Tag: best wishes and more

cards, Challenges, Tutorials

BUTTERFLIES AND BLING!!!

Jenny Hayward

I’ve been a bad blogger this week!  Sorry about that.  I have been very busy creating, but they are for upcoming classes so I can’t show you them yet.  I just realised though that I hadn’t shown you this card.  On our team forum we had a challenge last month.  To make a card with purple, blue and green AND to have butterflies and bling!  How to combine all that on a card????

I wasn’t sure where to start.  I had borrowed the “Priceless” set and wanted to use that, and I have been wanting to try a triple panel card too. So, I played around with that.

Here is a close up of the BLING!!

I used Bashful Blue, Lavender Lace and Certainly Celery.  I don’t usually use the Soft Subtles colours but I liked these together.

Stamps: Priceless, Best Wishes and More.

Card: Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery, Lavender Lace, Whisper White.

Ink:  Bashful Blue, Certainly Celery,  Lavender Lace. (Ink pad and markers).

Other: Corner Rounder Punch, 1 1/4″ square punch (notches on the end of the text), 2 way Glue Pen, Dazzling Diamonds, Sponge, mounting tape, Bashful Blue Grosgrain Ribbon.

Here are the dimensions for the panels so you can make one up yourself.  I apologise in advance for the “exactness” of the measurements.  I like to have a 2mm border around my card edges, so working down from the base card it can get a bit “precise”.  You change it to how you like.

Base Card: 29.6cmx10.5cm   (Australian standard card size), scored at 14.8cm.   (Lavender Lace)

Mat: 14.4cmx10.1cm    (Bashful Blue)

2nd Mat: 14cmx9.7cm (Certainly Celery)

Panel Card: 13.2cmx9.3cm (Whisper White).  Stamp image first before cutting.  Cut card at 4.4cm and 8.8cm.

Got all that!!!  Why don’t you try one yourself! I’m off to do more creating. 

Don’t forget to get your FREE stamps for Sale-A-Bration. You have until the end of March to place an order for $100 and then choose your Sale-A-Bration set.  Easy as that!  Now is the good time to stock up on your inkpads and cardstock.  If you don’t have your own Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator then you can email me your order and I can have it sent directly to you anywhere in Australia.  You can click on the link in the right hand side bar to check out the catalogues.

Happy Stamping!! 🙂

3D projects, Challenges

THIS TIME A 3D CHALLENGE!!

Jenny Hayward

Ok, I’m a little behind in posting at the moment. Life gets a bit busy! I have shown you in a few recent posts dfferent challenges we did on a Cyberstamp weekend with fellow Aussie Demos. One of the challenges was a 3D challenge. This was set by the lovely Leonie. Go and check her blog out. She is one very creative lady.
We had to make this gift bag. It is such a quick bag to make once all the bits are cut. You need a brown paper bag with a base like you get at McDonalds. Now you can see all these demos racing off to McDonalds that weekend for their burger and paper bag! LOL
Now I just made a bag-A-Lope from a brown paper bag. If you are not sure how to make one of these, the instructions can be found here on Splitcoast. This is my creation. I did adjust the size of mine because my bag was a bit bigger, but it is a great size for some choccies and card.

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Stamps: Best Wishes and More.

Card: Choc Chip, Whisper White, Old Olive, Good Morning Sunshine DSP.

Ink: Old Olive.

Other: Choc Chip grosgrain ribbon, 1 1/4″ Circle Punch, 1 3/8″ Circle Punch, Scallop Circle Punch, Brown Paper bag, Velcro Strip (to close the bag).

I love this little bag.  It is sooo cute.  I’m going to have to make another one very soon.  When I catch up on everything else!!

Have a good Day 🙂

cards, Challenges

A HEART FOR BELLA!

Jenny Hayward

This is for all you die-hard Twilight fans.  (I probably shouldn’t use that term!!).  I just made this card today.  Funny how inspiration comes to you.  I was out walking my dog this morning and I passed by a car that had a crystal hanging from the rear view mirror.  As I am reading Eclipse at the moment (the 3rd in the series) it got me thinking about the crystal heart that Edward gave Bella (and we all go AAHHHH!!).  Anyway, I was thinking about it on a card and came up with this.  Last week our team challenge was to use red and embossing.  Since I hadn’t got around to doing it yet I thought that would work well with this card.

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Here is a close-up of the heart so you can see the sparkle.

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I stamped the Baroque Motifs swirl in Versamark and Basic Black and clear embossed them on Real Red card.  I did the same with the word ‘cherish’.  I stamped the heart from ‘Best Wishes and More’ in versamark onto vellum.  I sprinkled over heat and stick powder and heated it with the heating tool.  I then sprinkled over dazzling diamonds and heated it again slightly.  You need to heat the vellum gently so it doesn’t burn.  I cut it out and adhered it to the card.  I sponged around the edges with basic black.  I then adhered this to black card and then to real red base.  There you have it.- Bella’s crystal heart!!  TFL.