Tag: Big Shot

cards, Techniques

SUMMER LAUNCH!

Jenny Hayward

While I am in the Summer Mini Mode I thought I would show you the projects we did at my Mini Catalogue launch on Saturday.  It was a small group but we had a lot of fun – I think???  After a quick Scavenger Hunt through the Mini and checking out all the great new products, we did 2 projects. This was the first one.

This card was using the technique called Inlaid Embossing.  The stars were punched out from Whisper White Card and then adhered to the Real Red cardstock before running it through the Big Shot using the new Square Lattice Textured Impressions Folder.  It creates such a cool effect.  You can use any punched shape.  Just make sure that all the shapes are adhered down well.  I have use the ‘Extreme Guitar’ stamp and the crown is from the ‘Extreme Elements’ set.  The greeting is from ‘Short and Sweet’.  I punched this out with the small oval punch and then a black oval with the large oval punch.   I think this makes a cool guy card.   Do you think?????

The second card we did I kept a lot simpler.  It was using the fun ‘Aviary’ set. 

The bird stand was stamped on Very Vanilla in Chocolate Chip ink.   The cage was stamped on a scrap piece of Very Vanilla.  I stamped the bird in Baja Breeze ink.  The cage was then cut out and mounted with Dimensionals.  The greeting is from the set ‘Teeny Tiny Sentiments’, which can you believe is 50% off at the moment with the December Frenzy!  I scalloped the edge of the Chocolate Chip mat and adhered it all onto Crumb Cake card base.  I tied a little knot from the Victoria Lace and added that with a glue dot. 

I have so many Christmas projects that I have been working on so I will show you those in the next few posts.  Otherwise, it will be New Year before I finish!!

Until next time, Happy Stamping!

cards, swaps, Uncategorized

REGIONALS SWAPS SYDNEY 2010!

Jenny Hayward

It has taken a little while to get back here.  Sorry about that.  I have been laid up in bed sick for 2 days.  Finally, I could get these swaps sorted to show you.  Having so many makes it hard to photograph, especially with my little camera!!!  I have grouped them together to show you.  If you click on the photo you will see an enlarged photo to view it clearer.  

The Elegant Bouquet embossing folder was popular on a few! 

 

Some ‘Artistic’ ones! (with the stamp set and the Big Shot)

Lots of Christmas cards! Delightful Decorations were popular.

I wanted to show you these 2 particularly.  Both use the Petals-a-plenty Embossing folder.  The one on the left is by Cheryl Taylor. I like how she has left an oval not embossed in the centre to give a space for the sentiment.  The ornament is from ‘Contempo Christmas’.  It is hard to see in the photo but she has used Champagne Mist Shimmer Paint which gives a nice sparkle. The one on the right is from splendidstamping.com (sorry, I don’t know their name)  She has used non-traditional stamps ‘Dreams du jour’ and ‘Always’ to create the images.  The greeting is from ‘Contempo Christmas’ .  They are both simple but very effective.

I have to show you this clever creation too.

This is by Karen Cumming.  I chatted to Karen at Regionals about the “Cards for the Troops” she organises.  It was so wonderful to talk to her.  Go and check her blog out here and read some of the responses she has received back.  It is such a wonderful thing for the troops serving overseas to be able to send a Christmas Card back to their family at home.  It will make their Christmas!

Back to the creation.  This is a chocolate coin ornament.  How cool is it!!  The images are from ‘Artistic Etchings’.  She has stamped the medallion onto Real Red card and punched it out.  You need 2 per ornament.  Sandwich a chocolate coin in between.  The top is the crown stamped in Black and cut out and adhered to create the hanger.  Just tie some ribbon on, a few drops of Crystal Effects were added to the front and you are done.  I am going to whip up a few of these this Christmas!  Of course, you get really small ones in the pack of coins when you buy them.  But don’t worry, you just eat those ones!!!!!  Do you like the label Karen put on this.  “In case of emergency, Unwrap and eat!!!”  Too funny!!

