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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VICTORIAN BUSHFIRE APPEAL TOTAL!!!

Jenny Hayward

Stampin’ Up! has just announced the total raised for the Victorian Red Cross Bushfire Appeal that has been running for the last 7 weeks. The total is…..
$77,889.63.

This is a fantastic result. It will greatly help restore the lives of the many victims, who have a long road ahead, following the Black Saturday fires throughout Victoria on February 7.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this great cause. Many demonstrators are donating their commission as well, which will greatly add to this total.

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THE NEW CATALOGUE IS HERE!!!

Jenny Hayward

The new catalogue is finally live!!. It is so great that we can now show these wonderful new SU goodies. I had the new catalogue launch yesterday and I think all the ladies had fun. We even had the cupcakes to celebrate the great new cupcake stamps. I can’t show you all the projects we did because I have had to reschedule my night launch until Saturday, so I don’t want to spoil all their fun. Here is a photo of the group in deep concentration! They were enjoying themselves – really!!
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We used the new set ‘Fresh Cuts’ which is a beautiful set.  I will show you a card that I made with the set.  This just shows the great detail that SU stamps give.

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This was a quick card I made the day before the launch.  I used the sketch from Keesh’s sketch challenge a few weeks ago.  You can see the sketch here.  I have used the new In-Colour Pacific Point.  I have to say I find this a hard colour to work with.  I’m not sure of the colour combo.  but I think it works OK with this sketch.  I have stamped the leaf pattern on Old Olive with Old Olive ink and stamped the main image onto Whisper White with Rose Red.  I sponged around the So Saffron strip and rounded the corners.  I inked up the So Saffron ink with the leaf image again and stamped it off first onto scrap paper and stamped it onto Whisper White cardstock.  I stamped the words with Rose Red and stamped it over the top.  I punched it out with the 1 1/4″ circle punch and punched another circle with the 1 3/8″ punch from Rose Red card.  After glueing the 2 circles together I mounted them with dimensionals.

I will show you the other projects we did after Saturday.  If you live in the Wollongong area and would like to come along to my launch on Saturday there is still room.  Email me for details.

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1 MORE DAY TO GO!!!

Jenny Hayward

It is so exciting! There is only 1 more day until the new Stampin’ Up! catalogue goes live. I can’t wait. There are so many new products coming. It is so good. I have been so busy organising my launch for Wednesday that I can’t show you my new creations yet. I’m sure everyone will have a great time. Why wouldn’t they – stamping and eating and playing silly games. I will let you know how it went and show you all the fun things we will do.
Until then – Happy Stamping!!!

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MAKEESHA’S CHALLENGE WITH BLOOM AWAY!

Jenny Hayward

I made another card with this set for Makeesha’s sketch challenge this week. You can see the sketch here.  I had been thinking about this sketch for a few days and I wasn’t sure what to do.  I had already watercoloured the image so I thought I would incorporate that somehow.  I wasn’t sure about the colours either.  I wanted to pick out the colours in the image but I didn’t want it to look like a Christmas Card.  (Although I think this set will be really good at Christmas time).  While I was tossing around a few combinations and not quite happy with what I had,  it was then that I saw it……   Sitting on the table next to me was the new Stampin’ Up! Catalogue.  This colour combo. was on the front cover.  The catalogue was an inspiration without even opening a page!

On to the card: I used Ruby Red for the card base and stamped the leaves from Embrace Life with Versamark.  I sponged around the edge of a piece of Old Olive cardstock.  I scalloped the edge of Chocolate Chip strip with the Border scallop punch and adhered it to the Olive piece.  I stamped the Eucalyptus Gum on watercolour paper in Going Grey.  I watercoloured it using the inkpads and aquapainter.  I then cut around the image and mounted it on a circle with dimensionals.  The circle was cut using the Round Tab punch.  I punched out 2 pieces and offset them.  I mounted this on the card with dimensionals also.  I stamped the greeting from Short and Sweet in Choc. Chip and punched it out with the word window punch.  I also cut one from Choc. Chip and adhered them together and trimmed off the end.  I mounted it against the side with dimensionals.  You’ve got to love that stuff! The card is straight IRL, believe me.

I have actually finished one of Keesh’s sketch on time!

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BLOOM AWAY!!

Jenny Hayward

I have been inking up my new stamps.  As a demonstrator we can preorder some selected stamps sets from the new 2009-10 Catalogue.  When I saw these I had to get it.  I loooove Australian Native Plants.  The first card I created was very simple.  The detail in these stamps are so fine you don’t need to do anything with them.  I stamped the Waratah in Chocolate Chip and stamped it twice on the Close to Cocoa card base.  I then stamped it on Bordering Blue and then also stamped on the word.  The words come with the flowers but I separated them to give me more flexibility.  I tore the top and sides and then distressed it with my fingers.  After distressing it for a little bit I could then separate the two layers and curl the corner.  I did the same on a larger square of  Kiwi Kiss, one of the new In Colours.  I adhered the 2 colours together and punched a hole in the bottom left corner.  I tied a small piece of twine through the hole and frayed the edges.   Then it was a matter of sticking the piece to the base card.  The longest part of this card was distressing the card.  I really liked the end result, if I can say that!

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ONE WEEK TO GO!!!!

Jenny Hayward

There is only 1 week left:

– To purchase any of the 10 nominated stamp sets to support the Victorian Red Cross Bushfire Appeal.  Check out the sets here.

