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CONVENTION SWAPS!

May 9, 2015May 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I have finally had a chance to go through my swaps and take photos. I thought you might like to see them. There are some great ideas. I have grouped them to help you see them. If you would like a closer view of one or to know about it more then let me know.

Butterflies are always popular!

Flowers of all types!

I took photos of these next 2 separately to show you as I liked these ideas.

On the left is a collage card. I have been wanting to try one of these. One on the right is a triple layer stamped card using ovals. It looks great! (I will give this one a go too).

A variety of cards here.

Some ideas for the men!

These are gift card holders, tea bag holder and little tags. Check out the black dress.

I had to take a close-up of the dress. It is using the Bow punch. How clever!

Some little treat holders. Very cute!

Tags and bookmarks

There you go. Thanks to those people who swapped with me. There are some great ideas for you to try. What is your favourite?? What will you try first?? I think I will need to grab my bow punch and try the dress out.

Thanks for stopping by today. Join me again soon,

Jenny

3D projects, cards, Masculine, Stampin' Up!

A MASCULINE GIFT BOX AND CARD WITH ‘GUY GREETINGS’.

April 30, 2015April 27, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I showed you my Convention swaps earlier. I hope you like them?? When I was just finishing the cards off last week I realised how similar one of the cards were to a Gift Box I made recently and what a great gift set it would make. What a coincidence!

Here they are together. I have used the Guy Greetings stamp set.

I did not plan this at all but how cool! If you want to see more details of this cute faceted box then you can check my blog post HERE. It has the link to make your own box in that post too.

Maybe that will be just the idea to fill with chocolates for a masculine birthday – or maybe for Father’s Day????

Thanks for stopping by,

Jenny

cards, Convention, Masculine, swaps

SOUTH PACIFIC STAMPIN’ UP! CONVENTION 2015!

April 28, 2015April 27, 2015 Jenny Hayward

As you read this I will be on my way to the Gold Coast, Queensland for the South Pacific Stampin’ Up! Convention. So exciting!!

The best part of this is meeting up with online demonstrator friends and swapping cards with them. Oh yes! There are great demonstrations of projects and sneak peeks too 🙂

So I thought I would show you my swaps I have done. This year I made less than I usually do. Time was a little against me.

Here are my cards.

I have used the set ‘Guy Greetings’. The card on the right I have CASED from Lisa Young (addinkandstamp.blogspot.com) HERE. This card then inspired my card on the left.

The base card for both is Night of Navy. I used Very Vanilla mat. I cut an oval shape on scrap card to form a mask and placed this over the Hardwood background stamp. I inked up the Hardwood stamp by patting the Crumb Cake ink over the mask and stamp. I removed the mask and stamped the Hardwood stamp onto the Vanilla cardstock. The anchor and tool images are both stamped in Night of Navy ink on Whisper White card.

For the card on the right I added ‘Epic Day’ Washi Tape and this greeting was stamped in Basic Gray.

For the card on the left, the greeting is stamped in Night of Navy. I added some loops of linen thread on the back of the card. To create these loops, I loosely wrapped the linen thread twice around 2 fingers and cut the linen thread at this point. I added Glue dots to attach the loops under the top left of the image which had been matted onto Night of Navy card. Then I made one loop and attached it under the bottom right. Glue dots are the best way to attach the loops.

I hope you like them. I can’t wait to receive the swap cards in return. I will share them with you when I get back.

I will try and post again later in the week but most of the updates will be on my Facebook business page. You can ‘Like’ me if you haven’t already. Just click on the link in the right column.

Thanks for stopping by today 🙂

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ADVENTURE BOUND + HELLO YOU. GREAT FOR THE MALE CARDS!!

January 9, 2015January 9, 2015 Jenny Hayward

I just have to share these cards I made yesterday. I am not great at making male cards. Aren’t they hard to make??? The new Adventure Bound Designer Series Paper Stacks in the Occasions Catalogue makes creating them so much easier. Actually there are a lot of great “male” sets in this catalogue.