Unfortunately, I didn’t take any photos of our group.  Too busy, chatting and taking in all the info given out.   I still haven’t finished my Make and Takes so I will have to get onto that.  But then, I still have some unfinished from convention!  Maybe on the holidays I will have some time to catch up – Perhaps!

I have some more Christmas creations to show you, so pop back soon.  Until then, Happy Stamping!  x

 

Stampin' Up!, swaps

SYDNEY REGIONALS!!

Jenny Hayward

I have just got back from Sydney Stampin’ Up! Regionals.  What a great day!!  There were lots of  ‘WOW’ and  ‘AAH’ moments.  So much to take in! I can’t wait to give all these different ideas a go.  I think that will have to wait a bit though until I get through the Christmas rush.  It was so great to meet up with lots of demonstrators that I chat to online or that I stalk their blog.  Of course, always a fun time with my stamping buddies too.  I received lots of great swaps back but I will need to go through them and take photos.  I will show you those soon.  I can now show you my swaps that I did.   I just kept to one design and did 2 different colours.

I started off doing the Old Olive.  After stamping the flowers from ‘Elements of Style’, I used the blender pen and inkpad to colour them in slightly.  This had been stamped on Very Vanilla, but I have to say it looks a little white in the photo.  I spritzed the card with the Old Olive marker.  A strip of Old Olive card was run through the Big Shot with the Very Vintage Wallpaper Embossing folder.  I added some Adhesive Pearls.  The sentiment is from ‘Teeny Tiny Sentiments’.

I decided to do some in the Rich Razzleberry.  I quite liked how these turned out.  I didn’t colour these ones.  I added Rhinestones on these ones.

These cards were inspired by a card by Natasha Zandbergen here. Why don’t you stop by her blog sometimes.  She does some beautiful cards!

After a big day, I’m heading off to bed.  I will try and get back very soon to show you the swaps I received.  Have a lovely Sunday!!!

cards

SCALLOPED DASHER!

Jenny Hayward

Just stopping by very quickly.  I am still working on my swaps for the Stampin’ Up! Regionals in Sydney this saturday, as well as a few other things.  I wanted to show you this Christmas card I did a few weeks back. 

You might have seen these around your blog travels.  I cut the scalloped circle with the Big shot from a folded card base.  Before cutting, line up the scallop circle die with part of the scallop just hanging off the edge of the fold line of the card.  Does that make sense???  I then cut a circle with the circle scissors from Whisper White card.  I embossed Dasher and the sentiment from Teeny Tiny Sentiments on the white card in Real Red.  I added a bow with the Real Red narrow taffeta ribbon and some Rhinestones to his antlers.  This is a very quick card!!

OK I should be off.  Best get to bed and get stuck into finishing my swaps tomorrow.  Come back and visit soon.

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

cards, Challenges

NOW FOR SOME CARDS!!

Jenny Hayward

I can now show you some of the cards I did on our wonderful stamping weekend.  I have shown you the other girl’s make and takes we did and I will get to mine at the end of this post.  First, I will show you the challenge cards we did.

This was my first challenge card.

STAMPS: Fifth Avenue Floral, Elements of Style

The next one I decided to do a Christmas Card.  This was for the “Clean and Simple’ Challenge (CAS78).

This was using some Early Espresso DSP from the Patterns Stack.  I stamped the “En Francais” stamp in Crumb Cake onto the Very Vanilla and sponged Crumb Cake around the edge.  The Old Olive strip was run through the Big Shot with the Perfect Polka Dots Embossing Folder.  I stamped an Ornament from Delightful Decorations and punched it out.  How good is it that you don’t have to cut this out, you can use the corresponding punch!!!  Which by the way, is one of the great Christmas Bundles on offer at the moment where you can get a roll of exclusive ribbon for FREE when you purchase any of the bundles.

Back to the card: I added a Self-Adhesive Rhinestone to the centre of the ornament.  I still wasn’t happy with it though.  Then when I got home I added some Linen thread which seemed to finish it off

For the next one.  Now, it was getting very late (or early depending on how you look at it!) by this time.  I slapped this card together quickly.

