A Stamping Journey

Everybody loves a sale don’t they??? Well, Stampin’ Up! has a great sale on THIS WEEK ONLY!! Receive 20% off select stamp sets between 16-20th November. Do you want to know what the stamp sets are??

Head to my store HERE and see them. You can order directly from me or Online from that link. Please use the Host Code: 34RUGMSD

Among the many great sets on sale is the set ‘Celebrate Today’. This is one of the cards I made earlier in the year with that set. It is very versatile and great for those birthdays.

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On another note: The Holiday Catalogue will soon be coming to an end (Jan. 4th). Many of the products you won’t see again so it’s time to grab those now while stocks are available.

Click on this link and click the link there to open the PDF so you can see what will be leaving us. SP_HolidayRetiringList_ENG

You can order directly by contacting me or Order Online (This week please use the Host Code: 34RUGMSD)

I hope your Christmas creating is coming along. Let me know if you need help with inspiration for your Christmas cards this year. 🙂

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!

A FLOWER WITH THE ENVELOPE PUNCH BOARD!!!

November 11, 2015 Jenny Hayward

It has been a while since I have had a good play with my Envelope Punch Board apart from some quick envelopes and gift Card Holders. What about you???? I came across this really cute flower that can be made with the Envelope Punch Board. I have to try this I think but I thought I would share this with you first. I have the video link below for you. Have a go! If I wasn’t so busy at the moment I would give it a try but I am getting ready to head off on Friday to Melbourne for the Stampin’ Up! Onstage Event. This was a last minute decision so things are a little crazy 🙂

Here is the card to give you an idea. This was created by the clever creators at Stampin’ Up!

To make your own check out this video link. How cool is this??

If you haven’t got the Envelope Punch Board yet then I would suggest you rectify that. 🙂 You can order directly from me or from my Online store HERE.

Have a super wonderful day.

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!, Weekly Deals

WEEKLY DEALS FOR NOVEMBER 11!

November 11, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Check out these fun products this week!!

What do you like there? Have you got the Circle Card Thinlets yet? They are cool to use. Check out these cards I have made previously.

If you NEED to order any of these or any other products, you can order directly from me or order Online HERE.

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Masculine

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

cards, Christmas

MORE WEEKEND CHRISTMAS PROJECTS!

November 6, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Back to more of our Stamping Weekend projects. I will share some more of the Christmas ones I did.

This one I CASED from Pinterest from http://www.bekka.stampinup.net and I changed it up a bit. I have used ‘Lighthearted Leaves’. Isn’t this such a versatile set!! You can use this for Christmas and any occasion. I added my card to a Cherry Cobbler base. The vellum is the Fancy Foil Designer Vellum in the Annual Catalogue. The greeting is from ‘Wondrous Wreath’ which I heat embossed in Gold. I finished it off with some Gold Twine and the centres of the leaves I added some Rhinestones that had been coloured with Sharpies.

I love these little penguin dudes. How cute are they!! I have CASED this from my friend Leonie. It is longer than the standard card to fit them all in. You can dress these dudes up anyway you want and cut them with the matching Framelits.

This is the inside of the card. I forgot to colour his nose!

This next card we CASED from Pinterest too. This is using the set ‘Be The Star’. This is not your typical Christmas set but it is great to use other sets for Christmas. I tore a strip of DSP from the ‘Home For Christmas’ pack and adhered that down the side of a Thick White card base. I curled up the edge a little. I stamped the smaller stars in red near the torn edge. I stamped the other stars in Pool Party and Real Red and cut them out. The greeting from ‘Lots of Joy’ is stamped in Black. The “splodges” are from ‘Gorgeous Grunge’. I added some Rhinestones to the centres of the stars for some added sparkle.

We all made this card at the same time. It is interesting to see how different they turned out in different colours. Aren’t they great???

Thanks for stopping by.

I will see you with more weekend creations next time.

Jenny

cards, Challenges, Stampin' Up!

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

3D projects, cards, Christmas

STAMPING WEEKEND PROJECTS!

November 3, 2015November 3, 2015 Jenny Hayward

A couple of weekends ago we had another fun stamping weekend. These are great opportunities to get lots of stamping done PLUS lots of laughs!!! I thought I would show you some of the projects I made. I think these will be over a couple of posts so be prepared. 🙂 I realised that I hadn’t shown you all the projects from the last one so I might have to get back to that later. For now, here is some of my creativity from the weekend.

