JustRite Inspiration

Guest Blogger Joan Bardee

Please welcome our Guest Blogger Joan Bardee aka Dear Paperlicious. Joan stamps, writes and humors us from her blog called Paperlicious. Here is a quick get to know you interview with Joan. Make sure you stop in throughout the week and see what Joan has created with her JustRite Monogram Stamper. Don't forget to leave her some comments too!

1. Where do you live? I live in Fairfax, Virginia, a suburb of Washington DC
2. Tell us about your family. I am married to Mike, who is a lawyer for the Federal Government (I am too). My son, Andy, will be a senior in high school this year and my Mom lives with us.
3. How long have you been stamping? I have been stamping for about 5 years.
4. Where do you do your stamping? I have taken over an extra bedroom, which I call my craft room. It is all mine!
5. What is your must have stamping too? My must have tool is my Japanese Book Drill — can punch a hole anywhere.
6. How long have you been blogging? I’ve been blogging for about 2 years, although I’ve had this particular typepad blog for a year.

Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".

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Keep Voting!

Keep the votes coming! So cool to see over 300 votes in the first 24 hours and such a tight race too. Make sure you tell all your friends to come and vote. Gift certificate prizes have been emailed to all of you that have been chosen as a "hopeful" over the last two weeks. If you have not received your gift certificate via email by today (Saturday) it is because I haven't heard from you and don't have an email address to send it to. If anyone feels there is an error please email [email protected] .....yes, that is the correct email address Lisa :-) and we will get it out to you. Oh and check your spam folders too....for some reason I have caught some responses in my spam folder and hopefully none of your certificates went to spam either. Thanks for your patience and keep stamping! You have seen the competition and the caliber of stamping over the last two weeks..... each week is just gets better and better. With the long weekend you have an extra day to get creative with your JustRite products. Yeah! Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".

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Let the voting begin!

As I said yesterday and last week....it is incredibly hard to choose as we love to see your creativity come to life with the JustRite products. Thank goodness the final vote is up to all of you out in the stamping world. Please take a look at this week's entries and then tell everyone to vote! Last week we had over 1,100 votes which totally blew me away! So let's go for 1,200 this week. Here are the Top Five for this week. Make sure you come to the blog and vote in the poll to the right.

Hugs and Kisses by Barb Schram

Halloween Test Tubes by Lisa Somerville Sewing Kit by Julie Koerber Memo Board by Terri Dodd Happy B-day by Andrea Hayes Remember, voting is completely annonymous and we can't see your votes. Also, the poll will be closed Monday evening at 9:00 Eastern Time. Hurry....go vote...and tell your friends too!

"When it needs to be JustRite".....go for the Gold!

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Thursday Hopefuls

Great entries today and every day! You all make it sooooo hard to pick. I thought I would share with you how we go about picking the final six.

1. Every day we go through all the comments and visit every link emailed to us including the blog links. We also browse the SCS gallery all day long compiling a running list of entries.
2. Each night we call each other and review our favs of the day and surprisingly we ususally have the same people on our lists. Then we post the agreed upon daily "hopefuls".
3. Every Thursday, after the Thursday "hopefuls" are determined the final list is emailed to our panel of 8 judges. By this time we have narrowed it down from approximately 100 entries to 12.
4. Everyone on the panel votes and the top six winners make it on to the Stampin Champion finals.
5. Then it's up to you, the people of the stamping world, to vote and crown the top three Stampin Champions.

So there you have it and I can assure you it is NOT easy at all. It is painfully difficult to critique the entries and only choose six out of 100 or more. Please don't take it personally and keep playing! Even if you don't make it into the finals you are still given a daily opportunity to win some gift certificates that will help pay for the items on your wish list. Either way you are still a winner in our book!

With that being said here are some projects that caught our attention today. This card is made by Andrea. I like how she used the monogram to spell out the word "Thanks".

Here is an altered candle made by ggsisco. I love how the personalized sentiment is a play on words that coordinates with the candle.

