Oct 09 2014

CASE-ing the Catty (CTC11) – Holiday Catalogue Tags

Hello Again

One of the things I have been disappointed in over the last couple of weeks is that I haven’t been posting on my page – and another is not getting something made and posted for the CASE-ing the Catty Challenges. I think this Challenge site is great and try to get something made for each challenge.

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In fact I had got things made – but simply didn’t get them posted so I missed  the last couple of CTC challenges from the Annual Catalogue – so sad   🙁

But now that the Challenge has moved onto the Holiday Catalogue I just had to get back online and share what I created for the challenge. As often happens – once I started creating, these creations gave me more ideas.

So CTC 11 is a Tag Challenge and I took my initial inspiration from the tags on page 6 and also a little from page 4 too.

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I created two tags using Under the Tree Specialty DSP – one with the Scalloped Tag Topper punch and the other the Angled Tag Topper punch. These are just so great for quickly and efficiently creating Tags. I loved the use of the glimmer sheets in the tags on page 6 so made sure I included some in my tags. The sentiments were both from the Merry Everything Stamp set and punched with the coordinating Note Tag Punch.

As I was putting the gold ribbon in one of the tags I thought I should make a tag that focused on gold – so out came the gold brushed cardstock as a base, the gorgeous gold satin ribbon and gold bakers twine as the tie, the gold taffeta and the gold sequins trim and gold metallic button as embellishments and some gold embossing powder for the sentiment. There is a hint of garden green used in the sentiment stamp and to mat the punched very vanilla. I love how this turned out.

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I’d also been doing some colouring with the Stampin’ Blendabilities and found this cute bird in the For the Birds Stamp set. It was just singing out to be made into a tag! After colouring him in with the Cherry Cobbler Blendabilities, I trimmed down the width of the Whisper White cardstock so that when it was punched with the Scalloped Tag Topper it was narrower than the piece of Old Olive that I mounted it onto. And don’t you love that you can colour rhinestones (among other things) with the Blendabilites and get coordinating embellishments – yay!

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So thanks CTC for providing the inspiration and motivation for me to get my creations done and for getting me back online.

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Logo largeDon’t forget to check out the CASE-ing the Catty webpage and see the Design Team’s creations.

Until next time

 

 

 

 

Jackie

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

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Under The Tree Specialty Designer Series Paper
Tag Topper Scalloped Punch
Angled Tag Topper Punch
Red Glimmer Paper
Silver Glimmer Paper
Whisper White A4 Card Stock
Real Red Classic Stampin’ Pad
Merry Everything Clear-Mount Bundle
Gold 1/8″ Ribbon
Silver 1/8″ Ribbon
Stampin’ Dimensionals
Brushed Gold A4 Card Stock
Gold Sequin Trim
Gold Baker’s Twine
Gold 5/8″ Satin Ribbon
Versamark Pad
Gold Stampin’ Emboss Powder
Heat Tool
Very Vanilla A4 Card Stock
Garden Green Classic Stampin’ Pad
Garden Green A4 Card Stock
Artisan Label Punch
Confetti Stars Punch
Glue Dots
Gold Basic Metal Buttons
Endless Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set
Old Olive A4 Card Stock
Tuxedo Black Memento Ink Pad
Stampin’ Blendabilities™ Markers Cherry Cobbler Assortment
Stampin’ Blendabilities™ Markers Old Olive Assortment
Cherry Cobbler 1/2″ Seam Binding Ribbon
Old Olive Baker’s Twine
Rhinestone Basic Jewels Embellishments
Jackie Noble
Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator
Wellington Region

 

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Oct 09 2014

Wellington Paper Arts and Craft Show 2014

Hi and sorry for lack of posting!

It was crazy busy getting ready for the Wellington Paper Arts & Craft Show which was on the weekend of 20/21 September. And the crazy busy has continued with unpacking from the show, monthly classes, private classes and World Card Day. And of course day-to-day life as well!  Lots to post about!

