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DIGITAL BON VOYAGE!

June 19, 2014 Jenny Hayward

My son Josh heads off to Fiji today for 4 weeks with Year 13 Gap Year Program that he has been doing this year. They will be involved in the communities there providing care, support and ministry training. It is a huge endeavour and while I am very excited for him to go and for all that he will experience, as a Mum it is hard to see them fly the nest. 😦

I wanted to make a card to send him off with but I didn’t have any stamps suitable so I made one on MDS (Stampin’ Up! Digital software program). I am still finding my way around MDS but I SO LIKE it when I can just click ‘Undo’ if I am not happy with something I have put on there. No wastage of card!! After it was done I just printed it off on our printer. So here is my card.

I used the Digital sets: World Tour and Travel Log. The Background DSP is ‘Made from Scratch’ (I think!).

Thanks for looking. I am off to console myself now. I might just play with real ink and stamps today.

Have a Happy Day 🙂

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BLAST OFF FOR A 1 YEAR OLD!

June 16, 2014June 16, 2014 Jenny Hayward

I made this card a few weeks ago now just before Convention but with the excitement of Convention and the new Catalogue I hadn’t got around to showing you this yet. This card was made for one of my Great Nephew’s 1st Birthday. This is using ‘Blast Off’ which is on the retiring list. It is such a cute set. Here is the card.

It was quite fun stamping and cutting these little characters out. For the grey “moon” I cut 2 circles from Smokey Slate cardstock using the Circle Framelits and with one I punched out holes using the Crop-A-Dile and a small circle punch. I then adhered them together and sponged the edge all around and over it randomly. I used ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ to create little splodges in Daffodil Delight. For the spaceman I taped some White Baker’s Twine to the back of him and to the back of the moon to let him “float” around. A cute little card for a cute one year old.

Make sure you grab this set before it leaves us in 2 weeks. Then it is gone!! You can check this cute set out below.

In the meantime, Happy Stamping 🙂

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STAINED GLASS BLOOM!

June 5, 2014June 5, 2014 Jenny Hayward

It’s been a wet day here today. Just the day for some creating. I have wanted to use this technique with ‘Blended Bloom’ since I received the stamp at Convention a couple of weeks ago. So it was nice to have some time today.

I will explain the technique below but this is the card I finished up with.

I have used the Stained Glass technique on the flower.

To do this, I stamped the flower in Versamark on Vellum and added White Embossing Powder. This was then heat embossed. Then I turned the piece over and coloured on the back of the image. It gives a soft, subtle image. The colours I used were Pool Party, Bermuda Bay and Daffodil. I cut the image out free-hand after it was done.

One thing I learnt (again) while making this card is to really think the card through at the beginning. I chose those colours because I really liked them but when I looked at my card supplies when I went to put the card together I only had the smallest piece of Bermuda Bay cardstock which was salvaged from another project that wasn’t completed AND the ribbon was a scrap of ribbon I had lying around. I managed to make it work though – I think!

I stamped the image from the ‘Postcard’ Background stamp in Bermuda Bay and added a few splodges from ‘Gorgeous Grunge. I wrapped around my little scrap piece of Bermuda Bay Taffeta Ribbon and layered it on my scrap of Bermuda Bay card mat. This was layered on a Whisper White Card Base. The greeting is from ‘Perfect Pennants’. I stamped one in Bermuda Bay and stamped one in Daffodil Delight on Daffodil Delight cardstock and cut them both out and layered them. I added some Rhinestones to finish it off. (I am still not sure of those though yet!).

So Thanks for looking at my card salvaged from scraps and hopefully showing off this gorgeous flower. I hope you have had or are having a creating day wherever you are and whatever the weather.

Until next time,

Jenny

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2014 SOUTH PACIFIC CONVENTION SWAPS!

June 2, 2014June 2, 2014 Jenny Hayward

As promised, I finally have my swaps from last week’s Stampin’ Up! Convention all sorted to share with you. I have tried to organise them into separate categories to make it easier.

So here they are ……

Vintage/Shabby Chic Style

Masculine type

Geometric and a few others

Technique Style

Flowers of all types

Butterflies

3D (tags, notebooks, boxes)

Christmas

I hope some of these inspire you in your creating. That’s why I like to share them. If you have any questions on any of them or would like some close-ups then let me know.

