Trusty Trucks

Published on January 5, 2017 by Michele Jutrisa

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.

The other challenge is by Colour INKspiration

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

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!.

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.

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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2017 Calendar – Part 1

Published on January 2, 2017 by Michele Jutrisa

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.

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 January 1, 2017 by Michele Jutrisa

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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.

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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Merry Christmas

Published on December 24, 2016December 24, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

I Would like to wish you all a

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS

and a

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Thank you for coming along on my Blogging journey for 2016

I pray that you have a SAFE and Joyous Christmas season

Here is a few of my Favorite cards that I competed in 2016

See you in 2017

Global Design Project 065 | Colour Challenge – Hey, Chick!

Published on December 7, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

I couldn’t resist it!

I really enjoyed working this this weeks Global Design Project Colour Challenge #065, so much I had to do another card.

I had this card in mind the other day but I hadn’t received my pre-order for the Occasions Catalogue as yet, so I had to wait.

Well my order is here and so is the stamp set I so wanted share it with you.

Now this stamp set is one that has had to grow on me. At first I didn’t really like it that much but then seeing what others had done , it very quickly became a “I MUST GET”.

The stamp set is called “Hey, Chick”, it’s a Sale-A-Bration set and you can get this stamp set FREE when you spending $90.

Its a fun and it will be interesting to see how its going to be used. I think it will also be good for a “Hen’s Night”, what do you think?

I have used the same technique with this card as I did the last one, stamping the image with the Early Espresso Ink and used my blender pen to move the ink about. But this time I have used some Real Red on her breast, head, tail and Crumb Cake on the feathers as well. After doing this I still felt this little chick needed some sparkle to bring her to life…so why not a bit of bling. Us girls can never have too much “BLING”, can we!

So there is just a touch of Gold Wink of Stella!

The back ground of this card I stamped with all the Chick images…now she looks like she is talking to one of the other girls.

To keep to the earthy country feel to this card (with Bling of course) I wrapped the card front with Real Red Bakers Twin and Linen thread.

Anyway hope you like my card, have a great day!

Hello December 2016

Published on December 3, 2016December 9, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

How do you document your Christmas…..

For the past 2 years I have been using the Project Life Hello December Card Collections

and Accessory Pack.

This year is no different…in the Seasonal Catalogue on page 31 you will find the 2016 Hello December 2016 Card Collection, Accessory Pack, NEW Album and NEW Pocket Page Variety Pack 2.

The card collections has 71 cards in 2 sizes (7.6 x 10.2 cm & 10.2 x 15.2 cm) that just slip beautifully into the Pocket Pages. There are card for the days of the week, cards for journalling and cards that are just for decoration.

The Accessory Pack has all the embellishment you need to decorate you pages including small 5.1 x 5.1 cm cards, a stamp set, red foil numbers, sticker sheets, wooden shapes and washi tape.

The Album for this year has the beautiful and bright Emerald Envy down the spine.

The Variety pack 2 is new to the collection and offers a different range of pocket pages and can be used in conjunction with the others available.

I am doing my album to be a pictorial Journal of all the events that happen throughout December for family and I.

Today I started sorting my cards and planning where I’m going to place them…but I know this will change as I work my way through December.

As we go through this month I will give you up dates on how its coming along and will post a few pictures. I will also add tips along the way of how and why I have done curtain pages.

My first tip is..

Tip 1.

The Hello December 2016 card Collection and the Accessory Pack are part of the Year End Closeout Sale…and its while stock lasts. So don’t leave it too long to order yours. Go to my SHOP here or from the top of page and order directly with Stampin’ Up! You don’t want to miss out.

Tip 2.

Once you have your cards and if you are Memory Keeping by date add your dates (from Accessory Pack) to the 7.6 x 10.2 cm cards that have been printed for this purpose

Have added a video to show yow you this great collection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9cgGUvw9_I&t=19s

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Global Design Project #064 | CASE the Designer

Published on December 2, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

At last a day I could sit down and make a card…

this week has been one of those weeks driving the boys around.

This week we are CASE-ing Connie Collins.

Have I ever told you that Blue is my favorite colour and its so fresh looking teamed up with the yellow.

I have wanted to do something in this combination for a while now and teamed with the spots reminds me so much of a country garden.

So today I’m going to Case this great colour combination…

The Stampin’ Up! stamp set is called “Baby Bear” and this is the first time I have used it. Its one of those “WOW” stamps and I loved the way it came out.

The Bear is a three step Stamp, this means you have 3 stamps you layer on top of each other to achieve the finished effect.

You can either stamp off your stamps to get lighter tones of one colour or do as I have done and used three different yellows, starting with the lightest and working up to the darkest. The bow I stamped off and then stamped full strength with the second stamp (only a two step)

I used the largest scalloped square from the Layering Square Framelits, as he only just fits. I then cut a large square to go under him..

I think he’s so cute….don’t you!

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Year End Closeouts

Published on December 1, 2016December 1, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

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Stampin’ Up! has been doing a little year-end cleaning, and we’ve got some great deals to offer you! Our Year-End Closeouts will include holiday catalogue retiring products, clearance rack items and current high-inventory catalogue products.

Go to my Store NOW!

These products won’t last….so don’t miss out!

Here is a link..

