Happy Watercolor – A Stamping Journey

HAPPY WATERCOLOR THANKS!

May 16, 2014May 16, 2014 Jenny Hayward

Just a quick post for you today. We are heading off for the weekend to our Church Camp. I get back Sunday and then get ready for Convention in Melbourne. So much excitement! I thought though I would show you these little Thank You cards I made for my lovely customers who have placed orders recently. I do appreciate them. 🙂

I have used the set ‘Happy Watercolor’ from the Occasions Catalogue. I can’t believe this set is not in the upcoming catalogue. So if you want this set you better grab it now!!

This is just a simple, quick card. They are 10cmx10cm cards (4″x4″). I stamped the flower in Baked Brown Sugar and the the splodge over the flower either in Crisp Canteloupe or Pistachio Pudding. I stamped the dots over the card and added the Thank You from the set. A little bow with the Linen Thread finished it off.

Have a wonderful weekend. I will stop by early next week and show you my swaps before I head to Melbourne.

Jenny

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TANGERINE HAPPY WATERCOLOR

April 14, 2014April 14, 2014 Jenny Hayward

I made this card a few weeks ago and forgot to show you. This is using the stamp set ‘Happy Watercolor’. The card was CASED from Pinterest from Allison’s blog here.

I stamped the “splodges” from the set in Coastal Cabana onto Whisper White and then stamped the flower and the dots in Soft Suede. The greeting is from ‘Simply Sketched’. I stamped the flower again on scrap white card. I coloured the flower using Tangerine Tango and Daffodil Delight ink using an aquapainter and inkpads. Just squeeze the ink pad a couple of times when it is closed then you can pick up the ink from the pool of ink on the lid. I cut the flower out and adhered this over the flower on the White stamped card after I had adhered this to the Tangerine Tango base card. To finish this off I adhered a few gold sequins randomly over the card.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have a happy day 🙂

Jenny

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SCALLOP TAG TOPPER TRI-FOLD CARD!

March 10, 2014March 10, 2014 Jenny Hayward

When I first got my Tag Topper Punch I thought it would look cool to make a fold out card with it. I had seen a couple around my blog travels but wasn’t sure how to go about it. Well I made one AND I have put together a tutorial just for you so you can make one yourself.

Here is some close-ups.

Now on to the Tutorial.

SCALLOP TAG TOPPER PUNCH TRI-FOLD CARD!

1. Cut your base card to 14.8cm x 21cm. (I used Baked Brown Sugar). On the 21cm side score the card at 7cm and 14cm.

2. Slide the edge of your card (long side) in to your Tag Topper Punch. It takes a little wiggling but you can get the card in and line it up in the first scored section in to the punch. You can roughly line the card up between the rectangle shape on the top of the punch where the image of the punch is on. See the photo.

Punch the card. Then move it along to the next scored section. Line it up and then punch again. Repeat for the last section again.

Trim off the excess tabs to level them off.

NOTE: The card does get a little bent when you punch it out but just press over it and when you add the card to the front you don’t notice it.

3. Cut your card mat pieces and whisper white and DSP (designer series paper).

Card mats (I used Crisp Canteloupe) measures 6.6cm x 12.2cm (3 in total).

Whisper White (x2) and DSP piece(x1) 6.2cm x 11.8cm. The DSP is from Venetian Romance.

I stamped one of the Whisper White pieces with the flower from ‘Happy Watercolor’ in Baked Brown Sugar and coloured it with the Aquapainter and inkpad.

To finish the card off I sponged the white card pieces and the DSP with Crisp Canteloupe ink and adhered them to the card. I added some Gold Washi Tape and also some gold sequins over the card (still not sure about these???). Then I tied some Crisp Canteloupe Ruffled ribbon through the holes and tied them off with Linen Thread.

Here it is again – the finished off card.

Do you like it????? Why not go and make one for yourself.

Thanks for taking the time to visit me in your day. I do appreciate it as I know your time is precious. I hope you are inspired.

See you next time.

Jenny x

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EASY WATERCOLOUR!!!

January 16, 2014January 16, 2014 Jenny Hayward

I have been playing with some new goodies. You are going to love some of these new products coming out in the new Occasions catalogue. The dilemma was what to play with first! I did play around with some of the other stamps but thought I would show you this card first. This stamp is from the stamp set ‘Happy Watercolor’ that will be out soon. It has some great images. You know the great thing about this set is that if you find watercolouring difficult this makes it so easy. In the set are a couple of “splodges” if you like to call them that and you can just stamp over the image to create a watercolour wash. No need for detailed watercolouring although you can still do that if you choose. Too easy!!!

Doesn’t this make you think of Ice-Cream??? LOL Maybe it’s just the heat getting to me!

I have also used the new Scalloped Tag Topper Punch. You can create tags any length you like. Plus check out the Embossed Background. This is using the Decorative Dots Embossing Folder that you will be able to choose for Free during Sale-A-Bration! How cool is it!! Colours used are Pistachio Pudding and Baked Brown Sugar. I have just added a Linen Thread bow to finish it off and the greeting is from ‘Remembering Your Birthday’.

This is one of the cards you will be able to make at my ‘Upcoming Birthday Card Buffet’. All the details you can find in this post here. It is on February 8th. Places are booking out fast so if you want to join us you better book in quickly.

Thanks for visiting. Hope you are surviving the extreme weather conditions wherever you are. In Australia we are having heatwaves but I have heard of all the extreme storms and cold in the UK and the US. Stay safe!

Jenny x