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, Stamp At Home Kits

PARTY WISHES BIRTHDAY CARD CLASS!!

January 11, 2016 Jenny Hayward

Join us for this fun Birthday Card Class using the Party Wishes Bundle. If you can’t make it, then you can order the kit and have it sent to you. Here are all the details.

BIRTHDAY CARD CLASS WITH PARTY WISHES

Saturday January 16th 2pm. Birthday Card Class. We will use the Party Wishes Bundle to make a set of birthday cards. We all need birthday cards right?? Here they are for you.

COST: $15 class only

Party Wishes Bundle

Get the Party Wishes stamp set and the Party Punch Pack. Get the Class FREE.

$68.50 Wood Mount or $56.00 Clear Mount. (Prices include shipping and handling).

BYO: Scissors and adhesives.

Please RSVP: Thursday 14th

TO ORDER THE KIT (Australian residents only).

If you can’t attend the class then order the card kit. Includes all cardstock and twine. Stamped images are not included. You can order the Bundle separately or substitute the stamps.

COST: Card kit Only $15

Order the Bundle: $15 (kit) + Wood Mount $71.20 or Clear Mount: $59.45 (Includes shipping and handling).

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!

ROSE WONDER – IT’S A WONDER!!

January 9, 2016January 9, 2016 Jenny Hayward

So I have given you a few days for you to peruse the new Occasions Catalogue. So what do you think?? What is your favourite on the list?? I mentioned one of mine was the Rose Wonder stamps and thinlets. I thought I would show you another card with these.

The one on the left I CASED from Pinterest. I made mine in Lost Lagoon. Then I thought I would change the orientation and make a birthday one. This one is in Blackberry Bliss.

The base card is the Thick Whisper White. I cut the Rose Thinlets from Whisper White card and adhered this to the card mat. I then cut around the rose shape leaving a thin border. I stamped the greeting on the front. It is a very basic card but I like the effect. I did consider whether to add some Adhesive Pearls but still not sure on that one.

I did stamp the inside with some of the images from the set but I didn’t take a photo of that though. It was just one of the greetings with some of the leaves stamped. Nothing too dramatic. 🙂

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

Book your Party now to see more fun projects with the new products in the Occasions Catalogue and Sale-A-Bration. Lots of free products on offer whether you SHOP, HOST OR JOIN!

Catalogues, Classes, Stampin' Up!

THE 2016 OCCASIONS CATALOGUE AND SALE-A-BRATION STARTS TODAY!!!!!!!!!

January 5, 2016January 5, 2016 Jenny Hayward

I’M EXCITED. TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!

The 2016 Occasions Catalogue AND Sale-A-Bration is live TODAY! Woo!!!! This is such an exciting time of the Stampin’ Up! year where YOU get the free stuff! I have the catalogue links below so you can check them out online. Grab a Cuppa so you can take your time looking through them and make sure you have a pen and paper handy. Forget the housework. You don’t need to do that today and the kids will survive on toast 😉

HERE ARE THE CATALOGUES.

Click on this link HERE to view them Online and click on ‘Download PDF’. (At the moment the catalogue for SAB doesn’t seem available some come back later and try again).

There is so much to love in these catalogues. There are some fantastic new products.

Just to refresh you with Sale-A-Bration, here is how you can get the FREE STUFF!!!

Sale-A-Bration runs from January 5th to March 31st.

For every $90 you spend on Stampin’ Up! products, you choose ONE FREE Product from the Sale-A-Bration brochure. There are some awesome choices this year.

This is a great deal. Join Stampin’ Up! for $169 where you can choose your products and you get an additional $60 on top of the $235 of products you normally would get. That is a total of $295 products. That is $126 of free products. Did you read that?? $126 of Free products. I am sure you have a long Wish List??

If you are not sure what is involved in joining Stampin’ Up! then head to my Page HERE and read about it. And no you don’t have to do workshops or classes if you don’t want to. 🙂

Ask me for an information pack if you would like to know more. This is for Australian Demonstrators only.

Host a qualifying party and earn an extra $40 in Stampin’ Rewards. More free stuff!!!

I will share more of my favourite products later but for now I will leave you to read the catalogues now. I do have one card to show you though first before you go.