So here are Beth and I at the creativeJax stand.

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It’s hard to think that it is over a year since Beth & I attended this Show last August. It was there that I met many of my wonderful class attendees who are now part of my crafting circle of friends. The connections we made at the show and we have developed over the year are one of the things I just love about being a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator – so many awesome people I would probably have never met if it wasn’t for Stampin’ Up!

And this year’s show was a chance to catch up with many of them and to meet some new crafters too. The other stall-holders are a friendly bunch and I enjoyed our evening together on Saturday after the first day of the Show. The entertainment was side-splitting good!

Here are a few other pictures from the Show. Unfortunately we missed getting a photo of Sandra who spent the day with us on the stand on Saturday – we will need to be better organised next time! Also – I will only use Beth’s phone for the photos – hers are much clearer!

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This part of the stand showed how Stampin’ Up! products can be used for a party – in this case it was Beth’s 21st Birthday which was earlier in the year. The banner, pinwheels, posters, invitations, photo book, lolly/candy jars and decorations were all themed around the Patio Party DSP.

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Here I am with a display of my cards and the made up Hip Hip Hooray card set. People enjoyed being able to see the kit made up along with a couple of alternative uses including a mini-album.

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The corner shelves displayed items made with my e-cutter along with Stampin’ Up! punches, ink pads, ribbon and Project Life merchandise.

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Coming round further, people could see another banner, upcoming class projects and my treasured frame contained Christmas Cards. I had recently participated in a Team swap so had a great range to share.

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And here is Beth setting up for the Make’n’Takes before the show doors opened.

So all in all a great weekend. Fantastic to meet so many new people and catch up with familiar faces too.

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Jackie

 

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Sep 14 2014

For the Birds meets Blendabilities – AW24

Hello Again

One of the reasons I started looking at doing some challenges was because my fantastic upline – Kristine McNickle of Creative Stamping is on the Design Team for the Around the World Stampin’ Up! Challenge site and I have been checking out that challenge. I am really lucky to have Kristine as my upline! She’s a great inspiration and a wonderful role model to have.

So the theme for AW24 is animals. You can check out Kristine’s design for the challenge on her website HERE.

There are several great animal sets in the catalogue and it was hard to choose which one to use for this challenge but as I have been practicing my colouring with the Blendabilities I choose the cute For the Birds set.

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For the Birds

I love all these little bird images and chose two for the front of the card. Here’s how it turned out:

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Some of these little images were tricky to get shading into but I think I’ve managed. Here’s a close – up.

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I’ve put Old Olive and Calypso Coral baker’s twine to “tie” in with the colouring.

Don’t forget to check out the other designs at the Around the World Stampin’ Up! Challenge.

 

Until next time

 

Jackie

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Sep 11 2014

Challenges – CTC 8 Card Giving & SUO 105 Embellishments

Added 15 September:

Thanks so much CTC Designer Team for choosing my entry as the Top Case. So excited!

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I think I may be falling in love with challenges!

Having not really done them before starting the new CASE-ing the Catty (CTC) challenge, I have now found myself checking out several other challenge sites and when I’m making cards these challenge sites are providing a great starting point.

At the Stampin’ Up! Only (SUO) Challenge site, the current challenge – #108 – is to use embellishments. I often forget about our cool embellishments – even though I have quite a few!

This week’s CTC challenge – #8 – features the Card Giving Section (pages 102 – 141) to use as inspiration – and there is a LOT of ideas in that section.

I used the cute dog card on page 112 as inspiration for the layout of my card this week. I just loved how he looks like he is in a Polaroid photo (yep I’m old enough to have taken a few Polaroids in my time!). I purchased the On Film Framelits die when they first came out as I also dabble in photography and thought they were really cool. Guess what – I haven’t used them yet! They are finally out of the packet – yay!

