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

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CRAZY ABOUT YOU JOY FOLD!

August 11, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Just a quick post for you. Back to more projects from our Crafty Weekend. It has been some time since I have done this type of card. Here is this one for you.

I have used ‘Crazy About You’ stamp set and ‘Hello You’ Thinlets to make this card in Mint Macaron and Soft Suede. This is a JOY FOLD card. It is very easy to make. It is a basic size card but cut your card vertically and score halfway. The front flap is cut in half. Then a smaller folded card is adhered to the inside and they overlap when folding. If that all makes sense??? You can find a tutorial to make your own on Splitcoaststampers HERE. It was fun to make. I must make another one again very soon.

Today I have been playing with some new toys from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue. I will share them very soon.

Enjoy your day whatever you may do.

Come and visit again soon,

Jenny

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FUN FOLD CLASS – IS FUN!!!

August 10, 2015 Jenny Hayward

These are the fun cards we are making at my Saturday Stampers class this Saturday 15th August. (2pm). Cost $15 If you are local to Wollongong do come on by. You just need to let me know by Thursday so I can have all the card cut. They might look a bit tricky but they are really not hard to do. I think you will like them.

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BIRTHDAY BLOSSOMS IN BERMUDA BAY!!

August 7, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I thought I would get back to sharing the cards I made at our stamping weekend a few weeks ago. This one I think is one of my favourites. First off, Andrea CASED the card on Pinterest with a few changes. We all loved it and had to copy although I changed mine a little too. Here is the card.

This is a 10cm x 10cm card (4″x4″). On a piece of white square (I think it is about 6.1cm x 6.1cm). I sponged in towards the centre of the card in Pool Party.and then sponged the edges in Bermuda Bay. I stamped the small blossoms from ‘Birthday Blossoms’ in Bermuda Bay. Check out the stamping spots/stars at the top of the card piece. Can you tell what I used?? This is from the stars in the ‘Celebrate Today’ set. The greeting from ‘Circle of Spring’ is stamped in Black StazOn.

I tied around some Whisper White Baker’s Twine. Then the sponged card piece was layered on another piece of white and then on a piece of Basic Black. The flowers are stamped in Black StazOn and punched out with the Pansy Punch. I then sponged the edges of these in Bermuda Bay. They were raised up with dimensionals and I added some Adhesive Rhinestones to the centres of the flowers and then added a couple on the card.

I hope you like???? 🙂

Have a great weekend. Sadly, I didn’t receive my preorder today from the upcoming Holiday Catalogue. Not that I have a lot of time to stamp this weekend. SIGH! I guess I have some other stamps to work with if I do. I can’t wait to get my new Christmas goodies. I tell you, you are going to L.O.V.E. it. September 1st is the day so stay tuned but I am mailing out Holiday Catalogues in the next couple of weeks so let me know if you would like your own.

Stop by and visit again soon,

Jenny

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VELLUM BIRTHDAY BLOSSOMS!

August 3, 2015 Jenny Hayward

On a Facebook group I am on they recently set a little game. It was a Tic Tac Toe Board. Pick 3 items in the one row to make your card. I thought that would be fun. I took a little time out from my regular creating to have a go. I will show you the card but first I will tell you the process I went through in making this card. Maybe it will help you when the MOJO has gone out the window. 🙂

Firstly, I selected the 3 elements from the Tic Tac Toe Board to include on my card. I chose Birthday, Flowers and Red. That’s half the battle right!! Well I pull out all my flower stamps – and there are quite a few. I really wanted to use one of the new ones. OK, Birthday Blossoms, Definitely Dahlia or Garden in Bloom??

The colour was already chosen. I don’t often use red except for Christmas but I chose Cherry Cobbler. I love the richness in this colour. I knew I wanted to white emboss the vellum too. Just an idea I had.

How to put it together though?? That is what sends me undone and generally I just put it all aside in the “too hard” basket. I contemplated things for a little while and wondered what to do. When the ideas weren’t really coming together for a card I thought … Why not look at a card sketch. I went to Pinterest and I have a board for Card sketches. You know you can actually use the ideas you pin not just PIN them to a board!!! 😉 Straight away I looked at the board and found what I was after.

So here is the sketch I worked with. It is from this great site HERE. I like the simple sketches.

Here is the final result.

I used Birthday Blossoms Heat embossing the small blossoms in White Embossing Powder onto the Cherry Cobbler card. The larger flowers were heat embossed in white on vellum and then punched out with the Pansy Punch. To get the curve on the card I hand-drew a curvy pencil line on scrap paper until I was happy with it. I cut that out and then used that as a stencil on the Cherry Cobbler card. I lightly drew the line and then cut this curve out. I was happy with the result of that. It really could have gone any way!!

