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CARD BUFFET UPDATE!!

Jenny Hayward

Are you coming my Birthday Card Buffet???? Early Bird booking ends tomorrow.  So if you are coming drop me a message or email to let me know by tomorrow and you receive an extra card as a bonus.  NOW, because of the HUGE response.  BTW: I am excited!!! I have opened up Friday night 7th at 7.30pm.  

SO, if you couldn’t make it the Saturday and can now come Friday then let me know OR if you replied for Saturday but would rather come Friday night then let me know.  I am excited to share stamping with you all again this year AND I am excited for you to play with some new goodies from the new Occasional Catalogue.

SO, come and join us!!!  Friday 7th 7.30pm or Saturday 8th 2pm.

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INDIGO NATIVITY!

Jenny Hayward

Is life busy for you at the moment?  I think we are all starting to feel a little time-pressured with Christmas preparations and shopping and the end of year activities.  Well, if you are feeling that way then you will understand my absence of late.  I am starting to tick off some really huge projects on my ‘To Do’ list so I think things are getting a little clearer – although I haven’t done a lot of Christmas shopping yet so I won’t speak too soon!

Anyway, enough of my rambling.  You are here to see what fantastic, exciting creations I have been doing.  I can’t guarantee all that but here is a card I created a couple of weeks and I hadn’t shown you yet.

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The layout is from a card I had filed away for a few years but thought it would work here.  The little nativity scene is from the ‘Best of Christmas’ set. (This is a great little set for $25.95 with some great images in the set).  It is stamped on Whisper White and then I cut a circle on the Island Indigo card with the Circles Framelits.  I embossed the card with the Snow Flurry Embossing Folder and added a few Rhinestones.  The greeting is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments.

Thanks for stopping by.  I do appreciate your visits to my little corner of blogland.  I really don’t need to talk to myself here!

Stop by again soon,

Jenny

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CHRISTMAS SINGLE STAMPS!

Jenny Hayward

Christmas Single stamps are now available ready for your Christmas creating.  Grab one or more!  They are so reasonable priced.  These are available in clear-mount and available to order until 31st January, 2014.

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Here is a close-up of them for you.  Now which one(s) to choose?????

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Contact me to order your stamps today.  Don’t forget you can  Shop Online Here.

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A 60TH BIRTHDAY MEDALLION!!

Jenny Hayward

Last week I was invited to a 60th Birthday.  I was really quite honoured to be invited.  It is nice when the people who are your customers become good friends and you are included in such special occasions.  So, I had to make a special card.  I had been tossing around a few ideas for a couple of weeks and then finally a few days before the party I managed to put something together.

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I created a paper Medallion from the Quatrefancy Specialty DSP (see below how to do this), and I added a silver ’60’ cut using the ‘Timeless Type’  alphabet dies (retired).  This was layered on 1 1/4″ circle punched in Island Indigo.  The whole piece was a centre-piece on the front of the card stamped with the large image from Daydream Medallions in Island Indigo.  I then added tails with some Pool Party Seam Binding ribbon.  The greeting is from ‘Perfectly Penned’ and then I added a little butterfly cut using the’Beautiful Wings’ Embosslits in Pool Party to finish it off.

How did I make the Medallion??  

There are a few blogs out there with instructions but I found the most helpful was a video by Dawn Olchefske.  You can view it here.

Basically it is taking a strip of your DSP (which is 30.5cm long or 15″).  You score your strip every 1.2cm or 1/2″.  If you use your paper Trimmer you just line your paper up and score every 1/2″ and move your paper along and keep scoring.  It is a lot easier to use the Simply Scored.  Line the paper along the top edge and score down every 1.2cm or 1/2″.

Once you get to the end, then flip your paper strip over keeping the same edge of your paper along the Left Hand side of your Simply Scored (or Paper Trimmer).  Now you will score every  6mm or 1/4″.  Then concertina fold your strip all the way.  Add sticky strip to one end and join the strip into a circle.

Punch a circle from 1 1/4″ cardstock and add Sticky Strip or Hot Glue over the circle.  Gather up your Concertina ring into a medallion shape evenly spreading the folds out and then place your punched circle with adhesive face down on to the centre of the medallion.  This is where you need extra hands sometimes!!!!!  This is the back of the medallion.  Then turn your medallion over and decorate as you like.

There you go.  Add a medallion (or paper rosette) to your next special card.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Jenny

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CATALOGUE SHOWCASE WITH WILDFLOWER MEADOW!

Jenny Hayward

Today I held my Catalogue Showcase and I just had to stop by and show you what we made.  It was a fun time and I was so grateful that so many came out despite the constant rain we have had for a week now!!