I had also been wanting to make another set of cards using the scene that I had created with the White Christmas stamp set for our team Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop. I decided they would make the perfect image for my photo.

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This is the set of the five cards. I find I have to make a set because I just can’t choose one! The ‘photos’ are popped up with dimensionals to give extra depth.

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One of the embellishments featured on the card are the Nordic Designer Buttons from the Holiday Catalogue. The colours – Whisper White, Real Red and Soft Sky – co-ordinate really well with the scenes.

I’ve also added another embellishment on each card – the piece of 1/8″ taffeta ribbon. I love how there are so many colours! I’ve used, Real Red, Old Olive, Crushed Curry, Early Espresso and Silver.

You can see how I’ve folded and added the ribbon between the button and the vellum flag in this close-up. Isn’t the tree on top of the car just too cute!

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I’ve added texture to the card front by embossing it with the cute Lucky Stars embossing folder and I’ve carried the star theme though to the inside of the card with the Confetti Stars punch being used on the corner of the card insert.

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I did get a few questions about how I did the blue sky and other coloured areas so thought I’d share a bit more of what I did.

After stamping the image with Black Stazon, I coloured the areas I wanted coloured with the Stampin’ Write Markers. I then put versamark on top of the colour. I used a Versamarker which I’ve had from when Stampin’ Up! sold them. I then put some clear embossing powder and heat set it. I repeated this as I wanted a really good cover to protect the coloured-in portions when I did the sky – especially important for the snowman and polar bear!

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I even did the snowflakes this way but not the tree trunks as the brown was fine over the sky colour.

To do the sky I masked over the snow at the bottom and then used a sponge dauber to sponge Soft Sky onto the card.

I sure had fun combining the two challenges. Check what the design teams came up with on their webpages:

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Logo 72ptUntil next time

 

 

Jackie

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop – just click on any of the products in the table below, and you should find yourself in my online shop at the page with information about the product.

If you would like to find out about joining my Stampin’ Up! Team (thINK Creative) –  get in touch – I would love to chat to you about that.

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Sep 04 2014

CASE-ing the Catty Challenge – Home Decor

Added 11 Sept 2014

I feel honoured that my water bottle was chosen as one of the “Pics of the Week” over on the NZSU site – Thanks so much!

Check out the other pics of the week by clicking on the picture.

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8 September 2014

 

Hello Thursday!

While I was disappointed to miss last week’s CTC Challenge, I was away visiting family for a few days which was fantastic! I got to visit and stay in Wairoa, Gisborne and Napier – all great places on the eastern side of the North Island for those who are not familiar with those places.

I’m back home now and ready for this week’s challenge.

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So CTC # 7 focuses on the Home Décor section of the Stampin’ Up! catalogue (pages 94 – 101).

The challenge directions are:

“… browse through pages 94 – 101 and find a project that you would like to re-create.
You can directly CASE (Copy and Share Everything) or use a sketch/layout, colour combo, embellishment, just to name a few examples, as a springboard for your own creations. It doesn’t even have to be a ‘home décor’ item.”

I was inspired by the bottle on page 100 that uses the Label This Kitchen Designer Template.

Many things are already labelled in my kitchen/pantry but I really liked the idea of etching a glass bottle and had just the project – the recycled bottle I use as a water bottle on the table or at my classes etc.

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I don’t have the Label This Kitchen Designer Template so in MDS I selected an alphabet I thought would work well (Noteworthy) and created an SVG file of the word “WATER”.

Of course you can use any of the alphabet sets that are available as stamp sets or punches in MDS or any of the fonts on your computer can be used in MDS too – heaps of choices!

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I have a Silhouette Cameo e-cutter – so I imported the “WATER” svg file into the Silhouette Studio software, traced it ready for cutting, then sent it off to the cameo to cut out of adhesive vinyl.

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Once the stencil had been cut from the vinyl, I placed this onto my empty bottle, applied the glass etching cream and let it do its magic!

