Christmas Card- Day One with Kathy Jones

This week Kathy Jones our JustRite Design Team Member from Australia is joining us as our guest blogger. You will want to pop on over today to Kathy's personal blog -Inspired to Stamp because she has been playing with her new stamp sets from the November Release that just arrive Down Under late last week. She has two terrific projects there. Today Kathy will show you just how versatile our stamps are as she used components from 3 different stamps sets to create todays gorgeous card.

Hello Everyone! I am so looking forward to a fun week here at JustRite with all sorts of projects to show you!!

Today’s project is a Christmas Card! It’s that time of the year and I’ve just realised how close Christmas is, so it’s time I got busy with cards or I’ll be making them at the last minute! I couldn’t decide which of the beautiful Christmas Sets to choose from, so I ended up using THREE! LOL!!
I started with a deep pink bazzill base and layered with Gold, Very Vanilla and some Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses DSP. Next I took a piece of Vanilla, punched both sides with the Fiskars Lace Border Punch and embossed it with Swiss Dots embossing folder. Across the bottom I’ve knotted some gold ribbon that I’ve had in my stash since last Christmas! The sentiment is from the Christmas Joy Set and I’ve stamped only ‘Blessings’ in black on Vanilla and then cut it out using the Fancy Tags Spellbinders Set and lightly sponged the centre with Rose Red and popped the panel up on the ribbon.

The main image is a combination of Christmas Treasures (centre)

and Old Fashioned Christmas (Border), which I’ve stamped in Versamark on Vanilla twice and embossed with Gold Detail Embossing Powder. I cut both with Large Circle Nestabilities and popped the centre panel up on foam tape and matted the whole piece with more deep pink bazzill cut using the Large Scalloped Circle Nestabilities. To finish I added some Kaisercraft Blush Pearls to the top corner and each side of the sentiment.

Stamps – Christmas Treasures, Old Fashioned Christmas, Christmas Joy
Paper – Deep Pink Bazzill, Very Vanilla, Gold, Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses DSP
Ink – Versamark, Black
Accessories – Fancy Tags, Large Circle and Scallop Circle Nestabilities, Swiss Dots Embossing Folder, Fiskars Lace Border Punch, Gold Embossing Powder, Heat Gun, Gold Ribbon, Foam Tape, Kaisercraft Blush Pearls.

I hope you enjoyed today’s project and stop by tomorrow for another project!!

Kathy J

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Barb Schram Day 4---Snowflakes are...and a CPS Sketch Challenge

I hope you had a chance to enjoy our Mega Font Blog Hop and that we inspired you to get out your JustRite Font so you can personalize all your papercrafting projects. Just a reminder that our font sale ends Thursday Evening. Save 30% off all JustRite Font and the Horizontal & Vertical Stampers.

This week JustRite is Sponsoring the CPS Sketch Challenge and the theme for the Challenge is Christmas!! If you would like to play along here is the sketch.
CPS Sketch 134

You can submit your entry by clicking here.

Today Barb Schram is back to finish her guest blogging week and she has a terrific Christmas Card for today's sketch.

SNOWFLAKES are…
After the holiday celebrations are over and winter marches on, what a wonderful card to brighten one’s day! JustRite is sponsoring the Card Positioning Systems sketch challenge this week and I thought I would get a head start on those winter cards utilizing JustRite’s A Merry Little Christmas Set!

The outer ring border and center snowflake are from JustRite’s A Merry Little Christmas and stamped with Versafine vintage sepia ink. I utilized my JustRite 1 5/8” round wooden stamper to set my border ring and center.


Close-up detail of the outer stamped ring also reveals a cardstock button I made to use in the center. I used my stamped snowflake center in the upper left portion of the card design. After gluing 6 circle punched layers of designer paper, I created two button holes (with crop-a-dile), sanded edges, and placed crystal effects button top.
Copic markers BG10, BG72, and BG75 are the colors I used to coordinate the snowflake with my Basic Grey patterned paper. I applied liquid pearls with a very light touch to add just a little dimension on the snowflake and butterfly wings.

A detail photo of the butterflies…I added pearls to the butterfly spine. The first is made with liquid pearls and the bottoms two are adhesive pearls. I added machine stitching to follow the sketch layout instead of another layer of cardstock.

Wouldn’t you love to get butterflies in the winter? It’s a wonderful prompt to remember the promise of spring, and new beginnings are just around the corner. Oh…the versatility of JustRite Stamps! I hope you can give the sketch challenge a try this week, check out the CPS BLOG for details! On Wednesday, I will return with holiday ornaments to share! Think personalized, simple, and economical! Take good care! See you tomorrow!


Supplies
Stamps: JustRite A Merry Little Christmas, 1 5/8” Round Wooden Stamper
Paper: Papertreyink Stampers Select White, Ocean Tide cardstock, Basic Grey Fruitcake Snowflake paper, SU brown
Ink: Versafine Vintage Sepia
Accessories: Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, Circle punches, Spellbinders circle and scallop dies, Sewing machine SU, EK, Copic markers, jump ring/links, candy, Michael’s white ribbon, liquid pearls, adhesive pearls, crystal effects, crop-a-dile, corner rounder

Here is Kathy Jones' card for the challenge:

for all the details visit Kathy's blog post.

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Personalized Christmas Cards & Tags- Mini Hop

If you missed yesterday's post- please click to older post and read about on the fun things you missed yesterday!!