Enjoy 🙂

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SOUTH PACIFIC STAMPIN’ UP! CONVENTION IS STARTING!!!

May 21, 2014May 20, 2014 Jenny Hayward

YAY! I am a little excited. By the time you read this I should be in Melbourne ready for the South Pacific Stampin’ Up! Convention. There will be so many inspiring new ideas, some sneak peeks of new products and best of all meeting up with Demonstrators from Australia and New Zealand. It’s great to finally meet face to face after chatting and sharing comments online on various groups. There are so many inspiring Demonstrators around here.

Another fun part of Convention is swapping. It’s a great way of getting new ideas and seeing different ways of using a stamp set or other tool. I thought I would share the swaps I made today.

The first one is CASED from a clever Demonstrator (Michelle) on a Facebook group I am on. I loved the idea of it.

This is such a clever idea but so simple!!! Just cut the sheet of card length ways, score in half, then on one half cut it in half. Done!! Decorate as you like. I will show you photos of them individually. Sorry about the lighting. It was bad weather when I took the photos a couple of weeks ago and I have only just noticed, but it gives you an idea.

CARD: Crumb Cake with Whisper White, Fresh Prints DSP STAMPS: Flower Shop, Petite Petals, Perfectly Penned Plus Adhesive Pearls.

CARD: Coastal Cabana with Whisper White, Fresh Prints DSP STAMPS: Flower Shop, Petite Petals, Perfectly Penned Plus Adhesive Pearls.

CARD: Basic Black, Very Vanilla, Modern Medley DSP STAMPS: Flower Shop, Petite Petals, Perfectly Penned. (I did add Adhesive Pearls to these ones, but I had to grab the one that I missed to take a photo of it!!)

Here is a view with it open to give you an idea.

The next card was CASED from Dawn Olchefske. I can’t find the card on her blog. I think I found it on Pinterest???? This is a clever way of using the Circles Thinlets Die. A great retro card for the Birthday Boy???

CARD: Smoky Slate, Basic Black, Real Red, Whisper White. STAMPS: Music Notes Wheel, Gorgeous Grunge. PUNCHES: 1 3/4″ Circle, 1 1/4″ Circle, 2 step Owl Punch, Chevron Border Punch.

I will show you my swaps I receive back next week. They are always great to check out. Have a great week. I know I will 🙂

Jenny

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READY, SET, SEND FOR BREAST CANCER!

May 19, 2014May 19, 2014 Jenny Hayward

Breast Cancer has touched many of our lives, whether ourselves or with the ones we love. Stampin’ Up! has partnered with the National Breast Cancer Foundation to help raise funds for research in Breast Cancer.

Will you help?

Simply purchase the exclusive ‘Ready, Set, Send’ kit for $19.95 (Plus shipping and handling). The kit includes 10 Ready Made cards (5 Thank You and 5 Birthday) plus envelopes. Stampin’ Up! will donate $10 from the sale of each kit to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. It’s that simple. We all need Birthday cards and I think we can all send out more Thank You’s to people. Here are the 2 different cards you will receive.

SO, how do you get your kit. Email me to place your order OR order directly Online HERE.

I would love to sell 25 sets, that is $250 for the NBCF. I know we can do this together – and more!

Contact me today. Australian residents only 🙂

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CARDS FOR MOTHER’S DAY!

May 12, 2014May 13, 2014 Jenny Hayward

I hope you have had a lovely Mother’s Day for those celebrating. It’s a great day to spoil those Mum’s who do so much and many of those jobs go unnoticed. I thought I would share my cards I made for Mother’s Day.

This one was for my Mum. You would have seen the ‘Card in a Box’ type cards around. They are everywhere in the blogosphere at the moment. I had a class last Friday showing how to make the ‘Card in a Box’. During the class I made this one up. My Mum loves blue so thought she would love this.