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Unfortunately I didn’t get any pics of the glass etching process this time as I was on my own and things move pretty quickly, but I will have someone on hand for my next project and be able to show you how it’s done in a future post.

I’m really pleased with how the bottle turned out – pretty good for a first attempt at glass etching I think! And I am definitely looking forward to making some more.

 

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I’m also really enjoying learning more about my Cameo and there are lots of MDS files that are great for e-cutters – awesome!

Did you know that you can try MDS free for 30 days! Read more about MDS HERE and see the digital files HERE.

If you’d like to learn more about MDS please get in touch – I can hold an MDS class at your place or mine.

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Until next Time
Jackie

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop – just click on any of the products in the table below, and you should find yourself in my online shop at the page with information about the product.

If you would like to find out about joining my Stampin’ Up! –  get in touch – I would love to chat to you about that.

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Jackie Noble

Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Wellington Region

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Sep 03 2014

Simply Pressed Clay on Sale

Stampin' Up! Weekly Deals

Imagine my delight when I saw the Simply Pressed Clay in the Stampin’ Up! Weekly Deals this morning – YAY!

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What perfect timing after my post yesterday about the cute Pressed Clay embellishments and ornaments.

You can read that post HERE if you missed it – there’s even a Stampin’ Up! video to watch

 

There are several other great items in the Weekly Deals this week – check them all out below.

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And look at the fantastic price of the Regals Ink refills!!!

That’s only $3.90 per bottle – what a great time to purchase these.

If you have Stampin’ Up!’s classic Ink Pads then of course you use these refills to re-ink your pads – the pads will last through many re-inks.

But the ink refills have many more uses than just re-inking your ink pads. They can be used in spritzers, to colour ribbon, heaps of other stamping and colouring techniques as well as to colour the Simply Pressed Clay.

I think they are great value at full price so are a steal at the Weekly Deals price!

You can contact me (jackie@creativejax.co.nz) to order these before next Monday when I’ll be placing an order, but the best way to make sure you get these bargains is to order online – Click on the “Shop Now” Link and you will be taken to my online shop.

Shop online anytime - 24 hours, 7 days.

Shop online anytime – 24 hours, 7 days.

And remember – online orders are delivered directly to your door – awesome!

If you do order online and enter September’s Hostess Code you will be in the draw to win free Stampin’ Up! product!

September’s Hostess Code (valid until 29th Sept) is: AVS9S7SS

Logo 72ptUntil next time.

 

Jackie

 

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop – just click on the button above.

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Jackie Noble

Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Wellington Region

 

 

 

 

 

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Sep 01 2014

Simply Pressed Clay – Ornaments and Embellishments

Good Monday morning

Not an MDS Monday this week as I wanted to quickly share a video with you.

I’ve been asked how I made the white embellishment on my paper quilt Christmas cards I made as a Team swap.

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It’s a bit hard to tell in that photo, but in a close-up you may be able to work out that they are made from Stampin’Up!’s White Simply Pressed Clay

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My inspiration for the card itself came from my late mum’s love of Christmas and crafting – but the inspiration for the white embellishment came from one of the images on page 14 of the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalogue (you can view a pdf of the catalogue HERE). But rather than make an ornament to hang on my tree, I made an embellishment for my card.

When the catalogue launched a few days ago Stampin’ Up! released a video showing how the ornament was made – which I’m sharing with you below.

Isn’t that just way cute!

I love it that not only do we get fantastic products from Stampin’ Up! – but awesome resources like catalogues packed with projects and videos with instructions are shared with everyone so that we have heaps of inspiration and we can create great things – YAY!

As a Demonstrator I love having access to this and soooo much more. I also love the great discounts and incentives and early access to products of course – but what I enjoy most are the people I meet as a result of being a demonstrator – other crafters, customers, fellow demonstrators, Stampin’ Up! staff members. And I want to share all this with others so if you’d like to join in the fun as a demonstrator I’d love to have you as part of my Team!

