Tag: Because I care

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MOTHER OF PEARL FLOWER

Jenny Hayward

I wanted to stop by today and show you another Mother Of Pearl Technique card.  I created this card a few works ago as a Make and Take at a workshop.  I outlined the technique in the last post of the ‘Sail-Away’ Mother of Pearl card.  This weekend I took some photos while doing this technique again to help explain this a little easier.

Firstly,  here is the card.

The background is sponged with Pretty in Pink ink after creating the Mother Of Pearl.

Here is a close-up.  You can see the shimmer!

Here is the technique again – with photos this time!!! 🙂

Pour out a little white shimmer paint on acetate or plastic lid.  Form a ball from Cling Wrap and dab into the paint.  You only need a very little.

Dab the ball of Cling Wrap over your Gloss card.  You don’t want to cover the card entirely.

This is what the card looks like when finished dabbing over the Shimmer Paint.  You need to leave this to dry or heat it with the Heating Tool.

Once dry, you can sponge over ink in what colour you choose.  Here I have used Pretty in Pink.

Give the card a polish over with tissue.  This really brings out the shine.

(Sorry the photos aren’t very clear.  It was quite overcast when I took them, but I hope it gives you some idea!)  🙂

Now once the card is prepared you can stamp the image on.  Remember to use Staz-On.

Now you know how it’s done you can get creating.  If you are in need of Shimmer Paint and you don’t have a local demonstrator, then let me know and I can order some for you.

Have a good day,

Jenny x

cards, Challenges

ONE LAYER FLOWERS!!!

Jenny Hayward

I had a fun day yesterday with my stamping buddies – Leonie, Andrea and Tracey.  There is always plenty of laughs!!  Andrea had organised some challenges for us.  One of the challenges we did was for the ‘Less is More’ site.  You can see that here.  The challenge was a single layer card with flowers or trees.  Now I didn’t quite get to do this card yesterday, but I played around with it today.  I wanted to show you this card first so I can enter it into the challenge.  Here is my card. 

To stamp this, I inked the stamp from “Because I Care” in Certainly Celery.  I then misted the stamp with water lightly and stamped it on Confetti White card.  It is better to use watercolour paper to get a better spread but as it is a One Layer card, watercolour paper wouldn’t have been big enough.  Confetti White is a little thicker than Whisper White so it would work ok.  I rounded off each of the bottom corners on the card too.

I stamped the greeting in Old Olive and then  tied around some Certainly Celery Grosgrain ribbon. An adhesive Pearl was added onto the flower.  On this card I wanted to use a Silver Hardware Frame also but I stamped it too close to the edge.  I redid the card again to include the Hardware.  I was going to enter this version into the Challenge but wasn’t sure if the card had too much on it for a simple One Layer!  Here is this version.

Here is a close-up of the flower.

These photos seem a bit dark.  Not sure why but it doesn’t give such a clear photo of the card!!  I hope you get the general idea anyway.

Thanks for looking and pop back again soon.  I will show you the other challenge cards we did.

Jenny xx

cards, Challenges

JUST A BIT LATE FOR JAI!!

Jenny Hayward

I really wanted to play along with the Just-Add-Ink Challenge this week. I liked the sketch and it has been so long since I have been able to take part.  You can see the sketch here.  It wasn’t till Wednesday that I got some time and I just got my new summer mini goodies, so I had to play! This card just wasn’t going right though.  I ended up doing this twice to get it to work.  So, I missed the cut-off! But after all the trouble I went through, I thought I would show you anyway.  This is for JAI42.  Make sure you pop by and see all the stunning entries.  Wow! There is some pretty high standard work there! 

So, here it is!!!!

This is using some new goodies here from the upcoming Summer Mini Catalogue.  It is a bit hard to see but I stamped the flower from the Hostess set “Because I care” in Pretty in Pink on the Vanilla card before I ran it through the Big Shot with the new Lattice Embossing Folder.  I sponged around the edge then with the Pretty in Pink ink.  The base is Kraft (Crumb Cake).  I stamped the flower on another piece of Very Vanilla and tried to colour the flowers.  (I need a bit of work on this colouring thing! I ended up doing it a second time and it still wasn’t right.  This is the first one that I ended up using!!)  The ‘friends’ is from “Tiny Tags”.  Some lovely Victoria Lace and Antique brad finished it off. 

Better late than never right????   😉

I hope to play along this week.  It is Just Add Christmas.  I need to come up with something special though!

Have a lovely weekend.  I hope you can get time to stamp.  Why not play along with the JAI challenge this week and get going with your Christmas cards. 

Come back and visit soon. xx

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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!!