Just a reminder, through the end of this year, we will begin a new challenge on the FIRST FRIDAY of the month and close the challenge on the LAST WEDNESDAY of the month. The winner(s) will be announced the following day on Thursday.
For JFC #129, I am simply asking you to create a card for someone that says something nice using your JustRite stamps. This could be a Thank You, Congrats or really ANYTHING uplifting or encouraging. You have until the day before Thanksgiving to link your projects!
I chose the "You are Amazing" sentiment and some stars from the Bokeh Time clear stamps set but there are so many great sentiments from the JustRite collections to choose from! You can find the details on my card over on my blog here: http://bit.ly/1L0hnnX
The Winner for JRC#129 will receive a $25 Gift Certificate for use in the JustRite Store.
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CHALLENGE RULES:You will need to have a recently created project using JustRite Stamps and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website with a link or reference to the challenge post. 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 for that 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 ourFlickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example:JRC_129 <== 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, Nov 25th, at 6:00 PM Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Winners will be chosen and announced the next day (Thursday, Nov 26th) here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Papercraft 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.
Today is Day Three of the JustRite Papercraft CHA February Release and I am hoping that we can bring the North East of the U.S. a little bit of Spring Inspiration with today's release set called Thank You Daffodil Cling Stamps designed by Amy Tedder with a coordinating SVG.
Welcome to day three of the JustRite CHA Papercraft Release and Tutorial Tuesday.
For Tutorial Tuesday, JustRite Papercrafts designer, Darsie Bruno shows us how to create vibrantly colored backgrounds using Alcohol inks, Blending Solution and a heat gun using our CHA Release Stamps. She shows you how to achieve the look of marble with just a few supplies. These backgrounds can be paired with any of our background stamps or clear stamps to create stunning cards in just a matter of minutes. Scroll to the bottom of the post for your chance to win our Tutorial Tuesday Giveaway.
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Inks: Tsukineko Memento -Tuxedo Black and Summer Sky, Versamark, Rangers Adirondack Watermelon, Sunshine Yellow, Sunset Orange, Purple Twilight, Sailboat Blue and Citrus Alcohol Inks; Blending Solution, Gold, White and Black Embossing Powder
Other Supplies: Heat Gun, 1/4 inch Lavender and Yellow Silk Ribbon, Red, White and Yellow Self-Adhesive Pearls, Pearl Heart, Viva Decor Pink Pearl Pen
Now on to today's release set. Sentimental Damask Vintage Labels Eight Clear Stamps is a clear 6" x 8" set with a ton of possibilities - Wedding Ensembles, Sympathy Cards, Thank You Cards, Birthday, Congratulations and Thinking of You.
For this week's Tutorial Tuesday Giveaway one lucky winner will receive a $30.00 Gift Certificate to the JustRite Webstore.
Simply answer today's giveaway questions - Have you played with Alcohol inks yet? If so what did you create?
Remember that you can double your chances of winning by leaving comments here and on Darsie's Video. Don't forget to show Darsie a little love when you watch her video -by giving her a thumbs up.
Thanks for stopping by today. Join us on Wednesday and Thursday for more January CHA Release Inspiration.
Welcome to day two of the JustRite Papercraft CHA January Release. Today we are introducing two new stamp sets designed by Amy Tedder.
Floral Basket Clear Stamps is a stunning breath of Spring with coordinating sentiments for Easter, Birthday and Mother's Day. This is a 4" x 6" set of 12 Clear Stamps with a coordinating SVG.
For those of you who love everything vintage and crackled you are going to fall in love with our newest addition to our Crackle line of stamps. Reversed Crackle Cling Background Stamp has double the crackle of our original Crackle Cling Background Stamp. The brown areas represent on the graphic represent the stampable image. This background stamp looks stunning embossed in white and spritzed with a spray ink to fill in the cracked areas. It will quickly become one of your favorite JustRite background stamps.
Here is a look at our October Release Crackle Cling Background Stamp so you can compare the background stamps. The brown areas of the image below represent the stampable image.
Welcome to day four of the JustRite Papercraft September Release. Today we have a Big and Bold Extra Grand Sentiment set to share with you designed by Amy Tedder and a Modern Lattice Background Stamp. Plus Amy designed an awesome coordinating SVG File that gives you an offset cut file as well as an extra large offset file so that you can cut a mat layer for your offset cut. Check out Amy's card to see how today's cut file works.