This is using my top pick of the catalogue, the Rose Wonder stamp set and the matching Rose Garden Thinlets. You can get these as a bundle and save 15%. I have cut these from the Designer Series Paper from the Sale-A-Bration catalogue – The ‘Perfectly Artistic DSP’. The splodges are from ‘Gorgeous Grunge’.

So stay tuned for more later. For now go and get reading. If you want your own catalogue in the mail then let me know.

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!

BEFORE THE BIG SHOT!!!

January 3, 2016January 3, 2016 Jenny Hayward

Sometimes at classes when we are talking about the Big Shot we wonder what we did before we had the Big Shot. I love the Big Shot and everyone who sees it loves it too – and wants one!!! Isn’t that right? I was sorting through one of my big boxes of cards today and I came across some very early cards I had made. I don’t have many left but sometimes it is good to look back at them. I thought you might be interested. Now I am a little embarrassed to share these but well, we have to start from somewhere don’t we. I made these cards back in late 2008 and in 2009 in my very early days as a Demonstrator. I remember being so proud of these at the time. I had never done any stamping until just before I joined. So I share these with you. You can laugh, you can cringe or you can just ignore them completely BUT here they are for the blog world to see ……………..

This was one of my very early cards. This was the first stamp set I bought with Stampin’ Up! that came with my Starter Kit and I must admit the first stamp set I ever owned. This was a favourite set though ‘Baroque Motifs’.

I hardly every use Chocolate Chip now. This is teamed with Certainly Celery. I even added a little dazzle with Dazzling Diamonds. No Rhinestones back then. 🙂

I don’t mind this card really but well I didn’t even own any ribbon. I just used a thin strip of cardstock tied in to a bow. This card was for a workshop a long time back showing the Rock and Roll Technique. Once again using Certainly Celery. I used a lot of that colour back then. It’s not available now and no that is not Bermuda Bay it is with. This is Taken with Teal (retired). My first inkpad I bought. The light flowers were stamped in Versamark onto the base card. I had used Regal Rose (not available now) and Rose Red.

I still love the layout of this card. I think I will have to try this one again with some new stamps. 🙂 I think I CASED this from the Stampin’ Up! Catalogue at the time??? There was no Pinterest back then either. I used Pink Passion (no not available now either) and Elegant Eggplant. I don’t think I have used that colour combination since. The greeting was from ‘Sincere Salutations’ (retired).

As I think on these cards and other earlier ones I realised that I used more stamping techniques where now I rely on the Big Shot to cut and add texture. I think I need to get back to some more stamping techniques.

But enjoy your chuckle as you look at these. We shall move on now to new products and new catalogues.

Only 2 more sleeps until the new catalogues begin. I am excited about this.

See you again very soon.

Jenny

cards, Christmas, Classes, Stampin' Up!

FAVOURITE 5 FOR 2015!

January 1, 2016 Jenny Hayward

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL!!!

I hope 2016 is a wonderful year for you full of great health, happiness – and I hope lots of opportunities to create. 🙂

I am looking forward to another year of stamping. It always excites me at the start of the year when I think of the new discoveries in stamping and being able to share them with my lovely customers and you my lovely readers. 🙂 I am also excited when I think of the new people I will meet to share all this creativity with.

Before I look too far forward though I thought I would look back at this past year at some of my favourite projects from the year. I hope you will indulge me a little and enjoy recapping these – or seeing them for the first time.

I will add the link below each project to the original post so you can read about them.

I had fun making these Masculine cards with the ‘Adventure Bound’ Paper Stack. See about them HERE.

A special 21st card. Read about it HERE.

A fun Triangle Easel Card. See the post HERE.

One of the first cards I made with this gorgeous set. See about it HERE.

This is still one of my favourite cards. You can check it out HERE.

I had trouble limiting it to 5. I have to throw in a Christmas card too. 🙂

One of my favourite Christmas cards. See it HERE.

Well those are my favourites BUT what did you think?

Here are some interesting facts from WordPress that you liked this year.

The most popular post in one day was my Convention Swaps on May 9th with 486 hits. We are always interested in swap cards I think for their inspiration.

This is just one lot of them. You can read the full post HERE.

The most popular post continues to be my Tote bags. These were made in 2012 but are still so popular.

The tutorial and the link can be found HERE.

and the more recent one HERE.

Thank You for being part of my journey this year. I love sharing what I create and I am glad you like to visit. Feel free to drop a comment now and then. At least I know then I am not talking to myself. 🙂

Have a great 2016,

Jenny

3D projects, cards, Classes, Stampin' Up!

SKY IS THE LIMIT 3D CARD!

December 31, 2015December 31, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I shared the Fold Flat (3D) cards the other day. I have made one of these cards using some great Sale-A-Bration products. (Only 5 sleeps to go until Sale-A-Bration begins!). You will love this year’s offerings for Sale-A-Bration. There are so many fantastic products. It will be hard to choose believe me. 🙂

Here is the card but you can see how to make them in the earlier post HERE.

Don’t you love that swirly paper?? It makes the plane look like it is flying over the ocean! This paper is the ‘Perfectly Artistic’ Designer Series paper and comes in 12 sheets of 12″x12″ and available in so many gorgeous colours in the pack. This one is Tempting Turquoise. The stamp set is ‘Sky is the Limit’ A great one for those male cards!

On the front panel I stamped the clouds on the white card and stamped the plane in Basic Gray. I stamped the plane again on scrap white and cut it out and raised it up with Dimensionals. The greetings which come in the set are stamped in Basic Gray on Crushed Curry card and cut with the ‘Lots of Labels’ Framelits. They were raised up with Dimensionals too. The little loops are from the Burlap Ribbon. I cut off the edge of the Burlap and then pulled off a couple of threads and looped them around. I adhered them onto the back of the label with glue dots. These give a little wavy look rather than than using the Linen Thread this time. I added a Turquoise Candy Dot to finish but I am still not convinced of that but it is there now. 🙂

There you have it. Now I know you are going to want to grab this set. This set and the paper are only available until February 15 and then some new products will be offered so be quick.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

Book your Sale-A-Bration party or Private Class now. Times are limited but contact me to book your spot. I would love to share more creations with you and your friends!

Stampin' Up!, Weekly Deals

WEEKLY DEALS AND YEAR END SALES!

December 30, 2015December 30, 2015 Jenny Hayward

You know I just realised that it is Wednesday today – and the day is nearly over! You lose track of time during this Holiday period don’t you! Well since it’s Wednesday I need to show you this weeks Weekly Deals. Here they are for you.

That Baker’s Twine is so cheap – AND it is Bermuda Bay. Nice!

While we are talking about bargains, have you checked the Year-End Sale items recently?? More items have been added at great prices. A number of them are from the retiring Holiday Catalogue but also some catalogue products both current and retired. Here are just some of them. Now don’t forget these are only available now until January 4th so be quick!!!

What about that Hip, Hip Hooray Kit at 40% OFF!!! And if you loved that gorgeous Home For Christmas paper it is 25% OFF!

The Beautiful ‘Wonderland’ Stamp set was very popular for Christmas and is 25% OFF!

The Label Card Thinlets Die is very useful and is 40% OFF!

Check out more of the items HERE.

If you would like to order any of these then contact me or order directly at my store HERE. Please use the Hostess Code: GK7SCFV2

Grab them quickly! 🙂

3D projects, cards, Techniques

FOLD FLAT CARDS!

December 28, 2015January 29, 2020 Jenny Hayward

How was your Christmas?? Our’s was a little quiet on the day but then celebrating with different family members for the last 3 days. It’s all done now for another year. I have packed up my Christmas stamps and cards and ready to move on to some different creating. I haven’t had a lot of chance to create with the new products from the upcoming Occasions and Sale-A-Bration so I am looking forward to getting them inky.

I have had these projects for a while now and with all the excitement of the Holiday Catalogue they got put aside so I thought it was time to share these before we move on. These are called Fold-Flat (or 3D) Cards. You might have seen them around blogland.

This one below uses ‘Celebrate Today’ we made this in a class a few months ago. The original instructions were from HERE. You can follow along in that post. They are available in English too. I have used the ‘Bohemian’ DSP. Edited to add: The Measurements for this are just below this card. The smaller version is further below.

This is a side view. This folds flat so you can post it. I did find this quite large so later I made one smaller so it can fit in a standard size envelope.

LARGE FOLD FLAT CARD TUTORIAL

Large back panel: 15cm x 27cm (6″ x 10 5/8″) Score on the long side at 15cm, 18cm, 23cm, 26cm. (6″, 7″, 9″ and 10″)

Front panel: 8.5cm x 15cm (3 3/8″ x 6″) Score on the long side at 1cm and 4cm. (1/2″ and 1 1/2″).

Fold each of the pieces. The card for the back panel is folded up into a box shape and the small tab adhered on to the card. Check the photos if you are unsure what I mean.

The Front panel piece is folded up. The small tab is adhered to the back panel about 1/3 of the way down. Then adhere the larger section on to the “box” shape formed from the back panel.

Decorate as you like. The Paper pieces are 4mm or 1/8″ smaller for that section.

This smaller one uses the set ‘Something For Baby’.

A side-view for you.

On the back you can adhere some Whisper White card so you can add the message.

I will share my measurements for the smaller one. Putting it together is the same as the large one so you can follow along in the above link. It is very simple though. Just a matter of folding on the scored lines and adhering. There is a little trick to adhering the front piece so I will tell you that further down.

FOLD FLAT CARDS (Smaller version).

Base: Cut card 10.5cm x 27cm. (4 1/8″ x 10 5/8″). Score at 15cm, 18cm, 23cm and 26cm. (6″, 7 1/8″, 9″ and 10 1/4″).

Designer Series Paper strips. TOP PIECE – 10.1 cm x 9.6cm (4″ x 3 3/4″) BOTTOM PIECE – 10.1 cm x 4.6cm (4″ x 1 7/8″)

Back: Cut Whisper White 10.1cm x 14.6cm (4″ x 5 3/4″)

Front Panel: Cut Card 7.5cm x 15cm (3″ x 6″). Score at 1cm and 4cm. (1/2″ x 1 9/16 – I hope that measurement is right?? It doesn’t seem right) 🙂

Card Mat: Whisper White – 7.1cm x 10.6cm (2 3/4″ x 4 3/16″).

ASSEMBLING (If you are having trouble following this, head to the link I added above for photos. I didn’t think I would repeat the photo steps).

For the Base piece. Add Adhesive to the smaller tab (on the back as it is lying down on the table) and fold up to adhere to the front. (I added the DSP first so I could line up the fold just below the DSP).

Fold the front Panel on the score lines. Add adhesive to the small scored section at the top. Before sticking down the tab fold this under carefully and line up the second score line with the top edge of the base card and then press down on the small tab to adhere this to the base card lower down. If you are not sure then check the tutorial link above to see the image. Add adhesive to the back of the front panel and then adhere to the folded section of the base card near the bottom.

I hope this all makes sense. I loved making these and since I had the instructions out still to share these with you I decided to make one of these cards using some new Sale-A-Bration products. I will post that card next post so come and visit again.

Jenny

Christmas, Personal Ramblings

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

December 24, 2015December 24, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Wishing all my lovely Blog Readers a very Merry Christmas. I hope you have a blessed time with all your loved ones.

Thanks for sharing in my stamping journey this year. I look forward to sharing more creations in the coming year – and I hope I can inspire you.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Stampin' Up!, Weekly Deals

YEAR END SALE AND WEEKLY DEALS!!

December 23, 2015December 23, 2015 Jenny Hayward

It’s Clearance Time! Stampin’ Up! have select products at discounted prices. You have to be quick though. These specials end January 4th or while stocks last.

Check them out Online HERE and you can order there also. Please use the Hostess Code for December: DRVPX7DB

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Don’t forget the Prize Draw this month. You only have one week to go. Here are the details.

Every order this month receives a gift to say THANKS but also Receive a ticket in the draw for every $50 spent. (AUSTRALIAN RESIDENTS ONLY)

Go in the draw to win.……

……. The ‘It’s My Party’ Enamel Dots pack and the ‘Confetti’ Embossing Folder valued at $20.

These fantastic new products will be available in the upcoming Occasions Catalogue.

Here is this week’s Weekly Deals! What do you like? The ‘Color Me Irresistible Specialty DSP’ is fantastic. You can colour the paper any way you like.