JustRite Inspiration

Introducing Diane Arthurs Blizzard Bunch

Today we are very excited to introduce one of 2 new Christmas sets designed by Diane Arthurs -- Blizzard Bunch.  

 I know that you are going to love these sets as much as you loved Diane's 2010 Christmas set  - Groovy Snowman.

For Snowman & Santa lovers alike, this is a wonderful set of Christmas images to color.   

 

You will love the wonderful color combinations of Christmas Cards designed by members of our blog team using Blizzard Bunch.  It is never too early to start your Christmas Card right!! Be sure to stop by the designers blogs and leave them a little love today!!

Debbie Olson has a gorgeous Snowman Christmas Card to share with you on her blog.

 

Michele Kovack has a fun Santa Christmas Card to share with you today on her blog.

Kellie Fortin created this cozy pink and lime green check Snowman Christmas Card using Spellbinders deckled edge ovals with a labels four lime green gingham checked mat layer.

 

 

 Barb Schram created her wonderful Christmas Card using Spellbinders Labels Twenty to frame her Santa mage from Blizzard Bunch.

 
 
Stephanie Kraft used patriotic colors to create her festive snowman card.

 

Heidi Blankenship created this sweet pastel Christmas Card using Blizzard Bunch as well as the believe sentiment from our cling release Christmas Trimmings on Spellbinders Ribbon Banners.  She also used the holly element from Christmas Trimmings to create a fun border at the base of her card.  Heidi's blog post will go up later today as she is experiencing internet issues at the moment.

 

Kathy Jones created her teal and ivory Santa Christmas Card using Cosmo Cricket Paper for her backgound and Spellbinders Beaded Ovals to frame her Blizzard Bunch image.

 

For all of you who need a clever way to package your Christma Gift Cards Angela Barkhouse has this wonderful Snowman gift card holder to share with you!!  Angela die cut her snowman image using Spellbinders Labels Six.

 

I am sure you will be seeing many more projects from our design team using this fun set.  Stop back in tomorrow to see Diane Arthur's second Christmas Set in our July Release - Warmest Wishes.

 

Flickr Winners 12-20 and Giveaway Winners

Before we announce this week's Flickr winners, we wanted to give you some early Christmas gifts and announce the winners of our recent blog candy giveaways!  Following are the winners for these giveaways:

November 16th's Adorable Dragon giveaway (your favorite Elizabeth Dulemba stamp set) winner is:

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 55 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

Who is:

55 - Donna Rinckel said...

"They are all so adorable! I've always liked her digital stamps. I think my favorite set is Quiet Moments. I love the little image of the two friends sitting on the branch together. And the sentiments are wonderful!"

And November 17th's Ellie Time giveaway winner is:

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 40 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

Who is: 

40 - amy johnson said...

"What a sweet set! I love it!"

And last week's December 13 Garden Fairy Seeds and Mini Binder Box giveaway goes to:

True Random Number Generator Min: Max: Result: 35 Powered by RANDOM.ORG

Who is:

35 - stephanie said...

"What a lovely set! I love Elizabeth's stamps. They are amazing and you guys do a wonderful job showcasing them. I have about 100 blogs I bookmark to check on. On average, I look at at least 10-20 blogs a day. I love searching for inspiration and seeing what everyone has done with new and old products. There are some blogs, like JRS, that I visit daily."

Congratulations to everyone!  Please email me your mailing address and we'll get your stamp sets in the mail to you!

Now on to our Flickr winners ... If you shared your JustRite artwork in our Flickr gallery, "JustRite Projects" last week, 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 Flickr details by visiting this blog post.

You can click on the hyperlinked names below to be taken to the winner's Flickr upload, which contains more details.  This week's winners are:

1 - maricopastamper (Marge) made the cutest "unassembled snowmen" card by using our 25-point Times New Roman (top 2 lines) and 50-point Myriad Pro fonts (bottom line):

Marge also made the custom sentiment on the inside of her card, using our font:

What a fun, interactive card, Marge!

2 - scrappymama (Peggy) made these gorgeous sparkly holiday cards, using our 3-1/4" Christmas Treasures set:

3 - SWHP007 (Judy Inukai) made this beautiful sympathy card using our large oval Thinking of You set, combined with Spellbinders' Labels 7 die.  Judy says there are four pages in the "book" she created -- so pretty, Judy!

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 stamp sets out to you!

We'll be back a little later today and the rest of this week, showing you our December releases, so we hope you'll check back in with us to see some previews of Spring here at JustRite Stampers!

