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FAUX SHAVING CREAM FLOWER!!

May 29, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I have always been fascinated in the Shaving Cream technique but I haven’t got around to trying it. I think it is the mess! The shaving cream and reinkers and ….. Just too hard! SO, when I came across THIS technique on Splitcoaststampers a few weeks ago when I was looking for a different technique for a class, I thought I could really try this one. Here is the card I made.

The layout for the card was INSPIRED from Deb Currier from artfeltcreations.com. I changed a few things around and I created the Shaving Cream flower. I loved the effect. Here is a close-up. (OK a little blurry!)

I don’t usually share a tutorial for the Technique Classes I do but this technique is so cool I just wanted to share this with you my lovely readers. Of course, you can read about it at the Splitcoaststampers link above too. It is a bit like the Kissing technique if you have tried that.

SHAVING CREAM TECHNIQUE

1. Choose 3 co-ordinating ink colours. I have used Daffodil Delight, Tempting Turquoise and Melon Mambo. I found the darker colours didn’t blend well and just looked messy 🙂

You will also need 2 stamps: One solid image stamp and one patterned stamp. I have used the flower from ‘Crazy About You’ and the honeycomb pattern from ‘Butterfly Basics’.

2. Ink up your solid image stamp with the lightest colour. Don’t stamp it on your card yet.

3. Ink up your patterned stamp with one of the other ink colours. Press it on to your solid image stamp and give it a slight twist. Clean your patterned stamp and ink again in the same colour. Press on to your solid stamp on the other part of your stamp and give a little twist. See the photo below.

4. Clean your stamp again and ink your patterned stamp with the other ink colour. Turn your solid image stamp 1/4 turn. Then press your inked patterned stamp on to the stamp and give a little twist. Clean your stamp. Ink it again in the same colour and stamp on the other part of your solid image stamp and give a twist.

5. Now give your solid image stamp a little huff to re-moisten the stamp and then press on to your piece of card.

It gives a really cool effect. Don’t you think???

I really loved the effect so I made some tags up using this technique for our team swaps last week.

Here is a close-up.

So why not give this technique a try. It is so cool and each time will work out different.

Have a happy, stampy weekend 🙂

Jenny

3D projects, cards, Convention, Masculine, Stampin' Up!, swaps

CONVENTION SWAPS!

May 9, 2015May 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I have finally had a chance to go through my swaps and take photos. I thought you might like to see them. There are some great ideas. I have grouped them to help you see them. If you would like a closer view of one or to know about it more then let me know.

Butterflies are always popular!

Flowers of all types!

I took photos of these next 2 separately to show you as I liked these ideas.

On the left is a collage card. I have been wanting to try one of these. One on the right is a triple layer stamped card using ovals. It looks great! (I will give this one a go too).

A variety of cards here.

Some ideas for the men!

These are gift card holders, tea bag holder and little tags. Check out the black dress.

I had to take a close-up of the dress. It is using the Bow punch. How clever!

Some little treat holders. Very cute!

Tags and bookmarks

There you go. Thanks to those people who swapped with me. There are some great ideas for you to try. What is your favourite?? What will you try first?? I think I will need to grab my bow punch and try the dress out.

Thanks for stopping by today. Join me again soon,

Jenny

cards, Convention, Masculine, swaps

SOUTH PACIFIC STAMPIN’ UP! CONVENTION 2015!

April 28, 2015April 27, 2015 Jenny Hayward

As you read this I will be on my way to the Gold Coast, Queensland for the South Pacific Stampin’ Up! Convention. So exciting!!

The best part of this is meeting up with online demonstrator friends and swapping cards with them. Oh yes! There are great demonstrations of projects and sneak peeks too 🙂

So I thought I would show you my swaps I have done. This year I made less than I usually do. Time was a little against me.

Here are my cards.

I have used the set ‘Guy Greetings’. The card on the right I have CASED from Lisa Young (addinkandstamp.blogspot.com) HERE. This card then inspired my card on the left.

The base card for both is Night of Navy. I used Very Vanilla mat. I cut an oval shape on scrap card to form a mask and placed this over the Hardwood background stamp. I inked up the Hardwood stamp by patting the Crumb Cake ink over the mask and stamp. I removed the mask and stamped the Hardwood stamp onto the Vanilla cardstock. The anchor and tool images are both stamped in Night of Navy ink on Whisper White card.