Tomorrow, this week's Top Six Stampin Champions will be listed and the voting will begin! It's a long weekend and you will have plenty of time to vote and stamp entries for next week. Next week is the final week and then all the finalist will have a "stamp off". Congratulations to the following hopefuls. Please send an email to [email protected] and include Thursday Winner in the subject line. All gift certificates from the week will be emailed on Friday. Any entries we receive over the weekend will be posted on Monday. Jackie Susan Barbara Cindy ggsisco Rachel Dana Lisa $15 **multiple winner** Andrea Michelle "When it needs to be JustRite".....go for the Gold.

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Wednesday Hopefuls

Another great JustRite day! I wanted to address a few questions first before we move onto today's "hopefuls".

1. It doesn't matter what post you leave your comment on. All comments are emailed to our team and we read each one.
2. You can link to your blog (and we do visit the blogs too) but we surf the SCS gallery all day and night for entries. It just makes it easier for us to see them all in one place.
3. Yes, I can tabulate your winnings for the week and send one large gift certificate rather than many $5 gift certificates. As a matter of fact, to make my life easier that is how it is going to be for everyone. All winners will receive gift certificates at the end of the week.

For today's inspiration piece we were wow'd by Lisa's test tubes filled with candy. She made one the other day with a Halloween theme and today a Christmas theme. I am guessing that Michael's is going to soon have a run on test tubes.

We were also impressed with Rachel's etched wine glass and matching polyshrink charm and monogrammed candle. This is a great example of altering items and etching the glass with the JustRite Special Occasions font is pretty awesome. I can totally see this on a honeymoon or first anniversary dinner table setting.

Use Lisa and Rachel's creativity as inspiration and we challenge you to alter any item in your stash. We all have a stash of alterables...right? Of course, use any JustRite product on your project. (Pssst...we are more than monograms.)

Congratulations to the "hopefuls" listed below. Please email [email protected] with Wednesday Winner in the subject line and your gift certificate will be emailed to you at the end of the week. Thanks for playing along!

Dana Rachel Lisa $15 **multiple winner** Barb $15 **multiple winner** Stephine Jackie Cindy Janet "When it needs to be JustRite".....go for the Gold!

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Congratulations!

Congratulations to our very first Stampin' Champions! What an exciting competition and close finish. Gold Medal and $100 Gift Certificate Michele Kovack Silver Medal and $50 Gift Certificate Katarina Menzies Bronze Medal and $25 Gift Certificate Amy Westerman Congratulations to our Gold Medal winner, Michele Kovack, who will also be the JustRite Guest Blogger at the end of September. Thanks to everyone that competed throughout the week and took the time to vote. But don't think this competition is over just yet! Keep playing as we are halfway through round two where you will choose another set of three Stampin Champions. Then in round three you will choose another set of Stampin Champions and then in the fourth and final round all nine Stampin Champions will compete for the Grand Prize...and it's good. Keep us in mind....."When it needs to be JustRite".

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Tuesday Hopefuls

It's late...very late but we have finally compiled a long list of hopefuls for Tuesday. It is great to see so many new names in the running this week. Keep playing and keep using the inspirations/challenges provided if you can. It's just fun to get outside your normal stamping routine and try something that stretches your imagination. Just like Katarina and Stephine did today! We were totally wow'd by the use of polyshrink to make monogram charms. Great job girls! For tomorrow feel free to dig up your polyshrink and make some charms! Katarina's elegant necklace charm and hat pin with charm on the card.

Stephine's clever and creative wine glass charms. Congratulations to the following hopefuls. Please email [email protected] with Tuesday Winner in the subject line and your gift certificate will be emailed to you.

Katarina $15**multiple winner**

Jackie $15 **multiple winner**

Barbara Stephine

Krista Terri $10 **multiple winner** Ashley Julie

Lisa $10 **multiple winner**

Ansa

Katie Tammy

Rachel

Moster

Dana

"When it needs to be JustRite". ....go for the Gold!