It’s not a great photo.  This was a ‘Clean and Simple’ challenge (CAS76).  I think I will do a faux metal crown for the top right square rather than the stamped and raised crown.  That will look a bit better – maybe!!

The next day we did another challenge.  It took me so long to do this card that I only had time to do one.  But, I was very happy with this one. 

This is with my new favourite set “Elements of Style”.  I have been looking at this set on US blogs for months.  I was so pleased to see it in the new catalogue.  I stamped the flowers in Crumb Cake and coloured it in with Pretty In Pink and Regal Rose ink and Blender pens.  I coloured the leaves in Old Olive ink.  I need a bit of work on my colouring.  It took so long to colour.  The bird was stamped in Pretty in Pink and Crumb Cake sponged aorund the edges.  The ribbon is retired Kraft Taffeta ribbon (Thanks Leonie!), but I think it matched nicely with this.

I stamped the inside too.

Now for my Make and Take.

This card was inspired by one I saw in our Demonstrator magazine we receive monthly.   The Rose Red Card measures 21cmx10.5cm and scored at 10.5cm.  I cut a circle out using the Circle scissors then ran the front through the Big Shot using the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder. 

This is the inside:

The Very Vanilla card was 10.1cmx10.1cm.  I sponged the edges in Rose Red ink and stamped the flourish from “Elements of Style”.  The heart is from the hostess set “Punch Potpourri” stamped in Rose Red and the flowers coloured with Pretty in Pink.  I punched this out and mounted this with mounting tape and a Rhinestone added to finish.  I tied a bow around the front with the Organza ribbon. 

Ok. That’s me done!!! You are probably sick of hearing about this weekend so I will leave it at that!  You have probably had enough of these marathon posts too.  I hope you have enjoyed our creations as much as we had making them. 

I’m off now to catch my breath.  I will see you soon with some more creations. 

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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!!

3D projects, Personal Ramblings, Tutorials

WHAT A GREAT WEEKEND!!

Jenny Hayward

I have just had the best weekend with a few stamping buddies.  While at the Stampin’ Up! convention in May this year a group of us who shared together decided that since the Incentive Trip was beyond us for this year then we should hold our own.

Leonie N. and I have been planning it for the past few months.  It all came together this weekend.  It was such fun!!!  Each of us shared a Make and Take, we had prize patrol, lots of special gifts and our “Night of Nights” Award Dinner.  I thought I would share some of our ventures and creating over the next few days.  

Firstly, I can show you what I made for each of my lovely friends.

I used the Newsprint DSP with Melon Mambo and black cardstock. The black card measures 16.5cmx8.5cm.  I scored it on the long side at 6.5cm.  This enabled the piece to bend easily.  I punched a circle in the top part with the 1 3/8″ circle punch.  I cut a 1 3/8″ circle from melon mambo and then a scallop circle over this to cut it out.   The label was cut with the “Lots of Tags” Die and I rubbed Champagne Shimmer Paint around the edge.  I cut the letters with the alphabet die and adhered that to the tag.  The small flower from the hostess set “Punch Potpourri” was stamped in Melon Mambo and punched out with the Boho Blossoms punch. I added a gold brad and raised that up off the letter with dimensionals.  Here is a close up to see it.

This is what was waiting for the guests.  Leonie had made up some fruit punch.  Doesn’t it look exotic!!!

Here is everyone enjoying them.

Andrea gave Leonie and I these special little chocolate boxes for organising the weekend.  Aren’t they gorgeous???? I’m sure they will taste yummy too, but you won’t know that, will you!

Stop by over the next couple of days and I will show you some of the cards that we made.  Maybe I can show you some other things we got up to too!!

3D projects, cards

A CARD FOLDER “JUST FOR YOU”

Jenny Hayward

I have been working on some card folders over the last week or so.  These would make great hostess gifts, or just a little “thank you” to someone.  Everyone needs a card now and then right!!!  They needed to be quick to make up, yet still impressive.  If you could say that about these ones anyway!!!  I used one of my favourite sets at the moment – “Just Believe”.

I did a bit of searching on the net but couldn’t find what I was after, so just made up these ones. 

This is the front of the folders:

The card measures 28cmx21cm.  Score the 21cm at 4cm and score the 28cm side at 14cm.  Fold up on the 4cm line. This creates a pocket. Fold in half on the 14cm scored line.  I rounded the corners at the top and then on the ends of the folded pocket inside.  I didn’t take any photos of the inside – sorry!  I had stamped the small leaf image from the set in Old Olive on the edges.  I added some Sticky Strip inside the pockets to adhere together.

For the front of the folder.  I cut a Top Not on the Big Shot on Certainly Celery Cardstock.  I then embossed it using the Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder.  I cut the Top Note in half and sponged Old Olive ink over the embossed edges.  I stamped the flowers from “Just Believe” in Old Olive ink onto Very Vanilla cardstock and layered it onto Certainly Celery Mat.  I inked up the words in Old Olive and punched it out using the Large oval punched and sponged the edges.  These were all layered onto the Old Olive card folder.  The words were raised with dimensionals and an adhesive Rhinestone was added for a bit of bling.  These folders were just big enough for 2 cards and matching envelopes.

Onto the cards:

These cards were cut at 10.5cmx 29.6cm and scored at 14.8cm in Very Vanilla Cardstock.  I cut off 2cm on one end.  I cut a piece of Old Olive cardstock 10.8cmx3cm and ran it through the big shot with the Very Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder.  (Actually because I did so many I had a larger piece and embossed it and then cut into 3cm strips).  I adhered this to the bottom edge of the Very Vanilla card.  TIP:  To make it easier to line up this piece, I layed the Old Olive piece on the bottom card, added adhesive to the top of the old Olive piece and then laid the top of the card over onto the Old Olive piece.  It makes it easier to line up.  For the text, I stamped the greeting from “Teeny Tiny Sentiments” in Old Olive and punched it out using the Word Window Punch.  Then adhered this to a large oval punched out in  Old Olive.  I raised this up with dimensionals.

I was pleased with the final result – and more importantly the recipients were very pleased. 

School has gone back now so hopefully there may be a little more time to create!  Until next time,

Happy Stamping!!

cards, Challenges, Techniques

TRY A NEW TECHNIQUE!!

Jenny Hayward

I was challenged this past week to try a technique I haven’t done before.  There is a lot of techniques on my “List to Do”!!  But I came across this technique recently and thought I had to give this a go.  It fascinated me.  It uses the Stampin’ Mist directly on your stamps. 

For this technique, firstly sponge your card all over with ink.  Then ink your stamp up with versamark and then mist the stamp lightly with Stampin’ mist.  Stamp onto your sponged card.  The image will appear.  I found the colour of the image will be different depending on the colour ink you have sponged with.  On this Baja Breeze card.  The image appears pink.  I found it was very faint so I stamped just next to it with Baja Breeze creating a shadow.  Where you have stamped with the versarmark image it is slightly raised and feels waxy.  It is amazing! 

I used the brand new stamp set “Just Believe”.  This is a beautiful set.  I cut the Top note out on the Big Shot before I had sponged and stamped.  I also cut out a Pretty in Pink Top note and layered it under this one.  I ran a piece of Baja Breeze card through the Big Shot using the ‘Perfect Polka Dots’ Impressions Folder.  I added some gorgeous Organza Ribbon and tied it using the “No Tie bow”  that Andrea has shown on her blog, originally done by the clever Selene.  These bows are so quick to do and look so elegant.

Next I tried Regal Rose.  That appeared more white. 

On the Regal Rose card I tied the ribbon and added a tag from the Tiny Tags set.   I layered the piece over a strip of Whisper White card that I had emossed on the Big Shot using the Vintage Wallpaper Die.  This is so beautiful!  I just added some bling at the bottom with the Adhesive Rhinestones.  This is a very simple card but I love the way it turned out.

So now, why don’t you go and try a technique you haven’t done before???  I have a lot on my list to complete!

Have a lovely weekend!