Let’s make a Photo Album from scratch, Part 1 – Live with Michele

Published on April 29, 2023April 29, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Live with Michele, Uncategorized

Today on my ‘Live’ I have decided to make a photo album, from scratch. This will be a 3 part video which I will make over 3 weekly ‘Lives’.

Let’s get started…

There are a a few things to consider when designing and making an album from scratch.

What purpose is the album for…
- are you creating for yourself or as a gift
- Do you want it to have a theme
What size?
- You can work this out by photo size (make sure you include Matting you may use with the photo)
- Remember you can trim your photo’s down and use smaller printed photo’s.
Will it be a landscape, portrait or Square?
No of pages

What do we need to get started…

Chipboard- 2-3 mil thick, you don’t want to make it to thick because you need to cut it. But if it’s too thin then it wont stability.
Cardstock –
- You will need at least half to a full pack of cardstock
- You want to use cardstock that coordinates with the Designer Series Paper you are thinking of using. I like Basic Black or Night of Navy, because anything will go with it and I can change my mind if need be.
- A4 or 12 x 12″ – This can depend on size of album cover and Page sizes
Adhesives
- Tear’n’tape- I like Stampin’ Up! Tear’n’tape as it easy to use just make sure its a good quality (needs to have good adhesion)
- Multi Purpose Glue
Paper Trimmer
Designer Series Paper, and coordinating products – stamps, dies, and embellishments – we will go more into this later.

Size and Measurements (I’m using for my Album)

These measurements maybe slightly different from video

Photo size = 4 x 6″ (10 x 15cm)
Mat size = 4¼ x 6¼” (10.5 x 15.5cm)
Page Size = 4½ x 6½” – Have decided to change with to 6½” to allow tabs on the tags in the page pocket to come past the page.
Finished Album Size = 5 x 7″
No Pages = 5

Cutting Measurements

Chipboard

Cover Front & Back – 5 x 7″ x 2
Spine – 3 x5″ – Spine width = ½” between each page hinge plus extra ½”=3″

Cardstock- Basic Black

I like to have 1″ turnings around sides, you need to have good turnings to get a nice finish. As the Album Cover complete is too long for the cardstock I needed to work out where the join are going to go. The join could go down the center of the spin or either side of the spine on the cover. I decided to have 2 joins either side of the spine, this will get covered by Designer Series Paper when I decorate.

Length of the cover is 17″ x 5″ wide.

Cover Front & Back – 7 x 7″
Spine 6 x 7″ – more than with required for the join coverage re: video
Hinge 4¼ x 11½” – score @ 2¼, 2¾, 3¼, 3¾, 4¼, 4¾, 5¼, 5¾, 6¼, 6¾, 7¼, 7¾, 8¼, 8¾, 9¼
Inside Cover 4 ½ x 6 ½”

The hinges for the pages are ½” deep and ½” apart…see the video for how this is created.

Please Note – I spaced the cover and spine the width of 2 pieces of chipboard, after looking closely at the bends the cardstock had cracked a little. If doing again I would space them a little more, just so you can get a better fold. I have added a very very small amount of glue with a toothpick. I hope by the time I decorate I can cover this up or so it’s less noticeable.

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Hello, Irresistible & Butterfly Brilliance – Live with Michele

Published on April 22, 2023April 22, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Live with Michele, Uncategorized

I had so much fun on my ‘Live’ this week. This card was created with Stampin’ Up! products coming and going, also die cuts left over from other projects – Vellum Leaves, Flowers and leaves cut from Designer Series Paper.

Shimmery White Cardstock and Butterfly Brilliance Bundle will soon be leaving us. I am going to miss them, but I am also looking forward to all the new products coming. I am really enjoying the Wild Wheat Cardstock and Ink from the New 2023-25 In-Colours, it has a lovely Green/gold tone which for me is a great substitute for Gold Foil.

I also used one of the Basic 3D Embossing Folders, this was the first I time I have used this folder and looks great with the other elements – floral dies and leaves.

Below is a video showing how the card was made.

Measurements Used…

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Creativity Abounds Blog Hop – Online Exclusives

Published on April 20, 2023April 17, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Creativity Abounds, Techniques, Uncategorized, Water Colour

Welcome to Creativity Abounds Blog Hop. We are a group of very keen Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators from all around the world that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own.

Our Theme this month is ‘Online Exclusives’ and we are all creating projects using those products. I have chosen to use the Hello, Irresistible Suite Collection. I have also added one of the embossing folders from the Basics 3D Embossing Folders.

