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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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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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“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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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!

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PIZZA WITH LOVE!!!

Jenny Hayward

Yesterday I had a project class where everyone got to make a Mini Pizza Box and Love notes.  (Hence the heading!).  I think everyone had a great time!  I always love seeing how they all turn out.   
Here is what they are like.

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They are very cute little boxes.  I found this on Splitcoast and there are various ones on other blogs.  The only thing missing is the pizza!

I have used ‘Embrace Life’ set and stamped the blossom on Very Vanilla cardstock.  To create the scallop cut out, the card must be 7.5cm (3″) square.  Place the card in the scallop edge punch and line it up even between the markings on the top.  After punching, turn the card and line up the next side.  Because of the size it won’t completely punch it out, creating a little tab.  Repeat on the other sides.  If that doesn’t make sense, email me.  You can thread ribbon through the slots too and wrap it around the card.  That looks really effective.  I have mounted the scallop square with dimensionals on a square of Ginger Blossoms DSP and then on Regal Rose.  You can’t see inside the box but I have lined the bottom of the box with a square of the ruby red dotted paper in the same DSP pack.

The little Love Notes measure 14.8×7.5 (just so you can fit them nicely on an A4 cardstock).  Score and fold them in half.  I stamped the blossoms from ‘Embrace Life’  on vanilla cardstock again.  The sentiment is from ‘Short and sweet’.  These would make cute little gifts and they are so quick to make.   Try one for yourself.  If you would like me to show you how, get some friends together and I can come to you.