JustRite Inspiration

JustRite Friday Challenge 041: Holiday Recipe Swap

Today's JustRite Friday Challenge #041 is another recipe swap -- this time for the upcoming holidays!  This might include Halloween treats nicely packaged with your JustRite stamps, your favorite family recipe for Thanksgiving or Christmas breakfast, dinner side dish, or dessert or maybe even holiday party food (perhaps for New Year's Eve?).  And what about treats for teachers during the holidays?  In addition to using JustRite stamps, we'd like for you to also share the actual recipe, so we can all find some new ones we might like to try this holiday season -- and start planning and shopping early!  For this recipe swap your projects can include a gift presentaion of the actual recipe.

Angela Barkhouse has the perfect gift presentation to share her Family Holiday Recipes with Family and Friends.

 

This Apron Cookie Swap Book is a great way to package all the recipes from your Christmas Cookie Swap.  Have each of your friends bring their favorite cookies to the swap with enough recipe cards for each person attending the swap.  You can even get together now for a stamping night to create the apron recipe books for the party.

 

For more details about how Angela created this book visit Angela's blog.

 

Angela's recipe to share:

 

Recipe for: Anginetti Italian Lemon Drop Cookies
From the Kitchen of: Angela

1 cup sugar                                         2 ½ cups flour
1 TBSP baking powder                   ¼ tsp salt
 4 TBSP vegetable oil                      2 tsp lemon extract & 1 tsp vanilla
4 eggs (well beaten)                      1/3 cup milk

Mix dry ingredients into a large bowl.  Make a well - drip in oil, milk, eggs and extracts. 
 Mix well to make medium firm dough.   Add more flour if needed.  Break off small
 pieces of dough (3/4” – 1”).   Let stand for 10 minutes.  Bake @ 400 degrees for 12 minutes.

 While still warm, dip them into the icing. 

ICING:
½ lb confectioners sugar              ½ tsp vanilla
2 tsp lemon extract

Mix ingredients together and then add enough water to make a thin frosting (1 tsp at a time)

 Can't wait to see your creations.

Project Recipe:
Stamps:  JustRite Stampers - What's Cookin', Recipe, Favorite Occasions, Christmas Nested Sentiments, Christmas Nested Frames, Hearts Come Home, Holiday Cheer, Decorative Frame Borders, From Our House, Something Sweet, Christmas Joy
Paper:  K & Co SW Glad Tidings stack, DCWV cardstock, Core'dinations cardstock
Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black, Memento Rhubarb Stalk, Memento Bamboo Leaves, Copic Markers (YG97, E99, RV29, E31, E33, G21, G12, Y19, R39, R89, G24, R17, E17)
Accessories:  Spellbinders Classic Circles, Petite Scallop Circles, Eyelet Circles, Labels 1, Lacey Squares, Classic Squares, Classic Ovals, Classic Scallop Ovals, Martha Stewart Modern Garland border punch, Stickles (green, black), buttons, ribbon, Polymark White Dimensional fabric paint

 

This week's grand prize winner will receive 2 JustRite Cling sets of your choice and a mini binder box!  Three Honorable Mention winners will receive a JustRite Cling set of their choice!

CHALLENGE  RULES:
You will need to use JustRite products for your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website.  You may make and enter as many different projects as you'd like for our challenges.  (Please see our blog post HERE for important information about our gallery on Flickr, how to upload to it, and another opportunity to win some JustRite products!).

You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post.  Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily.  (Links that  are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted).  If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_041  <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the tag section of the Flickr gallery.

You will have until next Thursday, October 28 at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below.  Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog.  Please allow up to 4 weeks for delivery of your prizes.  By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as our company website gallery (with designer credit given and your blog post or gallery linked) or any possible advertising. 

We can't wait to see your holiday recipes!

 
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JustRite Friday Challenge 040: The Colors of Fall Winners!

The winners for JustRite Friday Challenge #040: The Colors of Fall, sponsored by Flower Soft are:

 

The grand prize winner, receiving a huge $50 worth of Flower Soft prize package is:

Eva Dobilas with this wonderful shaped leaf card using Autumn Blessings:

 

Three Honorable Mention winners, receiving generous $20 Flower Soft prize packages are:

 
 
 Bonnie McLain  --- love all the details in Bonnie's Fall Card using Autumn Blessings.