Hello, Irresistible

With this card I want a fresh bright look….and I wanted to have some fun with the colour, or how I coloured the flowers.

The flowers and leaves I stamped onto Fluid 100 Water Colour Paper using white embossing powder and used a Floating Reinker Technique to colour them. (I have added a Video by Patsy Waggoner showing the technique)

The Re-Inkers I have used here are..

Highland Heather
Gorgeous Grape
Pear Pizzazz (I will be sad to see this go – but I can’t wait to play with all those new colours)

I created a textured back ground with one of the Basics 3D Embossing Folders and added a die cut over the top.

I added a circle of vellum and placed it under the large flower to separate it from the other flowers.

The inside of the card I added a strip of embossed cardstock across the bottom of the card with a trim of Highland Heather cardstock and an watercolour leaf.

You may be starting here or have come from someone else’s blog – either way there is a list at the end of this post to help you move around all the different blogs and get many amazing ideas. We all have our country listed – so if you are looking for a demonstrator in your country, these demonstrators would love to look after you with your Stampin’ Up! ® shopping or if you would like to join our Stampin’ Up!® teams.

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Regency Park – March Class

Published on April 12, 2023April 10, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Uncategorized

This month in my March In-home class we created cards using products from the Stampin’ Up!® Regency Park Suite Collection from the 2023 Mini Catalogue. There is so much in this suite….there is 2 bundles, Textured Shimmer paper, Cane Weave Embossing Folder, Night of Navy Bordered Ribbon, Adhesive Backed Milky Dots and 6 x 6″ Regency Park Designer Series Paper.

The good thing is some of these products will be staying in the new Stampin’ Up!® 2023-24 Catalogue but the sad thing is the bundles will be gone and the Regency Park Designer Series Paper will also be gone.

My advise….order them now if you want them or the 10% with the Bundles (at time of posting the availability of Suite or DSP unknown)

In my search for ideas I came across a YouTube Channel called Call Me (Crafty) Al. Both the card above and below came from her channel. She has a series called Sheet Load of Cards and these are where she shows and has a Printable PDF of card ideas where you want to make more than one of the same card…great for multiple cards and classes. You would just need to adjust some of the measurements for the Australian A4 Cardstock and our different card size.

Both of these cards really didn’t need much tweaking at all.

The other thing I would say is that if your looking for the link to her PDF’s, you do need to search the page. They were about half way down the Links or at the end.

Card Above Link – March 2023 SheetLoad of Cards | Debut & FREE Printable #SLCTMar2023

Card Below Link- January 2021 SheetLoad of Cards | Debut & FREE Printable

Now, I did change this one a bit to suite the stamps.

Al has lots of great ideas and when the crafting juices are not flowing, it’s good to see what others are creating. Just always give credit to those you have CASE’d and their ideas, and play with them to make them your own.

CASE stands for “Copy and Share Everything” OR “Copy and Selectively Edit” (meaning putting your own spin on another’s design or idea)

The card below is mine, I could CASE everything, could I!

With this card I also added the stitched circle from the Stylish Shapes and the Bough Punch. The sentiment came from the Go to Greetings Stamp set

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Regency Park Suite Collection (English)

Petal Park Bundle (English)

Sentimental Park Bundle (English)

Cane Weave 3 D Embossing Folder

Regency Park 6" X 6" (15.2 X 15.2 Cm) Designer Series Paper

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Irresistible Blooms

Published on April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Uncategorized

This was such a fun card to make, the back ground reminds me of the strings of beads that many houses in the 70’s here in Australia had hanging in the doorways.

I used one of the dies from the bundle to create this fun retro feel card.

The Hello, Irresistible Bundle is part of the Stampin’ Up!® Online Exclusive , these are products that will be only found in my Online Store.

How to make this card…

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial	Metric
Card Base	Basic Black	4 ¼ x 11”, score @ 5 ½”	10.5 x 29.9cm, score @ 14.9cm
Card Mat	Coastal Cabana	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm
Card Front	Basic Black	3½ x 4¾”	9 x 13.5cm
Strips	Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo	1½ x 4¾” x 3 colours	4 x 14.4cm x 3 colours
Sentiment	Coastal Cabana	2½ x 2½”	6 x 6cm
Vellum		4¼ x 3½”	10.5 x 7.5cm
Card Insert	Basic White	4 x 5 ¼”	10 x 14.4cm

