JustRite Inspiration

JustRite Friday Challenge 029: Sketch

We have two posts today.. so if you are looking for the Friday Challenge winners scroll down to the earlier post.

This week's JustRite Friday Challenge #029 is to work with this square sketch:

 

This sketch will be perfect for our 2-inch square stamps, including some of our new Christmas collection stamps or monograms.  But remember, you can always cut any shape of our stamps into a square to use with this sketch!  Your project doesn't have to be a card -- please feel free to interpret the sketch however you'd like, into whatever kind of project you prefer! 

Since we were working at CHA all week - we will be sharing our inspiration project for the sketch a little later this week.

This week's challenge winner will receive a $50 JustRite gift certificate and three Honorable Mentions will receive a $15 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_029  <== 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, August 5 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.  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 projects using this sketch! 

 
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JustRite Sponsoring JUGS & Color Throwdown!

If you are an avid stamper, you'll recognize what that title means ... otherwise, it may seem a bit strange! Either way, here's the explanation: Did you know JustRite sponsors challenges every month on other challenge sites where there is no requirement to use our stamps?  These challenges are a great way to win JustRite stamps that can be used in OUR challenges!

This week JustRite is sponsoring the Just Us Girls Challenge and their challenge, which is to work with this sketch:

The challenge started last Saturday and you still have until 9pm Eastern time TONIGHT to enter for your chance to win a JustRite prize package!  You can find all the details on their blog post HERE, along with EIGHT fabulous card samples from their design team, using JustRite stamps!

JustRite is also sponsoring the 100th Color Throwdown challenge this week that started yesterday.  The challenge is to use these colors:

 

Please click over to this blog post on their site to find the full details of the challenge and list of 19 designers who will be giving away combined prizes totaling over $1,700!!  You'll find a $100 JustRite gift certificate as a prize on one of the blogs!

Good luck!

 

JustRite Friday Challenge 024: Sketch Winners

Announcing the JustRiteFriday Challenge 024 sketch winners:  Receiving our two new 2" square Christmas stamp sets (From Our House & Hearts Come Home) plus a 2" Square Wood Stamper:

 

The winner is Selma Stevenson with this:

Gorgeous Patriotic card.  We just love all the details in this card.  Selma was able to incorporate a full American Flag into her design while using two JustRite Stamp Sets by making her card into an easel card.  For more details on how Selma designed her card and to see how very motivated Selma was to win our new Square Christmas Stamps - stop by Selma's blog to congratulate her and read her blog post.

Congratulations, Selma!  Selma used our"By the Sea" Stamp Set and our "Just A Note" Stamp Set

Honorable Mentions, each receiving a new square Christmas stamp set of their choice, are:

Mona Pendleton who was very creative in creating this Betsy Ross inspired card using a center from our Stitched with Love 2 3/8" Round in combination with one of our Oval Borders from the Breath of Spring set to create her custom stamp combination

Pam Imholz with this beautiful Birthday Card using Autumn Blessings andAll Occasion Nested Sentiments:

 
Mary Jo who created with this beautiful card using the Celebrate word for theAll Occasion Nested Sentiment set along with our Breath of Spring Set.

 
Congratulations, ladies!  Please email me with your mailing address and stamp choice, to claim your prizes!  Please be sure to check back in tomorrow for another JustRite Friday Challenge!

JustRite Friday Challenge 024: Sketch

For today's challenge we have a JustRite sketch.  For this week's JustRite Friday Challenge #024, you must use the sketch combined with JustRite stamps and the requirement of a red, white & blue Americana color scheme in honor of the upcoming U.S. Independence Day:

 

This time, our sketch will be working with oval shapes (you can find our selection of large oval stamp sets HERE and small oval stamp sets HERE).  But remember, you are not limited to just using oval shaped stamps -- you can cut any of our stamp images into an oval shape to use! 

Your card or project doesn't have to be related to U.S. Independence Day ... these colors also lend themselves wonderfully for any kind of masculine or nautical project.  So think anniversary or birthday cards, gifts (maybe an altered frame?), scrapbook page, or plain old summer fun, too!  But also, if you happen to know any military service men or women, it would be fabulous to send your card to them, thanking them for their service to our country.

Here's my nautical sample, using JustRite's large oval stamp set By The Sea . . . I think this will make a great birthday card for my brother or father-in-law's summer birthdays coming up!

 

I stamped the sailboat image and colored it with the Copic markers listed below, then die cut the image with a Spellbinders Classic Oval Nestabilities die.

Red Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen was used to precisely color the rope border.  Cuttlebug embossed swirls and tied buttons finish this card.

Some of our JustRite design team members also have samples for you today ... here's Kathy Jones' interpretation, turning the sketch sideways to fit the beach scene:

 

Kathy also used our By The Sea set, combined with a "Happy Birthday" sentiment from our new All Occasion Nested Sentiments set!  Click on over to Kathy's blog, Inspired to Stamp, for the full details about her card.

Design team member, Stephanie Kraft, also turned the sketch sideways and added her own custom wording, using our Times New Roman Uppercase 25-point font:

 

Wonderful sentiment and fabulous hand-crocheted stars!  You can find out the full details for making Stephanie's card at her blog, Handcrafted by Stephanie.