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Round Two Tuesday

It's time to start thinking about Halloween. EEEEK! Can you believe that fall is quickly approaching? For today's inspiration/challenge I thought it would be fun to get into "scary" mode and make a Halloween card. If you are needing a little Stampin Champion inspiration try to make a Halloween project today and of course use ANY JustRite product on your entry. Make sure to link any of your entries here in the comments so we can find your project. You can enter multiple times and you can win multiple gift certificates too! Again, I used the Small Letter Set to create my border sentiment but used the new "you're invited" center that comes with the Designer Centers and Borders set that will be released mid-September. Here is a close up of the border sentiment that was made with the Small Letter Set. Also, as Margie commented yesterday, when loading your letters you have to load them backwards or you will end up with a funny looking sentiment. Today is the last day to vote for the first Stampin Champion and it is a close race. I feel a Michael Phelps moment coming on and the winner is going to win by a fingertip. Sooooo exciting! Thanks for participating and if you would like to take one more look at the finalist before you vote click here. When it needs to be JustRite".....go for the Gold!

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Monday Hopefuls

Thanks to everyone that participated in our first day of Round Two of the JustRite Stampin' Champion contest. Lots of great entries and thanks to those that used the Small Letter Set and made a personalized card. This week we are going to share one entry per day as the Inspiration Card of the Day just because we want to highlight the work of some of our contestants that caught our eye. Today, we are in love with this personalized card entered by Susan. She used the Small Letter Set to totally personalize this card for the University of Missouri football game {cough cough Go Illini cough cough}. Where can you find an MU stamp.....um...at JustRite of course! Great job Sue.

Here are the "hopefuls" for Monday and yes I am still working on the emails I received today and over the weekend. {I haven't forgotten about you.} Congratulations to the winners posted below. Please email [email protected] with Monday Winner in the subject line and your certificate will be emailed to you.

Susan $10 Gift Certificate **multiple winner**

Andrea $5 Gift Certificate

Darlene $5 Gift Certificate

Stephine $5 Gift Certificate

Katie $5 Gift Certificate

Cindy $5 Gift Certificate

Lisa $5 Gift Certificate

"When it needs to be JustRite".......go for the Gold!

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Round Two Monday

If there is any one JustRite product that I could recommend it would have to be the Small Letter Set. With the Small Letter Set you have the ability to create any sentiment or phrase on your card. Every card I have personalized with someone's name or a specific event has drawn such disbelief that I made the card just for them. Little does the recipient know how easy it is with the JustRite Small Letter Set. I have to admit those tiny letters may appear to be a bit intimdating at first but after the first try you will be hooked and you will want to personalize everything. Oh and with a retail price of $4.95 you just might want to pick up two sets.

This card was made for a Quinceanera that I attended earlier this month. Granted, I don't speak Spanish and I looked up the translation on the internet. So if this doesn't say something along the lines of Happy 15th Birthday I am in big trouble.

Use this card as inspiration for your Stampin' Champion entry and use the Small Letters Set to spell out a personalized sentiment. Think of birthdays, birth announcements, Christmas cards, love notes....any event in your life worthy of sending a personalized card. I can't wait to see what you can do with those Small Letters.

Thinking outside of the box is what I am hoping to inspire here but using the Small Letter set isn't necessary if you have a different project in mind or don't own the Small Letter Set...yet!

Don't forget that you have until Tuesday evening to vote for your favorite Stampin' Champion. If you are reading this through Feed Burner you need to come to the blog at http://www.justritestampers.blogspot.com/ and vote! Tell everyone you know to help us crown our first Stampin Champions.

"When it needs to be JustRite".....go for the Gold!

Supplies:

JustRite Small Letter Set Stampin Up white, black and grey card stock, silver organdy ribbon Spellbinders Nestabilities circle and scallop dies Sizzix scalloped card die

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