For the card on the right I added ‘Epic Day’ Washi Tape and this greeting was stamped in Basic Gray.

For the card on the left, the greeting is stamped in Night of Navy. I added some loops of linen thread on the back of the card. To create these loops, I loosely wrapped the linen thread twice around 2 fingers and cut the linen thread at this point. I added Glue dots to attach the loops under the top left of the image which had been matted onto Night of Navy card. Then I made one loop and attached it under the bottom right. Glue dots are the best way to attach the loops.

I hope you like them. I can’t wait to receive the swap cards in return. I will share them with you when I get back.

I will try and post again later in the week but most of the updates will be on my Facebook business page. You can ‘Like’ me if you haven’t already. Just click on the link in the right column.

Thanks for stopping by today 🙂

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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

3D projects, cards, Stampin' Up!, swaps

MINI CHRISTMAS TAGS

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 Jenny Hayward

A couple of weeks ago just before our last team meeting I realised I hadn’t done swaps yet. These are not compulsory but I really hadn’t done any for a few months and yet another meeting comes by and I haven’t got anything to share. What was I going to do??? It was a couple of hours before I had to leave. I did a quick trawl on Pinterest. Isn’t that your ‘go to’ site!!!! I found some little Christmas tags that inspired me. So thought I would create some little simple tags similar to the ones I saw.

Here are the ones I created. It is not the best photo as I was just dashing out the door to leave. I gave everyone a couple of them each. I know it is only a small token BUT it was something. I realised I didn’t even keep any for myself though! DOH!

I used the Chalk Talk Framelits to cut the tags from Whisper White and Crumb Cake. I punched out little shapes using the Merry Minis punch pack. Did you know these were still available??? They are very cute. I adhered these to the tags and added a Rhinestone on the ones cut from coloured card. Then I added a small greeting. These ones are from Petite Pairs and Teeny Tiny Sentiments. I added some co-ordinating twine to finish them off. Job done in record time. I will just have to be a bit more organised next time. 🙂 Have a great day in your part of the world. It’s a lovely sunny day here. I think Summer has hit us early.

Till next time,

Jenny

3D projects, cards, Convention, My DIgital Studio, swaps

BRISBANE STAMPIN’ UP! CONVENTION SWAPS!

June 8, 2013June 8, 2013 Jenny Hayward

I thought I would just stop by with a quick one today to show you all my swaps I received in return at the Stampin’ Up! Convention recently. I tried to group them together to make it easier and I am not going to say too much about them. There are some fantastic swaps and certainly ideas to keep me going for a while I think.

BUTTERFLIES

FLOWERS

3D Including notebooks, bookmarks and giftcards.

MASCULINE (some great ideas here)

BIG SHOT

MDS (A new category this year with My Digital Studio recently launched here)

OTHER CARDS

Thanks to everyone that I swapped with this year. They are awesome and I love looking at them all.

I think you have seen enough of Convention now haven’t you?? Back to other creating.

Jenny

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CONVENTION SWAPS!!

May 29, 2012 Jenny Hayward

I’m heading off to Canberra for the National Stampin’ Up! Convention tomorrow and I am excited!! It’s always a great time sharing with other Demonstrators you chat to online and have met at other Stampin’ Up! events. I have worked really hard over the last few weeks to get my swaps ready. I can now show you them.

Here is the original card I started with. This card was inspired by a card by LeeAnn. You can see that here. I love LeeAnn’s simple style. It is worth stopping by her blog and checking it out.

Colours: Wisteria Wonder, Elegant Eggplant.

There is not a lot of stamping to this card but there are lots of layers. I have used the ‘Mixed Bunch’ stamp set. The flower was stamped and punched out using the new Blossom Punch. It is a bit hard to tell but the flower was layered over a flower punched from co-ordinating cardstock. On this card it was Elegant Eggplant. The centre of the flower was stamped in Elegant Eggplant and punched out with the 1″ circle Punch. An adhesive rhinestone was added to the centre for bling. The pennant strip was cut from the ‘Flirtatious Specialty DSP’. This was adhered on to the Whisper White layer and a Framelit was cut from Whisper White and raised up with dimensionals. The flower was layered over this. The sentiment was from ‘Create a Cupcake’. I also used ‘Teeny Tiny Sentiments’ and ‘Fabulous Phrases’ on the other swap cards.

