Mar 08 2019

All Star Tutorial Bundle Blog Hop – Part of My Story meets Floral Romance

By Jackie in All Stars Tutorial Bundlle, Cards
March 8, 2019

Part of My Story meets Floral Romance

Here’s a look at the current All Star Tutorial Bundle Design Team. I’m humbled to be part of such an incredible group of amazing women and have them as Part of My Story!.

The team is ready to help you create beautiful handmade projects featuring Stampin’ Up! products. We have a Tutorial Bundle and a Blog Hop for you.

All Star Tutorial Bundle

Our Design team has created a bundle of 12 tutorials using Stampin’ Up! products.

This month the bundle contains tutorials for traditional style cards, 3D packaging, fancy fold cards, and paper crafting techniques! It’s full of fabulous projects you don’t want to miss out on. Here’s a Sneak Peak of what you will receive in the bundle.

The Tutorial Bundles are based on currently available supplies from Stampin’ Up! and will have both metric and imperial (inches) measurements. So no matter where you live in the world, you can purchase these tutorials and use them to create great projects!

The Tutorial Bundle is $NZ21 – or place an order over $NZ50 this month with me to receive this month’s tutorial for free. See the details at the end of the post to find out how you can get this exclusive bundle of tutorials.

All Star Tutorial Bundle Design Team Blog Hop

Remember, the projects in the Blog Hop are not the same projects as in our tutorial – the projects in the Tutorial Bundle are exclusive and not shown anywhere else.

My March Blog Hop project is a card featuring some of the same products I used in my Tutorial Project.

Part of My Story meets Floral Romance

Supplies:

Gold Foil-Edged Cards & Envelopes
Vellum from Floral Romance Specialty DSP: 3 1/2″ x 5″ (to fit inside the gold edging)
Blackberry Bliss Cardstock: 3 1/2″ x 2″
Part of My Story Stamp Set (Sale-A-Bration FREE item – available till 31st March or while supplies last)
Story Label Punch (Sale-A-Bration Co-ordination Promotion – available till 31st March or while supplies last)
Lace Dynamic Textured Impression Embossing Folder
Blackberry Bliss Classic Stamp Pad
Frosted Flower Embellishments
Floral Romance Seals
Petal Pink/Whisper White 5/8″ (1.6cm) Variegated Ribbon
Gold Stampin’ Embossing Powder
Share What You Love Artisan Pearls

I first embossed the piece of Blackberry Bliss Cardstock using the Lace Dynamic Embossing Folder and Big Shot. I then temporarily positioned this onto the front of the Gold Foil-Edge Card and punched the Story Label Punch through both layers. After punching I separated the Blackberry Bliss from the card base.

I cut a second Gold Foil-Edge Card in half, and adhere the front of it to the inside of the card base. This gave me a foil edge on the inside as well as the outside.

Using a sentiment from the Part of My Story Stamp Set and Blackberry Bliss Ink, I stamped through the punched out shape in the card front onto the inside of the card. I opened the card and using the “stamping off” technique (stamping several times between reinking), added a cluster around the darkest image.

Part of My Story meets Floral Romance

The Part of My Story Stamp Set is one of the FREE products you can earn during Sale-A-Bration. It is a versatile set and I have used it for cards as well as in my memory keeping and scrap-booking.

We are into the last month of Sale-A-Bration, so if you want this – or any of the other FREE Sale-A-Bration products – you only have until the end of March. You can see all the products available to earn free HERE

The Stampin’ Off technique was also used over the top half of the card front, The piece of Vellum was adhered to the card front using Snail Adhesive with adhesive only on the bottom half. This meant the adhesive would not be visible through the vellum as the Blackberry Bliss card would be over the bottom half.

After tying a piece of ribbon around the Embossed Blackberry Bliss card stock it was adhered using Stampin’ Dimensionals, taking care to line up the punched shape on the Blackberry Bliss with the punched out shape on the card base. The sentiment on the inside is then visible through the vellum when the card is closed. A Floral Romance Gold Foil was added.

I gold embossed three of the clear Frosted Flower Embellishments, placed them onto the vellum and added one of the Share What You Love Artisan Pearls to each. Heat embossing your embellishments can give you so many more options to use them!

Behind each of the embossed Frosted Flower Embellishments I added a glue dot to stop the top half of the vellum from drooping. I find Embellishments a great place to “hide” adhesive when I’m working with vellum!

To tie everything together I did some stamping on the front of the co-ordinating Gold Foil-edged Envelope.

I love the shape of this limited release punch – remember you only have until the end of the month to get yours. Here’s the link.

And here is a sneak peek of my tutorial project.

Now, it’s time to enjoy the other fabulous creations by the All Star Design Team.

Please visit each of the incredible All Star Designers:

How to get the Tutorial Bundle

There are three ways you can receive the February 2019 All Star Tutorial Bundle:

SHOP WITH ME

If you live in New Zealand, you can shop with me, and as part of my customer loyalty rewards program, you will receive this month’s tutorial Bundle absolutely FREE with an order of $50 or more with me during February.

