5 of the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue using ‘Botanicals For You’.

It is a cute little 10cm x 10cm (4″ x 4″) card.

I wasn’t sure what colour it was in the catalogue. We have so many yellows to choose from. I have made mine in Hello Honey. The colours for the images are Hello Honey, Soft Sky, Mossy Meadow and Blushing Bride. A little sparkle with Silver Glimmer Paper and Silver Doily. I realise just now that I forgot to add the Pearls to the centre of the flowers. I will go back and do that now but just imagine they are there. 😉

This cute set is one of the free choices you can get with your $90 order during Sale-A-Bration. I hope you have had a chance to check out the catalogues now. (The links are in the side column).

Thanks for visiting me today. I hope the weather is kind to you wherever you are. It will be another hot one here tomorrow but then I guess it is Summer and it has been slow coming this season.

Jenny

Classes, Personal Ramblings, Stampin' Up!, Workshops

TIME FOR A CHANGE!

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Jenny Hayward

They say a change is as good as a holiday, right?? I thought it was time to freshen up my blog and update it. I spent a few hours last night and today changing the look and updating all the information. It is still a work in progress but it is a good feeling. Maybe this is following my decluttering of the house. 🙂

If you receive my blog posts as an email or in your reader you wouldn’t notice any changes. Maybe stop by occasionally. It is always surprising when I visit blogs that I get through email.

You will now find the Page Tabs at the top. I have a page there for my tutorial posts which is updated often. There is also pages there on Stampin’ Up! specials and Joining and Party information Plus my Class Schedule. So stop a while and visit. I always like a comment now and then too. So don’t forget to say ‘HI’ once in a while. It’s nice to know I am not talking to myself. I do that enough 😉

I am going to be reorganising my Pinterest boards next and update my newsletters. So watch out!!! Have you subscribed to my newsletter? There is a link in the right hand side bar to do just that.

Thanks for stopping by. Grab a cuppa and have a look around. I will be back soon with some more inspiration.

Jenny