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A TEAM COLOUR CHALLENGE!

November 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Another project I wanted to try on our stamping weekend was our team colour challenge. I hadn’t had a chance to make it before the weekend. To be honest I haven’t had a chance to join in another one since. That’s OK right?? 🙂 Anyway, to the colour challenge. The colours were Cucumber Crush, Crushed Curry and Tip Top Taupe. What do you make of those colours?? They are really hard to work with I have to say. My immediate thoughts were a masculine card. When I thought about it too I realised that those colours can be found in the ‘Cherry on Top’ Paper Stack. Could I incorporate the papers someway??

I needed to make a card for one of my Great Nephews and chose the set ‘Boys Will Be Boys’. I then found the sketch from Freshly Made Sketches #207 that I had pinned on Pinterest so I thought that would work well with this set. That’s what I thought but I will say it did take some working and it nearly ended up being scrapped all together. 🙂

Here is the sketch and then the finished card. I just realised that I have lost a black rhinestone too!

The paper is from the ‘Cherry on Top’ stack. I stamped the images on White card and then again on white card and cut parts of them out. You can see a close-up here. I had done a little watercolouring to blur the lines a little.

I still thought it was plain so I looped around some Silver Thread which you can see in the photo of the full card. Then I coloured some Rhinestones with a black Sharpie and added them onto the Cucumber Crush paper. Job done – That was it!!!! Do you like it???

Thanks for visiting. I hope where ever you are in the world that your day is awesome.

See you again soon,

Jenny

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GLOBAL DESIGN PROJECT #GDP009

November 3, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I know I am in the middle of sharing my stamping weekend projects with you but I have been so busy with Christmas cards and making projects for the upcoming fairs that I wanted to break out and make something else today. I thought maybe a challenge!!!!

Challenges are great to take part in as they really extend your creativity and makes you think and try new things. What challenge to do though??? I had the Global Design Project email fresh in my Inbox so why not have a go!! I haven’t had a chance to play along with these challenges at all yet – so TODAY WAS THE DAY!

This week’s challenge was a Colour challenge with the colours – Tip Top Taupe, Mint Macaron and Watermelon Wonder. Well that takes care of the colours but you still have to work how what to do for the card. What stamps? What techniques?? So many options. You could choose another challenge to join in with as well if you like but I wanted to do some watercolouring. Here is my card that I came up with.

I dusted off my ‘Perfect Peacock’ stamp. Do you know this was the first time to ink this up. (Don’t tell anyone!).

I washed over the Tip Top Taupe, Mint Macaron and Watermelon Wonder inkpads with the Aquapainter on to Watercolour paper. When that was dry I stamped the peacock in Versamark and then Gold Embossed this. The greeting from ‘Petite Pairs’ was embossed in Gold Embossing Powder too. I didn’t want to add too much to the card as it would take away from the beautiful detail in the peacock. So I just added some little banners in Gold Foil and the Gold Vellum from the ‘Winter Wonderland’ Vellum Stack. I finished this off with a bow from the Gold Cord. I pierced some holes in the bottom right corner too as it looked a little bare. It was all adhered to a Watermelon Wonder card mat and Mint Macaron card base. (They look so much brighter though in the photo!).

I hope you like it?? Now I will just head over to the site to add this. Pop on over HERE to the site and you can check out all the other cards that have entered – and why not have a go yourself!!!!

I will be back with more Weekend creative projects next time.

Jenny

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FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES #200 – TAKE 2!

August 24, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Yesterday I shared a card I made for the Freshly Made Sketches 200th Birthday Challenge. I mentioned that the card I posted wasn’t my first card I made for it. I wasn’t really happy with the first card but I thought I would show you it today. It was my first time inking this stamp set up and I had an idea in my head but it just didn’t seem to work. I don’t know?? You can be the judge. 🙂

Here is my card.

I started with watercolour paper and lightly misted water on the card. Then I used an aquapainter and the inkpads to brush colour over the card picking up ink from the pool of ink in the lid. I used Marina Mist, Calypso Coral and Pear Pizzazz and let it dry. Really I left it overnight as I had to get going doing other things. I really wanted to stamp the card to get it finished and picked up the stamp several times to stamp but had to seriously talk to myself to wait!!! The stamp set is ‘Gift From The Garden’. I stamped the pots in Mossy Meadow onto the card and then on scrap white stamped them again in Calypso Coral. I cut the pots out and raised them up off the card with dimensionals. I stamped the gloves onto scrap white card also and cut them out. The greeting is from ‘Butterfly Basics. I finished the card off with Whisper White Baker’s Twine and a Marina Mist Candy Dot.

Something is a miss though. What do you think????

Thanks for visiting today. I hope your week is super awesome. 🙂

Jenny

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FRESHLY MADE SKETCHES #200!

