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

3D projects, Christmas

FAIR PROJECTS UPDATE!!

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Last week was a very busy week. I had 3 markets/fair events. It was great seeing some familiar faces and meeting up with new people. I thought I would share some of the projects I made for the markets. Having 3 in the week was interesting also to see just how different things sold. So I will let you know about that too.

A little while ago I picked up some lip balm balls and sticks reduced at a local store so I grabbed those to make some cute holders for them.

The tutorial to make your own Lip Balm Boxes can be found HERE. They are so quick to make.

Here are some tiny Lip Balm Purses. Both of these created some interest.

Here is a close-up from the side. (sorry I realised I hadn’t met the tops together neatly before I took the photo!)

These are cute little purses. It was great to use up some retired papers too. You can make your own from the tutorial HERE.

Now I made these fun little packs too. There is a cute poem on the back of them and I forgot to take a photo of these. I will add them below.

The Reindeer Poop was very popular at one event at a school. It appealed to some boys sense of humour, or was it that there was no other chocolate sold there at the time?? 😉 I made some more bags up but then I didn’t sell one bag at that craft fair. You never know!

Here are the poems. I found these on Pinterest.

REINDEER FOOD

Just Sprinkle on the lawn at night,

The moon will make it sparkle bright.

As Santa’s reindeer fly and roam,

This treat will guide them to your home.

REINDEER POOP

I heard that you’ve been naughty,

So here’s the inside scoop,

All you get for Christmas,

Is this bag of Reindeer Poop!

I have more to show you but that is enough for one post. Pop back again and I will show you some more in the next post.

Jenny

3D projects, Classes

REINDEER CLASS FOR THE KIDS!!

November 23, 2015November 23, 2015 Jenny Hayward

CALLING ALL LOCAL KIDS – Join us for some Reindeer craft.
(Suitable for kids aged 6-12years).

If you are local to Wollongong then bring your kids along for some fun Reindeer craft.

WHEN: Saturday 28th November 2.30pm – 4pm.

Cost: $15. PLEASE RSVP by THURS. 26th by commenting or emailing me. Places are limited so book your spot early.

Tell your friends and family. Spread the word. It will be lots of fun! Here is what we will be making. Aren’t they cute!!

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OK for the big people you won’t miss out either.

Join me for the last Christmas Stamp A Stack for the year.

Friday 27th November – 10am or 7.30pm. Christmas Stamp A Stack.

BYO: Scissors and adhesives. Cost $15

Please RSVP by Wednesday 25th November by commenting or emailing me.

This is one of the cards we will be making.

Do join us. Classes are a lot of fun!!! 🙂

Jenny

cards, Punch Art, Stampin' Up!

ANGEL WITH THE FESTIVE FLOWER BUILDER PUNCH!

November 19, 2015November 19, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I found this idea on Pinterest some time ago by a Demonstrator friend Delys. It’s a cute angel using the Festive Flower Builder Punch. How clever!!! It’s always good to find different ways of using the Stampin’ Up! products. I made the angel up some time ago but only recently added it to a card.

I will show you a link to Delys’ blog shortly so you can make your own but I will just give you some details on the card.

It took me some time to make the card as I was wondering how to make it without the rest of the card taking the attention away from the angel. So I simply layered it on a white oval and matted that on a Gold Foil Oval. This was adhered to a Thick Whisper White card base which I had adhered some of the gorgeous Winter Wonderland Designer Vellum Stack. I had wrapped around some Gold Cording Trim and added the greeting from the Christmas Greeting Thinlets Dies cut from Gold Foil Sheets. What do you think????

So do you want to make your own?? Here is the link to Delys’ blog that shows the pieces you need. Go and check it out.

Thanks for visiting. Have an happy day,

Jenny 🙂

Stampin' Up!, Weekly Deals

WEEKLY DEALS, 20% OFF! AND OTHER BARGAINS!!

November 18, 2015 Jenny Hayward

It’s Wednesday which means it is Weekly Deals time! YAY! Don’t you love a bargain. I have lots of bargains to show you today and I will let you know how you can order below.

