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
I have seen these Tri-shutter cards around blogland recently and have been wanting to make one. It was my Sister-in-Laws 50th Birthday last week so I thought it would be a good time to make this special card. I first made this red one but when it was finished I found it was a bit too pink for her liking. So I made another one up.
I have used the Pink Flamingo DSP. This is a great way to use up those little scraps you have lying around. The greeting label was cut with the Big Shot and the Tags die. The centre was punched out with the Wide oval punch. I didn’t have a 50th stamp so hand wrote that. I punched out some butterflies, first from Rose Red card and then some from the DSP and sponged the edges.
The leaves were punched with the 2-step Bird Punch and the flowers punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch. You can see a close up of the flowers here.
After I punched the flowers out, I sponged the edges with Rose Red ink and then adhered them together. I added a drop of Crystal Effects to create a centre dot.
So, here is the other version.
I have used Night of Navy as the base card. The DSP was from the Baja Breeze Patterns paper and Urban Garden. These are really fun cards to make and impressive when they open it up!
I felt very honoured this morning. I have received a “Beautiful Blogger” Award from Leah. I have to say I really don’t deserve it. I have been a very “bad” blogger lately. I have had issues with my computer again. It was sent back to the shop and we got it back yesterday. We have had to reinstall everything! But, at least they backed up everything and we didn’t lose a thing! Thank Goodness. So, now I hope to be back to regular blogging and maybe deserve this award!!
Thank you so much Leah!!!
Now, to I need to pass it on to 10 more beautiful blogs. In no particular order, these are 10 blogs I visit often and inspire me. Some of you lovely ladies probably don’t know I stalk you. 🙂 Thank you to you all. There are so many others I could award this to though.
Just stopping by with a quick post. These are the projects we will be making at my Mother’s Day class this week. If you are in the area, why not come along? I have a few places left.
When: Friday 30th April, 7.3opm in East Corrimal.
Cost: $15 to make both these cute projects for Mum for Mother’s Day or change the greeting for a friend. RSVP: ASAP.
I’m back, did you miss me???? You probably didn’t even realise I had gone. LOL Well, I have the computer back now. I can’t say it is working fantastically still. We will have to see how things go. This last week I realised how much I get done when I’m not wasting, spending time on the internet. It has been school holidays so we have had some fun family times together, we have had our roof replaced so we had no water and power for a day, but I have been very creative. I will show you all the projects eventually. You will have to wait some time to see my convention swaps though. 4 weeks to Convention! I’m so excited!
I wanted to show you the Make and Take from the workshop the other week. My lovely hostess wanted ‘Pretty and Pink’. I wanted to use the Big Shot and some of the other lovely products from the new Autumn Mini Catalogue. So, here is the card they all got to make.
Card: Regal Rose, Rose Red, Certainly Celery, Whisper White.
I ran a piece of Regal Rose cardstock through the Big Shot with the Dots Textured Impressions Folder and added this to the front of the Regal Rose base card to create another layer. The flowers were stamped on scrap paper inking first in Regal Rose and then rock and rolled in Rose Red. They were cut out and raised up with dimensionals.
So, is it Pink and Pretty enough?????
Of course, I stepped it up. Here is the stepped up version.
I added some Regal Rose Grosgrain ribbon and a clear button. I threaded some Regal Rose ribbon through the button. The text was stamped on scrap card and punched out with the Large oval Punch and then a scallop oval punched out with Regal Rose. I added some dots with the white gel pen. There you have it! Hope you like!!!!!
Stop by again soon and I will show you some of my other new creations.
Aren’t computers great! At your fingertips is a wealth of information and you can chat to people from all over the world. Then when they die, life stops!!! Our computer has been dying a slow death for some months now and we have been backing everything up on discs. Well, I think our computer has died now. I’m hoping it will recover! We took it in to the computer doctor today to see the prognosis. I am so lost without it. Fortunately, we have the laptop but I don’t have any documents or photos on here at the moment ….. and where is the mouse??? LOL
So, I can’t show you any new creations at the moment. I hope to get things sorted out shortly. So, bear with me. Take some time and visit my past creations. Here is a photo of my first card I showed on my blog from February last year. Can you believe it I missed my blog-iversary!
