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

Classes

SOME CUTE PROJECTS FOR OUR EASTER CLASS!

March 19, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Easter is fast approaching. Can you believe that??? Sometimes I would like time to slow down a little BUT…… I do have some cute projects for our upcoming Easter class.

This is what we will be making. Aren’t they cute??

Here are the details.

Friday 27th March 10am or 7.30pm. We will be making an Easter Basket and cute Bunny Box (includes the chocolate Bunny).

Cost: $15 with own adhesives or $20 to use mine. Please RSVP by Wed. 25th by leaving a comment or emailing me.

Class is at my Classroom in East Corrimal. So do join us. 🙂

Sale-A-Bration, Stampin' Up!

STAMPIN’ UP! UPDATES!!

March 19, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Sorry no creations today. There are lots of Stampin’ Up! news to share with you so bare with me for a few minutes to update you all.

BLENDABILITIES HAVE BEEN DISCONTINUED

Due to quality issues with the Blendabilities Stampin’ Up! have made the difficult decision to discontinue them. Problems were occurring in the manufacture process and they cannot be rectified to Stampin’ Up! quality standards.

Here are some Q&A from Stampin’ Up! that might help.

Q: What are the quality problems with this product?

A: When the tip is welded to the barrel, the welding process can leave microscopic (invisible) holes in the marker tip. This leads to accelerated evaporation of the alcohol in the ink.

Q: Are all Blendabilities markers defective?

A: No. Most Blendabilities markers work as intended. We ask that you use your best judgment to determine whether your product is in good condition or if you need a refund.

If your Blendabilities work well then continue to enjoy using them. If you are having any problems with them especially with ones you have bought during Sale-A-Bration then please contact me if you have obtained them from me or from your Demonstrator.

MDS TO BE DISCONTINUED

The ‘My Digital Studio’ program will be discontinued on May 31st. You can continue to purchase the program or any digital images until that time. Ensure that you have backed up your program externally.

MORE FOR SALE-A-BRATION

With the Blendabilities being deleted as a Sale-A-Bration choice Stampin’ Up! have introduced some Catalogue options for you to select as your Free choice with your $90 order.

There are some great choices.

This is in addition to the extra choices I recently show you. Here they are again.

What will you choose??? I love the Embossing Folder choices!

With less than 2 weeks to go for Sale-A-Bration time is running out. Don’t miss out to SHOP, HOST OR JOIN!! Check the post out HERE for more of these details.

Thanks for stopping by. Come and visit again 🙂

cards

IRRESISTIBLY YOURS DSP INTO CARDS!!

March 16, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I was playing around with the ‘Irresistibly Yours’ DSP the other day. If you are not familiar with this paper already it comes in 12″x12″ sheets. There are 6 different designs and you get 2 of each. Each design has a glossy like pattern on the sheet which is like it is clear embossed. You can simply add your colour either by sponging or brayering. Gently wipe off the card with a tissue which removes the ink from the embossed parts leaving a gorgeous coloured pattern. You can create your own patterned paper to match the colour of your project. I had these little pieces just for a card size and thought I would make up some cards using them. Here they are for you.

Firstly, using Crisp Canteloupe card and ink and stamp sets ‘Papillion Potpourri’ and ‘Hello There’. A little Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Paper was punched using the 1 3/8″ Circle punch and this was layered under the “For You” greeting although that is a little hard to see. I also stamped the smaller image from ‘Daydream Medallions’ and cut it with the matching die. I added some Crisp Canteloupe Thick Baker’s Twine to finish this card.

This one was in Marina Mist and using ‘Something For Baby’ and ‘Itty Bitty Banners’ stamp sets. Finished off with some Whisper White Thick Baker’s Twine. Gotta love that tie!!! 😉

This is probably my favourite. This is Lost Lagoon. I added some splodges from ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ and the greeting is from ‘Teeny Tiny Sentiments’. Then simply a sparkly butterfly cut from the Silver Foil Sheets and then some Lost Lagoon Satin ribbon to finish off.

