JustRite Inspiration

Introducing Song in my Heart

Thanks for stopping by today!!  Today we are introducing a new JustRite Original Set called Song in My Heart. Our entire March Release is in stock and will begin shipping on February 28th!!  Wait til you see all the wonderful projects and cards the design team has created with this beautiful set!! 

  

What I love about both the oval sentiment sets in our March Release is how easy it is to create beuatiful cards in just a matter of minutes.  I used my Memento Markers direct to rubber, to color the sentiment in Rosebud and the border in Rhubarb Stalk. The image was diecut with Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Five  (love how it frames our oval image so nicely). Then I added a mat layer with Labels Twenty One  to accentuate the vintage label look.

 

To get the beautiful glow in my card I applied Desert Sand to the edges of the card with a Jumbo Dauber - working in a circle motion toward the sentiment. Then I added a hint of Rosebud with my Jumbo Dauber which gives the card it's warm glow.

 

JustRite Stamps:JB 09865 Song in My Heart, JB 08119 Wood 2 1/4" x 3 1/16" Oval Stamper
Dies :Spellbinders Nestabilities  Labels Five, Labels Twenty One
Paper: Prima Annalee 6 x 6 paper pad; Neenah Natural White,
Ink & Markers:Memento Markers Rosebud, Rhubarb Stalk,  Memento Inks for distressing:  Rosebud , Desert Sand , Jumbo Dauber
Accessories: foam tape, prima roses

Song in My Heart is such a beautiful set of sentiments -- another "Must Have" on your JustRite  Wishlist. Use the sentiments for your card front for 3- D projects or as inside sentiments!! As you will see from our design team samples - so many possibilities with this new set!!  Please be sure to click on their hyperlinked names to be taken to their blogs with full design details.

Sharon Harnist combined a sentiment from this set with our 3-1/4" Birdhouses set to create this gorgeous card that just sings spring!!:

 

Michele Kovack designed this fun card using newsprint and scraps of paper leftover from another project she made this week - love the frugal flair!!

 

Angela Barkhouse designed this card using Fancy Labels, Song in My Heart  and the corner elements from Elegant Frames- Just love the dramatic look you get by pairing the two lines of stamps together (JustRite Original & JustRite Cling).

 

Sankari Wegman designed this gorgeous card that has such a royal feel.

 

Stephanie Kraft designed this beautiful card which all it's exquisite textures.

 

 

Kathy Jones designed this delishly pink card that just sings Spring:

Kazan Clark designed this elegant pink and cream card just love all the details including the hand stitching!!

 

Barb Schram designed this adorable baby frame - what a wonderful baby shower gift or gift for a new Grandmother!!

 

Stop back in Monday and Tuesday to see project with our final sets from our March Release.  Tuesday we have a fun blog hop planned with mystery blog candy - be sure to join us!!

 
 

JustRite March Release -Introducing My Rainbow

Our March Release has arrived in our warehouse early and we couldn't wait to share it with you!!  For the next 7 business days we have a new stamp set or die to share with you each day.  This month our JustRite Original Release focuses on one of your favorite size stampers -2 1/4" x 3 1/16"  Oval Stamper with 4 new oval stamps. Today we are introducing My Rainbow - with 4 oval sentiments.

 

 

You will find this set a great go to set for encouragement cards or use the "Thank You for being my Rainbow an a cloudy day" as a loving sentiment for the important people in your life!! 

What I love about this set is how easy it is to make a stunning card in just a matter of minutes.  I absolutely love the Life sentiment  in this set- something about it just tugs at my heart strings and I wanted it to make it the predominant focal point of the card. I didn't want the designer paper to distract from the sentiment, so I chose to frame the sentiment with elegant elements.

 

This card appears in our new release catalog and we have already received tons of emails and calls asking what I used to frame the sentiment. I applied two colors of ink to my stamp using the direct to rubber technique -- Rhubarb Stalk for the Border element and Rosebud for the center sentiment using Memento Markers - this allowed me to stamp the image only once by applying two colors of ink to my image. (this technique is part of our current Friday Challenge- hope you can come out and play as we have some fab prizes- read about it here). 

To frame my sentiment I die cut the stamped image with Labels Eighteen, then I die cut the Heart Frame Tag  from the new Fancy Tags Two Spellbinders dies.  Then I cut the diecut in half and interlocked the tag elements at the top and bottom of my framed image. Since I wanted a design element that would really make my card sing but not take away from my focal point, I chose this great Christmas A2 Embossing Border from Sizzix that I thought would frame the oval Sentiment beautifully. The Christmas tree element of the flourish is a tiny element that I could easily hide under my oval sentiment.    I used the  A2  Embossing border element twice on my card front to frame my sentiment.  To make the embossed design elements of the Christmas w/flourishes border really pop I used a Jumbo Sponge Dauber to gently apply Rosebud ink on the outer edges of my embossed card base. 