Don’t forget to come back again soon. Happy Stamping!!
ESAD are having another round showing some great projects using products from the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue. These will all be by different demonstrators from the first round. As in the first round you can go in the draw to win some Blog Candy. Below is the link to start this Blog Hop. Start your journey there. Leave a comment at each blog and then email Sharlene at (stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com) to say you have visited everyone’s blog and left a comment.
Are you ready to start??? Grab yourself a cuppa and settle in for the journey. Head over to Kristines’s when you are ready.
Firstly, I want to thank everyone who has stopped by my blog in the last few days with the ESAD Autumn Mini Catalogue Blog Hop. Thank you for all your encouraging comments. I can see everyone will be getting their Circle Scissors out now!!! LOL I hope you were inspired by all the lovely creations on the Hop!
On Sunday I took some time out from preparing for upcoming classes and workshops to do some stamping for ME!! That is a very rare thing for me to do. It was so nice to stamp something just for the fun of it!
I inked up my new clear mounted set “A Little Treat”. I have seen on different blogs creating a sky by sponging and I have been wanting to try it for some time. I thought it would work well with this set. If you want to see how to do it just pop over to my good friend Andrea and see. I just used 3 scallop circles for my clouds. I really like the effect the sponging creates. I love sponging it is so relaxing!!! I sponged the sky on 2 different Whisper White card pieces.
I stamped the tree from “Thoughts and Prayers” in Old Olive ink to the bottom of the smaller White pieces. I stamped the basket firstly on Ruby Red card in Ruby Red ink and then on Chocolate Chip card with Chocolate Chip ink. I cut the different parts out to create the coloured basket. I adhered this to the smaller Whisper White card. I layered them onto the larger whisper White and then to the Ruby Red base. I stamped the greeting from “Sincere Salutations” on Baja Breeze Patterns DSP and punched a circle with the 1 3/4″ circle punch. I sponged the edge of the circle with Chocolate Chip ink and adhered this over the basket to create the balloon.
A fun project!! I hope to get to use this set again very soon. It works so well with the Treat Cups too.
The next leg of the ESAD Blog Hop will continue tomorrow (7th). I will put details up tomorrow for you to join in. There is more blog candy up for grabs, so don’t miss out.
Welcome! If you have just come from Jane’s blog on the ESAD Autumn blog Hop, then thanks for stopping by. If you have just joined in then enjoy!!
You better go and grab yourself a cuppa as you’ll be hopping for a while!
What is ESAD you say?
ESAD stands for Extra Special Australian (and New Zealand) Demonstrators and it is an online group just for Australian and New Zealand demonstrators for Stampin’ Up!
We so love what we do and not only do we love to share it with our customers, friends and wonderful blog visitors but we share our love for what we do with each other as Demonstrators. We run swaps, challenges, tutorials, product know how and cyberstamps and we are always there to help and support each other when its needed.
So if you are a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator located in Australia or New Zealand then please feel free to click here to join our wonderful group.
Here are my projects to show you today. I am using the beautiful Cottage Garden DSP and Stamp Set and the Circle Scissors.
Firstly, I want to show you this cute Circle pocket. This was one of the projects we made at my Autumn Mini Launch last weekend. I found this idea some time back and stored it in the back of the vault to use sometime. I can’t remember where I first saw it.
With the Circle Scissors it makes life so much easier. I cut a 14cm circle with the circle scissors from Old Olive cardstock. Score it across at 4cm, this is your bottom score line.
Turn the circle 1/4 turn and score it at 2.5cm and 11.5cm. When scoring these lines, check the bottom score line is horizontal or you will have a crooked pocket!!!
Scoring the circle at 4cm.
1/4 turn, score at 2.5cm and then along at 11.5cm.