The greeting was stamped in Cherry Cobbler onto Thick White Cardstock as a card base. I added some large Adhesive pearls to the centre of the flower and finished it off by wrapping some White Baker’s Twine around the card a few times. I did stamp the inside with the blossoms in Cherry Cobbler and one of the greetings in the set. I didn’t take a photo of that.

I hope explaining the process might help you next time. I will try and remember that myself 😉

Have a great “stampy” week. I will be back to share more soon.

Jenny

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SPRINKLES OF LIFE FOR RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES!

August 1, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Today I had my Ronald McDonald House Charities Fundraiser. Thanks everyone who came today. It was a lot of fun. We played some fun games with a guessing competition plus a coin toss for some great Stampin’ Up! prizes.Of course there was some stamping. We made 4 cute cards so I thought I would share the cards we made today.

I will share each of them with you. Once again sorry for the lighting of the cards. I think I need to check my camera settings!!! 🙂

Firstly, this one in Delightful Dijon. This was actually the last card I made. I was wanting to make 4 different cards showing many ways you can use this set. I really didn’t know what to do but just wanted the tree on it’s own. I will just tell you a little trick with the leaves on the tree. I inked the leaves in Delightful Dijon and then used the Cherry Cobbler marker to “thump” on the leaves. That is just tapping the stamp with the thick end of the marker onto the stamp to pick up some of the Cherry Cobbler colour on the leaves. The rest of the card was fairly straight forward and using some of the gorgeous Delightful Dijon Dotted Lace Trim.

This next card. (terrible lighting!). This card was inspired by a card by Patty Bennett. Colours are Bermuda Bay for the base card. The strip of card on the left is Watermelon Wonder with a banner from Cherry on Top Designer Series Paper

This one was CASED from one of my stamping friends Rachael Lewsley – Thanks Rachael 🙂 I love the splodges from Gorgeous Grunge. Colours are Tip Top Taupe for the cone and then Mint Macaron, So Saffron and Blushing Bride for the “icecream scoops”.

This one was CASED from Chiaki on Stampingpro.com. Base card is Whisper White thick cardstock. I cut the oval in the centre of the Pool Party card and then embossed with the Brickwall Embossing Folder. The scene is stamped on the white card base. The stripes for the grass are stamped using the ‘Work of Art’ set. I added the greeting by stamping in Memento Black and then cutting it using the Itty Banners Framelits.

I have shared a lot of cards using this ‘Sprinkles of Life’ set all week. Have you liked the projects??? There are so many ways of using this set. It is incredible.

Now I am extending my special bundle offer for the stamp and punch until Monday.

Purchase the ‘Sprinkles of Life’ set + Tree Punch for $64. That is 10% off the combined price.

This is not available as a Bundle in the catalogue. You need to order this directly from me. This is not available through my Online Store. Australian residents only. 🙂

Thanks for looking. I hope you are enjoying your weekend??

Until next time,

Jenny

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SPRINKLES OF LIFE CONVENTION CASE!

July 31, 2015 Jenny Hayward

These 3 cards I have made using ‘Sprinkles of Life’ set have been CASED from an onstage presentation at the South Pacific Stampin’ Up! Convention back in early May. It seems so long ago now. I loved the idea of them so I have wanted to make them for a while. Here they are and then I will tell you about them.

Each of them have the same layout and they show a number of ways you can put the different elements together. On my cards I have used the Woodgrain Embossing Folder and instead of a strip of Designer Series Paper or similar on the original I tied around some Whisper White Baker’s Twine. What do you think?? Cute??

Thanks for stopping by. Tomorrow is my big Fundraiser for Ronald McDonald House Charities using this set. I will stop by and share the cards we will make later tomorrow.

Have a great day,

Jenny 🙂

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SPRINKLES OF LIFE TENT CARD!!

July 30, 2015July 30, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Are you ready for another Sprinkles of Life card?? I hope you are not getting sick of them yet. Here is another fun card I made yesterday. (lighting is not the best – sorry!)

This is called a Tent card. I will explain how to make it below. I found the original idea of the card on Stampin’ Connection which is a Demonstrator site and has THOUSANDS of samples (and I am not lying about that!!). I don’t visit it often but it is always full of inspirational ideas. Anyway, this style of card was on there that I found a couple of years ago I think and I filed it away. I thought it would be great to try it out with this stamp set.

The base is Marina Mist (lighting is not the best). Inside the card I created a sweet scene using a number of images in the set. Then I added the basket and a cloud on the front. You have to have sparkle on that cloud!

So how do you make it??

Here are the instructions for you to make your own TENT CARD.

1. Cut your base card to measure 10.5cm x 29.5cm. (4 1/4″ x 11 5/8″)

2. Score on the long side at 2.5cm, 5cm, 7.5cm, 18.5cm. (1″, 2″, 3″, 7 1/4″). Fold on the score lines.

3. Cut your window from the front using your Framelit of your choice.

4. Add adhesive onto the small tab and adhere to the inside of your folded card at the back. (Just fold up the card first to work out the best place for your adhesive). I had the tab to attach to the back of the card so you can’t see it inside the front).