JustRite Stamps: JB 09860 My Rainbow, JB 08119 2 1/4" x 3 1/16" Oval Stamper
Dies & Embossing Folders: Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Eighteen, Fancy Tags Two, Grand Calibur, Sizzix Border Tree, Christmas w/Flourishes  A2 Embossing Folder from Christmas Set #6.
Paper: Prima Flora Fairy; Neenah Natural White 
Ink: Memento  Rosebud, Rhubarb Stalk, Jumbo Dauber
Accessories: foam tape, gold pearls

These JustRite design team members have samples with this set to share.  Please be sure to click on their hyperlinked names to be taken to their blogs with full design details.

Sharon Harnist:

 

Kazan Clark:

 

Kathy Jones:

 

Angela Barkhouse:

 

Stop in tomorrow at 9 am CST to see our next March Release Introduction!!

 

A Beautiful Day Coloring!

It may be the dead of winter and a huge nationwide winter storm outside, but here at the JustRite Inspiration blog, it's a beautiful day!  We'll be sharing some coloring tips today, using one of our new JustRite Original Ribbed florals, A Beautiful Day large oval stamp set:

JustRite design team member Debbie Olson prepared this video, sharing her tips for Copic coloring the Irises in this stamp set:

 

Here are some more design team samples, using A Beautiful Day stamp set:

Debbie also has this beautiful Copic colored bouquet of Snowdrops:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Sharon Harnist also used the Iris image, Copic colored on solid patterned paper:

Kathy Jones also shares her pretty Copic colored Iris:

Kellie Fortin's pretty Copic colored yellow & pink Iris card:

Michele Kovack colored the Snowdrops from this stamp set with Copic markers and white pigment ink on kraft cardstock, then glittered the flowers:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We'll be back on Wednesday with another Copic coloring tutorial, using this beautiful stamp set!

 

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

Introducing The Greatest Joy & Happy Everything Tag Making Kit

Today we are introducing another beautiful floral stamp set, our large oval JustRite original ribbed, The Greatest Joy -- set of four interchangeable centers and four borders (flowers are crocus, rose & daffodil), retailing for $16.95: 

This set is currently in our warehouse and shipping!

Kellie Fortin used the pretty daffodil center from the Greatest Joy set plus the Easter sentiment from our new Happy Everything Tag Making Kit to create her Easter card:

The Happy Everything Tag Kit set (shown below) comes with 18 mini stamps for every "Happy Occasion" you can think of, plus four NEW JustRite Custom Spellbinders Tag Dies!  Throughout the next two weeks we will be showing you all the great ways to use this fun tag making kit.  We have a very exciting 2011 planned for you, so sit back and enjoy our new releases!
 

Kellie used JustRite's Buttercup Trio & Soft Green Quad Copic marker sets to color the daffodils, and BG000 from our Turquoise Trio for the background.  Y15 (from our Golden Trio) was used to color the embossed edges of the Classic Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities die cut and also to make the sentiment really pop on our die cut tag.  Kellie matted the Classic Scalloped Rectangle with a Labels Fourteen mat layer.

  
 
You will love all the mini sentiments in the Happy Everything Kit, they are just the perfect size to fit in our new tag dies in the kit as well as the perfect size for using with our small double ended tear drop die from our Nested Sentiment Dies.

Here is what comes in the Nested Sentiment Die Set:

 

Sharon Harnist used the wonderful sentiment center included in The Greatest Joy set, as the main attraction for a 3.50" square sticky note cover:

 

Isn't this a gorgeous font?!!  Sharon thought the pretty scroll border fit well with the Webster's Pages Petite Papers (Hollywood Vogue) she used, all stamped in classic black ink on pretty peach coordinating solid Webster's paper.  The sentiment was die cut with Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities and then layered onto a black Scalloped Classic Oval die cut.

 

Sharon will have the tutorial for this quick project in our first Friday Challenge next year, so please check back for that on January 7!  We hope you'll return tomorrow to see another very "sweet" new stamp set!

 
{Easter Blessings card designed by Kellie Fortin}
JustRite Stamps: JB-09265 The Greatest Joy, JB-09820 Happy Everything, 
Dies & Punches: JustRite Custom Dies, Spellbinders Classic Scalloped Rectangle Nestabilities
Paper: Neenah Solar White,
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, 
Copic Markers: JustRite's Buttercup Trio & Soft Green Quad, BG000 (Turquoise Trio), Y15 (Golden Trio)
Accessories: Pearls

{Greatest Joy sticky note cover designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stamps: JB-09265 The Greatest Joy,   
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Oval & Classic Scalloped Oval Nestabilities dies 
Paper:  Webster's Pages Petite Papers-Hollywood Vogue, black cardstock 
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, 
Copic Markers: 
Accessories: Scor-Buddy, Black gingham ribbon, sticky note pad
 

JustRite Friday Challenge 028, Sponsored by Copic: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

This week's Friday Challenge #028 A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words, sponsored by Copic, is to use a photo on your card combined with JustRite stamps, to make a one-of-a-kind greeting card!  Alternatively, you may also make a scrapbook page since the logistics are virtually the same!  You might want to use this challenge as an additional opportunity to work out a family photo Christmas card design, too!