 

Flickr Winners 11-8

Here are our weekly Flickr winners.  If you shared your JustRite artwork in our Flickr gallery, "JustRite Projects" last week -- 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- evafromca (Eva Dobilas) made this stunning holiday ornament, using the skating bird and snowflake our Whimsical Whishes stamp set -- absolutely fabulous!

2 - maricopastamper (Marge) made our Whimsical Wishes penguin the center of attention on her sweet winter holiday card, accented with cool silvery die cut touches!

 

3 - cousleyscrap made this delightful holiday card, using From Our House set, with her beautiful holiday papers & snowflake accents:

 

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!

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

JustRite 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hop #4

Today is our final day with guest designer, Liz Weber, and she has these beautiful Christmas projects to share:

Liz made this fancy Christmas card, which is an envelope style, dry embossed with Christmas ornaments:

It opens to reveal a beautiful JustRite stamped Christmas Ornament and border sentiment:

Liz's second project is a small box (3-1/2" x 3-1/2")  holding 3" x 3" gift cards.  She made the box using these Scor-Pal project instructions:  Mini Recipe Box:

 

{Christmas Projects designed by Liz Weber}
JustRite Stampers®: JB-09250 Christmas Nested Frames stamp set, JB-09790 Christmas Ornament 3 1/4"stamp set.
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circles, Classic Scalloped Circles, Labels Nine, Labels One.
Paper:  Bazzill Basics Paper – Sawdust & Kachina; Basic Grey Jovial papers.
Ink: Stampin' Up Riding Hood Red, Handsome Hunter & Bravo Burgundy.
Accessories: Craft Queen Cream Satin Ribbon & Wooden Buttons, Fiskars Apron Lace border punch, Cuttlebug Christmas Ornaments embossing folder.

Many thanks to Liz for guest designing for us this week -- you can find her other wonderful guest blogging projects here and here and visit her blog,  I Love Creating Cards, for more inspiration!

Now, on to our newest Wednesday feature -- 12 Weeks of Christmas Blog Hops #4!   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 the Spellbinders design team!  So mark your calendars for Wednesdays at 9am Central for great Christmas gift, card & project ideas, starting at the JustRite Inspiration blog!

JustRite design team member, Michele Kovack has this adorable snowman shaker ornament to share today.  You can find full details on how to create him at our website, under the Featured Project section.  You'll want to keep an eye on this section of our website, as we will continually add new projects there for you!

 

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

JustRite Inspiration Blog <==You are here!
Spellbinders Paper Arts
Becca Feeken
Mona Pendleton
Debbie Olson
Ashley Cannon Newell
Sharon Harnist
Eva Dobilas
Kazan Clark
Beate Johns
Kellie Fortin
Margie Higuchi
Kathy Jones
Regina Hanson
Sankari Wegman
Deborah Young
Angela Barkhouse
Michele Kovack
Terre Fry
Barb Schram

We hope you'll check back next Wednesday for week 5 of our 12 weeks of Christmas blog hops!

 

Introducing Vintage Christmas

Welcome to Day Two of our Christmas Collection II release!!  It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in all of our design studios!!  Throughout the next few months we will be encouraging you to start your holiday projects early this year. This will allow you to enjoy making your projects while taking  some of the stress out of the holiday season. 

Vintage Christmas is another great set that you will love to color and just might need to add to your ever growing JustRite wish list.

Last year one of my favorite classes to teach was my JustRite Snowflake Ornament class. Since I absolutley adored these Christmas ornaments on my tree I couldn't resist using the Vintage Christmas images to add to my JustRite snowflake collection!

For my first ornament I chose "Sparky" the snowman for my design.  If you love this adorable snowman, you will be very excited to hear the inside scoop that Sparky will be appearing in 2 more stamps in one of our September introductions!! 

{Project Supplies for Sparky Snowman Ornament designed by Kellie Fortin}
JustRite Stampers®: JB 09785 Vintage Christmas, JB 08117 Wood 3 1/4" Stamper
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nestabilities Big Scalloped Circles Lg-Die 6
Inks: Tsukeniko Memento Tuxedo Black; Ranger Tim Holtz distress inks-Antique Linen
Copic Markers:
Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; black & red cardstock;turquoise glitter paper
Accessories: Darice 6 1/2" Glittered Snowflake: red and gold pearls

Here's how it looks on a tree:

 

{Project Supplies for Vintage Santa Ornament designed by Kellie Fortin}
JustRite Stampers®: JB 09785 Vintage Christmas, JB 08117 Wood 3 1/4" Stamper
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nestabilities Big Scalloped Circles Lg-Die 6, Big Scalloped Circles Sm-Die 7; Marvy Uchida Scalloped Circle Clever Lever Mega Craft Punch
Inks: Tsukeniko Memento Tuxedo Black; Ranger Tim Holtz distress inks-Antique Linen
Copic Markers: 0, Y0000, R27, R46, E21, E51, T1, T3
Paper: Neenah Classic Crest Solar White; black & red cardstock
Accessories: Darice 6 1/2" Glittered Snowflake: Studio 18 Rhinestones Strass

Here are some projects using this set from our design team:

Design team member Sankari Wegaman used the Victorian ornaments in this collection to create her exquisite Christmas card.  For more pictures and all the details, please visit Sankari's blog post.