– To purchase any of the retiring Stampin’ Up! products.  Check out what is retiring here.

– To purchase any of the Summer Mini products.  A lot of these stamps sets and products will be retiring.  With all the excitement of the retiring list the Summer Mini has been a bit forgotten.  Check on the link in the right side bar.

If you want to purchase any of these products contact me today.  I can have your order shipped anywhere in Australia.  Time is running out.  It is sad to see some of these sets go. 

BUT, I am so excited with the new catalogue.  There are some fantastic new products.  If you would like to order a catalogue they are $12.95, plus shipping and handling.  If you live local you can purchase a catalogue at my catalogue launch on April 1st for $10.   Check the Classes page for details.    Contact me today to book in.  I know I said I would show you a card with some new stamps.  I will try to do that tomorrow.

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More “Summer By the Sea”

Jenny Hayward

When I was stamping the other images from a previous post I stamped this one as well.  One lesson learnt: It is very important to stamp the image in Stazon if you intend to watercolour to prevent the ink from running.  Hence, the purple mark in the water.  Buy hey, I think it looks like reflection from her pants!!!

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I used inkpads and aquapainters to watercolour the image in Elegant Eggplant, Pumpkin Pie and Old Olive.  I used an Old Olive marker to ink up just the word ‘happiness’ on the text stamp in this set.  I matted this on Old Olive.  I used a strip of Bali Breeze DSP and matted that on Old Olive as well.  The base is Elegant Eggplant.  It may not show up too well, but I paper pierced around the image.  I have enjoyed watercolouring these images from this set and I will be sad to see it go at the end of the month. 

While I had the paper scraps out I whipped up another card for my niece’s birthday next month.  Early for a change!!  I cut a strip of the Pumpkin Pie DSP and mounted it on Ruby Red card.  I sponged around the edge with Ruby Red and stamped the text from ‘Sincere Salutations’.  I mounted this on Tempting Turquoise base.  This is not a colour I have used very much but it goes well with the paper.  I cut out the flower images on the reverse of this ‘Bali Breeze’ sheet and adhered them to the bottom of the card.  The flower brad is not SU and I can’t quite remember what brand it is – Sorry.  This card didn’t take long at all. 

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I just received my new stamps that demonstrators can preorder from the new catalogue.  It is very exciting.  I have been getting them inky so I will show them to you next time.

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“Summer By The Sea”

Jenny Hayward

It is not just the summer season that has finished here, although we are having some beautiful autumn weather,  the stamp set “summer by the sea” will be retiring at the end of the month.  This is a set I should have used more.  It has such fine line images which is beautiful to watercolour or to stamp just by itself.  I wanted to try watercolouring with the set before it leaves us.  I haven’t done a lot of watercolouring so I was experimenting.  After several attempts I think watercolouring with the inkpads and aquapainters worked better.  Just open the inkpad slightly and squeeze a couple of times.  When you open the inkpad there will some pools of ink.  Pick up some ink with the aquapainter and paint on your image.  I have stamped the image onto watercolour paper with stazon.  This prevents the ink bleeding when it is watercoloured.  The more ink you apply the darker the colour.  I was pleased with the end result.  I have stamped ‘wish big’ from “short and sweet”.  I thought this image would be great for a young boy so I pulled out some bold bright scraps.  These are colours I don’t use very often, but it is nice and summery.

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Ink: So Saffron, Certain Celery, Pumpkin Pie, Going Grey, black Stazon plus Brilliant Blue Marker.

Card: Brilliant Blue, Green Galore, Only Orange, Yoyo yellow, watercolour paper.

There are only 2 weeks left to buy any of the retiring products.  Also, there is only 2 weeks left for the Victorian Bush Fire Appeal so let me know if you want to place an order for any of the products.

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THE NEW CATALOGUE HAS ARRIVED!!!!

Jenny Hayward

I’m so excited!  The new Stampin’ Up! catalogues arrived today.  It is soooo good!  All the new stamp sets, the ribbons, the papers (which by the way are $16.95).  I’m going to have to make my customer wish lists longer so everyone can fit everything on.  Not only do they have the fantastic SU products, but they have so many examples that you can copy.  Do you want to get hold of one?  Here is how-

1)  Email me and I can send you one for $12.95 plus postage at approximately $5-$6.

2) Come to my launch on the 1st April.  Check out my class page.  You can buy one for $10.  The launch costs $5.

3)   Book a workshop and I can show you some of the fantastic products.  You can get one for FREE.

Email me to let me know ASAP.  Now I was going to show a card to you today, but I have been a little distracted!  I’ll show you that tomorrow if I can drag myself away from the catalogue!

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JUST CHILAXING!!!

Jenny Hayward

Just What?

I discovered a new word today.  We didn’t have cricket today YAY!! so our family headed down the south coast (NSW) for a drive.  As we were driving my DH mentioned the word Chilaxing.  What was he talking about?  Being a High School teacher he comes out with some interesting words occasionally.  Hadn’t I heard that before?

Chill out + Relaxing = Chilaxing.  You know – Take it easy. 

I asked my DS (12) if he had heard it.  “Yeah, of course”.  So have I had my head buried in the sand for too long? Anyway, we had lunch by the river at Batemans Bay and just did a bit of “chilaxing”.  Then headed back home via Ulladulla Amusement Centre.  It was a lovely day – and educational!!  No stamping though.  I’ll have to see to that tomorrow maybe – unless I’m chilaxing again!