Who loves to colour in?

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Occasions Catalogue, Sale-A-Bration, Special Promotions

I do?

And Stampin’ Up! has made it so easy with their wonderful products.

On page 24 of the Occasions Catalogue Stampin’ Up! have released Watercolour Pencils. They are beautiful to work with the leads are soft and transfer to paper with such ease. With the addition of either the blender pen or Aqua Painter you can make any stamped image into a beautiful watercolour. Click HERE for catalogues

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As with all of Stampin’ Up! product their Watercolour Pencils coordinate with all their other products. When using these pencils I recommend using Stampin’ Up! Shimmery White Cardstock or Stampin’ Up! Watercolour paper along with their Archival Basic Black or Basic Gray Stamp Pads.

At the moment Stampin’ Up! is running their Sale-A-Brations promotion. So if you spend $90 you get to choose an item for free from this catalogue.

So lets see what it cost to get started using these products…

Watercolour Pencils  $27.75

Shimmery White Cardstock  $14.00

Archival Basic Black Ink Pad  $12.25

Blender Pens  $17.00

A4 Cardstock (20 sheets, of each colour) colour family of your chose $14.00

Snail Adheasive $10.00

That comes to a total of $95.00

Now this is only an example of what you can purchase…as in the above items I haven’t added a stamp set as there are a few you could choose from in the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue.

So with spending this a mount you could chose an item from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue.- Click on the catalogue image to see the many great products.

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One of the product s from Sale-A-Bration is the Inside the Lines Designer Series Paper.

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As you can see you can colour it in using either the Watercolour pencils, Stampin’ Write markers or with Braying.

It is not suitable for the Aqua pens.

Here is a card I made using one of the designs in this pack.

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This was so much fun to do and you don’t need much experience to do it.

If you are interested in having a play with then then give me a call and either book a Class for you and your friends or come along to one of my workshops…

Trusty Trucks

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Uncategorized

Welcome to my Blog…

This week I am taking part in two Challenges and using one Card.

The first challenge is Global Design Project #GDP068…….

This weeks challenge  is to CASE one of the designers – Jess Williams.

I know you maybe asking what does CASE mean it means Copy and Selectively Editing.

So how does it work … we have been given a card done by Jess and we can copy in any way, such as..

Layout, colour combination, design elements or you could do all of them or any combination.

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The other challenge is by Colour INKspiration

You can click on the banner below to join in the fun and find out more.

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This is a pre-challenge to the launch of this group.

Colour INKspiration colours for this challenge are Bermuda Bay, Daffodil Delight and Mint Macaron by Stampin’ Up!.

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The stamp set I am using is called Tasty Trucks …

 and it from the Sale-A-Bration Catalogue that was released yesterday.

To see the Sale-A-Brations, Occasions and the Annual Catalogues click HERE or you can contact me and I will post one out to you.

What is Sale-A-Bration? Sale-A-Bration is one of the best times of the year (if not THE best)

 When you spend $90 from either our Annual or Occasions Catalogue you can choose one item for free.

Its a great time to book a Party for you and your friends …so contact me and book!

 

Here is my card I have completed for both challenges.

I have kept this card very simple and clean. I love the freshness of the colours and simplicity of the card layout.

A great card for boy or girl…don’t you think.

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The image was stamped in Stampin’ Up! Archival Black Ink onto Shimmery White card stock.

Using a blender pen and the ink pads as my pallet I coloured in the image. I’m really pleased with how the windows turned out.

This was done with the Bermuda Bay Ink but used very lightly and leaving some white space as well.

I wanted to achieve a small amount of texture to the card and I did this by wrapping Bakers Twine around Bermuda Bay mat but kept it uniformed with no fuss.

I hope you like my card.

if you wish to purchase any of these Items you can by using the picture links below.

 

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Did you take lots of photos over Christmas and New Year?

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Project life

Did you take lots of photos over Christmas and New Year?

Where are they now?
Are they sitting on your phone?

Did you know that this generation don’t have photo’s. We take them, we have them on our phones, we may even transfer them to our computer to share on Social Media. But then our phone die’s, its lost or stolen. The computer crashes or we accidentally deleat them.
Here’s what I do…..at the end of each day or week depending on how many photos I’ve taken . I take them off my phone and put them onto my computer, I then sort and store them into a file for that year which then contains a file for each month. As photos are taken I then put them into those files. That way at least I know what month they were taken. I get rid of any photo I don’t want and print up the best.
So now I have some printed copies and at the end of each month I save whats on my computer to my hard drive.
Now what to do with those printed photo’s?
That’s easy….they go into my Project Life or Memory Keeping album. By working on it bit by bit, its not so hard at the end of year trying to catch up, mind you I have lots of other years to catch up.
So what is a Project Life or Memory Keeping Album?

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Its a pocket page album, where you slip photo’s into pockets and add decorated cards to fill empty pockets or add journaling cards. It’s simple and a lot of fun.
This year I have decided to make it the year of Memory Keeping and I would like you to join me in keeping all those wonderful memories alive.
I will be holding classes at my place on the last Friday of each month where I will help you, show you new products and have lots of fun along the way.
Check out my Facebook page for all my upcoming Classes and Events.

2017 Calendar – Part 1

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Off the Page, Uncategorized

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The other day on Facebook some of my friends were discussing Calendars and the different ways to make them. As I haven’t made one for myself so far I decided well why not know!

