Metal and loving it!

These are the cards that I taught last night and will be teaching again tomorrow.  if you miss the class and want to book your own just email me. 

The techniques shown are faux metal and metal shim.  Hope you enjoy, let me know what you think.

Metal shim leaves peak out of this flower pot card with coordinating dazzling dimonds for extra shine!

Swaps for Hamilton Training Day

Hi all

 

Its been another long time since I  have Posted.  So sorry!  I have been very busy about doing things.  Hello to all of you who were at the Rotorua Womans Expo last weekend – it was great to see so many of you stop excitedly at our Stampin’ Up! stand and enter the competition for the big basket of stamps and inks.  Congrats to Melissa who won the goodies – I hope you will really enjoy those. 

This coming weekend I have a class here and then on Sunday I am off to Hamilton with the girls for another exciting training day.  At these days Stampin’ Up! demonstrators get together and teach each other cool new stamping techniques and other papercrafty things.  We also do swaps, you make a few of one card design and swap it with other people to get a large variety of designs of cards to keep.

Here are the swaps I have made:

    

The cards were made using a brayered background technique ( i will be teaching this on both the 23rd and 25th July card classes)  Making over a dozen of these at once, you can imagine the amount of ink I have rolled about the show!

Almost done, brayering and sponging were used to make the fronts for the cards.

the Organic Grace Level one hostess free stamp set was used to make the silhouettes of brush and dragonfly

 

So you can see that training days are just one of the great reasons to become a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator (earning money and getting a good discount on your own craft supplies aside!).  The trainings offer fantastic support, friendships ( we are going out for dinner after this weekends one!), and sharing of both cards and ideas.  I will try to get a few good pictures of some of this weekends projects we make and put them up to show you all!

If you would like some more information about joining my team and becoming a Stampin’ Up! demonstrator just email me at jabright@xtra.co.nz .  I would love to share the Stampin’ Up! opportunity with you.

Bind-it-all Postit holder

Hi everyone!

 

I’m home sick today and had enough of sitting on the couch feeling sorry for myself.  So I surfed the net and saw this cute idea!  Sorry i can’t find were it was from now but saw a video on U-Tube making a Post-it note holder using the Zutter Bind-it-all and thought ‘perfect!  I just bought some cool new red O-wires in the weekend, lets have a play!’

This is what I made; a cute little gift for Delys – my upline, creative inspiration and great friend!  Thankyou for all you do to help me out Delys, theres a pressy here for you next time i see you! 

I used the Riding Hood red DSP, ink, taffeta ribbon and cardstock, Cheep Talk stamps and Chip board coasters and Zutter binding system.  I have also now added a little more to the front cover since I took the photo, hense no detailed shot of that.  Fun little project.  If you live in the Whakatane – Rotorua area and would like me to teach you how email me at jabright@xtra.co.nz and I will put together a class.

Waterfall album

Caitlyn and Maia star in this little waterfall album that i made last week.  Delys Cram adapted the waterfall card technique and showed us how to make a great minialbum: This is my spin on it!

 

 

just pull 'here' and see the pictures tumble like a waterfall

detail of the front cover

I’m really pleased with the result.  I used the Stampin’ Up! Rasberry Tart DSP with pretty in pink and rose red cardstocks and daubered around the edges to give a soft finish.  I also used the flower from the Three Little Words stamp set as i felt it coordinated well with the papers. The ribbon slide and brads are from theStampin’ Up! silver hodge podge set.

Please do comment…

Up2Scrap Challenge

Okay, so this is NOT Stampin’ Up!  I have used some cool Kaiser Craft papers that I got at Christmas time last year!

The challenge was to use some non-square shapes for your layout and then also use the stetch on the Up2Scrap blog for the May Trend Challenge.  Heres the result

 

close-up of details on layout

This was a fun LO to do and i tried out some techniques I’ve been wanting to have a play with, like the paper rolls!

Thanks Delys for showing us the Up2Scrap May Trend Challenge and for your guidance in some cool techniques last night!

Mother-In-Laws Birthday Card

Heres a quick look at a card I did a couple of days ago and sent  to the DH’s Mum.  I used up some of the 2008 In Color card stock and ribbon i still have and made a flip-flop card.  Sorry, used lots of stamps that have just retired too ( they were current three days ago when i made it!)

top view - from front

Closed

open

 

Not sure what just happened with the size of the picture there but you get the picture right?  LOL.  I must need a sleep now!

Jenn

Looong time, no post!