Turn the circle over and stamp the side sections as desired. Turn back over and fold up on the score lines. Place snail adhesive or sticky strip on the bottom flap before folding up.
Decorate as desired. I added a belly band using the Rich Razzleberry cardstock and Cottage Garden DSP. I stamped the flowers from the Cottage Garden set. This is a great 2-step stamp set. First I stamped the solid image in Orchid Opulence and then the outline in Rich Razzleberry. I did this twice, cut them out and layered them up. I added some Dazzling Diamonds with the 2-way glue and mounted it with Dimensionals.
I made up a quick Love Note size card to fit. I used the other gorgeous images from the Cottage Garden set, and the text from ‘Short and Sweet’.
My next project is a circle bag. I first came across these here on Kim’s blog. I was so amazed how small they were though when I made one up. They are about 11cm or 4 1/4″ high. They are so cute!!
Cut 2 x 14cm circles with your Circle Scissors. I used the gorgeous Cottage Garden DSP. Cut off 2cm from the bottom of each circle. Before any assembling, punch a circle from the top of the circles to create your handles. (Believe me it is sooooo much easier to do this first. I learnt the first time!). I used the 1 1/4″ circle punch. I also punched out 2 circles with the 1 1/4″ circle punch from Old Olive cardstock and punched around these with the scallop circle punch.
Here is what you should have.
Kim used a lunch sack inside her bag, but I didn’t have any so I created a box.
Cut cardstock 17cmx12cm. On the 17cm side scored at 4cm and 13cm. On the 12cm side score at 4cm and 8cm. On opposite sides cut up to the score line. This is how it should look.
Add adhesive to the flaps and fold up. To adhere your circle pieces on, place Sticky Strip to the long sides of the box. Do one side at a time. Place the circle down with right side down and line up the bottom edge of the box with the bottom edge of the circle, and adhere. It is so much easier doing it this way than lining up the circle onto the box. Turn over the box and repeat on the other side. Add your handles and tie up with a bow. I used some 5/8″ Old Olive Grosgrain.I added a tag using the Big Shot ‘Lots of Tags’ Die. I sponged around the edge with Rich Razzleberry and stamped the greeting and flower from ‘Short and ‘Sweet’.
PS. In my rush to get this out I forgot to show you the finished bag. DOH!!!
Here you go!
The cute little circle bag, with the Big Shot Tag from 'Lots of Tags'
Side view of the bag!
There you go! I hope you enjoyed these creations. It might be time to stock up on the drink and chocolate before you move on with your Blog Hop journey. You could be a while! You will now move on to Juliette’s blog. Don’t forget as you visit each blog to leave a comment. Then email Sharlene at stampwithsharlene@hotmail.com to be in the draw for some blog candy.
In the last post I showed you the projects we did for my recent Easter Gift Packaging class. I have put together a tutorial to create the little Treat Cup box. Measurements are in Metric.
1) Cut card 29.5cmx18.5cm. On the 29.5cm side score at 7cm, 14cm, 21cm and 28cm. On the 18.5cm side score at 5cm, 10cm and 17cm.
2) Cut top 3 squares and 3 rectangles from the right. Cut the small square and 1.5cm rectangle at the top left and 1 at the bottom left. Cut at each 7cm score lines on the bottom up to the 1st 5cm score line in the opposite direction. This is how it should look now.
3) Stamp or use a roller wheel on the middle section to decorate. Fold all score lines to form firm creases. Don’t assemble the box yet.
4) Punch 1 3/4” circle on the top square. This is your flap. TIP: To centre the circle, punch out a circle on scrap card and place it on the centre of flap. Trace around with a pencil. Turn the punch upside down and line up the punch over the circle and punch it out. See the photo below on tracing the circle on the DSP piece.
5) Place adhesive on narrow strip on the sides of the box and bottom flaps and fold it up. Adhere side pieces together and bottom flaps. This forms your box. Use a corner rounder punch on the flap to neaten corners if desired. Remove adhesive strip on the treat cup and adhere treat cup to the top of the box.