Since we just returned from a fabulous beach vacation I have plenty of wonderful photos I want to use, so here's my sample using JustRite's large oval By The Sea set:

 

I thought this would make a nice little love note to my girls!  I started by printing my photo at 3.50" x 5", trimmed it with a Victorian/deckled blade, then mounted it to a standard A2 sized (4.25" x 5.50") card base of kraft cardstock.

The oval photo frame, which says "If you want to know how much I love you, count the waves" was stamped with Cocoa ink onto Natural White cardstock and die cut with Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities dies.  While the cardstock was still in the die, I airbrushed the frame with Copic B01 marker, to match the gorgeous Caribbean water: 

 

The shells on the frame were colored with Copic E01 marker.  The frame was popped up on foam tape over the photo and tied with some ribbon & twine.

The seashell embellishment at the bottom of the photo was made by punching kraft cardstock with Martha Stewart's shell border punch.  The scallop shells were enhanced with Copic E02 marker:

 

And there you have a very quick and easy photo greeting card!

 

The challenge winner this week will receive a set of 12 Copic Ciao markers (colors may vary from photo), compliments of the North American distributor of Copic markers, Imagination International, Inc.  Thanks, Copic!

 
And three Honorable Mention winners will each receive a $15 JustRite gift certificate!

CHALLENGE  RULES:
You will need to use JustRite products for your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website.  (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_028  <== 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, July 29 by midnight 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.  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 photo cards!  Please note that you'll have a little longer this week to play along in our challenge -- until midnight Central next Thursday night, as we'll just be returning from the Craft & Hobby show then and won't be able to announce the winners of this challenge until sometime Friday, July 30th.

 
JustRite Stampers®: JB-09755 By The Sea and JB-08119 Large Oval Wood Stamper
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities Lg-3 & Sm-5; Martha Stewart shell border punch
Paper: Memory Box-Kraft, Neenah Classic Crest-Natural White
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Rich Cocoa ink pad, Copic markers-E02 & B01
Accessories: Copic Airbrush System, Marvy Paper Trimming Buddy w/Victorian blade, foam tape, sponge, Cute photo of kids!

Links: 

Day 3 With Guest Designer Jeanne Streiff

Our final day with guest designer, Jeanne Streiff, brings us this wonderful tribute to Summer:

 

Jeanne used the sailboat image from our By The Sea set, along with a wonderful sentiment from our new Cherish The Memories Nested Sentiment set, to create this work art!

Notes from Jeanne:

"I love, love, love the By the Sea set! What a great stamp set for so many different types of cards. This is a 5” x 5” card. I made a background panel in cream cardstock and sponged the edges with brown ink and then stitched on the sewing machine with black thread and attached it to the card back. The light blue panel was cut with a Spellbinders Labels 10 Nestabilities® die. I sponged the blue panel and added doodles around the edges with a Copic Multiliner pen."

 

"The image panel was stamped in black on white cardstock and colored with Copic markers. I sponged the edges in brown ink and distressed a bit before attaching to the brown Spellbinders Labels 10 Nestabilities® mat. I wrapped the hemp around the card and knotted and then added the image panel with foam squares. The “Make a Wish” phrase was stamped (with my new FABULOUS Clear Horizontal Stamper!) in black ink on a small strip of white cardstock. I trimmed  two “V” shapes from the ends (it helps me to mark the center on the back to get an even cut) and then sponged the edges in brown ink. I curved it a bit an secured with glue. The last step was adding the pearls and gold nailheads with dabs of Ranger Glossy Accents."  

Here's the last of our interview with Jeanne:

7. Tell us who is currently your favorite paper company: "Jillibean Soup -- I just love their crisp clean patterns."

8. Tell us what are you currently addicted to:  "Ha -- That seems to change weekly!  My latest addiction seems to be JustRite stamps … my collection has grown huge in the last few months. Yum!!!"

9. Tell us your favorite paper crafting season and why: "I’d have to say Christmas (though Halloween is a close second). Christmas seems to be the time that I’m most creative and working on a variety of projects that I don’t normally do the rest of the year."

Well, Jeanne (and the rest of you!) ... you are in luck with your love of Christmas stamps, since our Christmas Collection Release One begins shipping tomorrow!  Many thanks to Jeanne for sharing her wonderful talents with us this week ... please be sure to leave Jeanne some love in the comments below, telling her how much you enjoyed her creations this week!

 
JustRite Stampers®: JB-09755 By the Sea set, JB-09215 Cherish the Memories set, JB-09520 Clear Horizontal Stampers, JB-08119 Oval Wood Stamper
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders™ S4-110 Classic Oval Large, S5-022 Labels 10 Nestabilities®
Paper: Bazzill, Detail Blending Couture Cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Ranger Distress Brushed Corduroy
Accessories: Copic markers (0, W0, W3, W5, W7, B23, B41, BG10, BG45, BG49, E31, E35, YG95), Copic Multiliner, sponge, hemp, pearls and gold nailheads Dreamtime Creations, Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L™ (E-Z Runner, 3D Foam Squares), Ranger Glossy Accents