Cut all cardstock to measurements above
Vellum
- Using VersaMark Stamp the large flower and 2 sets of leaves, one of each size.
- Heat emboss with white embossing powder, use setting 1 or cool setting on Heat Gun. High or hot setting can curl the vellum.
- Die cut the flower and leaves
Strips
- Die cut a set of strips in each of the colours – Coastal Cabana, Daffodil Delight, Flirty Flamingo
- Trim each set of strips into two lengths
Card Front
- Adhere the strips to card front -Basic Black & trim excess length. You can add adhesive sheets to the back of the Strips before die cutting or use dots of multi-purpose glue to adhere down.
- Adhere the card front to Coastal Cabana card mat.
- Attach matted card front to the Basic Black card base.
Sentiment
- Die cut square using 5cm stitched square from the Stylish Shapes.
- Stamp sentiment at the bottom of square using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink.
- Adhere to card front in the center of the card front.
Flower & Leaves
- Add a dimensional to the center of the flower behind the stamens & attach to the sentiment square.
- Add leaves to either side of the flower using multi-purpose glue.
- You can add extra mini dimensionals cut in half under the thicker embossed lines of the flower. I added these after flowers and leaves were attached.
Brushed Metallic Adhesive-Backed Dots
- Add the gold Brushed Metallic Dots on the dot on the card front (see picture below)
Card Insert
- Adhere Basic White card insert into the card

** When using vellum try to hide your adhesive behind elements E.G. behind embossing (in this case).

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Abigail Rose Gift Tag – Live with Michele

Published on April 6, 2023April 3, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Uncategorized

This week I decided to use a suite I haven’t used much, Abigail Rose Suite Collection by Stampin’ Up!®. I have used the Cottage Rose Bundle but I hadn’t even opened the Abigail Rose Designer Series Paper until now…..and it is so pretty!

I have been wanting to create large gift tags for a while and as this suite we are now saying good buy to I thought I’d better use it. These tags are large enough to decorate a gift or gift bag. They have a little pocket where you can add ephemera or a little note.

I wanted to give the tags a bit of an aged or Shabby effect so I used my favorite Soft Suede Stampin’ Pad to do that. I am going to be so sad to say good bye to Soft Suede…I just might have to keep it just in case…LOL!

I also kept the colours subtle with Petal Pink and Soft Sea Foam cardstock for accents, such as the die cuts.

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Regency Park # 004 Mystery Challenge – Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop

Published on April 4, 2023April 2, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Let's Craft Together, Thank You, Uncategorized

Welcome to Let’s Craft Together Blog Hop. We are a group of Australian Stampin’ Up!® Demonstrators that are coming together to share our creative ideas with you. We are happy that you can join us and hope that we can Inspire you to make creations of your own. Each month we will be showing different ideas based around products, themes and challenges.

This month Tracy has challenged us with a ‘Mystery Challenge’. It’s good every now and then to be taken out of your comfort zone to make something different from your style.

Regency Park by Stampin’ Up!®

I decided to use products from the Regency Park Suite Collection for my card. The DSP I wanted to be very neutral so the stamping became the focal point.

How to make this card…

Cutting Measurements

Paper	Colour	Imperial/Letter	Metric/A4
Card Base	Basic White	8½ x 5 ½”, score @ 4¼”	14.9 x 21cm, score @ 10.5cm
Piece 1	Basic White	3¾ x 3½”	9.5 x 7cm
Piece 2	Basic White	2 x 1½”	5 x 4cm
Piece 3	Balmy Blue	4¼ x ½”	10.5 x 1cm
Piece 4	Mango Melody	4¼ x ¼”	10.5 x 0.5cm
DSP		4¼ x 1¼”	10.5 x 3cm

Card Base –
- Stamp the front of card base with the leaf cluster stamp from the Petal Park Stamp Set. This stamp has two sets of leaves that come in towards the center. I took care and only inked up half of the stamp (to the center) and stamped around the card base front using Granny Apple Green Ink Pad.
- I used the dot-age stamp to fill in some of the holes around the leaves.
- Using a Blending Brush and working in a circular motion lightly add Granny Apple Green Ink around the edges of the card base.
Piece 1
- Stamp the out line flower cluster from the Sentimental Park Stamp Set in Balmy Blue all over the Basic White cardstock.
- Using Blamy Blue ink and stamping off to get a lighter tone use the fill in Stamp for the flowers
Piece 2
- Stamp sentiment in Night of navy Ink
Piece 3 & 4
- Balmy Blue Strip and Mango Melody Strip run through Basic 3D Embossing Folders – I used the ‘Hash’ folder, this is a similar design to the DSP I used.
Putting the card together
- Adhere the DSP to underneath side of the Piece 1, on the left
- Glue these two pieces (P 1 & DSP) to the card base.
- Using multi-purpose glue adhere Pieces 3 & 4 across the width of the card towards the bottom of the already attached pieces (see my card for position)
- Add dimensionals to Piece 2 and adhere to your card over the strips (3 &4)
- Tie a large bow with white bakers twine, add a glue dot and position the bow under the bottom left corner of the sentiment.