So have you got your ‘Irresistibly Yours’ DSP yet?? It is one of the Free choices during Sale-A-Bration with your $90 order. There are so many other great Sale-A-Bration products if this Paper is not your choice. There is only 2 weeks left of Sale-A-Bration so you can’t muck around on this. Order directly Online Here or drop me an email with your order. I can ship anywhere in Australia.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

cards, Sale-A-Bration

CELEBRATE YOUR BIG DAY!

March 12, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I was playing around with some Sale-A-Bration products the other day. Here is one of the cards I made.

You could pick out a few Sale-A-Bration choices on this card – The ‘Best Year Ever DSP’, the ribbon from the ‘Best Year Ever Accessory Pack’ and the the stamp set ‘Big Day’. The “Big Day” image was stamped on some Whisper White card in Coastal Cabana and punched the top with the Scallop Tag Topper Punch. I punched the top of a piece of Coastal Cabana card too with the punch and then ran it through the Big Shot with the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder. I tied off some ribbon and Pom Pom trim and then layered it on a piece of the DSP which had been adhered to the Calypso Coral base card. To colour the words I stamped the “Big Day” image onto some Crushed Curry card and cut out just the banner to adhere over the top and then coloured the “CAKE” word with Blender Pens and inkpad. The cake image was simply stamped in black onto Crushed Curry card and punched with the 1 3/8″ circle punch I think it was.

I will show you a close-up. I added some Dazzling Diamonds to make it sparkle. 🙂

Sale-A-Bration is quickly flying by. Only a couple of weeks left. Have you picked up your free Sale-A-Bration product yet with your $90 order? If you haven’t, you better hurry. I don’t want you missing out on Freebies!! You can shop online (link is in the right hand column) OR drop me an email with your order. I am happy to send it anywhere in Australia.

Thanks for stopping by today. I always love you visiting. 🙂

Jenny

cards, Classes, Techniques

GLITTER WINDOW CLASS!

March 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

This month’s Technique class we are going to make ‘Glitter Window’ cards. Lots of sparkle with this technique and it can be used for any occasion.

Come and try it.

WHEN: Saturday 14th March at 2pm.

WHERE: My place, East Corrimal.

COST: $15 or Free with a minimum order.

BYO: Adhesives and Scissors.

PLEASE RSVP BY THURSDAY 12TH BY EMAIL OR COMMENT HERE.

Here are the cards we will make plus a sample for you to keep.

Look forward to seeing you. 🙂

3D projects, Masculine, Stampin' Up!

FACETED BOX FOR THE MENFOLK!!

March 6, 2015March 6, 2015 Jenny Hayward

A few weeks ago I saw a cute Faceted box on a Facebook group I am on. Of course, one must have a go at one of these! I thought I would show you my version. Then I will show you where to go to make your own.

I thought for this it would be good to make a male version.

I have used Night of Navy and Crumb Cake cardstock and used a new stamp set from the Occasions Catalogue ‘Guy Greetings’. This is a good one to tuck some chocolates in for the males in your family. They are always the ones that are hard to make for aren’t they!

What do you think?? I thought at first it would be really hard to make with all those angled sides, but it was really easy once you got the scoring and cutting right.

Do you want to make your own?? My lovely friend Sam created this box {waving HI SAM] 🙂 Here is the You tube link for you to make it. Really it is not hard so don’t be scared off by all those angled sides.

Now the funny thing after Sam posted this tutorial things went a little crazy and little Faceted boxes were streaming onto our group page. So fun to see all the versions. You can check them out on Sam’s page. She posted them to show how crazy things were. HERE THEY ARE!

So now go and check the Youtube video out and make your own version. Why not send me a photo of your version and I can share it with Sam. 🙂

Happy Stamping,

Jenny

Uncategorized

MORE SALE-A-BRATION CHOICES!

March 2, 2015March 2, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Can you believe it??? We have 1 month to go for Sale-A-Bration and Stampin’ Up! have announced 4 new Sale-A-Bration choices AND they are awesome!!!

Check them out here.

Which one do you like the best? I must say the patterned vellum is gorgeous (and it is a paper stack!!!) but I do love the ‘Nature’s Perfection’ too.

So there is one month left. Still time for you to …….

Spend $90 and pick any one of our great Sale-A-Bration products including these 4 new ones. Contact me for your order or Shop Online HERE.

