JustRite Inspiration

Day 4 Stampers Dream Sneak Peeks

Our final day of Stamper's Dream Team sneak peeks of JustRite's latest stamp releases starts off with:

Carolyn King's beautiful duo of holiday tags using our Nature Nested Sentiments & Christmas Ornaments sets:

 
Leslie Miller used a snowflake center and border from Whimsical Christmas to create this gorgeous, tranquil & serene holiday card:

 

Michelle Rodgers used our Christmas Nested Frames for this beautiful, shimmery holiday card:

 

Karen Giron shares this blingy winter wonderful card using our Whimsical Christmas set:

 

And Christina Fischer (Stamper's Dream guest designer for July/August) has this bright & joyful Christmas Ornament card that will make you smile: 

 

Many thanks to the fabulous Stamper's Dream Team for providing such wonderful inspiration this week -- please be sure to visit each of the designers' blogs for the full details of all their cars this week and share a little love with these awesome designers!

We'll be back a little later today with the winners of last week's JustRite Friday Challenge!

Day 3 Stampers Dream Sneak Peeks

Today's fabulous inspiration from the Stamper's Dream Team ... please visit each of these designers' blogs (by clicking on their hyperlinked names) to see the full details and beauty of their projects.

Leslie Miller starts off today's sneak peeks with a bang with this stunning watercolored Backyard Birds card:

 

Karen Giron has this delightful Christmas Ornament card to share -- the pretty colors remind me of sweet holiday confections!

 

Tosha Leyendekker's sweet vintage snowman from our Vintage Christmas set will warm your heart!

 

Christina Fischer decorated this wonderful gift box of nuts using the nutcracker from our Vintage Christmas set:

And Laurie Schmidlin's sweet snowman (from our Whimsical Christmas set) throwing snowballs while zooming his sled down a hill will capture your heart! 

 

Please check back tomorrow for more wonderful projects from the Stamper's Dream Team!

 

Day 2 Stampers Dream Sneak Peeks

Today we continue with sneak peek samples from the Stamper's Dream Team.  Please remember to click on the designer's hyperlinked name to be taken to their blogs to see the full details of their cards.

Denise Marzec colored the hummingbird image from our new Backyard Birds set in such beautiful colors ... it's pure joy!

 

Carolyn King used the snowflakes from our Whimsical Christmas set, combined with Christmas Nested Sentiments to create this wonderful snowy Christmas card:

Tosha Leyendekker shares this stunning wintery cardinal card using our Backyard Birds set that will leave you picking your jaw up off the floor!

 

Cindy Lawrence created this beautiful Victorian Santa card with our Vintage Christmas set -- I love the non-traditional pink and pretty trims!

 

And Amy Scheffer used our Christmas Ornaments set to create this gorgeous white-on-white holiday card with beautiful touches of color on the ornament:

 

Please check back tomorrow for more fabulous projects from the Stamper's Dream Team!

 

It's Day One of JustRite Week at Stamper's Dream

One of our favorite weeks of the month is JustRite week at Stamper's Dream.  The Dream Team rocks our images -- always!  This week we will feature sneak peeks of our recently-released Christmas Collection & August Release from five designers each day, starting today and going through Thursday.  So grab a cup of coffee, or your favorite drink, sit back and enjoy the very talented work of this fabulous design team! 

Please click on the designer's hyperlinked name to be taken to their blogs to see the full details of their cards.

Denise Marzec created this adorable penguin card using our Whimsical Christmas set.  I love this sweet penguin colored in non-traditional pink & green!

 

Laurie Schmidlin made these gorgeous shimmery vintage ornament cards using our new Christmas Ornaments set -- classic beauties!

 

 

Amy Scheffer also used Whimsical Christmas to create this sweet nostalgic card -- look at those cute puffy earmuffs this bluebird is wearing!

 

Michelle Rodgers shares this beautiful vintage ornament card made with our Vintage Christmas set:

 

And Cindy Lawrence will delight you with this card made with our Backyard Birds set that will be formally introduced here on our blog next week (but is already shipping):

 

Please check back tomorrow for more fabulous projects from the Stamper's Dream Team!

 

JustRite Friday Challenge 031: Back-to-School, Sponsored by Spellbinders

Before we get started with today's challenge, we wanted to share a special surprise with you, our loyal blog readers!

