I’m excited!

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Its so exciting, are you excited?

Have you seen it, have you seen it yet?

Jumped out of bed and couldn’t wait…ran around the house a few times and my family are saying

“Whats going on?”

 It’s the New Catalogue…I can now share it with you..

I can place orders….and you can too!

Isn’t it exciting….LOVE  when a new Catalogue comes out…..If haven’t received a copy PLEASE contact me and I will get one to you…

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There is nothing better than have one in your hands to drool over as much as you would like.

Here’s a PDF copy until you get yours…

If this is not enough to excite you then have a look at this video showing some of the new products…

 

Have I got you also “JUMPING UP AND DOWN FOR JOY”

If so contact me today about your Catalogue or if you wish to place an order and you live in Australia go to my Store HERE

Any questions just contact me…

HAPPY Stampin!

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Global Design Project 089 | Colour Challenge

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: GDP Challeges

Hi and Welcome to Butterflys and Bows

Did you see the Winners from last weeks GBP #088…Here is a link to the page so you can see the great cards that won

Winners – Global Design Project #88

I was also one of the “Special Mention” winners with the card below….so exciting!

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This week we are back to a Colour Challenge..

I really enjoy doing these challenges and I think the colour challenges are my favorite as they make me use colours I may not normally use.

It so easy to get stuck in using the same colours over and over again.

GDP089_Colour_ChallengeThis week I’m also using a stamp set I would most likely not have bought if it was left up to me.

I won this set at the Stampin’ Up! on Stage event in April. I have been putting off using it as I just wasn’t sure what I was going to do with it. But these colours really work with it, so I hope you like my card.

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This set is called Fabulous Flamingo 143758 and will be available to order as from the 1st June.

It is a 3 step stamp….and 3 step stamps and me always have a battle to who is going to win….I like them but I always have trouble lining everything up. Thankfully I had my trusty Stamp-a-ma-jig handy.

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The Stamp-a-ma-jig is great for when you need to line up titles or images as the 2 or 3 step stamping.

Now as I said the Fabulous Flamingo is a 3 step process and I have used only 2 colours being Calypso Coral and Basic Black, but as you can see I have 2 tones in the Calypso Coral.

This is how I did it…….

  • Using the solid body image I inked it up with the Calypso Coral and then stamped off twice on a piece of scratch paper. This makes the image much lighter.
  • With the full body Image stamp and the Stamp-a-ma-jig stamp the image with full strength ink. I have added a Video I found on YouTube by The Mad Stamper on how to use this great tool.
  • I then stamped the outline images doing the legs and then the body with Basic Black again using the Stamp-a-ma-jig.

Hope you like my entry in this weeks challenge. Please go to Global Design Project and have a look at what others have done for this challenge.

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A weekend of crafting…what did you do?

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Hi…how was your weekend?

Do you want to see what I did?

Besides driving kids to work, doing the washing etc..I spent the weekend crafting. Getting ready for 3 events I have happening next month.

  • The launch of the NEW Annual Catalogue
  • Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea – which I’m hosting and your invited!
  • A Stampin’ Up! Party for a friend 

WOW!…its all starting to happen.

So I have been busy making a project I have wanted to do for a while.

Now this is a sneak peek of the “Soon to be released In- Colours”

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These are such cute cards and so simple to do, using the Note Cards and Envelopes.

But that’s not all I did…

I made 4 of each colour way and then a great “No-cut  Pattern Paper Note Card Folder” by Di Barnes

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I have been wanting to make these for so long and I think they work really well with the knew Fresh Florals Designer Series Paper.

Anyone who books a Stampin’ Up! Party with me in June or July will receive one of these beautiful Note Card Folders…
so contact me to book your Party!

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These papers will be available in June with the launch of the Annul Catalogue.

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Global Design Project 088 | Case the Designer

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: GDP Challeges, Water Colour

Welcome to Butterflys and Bows and to the Global Design Challenge #088

This week we are casing the Shawn de Oliveira.

GDP088_ShawnShawn has used the “Rose Garden Thinlits” in creating his  beautiful card and the sentiment is from the coordinating stamp set “Rose Wonder”

For my take on Shawn’s card I have used the Rose Wonder stamp set and used Stampin’ Up! Water colour pencils to colour the rose.

I had so much fun making this card …I made two of them.

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The image was stamped onto Shimmery White card stock with the Archival Black Ink…make sure you leave this to dry or heat set with the heat gun before colouring.

The watercolour pencils are so soft and easy to use with the Blender pen….

The Yellow Rose I used the Daffodil Delight and Melon Mambo pencils to colour the rose and Old Olive with a little Early Espresso for the leaves.

For the pink rose i used Melon mambo and added highlights with Rich Razzleberry, leaving some white areas. The leaves were also done with Old Olive and early Espesso but I also added a little Real Red into the leaves.

It is so relaxing sitting by the heater last night colouring, what a great way to release the days stresses.

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Video Friday……Big Shot Die-Cutting Machine

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Hi and welcome to Video Friday..

Today I thought I would share with you a video  by Stampin’ Up! on one of the best tool you can every by or invest in….

I say invest because its not a cheap item, it is a BIG ticket item…but it is worth every cent.

BSBS1The video will tell you about how the Big Shot works and the many accessories that go with it. If you CLICK on the picture above it will take you to “My Shop” where you can purchase yours today if you live in Australia.

