Showing posts with label JustRite Tutorials. Show all posts
Showing posts with label JustRite Tutorials. Show all posts

Friday, November 28, 2008

Day Five with Julie Buhler

JustRite Stampers would like to thank Julie for sharing all her beautiful JustRite Projects with us this week. Thanks for all the organizational tips and inspiraton Julie!! You can continue enjoying Julie's creativity by visiting her blog Paper Pleasing Ideas. Today Julie has an awesome project that will help us all organize our projects for the New Year.

We all make resolutions, and then we slowly digress till we fail to keep them. Like say, we want to send cards to everyone, but soon the card doesn't even get in the envelope, much less get the stamp on it. I created an easy project to do, to keep you on track with your card giving in the New Year.
I designed this book with 24 pages. The first page is labeled January, and every other page after is the rest of the months. You write on the appropriate month the special events, occasions, etc that you will need to make cards for. If any of them need to be mailed, the page after each month is an address page. So the dates, and where they need to be mailed to are all conveniently in one place! Download and print 6 sheets of the list page. If you think you will need more than one address page per month, print off 8 sheets. Then you need to cut them in half both ways. You will now have 24 pages for your book.

Now you need 2 pieces of chipboard cut to 4.5 X 5.75 ~ I used the ones in the back of my 12 X 12 Designer Paper (DP) packs. You also need 4 pieces of DP : 2 (4.5 X 5.75), and 2 (5.5 X 6.75).


Using your Harmony rectangle block, compose the headers for your pages. I used the Trompe for the first letter of each word, and Brayton for the rest. The rest of my pages had the months of the year. Now it is time to make the covers of the book. Glue each of the chipboard pieces to the largest DP (5.5 X 6.75). Make sure it is centered, you should be left with approx. 1/2" over hang on each side. Then snip off all 8 corners on an angle

Now you can see why we cut the angles on the DP. When you glue down the over hangs, you will not get any binding in the corners. After you have glued it down, make sure to run your bone folder over the crease, to make sure the fold is crisp. Add the smaller piece of DP to the backside of the chipboard. ONLY DO THIS TO ONE PIECE FOR NOW. This will be the back cover of the book and the smaller piece of DP will face the inside of the book. Add your words to a panel that will decorate the front of the book. I used the Trompe and Brayton fonts again, but you can use what suits you more. I them layered it on a piece of scallop CS. Decorate the front of the book as desired, I added ribbon and brads. When it is all done, you glue on the last piece of DP to cover all the stuff on the backside. You can also see that I used sticky strip on my ribbon, to make sure it would stay put. Now all you have left to do is put it together. I used a Bind-It-All for mine, but you can punch holes, even add eyelets. Then you can tie it together with ribbon, use binder rings, or whatever else you can think of. This is what the inside of the book looks like. Hope you enjoy making this book and organizing for the new year. Have fun and happy stamping!!
Supplies:
JustRite Stampers:JB 08100 Brayton Font, JB 08098 Trompe Font, JB 08110 Harmony Rectangular Stamper



Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".

Friday, October 3, 2008

Inspiration Friday - Autumn Welcome Coronet- Double Tutorial

It's our final day with our guest blogger Keri Lee Sereika and she has a dynamite project for us with a double tutorial for Inspiration Friday. Keri thanks for a fabulous week and a great double Tutorial.

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 Trompe Font Set and the Harmony Rectangular Stamper Set inked with Chestnut Roan Fluid Chalk Ink.

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:
Inks: Chestnut Roan, Burnt Sienna, Dark Brown Fluid Chalk Inks
Cardstock: Clearsnap -Blush Red Light Prismatics & Natural Smooth - Prism Papers
Patterned Paper: K & Company
Accessories:Curvy Rectangle Die - Spellbinders, Punch: Treading Water Border Punch - Fiskars, Copper Craft Wire, Ribbon, Flowers and Foam Cone


Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Inspiration Friday JustRite Coaster Tutorial by Heidi Blankenship

During the third week of the Stampin' Champion Contest all 5 finalists were asked to make 2 projects for the final round of the contest in case they made it to the finals. Heidi Blankenship made this incredible Appletini Ensemble as one of her projects but didn't make it to the final round of the competition- we were blown away with her creativity and invited Heidi to be our first "Inspiration Friday" Guest Designer. Please be sure to visit Heidi's Inspirational Blog Embellished Dreams.