That can be as simple as placing an order in my New Zealand Online Stop and using the current hostess code – see the top right for the current code. Your order will be delivered directly to your door.

Or contact me by email: jackie@creativejax.co.nz

BUY THE TUTORIAL BUNDLE

Purchase the March Tutorial Bundle for $NZ21

All currencies accepted, PayPal will do the conversion for you.

BE a thINK CREATIVE TEAM MEMBER

If you are in my New Zealand Team of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators, you’ll be receiving all of the tutorial bundles for FREE!

Keep an eye out in your inbox!

If you’d like to be part of my thINK Creative Team, I’d love to have you join us.

Read about join HERE or email me: jackie@creativejax.co.nz

Thank you for stopping by.

REMEMBER

If you live in New Zealand and would like a copy of the new catalogue, please contact me.
If you live in New Zealand and would like a demonstrator to order through – I’d love to have you join my group of crafty customers. Let’s journey together! – Shop Now or contact me.

If you live in New Zealand and would like to know more about becoming a demonstrator – Check out the info HERE. I’d love to have you join my thINK Creative Team!

Until next time

As always – if you wish to know anything more about info in this post, or to get a catalogue, or to join my thINK Creative Team, 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 – the table below shows you what products I used. Just click on each to see more information.

Please do use the hostess code to support creativeJax if you are ordering online!

Entering the Hostess code combines the value of online orders – which assists me to offer events and thank you’s for my customers and support charities such as Ronald MacDonald House and local events where I donate product and/or classes.

The current Hostess Code can be found at the top right of my webpage.

If your order is over $300, please

do not use this code

as You become the hostess and get the Rewards!

If you would like to find out about joining my Stampin’ Up! Team (thINK Creative) –

Please do get in touch – I would love to chat with you about that.

2019 Occasions Catalogue, 2019 SAB, All Star Tutorial Bundle, Floral Romance, Gold, Part of My Story, Punch, SAB, Share What You Love, Stamping off, Story Label, Vellum

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Feb 16 2019

Design it with DSP (Designer Series Paper) – Gorgeous Gingham Gala

By Jackie in Cards, Design it with DSP
February 16, 2019

Welcome to this month’s Design it with Designer Series Paper Blog Hop.

Our Design Team is made up of Stampin’ Up! Demonstrators from throughout the world – one from each of the countries/markets that Stampin’ Up! has a presence in. We have come together to share projects focusing on the beautiful Designer Series Paper (DSP) in the Stampin’ Up! Catalogues.

Each month we will be featuring a different designer series paper and in February we are featuring another DSP from the Occasions Catalogue – the bright and cherry Gingham Gala.

Here’s all the important info:

Gingham Gala 6″ X 6″ (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper (148554)

Classic gingham checks in light, fresh colours. Large check design on one side; smaller check design on the other side.

40 sheets: 8 each of 5 double-sided designs
6″ x 6″ (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
Acid free
Lignin free

Coordinating colours: Balmy Blue, Daffodil Delight, Grapefruit Grove, Highland Heather, Lemon Lime Twist, Whisper White

I wanted to use all five colours in my project this month and the layers of the Rectangle Stitched Framelits were perfect for the project I had in mind.

I’ve used the side of the DSP that has the smaller check, and inlaid one layer of each of the five colours which have been cut using the Rectangle Stitched Framelits.

Those wooden butterflies are from Butterfly Elements – a Sale-A-Bration item you can earn for free with a qualifying order.

The ribbon (Whisper White 5/8″ Flax Ribbon) is part of the Gingham Gala Product Suite, so co-ordinates with the DSP beautifully.

The die-cut sentiment is one of the fourteen sentiments included in the Well Written Framelits. It is cut in Balmy Blue and mounted onto another of the Rectangle Stitched Framelits before being adhered to the ribbon.

You can see the stitching and how the pieces nest inside each other in the closeup below.

I cut out rectangle frames from each DSP – working from large to small. After cutting the first rectangle, I then layered the cut DSP and the associated framelit on top of the next layer along with the next size down of framelit. I repeated this process with all the colours. I did this so that I would be able to sit each rectangle inside of the other. The photo below shows four of the five arrangements I used when die-cutting the DSP.

And here are the finished pieces of cut DSP and the four framelits I used.

By mixing the colours I had several options to work with.

In addition to the Welcome card I made two others.

First up a Good Luck card that used the four shapes that were outside of the frames (shown in the bottom right of the photo above).

These were adhered to a Balmy Blue card base starting with the Lemon Lime Twist DSP which has the smallest cutout rectangle. Then Grapefruit Grove, Highland Heather and lastly Daffodil Delight.

The sentiments and images are from the Amazing Life stamp set which co-ordinates with the Rectangle Stitched Framelits. These are available individually or as a bundle – always a great option as that has a 10% discount on both items! You can click on the image to view more details of the Amazing Life Bundle in my Online Store.

