SOME POP-UP CARDS!!

July 27, 2012July 29, 2012 Jenny Hayward

I have some fun pop-up cards to show you today. I made these at our stamping weekend a little while ago. They were so much fun to put together.

This first one Leonie N showed me how to do. (Edited to Add: Andrea let me know that she showed Leonie this card, whom then showed me. Thanks Andrea for the great card). This is a great one for the boys using ‘Need For Speed’.

Card: Lucky Limeade and Very Vanilla. Paper: Cheerful Treat (Hostess DSP) Ink: Soft Suede. Stamps: Need for Speed, Perfect Punches.

Here is the inside View. I used Confetti White for the insert. I stamped the Quad Bike in Soft Suede and coloured it with the Crumb Cake Marker and blended it with the blender pen. This was cut out and mounted on the Pop-up part. I stamped the Quad Bike again in Crumb Cake on the top part of the insert. The greeting is from the hostess set ‘Happiest Birthday Wishes’ and is stamped in Soft Suede.

Here is a side-view to see the Pop-Up part in action.

This next Pop-Up Card is using ‘Create a Cupcake’. This is the front. The Birthday greeting is from ‘Happiest Birthday Wishes’ again and is coloured with the In-Color markers. The DSP is from the ‘Sweet Shop’ pack in the Autumn/Winter Mini Catalogue.

Here is the inside. It is so cool! (Can I say that????). There are lots of cupcakes here.

Here you can see the side-view of the Pop-Up cut-outs.

This is really simple once you work out the cutting part. I am putting together a tutorial for you to make your own Pop-Up Cards. I will try and finish them off and show you early next week.

Thanks for stopping by. Have a lovely weekend. 🙂

Jenny

cards, Personal Ramblings

A 16TH BIRTHDAY!!

July 19, 2012 Jenny Hayward

I know I said I would show you some Pop-Up cards from our recent stamping weekend but I have to interrupt the posting. I hope you don’t mind. 🙂 Yesterday was Josh’s 16th Birthday. He has been hanging out for this day for so long. It means now he can get his Learner’s Permit to drive! I wanted to show you the card I made him – and Carlie’s cards she made him.

Josh is really in to Vinyl records at the moment. Now I have to say, I thought they went out years ago. Apparently they never left. Anyway, we bought him a record player for his Birthday and he has been collecting records. He is in to Hardcore music. Now it is not just any records. It is cool for them to be coloured. When I went looking for inspiration for his Birthday Card I came across a card on Pinterest that I thought would be great. (Seriously, how much inspiration is there on Pinterest!!). Anway, I digress again. I tracked down the original card here by Gill. I changed this around a bit to suit Josh’s card. I created coloured records and added a ’16’. By the way, Josh thought it was really cool. He already has a green record along with all the other colours he has. A pink one is on order and he will be getting a blue one soon. Isn’t it great when you make a card, especially for the male species, and they take note of the details.

So, here is the card.

The circles are punched out with the 1 3/8″ circle punch and the black centres are punched with the 3/4″ circle. I punched the centres of the black circles with the Crop-A-Dile. The coloured circles are sponged and spritzed just the way they would be on the records.

I have to show you Carlie’s card she made too. I think she did a fantastic job and she did it completely by herself.

Carlie has used a retired stamp set ‘Play Ball’ and some retired Brilliant Blue and Orchid Opulence Cardstock. The balls are stamped in Crumb Cake. Don’t you love the splodge effect from ‘Extreme Elements’???

Carlie wanted to make another card too and I have to show you. She drew this one and I think it is very clever. (Big Brother said it was “the best”!!)

On the front of the card it says “I love you this much….”. Now this is a standard card size to give you an idea of the size. I will show you it opened up.

It is a bit hard to see the picture but she made it on a HUGE piece of paper and it just opens out and out and out…. It shows her long arms outstretched. I thought she was very clever, and very special, to make this for her Big Brother.

Ok, Thanks for indulging me in a little personal family post. I will get back to the Pop-Ups next post.

See you next time,

Jenny x

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SOME MORE CREATIVITY!!!