Sorry everyone!   I have been really busy with going back to work (the other job as a Science technician), sick kids, planning birthday party’s, creating layouts, cards and other projects for classes…  I humbly appologise for neglecting my online peoples!

In all of this madness i also can’t make it to our teams awesome training day this Saturday in Hamilton.  However i have been busy creating some cards for the swap.  Heres a peak…

 

Okay so the photo does not do them any justice!  I took it at night and the light is terrible!  What the cards have is a rectanlge scallop window that  has been punched out using the scallop square punch punched twice, one overlapping the other.  There is then a window of acetate stamped in Black Stazon ink.  The stamps used are the Fresh Cuts stamp set.  Available now in the new catalogue – view this here.  Colours are Chocolate Chip, Kiwi Kiss (new In Color available now!) and whisper white.  Loving this combination right now!

 

Must go and organise birthday party loot bags!  Then the Make’n'Take for This Saturdays New Catalogue open day at my house.  1.30 pm 4th April, come and have a drink, some good cheese and pate and see the new products available in the 2009-2010 catalogue!!  Phone to let me know you are coming so I have enough ready and can give directions if needed (07) 3046363.

Ciao

Jenn

Hostesses be in to win!!

Okay, i have been meaning to post this for a while.  I have a bit of a competition going for my hostesses between 20th Jan – 30th march.  If you host a workshop in this time with myself or Delys ( my upline!) then you go in the draw to win this little kit I put together.  It contains a set of six stamps, some pre folded cards and a selection of In Color! ribbons and cardstock with a little stampin’ spot of ink.  All done up with a simple card as an example of what you can make using only the contents of the kit!!

The kit that is up for grabs by Hostesses (see above)

 So, what more reason do you need to get some friends together for a fun time!  email me now to arrange a date for your next workshop! jabright@xtra.co.nz

Valentines Day is coming up!

I have made this cute little origami box with some lace (non-SU as we don’t sell lace!) and Stampin’ Up!s’ double stiched Groovy Guava ribbon, some of the Ginger Blossom paper and most importantly – put in some yummy Ferrera white chocolates!!  I’m in love!

 

The stamp set used is A Happy Heart set from the Summer Mini catalogue.  The heart was done using the reverse emboss technique.  To do this simply stamp the heart in Versamark ink onto Whisper white card stock (cs) and then sprinkle with clear embossing powder, heat to emboss.  once image is embossed you can colour the remaining parts of the image, I used Stampin’ Write Markers, and wipe clean with a tissue.  Cut out and you have a heart to embellish your creation!!

Check out the results:

sorry my photography is also a work in progress!

In the words of Rachel Ray, "Yummo!"

Training Day with Patrice Halliday-Larsen

As I mentioned yesterday, I went to Hamilton on Sunday for a training day.  This day was held by the extremely talented Patrice Halliday-Larsen.  Here are the pics of what we made… 

This is a really original triangle coaster box designed by Patrice (but made by me under her fantastic guidance!)

 for the Whakatane area locals who love the look of this project i will be holding a class soon to do a very similar project.  email me to express interest and get booked in first!

The next cool thing we did was make a magic wallet. Now you have to see this thing in real life to believe how wow it is to play with.  This card is in the Whakatane bnz bank as part of my Stampin’ Up! display until the 30th Jan, so feel free to have a look, even if you are not a bnz customer, just pop in, they are very friendly there. 

Once again A different version of this will be on offer as a great class project soon!  Check it out:

the ribbons going through the middle can hold a gift card as well as being what creates the 'magic'

The following thumb nails show the other sides of the ‘magic card’ 

And yes, you can definately achieve the same results once you have learnt the techniques.  The ’smokey’ look is achieved by daubering in Chocolate Chip coloured ink.

 

Last but not least we made a quick gift bag and matching card, I’ll teach this too at some stage, just keep coming to classes because I have great ideas coming out my ears!  We could go to midnight and I could still think of another thing to show you!!  So i feel several seperate classes coming on!

Heres the gift  bag and card:

The bag and card used mellow moss and chocolate chip inks, very vanilla, mellow moss and chocolate chip card stocks, outlaw designer series paper, and the All I have seen stamp set.

 

Well I must go and organise a couple of fantastic projects for a few lovely ladies who i am doing a workshop for on friday morning.  Don’t forget Sale-A-Bration and I will tell you about another neat  giveaway that Delys and i are doing for our hostesses tomorrow!!

 

Jenn