One of my main goals for the weekend was to make some projects to sell at a few upcoming vendor fairs I am doing. I started off making some bottle tags. These are great for the Christmas period as Wine is a popular gift to give. Why not hang a tag off your wine gift!

These ones are using the ‘Wondrous Wreath’ stamp set and Framelits.

These ones I have used the ‘Cozy Christmas’ stamp set and the gorgeous ‘Home for Christmas’ paper.

These took a while but they were fun to make. I found a few different versions and tutorials for these when I went looking. It all depends on how you want to decorate them or whether you want them longer to fold up the card to make a pocket to tuck a treat in as well. For mine the card measures 20cm x 6.5cm (8″ x 2 1/2″). Score your card at 6.5 cm (2 1/2″). I punched out the circle using the 1 3/8″ circle punch.

I have to say these were the only projects I got made for the Vendor Fairs. I got a little distracted with some other fun stamping projects. 🙂

After making these tags I had lots of circles punched out. What is one to do??? Not waste them now! I used a lot of them on a card. I had some idea in my head but wasn’t sure how it would turn out. Check it out though.

I laid the circles out on a piece of Whisper White for the card mat. When I was happy with the arrangement I glued them down and then ran the piece through the Big Shot with the Stars Embossing Folder. Then I used markers on the greeting from ‘Cozy Christmas’ and cut it out using the ‘Tags and Labels’ Framelits and layered this onto a Gold Foil tag. I wrapped around some Gold ribbon and then layered it all on to an Old Olive card mat and then a Real Red card base.

Next post I will show you some more Christmas projects I made.

Stop by again soon,

Jenny

cards, Techniques

SLEIGH RIDE DIORAMA CARD!

October 29, 2015August 8, 2016 Jenny Hayward

In a previous post I showed you the swaps I received from last week’s team meeting. I thought I would show you the project we all made. Vanessa showed us how to make this. It is so cute! It is a Diorama card using the Sleigh Ride Edgelits and the ‘Jingle All the Way’ stamp set.

This is only small. I should have take a side view photo perhaps. It is box-like and inside you have different layers creating the scene. I have used Pool Party and Night of Navy. I finished it off with a Snowflake Element and some Silver cord. I can’t share the exact dimensions as Vanessa has used this in a class and it was kind of her to share it with us. I have found one on Splitcoaststampers Here which is very similar so you can make your own.

Thanks for visiting.

Enjoy your day,

Jenny 🙂

Stampin' Up!, Weekly Deals

WEEKLY DEALS FOR OCTOBER 28!

October 28, 2015 Jenny Hayward

Each week Stampin’ Up! promote some super specials saving you 15%. Everyone loves a saving! This week’s specials are no exception.

Here they are for this week.

Have you got the Stars Framelits yet for your Christmas cards?? I think you will need them – and you save 15%!

I have looked at the ‘Feel Goods’ Stamp set a few times and this week you can save 15% on this. When I was checking out these deals I came across this gorgeous card on the online store. I thought I just have to share it with you.

Isn’t this sweet with the gold embossing and sponging. I just love the strong, intense pink on this too. I think I will just have to replicate this!!!

Now if you want any of these great Weekly Deals then just let me know. If you need to order anything else too then you can order them direction or at my online store HERE.

Have a super, awesome day. 🙂

Jenny

3D projects, cards, Christmas, swaps

TEAM CHRISTMAS SWAPS!

October 27, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I thought I would show you the swaps I received from last week’s team meeting. There are some really cute ones here. I think Tags were very common 🙂 They are great to use as tags or add them to cards.

Sorry for the lighting. Sigh! Must do something about this BUT you can get the idea anyway.

Now the cute little penguin card in the back does have a head. Sorry about the photo. The penguin is stamped on the inside of the card and a circle window is punched on the front with the hat on the front. It is so cute. I love all these ideas. Thank you to all the clever demonstrators in the Inky Fingers Team. Nice to share ideas.

I will show you my swaps. Once again – tags! Now that wasn’t the theme but funny how it works out.

I CASED the red one from Pinterest and made up the other in Smoky Slate, Pool Party and Bermuda Bay. These use the ‘Sleigh Ride’ Edgelits. For the red one I punched out stars from Gold Foil using the Star Border punch. The Smoky Slate one I have punched out one star in Silver Foil. Then I added some Dazzling Details for a sparkle but you really can’t see that well sorry.

I better get going. Our internet is being switched off soon to transfer it over to the new NBN network. Hopefully it is not too long offline. I think my kids are going to die!!!!! 😉

Thanks for visiting.

Jenny