August 23, 2015August 24, 2015 Jenny Hayward

It’s a Birthday Celebration this weekend. Over at Freshly Made Sketches they are celebrating their 200th Sketch challenge. I don’t often have time to join in on their challenges but I love their sketches and have used them at times when I make a card. I thought being the 200th Challenge I would just have to have a go.

Here is the sketch for you.

Now when I sat down to make the card I had something in mind. I played around with it but wasn’t quite happy with it for the Challenge. I will show you the card later but I thought I would show you the card I have actually entered. Now when I check out the cards on the site there are some pretty awesome cards so, oh well! I will add my card anyway because it is about the fun of it and having a go, isn’t it!!

Here is my card I ended up with. There is not a lot of stamping involved but don’t you love this paper? This is new Christmas paper in the upcoming Holiday Catalogue callled ‘Home For Christmas’. Isn’t it just gorgeous!! The Poinsettia print and those cute little Deers are in the pack. I love those Deers. You will see some more of them coming up.

I have also used a Gold doily behind the deer and some Gold Cord. The greeting is from ‘Lots of Joy’ from the Annual Catalogue.

I think this is a very versatile sketch that I will file away for future reference.

Thanks for stopping by. Make sure you head to the Freshly Made Sketches site to see all the amazing entries and Design Team Creations (link above).

Jenny

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VELLUM BIRTHDAY BLOSSOMS!

August 3, 2015 Jenny Hayward

On a Facebook group I am on they recently set a little game. It was a Tic Tac Toe Board. Pick 3 items in the one row to make your card. I thought that would be fun. I took a little time out from my regular creating to have a go. I will show you the card but first I will tell you the process I went through in making this card. Maybe it will help you when the MOJO has gone out the window. 🙂

Firstly, I selected the 3 elements from the Tic Tac Toe Board to include on my card. I chose Birthday, Flowers and Red. That’s half the battle right!! Well I pull out all my flower stamps – and there are quite a few. I really wanted to use one of the new ones. OK, Birthday Blossoms, Definitely Dahlia or Garden in Bloom??

The colour was already chosen. I don’t often use red except for Christmas but I chose Cherry Cobbler. I love the richness in this colour. I knew I wanted to white emboss the vellum too. Just an idea I had.

How to put it together though?? That is what sends me undone and generally I just put it all aside in the “too hard” basket. I contemplated things for a little while and wondered what to do. When the ideas weren’t really coming together for a card I thought … Why not look at a card sketch. I went to Pinterest and I have a board for Card sketches. You know you can actually use the ideas you pin not just PIN them to a board!!! 😉 Straight away I looked at the board and found what I was after.

So here is the sketch I worked with. It is from this great site HERE. I like the simple sketches.

Here is the final result.

I used Birthday Blossoms Heat embossing the small blossoms in White Embossing Powder onto the Cherry Cobbler card. The larger flowers were heat embossed in white on vellum and then punched out with the Pansy Punch. To get the curve on the card I hand-drew a curvy pencil line on scrap paper until I was happy with it. I cut that out and then used that as a stencil on the Cherry Cobbler card. I lightly drew the line and then cut this curve out. I was happy with the result of that. It really could have gone any way!!

The greeting was stamped in Cherry Cobbler onto Thick White Cardstock as a card base. I added some large Adhesive pearls to the centre of the flower and finished it off by wrapping some White Baker’s Twine around the card a few times. I did stamp the inside with the blossoms in Cherry Cobbler and one of the greetings in the set. I didn’t take a photo of that.

I hope explaining the process might help you next time. I will try and remember that myself 😉

Have a great “stampy” week. I will be back to share more soon.

Jenny

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FRESHLY MADE ‘PETAL PARADE’

March 21, 2014 Jenny Hayward

It has been such a long time since I have done a challenge. That is one thing I want to do more of this year. So this week I have made a card for the ‘Freshly Made’ Sketch Challenge. Here is the sketch and you can check all the details on their site here.

This is the card I have created for it.

I wanted to use the arrows from the set ‘Petal Parade’ as there is only just over one week left of Sale-A-Bration for me to use this set. I was inspired by a card I saw on Pinterest.

The arrows were stamped in Tangerine Tango, Tempting Turquoise, Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry. One bonus of using clear stamps is you can see where you are stamping them to line them up. It doesn’t matter if you go a bit of course!! I mounted this piece on a piece of Tangerine Tango and wrapped around some Whisper White Bakers Twine. Then this was layered on to a Smoky Slate card base.

I wanted to play around with the ‘Just Sayin’ set too. I stamped and cut the “Hey There” with the Word Bubble Framelits. I wanted a “Happy Birthday” saying though. So, I used a Black Marker to colour one of the other Framelits and then used the Marker to colour part of the greeting from a stamp in ‘Remembering Your Birthday’ set. I could carefully stamp inside the bubble. I then cut it out using the Framelit. I was quite pleased with the end result. These were raised up off the card with Dimensionals.

