Have you checked out the 25% off List yet??? You only have until tonight. There are some great stamps on this list and I am sure there are one or two that have been sitting on your Wish List for some time????
You can order there if you like. Use the Hostess Code Q73ZV3E3 if you are shopping there. OR drop me an email with your order and I will fix that up for you.
I have had the new Stampin’ Up! Best of Christmas stamps for a couple of weeks now and only yesterday managed to get some ink on them. Here is a side-spring card for you. I was inspired by a swap card I received from convention using this fold and thought I would use this fold to make a different Christmas card. You can find a tutorial to make these on Splitcoaststampers here. They are quite easy to do once you work out the scoring and folding.
Here is the card.
I stamped the santa on watercolour paper and coloured him using the Blender pen and inkpads. I used Cherry Cobbler for his hat and Blushing Bride for his face. The little holly on his hat was coloured with Old Olive. I stamped him on the angle of the card so it would sit right when it was sitting up. I added a little sponging, some pearls and some burlap twine. The greeting is from the More Merry Messages.
Why not head over to Splitcoaststampers and make yourself up one of these. They are very cute.
Thanks for stopping by today. I hope all is well in your part of the world.
Jenny
A couple of weeks ago just before our last team meeting I realised I hadn’t done swaps yet. These are not compulsory but I really hadn’t done any for a few months and yet another meeting comes by and I haven’t got anything to share. What was I going to do??? It was a couple of hours before I had to leave. I did a quick trawl on Pinterest. Isn’t that your ‘go to’ site!!!! I found some little Christmas tags that inspired me. So thought I would create some little simple tags similar to the ones I saw.
Here are the ones I created. It is not the best photo as I was just dashing out the door to leave. I gave everyone a couple of them each. I know it is only a small token BUT it was something. I realised I didn’t even keep any for myself though! DOH!
I used the Chalk Talk Framelits to cut the tags from Whisper White and Crumb Cake. I punched out little shapes using the Merry Minis punch pack. Did you know these were still available??? They are very cute. I adhered these to the tags and added a Rhinestone on the ones cut from coloured card. Then I added a small greeting. These ones are from Petite Pairs and Teeny Tiny Sentiments. I added some co-ordinating twine to finish them off. Job done in record time. I will just have to be a bit more organised next time. 🙂 Have a great day in your part of the world. It’s a lovely sunny day here. I think Summer has hit us early.
Till next time,
Jenny
Christmas is not far off so it will be great to get started on your Christmas cards this month if you haven’t already done so. Your Stamp At Home Kits this month includes card and embellishments for 5 cards – 1 Fun Fold card and 2 each of 2 different design cards. Take the guess work out of creating your cards.
I have used the stamp set ‘Evergreen’ so you could use a similar set but why not get the stamps set too. I have 2 different packages to choose from:
Includes all cardstock cut and scored to make 5 cards and ribbon is included. All you need is the adhesives. PLUS receive the ‘Evergreen’ Stamp set.
WOOD-MOUNT Pick-up Order $62.20
Shipped to anywhere in Australia $65.90
CLEAR-MOUNT Pick-up Order $52.75
Shipped to anywhere in Australia $56.90
Includes all cardstock cut and scored to make 5 cards and ribbon is included. All you need is the adhesives. $15 + $3 Postage.
Drop me an email or a comment if you would like to order a kit. These are available until October 4th.
Happy a happy day 🙂
Jenny
This is a card we made at a workshop last week using Calm Christmas. When I first saw it I thought it would look great embossed.
I CASED this from a card from Splitcoaststampers. The paper is from the Winter Frost DSP Paper Stack. This pad of papers is such great value at $11.95 for 48 sheets. The size is just right to use on a card front or you have a lot to play with to add strips to the card like I have here. You get 24 sheets of 2 double-sided designs. I love the colours used in this pad. So I think I will be making a lot of cards using this colour pallette for Christmas this year!
Anyway, back to the card. The dove was silver embossed which gives it such a nice shine. I added a strip of Island Indigo card that was punched with the Ribbon Border Punch and layered over some silver ribbon. The greeting from this set is silver embossed too. This was punched out with the Scallop Circle Punch and layered over an oval punched from Island Indigo. I added a silver bow to the top of the greeting.
I have some more cards to come with this set so stay tuned.
Thanks for visiting me today. I hope you have a happy week. 🙂
Jenny
Have you kissed lately??? Your stamps – what else would I be talking about!!! Here is a recent ‘Kissed’ card I made using the’ Butterfly Collection’ wheel.
I have used Melon Mambo and Pumpkin Pie. The other stamp sets I have used are ‘Gorgeous Grunge’ and ‘Oh Goodie’ which is a sneak peak at a stamp set in the upcoming Holiday Catalogue.
This card was inspired by a project in last month’s Demonstrator magazine. I really liked the effect so I thought I would give it a go, and I thought I would share with you how to do it too. So, let’s get kissing!!!
1. Firstly, take an Embossing Folder with a small print on it. I have used the Square Lattice folder. Run a piece of scrap Whisper White card through it.
2. Ink up your wheel and run your wheel over the card. Alternatively, ink a solid image stamp and stamp on the embossed card. This is taking off some of the ink on your wheel or stamp. OK now you are thinking, Why can’t you wheel or stamp directly on to the Embossing Folder. You can but it doesn’t give you such a defined impression. Try it and see. (I did!!). It really pays to do the extra step.
3. Run your wheel over a second piece of Whisper White card that you are using for your finished card. You will see the embossed print on your stamped image.