Eva Dobilas has a wonderful mixed media card to share today using Extra Grand Sentiments Clear Stamps and Modern Lattice Cling Background Stamp. To create her card Eva spread molding paste onto card stock, semi dried it and stamped the background stamp into the paste. One it was totally dry she painted it with watercolors and went over the raised lines with gold ink. Just love it paired with a chalkboard banner.
Welcome to Tutorial Tuesday, today JustRite Papercraft designer Heidi Blankenship is sharing Four Watercolor Techniques for creating designer watercolor paper. This is part one in her new watercolor series.
But first we need to announce the winner of last week's Tutorial Tuesday Giveaway. Congratulations to Pattie Jns who has just won a $50.00 gift card to the JustRite Website.
Pattie Jns said...
thank you, thank you Darsie for the video on using the Vintage Filigree Layer dies. I know understand how to get the four images with the two dies, an can enjoy the die. these were very helpful to know the products and love your creations. Inspiring. thanks again.
I store my dies in Martha Stewart plastic pockets, which are in different sizes, they have cover flaps over each pocket, inside I place the dies on magnetic sheet cut to the pocket size. then label with name of co. on the plastic pocket. All are put in albums. sorted by theme.
Please email me at [email protected] with your email information so that I can send you your gift card. Please use Tutorial Tuesday Winner as the subject of your email.
Welcome to the first tutorial in Heidi Blankenship's Watercolor Tutorial Series. Today Heidi will be showing you how to use your distress inks and distress markers to create designer watercolor papers for the backgrounds of your cards. If you are reading this email from a feedburner email you can see Heidi's Video by clicking here.
If you are familar with basic watercolors tools you can skip ahead to the first project at (timestamp 8:24 -Learn how to use Distress Ink Pads to create this fun Birthday Card).
For the first technique I will show you how to create a watercolor effect using an acrylic stamp block and Distress Inks.
Use painters tape or washi tape to hold the watercolor paper in place.
Apply Picked Raspberry ink to one corner, next apply Spiced Marmalade, then Squeezed Lemonade and finish with Ripe Persimmon.
Tip* If you get one of the other colors of ink on your ink pad you can use a baby wipe to remove the ink.
Mist the acrylic block with water to activate the Distress Inks. Turn the acrylic block over so the ink side is face down and press the acrylic block on to the watercolor paper. Make sure to press on the entire acrylic block for good coverage. Remove the block. Lightly mist the paper with water to soften the lines and blend the watercolor.
After the paper is totally dry stamp the Happy Birthday Sentiment from our September Release Set ---- Extra Grand Sentiments Clear Stamps to create this fun quick and easy Birthday Card.
For the second technique ( which you can find at timestamp 9:52 -learn how to use Distress Markers to create a watercolor designer paper).
I am using a rectangle acrylic block and Distress Markers-Mowed Lawn, Tumbled Glass, Peacock Feathers, Faded Jeans, Chipped Sapphire to create a fun Halloween Background. To create this background I scribbled the markers on the block to apply the ink.
Then go over the colors and pull them out to the edge of the block. Next mist the block with water. Turn the block over so the ink is face down and press the acrylic block on to the paper. Press down firm on the block to achieve a good coverage of ink.
Tip One: If you lift the block up a little and then put it back down a couple of times this will help to blend the inks a little more.
Tip Two: Place a paper towel or baby wipe where the ink is pooled up and it will lift up the ink.
Scribble some of the Faded Jeans marker off to the side of the paper. Add water and tap the watercolor brush on top of paper to make small splatter marks.
Here you will see two different kinds of paint splatters. Where the paper is still damp or a little wet the paint spatter will feather out and where the paper is dry there will be a crisp paint splatters. I wanted to have more of the crisp ink splatters so I heat set the watercolor with a heat tool and then added more of the ink splatters
For the third technique ( you can find it at timestamp 12:10- Distress Ink with layered water drops - for a Bokeh Look). I will show you how to achieve a really neat effect using the Distress Inks and layers of water drops.
Use a heat tool to heat set the watercolor and dry the paper. Nexxt I am spraying some water in to my hand and then letting the drops of water fall on the paper. Let the water sit on top of the paper for a few seconds.
Then take a paper towel and blot off the water. Doing this will also remove some of the water color.
Add another layer of water drops and blot the paper after a few seconds. Add one more layer of water drops and blot dry.
Having different sized water drops give the paper kind of a Bokeh Look. We will be talking about Bokeh Techniques and creating Bokeh Cards in future videos.
To complete my card I used the Extra Grand Thinking of You Sentiment from our new September Release Set Extra Grand Sentiments Clear Stamps with a big wide piece of ribbon and some sequins.