For Katie Renz Fall colors come in a slightly different shade - we loved her interpetation of the challenge. Katie used oue new Friendship Nested Sentiments with a Nested Frame from our Give Thanks Nested Frames.

We just loved  Donna Polley's card design with the uncovential combinations of textures and her striking layout.  She also used Autumn Blessings.

Congratulations, ladies!  Please email me with your mailing address and Flower Soft will ship your prize packge to you!  Please be sure to check back tomorrow for another JustRite Friday Challenge!

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 7!

Welcome to JustRite Stampers’ newest Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops 7!   Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps!  You also might see some projects from the JustRite design team, using some of our newly released CLING stamps!  You can find our new collection of cling stamps HERE.  This week, the designers joining us are most of the Spellbinders and Caardvarks design teams!  So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting here at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

My sample today uses one of our original ribbed sets, Old Fashioned Christmas:

 

I stamped just the sleigh with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto cream carstock and then colored it with the Copic markers listed below and Red & Turquoise Atyou Spica Glitter pens.  I die cut the image with Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities and when I couldn't find the exact color of cardstock I wanted for a mat layer, I used my trusty Copic BG18 to color another piece of die cut cream cardstock to achieve just right shade!

 

I created the "Scrabble" tiles by first stamping the Myriad Pro 50-point Uppercase letters with black ink onto cream cardstock and then used the Small Letter Set (6-point Times New Roman) for the numbers.  It was easy to see where to place the numbers, by using the Small Clear Horizontal Stamper.  I used a 1/2" square punch to punch out each letter and then inked the edges with Antique Linen Distress Ink.

Just a reminder that all of our newly configured Uppercase & Lowercase combo font sets are 25% off this month! 

Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous JustRite Christmas inspiration they have for you on the hop today!

JustRite Inspiration Blog
Spellbinders Blog
Debbie Olson
Kimberly Crawford
Sharon Harnist
Beth Pingry
Amy Crockett
Kellie Fortin
Latisha Yoast
Becca Feeken
Lucy Abrams
Sankari Wegman
AJ Otto 
Beate Johns
Heidi Van Laar
Kazan Clark
Julie Overby
Peet Roeven
Michele Kovack
Judy Hayes
Kathy Racoosin
Stephanie Kraft
Terre Fry
Angela Barkhouse
Holly Simoni
Heidi Blankenship

We hope you'll join us again on next week's Christmas blog hop!

 
{Merry Scrabble card designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stampers®: JB--08765 Old Fashioned Christmas, JB-08097 Myriad Pro 50-point Uppercase, JB-07275 Small Letter Set  
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities & Eyelet Circles, Sizzix Tim Holtz Alterations On The Edge Die-Scallops
Paper: Basic Grey Mitten Weather, Neenah Classic Crest Cream cardstock 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink 
Copic Markers:  JustRite Red Quad, Bg13, BG18, E35, W1 
Accessories: Cuttlebug Victoria embossing folder, Ranger Ink Blending Tool, Ocean Tides satin ribbon, foam tape

Flickr Winners 10-18

Here are our weekly Flickr winners.  If you shared your JustRite artwork in our Flickr gallery, "JustRite Projects" -- if it was an entry for our JustRite Friday challenges or not -- your project will automatically be added to the weekly pool from which we'll choose three winners' projects to highlight here on our blog AND you'll receive a free JustRite stamp set of your choice!  So, just by sharing what you are already creating with your JustRite stamps, whether it's for one of our challenges or not, you can still be a winner!  You can find more details by visiting this blog post.

Here are this week's winners:

1 - My Sheri Cards (Sheri Holt) made this pretty Autumn card using our large oval Autumn Blessings stamp set:

2 - mypaperhaven (Katie Renz) created this beautiful Thanksgiving card, also using our Autumn Blessings set:

3 - luvscards entered this pretty Christmas card, using our 3-1/4" Christmas Ornament set:

Congratulations, everyone -- thanks for all the wonderful submissions to our gallery this week!  Please email me with the stamp set of your choice, along with your mailing address and we'll get your stamps out to you!

JustRite Friday Challenge 040: Colors of Fall, Sponsored by Flower Soft!

Fall is finally in the air here in the south where I'm located and we're just beginning to see the warm, rich colors of Fall emerge.  I hear color is at its peak on the upper Eastern seaboard, so today's JustRite Friday Challenge #040 is a more relaxed color challenge (no exact/specific colors) -- just the Colors of Fall! 

From deep burgundy, to warm gold and vivid orange, your challenge this week is to use those wonderful rich colors of Fall with your JustRite stamps.  Now if this, to you, means a black Halloween bat, cat or witch -- go for it ... Halloween is Fall holiday after all, right?!!

 

This week's challenge sponsor are the fabulous folks at Flower Soft!  They've provided the JustRite design team with some of their wonderful product and wait until you see all the wonderful Fall color inspiration our design team AND the Flower Soft design team have for you today!  You can find out more about Flower Soft's product and video tutorials on how to use it at Flower Soft TV and keep up with them daily at their blog. 

Flower Soft has recently introduced new Ultra Fine to their product mix and now Gold & Silver in their Diamond Range of product!  Be sure to check back for our November 19 Friday Challenge, when the JustRite designers will be highlighting the Gold & Silver Flower Soft!

Here's the fabulous Fall JustRite inspiration the Flower Soft design team has for you -- thanks for the wonderful samples, ladies!  Please be sure to click on each designer's name to be taken to their blog post, where you'll find full details about their project and what Flower Soft product they used!

Jeanne Streiff used the apple basket image from our Autumn Blessings set and accented it with Autumn mix Flower Soft -- gorgeous!

 

Gini Cagle accented our Applique center with Autumn Flower Soft and the border with Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft -- love all the wonderful texture!

 

Debbie Seyer used our 50-point Special Occasions and 25-point Times New Roman fonts to spell out her Fall greeting, framed with Baroque Nested Frames.  The leaves are accented with Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft and the pumpkins with Ultra Fine Burnt Sienna and a brand new product for Flower Soft -- Diamond Range Gold!

 

Deb Felts also used the pumpkins from our Autumn Blessings set and accented it with Autumn Flower Soft, for this clean and elegant Fall card:

 

Dina Kowal used a border from our Backyard Birds set to make this fabulous Fall wreath, accented with several types of Flower Soft.  The sentiment is from our Christmas Nested Frames set -- very creative!

 

Linda Beeson gave the flowers from our Plant A Little Love set a Fall makeover by coloring them a pretty pumpkin color and accenting them with the new Ultra Fine Burnt Sienna Flower Soft!  Linda framed the flowers and added a thank you sentiment from our Baroque Nested Frames:

These JustRite design team members also have Fall color challenge samples to share today:

Stephanie Kraft made Flower Soft Fall foliage for the barn image in our new A Day in the Country cling set -- love the weathered look!

 

Angela Barkhouse accented the trees on her wonderful Fall scrapbook page with Autumn mix Flower Soft and cleverly framed our Give Thanks Nested Frames with Ultra Fine Sage & Toffee Flower Soft.  Please visit Angela's blog for close-up detailed photos:

 

Kathy Jones used the scarecrow from our new Hangin' Around cling set and "stuffed" him with Ultra Fine Toffee Flower Soft -- brilliant!  Autumn mix Flower Soft accents the ground:

 
Michele Kovack also used the scarecrow from our Hangin' Around cling set, combined with Myriad Pro Font, accenting the cornstalks with Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft:

 

Barb Schram accented the thistle on her stunning Backyard Bird center with Lavender Flower Soft and added a sentiment from our Give Thanks Nested Frames, accented with Ultra Fine Sage Flower Soft:

 

Becca Feeken added several colors of Ultra Fine Flower Soft to the decorative center strip accenting her Autumn Blessings apple basket:

 

Kazan Clark made beautiful Flower Soft flower stalks for the vase accenting her Autumn Blessings sentiment -- gorgeous!

 
 
Heidi Blankenship embellished her pumpkin leaves and Nature Nested Sentiment tag with Flower Soft and also the Hangin' Around cling scarecrow image -- gorgeous Fall set!

 

And I made a Fall bookmark using this beautiful Fall harvest bounty image from our new A Day in the Country cling set.  I added a bunch of Fall color to the bottom of the image using Autumn mix Flower Soft.  I adore this sentiment in this set!  You can find all the details on how I created my bookmark over at my blog, PaperFections.

 

This week's grand prize winner will receive a huge $50 worth of Flower Soft prize package and 3 Honorable Mention winners will receive $20 Flower Soft prize packages!

CHALLENGE  RULES:
You will need to use JustRite products for your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website.  You may make and enter as many different projects as you'd like for our challenges.  (Please see our blog post HERE for important information about our gallery on Flickr, how to upload to it, and another opportunity to win some JustRite products!).

You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post.  Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily.  (Links that  are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted).  If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_040  <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the tag section of the Flickr gallery.

You will have until next Thursday, October 21 at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below.  Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog.  Please allow up to 4 weeks for delivery of your prizes.  By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as our company website gallery (with designer credit given and your blog post or gallery linked) or any possible advertising. 

We can't wait to see how YOU get creative with your colors of Fall cards & projects!

 
Links:

JustRite Friday Challenge 039: Give Thanks Winners!

Here are the winners for last week's JustRite Friday Challenge #039, Give Thanks.  The grand prize winner, receiving this set of Spellbinders dies (Poinsettia & Snowflake Frameabilities):

 

Is Dina Kowal with this gorgeous hummingbird (from our Backyard Birds set) thank you card:

 

Dina also used the Morning Glory from our My Garden stamp set, and stamped it with chalk inks to make the beautiful pastel background behind the hummingbird image.  You can find full details at Dina's blog, linked above.  Congratulations, Dina!

3 Honorable Mention winners, receiving one of these die sets (Jumbo Scalloped Border Petites, Snowflake Wonder, Ric Rac Diamond Border Petites):

 

Are:

1 - Bonnie McLain with this pretty Give Thanks card, made with our Autumn Blessings stamp set and some beautiful embossing and die cut folders:

 

2 - Pattie Goldman creatively mixed the Indian corn from our Autumn Blessings set with our Give Thanks Nested Frames, to create this pretty quilted Thanksgiving greeting:

 

3 - Katie Renz created her own fabulous Fall background paper (find out how on her blog) to accent our Give Thanks Nested Frames  for her wonderful Thanksgiving card:

 

Congratulations, everyone, and thank you for all your fabulous Thanksgiving and thank you inspiration!  Please email me with your mailing address and we'll get your dies out to you!  Don't forget about another chance you can have at winning JustRite stamps -- just by uploading to our Flickr gallery, "JustRite Projects".  You can find full details and instructions here.

We hope you'll check back a little later this afternoon for another introduction in our new cling line of stamps and then tomorrow for our next JustRite Friday Challenge!

Introducing Sparky the Snowman/Family Cling & 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop 6!

Welcome to Week 6 of the JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop!

 

Here on the JustRite Inspiration blog, we are in the midst of our New Cling Release --which just happens to have 3 New Christmas images - two of which we are debuting during this hop.  The first Cling Sets is Sparky the Snowman ...

Does anyone recoginze this Snowman's face?  You should --- Sparky first appeared in our Vintage Christmas Set- just his torso.  We couldn't resist developing him into a full image and giving him a name - Sparky the Snowman!   All of our Cling stamps come pre-cut on a storage panel with colored images of the set you are purchasing.  The artwork we are showing today on the blog is the actual storage panel for Sparky the Snowman.

 

4 storage panels fit comfortably in our mini storage binder box ( which is not up on our website yet but are in stock ready to ship please bear with us while we are loading our new products into the website).

Again this is another fun set and our mitten image was designed to coordinate with the new Spellbinders's Shapeabilities Nested Mitten Dies.   It was designed so that you can use die  #4 from the mitten set to mat our mitten image. I added a crocheted chain stitch  loop to the corner of my mitten tag.

 
For today's project, I decided to go with brights in contrast to the fall cards I created earlier this week.  I used the snowflake images from the Sparky the Snowman Set to create designer paper similar to the paper I designed on Monday.

 
 
I started with this piece of paper from the Botanical 12 x 12 paper pad by Martha Stewart. I used the grid lines to help with the placement of my images. After I stamped all the snowflakes I added green, red and blue rhinestones to the center of each snowflake for a little extra Holiday Cheer. 