To give you a little hint…with the soon to be released Annual Catalogue there will be a lot more dies available to go with some of the new Stamp sets and having this tool will save you time on Fussy Cutting. Some of the cards I have created using the Big Shot are…

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Global Design Project 087 | Theme Challenge

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: GDP Challeges

Hi and Welcome to Butterflys and Bows

Wow! What a great week……the card I entered in last weeks Global Design Project was a winner, along with 2 other cards.

Winner – Global Design Project #86

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Thanks Global Design Project.

This week the theme for Global Design project # 087 is Cooking/Baking/Making

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Using the only stamp set I had with anything to do with Cooking, Baking or making is “Sprinkles of Life”

 

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This week I wanted to do a card with bright colour….whats better than a bright little Birthday Cup Cake.

Using the colours Crushed Curry, Mellon Mambo and Bermuda Bay I sponged a piece of Whisper White blending the colours together. From this piece the cake top was punched out.

the base of the cup cake was stamped onto Crumb Cake card with Soft Suede Stampin’ Pad and “Fussy Cut”.

The colours used in the Cake Top were repeated again in the card and Card front.

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Video Friday on a Sunday……

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Hi and welcome to Video Friday on a Sunday..

Sorry this wasn’t done and posted on Friday….it has taken me a little while to get up the nerve and make this video. i have made a few now but I’m always concerned about getting it all right and this one I managed to do in one take….Woo Hooo!

This Video is on the card I post earlier in the week, so here is a reminder of what it looks like.

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And here is the video

 Enjoy!

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Colour INKspiration Challenge – CI09

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Colour INKspiration

Hi and Welcome to Butterflys and Bows!

This week I thought I would take up the challenge from INKspirations and enter a card using their colour palette.

18403274_10208041710275481_522555371385139993_nI love the colours that INKspiration give us in their challenges, as they are colours I may never have thought of using together.

The Cherry Cobbler, Dapper Denim and Pool Party are so rich and almost soulful together.

With my card I have tried to keep the richness and depth but also adding some light and playfulness.

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The back ground was so much fun to do. It took a couple of tries to get the effect I want, but once I did I was really pleased with it.

I will try to make a Video of this and post in the coming weeks, as I’m sure its something you could do and have fun with it also.

Hope you have enjoyed my card.

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May- RAK Blog Hop

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Welcome to the Random Act of Kindness (RAK) Blog Hop.

You are visiting Michele in Moss Vale, Australia.

I am showcasing the cards I have given received as part of the Random Act of Kindness Card Group on Facebook.

Each month, we each select a few people from the Group to send a RAK card to, to brighten their day.

Please feel free to join the Group if you would like to participate in the RAK cards movement (blogging is not mandatory).

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Here are some of the cards I have received for the months of April and May

April

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May

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I hope the projects you’ve seen here on my blog today have inspired you & brightened your day. You are currently visiting Michele. Please see the list below & hop around all of the people on the list to see all our projects. You don’t want to miss any!

 

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Where are your photo’s now?

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Hi and Welcome to Butterflys and Bows!

Where are your photos now?

This is something that at the moment is very relevant and something that had me in tears for a few hours last night.

And this is something that I have spoken about before, but…..

Where are your photos……are they stored on your phone, on a thumb drive, disc, external hard drive, storage cloud.

There are many places to store your photo’s….

How safe are they?

Safe from damage, being lost, destroyed…

Where am I coming from, why am I sharing this with you..

Last week I picked my son up from school and we drove to McDonald’s…he needed to get changed from School uniform to casual clothes to go away with friends on a Church Youth activity and we had no time to go home.

Easy…….went in with his phone came out minus his phone….we didn’t relies this for 20 minutes. In that time someone has found the phone and kept it.

What was on the phone….all his photos of a school trip to Cambodia in January.

Forward to yesterday….

I have for the past 3 years been carefully storing photos on an external Hard Drive…..So they are all in one place and safe….

Until yesterday….

I lent my Hard Drive to another person and a simple mistake has corrupted the hard drive and now my photo’s may be lost.

No one is at fault or to blame.

So where are your photo’s now?

Now with most of us owning Smart Phones its so easy now to take great photo’s. but we loose phones or they stop working for different reasons. We keep them on our computers but these can crash. We put them on storage devices….or in Cloud Storage and there are many to choose from… It seems that Cloud is good as you can access from different computers/ devices.  

But are these always safe.

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What is the answer?

I don’t think there is an easy answer. But the one answer I have discovered is have more than one way of backing up those photos.

All of the storage devices are good, work what works for you best but have more than one.

It will take a little work but it will be worth it to keep those memories safe.

From now on I will be storing in a “Cloud” and computer or external Hard Drive…more than one place.

Get them into Albums!

Most of all is I am going to get my best photos printed and into my albums.

This way I have something to share easily with family and friends.

It can be as simple as place photos into pockets or designing a whole page around the photo/photos. Get your family involved, let them help you plain and journal what the photos are about.

Stampin’ Up! have been passionate about Memory Keeping for the past few years and this will be continuing with there NEW catalogue. With the chose of pocket pages or traditional scrapbook pages there is something for all.

Please contact me if you are interested in learning more about our products and seeing the new catalogue.

Please, have a look at how you are storing your photos, think about storing in more than one device and

most of all PRINT THEM AND SHARE THEM.

Re-live the enjoyment you had in taking the photos by sharing them through your albums.

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