For the Fourth Technique - (You can find at timestamp 15:57 - here I show you how to add a watermarked background stamp to your watercolor designer paper using Distress Markers). I am using CL-02023 Quilted Circles Cling Background Stamp and Distress Inks-Shaded Lilac, Picked Raspberry, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, and Seedless Preserves. Add the inks directly to the board. Add water to the paper --doing this helps the watercolors flow and blend better. Starting with the lightest color apply ink to the paper.
Keep adding the colors until you achieve the look you want. For this technique it is best to have brite and bold colors. Once all of the color has been applied heat set the paper with a heat tool.
I am using CL-02023 Quilted Circles Cling Background Stamp. Mist the stamp with water and then turn it so it's facing down and stamp on to the paper. Let the water sit for a few seconds. Blot the water off of the paper using a paper towel. Doing this will remove the water and some of the watercolor too. This is when you will start to see the stamped background image.
If you have some areas where you can't see the background image simply mist the background stamp and stamp it again.
To create my finished card I stamped the Thank You Seniment from the Extra Grand Sentiments Clear Stamps and die cut it with Vintage Labels Nine Dies and then added a blue die cut layer using the next die up in the same die set. Then I added a shear bow and some pearls.
Let's take another look at the four different watercolor techniques.
For this week's Tutorial Tuesday Giveaway one lucky winner will a $30.00 Gift Certificate to our website.
Simply answer today's two giveaway questions. Have you used a watercolor technique to make a project? If so what is your favorite product to use for watercolor techniques?
Remember that you can double your chances of winning by leaving comments here and on Heidi's Video. When you watch Heidi's video be sure to leave her a little love with a thumbs up for her video.
I'm sure you have all had a chance to catch all the wonderful crafting tips given here at JustRite Inspiration on our Tutorial Tuesday. If you've missed them, you can find them anytime in the TUTORIALS tab above. So, I am going to give you a chance to show what you have learned! For this challenge, use a background stamp or any JustRite stamps to create your own custom designer paper. I want you to try one of the techniques shown on Tutorial Tuesday OR show us something new! Judging will be based on creativity and clever use of stamps so put your thinking caps on! It shouldn't be too hard to create something FABULOUS with your JustRite stamps, right?! Please share which products you used in your project and link the products to the JustRite Store when writing your posts.
I was inspired by Darsie's Butterfly & Vines video where she showed us how to double emboss. While I didn't exactly double emboss my background, it DID give me the idea to stamp my Elegant Corners Labels Four background with Memento Toffee Crunch ink and then use matching Elegant Corners clear stamps to emboss the corners on top of it in gold. You can get more details of my card on my blog HERE.
The Top 3 winners for JRC#113 will receive 1 Background Cling Stamp & 1 Gelatos (4ct set) of choice from the JustRite Store.
The Random Draw Winner for JRC#113 will receive 1 Background Cling Stamp of choice from the JustRite Store.
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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 ourFlickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example:JRC_113 <== 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, Feb 5th, at 6:00 PM Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Winners will be chosen and announced the next day (Thursday, Feb 6th) 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 are starting the year off with a great new COLOR CHALLENGE and some NEW RULES here at JustRite Inspiration sponsored by Spellbinders! While most of the team is away at the 2014 CHA Mega Show, I thought I would give you something to keep you all busy creating with all your JustRite Stamps and Spellbinders dies. SO, all you need to do is simply create a card or project using the colors and inspiration photo provided.
We are changing things up a bit this year by offering prizes for TOP 3 and still keeping a Random Draw winner. It was so difficult picking just one winner as grand prize last year so we thought we would simplify things. We will also be adding some other fun new things along with some new badges in the next few week so stay tuned!
The Top 3 winners for JRC#112 will receive 1 Spellbinders Die shown below (first come, first serve):
The Random Draw Winner for JRC#112 will receive1 Spellbindersdie shown below:
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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 ourFlickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example:JRC_112 <== 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, Jan 22nd, at 6:00 PM Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Winners will be chosen and announced the next day (Thursday, Jan 23rd) 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.
Before we get today's release set, Just a little announcement that we are having a huge Christmas Sale. Save 30-50% off our Entire Christmas Stamp Collection while supplies last. (Please note that our new website will indicate when a stamp set is sold out).
Just in time for Holiday Thank You cards we are releasing a new addition to our popular Grand Sentiments line. Click through to our site to see all the dies that coordinate with this fun set.
Kazan Clark designed this sweet Thank You Candle using our Grand Thank You Sentiments. For more details on which dies she used click through to her blog post.