I just went with the one design for my swaps but I changed the colours for a bit of variety. I made 85 all up!!! (I was so glad they were done, I will say that!!!).

Top: Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Soft Suede. Paper – Subtles Patterns Paper Stack

Bottom: Perfect Plum, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Gray. Paper – Subtles Patterns Paper Stack.

Top: So Saffron, Daffodil Delight, Basic Gray. Paper – Flirtatious Specialty DSP.

Bottom: Pretty in Pink, Cherry Cobbler. Paper – Subtles Patterns Paper Stack.

So what colour variety do you like the best?? I have to say, I’m not usually a yellow person but I really liked that version. It is so bright and sunny. Pretty in Pink worked well too. It is always a huge effort doing swaps but I am really looking forward to some great cards back in return. I hope I can show you some next week.

I don’t think I will be back over the next few days. You will just have to wait for a Convention report after Sunday when I get back!

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny x

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MY SWAPS IN RETURN!!!

September 16, 2011 Jenny Hayward

Finally I can get back here. This week has once again flown by. Fridays come around so quickly! Last post I showed you the card I created for my swap for last week’s Stampin’ Up! Regionals in Sydney. I wanted to show you the cards I received in return. There were so many that I have divided them into groups. Sorry if it is a bit hard to see. It is hard to capture the bling and detail on some of the cards.

There are a lot of creative ideas here with different ways of using a stamp or different layouts. Swaps are great to be a part of. I have to show you this card by itself though. I have to say this is one of the stand-outs. Not that there weren’t other really great ones!!!!!!

There are so many different elements to this card. The light sponging, the subtle use of the “French Foliage” set (must add that set to my wish list!). Notice the torn corner in the top right hand corner. It is a subtle addition. You can’t tell in the photo but the top 2 butterflies have been clear embossed and each butterfly was cut out. That’s a lot of cutting for 20-30 cards. I just don’t have it on hand to tell you the creator. I will come back and edit this shortly to let you know. I think this card will be added to my CASE file.

I hope you find these inspiring!!

See you again soon,

Jenny

cards, swaps, Techniques

A DOILY SWAP!!

September 13, 2011 Jenny Hayward

Last Saturday was the Stampin’ Up! Sydney Regionals. This is a great day meeting up with other demonstrators, seeing some fantastic new techniques and checking out some new products. Part of the fun of these events is the swapping. I can now show you my swap card I created.

This is using the emboss resist technique (I have explained this below). I was inspired by a similar card by Rhonda Wells I saw in my blog travels. I found her card shown on another blog (which I don’t remember where now and I couldn’t find a blog for Rhonda). Her card had a white base under the coloured card and coordinating ribbon. I used the new Dotted Ribbon punch instead. I was going to put it on the white base card but I liked it without it. I did various colours as shown below. Sorry the photo is not very bright. It was 10pm the night before Regionals. I had only just finished them!

Here are the others close up.

Rich Razzleberry and Regal Rose.

More Mustard and Lucky Limeade.

So which colour do you like best??? I liked the Wisteria Wonder myself but I was quite impressed how well the More Mustard turned out and that was quite popular.

To create the card:

Stamp the large doily in Versamark on Whisper White Card. Clear emboss this. Stamp the small doily in Wisteria Wonder (or colour of your choice) just to the right side of the embossed doily. Sponge over ink on the large doily. Wipe over with a tissue to polish it off. (The colour really lifts in doing this). Add your greeting (for this card I used a greeting from ‘Just Believe’) and adhere the white card to the card mat in a co-ordinating colour. Add a strip of card down the left hand side which has been punched with the dotted ribbon punch. Add an adhesive rhinestone to finish it off. It is a very simple card and does look better in real life!!!

I received some great swaps in return so I wlll show you these next time, so make sure you stop by again soon.

Until next time,

Happy Stamping!

Jenny x