I think this is quite a versatile sketch to work with so why not have a play yourself.

See you next time,

Jenny

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CLEAN & SIMPLE #190

May 17, 2012 Jenny Hayward

I really like the sketches for the Clean and Simple Challenges but I rarely get the chance to join in. Last Sunday on Mother’s Day I took some time out to join in this week’s sketch. This is the sketch.

I have to say it might be a clean and simple card but I think it took longer for me to work out what colours I would use than to do the card. Here is my version.

Card: Tangerine Tango, Whisper White, Brights Patterns Stack.

Ink: Tangerine Tango, Rich Razzleberry.

Stamps: Short and Sweet, Printed Petals (Now I had to dust that off as it has been so long since I have used it!).

Other: Tangerine Tango Button, White Twine.

I really liked the sketch and I was quite happy with the card. It really didn’t take that long once I decided what to do. It was a really nice way to indulge on Mother’s Day. I think this card would be great to make up in different colours as a set. Maybe I will get around to that sometime. I will just add that to my list of things to do!!

Thanks for looking. I hope you stop by to see some more creations shortly.

Jenny

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CHERRY COBBLER WEDDING INVITE!!

January 16, 2012 Jenny Hayward

Recently Stampin’ Up! held a competition among the Demonstrators in Australia and New Zealand to create a Wedding Invitation. Unfortunately I didn’t win. I was happy with the end result but really with all the embossing on this card I don’t think you would want to make 60-80+ invitations of these. I thought I would show you mine anyway.

I have used Cherry Cobbler and Whisper White. The swirls are from ‘Elements of Style’. All of the swirls are stamped in Cherry Cobbler and clear embossed. That takes a little time!! Before I stamped them though I dry embossed an oval on the top part with the Designer Frames Embossing Folder. The greeting is from ‘Sincere Salutations’. This was Gold embossed on scrap Whisper White and punched out with the Extra Large Oval Punch. I added a bow with the Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding. See the curled ends on the ribbon?? I wrapped the ends around a pencil and misted them with a little water. Then I gave them a short blast with the Heat Tool.

This card is created with the Double Dutch Fold. I found that on Splitcoast Stampers here. It is a really cool fold. Here is a different photo with the flaps open.

Here is the card open. On the inside I stamped the swirls in Cherry Cobbler on Whisper White. I made up a dummy invite for the competition. I created this on the computer and then printed it out on Vellum. This was attached at the top with Gold Brads.

I hope you like it. I had a lot of fun creating it.

Before I go I wanted to say a HUGE Thank You to you all for your response and comments on my last post of the Tote Bag Tutorial. I was so overwhelmed with the response. Thanks so much. I wanted to share this with you all – my special blog readers. I do hope you get to create one for yourself. If you haven’t seen it yet then just go back to the last post.

Till next time,

Jenny x

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INKSPIRATIONS CHALLENGE #77

July 12, 2011 Jenny Hayward

I thought I would have a go at the Inkspirations Challenge for this week. The sketch looked interesting. You can check it out all the great entries here but here is the sketch.

I tossed a few ideas around. Then I decided on this. It is a different style of card but I think it still fits the sketch. Here you go!

I call it my Tag Card. I don’t know if it has any other name. This is the size of a standard card BUT Look ~~~

You can pull up the card. I thought it would be good to make something different – and it is a bit manly. Do you think?????

The stamps used are Extreme Elements and Teeny Tiny Sentiments for the greeting. Colours are Soft Suede, Baja Breeze and Certainly Celery. I added an eyelet to the top tag pull. Here are the measurements:

TAG CARD

Card Holder: 14.4cm x 10.5cm. (I made this slightly smaller than a card to allow for the tab if you wanted to use an envelope).

Centre Strip. 21cm x 3cm. (You could just have a shorter strip that runs across the front and adheres just around the back. I used the longer strip to wrap right around the card from the back and joins at the front. Just to look neater. The strip doesn’t quite join at the front so I just joined it with a short piece. You can’t notice that under the scallop!).

Card: Mat – 13.4cmx9.5cm. Card – 13×9.1cm.

I was a bit bothered about the card staying in the holder, so I punched out a small oval from Soft Suede. This was folded in half and then 1/2 adhered on the back with Tombow and then at the front I added small dots of Tombow glue at either end of the front half so the card will slip in at the top of it. (Does that make sense???) .

There you have it – my entry for the Inkspirations Sketch Challenge #77. I have to say though, it is nothing fancy compared to those other gorgeous creations over there. Go on over and check them out.

Thanks for stopping by today. Come back soon 🙂

Jenny x

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ALL ABOUT THE BOX!!

June 18, 2011 Jenny Hayward

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.

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.

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.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny xx