We had so much fun with our first competition, we thought it was time for another!
We have been looking at all the fabulous entries in our galleries and everyone’s blogs, and love them all! However, we noticed one thing was missing…our Pre-inked collection. Our Pre-inked stamps are simple to use, offer a crisp, precise image every time and are one of our favorite products from JustRite. So, we have decided to hold a week long JustRite Pre-Inked Stamping Contest beginning October 11. We heard that some of you may need time to get your supplies ready and projects started!
***Categories***For this contest we will have two categories, cards (in celebration of World Card Making Day, tomorrow) and projects.
**The Rules** Design your projects using at least one of our Pre-Inked stamps. That’s it! Beginning October 11, 2008 upload your entry onto Splitcoast using the keyword JustRite001 (one word) for card entries and JustRite002 for project entries. Leave us a comment with a link to your JustRite entry and tell us what JustRite Pre-Inked product you have used.
***To simplify the judging process we will only be accepting entries in this format. You may still post your project on your blog, however to enter the contest you must upload your entry into the appropriate Splitcoast gallery. Projects can be uploaded through Oct 19th at 6 pm EST.
**The Vote** Monday, October 20th we will post the 5 finalist of our JustRite Pre-Inked Stamping Contest. You will have the opportunity to cast a vote for your favorites until Thursday, October 23rd at 8 pm EST. The Grand Prize winner of each category will be announced on Friday, October 24th.
**The Prize** Everyone loves prizes! Each day we will be scouring the entries looking for possible finalist. All potential finalists will receive a $5 JustRite Gift Certificates and will also have their card/project published on the JustRite Blog and in the JustRite Gallery. There is no limit to how many times you can enter or how many $5 Gift Certificates you can win. Gift certificate prizes will be accumulated during the contest week and bulk gift certificates with each contestants entire winnings will be issued. Grand prizes will be...a surprise...everyone loves prizes, and we love surprises!
**** Eligible Pre- Inked Products –All JustRite Pre-inked words and letters are eligible for use in the contest. You may already own many of our Pre-inked products. JustRite has manufactured Pre-inked Words in three sizes – small, medium and large, 2x Stampers and
Pre-Inked Alphabet Letters in upper and lower case. Here are 2 inspirational Projects Designed using Small Pre-Inked Words:
This was an entry from Lisa Somerville in our JustRite Stampin' Champion Contest. Check out Lisa's blog for ton's of JustRite Inspiration.
Here is a inspirational project from Michelle Wooderson visit her blog Mish Mash to read about her ransom style notes for her girls. ( Michelle used small Pre-inked Words and our 2x Stampers).
Small Pre-inked words come in sets of 8 Pre-inked Words.
During the JustRite Stampin' Champion Contest Bev Gerard designed this fabulous project using the JustRite Large Pre-Inked Word Remember.
Want to design your own words for the contest. Then our Pre-inked Alphabets are your ticket to the winner's circle.
You may remember these fun Halloween Project designed by Kellie Fortin using the Pre-inked Uppercase Alphabet: For all the details on how to make this project click here.
Or this fun project using JustRite Pre-inked Lowercase Outline Alphabet designed by Taylor Van Bruggen, visit her blog for all the details:
Or if you prefer you can use one of our stamps from our 2x Pre-inked Collection. These stamps have 2 images - one is a word, one is a graphic!!
Here is an inspirational project designed by Kellie Fortin using the Get Well Soon -2X Stamper:
Are you INSPIRED!! Need a few toys to enter our contest?? Check back in on Saturday for our Blog Candy Celebration for World Card Making Day. Blog Candy Giveaway will end Sunday Night, so the winner will get there goodies in time for the contest.
**** Order Now- Want to join in the fun but don’t have any qualifying products – Don’t worry!! We have made entry in our contest a breeze. We are having a huge sale 50% off all the products you need to enter the contest. Click here. We also will ship these products in 24 hours.(excluding weekends). So order your supplies today. Contest Judging begins Oct 13th and ends Oct 19th. You could be our next WINNER!!
****To See The Entries- simply visit http://www.splitcoaststampers.com/, click on gallery and search using the keywords JustRite 001 and JustRite 002. Check out all the great entries for inspiration or size up the competition.
So get busy, make a card, make a tag, make a scrapbook page, make a stationery set, make a book mark, make a Christmas gift, make them all. Whatever you want to make but it MUST be made with stamps from our JustRite Pre-Inked family of products (in case you didn't know...we are more than monograms).
Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".
Today I thought it would be fun to show how you can use JustRite Stampers Font Sets to create beautiful home decor. Here I have created a floral arrangement that could be adapted to any season and you could put any greeting on the plaque on front. I also decided to create a tutorial for this project! The first part of this tutorial shows how to use a Stamp-a-ma-jig with the JustRite stamps. The second part of the tutorial shows how to create the paper coronet to hold the flowers. I hope you enjoy!