4. For the finished card above, I inked up the wheel in Pumpkin Pie and repeated the steps. That is I ran it over the scrap Whisper White. You can use the same piece you already used it doesn’t matter as you are just wanting to take off some of the ink. Then wheeled it over another strip of Whisper White card. I cut the middle row of butterflies out and adhered them over the Melon Mambo piece I had previously inked. (As in Step 3).
For the card I finished it off with some black Taffeta ribbon.
I hope you like this technique. Now go and get kissing your stamps – and Embossing Folders.
Have a great weekend,
Jenny
It was one of our Great-Nephews 4th Birthday on Sunday. Now, I had to make a card for the special Birthday boy. Since his Pop owns some property and is always driving his tractor around, I thought a tractor card would go down well!!!
I have used a number of different punches to put this tractor together: 1 3/4″ scallop circle, 1 3/4″ circle, 1″ circle, 3/4″ circle, word window plus the cupcake punch for the clouds. The rectangles for the body of the tractor were 1″x2″. I used 3 of these and joined together and 1 that size for the trailer. The ‘4’ was cut with the Timeless Type Alphabet/numbers die. I realised when I took the photo that the wheels were a bit uneven. Too late to change it. I don’t think a 4 year old would be worried – would he????
His parents have recently become engaged, which we were really pleased to hear. So I made them a card to celebrate. It might not be your typical engagement card but I think it suited them.
This card was inspired by a card I saw some time ago on the blogosphere and I can’t remember who by now. I think it is a cute card to celebrate the special event.
Thanks for looking today. It is nice to have you stop by. Come again soon,
Jenny
I loved the new set ‘Flower Shop’ in the catalogue. Do I really need another flower stampset??? OH YES!!!! I love the flowers in this set AND to have a matching punch. Awesome! No fussy cutting these pretty babies! I have been playing around with this set recently. Here is one of the cards with the gorgeous In Colors.
The sentiment is from ‘A Dozen Thoughts’ which I have been playing with. I punched the sentiment out with the Curly Label Punch. Don’t you love the ribbon? This is the Ruffle Stretch Trim in Crisp Cantaloupe.
I will tell you though punching the flowers out can be a little frustrating as they are not symmetrical. It takes a little fiddling to line it up each time. I found a couple of videos on my blog travels to help line up the stamps in the punch. The one I saw was by Connie here. You can stop by there and check it out but I have done out a written tutorial for you if that helps.
1) Make a mark at the bottom edge of your flower punch. Punch a flower from scrap card. When you take it out of the punch, don’t turn the punch-out around. Lay it down and make a mark at the bottom of the punch. You know that point will always be to the bottom.
2) Stamp a flower on White card. Line the punched flower over the stamped flower until you get it to match up. There are particular markings on the punch and flower that enable you to see where it fits best. You have an extra divet in the flower so look out for that. (By doing these steps it enables you to see where to line it up each time so you don’t have to try turning it and twisting it in all directions each time! Believe me I know!!). Once you have the place then mark that on the stamped image.
Here I have just pulled the punched out flower up so you can see what I mean.
3) Place the stamped image over the stamp to line it up with that. (You could probably just place the punch-out over the stamp but it can be a bit easier having the stamped image to go by).
Once you have it lined up, place a mark on the stamp with a permanent marker like I have shown. You know this goes on the bottom of the punch each time.
From the top of the block.
From the side of the block: You can do this whether it is wood-mount or clear-mount.
4) Now when you stamp the flower, stamp it with the mark on the rubber stamp closest to you ie at the bottom. Pick up the stamped image and punch out straight away without turning it.
5) You will need to mark each of the stamps in the same way. This does take a little time initially but believe me, it saves a lot of time and frustration each time you stamp!!!!
ANOTHER TIP: I have marked the rubber insert in my clear case with marks so that when I put the stamps away I don’t have to turn and twist them each time to get them to fit the right way.
I hope this is helpful to you.
Just a note on the card above too. This is a little sneak of one of the cards you can make in my card kits being released later this week. Stay tuned for more details. 🙂
Have a good day,
Jenny
I wanted to show you a special card today for my gorgeous big boy. I have probably bored you enough about his Football pursuits BUT well it is his 17th birthday today so I have to show you the card I made for him. I have had a number of people share this idea with me over the last few months. Thanks so much my friends. So I only just remembered to use this idea for his card. This idea originally came from the blogosphere somewhere (sorry I can’t remember where) but recently it was on Pinterest.
I used Cherry Cobbler which is close to his club colours since I don’t have Bravo Burgundy anymore. The ‘Fence’ was created by brayering the inside of the Stripes Embossing Folder with Soft Suede and running Whisper White Card through it. The card was too wide to fit so I cut it in half before embossing it and then joined it together on my Old Olive Card base. (See you don’t even notice do you???). I added a strip of Soft Suede card along the top of the fence.
Punches I used for the Football Dude:
1 3/8″ circle, 1 1/4″ circle, 1″ circle, 3/4″ circle, Word Window and 2-step Owl Punch. I did a little cutting of some of the circles to adapt them to what I wanted. The Helmet cage took the most work. It is not quite right but it is OK, although Glenn and Josh thought it was a cool beard!!!!!????? The stamp sets I have used are ‘Great Sport’ for the football and ‘Itty Bitty Banners’ for the greeting.
I hope you like my cool dude anyway.
HAPPY 17th BIRTHDAY JOSH!! xx
Here are my gorgeous two this morning. Love you both xx
A Stamping Journey 