I have received so many lovely cards in the mail recently. RAK’s or Random Acts of Kindness cards. I have received them for so many different reasons.
It does warm your heart. (And I did miss out some too in this photo – Oops! Sorry).
Thank You for the love.
Isn’t it nice we can send love in a card.
Why not send a little card love yourself to someone this week. I can tell you it will bring a smile to their face. After all that’s what we do this for isn’t it. And it’s so much nicer than a bill in the mail.
Have a great week,
Jenny
If you need some supplies and you are in Australia please reach out to me.
You can contact me directly on 0439 844574
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This weekend I am celebrating my 15th Stampin’ Up! Birthday. I really can’t believe that. That is a lot of cards and inky adventures in that time. It’s been a wild ride!
I so love to share my creations with you and (hopefully) inspire you in some way.
Thank You for following me along whether it’s been a short time or way back years ago. I appreciate you.
For my Aussies I have a Giveaway this weekend to celebrate. Well actually there are a few Giveaways and Gifts happening on my Facebook page. (You can head there to check them out if you like).
This weekend I have 2 Bundles of products to give away. Here are the details.
To take part Place an order with me either through my store or Directly with me. I will pick someone at random next week.
IN AUSTRALIA? Shop in my store -> HERE. Please use the Host code: R663PWDW
Or contact me directly on 0439 844574 or Email: jghayward@yahoo.com
It’s been another busy year of crafting here. Thanks for following me along.
I thought I would take a few minutes and share my favourite projects from the past year. So come on a little journey with me. And click on the heading of the project to take you back to the original post and read more about them. Even catch the video of many of them.
I loved this gorgeous Friendly Hello Paper available for Sale-A-Bration in January. And this is great fold to show both sides of the gorgeous paper. (Must try that again).
This was a great stamp set to create a Slider card. But you can try this with any of your stamps. What about that Sunshine and Rainbows paper. So bright and Happy. 🙂
Let’s face it – Male cards are hard to make aren’t they?? We had a great Masculine Cards Class earlier in the year. The Let’s Set Sail stamps and punch were fun to use.
The Wild and Sweet Stamp set was one of my top picks from the new catalogue in May. I don’t do a lot of colouring but I loved colouring this cute Koala. I shared some tips colouring this image in the video for this card.
The Hues of Happiness was another of my top picks from the catalogue. I think many people also loved this suite. The Tunnel cards I created with this has been very popular.
The most popular event this year with the Winter Crafternoon. It was such a fun time crafting together followed by a Devonshire Tea. Watch out for more events in the new year.
Another very popular Fun Fold from this year was the Diagonal Fold Card with the Christmas Lights Bundle. Lots of people have shared their versions with me which has been so great.
Is there a theme here with Fun Folds that are my favourite projects for the year. I do love a Fun Fold card. This one was the Half Fold Easel Card with the Hippest Hippos Stamp set for Sale-A-Bration.
It was great to be part of a collaboration to share you some fantastic Christmas projects. I kicked the 12 days series off with my project, A candle with the Merriest Moments stamps and dies. You just have to go back to that post and start the 12 Days of Christmas to check out all the projects.
I hope you have enjoyed looking back at these projects. I can’t wait to share more with you in the coming year.
To lots of creating in 2022. Come and join in with me and follow along.
We had our JEN’s INK team get together on the weekend. It was nice to be able to be back together in person. It was a small gathering this time to get us back. That’s ok though. 🙂
I put together some card kits and the crafting challenge was to create a card with the pieces.
This was the card kit. This uses the Celebrate Everything Designer Series Paper (host paper pack).
There was extra white card and some Silver and Gold Foil. I had a number of inkpads, Ribbon, Christmas stamp sets and dies and embossing Folders. That was it!
This was my card. I trimmed down the piece of DSP. The sentiment from the Merriest Moments stamp set was stamped and diecut with the Designer Tags Dies. And I added a diecut snowflake from the Twinkling Lights Dies.
It was a fun exercise but I tell you it was hard.
What would you create with these limited supplies?
Come and be part of my fun JEN’s INK Team. I love welcoming new team members. There is no better time than this month with the extra bonus.
You can order up to $283 of products and only pay $169. And then you have the fun of saving with the discount you receive each time you order. You can stay as long as you like. Email or message me if you want to know more. This ends on October 31st.
Find out more of Why You need to be part of the Stampin’ Up! Family -> HERE.
How exciting we get a day all to ourselves to celebrate this wonderful craft of Card Making.
You know what I love about making cards?
I can make something special and send it to someone to let them know I am thinking of them. I love how it makes them smile.
And I love that I can share card making with others whether it is crafting together, talking about making cards or teaching (hopefully inspiring) them.
So be sure to enjoy this day just for you. Go and Get crafting.
It’s my 14th Stampin’ Up! Birthday this Sunday. Woo Hoo!