And Michele Kovack has this beautiful flowers of love card, using our large oval Thinking of You set:

 

There's a lot of inspiration to get you started!  Are you ready to try your hand at the sketch?  This week's challenge winner will receive our two newly-released 2" square Christmas stamp sets (From Our House & Hearts Come Home) debuted earlier this week, PLUS a 2" Square Wood Stamper! 

 

Honorable Mention winners will each receive a newly-released square Christmas stamp 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.  (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_024  <== 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 1 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.  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 blog or gallery linked) or any possible advertising. 

We can't wait to see all your sketch projects!
 
{Nautical Card designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stampers®: JB-098755 By The Sea
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Oval-Lg Die 4
Paper: October Afternoon Report Card 8x8, Memory Box Kraft cardstock, Neenah Natural White cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black; Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink; Copic markers: B0000, B32, B34, BG13, E31, E33, YG03, G28, R24, R29, C1 and Red Copic Spica Atyou Glitter Pen
Accessories: Cuttlebug Swirls Embossing Folder, Buttons, Twine

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JustRite Friday Challenge 020 Sketch Winners!

We have 2 posts today-- so if you missed our first post introducing Victorian Frames click here or scroll down.

Time to announce the winners of our JustRite Friday Challenge 020 Sketch, sponsored by Copic markers.  The winner of a set of 12 Copic Ciao markers is ...

This breezy, summery celebration card by Peet Roeven, using our Plant A Little Love set:

Congratulations, Peet!  Please email me your mailing address and Copic will send your markers right out to you!  You can find out all the details about Peet's card by clicking on her hyperlinked name above.  

Honorable Mentions, each winning a JustRite stamp set of their choice are:

This beautifully shabby Stitched With Love card by Mona Pendleton:

 

Gini Cagle used our By The Sea set for this dreamy summer card:

 

And Geri Utterback put us in the Christmas-in-June spirit with her sweet snowman from our Something Sweet set!

 

Congratulations, ladies!  Please email me with your stamp set choice, along with your mailing address, and we'll get your stamps in the mail to you! 

Many thanks once again to the Copic marker importer for North America & Canada, Imagination International, for sponsoring our challenge this week!  We'll be back tomorrow with another new JustRite Friday Challenge!

JustRite Friday Challenge 020: Sponsored by Copic!

Welcome to another JustRite Friday Challenge ... just in time to help keep you occupied over the long holiday weekend!  This week's challenge, sponsored by one of our favorite marker companies, Copic, is to use your JustRite ROUND stamps with this inspiration sketch:

 

If you don't have any of our round stamps, then please feel free to use whatever JustRite stamps you do have -- most of our stamp images will fit onto a round shape!  So you could think outside the box and use some of our square stamper images, but just put them on a round shape. 

The idea here is to help get you thinking about using some different shapes you may not otherwise use AND to see examples of how other people might get creative in layering their round images, which can only help grow YOUR creativity! 

We'll be making our sketches a regular part of our Friday Challenges, covering a lot of different shapes and elements, so we hope you'll look forward to them!  We will house all the sketches in a special photo album over in our sidebar, for quick & easy future reference.

I love designing with sketches, as it's one-third of your whole project already thought out for you!  All you have to do is choose a stamp set and paper and you are ready to create!  Here's my example using this sketch (another sneak peek project from the new 2010 JustRite Catalog & Idea Book!):

 

I went the more traditional route and used our 2-3/8" round Stitched With Love stamp set, die cut with Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities (both the border and the center) and framed them with Big Scalloped Circle Nestabilities.

 

I stamped and die cut the center image separately from the border, masked off the heart image and airbrushed Copic R21 marker over it.  Then I colored the heart with Copic R22, R24 & R29.  Silver Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen was used to color the needle, to help make it a realistic!  A real button was stitched onto the "O" in LOVE.  The center was popped up on foam tape over the die cut border. 

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_020  <== 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, June 3rd 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.  By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as any possible advertising. 

This week's challenge winner will receive a set of 12 Copic Ciao markers, similar to these (colors may vary):

 

Honorable Mention winners will each receive one stamp set of their choice and a new clear horizontal block from next week's release!  We can't wait to see all your sketch cards!  You can see some samples from our design team, using this sketch, in the first few linked entries below (they are ineligible for prizes) -- we hope you'll check those out!

 
JustRite Stamps®: JB-09730 Stitched With Love & JB-08410 Wood Stamper 2-3/8”
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nestabilities® Classic Circles Lg-Die 4 & Classic Circles Sm-Die 3, Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles-Sm Die 5, Spellbinders Fair Isle Border Petites die
Paper: WorldWin Light Berry Red & Deep Heritage Black cardstock; October Afternoon Cherry Hill 8x8 patterned papers, Neenah Classic Crest Natural White cardstock
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad; Copic markers R21, R22, R24, R29; Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen-Silver
Accessories: Copic Airbrush System; Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy Saddlestitched Ribbon & True Black Buttons, X-Press It Foam Mounting Tape, sewing machine & black thread