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Last Chance Products

Published on April 3, 2023April 2, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Special Promotions, Uncategorized

Soon the Stampin’ Up! Annual Catalogue will be replaced with a NEW Annual Catalogue. But first Let’s check out the Last Chance Products..

The January–April 2023 Mini Catalogue and the 2022–2023 Annual Catalogue will be retiring soon! It’s bittersweet to say goodbye to a Stampin’ Up! catalogue, but we’re looking forward to all the new products on their way—and we hope you are, too.

Stock up on your favorite products before they’re gone for good! You can save up to 60% on essential craft supplies. What are you waiting for? You can start shopping from 4th April 2023 After all, this selection of Last Chance Products is only available while supplies last.

Last Chance Products 2022-23

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Sales Period

Starts: 4 April at 12:00 a.m. (AEST)

Ends: 1 May at 11:59 p.m. (AEST)

This Last Chance Products promotion will include two lists of Last Chance Products that will no longer be available once the catalogue retires. There will be one for each catalogue retiring. For these retiring catalogues, there will not be a Carryover List. You can find carryover products in the upcoming Annual Catalogue.

The Stamparatus and its accessories are part of this Last Chance promotion, but these are only available while supplies last. If there is leftover product at the end of this promotion, the Stamparatus and its accessories will move into the Online Exclusive category.
All products are available while supplies last, and there are no purchase limits.

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Colours Leaving and Colours Coming

Published on April 2, 2023April 2, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Uncategorized

It’s time for change…..and Stampin’ Up!® is making a big change. Not only do we have a new Catalogue but there is also a Colour Refresh. We have the usual New In-Colours coming and we also have colours being deleted from the Colour Families, NEW or RETURNING colours coming to replace colours in the Colour Families.

Colours Leaving

This is sad saying ‘Goodbye’ to some of our favorite colours and below I have listed them. Which colours are you going to miss?

I will be missing Soft Suede, Pear Pizzazz, Mango Melody, Soft Succulent and Evening Evergreen. Soft Suede and Pear Pizzazz and two of my favorite go to colours.

If there are colours here that you love and you need to replace in Cardstock, ink Pads and Ink Refill order them now…as some have already sold out.

New In-colours

Love these lovely earthy tones….I can’t wait to get these colours in my hand and start playing with them.

Looking at these colours which one do you think might become your favorite?

I love blues…so Balmy Blue I’m already loving and Moody Mauve could also be a nice colour for beautiful flowers.

Now let’s see the new Families…

Did you spot the other NEW colours..

Lemon Lime Twist – Returning
Azure Afternoon – New
Berry Burst – Returning
Misty Moonlight – Returning
Pecan Pie- New
Pretty Peacock – Returning
Blueberry Bushel – Returning
Lemon Lolly – New
Lost Lagoon – Returning
Fresh Freesia – Staying or Returning from 20-22 In-Colours
Bubble Bath – New

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Elegant Boarder and Two-Tone Flora -Live with Michele

Published on March 25, 2023March 25, 2023 by Michele Jutrisa Category: Birthday, Uncategorized

On this weeks ‘Live’ I created a card that steps a little out of my comfort zone. I wanted to try to push myself a little further but it just didn’t happen. My plain was to use a variety of stamps from different sets and I had a few lined up. But as I started working I ended up using just the one set – Two-Tone Flora along with one of the Elegant Boarder Dies cards I cut last week.

Even though I used the Flirty Flamingo Classic Stampin’ Pad, I ended up using the Calypso Coral Cardstock…it still works OK. These things happen when you do a Live and afterwards you think…Why did I do that?

The Elegant Boarder Dies in one of the Online Exclusives found on my Online Store. These items will not be found in any catalogue. Also while you are there make sure you have a look at the punches..Stampin’ Up! ® have added back 2 circle punches…always a good idea to always check the Online Store for Clearance Rack or any new products.

As you will see watching the video below it was still a lot of fun and sometimes doing something different can be good.