There are so many gorgeous new products but I had to use the set ‘Wildflower Meadow’.  It is a beautiful stamp and to have a matching Embossing Folder is fantastic!  Of course we used the new In Colors too.   Here is the card.  It is very simple but having the embossing just adds that little texture to it with very little effort.  It is a bit hard to tell in the photo though.  I have used Crisp Cantaloupe here but everyone could choose the colour they liked to.  The greeting is from ‘Sketched Birthday’ and stamped in Baked Brown Sugar.  Don’t you just love the names!!  I have cut it out with the Itty Bitty Banners die and layered on a Baked Brown Sugar piece underneath.  A little linen thread bow finished it off.

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For everyone that came I covered little notebooks.  They can use them for their wishlists perhaps???  Or anything really!

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I had 2 different designs.  They were all covered with card that had been run through with the Mosaic Embossing Folder.  One design had a strip of DSP.  I then punched a 1 1/4″ scallop circle and layered a butterfly with the Elegant Butterfly punched with matching DSP and then a Bitty Butterfly punched with coordinating card.  Some Rhinestones finished them off.  The other one I simply cut a dress from the Dress Up die in DSP and then dressed it up with a punched flower and pearls.  I think everyone liked them.

I have made some other cards using the ‘Wildflower Meadow’ stamp that I will show you soon.

I hope you are dry where you are?  I am looking forward to some sunshine to dry everything out.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

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SPONGED ‘BY THE TIDE’

Jenny Hayward

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At our team meeting on Wednesday night Sarah showed us how to create this card using ‘By The Tide’.  As usual I didn’t finish it then but managed to finish it today.  (Fancy that not only do I finish I card from a team meeting BUT I post it the day I finished!!!). The base card is Midnight Muse and it is all stamped on Marina Mist card.  The coral is stamped in versamark and embossed with white Embossing Powder. The “sand” edges are torn strips of Crumb Cake and sponged over with Soft Suede.  I added a little extra sponging around the edge of the card with Midnight Muse and added a couple of seahorses in the background stamped with Marina Mist. The fish are stamped in Stazon on Whisper White card and coloured with a blender pen and inkpads. I added the tag from the set too punched out with the 1″ circle punch and some burlap style trim.

You did good Sarah 😉

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

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MORE BRISBANE CONVENTION NEWS

Jenny Hayward

Some more highlights of the Stampin’ Up! Convention last week.

I forgot to show you this yesterday.  This was our gift from Stampin’ Up! for Leadership.  Isn’t it cool!! It’s a tin like the old film reel tins.  It had a stampset in from the new catalogue so I can’t show you that yet.  The tin was tied up in some ribbon and had a lovely tag.  It was very special.

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Of course, something we always look forward to is “the Convention bag”.

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This year it was a silver and white back pack to commemorate the 25th Anniversary.  It has So many pockets which is neat although you have to remember which pocket you put that thing in.  Carlie counted the pockets and there were 19!!

Memento Mall is also a highlight.  A bonus as Manager and above we get to go early as VIP’s and avoid the crowd!

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I always love the displays.

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Shopping is done!

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Thanks for looking!! More exciting Convention news next time.

Jenny

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NEWS FROM BRISBANE STAMPIN’ UP! CONVENTION

Jenny Hayward

Just a quick post from Brisbane.  I have managed to get on the WiFi at the Convention Centre.  I  know you have already heard from me today but I didn’t think you would mind hearing from me again.  Unfortunately I don’t have my camera lead with me to share any photos right now.  Let me tell you we are having an AWESOME time.  Stampin Up! are so generous.  We have already received so many freebies PLUS (I can’t believe it) – the NEW CATALOGUE!!!!! AAAARGGGGHHHH!!!!!  It is awesome.  You are so going to have a copy for your very self.  I am now taking preorders.

Preorder your Catalogue now from me for $5 and receive a rebate voucher for $5 for your first order.

Back to Convention news.  We are having a fantastic time celebrating Stampin’ Up! 25th Anniversary.  It has been funny to look back on the early days of Stampin’ Up! Did I mention we were getting really spoilt.  I hope to be back soon with some more news AND even photos!!!  For now I have to run.  Another session is about to start.  Until next time,

Jenny

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CONVENTION BAG TAG!

Jenny Hayward

Twice in one day. Don’t die from shock!  This is a quick post.  This afternoon I thought I better whip up a tag for my Convention bag. With 700 people having the same bag you need a tag to identify your bag.  Now I could just tie a piece of ribbon on, but why not make a tag when I have so much time this afternoon – NOT!!!!

Here is my tag.

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I have used the Blue Ribbon stamp set stamped in Island Indigo and punched out with the 1 3/4″ circle.  I had to have some bling so punched a scallop circle with the 2 3/8″ scallop punch from Silver Glimmer paper.  The silver ‘J’ is cut on the Big Shot with the retired Timeless Type Alphabet die.  I added a length of Whisper White 1/4″ Grosgrain ribbon to tie it on to the bag.  I found the tiniest piece of Island Indigo Satin ribbon from Sale-A-Bration to tie on to the white grosgrain ribbon just to finish it off.  See those tiny little scraps of ribbon do come in handy!!

OK, enough from me today.  I still haven’t packed.  Thanks for stopping by again.

Jenny