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.
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Happy creating,
Jenny
Are you ready for another ‘Sail-Away’ Card??? I have another one to show you today. Sorry if you are sick of seeing this stamp. I am nearly finished. This one I was inspired by Mary Brown here. I liked how she sponged the circle for the sun and paper-pieced the sails. I changed the rest of the card. So….. here it is!!
To make this card, firstly I sponged the circle for the sun. To do this I punched out a circle from a scrap piece of paper as large as the card piece. Put the circle piece aside. I used Dotto to fix the scrap card piece down while I sponged. I sponged the circle in Pumpkin Pie at the top and So Saffron at the bottom. I removed the scrap card mask and then stamped on the boat in Staz-On. I stamped a second one on scrap Whisper White card and then cut out just the sails. These were adhered over the top of the first boat I had stamped on the card.
Then it was just a matter of assembling the card. I stamped on the greeting from ‘Short and Sweet’ and tied around some twine. This was then adhered to a Pumpkin Pie mat and then to a Whisper White base. Simple!!!!
Will be back again soon. Until then I hope you get time to stamp.
I have another quick card to show you today using the Sail-Away Stamp. I’m loving this stamp. There is so much detail to the stamp, I haven’t even begun colouring it yet!! This is a card based on one I saw on Splitcoast Stampers.
I embossed the Baja Breeze card with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder. The Sailboat was stamped in Baja Breeze and then the corner torn off – very technical stuff!! The Happy Birthday is from “Teeny Tiny Sentiments”. Twine was wrapped around the Whisper White card and then the card was raised up with mounting tape off the Baja Breeze card. I really liked how this card turned. It is quite simple, yet looks stylish!
Are you getting bored with ‘Sail-Away’ Yet??? I haven’t finished showing you my projects yet! Stop by again soon to see what else I have been doing with this stamp. I will show you something else soon too – promise!! 🙂
To all my US blog readers – Happy 4th July!!!! I hope you all have a fantastic day celebrating!
This was the first card I made with the stamp “Sail Away”. I love that there is so much detail on this stamp. You really don’t need to do much colouring with it. For this card I used a previous “Clean and Simple” sketch. I have used this sketch a few times now.
The colours are Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip and Pacific Point. I stamped the image on Whisper White and adhered this to a piece of Crumb Cake card. I added a scallop strip of Pacific Point under this and wrapped around some twine. This was adhered to the Chocolate Chip base. The greeting is from “Short and Sweet” stamped in Chocolate Chip on Crumb Cake and punched out with the small oval. I punched out a large oval in Pacific Point and adhered them together. This was raised up with dimensionals. This is a very easy – and quick card to put together!
I finally got to take photos today of the other cards I have done recently. Not that the weather was all that great for taking photos!! I can show you these over the next week or two. I have been very busy lately, so stop by again very soon and check them out.
I created this card quite a few weeks ago but hadn’t got around to showing you yet. I did a search in blog land for some ideas after I had borrowed the “Extreme Surfer” stamp from my Mother-In-Law. I was inspired by a card I had seen on Splitcoast Stampers. I changed the colours….and the layout….and the stamping. Apart from that it is exactly the same!!! I liked the idea of it on the Scallop square card.
Card: Night of Navy, Rose Red and So Saffron.
I stamped the ‘splodge’ from Extreme Elements in Whisper White on the Saffron, then stamped the surfer over the top in Night of Navy. The ‘happy birthday’ is from “Teeny Tiny Sentiments”. The eyelet was added to the So Saffron card and twine tied through. It was then adhered to Rose Red card and then a base created with the Scallop Square Die on the Big Shot. It is a fairly simple card really, just right for the boys!!!
I have been creating lots of other cards for the “boys” lately. I hope to post those over the next week so stop by again soon.
Last post I showed you the Black and White box I created for the Just Add Ink Challenge this week. I thought I would show you now how I put all the elements together. (As if you really want to know!!!)