July 16, 2012 Jenny Hayward

Just a quick post to show you some more cards we made at our stamping weekend a few weeks back. These were some fun cards to create.

This first one I CASED from Leonie using the cute set “I Dig You”. This is a great set. I think I need to add it to my collection. I just don’t have too many little boys to use if for, but then again I have a few “young boys at heart”!

This one was CASED from Renee Van Stralen here. I love the emboss resist effect with the tree from ‘Lovely as a Tree’. The layout is kept simple so the effect stands out – I hope??? I used Pool Party for most of the sponging and along the left hand edge I added just a touch of Garden Green.

We each made one of these so I thought I would show you a group shot. It is funny how they look in different colours. Andrea made hers in Old Olive (top), Leonie’s was in Marina Mist (bottom left), and then mine. I really should have tied a bow on mine rather than just knotted the organza ribbon, and added some rhinestones. It really makes them look more classy!

Now this card below is a sneak of a new set coming in the new catalogue. This set is called “Blooming with Kindess”. I got to have a play with Leonie’s set. She got this set from Convention at the Manager’s reception. I love the detail in this flower. It is really gorgeous. I love the font in the greetings in this set too. We CASED this card but I can’t tell you from where at the moment. I will get back to you on that if I can find out.

This card is done with the Emboss resist technique again. I have used Pretty in Pink around the flower with Cherry Cobbler sponged in the centre. Then I sponged Old Olive along the stem of the flower. I added a bow with Cherry Cobbler Seam Binding Ribbon.

Here are the 3 together of this card. (Sorry about the mess around the photo). Left is Leonie’s with the Certainly Celery bow. Centre is Andrea’s. She went for a square card. Sorry the photo is not very clear. Mine is on the right.

I hope you liked them. I have some fun Pop-Up cards still to show you in next post, so stop by again very soon.

Jenny

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A STAMPING WEEKEND!!

July 10, 2012 Jenny Hayward

A little while ago I got together with my stamping buddies, Andrea and Leonie N. for the weekend. Well it probably amounted to 24 hours that I was there for but boy did we cram a lot of creating in that time! It’s amazing how much you can create when you don’t have those little interruptions such as family. 🙂 I want to show you some of the projects we created. I won’t give you too many details of the cards. It will take too long.

I played around with my “Reason to Smile” set.

This is a framelit card. This card was inspired by one I saw in my blog travels. It used the “Field Flowers” set but I just changed this around a bit. I stamped the flower 3 times and then again on scrap Vanilla card and cut out the flower. I raised this up off the card with dimensionals. I will try and put together a tutorial on creating this Framelit card. Just give me a bit of time for that. 🙂

This card was CASED by Maureen (I think???) from MamaMo Stamps. I love the butterflies and the debossing using the ‘Elegant Lines’ Embossing Folder.

Here’s another CASE from Maureen. I first embossed some Vanilla cardstock using the Houndstooth Embossing Folder. I then punched out 3 flowers with the Blossom Punch. The centres and greeting from ‘Sincere Salutations’ were stamped with Cherry Cobbler ink. A very simple card but I think effective.

This is a quick one layer card I CASED from Leonie. I stamped this one in Tangerine Tango. This is such an easy card – maybe 5 minutes MAX!! I stamped one flower on scrap white card and punched it out using the Blossom Punch. This was raised up off the card using dimensionals.

‘That is enough for today. I will post some more from our stamping day next post.

Hope you can stop by again soon,

Jenny x

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“CARDS FOR CANCER PROJECTS”

July 5, 2012 Jenny Hayward

Now I can show you the projects that we made at my ‘Cards For Cancer’ Event held a few weeks ago. We made 3 cards. I chose the colours of these cards to represent some of the colour ribbons that symbolise various cancers. If you do a search of Cancer ribbon colours it is amazing how many colours represent so many cancers.

Firstly, the pink. We all are familiar with the pink in representing Breast Cancer. For this I used the ‘Reason to Smile’ set that was on promotion last month. It’s a shame this set is not around longer.

