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A DIFFERENT FLOWER WITH THE FESTIVE FLOWER PUNCH!

Jenny Hayward

I made this card a few weeks ago but only had a chance to show you now.  When I received my Festive Flower Punch I had to have a play and create a different flower than the traditional one. That’s what you do right??? 🙂  I made a card up with the flower.  Since making this flower I have seen some great variations on Pinterest. I have to say I do like those ones a lot so I will have to make those too.  Here is my card and I will give you the details of the flower.  You might remember the small flower that you could make with the wing of the 2-step bird punch?? Well this is it’s big brother 🙂

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I have a chart below to show you how I created the flower so I won’t say too much about that.  For each of the pieces I sponged them with ink.  I have used Rich Razzleberry for the flowers and Old Olive for the stems.   See the pearl accent?? I was trying to work out what to add.  I added a Metal Rimmed Pearl but the silver didn’t go right so I created my own.  I punched a circle from the Gold Foil Sheets using the smaller circle from the Owl Punch.  I adhered a pearl to the centre and added the both with a glue dot onto a small bow from Whisper White Baker’s Twine.  I really liked this addition.  The greeting is from ‘Birthday Blossoms’ and I punched one corner with the new Curvy Corner Trio Punch.

Here is a chart to create your own flowers.

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So this punch is very versatile.  Not just for your Poinsettia flowers.  I can’t wait to make some other versions.

Here is the punch if you haven’t noticed it.  The punch can be found on P 31 of the catalogue and is $31.00 AUS.

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Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a super awesome weekend and you have time to create. I have my Holiday Catalogue Launch tomorrow so I am looking forward to sharing some fun projects using these great products from the Catalogue.

Jenny

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WELCOME TO YOUR NEW HOME!!!

Jenny Hayward

I needed to make a card for a lovely friend of mine who recently moved in to a new place of her own.  After many years of personal issues it was really lovely to see her now finding her own way. The dilemma was what can  I use to make a card for her?? I usually do punch art for these occasions and I just went looking through my blog posts and realised I hadn’t shared any of them before. I don’t know how I missed that!! I decided to dust off a stamp I have had since before I joined Stampin’ Up! over 6 years ago. Previously I have coloured this with pencils or just inked in one colour.  Today I dragged out the Blendabilities for it!

So it’s not Stampin’ Up! and I can’t tell you the name of this stamp sorry.  It didn’t have the name or company on the block.  The rest of the card is all Stampin’ Up! though.  I thought I would show you the card still.

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The base card is Marina Mist.  A second piece of Marina Mist was cut just slightly smaller than the front of the base card.  I cut a circle in that piece with a Circle Framelit and then this piece was embossed with the Woodgrain Embossing Folder.  On Whisper White card I stamped the image in Memento Ink and coloured this with various Blendabilities.  I adhered that piece under the embossed Marina Mist card and adhered it onto the card base.  The greeting is from Petite Pairs stamp set.  I coloured the “welcome” on the ‘Welcome Baby’ stamp with a Night of Navy Marker and stamped it on a strip of Whisper White.  I flagged the end of the piece and adhered that to the card with Dimensionals.  I added a Silver Metal Button and  Whisper White Twine bow.  I prefer using glue dots to adhere these. When it was done  I thought it was a little plain so added some Old Olive leaves punched with the 2 step Bird Punch.

Thanks for stopping by and indulging me today.  I hope life is good in your part of the world. 🙂

Jenny

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CRAFT FAIRS PART 4 – NOTE CARDS!

Jenny Hayward

We have come to the last in my series of Craft Fairs now.  Today I am going to share with you the cards I made to sell.  You have to have cards to sell now don’t you????  Time was limited so I couldn’t spend too much time on them.  I had a number of Christmas cards from past classes so they were fine but I wanted some Different Occasions cards. I ordered a couple of packs of Notecards and Envelopes.  With only 5 days to go from when I received the order I knew they needed to be simple and quick so I kept them to one layer cards.  Well, I managed to create 40 cards in under 3 hours.  Here they are.  I have added full-size images so you can see them clearly.

I used the Butterfly Bigz die to cut some Butterflies from DSP.  Some I added some Pearls but others I just kept plain.  I added a sentiment with Black Staz On.  (I use Black Stazon as I find it stamps better than the Basic Black inkpad).

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Using DSP I punched out some birds with the 2-step Bird Punch and added a sentiment at the bottom again.

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I created some simple cards with ‘Timeless Talk’ and various sentiments.

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I went all out with colour on these ones.  Here I have used the set ‘World Treasures’.  I inked up Peacock in Daffodil Delight and then sponged randomly with Pumpkin Pie and Tempting Turquoise. Each one of these turned out differently.  It’s funny how you got various colours when they mixed together.  You know what they say: Blue and Yellow make green!! These were my favourite cards.

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Here is a close-up.