 

We are giving away our 80-page 2010 Catalog & Idea Book absolutely FREE to you!  Simply visit our website and place an order for our catalog.  During checkout, use this coupon code:  IDEAS811 in the box marked promotional code and the catalog is yours absolutely free -- we will even pay the shipping for the catalog (shipping offer applies to USA only)! Coupon code expires on August 31st!   Once again, a huge thank you for making us a regular part of your day!

This week's challenge, sponsored by Spellbinders, is to create something back-to-school related.  It's right around the corner -- in fact, we have meet the teacher nights next week in our district, have already been busy purchasing school supplies, and school starts August 23rd!  

Your project can be a first day of school scrapbook page (already prepped and ready for that photo!), card or gift for meeting the new teacher, or something to help YOU (or a parent, grandparent, neighbor) get through the school year a little better organized!  Here are is sample, using All Occasion Nested Sentiments:

 

To make the banner sentiment, I added the word "teacher" from JustRite's 1-5/8" round What's Cookin' set to the end of the "Just for You" All Occasion sentiment right on my Clear Horizontal Stamper:

 

I masked the "treats" part of the teacher sentiment that I didn't want to use and just inked the rest of the words with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.  After stamping the sentiment, I hand trimmed it into the banner shape and inked the edges with Memento Desert Sand ink.

 

I added the banner and a die cut leaf to Spellbinders Nested Apples die cut and sanded the embossed edges to reveal the paper's white core a little.

JustRite design team member, Angela Barkhouse, has this wonderful teacher trio giftset as inspiration for today's challenge.  Click on over to Angela's blog for the full details:

 

This week's challenge winner will receive this duo of Spellbinders dies (Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Squares & Small Classic Inverted Scalloped Circles Nestabilities die sets):

 

Three Honorable Mentions will each receive one of these Spellbinders die sets: (Jumbo Scalloped Border Petites Borderabilities, Large Scalloped Octagons Nestabilities, Lotus Border Petites Borderabilities):

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_031  <== 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 19 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 back-to-school projects!  Be sure to come back and check the links below, as some of the Spellbinders design team members, as well as some JustRite design team members will be sharing links to their back-to-school projects, too!

 
JustRite Stampers®: JB-09210 All Occasion Nested Sentiments, JB-08695 What's Cookin', JB-09520 Clear Horizontal Stamper
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nested Apples Shapeabilities; Fiskars Apron Lace border punch
Paper: October Afternoon Report Card 8x8; Neenah Classic Crest Natural White
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black & Desert Sand
Accessories: Sanding block, sponge, foam tape, sewing machine + thread

Links:

Introducing Christmas Nested Frames & Christmas Nested Sentiments

Today's Christmas Release II stamp set introduction is for the newest addition to our Nested Frames & Sentiments line of stamps, Christmas Nested Frames and Christmas Nested Sentiments:

This stamp line was created with "outside-inside" greeting/sentiment, verse & frames philosophy, to make it easy for you to have the perfect greeting for the outside of your cards, along with the perfect verse for the inside of your cards, all interchangeable with coordinating frames!  The greetings/sentiments are also large enough for your scrapbooking or home decor projects.

Our first example was designed for the 2010 JustRite Inspiration Catalog & Idea Book by Kellie Fortin.  Kellie stacked both of the frames from the Christmas Nested Frames set, to create this pretty layered card:
  

JustRite Stampers®: JB-09250 Christmas Nested Frames, JB-09520 Clear Horizontal Stamper
Dies & Punches: Martha Stewart Border Punch
Ink: Tsukineko® Memento Tuxedo Black & Rhubarb Stalk ink pads
Copic® Markers: YG07, G17, RV29
Paper: My Mind’s Eye Wonderful Winter Gittered Holiday 12 x 12 Pad; Neenah Classic Crest® Solar White cardstock; red & green cardstock
Accessories: Pebbles Pearlescent Chalk; foam tape

Kellie's next sample uses a verse from the Christmas Nested Sentiments set on the outside of the card, along with darling snow people from our Holiday Cheer set:

 

JustRite Stampers®: JB-09255 Christmas Nested Sentiments, JB-09520 Clear Horizontal Stamper, JB-09770 Holiday Cheer
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Circle & Classic Scalloped Circle Nestabilities; Martha Stewart Border Punch
Ink: Tsukineko® Memento Tuxedo Black & Ladybug ink pads
Copic® Markers: BG11, YG07, G17, RV29
Paper: My Mind’s Eye Wonderful Winter Gittered Holiday 12 x 12 Pad; Neenah Classic Crest® Solar White cardstock; red & green cardstock
Accessories: Pebbles Pearlescent Chalk; foam tape