Party with me and let me show you and your friends some fun projects, have your own private class with your friends OR pass the catalogues around to your friends and collect their orders. You receive the Hostess Rewards to spend on what you like. Dates are limited so let’s get a time booked in for you and your friends quickly.

Do you have a looooong wish list??? Of course you do. Pick out $235 of products on your list. Pay only $169 and you don’t pay shipping. Plus with Sale-A-Bration you can get extra bonuses in your kit. Get discounts any time your order. Stay in the Stampin’ Up! family for as long as you like or as short a time as you like. Your choice! I welcome you to my Jen’s INK. team no matter where you are in Australia. Ask me for more information OR to find out more check out my ’10 Reasons why you NEED to be a part of the Stampin’ Up! family’ on my post HERE.

So don’t delay with your Sale-A-Bration choices. Contact me ASAP.

Jenny

3D projects, Stampin' Up!

PAINTED BLOOMS MINI TREAT BAG!

March 2, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I am sure you have seen the little treat bags around the internet made with the Mini Treat Bag Thinlets. Now I will be honest, I wasn’t going to get this framelite set. I can make up little bags myself- can’t I??? But I saw lots of cute versions and realised you get so many cute little “bits”. How cool! So OK, I had to get it 🙂

Here is my cute little bag I made a couple of weeks ago. I made a cute envelope using the bag die from the gorgeous Painted Blooms DSP. This is such BEAUTIFUL paper. Have you got it yet? I made a tag to fit inside it. The sentiment used here is from the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Simply Wonderful’. I coloured the flower from the set using the Markers. Wouldn’t this be lovely to give to someone special! I love that Blackberry Bliss colour.

Now this die set is not just limited to little gift bags. You can enlarge it and make larger bags or make gift boxes. I have played around a little doing this so I will have to show you soon.

Here is the Thinlet set for you to see all the “bits”.

Mini Treat Bag Thinlets (137547) $67.95.

If you want to find out more about this fun little die set you can check out the Stampin’ Up! video here.

Thanks for looking. Stop by and visit me again soon.

Jenny

cards, Classes

BOKEH TAGS!

February 23, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Last week at my Bokeh Technique class we made these tags. I thought I would show you.

We started off with a piece of Whisper White cardstock 10.1 cm x 14.4cm) to create the sponged Bokeh effect. This was cut in half. One half they could keep as a sample of the technique with the instructions and the other half we made the tag from. That was by simply punching the top with the Scalloped Tag Topper Punch and threading some ribbon and twine through. The flower was stamped using the Flower Shop stamp set and then punched out and then another flower punched with the flower punch. I added a little flower with the Petite Petals stamps set. I added some Linen Thread loops. These flowers and loopy Linen thread was inspired by my lovely friend Sam (Thanks Sam). If you haven’t checked Sam’s blog out yet, then make sure you do. She has some amazing creations. 🙂

I made a number of these for our team swaps last week too. I think everyone is loving the Bokeh technique at the moment and if you haven’t tried it yet then you have to give it a go. There are a number of tutorials on line with a few different ways of doing them. On mine I didn’t go the spraying with reinkers, I sponged the colours and the white circles.

I realised I hadn’t shown you the card we made too. Here is the card.

Thanks for looking in today. Have a wonderful day wherever you may be.

Jenny

Stampin' Up!

SALE-A-BRATION IS A TIME TO JOIN STAMPIN’ UP!

February 17, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Of course any time is a great time to join Stampin’ Up! but there are extra bonuses when you join during Sale-A-Bration. I’ve mentioned these extra bonuses AND I’ve mentioned all the reasons why it would be great for you to join. Not sure you can read this post HERE.

Are you still thinking about it??

Why not come to an Information Session this Saturday 21st Feb. 2pm in my studio East Corrimal. There is no obligation but it might give you some answers.

Cost: Free. Receive a little gift for coming. We will chat over a cuppa and also get to make a card. Please let me know by Thursday. If you have had any thoughts about it this will be the place to have those questions asked. If you can’t come then ask me for an information pack. (only Australian residents).

What are you waiting for??

I would love to welcome new members to my growing team. I am here to help you on your way whether you are a hobby demonstrator or you are going to share with others. To help you get started I give you a Welcome gift and during February it’s an extra special one just for you. Ask me about it.