Including detailed photos of all these cards by Kellie Fortin. There was so much activity on the web yesterday that you may have missed all the great projects that our design team uploaded to their blogs yesterday. It wasn't an official blog hop but I just couldn't bear the thought that you might have missed all these fabulous projects. Using our Holiday Demi Phrases & Celebration Demi Phrases, Have a Merry Little Christmas, Favorite Occasions, What's Cookin' and our 2" stamper with 15 pt font included. So here are sneak peeks and all the direct links to the projects. You will definitely want to click through and see each designers entire project.

Michelle Kovack
Lauren Meader
Sharon Harnist

Lisa Somerville Kathy Jones

Angela Barkhouse

Debbie Olson

Barb Schram

Heidi Blankenship

Sharon Johnson

Wow!! What fun Personalized and Customized Projects!! Don't you just love how versatile our stamp sets are and the fun things you can do with our new 2" stamper with 15 pt font.

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JustRite Custom Christmas Cards - SCS Product Review & Mini Custom Christmas Card Hop!!

It is a very exciting day in Blog Land!! Remember last week I said we had a surprise for you? Well here it is we have 3 You Tube Video's to share with you today!! We have a mini Blog Hop (scroll to the Bottom of the page for the links). And we are the Product Focus at Splitcoaststampers and the product review team has written reviews on our 2" stamper with 15 point font, Our Holiday Demi Phrases, and the Have A Merry Little Christmas Set. With these three items you can Custom design your own Personalized Christmas Cards. To read the product review click here. To see a written tutorial with great photos on how to use these products click here

For those of you who are dying to see how are stamps really work Beate from Splitcoaststampers has done an outstanding You Tube Video that you can view by clicking here. To see the You Tube Video version of the tutorial click here.

As an added bonus Beate has also has done a Tent topper You Tube Video tutorial for Splitcoaststampers using a stamped image from our Old Fashioned Christmas set. Beate thanks for all the great video Tutorials!!
Remember the beautiful Fleur De Lis Ornaments that Becca Feeken made for the Christmas Blog Hop?? Becca has now filmed a video tutorial for the basic ornament (you will just add your JustRite accents) which you can find by clicking here. For the written version of the tutorial click here.

We have now added a You Tube Video Tutorial section to the right sidebar of the blog so that you can easily find these tutorials whenever you need them.

Today- I thought I would share with you Christmas Cards that anyone can make even if you have never made a card before! For my project I purchased inexpensive Christmas Cards (these were from the Christmas Tree Shop) and blank red cardstock cards from American Crafts. Next I used these three products(Have a Merry Little Christmas, 2" Stamper with 15 point Font and Holiday Demi Phrases) to custom design my JustRite Personalized Christmas Stamper.

First I loaded my Holiday Demi Phrase into the outer rim of my 2" Stamper.
Next I added in my 1 5/8 designer center from the Have A Merry Christmas Stamp set.

Then I added in a designer border from the same set. (Note: it is not necessary to use a 1 5/8" designer border--if you omit it you will have adequate room to die cut the image for additional layering)
Then I added my Custom Phrase to complete the demi phrase. ( OOPS-I got so excited once I loaded my custom sentiment that I forgot to take a picture of it before I inked it up the stamp). Next I stamped the image to see where I would need to adjust the custom writing and then using my tweezers - I simply shifted the letters slightly to adjust the spacing.

After you have loaded your custom block I highly recommend stamping off lots of images before you unload your block. These extra images will allow you to make quick Christmas Gifts at a later date.

Or if you love the idea of having a custom block always at hand simply purchase an additional block and leave your custom block set-up permenantly.
As you can see I had a ton of fun redesigning these pre made cards and adding a personal touch to them. I used a variety of combinations of Large & Small Classic Circle Nestabilities & Scallop Classic Nestabilites to make my JustRite Custom Embellishments.

I made every card a little different-the possibilites were endless...and I have even started changing out my Holiday Demi Phrases and my custom sentiment yet!! For this version I used three pieces of ribbon and simplified my card by just using circle diecuts and a little gold leafing with my Gold Krylon Pen.For this version I diecut the card with my oval nestabilites highlighting the tower of the Lighthouse. Then I die cut the red cardstock so that I could give my card an oval window. I used a second card to cut out pieces of the lighthouse so that I could create a paper toile effect. The bow, roof and walkway are all a second layer of the image.

For a slightly fancier card I made a bow with my wired velvet ribbon and then used the small velvet flower to accent the bow.

Hope you enjoyed these easy peasy Personalized Christmas Cards !!And who knows maybe I may have just inspired you to design your own Personalized Christmas Cards.

Now On to our Mini Christmas Card Hop

Michelle Kovack

Lauren Meader

Sharon Harnist

Lisa Somerville

Kathy Jones

Angela Barkhouse

Debbie Olson

Barb Schram

Heidi Blankenship

And I am off to design my next set of Personalized Christmas Cards. Here is a little peak at my custom designed images for the next set of cards.

Happy Custom Stamping!!

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Stampers Dream Christmas Sneak Peek Week- Day Five

A huge thanks to all the fabulous designers from the Stamper's Dream Team. Thank you for sharing your wonderful JustRite Christmas Projects with us!! We have certainly been more than inspired!

Today the Stamper's Dream Team has a great array of Christmas Projects Today!!

First Michelle has a great Candy Bar Wrapper designed using the Something Sweet Set- these would be perfect for Secret Santa Gifts.

Then Carolyn King has 2 great Treats. A Sweet little Snowman gift box

and a Wonderful Snowman Christmas Ornament using the Old Fashioned Christmas Stamp Set.

Then Kimberly Crawford- has designed a Shabby Chic Christmas Card using the A Merry Little Christmas Set.
And then Amy Sheffer had designed this simply exquisite card using the Christmas Joy Borders and Centers.

Stop back in tomorrow!! We have a special treat for YOU!!

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