It’s the beginning of a new year and a new calendar is needed.

The idea for this A-Frame stand came from a Class I taught at my local Church many years ago, where we made a stand to hold some wonderful Bible Verses.

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Now this is only Part 1 as all I have done so far is make the stand and write up a tutorial.

Actually its more like a “Pictorial” as there are more photos and not much writing. But I hope I have explained it well enough for you.

The Tutorial only covers the making of the A-frame Stand and Part 2 will cover the Calendar, which will be available in coming days. I also didn’t go into decorating the stand, that I will leave up to you. But i have listed below some of the items used. Not all of these items are listed in the PDF.

Click on the Link a-frame-stand-and-calander-part-1 for PDF or you can find in my Tutorials.

I hope you enjoy the PDF and that you will join me for Part 2.

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Welcome….2017!

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Uncategorized

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Happy New Year!

I hope you have had a wonderful Christmas and you are ready to start this year full of energy and excitement for whats to come.

I had a wonderful Christmas with my family, Christmas Day at home and Boxing Day traveled to my parents in Mudgee.

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I received for Christmas a “Selfy Stick”…my goal for this year is to get some video’s made to post on here….

So I must get working on some new projects….can’t sit around all day.

Have a great New Year’s Day!

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Paper Stars, Christmas Decorations

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Christmas, Off the Page

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This is a FUN little Christmas Decoration that I have been making for the past 3 months and selling in a local shop – @Highlands Handmade and they have been very good little sellers. they use up all that left over sheets of Designer Series Paper. Not suitable for card stock as it is too heavy.

I saw this originally on Pinterest as Scandinavian Fabric Stars and thought if it can be done in Fabric …I can do it in Paper. so with a few minor changes here it is.

The Instructions can be found in my Tutorials or Click the link below.

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Happy Star making and a MERRY CHRISTMAS

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Who’s your Everyday Hero?

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Occasions Catalogue

He’s able to leap tall buildings in a single bound..

is it a bird, is it a plane..

No!

Its my EVERYDAY HERO!

Another new stamp set by Stampin’ Up!

“Everyday Hero”

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This is one of those fun sets..

Your EVERYDAY HERO could be your Dad or your Mum, your brother or sister or it could be a friend. This stamp set covers it all. It gives you 2 different body images (one standing the other flying), a male head or female and as you can see a few background images as well.

This stamp set would be great for a teenagers Birthday…Boy or Girl.

I have added a bit of fun to the card by making it into a spinner card and giving it a “comic” feel.

This is stamp set in another set that will be available on 4th January in the Occasions Catalogue.

Here is a short video of it working, I hope you enjoy.

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Global Design Project 066 | Sketch Challenge

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: GDP Challeges, Sale-A-Bration, Water Colour

Welcome to Butterflys and Bows…

i hope you are enjoying my Blog as much I have in bring it to you.

Please feel free to leave a comment, love hearing what people think of my work.

This week Global Design Project have given us a Sketch Challenge.

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To get a bit of an idea to what you could do with this sketch check out what the team has done. Also have a look at some of the other entries….maybe you could give it a go.Click on the Sketch above and it will take you to this weeks Challenge page at GDP.

You don’t have to be a Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator to give this a go, use the link above and have a look at the Guidelines.

Now…my card for this weeks challenge.

I have fallen in love with the Stampin’ Up! Watercolour Pencils that will be available in the coming Occasions Catalogue. Don’t forget to contact me to receive your free copy plus the Sale-A- Bration catalogue.

These Watercolour pencils are in our Stampin’ Up! colours unlike the ones we had a few years back. So they match all our products beautifully, just one of those wonderful things that Stampin’ Up! is known for……………….There co-ordination!

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The image I have stamped onto Shimmery White cardstock with Memento Ink. The Shimmery white card stock can be used for watercolouring …I have found that you need to let each layer dry a little before adding more colour and blending. As it can still pill a little if the area has been over worked. So I always do a small part at a time then come back and add more colour.

Also sometimes I will use 2-3 colours of pencil in one area before coming in with my Blender Pen…the colours will mix a little and blend in well.

I hope you have enjoyed my little card as much I have in making it.

Contact me to find out more about the Watercolour Pencils..they are a must and will make any watercolour project so much easier to achieve.

Below you will find a list of all the products used, just click on them and it will take you directly to my Stampin’ Up! Store. The only product not shown below are the Watercolour Pencils as they won’t be avilable to purchase until 4th January…so I’m sorry you will have to wait…but it will be worth it!
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Hen’s Night – Hey Chick

Published on by Michele Jutrisa Category: Sale-A-Bration

Do I have your attention yet?

What do you think of some of the NEW products that will soon be released?

I’m having so much fun with them..

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This little Chick is all dressed up and ready to party, with her feathers all preened and her best pearls around her neck…what more does a girl need.

Now if you too would like to have a play with these great products then there’s 2 ways you can do this.

  1. Contact me for a copy of the Catalogues…but you still need to wait until 4 January to order
  2. Join my Team and you can start ordering yours now.It’s the best time of year to join Stampin’ Up! During Sale-A-Bration, you can become a demonstrator for just $169 AUD/$189 NZD and choose TWO additional stamp sets for your Starter Kit—any stamp set, any price! (Excludes project kits, bundles, and Sale-A-Bration sets.) Plus, the kit ships for free!

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