The prints in the stack are beautiful. You really don’t need too much more with them on your cards. I have used the new ‘Hello You’ Thinlets and the ‘Crazy About You’ stamp set with them and kept the embellishments very simple. I was thinking of putting Candy Dots on them but didn’t get around to it. I don’t think it needs them really. I like the clean look.

Here they are individually.

The Adventure Bound Stacks are great value at $11.95. (p 40 of the Occasions Catalogue). You get 48 sheets – 4 each of 12 double-sided designs. Sized right for the front of your cards.

You can get the Thinlets and Crazy About You set as a Bundle. (p 31). For Bundle price W $112.95 C $94.25 Photopolymer $72.95. They are available individually too.

So if you have a hard time with cards for the boys then grab one of these stacks.

Thanks for stopping by today,

Jenny

cards, Stampin' Up!, swaps

2014 SOUTH PACIFIC CONVENTION SWAPS!

June 2, 2014June 2, 2014 Jenny Hayward

As promised, I finally have my swaps from last week’s Stampin’ Up! Convention all sorted to share with you. I have tried to organise them into separate categories to make it easier.

So here they are ……

Vintage/Shabby Chic Style

Masculine type

Geometric and a few others

Technique Style

Flowers of all types

Butterflies

3D (tags, notebooks, boxes)

Christmas

I hope some of these inspire you in your creating. That’s why I like to share them. If you have any questions on any of them or would like some close-ups then let me know.

Enjoy 🙂

cards, Masculine

“BLUE RIBBON CONGRATS”

August 14, 2013August 14, 2013 Jenny Hayward

One of my Nephew’s recently graduated from University so I wanted to make a card congratulating him. I didn’t think I had a ‘Grad’ stamp but then I remembered the Blue Ribbon stamp set.

It is a hard to tell by the photo but I clear embossed the ‘Congrats Grad’ after I stamped it in Black. So it has a nice shine to it. This was punched out with the 1 3/8″ circle. The Scallop was stamped in Pacific Point and punched out with the 2 3/8″ Scallop Circle. The tail outlines were stamped in Pacific Point and then I stamped the words over it with Black. The Whisper White card was embossed with the Chevron Embossing Folder. This was layered on a Basic Black mat and then a Pacific Point card base. I have added some Black Taffeta ribbon. It doesn’t hurt to add a little bling on a boy’s card either does it???

Thanks for stopping by today. I hope you can visit me again soon.

Jenny

cards, Masculine, Personal Ramblings

‘CLOCKWORKS’ – FOR THE BOYS!!

April 26, 2013April 26, 2013 Jenny Hayward

We all have trouble with cards for the Boys, don’t we???? I have a card for you today using the stamp set ‘Clockworks’. I created this a couple of weeks ago when I was after some samples for class. I must say I did CASE this from ‘nicepeoplestamp.com’. I have seen versions of this on Pinterest too. I changed the colours on my card.

I have used Gumball Green, Early Espresso and Crumb Cake. It’s a quick card for those male cards we need to make. I should play around with this set a bit more. I really haven’t used this set since I got it at Stampin’ Up! Regionals in September last year. Just so many toys to play with sometimes!!!

Speaking of Boys, I thought I would give you a quick update on how the boys went last week at the National Gridiron Championships that Josh was playing in. Just spare me a little “proud Mummy moment” OK 🙂 Last post I mentioned how New South Wales won their first game 36-24 after coming back in the second half to win. The next game they played they won 69 NIL. I did feel really sorry for the other team. With two wins it meant they were through to the Grand Final held last Saturday. It was a very tough game but NSW dug deep and their Defence was strong. NSW were named Australian Champions with a win of 7-0. It was a nail-biting finish though. Well done NSW. Well done Josh. Here he is in action in the Grand Final. He is #28 – on top of the pack in the middle – of course!