 

Angela Barkhouse created her Christmas card using " Sparky" from the Vintage Christmas set and her sentiment is from our small oval Christmas Joy set, nestled inside our new Christmas Nested Frames stamp set (which we will be highlighting here on the JustRite blog on Thursday).

 

Sharon Harnist has this adorable 6-inch scrap page of her daughter's very first visit with Santa!  Please visit Sharon's blog for more details.
 
 

And Kazan Clark made this beautiful holiday card, also using the ornaments from this set and cutting them out individually.  You can find out more about Kazan's card at her blog today.

Please check back tomorrow for another Christmas stamp set debut!

 

JustRite 2010 Christmas Collection I -Introducing Groovy Snowman designed by Diane Arthurs

This year JustRite will be releasing two 2010 Christmas Collections. This week we will be debuting all the stamps in our 2010 Christmas Collection One which is now available in our pre-order store. 

 
Our first stamp set in our 2010 Christmas Collection is Groovy Snowman designed by reknowned artist Diane Arthurs.

 
Diane Arthurs began her artistic journey at a very early age, drawing and coloring her way through childhood.  After graduating from college she worked in the commercial field as an art director of an advertising agency until she branched out onto her own and specialized in graphic design.  In 1991, she ventured into needlwork,cross stitch and quilt pattern designs. Her painiting talents led her to her current agent, Penny Lane Publishing where we were introduced to her wonderful designs.  Diane believes country is homemade and handmade, her designs convey that feeling of down home comfort.

Groovy Snowman is a 3 1/4" stamp set that is just a ton of fun to color.  Mix and match borders and centers to create all your Christmas Cards and Holiday Projects. I can't wait to color all the images in this set.  For my first project I made a card, for my second project

I made a Christmas Ornament with a Groovy Southwest feel.  I just love how you can change the feel of the snowman by changing the colors you use to color the snowman.
You can find the supply list for both projects at the bottom of this post.  If you are interesting in placing a pre-order for any of our Christmas stamps please read our Pre-order store policy below.

PRE-ORDER STORE POLICY:

 When placing orders you can not combine a regular stock order with a pre-order.  You must place two individual orders.  In the pre-order store you may place pre-orders for products arriving on two different ship dates.  JustRite will ship and bill you as your stock arrives if you pay by credit card. (paypal orders will bill when you place your order- this is a paypal policy not a JustRite policy). We will  bill your shipping fee for your entire order on your first shipment. We will pay all the additional shipping fees on your backordered items. Christmas Collection One will begin shipping July 1st.  Christmas Collection Two will begin shipping on August 15th. Both Collections are available for pre-order now.

(Groovy Snowman Card designed by Kellie Fortin)
JustRite Stampers:JB 10000 Groovy Snowman, JB 08117 Wood 3 1/4" Round Stamper 
Dies & Punches:Spellbinders Nestabilities Classic Circle-Die 6, Classic Circle-Die 6
Ink:Tsukeniko Tuxedo Black Copic Markers 0,BG0000,B00,C3,C9,RV29,R46,R89,YR18,YR09,YR65,G07,G17,R02,YG07
Paper:Neenah Paper Classic Crest Solar White,My Mind's Eye Wonderful Glittered Holiday Papers 12"x 12" Pad;Red Cardstock
Accessories: Pebbles Ink Pearlescent Chalk;Recollections Pearls;Michael Stores Trim It Up rick racak trim

(Groovy Snowman Southwest Christmas Snowflake designed by Kellie Fortin)
JustRite Stampers:JB 10000 Groovy Snowman, JB 08117 Wood 3 1/4" Round Stamper
Dies & Punches:Spellbinders Nestabilites Pinking Circles Sm-Die 6,Pinking Circles Lg-Die 3 Standard Circles
Ink:Tsukeniko Tuxedo Black; Copic Markers 0,Y13,YR09,G21,Ro2,YG45,YG17, YR23, R27
Paper:Neenah Paper Classic Crest Solar White;Red & Black Cardstock
Accessories: Darice 6 1/2" Glittered Snowflake,Buttons