This card was inspired by one I saw on my blog travels using ‘Field Flowers’. I liked the layout of the card. For this card we stamped the “Happy Birthday” from ‘Curly Cute’ in black and then ran it through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Impression Folder. We added a white butterfly cut with the ‘Beautiful Wings’ Sizzlit die. The solid flower from ‘Reason to Smile’ was stamped in Pretty in pink and the outline stamped in Cherry Cobbler.

The next card was a lilac colour representing All Cancers. I used Wisteria Wonder.

The card was a Whisper White base with a Wisteria Wonder mat and the White for the top layer. The doily stamp from ‘Delicate Doilies’ was stamped down the side in Wisteria Wonder, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade and Pretty in Pink. The greeting is from ‘Happiest Birthday Wishes’. We just added some bling in the centre of the Lucky Limeade Doily. This is a very simple card to reproduce. It was CASED from Michelle here. I couldn’t find the actual post with this card though but she has some great cards, so check it out.

The 3rd card had to be one for the boys. This was light blue representing Prostate Cancer. I used Marina Mist and the great set for the boys ‘Need For Speed’ and ‘Extreme Elements’.

I used the Marina Mist Marker to colour the boat. The splodge was inked in Marina Mist and the edges sponged with Night Of Navy. This cards was CASED from Sherri Freese on Stampin’ Connection, our demonstrator forum.

So I hope you like the projects we made. I think everyone who came did. It was a great day and for a Great cause.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

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CARDS FOR CANCER!!

July 3, 2012 Jenny Hayward

A few weeks ago I held a ‘Cards For Cancer’ Event. I wanted to raise some much-needed money to support the work of the Cancer Council. They do a fantastic job providing support for people affected by Cancer and for their families. They are also involved in Cancer Education and Research and rely heavily on the support of the community.

We had a great day at my ‘Cards For Cancer’ event and Stampin’ Up! were very generous with their donations for this. My goal was to raise $500 and I was so excited to be able to hand over $770.90 to the Cancer Council last week. Thanks to all the wonderful ladies who came along.

I wanted to show you some of the fun we had on the day. Unfortunately it was late in the day that I thought to take photos so I missed photos of us playing silly games. (I’m sure everyone who were there was glad of this!!!).

Firstly, I will show you the ‘Thank-You’ bags I made up for everyone. I got the idea for these bags from a bag I saw on Becky Roberts blog, I think???? For this I used the ‘Ribbon of Hope’ stamp. This is a great little single stamp in the current Catalogue. I used the Lunch Sacks for the bags. The DSP is from the Prints Paper Stack in Pretty in Pink. I tied them up with the Pretty in Pink Taffeta ribbon or the white Organza ribbon.

Inside I had a roll of ribbon, a small chocolate and a teabag. What, a teabag you say. That’s interesting!! Here they are.

The original idea came from a swap I received at our Team meeting recently. I can’t tell you who that was from though. I didn’t have the ‘Tea Shoppe’ set that they had used though so I used the ‘Take a Sip’ wheel. I rolled it in Soft Suede ink onto Crumb Cake card and then cut some of the cups out individually. I coloured some parts of the design with a Soft Suede marker. I punched out a tag with the small tag punch and stamped different images from the ‘Tiny Tags’ stamp set in Soft Suede. I took off the original tag on the teabag and then attached the string of the teabag onto the new tag with a dimensional and then adhered the cup on top.

Here are some photos of them all creating. I had 20 lovely ladies along and we all just fitted into my dining room.

This group was under the spotlight. I had to end up getting another light up as it was getting darker.

So what were they all creating???

I will show you the projects next post. I promise it will be in the next few days so stay tuned.

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny x

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SU! CONVENTION NEWS – finally!!!

June 15, 2012 Jenny Hayward

Here I am finally to update you with some news from the recent National Convention in Canberra a couple of weeks ago. I know it has taken a while but it has been busy around here. BUT before this news gets TOO old I will share a few things with you. Convention was an awesome time and I have come away with so many great ideas. Just need to find the time to do them!!

You need to go shopping at Memento Mall at Convention. It’s a great place for exclusive products. The best part is the presentation. Check these out!

You don’t just pile them all on a table!!

Here is the centre flower display on this table.

What about these fabric flowers???

It’s a bit hard to tell from that photo but here is a close-up.