5. Cut a piece of Whisper White 11cm x 10.5cm. (4 1/4″ x 4 5/16″). Decorate this piece as you like. Adhere to the back of the card on the inside.

I hope these measurements make sense??? 🙂

Enjoy making one of these. What stamp sets can you make this with??

Have a good day,

Jenny

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STACKS ON WITH SPRINKLES OF LIFE!

July 29, 2015 Jenny Hayward

This was a a fun card I made a couple of weeks ago at our stamping weekend – and using ‘Sprinkles of Life’. I couldn’t wait to show you it.

Do you like lots of scoops on your ice-cream?? 🙂

How about some more!

Hehe!! The card lifts up. Look at all those colourful ice-cream scoops. I don’t really know what you call this type of fold – Fold out top card??? I found the idea for it on Pinterest and thought the ‘Sprinkles of Life’ set would be great for this.

It is very simple to make. Cut your sheet of card in half vertically and score in half and then on one side score in half again. Then fold on the score lines so a “v” shape is at the top – if that makes sense. I hope I have explained it clearly. Then you can decorate the card how you like. When assembling the card I didn’t really know how many “scoops” I would need and how many colours so I just kept adding to it. I layed them all out without sticking them down and rearranged them several times. I didn’t want to have 2 of the same colour when you fold it up. Once I had that sorted it gently slid them off the card and stamped around the edge with the “sprinkles” and then adhered each scoop on top of the icecream cone.

Of course we had to have the bling. I used Dazzling Diamonds with 2 way glue on each scoop. What a sparkly mess that was! The sentiments were stamped and then cut with the ‘Lots of Labels’ Framelits. I added a Dazzling Diamond label underneath each of the sentiment labels. Then finished it off with adhesive rhinestones.

You could try this type of card with lots of different images. See how you go.

Have a great day,

Jenny

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SPRINKLES OF LIFE WEEK!

July 27, 2015July 27, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I thought it would be fun to share some ‘Sprinkles of Life’ cards leading up to my Ronald McDonald House Fundraiser on the weekend. I have been having a play with this set and the punch to make some samples. I have to say this is such a great set. It is so versatile. I hope to show lots of ways you can use this set.

Firstly, this card I am sharing is a version of one shown at the South Pacific Convention back in late April.

Now I have to say when I made this card I didn’t look closely at the colours used in the original. I was looking at it today and I think I missed the point. Every cloud has a silver lining …… but I stamped my clouds in Tip Top Taupe ??????? Seriously, what was I thinking!!! I think I was so excited to use the new Incolors and new products then that I just went ahead and made it. When I stamped the greeting I stamped it once in the Tip Top Taupe and then in Smoky Slate and cut the “silver” out and adhered it over the top. That’s my silver!!! I embossed the Mint Macaron mat with the Fluttering Embossing Folder. I think now I see this card again I will go and add some Dazzling Diamonds to the bottom of the clouds. That will give it a “silvery” glow right?? 🙂

I have some more cards to share so stop by again soon,

Jenny

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HELPING RONALD McDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES – FROM ANYWHERE YOU ARE!!

July 27, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Ronald McDonald House provides accommodation and support for sick children and their families during their stay in hospital. Sometimes this can be for months on end. But, we can make a difference for their stay. Join me in my Ronald McDonald House Charities event this Saturday. If you can’t make the day there are a number of ways you can help still so please take a minute to read on.

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Let’s join together in a fun afternoon of games, laughs and creating while we raise money for Ronald McDonald House Charities – and wearing your silly socks!!

SILLY SOCKS FOR SICK KIDS

WHEN: Saturday August 1^st at 2pm at my place, East Corrimal
We will make 3 great projects using the RMHC stamp set by Stampin’ Up! “Sprinkles of Life”.COST: Class only $20 (I will donate $3 to RMHC)
OR
Buy the stamp set and matching punch $64 (See the stamp set below). Price includes $3 donated to RMHC by Stampin’ Up!, 10% off the stamp and punch price and a Free class.

RSVP: Wednesday 29th July. Places are limited so book early. (THURS. ABSOLUTE LATEST)

WHAT TO BRING:
:Scissors and adhesives.
: Small change to join in some fun games while we fundraise.
: Wear Silly Socks for some fun plus a gold coin donation.
**(Socks can be mismatched, funky, lots of pairs at once, on your hands. Whatever you want. There will some prizes!)
: Don’t forget your smile and a sense of fun!

OPTIONAL: Bring along some blank cards to send to RMHC for them to use for the families there. These could be Kid’s Birthdays, Thinking of You, Sympathy, Get Well. (they can be handmade or store bought. They don’t have to be using Stampin’ Up! products). You can send your blank cards to RMHC anytime for them to use. :)Here is one of the cards we will make.