Another elegant sample from Kellie also uses a verse from the Christmas Nested Sentiments set:

JustRite Stampers®: JB 09250 Christmas Nested Frames, JB--09520 Clear Horizontal Stamper 
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Petite Oval Nestabilities-Sm Die 3 & Lg Die 3, and Labels Six-Dies 4 & 5; Martha Stewart Pine Needs Border Punch
Ink: Tsukineko® Memento Lady Bug Ink; Ranger Antique Linen Distress Ink
Paper: Sharon Ann Christmas Magic Paper Decorative Band; Neenah Classic Crest® Solar White; red & olive cardstock
Accessories: Krylon Gold Leafing pen, Offray velvet flowers, KaiserCraft pearls

These JustRite design team members have some fabulous inspiration using these stamp sets for you today.  Please click through to their blogs (by clicking on their highlighted/hyperlinked names), to find all the details of their projects:

Using Christmas Nested Frames, Michele Kovack created this beautifully-framed holiday greeting card:

Barb Schram has this delightful Groovy Snowman card, combined with Christmas Nested Sentiments to share today -- doesn't he just make you smile?!!

 

And Angela Barkhouse created this sweet family Christmas scrapbook page using Christmas Nested Frames, Christmas Nested Sentiments, Christmas Ornaments, and From Our House!

We hope you have enjoyed the past few days of our Christmas Release II introductions!  Be sure to check back next week, as we will be featuring artwork made with our new Christmas Collection from the very talented Stamper's Dream design team!

 

JustRite Friday Challenge 030: Inspiration Winners!

Many thanks to everyone who entered our JustRite Friday Challenge 030: Inspiration photo -- it was so much fun to see how everyone interpreted and used the photo as inspiration for their projects!  Winning 10 full sized Memento ink pad colors (now available in the JustRite store, here) of their choice is:

Mona Pendleton with this fabulous gift box!  Yes, it looks like a card from the front, but click on over to Mona's blog to see what she used to create this beautiful box and a tutorial on how she created that gorgeous medallion!

 

Mona found some gorgeous patterned papers that echo the colors & feeling of the inspiration photo perfectly!  She used our Kaleidoscope stamp set for the center medallion and Victorian Nested Frames for the "With Love" tag.

Honorable Mentions, each receiving 3 Memento ink pad colors of their choice, are:

Tanya Phillips with this amazing round card, using our Birthday Centers:

 

Darsie Bruno entered this beautiful card using our new Backyard Birds stamp set (which will be formally introduced here on the JustRite blog the week of August 23rd, but is already shipping):

 

And Lynn with this pretty vintage card, made with our small oval Thinking of You set:

 

Congratulations, ladies!  Please email me with your mailing address and ink pad choices so we can get your Memento ink pads in the mail to you!

Please be sure to check back a little later today for our next Christmas Release II stamp set introduction!

Introducing Whimsical Christmas

Today we are introducing another great Christmas set.  This set is so fun and whimsical, we just had to name it Whimsical Christmas!

 

I had a blast creating these cards for the JustRite catalog!  It just so happens that the 3 1/4" borders make great mat layers for our 2" stamps and the snowflake centers from the Whimsical Christmas set are just perfect for adding snowflakes to your background paper.

For my penguin card, I used 3 stamp sets to create the card.  I used the snowflake border from  Groovy Snowman, white embossed on my turquoise paper and the "Winter Wonder" Sentiment from Nature Nested Sentiments to create my card title.  For the card base for both of today's Whimsical Christmas cards, I used pre-made cards from DCWV Winter Box of Cards.

Wouldn't this card  make a sweet invite for an ice skating party long after the Christmas holiday?  It would be great for making cards for January & February (in Maine --for March and maybe April as well -- yes winter really last that long in Maine!!) 

Here's a quick look at the sentiments and verse in our new Nature Nested Sentiments set (we'll be formally introducing this set the week of August 23rd but it's already shipping!): 

For my second card from the Whimsical Christmas set, I used one of the  3 1/4" borders from the Christmas Ornament set and colored it with Copic markers to coordinate with the rest of my card design:

 

To acent the center design, I used a Y0000 Copic marker to transform the white area of the stamped image into an ivory background.  Both these cards were so much fun to design and color!!  Are you  having a difficult time deciding which Christmas sets you need to buy?  I think you just might need them all!!  Scroll down below my project recipe to see what the rest of our talented design created with this set!