Click on the Join My Team tab above or HERE  to find out a bit more – then get in touch for an obligation free info pack.

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Jackie

 

 

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop – just click on any of the products in the table below, and you should find yourself in my online shop at the page with information about the product.

If you would like to find out about joining my Stampin’ Up! team get in touch – I would love to chat to you about that.

If you would like to receive my Blog Posts directly in your email –  you can subscribe using the button at the bottom right of my page.

 

Jackie Noble
Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator
Wellington Region, New Zealand

 

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Aug 29 2014

Visions of Santa Dancing in my Head

Good Friday Evening!

A quick post to share another Christmas card that I made for my Holiday Catty Open House.

There is a stamp set in the new catty that I love – Visions of Santa. There is a suite of matching products – how cool is that!

But not everyone in my house likes it. I think it appeals to my somewhat warped sense of humour – but I appreciate that its non-traditional quirkiness won’t appeal to everyone.

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Visions of Santa – Photopolymer Stamp Set

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I was mulling over how I was going to use the set while I was punching out some tags with the Note Tag Punch for another project.

As I was working, I noticed that the punched a piece of cardstock that was left had what looked like arches in it – and the design of my Visions of Santa formed in my head. I could just see him dancing in the archways!

Here’s the card that resulted from that flash.

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Getting him in the archways took a little effort – and precise measuring!

I first cut the piece of Santa and Co DSP to the size I wanted on the card front, stuck it to a  piece of whisper white of the same sized for strength and then measured out where I wanted the “arches”. I punched them out and then carefully stamped the three Santas on a strip of Whisper White so that they would be visible in the archways and coloured them with Blendabilities.

I added some Santa & Co washi Tape to the top and bottom of the strip before adhering it to the whisper white card base, and then adhered another design from the Santa & Co DSP set at the top of the card base.

The archways were popped up with dimensionals to give the archways depth – though it’s a bit hard to see that in the photo. The sentiment was stamped in Marina Mist and matted onto basic black before being stuck onto the card with dimensionals too.

So definitely a non-traditional Santa! In fact DH reckons he looks like Billy Connolly (Google him if you’re not familiar with this Scottish comedian who is married to a Kiwi Lass!)

I’m loving him and now pondering what I’m going to do with his friend –  the reindeer who looks sort of like a moose – remember we have neither here in New Zealand!

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Jackie

 

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop – just click on any of the highlighted text above (which are links), and you should find yourself in my online shop at the page with information about the product. 

If you would like to find out about joining my Stampin’ Up! team get in touch – I would love to chat to you about that.

 

 

 

 

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Aug 27 2014

Creative Inkers – Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop

Welcome to the Creative Inkers’ Holiday Catalogue Blog Hop – It’s great to be part of such a creative team!Blog Hop Badge 2_2-001 (1)

You may have just joined the hop here, or maybe you’ve come from Sally’s blog but either way I’m sure you’ll enjoy all the stops on the Hop. Make sure you check them all out!

Just so you know – Christmas is my absolute favourite time of the year – always has been!

I look forward to many things about the Christmas Season – including the release of the Stampin’ Up! Holiday Catalogue. The anticipation of seeing what gorgeous new stamps and accessories are in the catalogue is almost too much to bear!

But the wait is over – YAY!!!

I have three cards to share on the Blog Hop today. I recently participated in two Team Swaps for the Holiday Catalogue and the first card I am sharing is from one of these swaps.