I have used the ‘Watercolor Wonder’ DSP on the box. I used the colours in the paper when I stamped the flowers. This was in Tangerine Tango, Daffodil Delight and Island Indigo. I used the ‘Flower Shop’ and ‘Petite Petals’ stamp sets for the flowers and threw in some butterflies from ‘Papillion Potpourri’. The leaves were punched with the 2 step Bird Punch from Gumball Green. The label was stamped from Chalk Talk and cut with the matching framelits – no cutting with scissors!!!! I just finished it off with the large adhesive pearls.

EDITED: The link to make your own long ‘Card in a Box’ is here at Diane’s blog.

This next card was for my Mother-in-Law. She loves pinks and reds. This is a lot simpler. It had to be quick 🙂

I thought I would ink up ‘Oh Hello’ set. There won’t be many more opportunities for it as it is on the retirement list. This card was CASED from one on Pinterest. I just changed it a little bit and it is different colours. I thought I would drag out some retiring colours too using Raspberry Ripple and Primrose Petals and teamed them with Crumb Cake. I used the markers on the flower and then cut it out using the Chalk Talk Framelits. It is finished off with some Satin Stitched Ribbon and the greeting is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by today. Enjoy the rest of your day/evening.

Jenny

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FRAMED SWALLOWTAIL!

May 5, 2014May 5, 2014 Jenny Hayward

I can show you this card now. I made this for my lovely blog friend Patti all the way in the U.S. It is her birthday TODAY and I wanted to send her some special birthday wishes. This card was inspired by one on Pinterest. That card had the beautiful butterfly watercoloured. I have to say I had 4 attempts at watercolouring this but it just wasn’t working. I messed it up every single time. So I stamped the butterfly on Pink Pirouette in black Stazon and left it be. Really there is so much detail in this gorgeous stamp you really don’t need to do too much. So here is my card.

The original card had the frame cut using the On Film Framelits. I don’t have those. I used one of my Square Framelits and cut out the centre from a piece of Whisper White. I embossed the greeting from ‘Simply Sketched’ with Gold embossing Powder. I added some strips of Gold Washi Tape to finish it off. Now I did mean to set it at an angle but it just looks like I stuck it down crooked. The white frame was a little larger and it didn’t sit as well as I would have liked. Once it is down it is not going to be moving!! The card base is Cherry Cobbler.

So make sure you go and say “HAPPY BIRTHDAY” to Patti on her blog here and check out her lovely creations while you are there.

Thanks for visiting.

Jenny

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FLOWER BOX-IN-A-CARD!

May 3, 2014May 3, 2014 Jenny Hayward

You have probably seen the ‘Card in a Box’ cards around the blogosphere?? Have you made one yet? They are so fun to make and really are easy once you get the basic box together. There are so many ways to “fill” them. This is one we will be making this coming week in my ‘CARD FRIDAY’ class. If you are around the Wollongong area I would love you to join us. So much fun to be had!

Thanks to my friend Di Barnes for the inspiration.

Here are the deets for the class.

Come and learn to make a ‘Card in a Box’. Give this to someone special or give it to Mum for Mother’s Day.

WHEN: Friday May 9th 10am or 7.30pm at my studio in East Corrimal.

COST: $15

PLEASE RSVP: Wednesday 7th.

Email or phone me to book your place but hurry as places are limited.

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CANTELOUPE ‘SO VERY GRATEFUL’!

April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 Jenny Hayward

I had a little time the other day and decided to just do some playing. I grabbed the set ‘So Very Grateful’ which I only received recently and did some colouring.

I cut some Whisper White card with the Top Note Die and then stamped the flower images in Black Staz On and coloured with the Markers using Crisp Canteloupe, Strawberry Slush, Summer Starfruit and Pistachio Pudding. I was pretty happy with the final result. I can’t wait to get the Blenabilities though! I stamped the greeting from’Perfectly Penned’ . I think I stamped that too high up. I am not happy with all that white space in the middle. I tried adding a separate flower but wasn’t sure. What do you think???

To assemble the card I stamped the flower image in Crisp Canteloupe ink on the Crisp Canteloupe base card. I added some white Taffeta ribbon around the card. I add a little piece of doily that was just inked lightly with ink and I adhered that under that Top Note stamped piece. I added a white Taffeta bow to finish it off.

It was fun playing “just because”.

Thanks for visiting. Hope you can visit again very soon,

Jenny