6) Cut DSP square piece 6.2cmx6.2cm and adhere to contrasting card piece 6.6cmx6.6cm. Punch circle out with 1 3/4” circle punch. To ensure the circle is centred trace a circle using scrap card piece before punching. See in the photo below.
7) Adhere this piece to the top flap over the treat cup. Decorate box as desired. On this box I had stamped the small retro star from ‘Hello Again’ then I punched out ovals using the large oval punch from various pieces from the Kaleidoscope DSP. I sponged the edges of these and layered them onto the front of the box. The greeting is from the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Happy Moments’. This was punched out using the Word Window Punch and mounted with mounting tape.
Here is the finished box!!
I hope these make sense if you have any questions, just ask me!!!
I’m sure you could whip several of these up in time for Easter or for any occasion. Enjoy!
Two weeks ago I held my Easter Gift Packaging Classes. These were the projects they all got to make.
There were 2 Easter cards, a Chocolate Treat Slider and a Treat Cup Box. I used the Kaleidoscope DSP in the Summer Mini (which by the way, there is only just over 1 week left so you better stock up on this paper and any of the other goodies in the Mini Catalogue!). I picked out the colours in the papers so it is not the usual pastel colours you might normally use for Easter. I think they are bright and funky! I didn’t have any Easter stamps so I had to think outside the square – or oval as the case may be! LOL
For the first card and the Treat Pull, I used the Sale-A-Bration set ‘Vintage Labels’.
For the card I stamped and heat embossed the oval frame in Gold Embossing Powder onto Tempting Turquoise and then punched it out with the Wide Oval Punch. I tied a bow with Tempting Turquoise Grosgrain ribbon. This was mounted on Whisper White and the edges sponged with Certainly Celery Ink. It was then matted on Certainly Celery card. Before adhering it to the base Turquoise card I stamped the bottom edge with the small flowers from ‘Short and Sweet’. I scalloped the edge of the Pink Passion card strip with the eyelet border punch. I stamped and embossed in Gold EP the words “Best Wishes” from the ‘Vintage Labels’ set. Added a strip of Certainly Celery card behind it and adhered it to the base card.
You might have seen these chocolate treat sliders/pulls around on other blogs. I found when I made one up it was so tiny you could only fit a chocolate in about the size of the credit card. Now that is not good enough!!!! So, as usual I adjusted all the measurements to fit a larger size chocolate bar. If you want the metric measurements for this then email me.
I stamped the cardstock for the treat pull before assembling. It is so much easier let me tell you!!!!! I wrapped around a strip of the Kaleidoscope DSP that I had punched the edges with the eyelet border punch. I stamped the circle label from ‘Vintage Labels’ in Turquoise on Turquoise card and punched it out using the scallop circle punch. I stamped it again in Glorious Green onto Gable Green and punched it out with the 1″ circle punch. These were layered with mounting tape. I punched out a slot with the horizontal slot punch and threaded the Tempting Turquoise grosgrain ribbon through. This is such a great gift for someone – and so simple!!!
Here is the second card and the treat box.
The second card I punched out 3 ovals with the large oval punch from various pieces of the Kaleidoscope DSP. I sponged the edges with matching inks and adhered them to the Whisper White card. The edges were sponged in Regal Rose ink. This was mounted on Regal Rose cardstock. I created the fringe to resemble grass from Certainly Celery cardstock and then stamped the “For You” on the strip. I added a strip of the Kaleidoscope DSP onto the base Tempting Turquoise card and paper pierced along the top. It is hard to see that, I know!!! This card is just like an Easter Egg Hunt card!
The box I created myself. I wanted to used the Treat Cups in someway for Easter. It is a very simple box and I added the treat Cup to the top so you can see the yummy Easter eggs inside. OK, so it is empty. Believe me they were yummy!!! Stamp the cardstock before assembling and you can decorate it as you like.
I am planning to put together a tutorial for this box so stop by in the next day or so. In the meantime, Happy Stamping!!
A Stamping Journey 