Begin by stamping "WELCOM" using the 
Next, remove the "E" from the Rectangular Stamper and place it in a smaller handle. Here I chose the Wood Handle that came with one of my Border Starter Sets. Take your Stamp-a-ma-jig and lay down the plastic imaging sheet in the corner of the Stamp-a-ma-jig. Ink your stamp and stamp the "E" onto the imagin sheet. TAKE NOTE OF WHICH WAY YOUR HANDLE IS...when you go to stamp again you want to be sure your handle is facing the same direction. See how I have my "JustRite" upside down? It will be that way the next time I stamp my "E" as well. (Note: You could use any of the JustRite Stampers Wood Handles and follow these same steps)
Next, remove the imaging sheet from the Stamp-a-ma-jig and place it over the "WELCOM" you have already stamped. Make sure it is lined up just as you would like it to show up on your final project.
Replace the Stamp-a-ma-jig snugly against the imaging sheet and remove the imaging sheet.
Pressing the Stamp-a-ma-jig handle firmly down onto your project, reink your "E" image and line up the "JustRite" on the back of the handle, place the handle against the inside corner of the Stamp-a-ma-jig and press your image onto your project.
Pulling STRAIGHT UP and lift the stamp away from your project to reveal your perfectly spaced "WELCOME". (WHEW that was the hard part of the tutorial...give yourself a pat on the back! You did it!)
Using Curvy Rectangles Die by Spellbinders, Die cut your plaque. If you don't have a die cut system you could certainly just cut your plaque into a rectangle, or you could dress up the edges of the rectangle with a punch, or deco scissors if you own those!
Using a Jumbo Sponge Dauber, sponged the edges of the plaque using Burnt Sienna Fluid Chalk Ink by Clearsnap. Go lightly over the entire surface and then apply additional layers to the outside edge for real depth and color.
Apply a few layers of Chestnut Roan Fluid Chalk Ink by Clearsnap to the outside edges of the plaque to just add to the depth you started in step eight.
Using Dark Brown Fluid Chalk Ink by Clearsnap, Stamp a wingding in each corner. If you are not sure where your image will end up and want to use the Stamp-a-ma-jig simply follow steps two through six for perfect placement...I thought of that AFTER I did mine...otherwise I may have had more even results! LOL Go figure!
Take your copper craft wire and begin to wrap it around the handle of a paint brush or other small round stick or handle. A bamboo skewer works well for this too, or a pencil also!
Once you have a nice sized length of coil (1 1/2 - 2 inches in length) snip the coil. Stretch it out just a bit and poke a hole in the top two corners of your plaque and slip just a bit of the coil through each hole and recoil it on the other side tightly. You will no have a handle on your plaque that you can adhere to your paper coronet. Read on for step by step directions how to make the paper coronet!
Select your paper and place it face up on your work table. Orient the paper so that you have your pattern going in the direction you want it to be in on the final product.
Flip the paper right to left (just as if you were reading a book) to make sure you have the paper oriented the way you want. Take up the two bottom corners of your paper and lay the right corner over the left corner.
Continue to overlap the corners, feeding them evenly within one another to form a cone.
Continue until you have a tall thin cone that the top two corners nearly line up at the top. I was not ever able to get it perfect but it is ok because it does not show once the floral arrangment is in the cone anyway! LOL
This is what the front view of the coronet looks like at this point. You want to check the front to be sure you like the look of it before proceeding to the next step.
Once you are sure you like how the front looks, make sure your points are almost even. If you are happy with the front and the top points it is not time to adhere your paper to itself to secure the cone. Place a few small pieces of tape inside the cone on the seam to hold it in place from the inside.
While holding the top of the cone tight, but not crushing it, let the outside bottom unroll just a bit and place a good strong adhesive to the edges of the triangular piece that unrolls. I first used Monoadhesive, this is not strong enough. I would suggest a good glue like Beacon zip Dry Paper Glue, or a good red line tape for good strong hold.
Now that you have your cone we turn to the floral arrangment. I purchase a foam cone so I could actually stick my stems in and arrange them. However, you could simply stick stems into the paper coronet and save the $$ spent on the foam cone if you wish.
I arranged two one dollar floral picks from my Dollar Tree store and added four pieces of dry eucalyptus springs I had on hand...this is a VERY inexpensive project but no one would ever guess!!!
To decorate the outside of the cone I punched a strip of Blush Red Light Prismatics cardstock using the new Treading Water Border punch by Fiskars and adhered it to the cone. Because the cone is not cylindrical I had to allow it to go up slightly in the back to keep it flush on the front...but that is ok because no one sees the back anyway!
Using hot glue adhere a small loop of ribbon to the back of the coronet. Be sure to adhere it directly to the back of the project and not just the strip of paper you just added to the proejct...again I found out after the fact that it needed to be WELL ADHERED to the coronet itself....it fell off my wall because I had only adhered it to the strip...
Flip the coronet over and place a glob of hot glue to the front top about an inch from the edge. Place the wire handle of your plaque into the glob and hold until cool.
Tie a small ribbon bow and adhere to hide the hot glue glob. Place your flowers or floral arrangement into the now finished coronet to complete your project.
Supplies:
For this card I wanted to keep this simple, classy and detailed...very much like my Aunt. My Aunt is an artist and so she has a beautiful sense of color and design. I felt these colors were ones that she would appreciate as well as actually use. I used the 
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