Firstly, this week’s Weekly Deals. Sparkly stuff!!!!! That’s what you need for Christmas creating right! 🙂

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Have you checked out the 20% off list yet?? There is not much time left so you better hurry. There are some great ones here I know you will love to add to your collection.

You can stop by HERE to check out the list. Don’t delay on these though.

Also, the Holiday Catalogue Retiring List is out. There is not much time left on these products so do check them out too.

Here is the link. -> Click on this and then click on the link it shows. SP_HolidayRetiringList_ENG

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While we are talking bargains. Have you checked out the Clearance Rack lately?? This is updated often so you might just grab yourself a bargain there.

Head to my store link HERE to see the latest.

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HOW TO ORDER (Australian residents only)

You can order directly from me by emailing or commenting here and I will contact you.

Shop Online at my store (even in your PJ’s!). Head HERE Please use the Host Code: 34RUGMSD THANK YOU 🙂

Have an awesome day where ever you may be. Thanks for visiting.

Jenny

Stampin' Up!

20% OFF SELECT STAMPS BUT BE QUICK…..PLUS WE ARE SAYING GOOD-BYE TO HOLIDAY CATALOGUE PRODUCTS!

November 16, 2015November 16, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Everybody loves a sale don’t they??? Well, Stampin’ Up! has a great sale on THIS WEEK ONLY!! Receive 20% off select stamp sets between 16-20th November. Do you want to know what the stamp sets are??

Head to my store HERE and see them. You can order directly from me or Online from that link. Please use the Host Code: 34RUGMSD

Among the many great sets on sale is the set ‘Celebrate Today’. This is one of the cards I made earlier in the year with that set. It is very versatile and great for those birthdays.

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On another note: The Holiday Catalogue will soon be coming to an end (Jan. 4th). Many of the products you won’t see again so it’s time to grab those now while stocks are available.

Click on this link and click the link there to open the PDF so you can see what will be leaving us. SP_HolidayRetiringList_ENG

You can order directly by contacting me or Order Online (This week please use the Host Code: 34RUGMSD)

I hope your Christmas creating is coming along. Let me know if you need help with inspiration for your Christmas cards this year. 🙂

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!

A FLOWER WITH THE ENVELOPE PUNCH BOARD!!!

November 11, 2015 Jenny Hayward

It has been a while since I have had a good play with my Envelope Punch Board apart from some quick envelopes and gift Card Holders. What about you???? I came across this really cute flower that can be made with the Envelope Punch Board. I have to try this I think but I thought I would share this with you first. I have the video link below for you. Have a go! If I wasn’t so busy at the moment I would give it a try but I am getting ready to head off on Friday to Melbourne for the Stampin’ Up! Onstage Event. This was a last minute decision so things are a little crazy 🙂

Here is the card to give you an idea. This was created by the clever creators at Stampin’ Up!

To make your own check out this video link. How cool is this??

If you haven’t got the Envelope Punch Board yet then I would suggest you rectify that. 🙂 You can order directly from me or from my Online store HERE.

Have a super wonderful day.

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!, Weekly Deals

WEEKLY DEALS FOR NOVEMBER 11!

November 11, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Check out these fun products this week!!

What do you like there? Have you got the Circle Card Thinlets yet? They are cool to use. Check out these cards I have made previously.

If you NEED to order any of these or any other products, you can order directly from me or order Online HERE.

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Masculine

A TEAM COLOUR CHALLENGE!

November 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Another project I wanted to try on our stamping weekend was our team colour challenge. I hadn’t had a chance to make it before the weekend. To be honest I haven’t had a chance to join in another one since. That’s OK right?? 🙂 Anyway, to the colour challenge. The colours were Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry and Tip Top Taupe. What do you make of those colours?? They are really hard to work with I have to say. My immediate thoughts were a masculine card. When I thought about it too I realised that those colours can be found in the ‘Cherry on Top’ Paper Stack. Could I incorporate the papers someway??

I needed to make a card for one of my Great Nephews and chose the set ‘Boys Will Be Boys’. I then found the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #207 that I had pinned on Pinterest so I thought that would work well with this set. That’s what I thought but I will say it did take some working and it nearly ended up being scrapped all together. 🙂

Here is the sketch and then the finished card. I just realised that I have lost a black rhinestone too!

The paper is from the ‘Cherry on Top’ stack. I stamped the images on White card and then again on white card and cut parts of them out. You can see a close-up here. I had done a little watercolouring to blur the lines a little.

I still thought it was plain so I looped around some Silver Thread which you can see in the photo of the full card. Then I coloured some Rhinestones with a black Sharpie and added them onto the Cucumber Crush paper. Job done – That was it!!!! Do you like it???

Thanks for visiting. I hope where ever you are in the world that your day is awesome.

See you again soon,

Jenny

cards, Christmas

MORE WEEKEND CHRISTMAS PROJECTS!

November 6, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Back to more of our Stamping Weekend projects. I will share some more of the Christmas ones I did.

This one I CASED from Pinterest from http://www.bekka.stampinup.net and I changed it up a bit. I have used ‘Lighthearted Leaves’. Isn’t this such a versatile set!! You can use this for Christmas and any occasion. I added my card to a Cherry Cobbler base. The vellum is the Fancy Foil Designer Vellum in the Annual Catalogue. The greeting is from ‘Wondrous Wreath’ which I heat embossed in Gold. I finished it off with some Gold Twine and the centres of the leaves I added some Rhinestones that had been coloured with Sharpies.

I love these little penguin dudes. How cute are they!! I have CASED this from my friend Leonie. It is longer than the standard card to fit them all in. You can dress these dudes up anyway you want and cut them with the matching Framelits.

This is the inside of the card. I forgot to colour his nose!

This next card we CASED from Pinterest too. This is using the set ‘Be The Star’. This is not your typical Christmas set but it is great to use other sets for Christmas. I tore a strip of DSP from the ‘Home For Christmas’ pack and adhered that down the side of a Thick White card base. I curled up the edge a little. I stamped the smaller stars in red near the torn edge. I stamped the other stars in Pool Party and Real Red and cut them out. The greeting from ‘Lots of Joy’ is stamped in Black. The “splodges” are from ‘Gorgeous Grunge’. I added some Rhinestones to the centres of the stars for some added sparkle.

We all made this card at the same time. It is interesting to see how different they turned out in different colours. Aren’t they great???

Thanks for stopping by.

I will see you with more weekend creations next time.

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Stampin' Up!

GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT #GDP009

November 3, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I know I am in the middle of sharing my stamping weekend projects with you but I have been so busy with Christmas cards and making projects for the upcoming fairs that I wanted to break out and make something else today. I thought maybe a challenge!!!!

Challenges are great to take part in as they really extend your creativity and makes you think and try new things. What challenge to do though??? I had the Global Design Project email fresh in my Inbox so why not have a go!! I haven’t had a chance to play along with these challenges at all yet – so TODAY WAS THE DAY!

This week’s challenge was a Colour challenge with the colours – Tip Top Taupe, Mint Macaron and Watermelon Wonder. Well that takes care of the colours but you still have to work how what to do for the card. What stamps? What techniques?? So many options. You could choose another challenge to join in with as well if you like but I wanted to do some watercolouring. Here is my card that I came up with.

I dusted off my ‘Perfect Peacock’ stamp. Do you know this was the first time to ink this up. (Don’t tell anyone!).

I washed over the Tip Top Taupe, Mint Macaron and Watermelon Wonder inkpads with the Aquapainter on to Watercolour paper. When that was dry I stamped the peacock in Versamark and then Gold Embossed this. The greeting from ‘Petite Pairs’ was embossed in Gold Embossing Powder too. I didn’t want to add too much to the card as it would take away from the beautiful detail in the peacock. So I just added some little banners in Gold Foil and the Gold Vellum from the ‘Winter Wonderland’ Vellum Stack. I finished this off with a bow from the Gold Cord. I pierced some holes in the bottom right corner too as it looked a little bare. It was all adhered to a Watermelon Wonder card mat and Mint Macaron card base. (They look so much brighter though in the photo!).

I hope you like it?? Now I will just head over to the site to add this. Pop on over HERE to the site and you can check out all the other cards that have entered – and why not have a go yourself!!!!

I will be back with more Weekend creative projects next time.

Jenny