I stamped the sentiment in Stazon onto a piece of Whisper White that had been cut out with one of the Rectangle Stitched Framelits and then coloured it with my Lemon Lime Twist Stampin’ Write Marker. The flourishes are stamped in Balmy Blue and the cardstock was popped onto the card front with dimensionals, so a hint of the Balmy Blue was visible behind the Whisper. The clover leaf was stamped in black Stazon, coloured in Lemon Lime Twist, fussy cut and also popped onto a dimensional.

In the close up below you can see the layering and also the embellishments – the Gingham Gala Adhesive-Backed Sequins.

My third card uses the rectangles that were cut out of each frame. These were the set in the bottom left hand corner of the photo further up in my post.

For this Birthday card I’ve positioned each layer so that all the the top left hand corners are in the same place. Each layer is popped up on dimensionals. The image and sentiment were stamped in Lemon Lime Twist.

Thanks for joining me on our Design it With Designer Series Paper Blog Hop featuring the Gingham Gala Designer Series Paper. Please check out all the other amazing creations by the rest of the Design Team!

REMEMBER

If you live in New Zealand and would like a copy of the new catalogue, please contact me.
If you live in New Zealand and would like a demonstrator to order through – I’d love to have you join my group of crafty customers. Let’s journey together! – Shop Now or contact me.

Anyone who purchases of $NZ50 of Stampin’ Up! product from me in a month will receive the All Star Tutorial Bundle for Free.

The Bundle contains 12 pdf tutorials designed by demonstrators from throughout the world, and will be emailed directly to you.

If you live in New Zealand and would like to know more about becoming a demonstrator – Check out the info HERE. I’d love to have you join my thINK Creative Team!

Until next time

As always …

if you wish to know anything more about info in this post,
or to get a catalogue, or to join my thINK Creative Team,
or to buy any of the items mentioned in the post

… please contact me.

Shop online

Or you can shop 24/7 at my online Stampin’ Up! shop

Please do use the hostess code to support creativeJax if you are ordering online!

Entering the Hostess code combines the value of online orders – which assists me to offer events and thank you’s for my customers and support charities and local events.

The current Hostess Code can be found at the top right of my webpage.

If your order is over $300, please do not use this code as You become the hostess and get the Rewards!

Join my team

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

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Gingham Gala, Stitched Rectangle

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Feb 08 2019

All Stars Tutorial Bundle Blog Hop – Bloom by Bloom

By Jackie in All Stars Tutorial Bundlle, Cards
February 8, 2019

Bloom by Bloom Gift Bag

I’m super pleased to be back on the All Star Tutorial Bundle Deign Team for another six months.

There has been a few changes to the team – so here’s a look at current Design Team.

The team is ready to help you create beautiful handmade projects featuring Stampin’ Up! products. We have a Tutorial Bundle and a Blog Hop for you.

All Star Tutorial Bundle

Our Design team has created a bundle of 12 tutorials using Stampin’ Up! products.

February All Stars Tutorial Bundle Sneak Peek

All Star Tutorial Bundle Design Team Blog Hop

Remember, the projects in the Blog Hop are not the same projects as in our tutorial – the projects in the Tutorial Bundle are exclusive and not shown anywhere else.

My February Blog Hop project is a versatile Gift Bag in Very Vanilla..

The bag is made from an A4 sheet of Very Vanilla cardstock using the Gift Bag Punch Board.

The Punch board is great as it can make 3 different size bags and has all the directions – including the required cardstock sizes – written on it! So handy!

Here’s the Stampin’ Up! video showing the board and how to make a gift bag.

Before constructing the gift bag, I stamped one of the small flowers from the Bloom to Bloom stamp set in Crumb Cake using the Stamping Off technique.

The photo below shows this stamping after the bag is complete.

The Stamping Off technique is a quick and easy way of getting different intensities of the same colour by stamping the same image several times without re-inking it in between each stamping.

I embossed a 3″ x 6″ piece of Very Vanilla cardstock with the Dot to Dot Textured Impression Embossing Folder, matted it with Crumb cake and adhered to the front of the bag. Closing the bag is easily achieved by threading a piece of Crumb Cake 3/8″ Classic Weave Ribbon through the punched holes and tying a bow. To finish the gift bag off I’ve made a tag and attached it to the ribbon with piece of Linen Thread.

The base of the tag is cut using the label shaped die from the Needlepoint Elements Framelits dies.

The sentiment (from the Needle & Thread stamp set) is stamped onto a strip of Very Vanilla in Crumb Cake. There’s some more of those little stamped off flowers on the tag too.

Here’s a Sneak peek of my February tutorial project. The tutorial contains all the details on how to use the Stamparatus and the stamping off technique. You can see I’ve used the same embossing folder, stamp set and colours.

Now, it’s time to enjoy the other fabulous creations by the All Star Design Team.

Please visit each of the incredible All Star Designers: