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JustRite Friday Challenge #074 - "Vintage Masculine"

With Father's Day just around the corner, we wanted to give you a chance to put your thinking caps on and honor those men in your lives!  Whether it's graduation or a birthday or Father's Day, JustRite Friday Challenge #074 is all about the guys! We have many stamp sets that are perfect for this challenge.  If you need a starting place, you can always check out our pinterest board for Father's Day ideas HERE.

I wanted to show you that sometimes you can use JustRite themed stamps in an unexpected way.  I used the smaller label from Sea Shell Bay Labels Twenty Two for the main focal point of my card, but added a twist to the usual nautical theme by adding a few elements from Market Place Alpha clear set to transform this label into a great masculine centerpiece for my card!

You can get full details about how I created my shaped card on my blog here.

_{{DAD card created by Sheri Holt}}

_{Stamps: JustRite CR-02240 Market Place Alpha clear, CL-02220 Sea Shell Bay Labels Twenty Two cling, CR-03710 Anchors Away clear, CL-03615 Ticking Stripe Background, CL-03650 Vintage Map Collage Background}

_{Dies: JustRite Custom Die JB-03730 Vintage Label & Banners, Spellbinders JB-S4310 Labels Eighteen , S4-213 Fleur De Lis Borderabilities, S4-346 Labels Twenty Two, E8-006 Classic Petal Edgeabilities, S4-233 Labels Nine}

_{Ink: TS-01115 Momento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Antique Linen & Vintage Photo Distress Inks, COPIC Sketch} 

_{Other: brass brads}

 I am so thankful to all of the JustRite Design Team who help add inspiration for the Friday Challenges!!  I hope everyone with ANY JustRite stamps will be inspired to create a vintage masculine card!

Angela Barkhouse created this wonderful magnetic bookmark using Anchors Away clear set with JustRite Custom Die Nested Oval Medallion Labels....a perfect Father's Day gift!

Marisa Job made this very vintage graduation easel card using Anchors Away, Summer Words, Botanical Medallions & Banners, Cast All Your Cares, Vintage Travel Background, Vintage Label & Banners Dies, and Nested Medallion Labels Dies and her signature inking techniques.

Linda Duke created her amazing masculine card using Going Places cling, Cozy Plaid Background, Vintage Travel Background & Vintage Label & Banners Dies with some great details.

The Grand Prize Winner for JustRite Friday Challenge #074 will receive 1 cling AND 1 clear set of choice.

The 3 Honorable Mentions for JRC#074 will each receive 1 clear OR cling set of choice.

The Random Draw Winner for JRC#074 will receive 1 background stamp set of choice.

 

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CHALLENGE RULES:

 You will need to use JustRite Stamps on 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. 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_074 <== 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 Wednesday, June 13th at 6:00 PM Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Winners will be chosen and announced the next day (Thursday, June 14th) here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. 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.

Introducing Anchors Away,Vintage Travel Map & Cozy Plaid Background Stamp

I am so excited to introduce the first 3 sets in our May Release!!  Today we are introducing masculine themed stamps. The design team is definitley going to KNOCK YOUR SOCKS OFF with Masculine Inspiration.  You are going to love Anchors Away, Vintage Travel Map and Cozy Plaid Background Stamp.

 

Tomorrow we will be sharing with you our new custom die - Vintage Labels and Banners  Dies which coordinates with the Banner Elements in Anchors Away as well as the Banner Element in April Release Vintage Rose Medallions.

    
 

 Cozy Plaid Background Stamp   - you can create this cozy plaid color combo by stamping your plaid image and adding additional color to your plaid by coloring stripes with your Copic Markers.  

Vintage Travel Map Background Stamp 

You will just love all the fun ways our design team has used this map background stamp. Using maps to decorate Home Decor pieces is big Home Decorating & Craft Trend.  You can see more inspiration for how to use maps in your crafting and home decorating on my Pinterest Board - Projects with Maps. 

The design team has amazing masculine projects today!!  Grab a cup of coffee and enjoy the gorgeous eye candy!! These are all direct links to each designer's project.

Linda Duke has created a stunning wooden box using Anchors Away and our Vintage Travel Map Background Stamp complete with rope trim and fun embellishements that Linda created from stamp elements in Anchors Away. 

Debbie Olson is sneak peeking another one of our masculine stamps from our May Release - Going Places Vintage Labels  with our new Custom Die Vintage Label and Banners Dies with  Vintage Travel Map Background Stamp and Cozy Plaid Background Stamp. 

Today we are so excited to announce that Marisa Job is joining the JustRite Design Team!!  Marisa is a huge JustRite fan and a frequent winner in the JustRite Friday Challenge. (I know our Friday Challenge participants will be relieved not to have to compete against Marisa in future challenges!!).  We love Marisa's 3-D Style and can't wait to see what she creates next with our stamps!

Today Marisa has created this fun Father's Day card using Anchors Away and Vintage Travel Map Background Stamp.  For more details visit Marisa' s Blog.  You can read Marisa's Design team bio here at the bottom of the page.

 Michele Kovack created this fun Anchors Away Tag with a fun envelope attached!

 

Darsie Bruno created this inspirational card using Anchors Away  with a gold embossed  Cozy Plaid Background Stamp. Love how she used twine to create a dramatic presentation for her sentiment.

  

Heidi Blankenship paired Anchors Away with our Vintage Map Background Stamp from our CHA Release to create this wonderful Masculine Birthday Card.

Kathy Jones stamped the Vintage Travel Map Background Stamp image twice and colored the pocket watch and key. To give her card dimension she hand cut the colored images to create embellsiments for her Father's Day card using Anchors Away.  

 
Sheri Holt combined Anchors Away with our new May Release Classic Art Deco Lace Edges One.  Sheri stamped the ship silhouette in blue and stamped her sentiment on top for a striking effect.

  

Angela Barkhouse combined Anchors Away with Cozy Plaid Background Stamp to create a Father's Day card for her husband.  What a warm and cozy card!!

 

Barb Schram created her 4th 3D - Home decor piece for her Nautical Guest Room using Anchors Away.

Kazan Clark created this amazing vintage Anchors Away card.  Love how she colored this image with Copics to give this stamp image incredible smoky depth!!

Eva Dobilas created this beautiful Father's Day Card using Anchors Away  and Vintage Travel Map Background Stamp.  Just love the Vintage Travel Map colored with Twinkling H2O's!!

 

Hope we have inspired you to make some time this week for a little "me stamping time"  I can't wait to share with you the rest of the May Release!!

JustRite Friday Challenge 055: Color

Before we get started with today's JustRite Friday Challenge, we wanted to announce a new addition to our webstore -- more additions to our Copic Sketch marker collections!

Here's what you'll find new:

4 new Trio collections: Hydrangea Trio, Raspberry Trio, Moss Trio, Tahiti Trio

2 new Quad collections: Ivory Quad and Neutral Gray Quad

2 new singles (RV17 and E23) added to 2 Trios, making them Quads: Latte Quad and Red Violet Quad

For a total of:

22 new singles, 4 of which are the new 2011 Sketch colors: RV63, RV66, YG61 and E23

You can find the new color chart (previewed above) to download from our webstore HERE, and you can find the new collections available HERE and singles HERE.  So don't fret if you already had our Latte or Red Violet Trios,  you are still able to add just the new single marker you may be missing, to complete your new Quad -- Enjoy!

Now on to today's JustRite Friday Challenge #055, which is to use this color combination along with JustRite stamps for your project:

A neutral of brown or black may also be used.

Copic color references: B01-Mint Blue, E41-Pearl White (although it appears pinkish in the photo above!), E43-Dull Ivory.
Memento color references: Summer Sky or Bahama Blue, Desert Sand.

Copic and Memento colors are given as reference only and are not required for this challenge (but certainly welcome!).  Please feel free to use any products you wish that closely match the suggested colors.

The grand prize for this challenge will be Marianne Walker's new Shadows & Shading: A Beginner's Guide ($14.95 retail value) and TEN (10) Copic Sketch marker colors of your choice ($57.50 retail value), for a total combined retail value of $72.45!

THREE honorable mention winners will receive Marianne Walker's new Shadows & Shading: A Beginner's Guide ($14.95 retail value) and our new Butterfly Garden set!

 

For my challenge sample, I used Butterfly Garden and Copic colors from our new Tahiti Trio and Ivory Quad:

  

I made a 'Countdown to Summer' or until 'School is Out' (or until Father's Day!) calendar for my kids:

I stamped the sentiment center from Butterfly Garden with Memento Rich Cocoa ink onto ivory cardstock, die cut it, and then airbrushed the center with Copic B01-Mint Blue while the cardstock was still in the die.

The outer rim of the scalloped border stamp was colored with Copic E43-Dull Ivory, which perfectly matched the kraft cardstock I used!  The border was then glittered with Star Dust Stickles. 

The pearls accenting the punched butterflies were colored with Copic B04 marker.  I used Memento Desert Sand ink and a Jumbo Dauber to sponge the edges of my die cut image, as well as on the blue cardstock die cuts, to age them a bit.

For the flat marble pebble magnet marking the last day of school, I stamped one of the butterfly centers from Butterfly Garden, colored it and cut it out.  Then I adhered it to some printed word paper and glued it to the bottom of the pebble.  Magnets were attached to the back of the calendar and back of the pebble, so they can be used on the refrigerator and the pebble moved to count down the days until school is out!

The 8-1/2" x 11" calendar I computer generated myself, printed onto ivory cardstock, and is available as a free download HERE.

I also found these samples in our By The Sea Gallery that fit this challenge, to give you a little more inspiration.  Remember, we keep updated galleries on each of our stamp sets in our Design Gallery, so you can always visit there and find instant inspiration!  Or if you don't remember where you saw a specific example, try checking the gallery!

Jeanne Streiff made this fabulous beach scene masculine card (click on hyperlinked names to find full details of each project):

And I (Sharon Harnist) made this photo card with a border from By The Sea:

CHALLENGE  RULES:
You will need to use JustRite stamps on 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.  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_055  <== 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 Wednesday, May 25 at 8:00 PM Central to make your project and enter a link to it below.  Winners will be chosen and announced the next day (Thursday, May 26) 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 all of your color challenge projects -- please note the new deadline date and time! 

 
{Butterfly Garden Carlendar}
JustRite Stampers: JB-09915 Butterfly Garden, 3-1/4" Wood Stamper,
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities, Fleur de Lis Motifs, Floral Doily Accents, Grand Calibur; Martha Stewart Butterfly punch
Paper: 7 Gypsies Conservatory 6x6 patterned paper; Neenah Natural White cardstock, Gina K Designs Kraft & Ocean Mist cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Rich Cocoa & Desert Sand
Copic Markers: B01 (airbrushed sentiment center), B04 (pearls), E41, E42, E43 (butterfly pebble & sentiment border)
Accessories: Tsukineko Jumbo Dauber, Copic Airbrush System + Air Compressor, Ranger Star Dust Stickles & Glossy Accents, flat marble, magnet, foam tape, Sharon's free downloadable Countdown Calendar,

Links:

Introducing Fancy Frames Cling Stamps - Plus new items on sale

Today we are introducing a fun new cling set -- Fancy Frames.  This set is designed to go with our JustRite Custom Nested Frame Dies and Spellbinders Labels Fourteen:

 

As you can see, there are some great basic sentiments that will carry you through the entire year, including Mother's Day!  Our entire January stamp release is currently in stock and shipping -- you can see all the sets by clicking on the link above. 

Kellie Fortin used the largest frame in the Fancy Frames set, combined with a sentiment from yesterday's You Inspire Me set, to create this birthday card:

Sharon Harnist also used the large frame but die cut the center out of it, using Spellbinders Labels Fourteen #3 die:

 

To achieve the two colors on this label frame, I first inked the center oval frame with a Memento Summer Sky Dew Drop (to match the Webster's Pages paper), then inked the outer Labels Fourteen shape with Rich Cocoa: 

 

The "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment from this set was also inked with Memento Rich Cocoa, stamped separately, and then die cut with Spellbinders Classic Oval-Sm Nestabilities die #2 and the edges sponged with Cocoa ink.  The sentiment is popped up on foam tape and pearls accent the blue frame.

And speaking of Spellbinders, have you seen their new Grand Calibur die cutting machine?  Besides die cutting their fabulous new collection of Grand Dies, this 8.50" wide machine will accomodate a full sheet of stamped images, to die cut all at once!  I used it while making the card above:

 

Such a time saver ... thanks, Spellbinders!

CURRENT SALES & PROMOTIONS we don't want you to miss out on:

The following items have been added to the Super Sale Section of our website -- sale price is $6.00 on these sets:  

JB 08107 – 25 pt Times New Roman font
JB 08105 – 15 pt Times New Roman font

Save 20% off select Nested Sentiments and Frames -- sale price is $11.96 on these sets:

JB 09220 Friendship Nested Sentiments
JB 09235 Wedding Nested Sentiments
JB 09240 Give Thanks Nested Frames
JB 09250 Christmas Nested Frames
JB 09255 Christmas Nested Sentiments

Cling Promotion:  Save 25% off seasonal Cling Stamps (supplies are limited) -- sale price is $14.96 on these cling stamp sets:

A Day in the Country
Hangin' Around
Simple Blessings
Sparky & Friends
Sparky the Snowman
Mini Binder Box -- sale price is $7.46

We'll be back tomorrow with our JustRite Friday Challenges, with a few changes.  We hope you'll check in and see some fabulous samples from our designers with a fun technique and first challenge of the year!

 
{Have a Fabulous Birthday designed by Kellie Fortin}
JustRite Stamps: CL-02075 You Inspire Me, CL 02070 Fancy Frames
Dies & Punches: JB 08950 Nested Frame Dies
Paper: Die Cuts with a View, Neenah Natural White,
Ink: Memento Rose Bud Ink, Pear Tart
Accessories: foam tape, KaiserCraft rhinestones, Creative Expressions Red Swirl Ribbon

{Mother's Day card designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stamps: CL-02070 Fancy Frames, 
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities-Sm die #2 & Labels Fourteen #3; Martha Stewart Butterfly punch, Fiskars Apron Lace border punch
Paper: Webster's Pages Petite Papers-Postcards from Paris, Neenah Natural White cardstock
Ink: Memento Rich Cocoa & Summer Sky Dew Drop
Accessories: KaiserCraft Latte Pearls & Rhinestones, foam tape

Introducing Beautiful Day

It's another beautiful day here at JustRite, as we have another preview of Spring!  You will love the four borders and three flowers in this Beautiful Day stamp set (snow drop, lily, iris) along with one of my favorite sentiments in a gorgeous font, in this large oval JustRite Original ribbed set.  It retails for $16.95:

This set is currently available on our Pre-Order website and should arrive in our warehouse and be ready for shipping next week!  You'll use this set for Valentine's Day, birthdays, Easter, Mother's Day, teachers, grandparents, sympathy and thank you cards, especially combined with our new Happy Everything Tag Kit!

Kellie Fortin used the iris image in the Beautiful Day stamp set to create this Mother's Day card:

 

She gold embossed the beautiful border in the set to create a golden frame for the iris image.  Then she used the tear drop corner dies from the JustRite Nested Sentiment Die set to embellish the top corners of the card and used the small double ended tear drop tag from the die set to frame the Happy Mother's Day Sentiment from the Happy Everything Tag Kit.

 

Kellie added texture to the leaves of the iris by adding Copic Colorless Blender solution to a paper towel and dabbed the leaves with the paper towel.

Sharon Harnist designed this set of notecards (another re-purposed dollar bin find!), using the other two floral images in this set, the snow drop and lily:

 

To color the white snow drops, Sharon stamped the floral image with black ink on white cardstock and then used Copic C1 & C3 to add shading to the white flowers.  Rather than leaving the flowers just white, you'll be amazed at what adding a little shading will do for them!  Sharon also airbrushed the background with Copic Y32 while it was still in the die -- having the background and greenery colors all around the white flowers will really make them pop! 

 

A little Clear Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen makes the white flowers shimmer and Melon Glitter Pen was used on the stems.  The border was stamped with Memento Rose Bud ink and the center was die cut separately and popped up on foam tape.

The lilies were colored to resemble pink star gazers -- using a very light Copic R000 to blend the R81, R83 & R85 colors on the lilies (not quite to the edges) helps make the outer edges appear white:

 

Take away a little more color around the outer edges, if needed, using Copic Colorless Blender marker.  Lemon Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen was used on the stamens of the lilies.  The border was stamped with Lettuce dye ink and then colored with Copic Y32.  The outer embossed edge of the Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities die cut was colored with R83 Copic marker.  Light green rhinestones accent the border.

 

The pretty sentiment from this set was stamped by itself (without a border) on the insides of the cards.

Tomorrow we'll have a new stamp set to show you that you'll use all throughout the new year, so we hope you'll check back in!

 
{Happy Mothers Day card designed by Kellie Fortin}
JustRite Stamps: JB-09270 Beautiful Day, JB-09820 Happy Everything, 
Dies & Punches: JustRite Custom Nested Sentiment Die, Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Nine-Die 6
Paper: Neenah Solar White, Martha Stewart Plaid, Lavendar Cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, 
Copic Markers: 0, BV000, V04, YG03, G07, Y02, Y17
Accessories: SU Pearls, gold embossing powder, heat tool

{Floral Striped Notecard Set designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stamps: JB-09270 Beautiful Day, JB-09516 Clear Stamper-Large Oval, 
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities Lg & Sm sets
Paper: Copic Blender Card (white), Laura Ashley notecard set (Michael's dollar bin) 
Ink: Memento Rose Bud; Ranger Adirondack Lettuce dye ink 
Copic Markers: R81, R83, R85 (Rose Quad); R000; YG03 & YG17 (Yellow Green Quad); YG63; C1 & C3 (Cool Gray Quad); Y32, 0.
Accessories: Copic Airbrush System, PTI Spring Moss satin ribbon, foam tape, KaiserCraft light green rhinestones