This is the box.
A Black and White Box!!
I will go through each part.
BOX:
I used the box template on Keesh’s blog here. This is how I made it.
Cut your card 21cmx21cm. On one side score your card at 3cm, 9cm, 12cm and 18cm. You should have 3cm left on that side. Turn your card and score at 3cm in on both sides. Cut all the score lines on the long side up to the score line that runs across. Fold on your score lines. (Before you assemble the box you need to stamp/emboss first as I have done. I will explain that lower down**). To assemble your box add Sticky Strip or Snail adhesive to the small tabs and adhere them together.
**Before assembling my box I stamped the swirl from Baroque Motifs in versamark and then clear embossed it. You can see it a bit clearer in this photo.
Close up View.
BOX BAND:
The box band was done in Whisper White card measuring 21cm x 8cm. I used the Polka Dot Embossing Folder. It was too long to run through all at once, so I placed half the card in the folder and ran it through. Then I turned the card over. I lined up the last line of dots on the card with the dots on the Embossing Folder and ran the card through. I wrapped the card around the box with the ends underneath the box. I ran some sticky Strip on one end to join them together.
THE FLOWER:
To create the flower I stamped the swirls from ‘Baroque Motifs’ with Staz On on Whisper White card and punched out 3 scallop circles with the 2 1/2″ Scallop circle punch. I scrunched them up several times to distress them. I layered them together. I find the Tombow Glue to be the best to adhere them together. The whispy black centre was created with the Black Grosgrain ribbon. Cut a small length of the ribbon. Grab one end and start pulling a thread. One end will pull more easily than the other, so if it doesn’t work try the other end. Once you have a thread then grab it and pull for a bit to fray the ends. Stop before you reach the end!!!!!
Here is a photo to give you an idea.
I used a glue dot to stick the end of the ribbon into the centre of the flower.
RIBBON CURLS:
The white ribbon curls are created with the White Organza ribbon. Use the heating Tool to GENTLY heat the ribbon. The heat will make it curl up. Don’t heat too long or it will melt the ribbon. (How do I know that!!!! LOL).
Here is a picture to show you it curling up.
I did 3 short lengths and adhered them on top of the band with Sticky Strip before adding the flower.
ASSEMBLING:
I assembled everything directly onto the band. First the ribbon curls, then some black leaves punched from the 2-step bird punch, then the flower. The tags were created from the set “Lots of Tags” stamped in Basic Black and punched out with the tiny tags punch. I tied them with cotton thread and adhered them with a glue dot just under the flower.
There you have it. I think I included all the parts. Have fun creating your own. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me.
I haven’t done a Just Add Ink Challenge for a while, although I do check it out every week. When I saw it was a Black and White Colour Challenge I thought I would give it a go. Black and White is not the usual colours I use but I think it can look very elegant together. I thought about a few different ideas and thought about a few things I have wanted to try for a while AND I haven’t done any 3D projects in simply ages!! So this idea came to me. It took me a while to pull together today but here is my entry for the JAI challenge for this week.
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I had to dust off ‘Baroque Motifs’. I haven’t used that set for a very long time. There are a lot of different elements to this box and I don’t have time to explain them all now. I just wanted to get this posted to enter in to the challenge but stop by in the next day or two and I will go through it all.
We have had a wet, cold long weekend here. Just the weather for staying indoors and creating but I haven’t really had a lot of free time. We have been running around all over the place! I wanted to show you a card I made recently for a special baby. My lovely friend Andrea has just become a Grandma!! Whoo Hoo! I had to send a card to mark the occasion.
I ran Pretty in Pink card through the Big Shot with the Perfect Dots EF. I wrapped around some Vintage Lace before layering this on Soft Suede and then on a Pretty in Pink card base. I stamped on a ‘B’ (for Bree) on the vintage tag and tied this on to the lace.