 

For my mitten image I stamped the mitten in Memento Ivy Cottage and then added the verse  " I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" to the upper half of the mitten before I started coloring it with Copic Markers.

I added Pom Poms for snow balls and in the bottom Right hand corner I added a little Polar White Flower Soft to depict a mound of snow.  You will find my second card for this set on my personal blog during the hop today.

For our 2nd Christmas Set we decided that Sparky needed a few Friends --- so our next set is titled Sparky and Friends ...

Sharon Harnist made this sweet wooden birdhouse ornament, accented with Sparky and Friends!

 

Sharon colored the snow friends with Copic markers, cut them out and added them to the side of the wooden house she coverd with patterned papers.  Polar White Flower Soft was added for a real snow effect!

 

The sign on the roof was made with another of our custom dies we'll be introducing soon!  After die cutting the frame from woodgrain patterned paper and sanding the embossed edges, Sharon stamped the "Warm and Cozy" sentiment with black pigment die ink and then heat embossed it with black detail embossing powder.  The mitten was stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink (omitting the inside sentiment) onto patterned paper, accented with Copic markers, and then die cut with Spellbinders Nested Mitten die -- love that it's so easy to die cut this stamp!  More Polar White Flower Soft adorns the rooftop.

 

On the front of the house, our crazy bird friend from Whimsical Christmas is skating by!  TIP:  Sharon used her R89 Copic marker to color/stain the edges and eaves of the wood birdhouse!

Speaking of Copics, have you downloaded our JR Copic Coloring Reference guide yet?  It is a great guide for knowing which Copic combinations blend perfectly. 

Now on to our blog hop for today . . . Continuing with our Wednesday feature, 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops #6 -- Every Wednesday up until Thanksgiving some of your favorite designers will be joining some of the JustRite design team for a series of Christmas blog hops, showcasing JustRite’s entire Christmas Collection of stamps!  This week, it’s most of the Copic design team and Certification instructors! 

So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

There are some more samples using these new cling stamp sets on the hop today: Sharon's project uses both Sparky the Snowman and Sparky & Friends, Angela's project uses Sparky & Friends and Kellie has another sample with Sparky the Snowman for you on their blogs, linked below!

Please visit these designers’ blogs to see what fabulous Christmas projects they have for you on the hop today!

JustRite Inspiration Blog
Sharon Harnist
Debbie Olson
Kellie Fortin
Becca Feeken
Marianne Walker
Kathy Jones
Barb Schram
Lori Craig
Stephanie Kraft
Jenn Balcer
Angela Barkhouse
Sherrie Siemens
Sankari Wegman
Colleen Schaan
Regina Mangum
Jennie Black
Kazan Clark
Sally Lynn MacDonald
Michele Kovack

We hope you'll be back next week for another week of JustRite Christmas inspiration! 

 

Project Recipe - Mitten Card - designed by Kellie Fortin
JustRite Cling Stamps: CL 02020 Sparky the Snowman
Dies: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Nested Mittens
Inks & Markers: Tsukeniko Memento Ivy Cottage, Lady Bug Red, Danube Blue, Copic Markers-R08,R46,YG13,YG17,B21,B23
Paper: Martha Stewart Classic Botanical Paper Pads 12 x 12, Neenah Solar Crest Natural White Cardstock, Red Cardstock
Accessories: Flower Soft - Polar White, Pom Poms, Queen& CO Rhinestones, Crochet Hook, Red Crochet Cotton

{Warm & Cozy Birdhouse designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stampers®: CL-02025 Sparky and Friends, JB-09795 Whimsical Christmas
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nested Mittens dies & JustRite custom dies (to be announced soon!)
Paper: Basic Grey Eskimo Kisses, Copic X-Press It Blending Card
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Adirondack Pitch Black pigment ink 
Copic Markers:  JustRite Light Blue Quad (B000), Dark Blue Quad (B32 & B34), Olive Trio (YG93 & YG95), Yellow Green Quad, Rose Quad, Butternut Quad (YR21 & YR23), Cool Gray Quad, E01, E33
Accessories: Polar White Flower Soft, Ranger Star Dust Stickles & White Opal Liquid Pearls, JoAnn’s mini wooden bird house