{Project Recipe for Blue Bird & Penguin Christmas Cards, designed by Kellie Fortin}
JustRite Stampers: JB 09795 Whimsical Christmas, JB 09800 Natures Nested Sentiments,JB 09790 Christmas Ornament (Border), JB 10000 Groovy Snowman (Border),JB 08405 2" Rd Wood Stamper, JB 08117 3 1/4" Rd Wood Stamper
Dies : Spellbinders Nestabilities Big Scalloped Circle Lg- Die 4, Big Scalloped Circle Sm-Die 7, Octagon Sm- Die 7, Spellbinders Shapeabilities Double Ended Tags - Md tag- (2 3/4" x 5/8")
Paper: Die Cuts with a view Winter Box of Cards; WorldWin Doublemates
Ink: Tsukeniko Memento Tuxedo Black, Versamark Watermark StampPad; Range Seafoam White Embossing Powder
Copic Markers: 0, C1, C3, B00, B02, BG0000, BG15, B000, G12, G21, Y13, Y26, Y17, YG03, YR09, R27
Accessories: Studio * Rhinestones Strass; Kaisercraft Rhinestones; Heat Embossing Gun

Now for even more enabling, here's more inspiration from some of the members of our design team:

Becca Feeken created this absolutely darling card using two of the new Spellbinders Loopy Nestabilities dies.  Can't wait to get my hands on those dies!  Just love how our stamps look when combined with these elegant dies.  For more details, click through to her blog.

Sharon Harnist created this sweet snowflake tag using the Copic Alcohol Ink-Faux Bleach technique.  You can read more about the technique by visiting Sharon's blog post.

 

Heidi Blankenship created this shimmery, swirling snowflake card -- you can find all the details over at Heidi's blog.

Angela Barkhouse used the sentiment from Whimsical Christmas as the center for her Spellbinders Nested Poinsetta, which is the focal point of her Christmas tags.

We have one more stamp set to debut tomorrow, so we hope you'll check back for that!

 

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!

 

Introducing Christmas Ornaments

This week on the JustRite blog we will be featuring projects using our Christmas Collection II stamp sets which are now in stock in our warehouse and shipping.  Today we are introducing Christmas Ornaments -- this set will be a must have on your JustRite Wish List!!

 Since I couldn't decide which ornament to use for my card, I decided to use 3 of the 4 ornaments on my card!  The card measures 5" x 7".  For my design to work, I needed to find a paper that was subtle enough to not detract from my Christmas Ornaments but still added  the feel of Christmas to my card. I found the perfect paper in the K & Company The Christmas Cheer Speciality 12" x 12" paper pad.

Now I will warn you that coloring these ornaments is very addictive -- you may not be able to stop!!  Here is a view of the entire stamp set:

Here's another view of my card which shows how the ornaments are popped off the card to make them 3-D.

 

The sentiment for the card is from our new stamp set Christmas Nested Sentiments. We will be showing you how versatile this stamp is throughout the week.  (Think inside sentiment or outside sentiment).

Project Recipe, Designed By Kellie Fortin:
JustRite Stampers®:  JB 09790 Christmas Ornaments ,JB 09255 Christmas Nested Sentiments, JB 09529 Clear Horizontal Stamper,JB 08117 Wood 3 1/4" Round Stamper
Dies: Spellbinders Shapeabilities Fancy Tags
Inks & Markers: Tsukeniko Memento Tuxedo Black; Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo; Copic Markers-Y0000, Y13,Y20,YG03,Y38, YR23,Y17, R27,R46, R89, E33
Paper: K&Company Christmas Cheer Speciality 12 x 12 paper pad; Neenah Classic Crest Solar White cardstock

Here's what the rest of the design team has for samples to share today..

Kazan Clark designed this gorgeous Christmas card using the new Spellbinders Nestabilities - Beaded Circles.

 

Debbie Olson created this FAB Christmas card using our Christmas Ornanments and the new Spellbinders Nestabilities Labels Sixteen.  For all the details on how Debbie created her card visit her blog.

 

Angela Barkhouse gave her Christmas card a 3-D effect by stamping and folding multiple images of her ornament for this fun look!  Read more about her card by visiting her blog.

Sharon Harnist has this Merry & Bright holiday card to share today.  Visit her blog to find out all the details of her card.

 

Barb Schram created these beautiful 3D ornaments.  Click on over to her blog to see how she made them!

Please be sure to check back daily this week, to see more samples of our Christmas Collection II!