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So there you are.  What has been your favourite project that I have showed you this week??  Maybe there are some great ideas for your next fair/market or even as gifts for a special occasion.  I hope you have enjoyed seeing them.  I am glad I have finally got to share them.  If you are after more ideas check this post out that I did some time ago for another fete/fair that I went to.

Now I can go back to sharing some projects I have been making with products from the new catalogues coming out NEXT WEEK!! I am so excited for these.

Come back and visit me soon,

Jenny 

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OUR ‘NIGHT OF NIGHTS’ AWARDS!!

Jenny Hayward

Just stopping by quickly to show you some more projects from our weekend.  Are you sick of it yet?????

Here are a couple more Make and Takes we did.

This is Andrea’s.  Isn’t it gorgeous!  Nice and sparkly for Christmas.

This one Leonie showed us.  That flower is gorgeous with the lovely hostess set “Because I Care”.

Don’t look too closely at the border.  I messed that one up.  I will do a little rescue on that later.  Just thought I would show you what can happen!! LOL  When you do the border using these Scallop Trim punches it is really important to have the exact size card piece before you start.  Gretchen has a great tutorial on this here to help you.

I will show you my card next post and give you the instructions for it.  So stay tuned!

On the Saturday night we had our ‘Night of Nights’ Dinner and Awards night.

For our dinner I embossed the napkins through the Big Shot using the Vintage Wallpaper Folder.  I found this idea on blogland somewhere but can’t remember where.  

To emboss them place the serviette in your folder like this.  I just did the centre section.  They stick together when it is done so you need to very carefully peel it apart and unfold it.

Here you can see the pattern clearly.  It makes a little fancier!

After dinner we had a ball at our dance party.  Haven’t danced like that in a long time!!!  Can’t show you too much of that one, but I will leave it to your imagination – 5 crazy women dancing the jive under the disco ball, and singing Karaoke into the TV remote!!  YEP!!  A wild time!  If that wasn’t enough we then had our Awards night.  Leonie and I had put some awards together.  Everyone received a “BEST ROOMIE”  Certificate and had the meaning of their names and their origin.  This is what I had made for everyone. 

It is a small Toblerone Chocolate.  I wrapped it it Soft Suede cardstock that I had ran the Very Vintage Wheel over.  The greeting is from ‘Upsy Daisy’ that was punched with the large oval punch and the edges sponged with Soft Suede.  Here is a close up.

The bird is stamped in Pretty in Pink ink with the hostess set “Punch Potpourri” and punched out with the 2-step bird punch.  I punched out the wing in Pretty in Pink and sponged the edge.   The leaves were punched out in Certainly Celery.  I was pleased how these came out.  I even did one for myself – and I haven’t touched the Toblerone yet!!!

Leonie and I presented the awards to everyone.

Andrea received a special award for achieving $50,000 in sales for her Stampin’ Up! career.  Isn’t that awesome.  Well Done Andrea. xx

(Isn’t that a nice photo of Leonie and Andrea!)

So much for a quick post.  Pop back again soon and I will show you my Make And Take and my challenge cards.  I think you have seen enough for today!!

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LAUNCH WITH A CAUSE!!!

Jenny Hayward

Last night we had our combined team Catalogue Launch.  We took the opportunity to use it as a fundraiser for Cancer Council.  It was a HUGE night, but I think everyone enjoyed it.  There was over 75 people there and we raised over $2500 for the night’s effort which was fantastic!  There will be more added to that over the coming weeks which can help in some small way to help in the research and treatment of Cancer.  So, what a great night!!

Each demonstrator had their own tables and did their own projects.  This is what we created at our table.  The lighting is not great, so I apologise for that.

Firstly the box,  I was inspired by this cute little box that Helen did here.  I altered the measurements and made the box larger, so you could fit small love note size cards (7.5cmx7.5cm) or a small cello bag with some choccie treats!!!  I have my measurements further below. 

I used the Very Vintage wheel across the front of the box in Baja Breeze. (NOTE: Do this before assembling!!!). I stamped the bird in Pretty in Pink with the new Level 1 Hostess set “Punch Potpourri”.   This is a great set.  It corresponds with a number of punches. I punched the bird out with the 2-step bird punch.  The small flower is from the small flowers in the set and stamped in Soft Suede and punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch. The leaves are punched out in soft suede and adhered straight onto the front of the box. I have used dimensionals to raise up the bird and flower.  The Rhinestone in the centre of the small flower is from some  newly aquired self-adhesive Rhinestones.  It didn’t take long to break open that pack!!  I punched out a hole with the small oval punch and tied a small bow with some of the gorgeous new Organza ribbon and adhered that with a glue dot.

Here are the instructions to the box.

MINI CARD BOX

1. Cut card to 24cmx16cm.  Score along the 16cm edge at 4cm and 12cm.  Score along the 24cm edge at 4cm, 12cm and 16cm.

2. Fold on score lines.  Along the 24cm edge, cut on each of the score lines until you meet the score line running along.  Repeat this on the other side.