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Old Memories……

Published on November 30, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

Yesterday, my son Robert was having a chat to his Dad about one of his subjects, Modern History. I reminded them that we have an old suitcase in the shed with lots of bits and pieces from Europe, brought over by my Father in-law.

My husbands family came from Croatia and moved to Australia after the War.

So we went in search for this suitcase…..

We found an old suitcase (thinking it was the one we were after), we cleaned it up and brought it inside.

It was so funny because here was my 17 yr old son looking at this case and wondering how to open it.

“Are there keys?”

He had never seen a suitcase before with locks like this.

So I showed him how it opened and had a good laugh…how times have changed.

Unfortunately it wasn’t my father in-laws case but it was my mother in-laws.

We found her sewing box, old costume jewellery, photos and some Bibles (written in German and Croatian). We also found my husbands school records which he had thought were thrown out years ago.

But the treasure we did find was my mother in-laws cook book, with all her hand written recipes.

What a find….but they are all written in Croatian. Now I just have to get translated.

Last year my husband wanted to have a Croatian Christmas with traditional food and we didn’t know where this cook book was. So I down loaded recipes from the internet and we gave them a go.

It was a fun Christmas Lunch and it was great trying different food to what we would normally have. I made sure that we took photo’s of me making these recipes and of them on our table for Christmas lunch. And put these photos into my 2016 Christmas Project Life Album…they are a great reminder.

So this year if I can get these recipes translated in time…I maybe able to make some of these goodies for Christmas lunch this year too…

So whats the reason behind all this..

Memories are great, get them out of those old suitcases and share them. take photos and remember the stories.

A great way to do this is through Memory Keeping and Project Life.

Project Life gives you a simple way to get photos into albums so you can tell the stories and share with family and friends.

Go to my shop and check out the Seasonal catalogue for this years Hallo December Project Life Card Collection, Accessory pack, 6 x 8 Emerald Envy ASlbum and Pocket pages.

This is only available until 3rd January 2017

To find out more about project life contact me and attend one of my classes where I can help you to get started.

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What lead me to Stampin’ Up!…Join me on a great Adventure.

Published on November 23, 2016 by Michele Jutrisa

What came before cards?

What other crafts do you do besides making cards?

I love CRAFT….it was more a case of what didn’t I do.

Sew, Knit,Tapestry, Cross stitch, Silk ribbon Emb., Pulled thread…oh’ the list goes on!

I did anything I could get my hands on, tried everything…

Here is a quick run down of what lead me to now…

My mother was a sewed and enjoyed crafts – I had the best fancy dress costumes, decorated bike or Easter bonnet. Then there was the decorated birthday cakes..Mum did it all.
I was given my first sewing machine at the age of 8 years old- it was a Singer…and not just a toy one. It did a real sewing stitch…I still have it.

Learn’t to sew, knit. Joined a Art class – Children’s Art Course, Did a weekend course in Bobbin Lace making.
Left school and went on to study Fashion Technology through TAFE. Then worked as a machinist in a clothing factory (putting in zippers, 50 a day to make a days wage, more than 50 gave you a bonus).
Went into retail selling fabric…started at Home Yardage….now that’s a blast from the past…who remembers them?
Did 2 years doing an Embroidery Course before it was canceled
Married the best man in the world (or so I think) and had 2 beautiful boys.
Moved to Southern Highlands (from living in the inner suburbs of Sydney)
Joined Embroiders Guild…learn’t lots of different techniques
Heard about Scrapbooking at a Home Show
Joined Creative Memories
Had 2 more boys……
Joined a Design team for Scrappy Sisters (local Scrapbboking Shop)
Started my own business…..Scrapbooking Angels – putting together albums for others
Packed everything up and put into storage to renovate our home….

Why card making and Stampin’ Up! ?

Creating cards and Stampin’ Up! came about because I had a need to craft. Joe, our boys and I had to renovate the house we lived in. So everything was packed into boxes.

After 6mths living in a caravan and another 6mths living in a dusty house I was itching to do some sort of craft. I had attended a couple of Stampin’ Up! card workshops and liked what I saw.

It was something (at the time) I could store in a box and do anywhere. Anywhere was my kitchen. which was in those days a fold up table in the door way of the shed with a BBQ at one end and a potable cook top at the other.

Here I am cooking a cake in my kitchen on top of the BBQ

So it became my hobby to start with…it was another 4 years before I joined Stampin’ Up!

Why Stampin’ Up! ?

I looked at a couple of business that sold stamps and Stampin’ Up! offered something unique.

There products were there own, you couldn’t just go and buy them on the shelf.
Everything coordinated, I didn’t have to search for matching product…they had it
Their prices were reasonable….
The quality was good …so good value.
Good verity of stamps, inks and embelishments
Monthly Min sales – was and still is achievable

So as they say the rest is HISTORY…

I joined!

5 years down the track nothing has changed (except I don’t cook in the shed any more),

I still enjoy card making.

I have gone back to Scrapbooking/Memory Keeping also.

And its with Stampin’ Up!…..its just called Project Life.

I’m no longer wanting to do this as a hobby (which you can) but I’m wanting to make this a business.

MY BUSINESS!

So that I can share it with everyone, why keep it to myself when there are others out there that will enjoy it as much as I am.

Join my team and come with me on a Journey, an adventure of a lifetime.