When I saw the tree punch I immediately thought of using it to make a paper quilt pattern. My mum, Jude, also loved Christmas (that’s probably where it all started for me) and she loved sewing and quilt-making too. Jude especially enjoyed making Christmas wall hangings and we are so lucky to have many of her masterpieces in the family which remind us of her now that Jude is no longer with us. Making a card with a paper quilt seemed like a fitting tribute to her as the Christmas Season approaches. 2014_08_creativeJax_Christmas_Quilt_Creative_Inkers_BloghopI’ve punched trees from Trim the Tree DSP stack using the Tree punch and then snipped the trunks off to make triangle to piece the quilt. I’m not sure you can see it clearly but one of the border stamps in the Project Life Holiday Cheer Stamp set makes a great stitching pattern on the quilt. Before trimming it with Early Espresso Cotton Ribbon,

I’ve embossed the quilt with the Argyle Embossing folder to give it a “quilted” texture. It’s adhered to a Cherry Cobbler base that has had some watermarking done with Versamark and one of the stamps from the Cheerful Christmas set. 2014_08_creativejax_Christmas_Quilt_CreativeInkers_bloghop The tag is punched from Garden Green cardstock with the Note Tag punch. I think this punch is going to get lots of use – I have all sorts of ideas for it already!

The little white embellishment is created using some Simply Pressed Clay with the impression made by pressing one of the ornament stamps from the Cheerful Christmas Set into the clay, then fussy cutting it out once dried. I’ve also stamped the image I used for the watermarking on the card base as the background image on the tag – while the white embossed greeting is from the Project Life Holiday Cheers set.

The tag and embellishment are attached to the card using dimensionals and some cherry cobbler bakers twine.

My second “card” for the day is a set of five that showcases a catalogue favourite – White Christmas. Having spent several winters on the prairies in Canada and enjoying some White Christmases myself, I really love the winter themed Christmas cards – and a polar bear, and a snowman – WOW!

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I’ve found White Christmas to be a really versatile stamp set. As with all the previous stamp sets I’ve mentioned in this post, this is a photoplymer set and is fantastic for 2-step stamping. Loving how the banners can be quickly and accurately attached to the trees. I often pull out my stamp-a-ma-jig to get things straight and in just the place I want – but didn’t have to get it out once to do these cards. That certainly sped things up! There is such variety in how you can combine the images to get a wide range of results.

After stamping the images in black, they were coloured in with the Stampin’ Markers then heat embossed with clear embossing powder. The embossed areas resisted the colour that was sponged in Soft Sky with a dauber on to create the sky. I place this onto a Soft Sky card base which I had stamped with a couple of the snow flakes from Endless Wished.

2014_08_creativejax_White_Christmas_swap_closeup In the close-up you can see the shiny clear embossing and the subtle snowflakes on the cardbase. These were stamped in Soft Sky using a couple of the Endless wishes stamps.

The sentiment was stamped in Smoky Slate. I wanted to make the sentiment shine like the other embossed elements and as the stamp is the clear photopolymer it was really easy to re-stamp the words in versamark, and heat emboss with clear embossing powder before cutting it out using a Project Life framelit. Remember that Project Life items (cards, stamps, accessories, framelits) can certainly be used in more than memory keeping.

My last card to share today was made by Beth using one of her absolute favs from the catalogue – Get your Santa On! 2014_08_creativejax_Get_your_Santa_On She stamped three Santa suits in black onto whisper white, coloured each of them, fussy cut them and hung them in their own wardrobe. Those coat hangers and their hooks were very fussy cutting and required a steady hand! 2014_08_creativejax_Get_Your_Santa_On_closeup And of course Santa is a tidy fellow – so hung his hat on the corner of the sentiment rather than tossing it on the floor.

We have had such fun starting to “Get our Christmas On” – we’ve even had a few carols playing while we craft!

And I’ve enjoyed the learning curve of being part of my first Bog Hop!

Hope you’ve enjoyed our cards. Depending on which direction you’re doing the blog hop – click on the Previous button to visit Sally’s blog or the Next Button to visit Jacque’s blog – they’re both awesome and make sure you go all the way around the hop to check them all out!