3. Cut off the small 4cm square that is formed at the top, on both sides of the shorter edge.  This leaves a small tab in the centre measuring 8cmx4cm.  This is just on one end!  On this tab, use the small oval punch or Word Window punch to create a slot.

4. Stamp front of the the box as desired before assembling.

5. Use sticky strip or snail adhesive on side tabs and fold up on scored lines and adhere together.

6. Finish decorating box as desired.

Onto the card:

I used one of the new sets Printed Petals.  This is such a versatile set.  I stamped the small flower in versamark on the front.  I stamped the large flower in Pretty in Pink and the smaller one in So Saffron.  I cut these out and curled up the edges a little before raising them up on dimensionals.  Some more bling in the centre of these flowers with the Rhinestones.  The pink tag was cut with the Big Shot and the ‘Lots of Tags’ die.  I adhered this straight onto the card.  The greeting was from “Teeny Tiny Sentiments”  stamped and punched with the small oval punch.  I sponged the edges and raised that up with dimensionals.  It is a very simple card.  But it needed to be simple with so much else going on!!

I have rambled on a bit now but I will just show you a few photos of my lovely group of ladies hard at work.

Apart from some fun games we had to raise money we also had a large daffodil picture.  Everyone could place coins on it to fill the daffodil.  It was a great idea and I think we did well in filling it.  There is in fact $144 on there.  Isn’t that great!!!!

Just a “little” review of our night anyway.  It was worth the hard work.  I will be back soon with an account of my “Mystery Workshop” I had the other day.  There were lots of creating to be had there too!!!

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A SCALLOPED EASEL!

Jenny Hayward

It is my Mother-in-Law’s birthday today.  I knew she would be expecting something special, so the pressure was on!  Her favourite colour is red so I wanted to use this colour.  After much contemplating and hours trying to put this together, I finally finished!  AND she was pleased!!!!

Here it is.

I created a standard easel card base, but for the top I cut a scalloped circle using the Big Shot.  The flowers were made using the 2-step Bird Punch.  The Whisper White circle was cut with the Circle Scissors. I then ran it through the crimper one time then turned the circle 1/4 turn and ran it through again to create a faux seersucker effect, if that is what you call it.  The sentiment is from Teeny Tiny Sentiments from the Autumn Mini.  So, what do you think?

Thanks for stopping by.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

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SOME LITTLE GIFTS!!!

Jenny Hayward

Now I can show you these little books I made as gifts for some of my stampin’ buddies at convention.  I had grand plans for the gifts I wanted to make, but with 3 days to go and just finishing my swaps off – time was against me!

I created these little covers for the post-it notes.  I’ll give you the dimensions below.  Here they all are. 

Here is a close-up of 2 of them.

I added their initials on the front.  Some I used the scallop circle punch and others I used one of the tags from the BIG SHOT ‘Lots of Tags’ die.  The leaves are punched out with the 2-step Bird Punch.  I embossed the initials.  I didn’t want it just flat silver embossing, I wanted some bling to it.  I added the silver EP with the Heat and Stick and embossed, and then added Dazzling Diamonds to it before it set.  Then I heated it again.  Not sure if it was the right way about it, but it did have a bit of sparkle to it! Don’t know if you can see that in the photo though????

Do you want to see inside????

Just a little Freddo Frog to keep their energy up over the weekend.

Here are the dimensions for the cover.

Cut card 24.5cmx9cm.  Score card at 8, 10, 18.5 and 20.5cm.  Fold on score lines.  The short flap folds over and tucks under the tag or scallop circle that I added the front to secure it shut.  I made the cover a little deeper to fit the Freddo in.  I added various pieces of DSP to coordinate with the card that I used.  A great way to use up those small pieces of DSP!!!

So there is a quick project for you to whip up.  I have another project to show you from convention too.  I’ll save that till next time.

Happy Stamping!!   🙂

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A TRI-SHUTTER 50TH!

Jenny Hayward

I have seen these Tri-shutter cards around blogland recently and have been wanting to make one.  It was my Sister-in-Laws 50th Birthday last week so I thought it would be a good time to make this special card.  I first made this red one but when it was finished I found it was a bit too pink for her liking.  So I made another one up.

I have used the Pink Flamingo DSP. This is a great way to use up those little scraps you have lying around.  The greeting label was cut with the Big Shot and the  Tags die. The centre was punched out with the Wide oval punch.  I didn’t have a 50th stamp so hand wrote that.  I punched out some butterflies, first from Rose Red card and then some from the DSP and sponged the edges. 

 The leaves were punched with the 2-step Bird Punch and the flowers punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch.  You can see a close up of the flowers here.

After I punched the flowers out, I sponged the edges with Rose Red ink and then adhered them together.  I added a drop of Crystal Effects to create a centre dot. 

So, here is the other version.

I have used Night of Navy as the base card.  The DSP was  from the Baja Breeze Patterns paper and Urban Garden.  These are really fun cards to make and impressive when they open it up! 

Thanks for stopping by.  Happy Stamping!!