Now that the busy season of Summer CHA is over and our new 2011 Catalog & Idea Book is finished, we’d like to welcome you back to JustRite’s Friday Challenges! The challenges will still be on our twice a month timeframe (2nd and 4th Fridays), giving you almost two full weeks to play along!
Since it’s one of the hottest Summers on record here in parts of the U.S., we wanted to present you with a challenge that just might help cool you off a bit . . . to get started making your Holiday cards & tags!
So this JustRite Friday Challenge #056 is to make a SHAPED Holiday card or tag . . . something other than a standard rectangle or square!
The grand prize for this challenge will be Diane Arthurs' JustRite Original large oval Blizzard Bunch AND Warmest Wishes stamp sets:
The grand prize winner will ALSO receive a Spellbinders die set of their choice (currently in stock in the JustRite Stampers web store)!
THREE honorable mention winners will each receive a Christmas stamp set of their choice … either JustRite Original OR JustRite Cling!
Here are a few samples to help get you in the holiday spirit:
Barb Schram created this beautiful round card, using Blizzard Bunch and Spellbinders Lacey Circle Nestabilities. What a great color combo! Please visit Barb's blog for more details:
Angela Barkhouse made this adorable snowglobe shaped card, using Blizzard Bunch, Sparky the Snowman, and Christmas Mini Sentiments. Please visit Angela’s blog to find out all the construction details of her card:
Mona Pendleton made this yummy baked gift with adorable Spellbinders Ornament tag, using our 2" round Seasoned With Love and Charmed cling stamp sets, along with JustRite's Charm Dies:
And I (Sharon Harnist) made a mitten shaped tag using Warmest Wishes by Diane Arthurs:
I stamped the sweet snowman in a mitten onto Copic’s X-Press It Blending Card with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and colored him with the Copic markers listed below. He was hand trimmed and popped up on the mitten. I die cut the mitten tag with a Spellbinders Nested Mittens die (backed with another mitten cut from sturdy cardstock, to give it stability) and colored the embossed edge with Copic R37.
The bottom half of the sentiment from this set “Warmest wishes for a happy holiday” was stamped with Memento Rhubarb Stalk ink directly onto the bottom part of the mitten, since the shape of the large oval stamp matched the shape of the mitten. The top part of the sentiment was stamped onto another piece of the patterned paper, cut out, and adhered to the top of the mitten. A hole was punched in the top left of the mitten and embroidery thread tied through it, to allow for tying onto a gift. A die cut poinsettia completes this little 3” x 4” tag.
CHALLENGE RULES:
You will need to use JustRite stamps on your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website. You may make and enter as many different projects as you'd like for our challenges. 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_056 <== 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 Wednesday, August 24 at 8:00 PM Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Winners will be chosen and announced the next day (Thursday, August 25) here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. Please allow up to 4 weeks for delivery of your prizes. 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 all of your shaped holiday cards and tags!
{Warmest Wishes Tag designed by Sharon Harnist}
JustRite Stampers: JB-09940 Warmest Wishes by Diane Arthurs
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nested Mittens, Nested Poinsettia, Banner Basics Two, Grand Calibur
Paper: Copic X-Press It Blending Card; Basic Grey Wassail 6x6
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black & Rhubarb Stalk
Copic Markers: R24, R37, YG61, YG63, E30, E31, E33, Y21, YR12, W1
Accessories: Button, embroidery thread, foam tape
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