I am so thankful to have met you through this adventure if I hadn’t known you before. I love sharing with you and (hopefully) inspiring you.
Thank you for following me along, for your support, but most of all for your friendship.
To celebrate I have a special gift for you for the next few days. See the details below. This is for Australian residents only sorry.
…BUT if you are not in Australia and would love a card from me drop me a comment or email and I am happy to send one your way to say Hello.
GRAB YOUR GIFT FOR MY 14TH BIRTHDAY
From Sunday 21st – Wednesday 24th August pick your gift with your order over $50.
Choose – Roll of Gold and Vanilla Ribbon
Roll of Red Ruffled Ribbon
Or
Glossy Dots
(valued at $14 each)
Don’t forget if your order is over $90 you can pick a Sale-A-Bration choice too.
Additional notes: – If you place your order online email/text me with your choice after and I will send that to you later. – Local people can choose an ink pad as their choice if local pickup.
So make your list. This is a great time to stock up on your card and ink. Maybe even a stamp set?
This is only available from Sunday 21st – Wednesday 24th August to pick your gift with your order over $50.
TO ORDER:
Shop in my store ->HERE. Please use the Host Code: DK3ZG2DU
OR
Contact me directly and I can help you with your order. Phone 0439 844574 or Email jghayward@yahoo.com
Have a great day and keep on creating. It’s important for your soul.
On the weekend I held my Winter Crafternoon event at a local Tea Room. It was such a lovely day. I thought I would share some of it with you.
We had a large group of excited crafters. The projects were around the Tea Boutique Suite. Very apt for this venue. 🙂
Lots of creative fun.
After crafting it was a relaxing time with chatting over Devonshire Tea. Everyone had an enjoyable time and talks of another Crafternoon for next year is already happening.
Crafting brings people together to chat and connect and talk and share. Isn’t it a wonderful thing. It’s not just ink and paper.
How delectable is this?? All presented so beautifully.
Such a lovely display in the Tea Room at Sugar, Butter Eggs in Woonona. Owned and operated by my lovely friend Harmony and her husband.
Rather than packing the card kits in Cello bags I made up little pouches with the Envelope Punch Board from pages of the retiring Mini Catalogue.
I made up little tags to go with a Chocolate Treat in their Goodie Bags.
I will share more of the projects everyone created in the next post so be sure to stop on by.
And if you are local be sure to head in to Sugar, Butter, Eggs in Woonona for a lovely Devonshire Tea, High Tea or any other delectable you might like. (See it HERE).
Today I wanted to share just some of my favourites creations from the 2021. It was hard to narrow it down.
A special Congratulations card for my son on his engagement. I think this was the highlight of the year when my son – and now daughter-in-law were married!
Another popular one and I know many have followed along with the video and used the template to create these cards. Create 4 cards with 1 piece of 6″x6″ paper.
Yesterday I shared the Concertina Card that I made for my daughter’s 21st. Today I wanted to share with you this special little booklet I made. Of course using the You’re A Peach Designer Series Paper.
It was just a little booklet with some inspirational sentiments for her.
It’s small in size and tied up with some Pale Papaya ribbon. The peach is cut from the You’re A Peach paper.
When you open it there is a little concertina piece. I have held it down here in the photo with the Bone Folder so I could take the photo.
Folding out the strip of card there is a special sentiment on each section. I used a number of different stamp sets for the sentiments and for the images.
This was really fun to create (and made from the heart to my gorgeous girl).
I will share the dimensions for it another time. I only have them in metric at the moment.
Hope you like it.
Hope your week is going ok wherever you are in the world. Thanks for visiting me and take care.
I can finally share this card now. This was a very special wedding card to make for my son and his new wife who recently were married.
It’s a simple card but that’s my style. 🙂 But the shine on it was beautiful. Sadly you can’t quite capture that in a photo.
I used the Pearlescent Specialty Paper to diecut the flower using the Artistic Dies. Sadly this paper is not available now. It gives such a beautiful shimmer. I hope you can see that in the photo below.
Cinnamon Cider was used for the card mat as that was a close match to the Bridesmaids dresses. The sentiment from Last a Lifetime (retired) was Heat Embossed with Copper Embossing Powder.
For the inside I used a piece of the Pearlescent Specialty Paper to add some shine. I used the Saddle Brown Stazon to stamp the sentiment and flower as it was a shiny surface.
How cool though! The flower from the Last A Lifetime stamp set matched so well with the diecut flower from the Artistic Dies.
I have to share a photo of the happy couple right. 🙂 We haven’t got the professional photos yet. This is just one of my happy snaps. There was just so much happiness and smiles on the day.
Below is Josh and Claire and my daughter Carlie who was one of the bridesmaids with her boyfriend James.
Ok. Now I have indulged you I will be back with more inspiration soon.
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