This is Centre Stage where the presentations were held. Don’t you love that Giant Vintage Brad at the top???

The Product Resource Centre was a great place for inspiration. So many clever people had their work displayed there. Check out Ruth’s fantastic creations with the fabric. (Stop by her blog here for some more of her amazing work!)

Have you seen the new In-Colors??

Gumball Green, Summer Starfruit, Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, Midnight Muse. What do you think of them???

At the Friday night class we had a Candy Bar Buffet. Sorry not the best photo. It was a bit dark and the Candy Buffet was a bit demolished by the time I got to it!

The last night was a Dinner and Presentation. The dinner was yummy but check out dessert. Doesn’t it look yummy?? (It was!!)

Here is our group at the dinner. (I just realised how colour co-ordinated we are!)

Tracey, Lynne, Me, Leonie, Jenny S., Wendy.

So, there is a quick recap of Convention. I will show you swaps next post. I will be away for the weekend so I will see you early next week.

Have a good weekend. 🙂

Jenny

Convention, Stampin' Up!

CONVENTION NEWS IS COMING!!!

June 13, 2012 Jenny Hayward

Hey, It’s Me!!! You probably wondered where I disappeared to. Since I returned from Convention last week I haven’t stopped. I held my Cancer Fundraiser last Saturday so I was busy getting ready for that. I will update you on that shortly. I have to say I only unpacked my stamping bag on Monday from Convention and I only uploaded my photos today. How can one person take 500 photos about Convention. Seriously, what can you really take photos of there!! 😉 So, I’m sorry I can’t show you too much about Convention now. But, what can I say. It is such an awesome time meeting up with other demonstrators that you chat to online and there is SOOO much inspiration from the Stage Presentations to the Display Boards. I came away with my head buzzing. I wish I was half as clever as these ladies. One day when I grow up I hope to be that good!

Stampin’ Up! are an awesome company and so generous. I came away with such a haul from all the freebies we received. You might have already caught up on some happenings from other blogs but it is always different from another perspective, isn’t it??? So stay tuned I will get back to you in the next couple of days with a report. If you haven’t already heard much then why not stop by Shelli’s blog. Shelli Gardiner is the CEO from Stampin’ Up! and based in Utah. She is such a beautiful person. Shelli has a good coverage of Convention you can find here. Check out the first photo. That’s me on the far right! Isn’t that amazing! While you are there check out the post before that one. Poor Shelli tells of her “Stuff Up” as she describes it when she presented on stage. I felt so sorry for her but she handled it all so graciously. I don’t feel so bad when I “Stuff Up” now!

Don’t forget to stop by again in the next few days to check out Convention.

Jenny

Convention, Stampin' Up!

BACK FROM CONVENTION!!

June 3, 2012 Jenny Hayward

I have not long got back from Canberra from the Stampin’ Up! Convention. What an awesome time! My head is buzzing from so many ideas and information. There are so many clever people there. It was great meeting up with on-line friends and making new friends. I have lots of photos and I have some great swaps for all the ones I did. I can’t wait to share them with you, but it will take a little time to sort them out. So stay tuned!!!

Stampin’ Up! are an amazing company and I am so grateful to be part of their family. They are so generous and we were given so many goodies. It was quite overwhelming. Plus I won Prize Patrol!!! YAY! Gotta love that. We saw lots of sneak peeks of some great products coming out in the New Catalogue in September too. But you are going to have to wait for that. 😦

So stop by again in the next few days and I hope I have some photos to share with you. As for me now – I am off to bed. So much excitement in 5 days and a “little” lack of sleep is catching up with me! As you can probably tell from all my jabbering.

See you soon,

Jenny x

Personal Ramblings, Uncategorized

“CARDS FOR CANCER”

May 30, 2012 Jenny Hayward

COME JOIN ME AT MY ‘CARDS FOR CANCER’ FUNDRAISER EVENT!!!

We have all been touched by Cancer in some way. Why not join with me as we raise money for Cancer Council to assist them in their Research, Treatment and Education of all types of Cancer.

I have some great projects planned, we can join in some fun games, including a Silent Auction and Coin Toss. There will be giveaways and prizes. Come and join in the fun!