I sponged around a piece of Very Vanilla card with Soft Suede and adhered it to a piece of Soft Suede mat. I inked up the “Baby Tees” wheel on watercolour paper and coloured one with Pastels. I cut around it and mounted it on to the Very Vanilla card. The greeting is from ‘Teeny Tiny Sentiments”.
I couldn’t forget the inside.
I sponged around a piece of Very Vanilla card with Pretty in Pink and adhered this to the inside of the card. I used the Scallop Trim Border punch and punched along the edge of the Pretty in Pink piece of card and adhered that over the Vanilla. I stamped out ‘Bree’ with the alphabet stamps (from the Calendar Alphabet & Numbers set) in Soft Suede and punched it out with the Word Window punch. This was sponged in Pretty in Pink and raised up with Dimensionals.
I liked the end result. I was trying to go for a Vintage style and I think I achieved it.
I created this card a couple of months ago but only now have a chance to show you. There has been so much else to show you! I made this for a special friend for her birthday. I was inspired by a card I saw on Splitcoast Stampers. I just added to it and I wanted to make it green – her favourite colour!!
On Very Vanilla card I stamped French Script in Crumb Cake and sponged the edge in Crumb Cake. I stamped the flowers from Just Believe in Old Olive. The Crumb Cake piece I ran through the Big Shot with the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. I wrapped around some lace and added an antique brad. For the sentiment I inked up just the flowers from the greeting box in the set in Crumb Cake, stamped them off on scrap paper then stamped them on Very Vanilla card. Then I stamped the greeting in Old Olive. This was punched out with the scallop oval punch. The edge was sponged in Crumb Cake too. I punched out a circle in Old Olive with the 1 1/4″ circle punch to add behind the greeting.
Now my lovely friend Andrea is going through a hard time at the moment so drop by her blog here and send her some love. I am going to show you another card I made recently for her next time so come and visit again soon.
Here it is the last day of May. I don’t know if you realise it or not but May has been National Scrapbooking Month. I really don’t scrap very much, actually very little. I really struggle with it, but my goal was to do more scrapbooking this year. Well, not much as happened so far. But, since it is National Scrapbooking Month I do have some pages I can show you. I did these a few months ago.
This is a very cute photo of Carlie when she was 3. I don’t think you can see it very well, but she LOVED to create. This is using the Newsprint DSP and even some of her artwork!! I used the Big Shot to die-cut the letters for the title.
Another page. This layout was copied from my lovely friend Brigette.
Of course, Another one of my DD. I have to dig out some photos of Josh to do a page on him. He might be feeling left out!!!!
This one was using the retired Orchid Opulence but I think it really suited the colours in the photo. I have used Cottage Garden on this and die-cut the letters again.
There you go. Now I don’t know when I will get to do some more scrapping. I hope too soon, but don’t hold your breath for that post!!!
Come back again soon and I will show you some cards I have been creating. I do enjoy cardmaking so much more. 🙂
With all my posting of our convention I didn’t get around to showing you this card. A little while ago I showed you a card that my DH made. He needed another card last week for a mate’s wife who broke her wrist in 2 places while mountain biking. I had a card for her but Glenn said he ‘had’ to make one. After all she saw the last card he made and expected one.
So he asked Carlie to help him pick out a few designs but it HAD to have the Big Shot. They checked out the catalogues. This card is based on a card from a recent mini catalogue and we worked on that. So, without further ado –
Here is the card Glenn made.
The colours are Perfect Plum, Certainly Celery and Marina Mist. We He used the Perfect polka Dots Embossing Folder on the bottom of the card. I suggested doing some sponging to lift it a little. With a little persuasion he added some bling on the butterfly. Have to say Paula really loved that touch!! 🙂
Here is the inside. A bit more sponging and using Sincere Salutations.
Now just to show you that he really did do it, here is proof.
So what do you think. I think it is a great effort. I’m just going to have to watch my stamping space or he will take over.
Thanks for looking. I will pop back soon and show you some of MY creations.
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