What is Inspiration Friday? Inspiration Friday is our way of sharing with you an inspirational project that our team has found in the SplitCoaststampers Gallery or on a blog post somewhere in the last week that we just knew all of our readers needed to see. If you would like to be our next "Inspiration Friday " Guest designer simply post your project in the JustRite Stampers Gallery on SplitCoastStampers or on your blog and leave a link on one of our daily posts. We were so inspired by all the incredible designs we saw during our contest. We just can't wait to see what everyone creates next!! Especially with all our new products. The first batch of pre orders have been shipped. Our next shipment will arrive the first week in October. We are still taking pre orders for this shipment.

Here's Heidi's "Appletini Ensemble"


Heidi made charms for the glasses, coasters, decorative napkins and I altered the shaker. Here are some closeups of each piece.

Her altered Shaker- for her Appletini


Her Shrink Art Charms using a JustRite Designer Border

Her JustRite Appletini Coasters with matching napkins. For details on her project visit her blog Embellished Dreams by clicking here. Today Heidi has written a tutorial on how she created this yummy coaster.

Materials -Small Letter Set, Round Wood Mount Stamp 1- 5/8 ,Spellbinders: Wizard, Universal Die Cutting and Embossing Tool or another Die Cutting Machine, Large Classic Circle Nestabilities (S4 114) ,Sticky Back Felt **Tip--one 9 x 12 sheet will make four (4) coasters. Copic: Sketch Markers and ABS (Air Brush System) ** ,BG45 Nile Blue---Coasters,YG13 Chartreuse, G24 Willow---Appletini, R29 Lipstick Red---Cherry, B00 Frost Blue, 0 Colorless Blender---Stem of Glass. Crafty Secrets: Glamour Girls Stamp Set (Martini Glass). Ranger: Adirondack Pitch Black Pigment Ink, Stickles-Arctic Ice, Red ,Sparkle N Sprinkle: Sparkling Snow Glitter,Beacon: ZipDry Adhesive,White Cardstock ,Dimensional Glaze, Acetate, Light Weight Chipboard ,Heating Tool .
Heidi created her coaster using a Spellbinders Wizard Die Cutting Machine. Here is her tutorial:

Step 1 To cut out the felt for the coasters you will need to begin by building your sandwich with the mats. Here are the steps: 1)White Mat 2) White Spacer Plate 3) Large Circle Nestabilities with the cut edge facing up.

4)Sticky Back Felt with the felt side down. 5) One piece of cardstock for a shim 5) White Mat

5) One piece of cardstock for a shim 6)White mat

Because you are pushing the limits of the depth of the cut edge on the die when using a thicker felt with a sticky back you will want to add a piece of cardstock as a shim and run it through the Wizard twice. Also because of the adhesive backing you may have to trim the edges with a scissors. Step 2

Airbrush the felt piece using the Copic ABS and sketch marker BG45. **Tip--If you don't have an ABS you can directly apply the marker to the felt to add the color.


Step 3
After airbrushing the felt piece will feel a little tacky to the touch. Sprinkle on a small amount of glitter and use your fingers to work it into the felt. Tap off excess and set aside to dry.


Step 4

Apply Stickles to the center and the outer edge of the felt piece. Set aside to dry.

Step 5

Using the Small Letter Set and the Round Wood Mount Stamp (1- 5/8) from JustRite Stampers add your sentiment to the wood mount stamper. Then stamp it using Adirondack Pitch Black ink onto white cardstock.
Add red stickles to the olive to make it into a cherry and the heart. Also add dimensional glaze to the drink. Set aside to dry.

Step 6 Next stamp the martini image in the center of the sentiment and then heat set. Color the image with the Copic markers as listed above. Using ZipDry adhesive add glitter to the rim of the glass. Add red stickles to the olive to make it into a cherry and heart. Also add dimensional glaze to the drink. Set aside to dry.

Step 7
Peel the paper backing off of the felt and cut a piece of acetate a little bigger than the center hole. Apply the acetate to the sticky back on the felt. Then apply the stamped image.
Step 8
Using the Wizard and the Large Circle Nestabilities cut a large circle from light weight chipboard and apply to the sticky back of the felt.
Mix some drinks and enjoy! *wink*

Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".