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List of Blog Hop Members:

Narelle Hoggard  http://handmadebynarelle.wordpress.com

Paula Reid   http://www.yellowbearnz.blogspot.co.nz

Heather Stewart  www.stampingcraft.co.nz

Ria Kaire  http://stampinup.net/esuite/home/qraftyqueen/blog

Sally Williams  http://sallystampingdelights.blogspot.co.nz

Jackie Noble  https://creativejax.co.nz  This is where you are now

Jacque Williams http://stamphappy.typepad.com

Rachael Knight http://www.knightstamper.blogspot.co.nz

Lisa Bullock http://daffyscrapper.wordpress.com

Bev Poultney http://www.stampandscrap.co.nz

Irene Wardlaw www.kowhaihavencrafts.blogspot.com

Christine Bennett http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/christinebennett/blog

Kathryn Tyrrell  http://www.aspotofstamping.co.nz/2014/08/blog-hop.html   Logo 72pt

 

Until next time

 

 

Jackie

 

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post, please contact me.

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop – just click on any of the products in the table below, and you should find yourself in my online shop at the page with information about the product. And with 3 projects there’s a lot of different products used in today’s post.

If you would like to find out about joining my Stampin’ Up! team get in touch – I would love to chat to you about that.

Trim The Tree Designer Series Paper Stack
Cheerful Christmas Clear-Mount Stamp Set
Note Tag Punch
Project Life Holiday Cheer Photopolymer Stamp Set
Tree Punch
Texture Boutique Machine
Argyle Textured Impressions Embossing Folder
White Simply Pressed Clay
Early Espresso 1/4″ Cotton Ribbon
Versamark Pad
White Stampin’ Emboss Powder
Heat Tool
Cherry Cobbler A4 Card Stock
Garden Green A4 Card Stock
White Christmas Photopolymer Stamp Set
Endless Wishes Photopolymer Stamp Set
Soft Sky Classic Stampin’ Pad
Card Stock A4 Soft Sky
Whisper White A4 Card Stock
Jet Black Stazon Ink Pad
Clear Stampin’ Emboss Powder
Smoky Slate Classic Stampin’ Pad
Card Stock A4 Smoky Slate
Project Life Cards & Labels Framelits
Big Shot
Big Shot Magnetic Platform
Many Marvelous Markers
Clear Block Bundle
Get Your Santa On Photopolymer Stamp Set

Jackie Noble – Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator aka creativeJax Wellington, New Zealand

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Aug 25 2014

Stampin’ Up! Joining Special

Last week Stampin’ Up! announced a limited time special deal on your starter kit when you join as a demonstrator! 

You’ve probably already seen it on the web or Facebook – but here’s the scoop in case you have somehow missed it!

 

$116 FREE – Aug. 22 – 29 ONLY!  Purchase the Stampin’ Up! Starter Kit for $189 and get $305 in Stampin Up product.

 

When you purchase your Starter Kit for $189 you can customise your kit with your choice of products up to $305 – that’s $20 more than the usual $285 – yay!

CLICK HERE TO JOIN AND FOR DETAILS >

YOU CHOOSE:

  • Up to $305 worth of Stampin’ Up! products
    • any current catalog
    • clearance
    • specially priced bundles
    • basically if we sell it, you can include it in
    • That’s $116 in FREE product.
  • BONUS!  You can add items from the new 2014 Holiday Catalog NOW!
  • FREE SHIPPING:  The kit ships to you FREE, another 5% savings

The gift that keeps on giving: 

  • 20% off all future purchases
  • Enjoy a 1 time benefit of 30% off your first product order of $350 or more
  • FREE Stampin’ Up! catalogues
  • FREE Stampin’ Up! Impression Magazine
  • Special offers, sneak peek products before customers
  • Become a part of my team which also means you are part of my uplines’ teams and get the support from a national team with an online Team Forum

 There’s no risk, it really is a no brainer … if you have a Stampin’ Up! wish list now is the time!

Contact me for more details jackie@creativejax.co.nz or JOIN NOW HERE

 

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