Team Jelly Business Kits

I'm thrilled to say that during January and February, I have been lucky enough to recruit........
12 new members to Team Jelly. So there are now 15 of us (Lynda and Jacqueline signed together)! I've been busy over the last few weeks getting some business kits together for my lovely ladies and now that they are finished and en route in the post or ready to collect or deliver I can share them with you!

Firstly a thank you card from me:

The base is Melon Mambo, teamed with Tempting Turquoise and Whisper White. I've made my team logo here using the jelly bean from Something Sweet and the body parts from All in the Family! I'll be re-desiging my blog with this soon. I did print the sentiment on the PC as the alphabet stamps I have are all a bit large for a card this size!

I made cards for everyone in the team:

And a matching bookmark each too:

And finally a business kit of a Stampin' Up! bag, Stampin' Up! pen, a full set of ink, card and Marker swatches and some samples of designer paper too.

If you've been thinking of becoming a Stampin' Up! demonstrator too and getting the fabulous Starter Kit for just £119 for over £250 worth of product, why not email me at bluejellystampin@sky.com or give me a call on 07748 707845 for a no pressure chat about how joining Team Jelly could be just the thing you need!

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Lost my mans pants!

Oh my word - just how windy is it today?

This is how windy it here.....I duly like a good wife did a load of hubby's washing first thing this morning, taking note of his subtle hints 'not sure my black shorts are clean for badminton tonight, or my favourite top...'. So, on the case - washing done. Washing hung out to dry in the breeze and sun. Busy Mummy went about some more housework and then went to collect the biggest monkey from pre-school. Said busy Mummu set about plating up cheeky cheese burger lunch to the crys of laughter from the biggest monkey 'Mummy - Daddy's pants have gone next door'. Ahem, not too embarassing then having to tap knock on neighbours door to ask permission to go in their garden and retrieve my hubby's pants and a couple of t-shirts!

Anyway, on to a card for the day. I've had a play with Ornate Flowers stamp set and the co-ordinating Greenhouse Gala Designer Papers:

Just for a change I've used Crumb Cake card for my base and added some lovely patterned paper before rounding off the corners with the corner rounder punch - another firm favourite of mine. Next a strip of ribbon and a bow using the Marina Mist Grosgrain Ribbon and erm - no stamping on the front! I cut out a flower from the patterned paper, stuck it down with dimensionals and then added another layer too:

Then inside I've used the Ornate Flowers stamp to keep a co-ordinated look to the card.

I daren't hang the rest of the washing out now in case I end up red faced and round my neighbours house again!

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House Warming Invitation

Hope this works as I'm scheduling my post today as planning a day off tomorrow and having some quality play time with the boys. So if this has gone according to plan, you should be reading this and seeing my house warming card. I'm not having a house warming, just made the card!

I've been busy with products from the March Frenzy promotion again to give you some more ideas on what to do with them. Here I've used the Shimmer Card for the base, it's a shame you can't se the shimmer in the photo as it is gorgeous. I punched out some shapes with punches and post it notes and brayered over the top with Tempting Turquoise ink. The sentiments inside and on the front are from Cheers and Wishes.

I rolled the Neighborhood wheel on to Whisper White Card using Basic Black ink and then coloured in using a blender pen, Tempting Turquoise, Certainly Celery, Melon Mambo and Early Espresso inks. I cut the back two houses out and stuck down using Snail Adhesive and the front one is stuck down with Dimensionals. Here's the inside:

I hadn't planned on adding another house to the inside but I manged a big thumb print of Tempting Turquoise ink off my brayer!! I think it looks better with a house now.

Back tomorrow as usual
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Less in More Pastels

Ooh I'm a bit late joining in with Mandi and Chrissie's latest challenge over at Less is More. Mainly because I was at Stampin' Up! training on Saturday and it's all been a bit hectic since then. Oh and then there's the fact that I always struggle with pastel colours, or I think I do. It's taken me ages but I do quite like how this turned out:

I've made a 5" square card with Baja Breeze as the base. Now the colour combo was pure accident, you know when you use a stamp and sometimes first you test it on scrap? Maybe that's just me, anyway I had done that yesterday with another stamp in these colours and decided to use them on a card.

The circle images and the sentiment are from the Just Believe set. Stamped here in Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue and Certainly Celery. I embossed the sentiment with white embossing powder and drew the line using a ruler with the white gel pen.

Zac is busy creating a picture of his own at the moment with his Thomas the Tank Engine Fuzzy Felt:

It's a peaceful household today as Blake is at his Grandparents and in his absence I have decided that in fact - he is the noisy one, not Zac!

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Another March Frenzy Project

Ooooh so lovely when the sun is shining so bright like today. All the washing hanging out in the garden instead of all over the house! Bliss. Children nodding off.....me enjoying a cuppa.

So on a bright and sunny day I thought I'd share a lovely bright card I made yesterday:

I've used Certainly Celery for my card base and added a strip rub on from Hidden Garden Blossoms. The flower on the Melon Mambo square is a rub on from the same set. I used a mat of Chocolate Chip card to match the rub ons. Aren't they scrummy?

To finish off I just added a Subtles button and attached it with linen thread. I love this card.

Back in a mo with a ribbon share.....
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Jumbled Up

I had absolutely the best day at Stampin' Up! regional training at Leeds yesterday, what a scream! I met some amazing people and received some beautiful swaps, even though I didn't have many swaps myself - so thanks to everyone who was kind enough to give me one of theirs, some real works of art in there.

Today I have a to do list as long as my arm to try and get through so I'm quickly going to share the card I made this morning for my MIL to give to my FIL on Tuesday:

It's a big card as my MIL prefers them to my usual smallish square ones! I've used Jumble Alpha stamps for the main sentiment and Basic Phrases for the smaller words. Papers and adhesive strips are out of the Good Times Simply Scrappin Kit and the cupcake is from Big Bold Birthday set. Bit of a mix eh?

Fingers crossed I get through all my jobs before dinner time!

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Man fest

Made you look! I'll be posting a few male themed cards over the next few days as it's my Father in Laws birthday on Tuesday. He came out of hospital last night (yey!). I thought it was his birthday on Sunday but I was wrong. At least that gives me more time to make the cards starting with this one from me and hubby:

I've used Crumb Cake card for the base, just for a change (!) and added a layer of patterned paper from Woodland Walk. The image and sentiment are from Cheers to You, a firm favourite of mine, I can't imagine why! I stamped the beer image on Very Vanilla and coloured in in with inks and a Blender Pen and cut out. Me and my scissors seem to have become very well aquainted these days, chants to self....'need to use more punches, need to use more punches'.....

I've added a patterned self adhesive strip from the Play Date Quick Accents pack, much better than ribbon on a blokey card me thinks. 'Dad' was stamped using the Just Perfect Alpha set in Chocolate Chip, love that you don't have to be precise with this set, or maybe that's just me making excuses!

I've also used a silver frame from the Hodge Podge Hardware set (another fab item on offer this month with 20% discount at £20.76 for the whole tinful). I've punched out a coordinating piece of Chocolate Chip card using the Designer Label Punch and then the sentiment with the 1" circle punch and popped a dimensional underneath for some lift. I didn't use the brads with the frame, just stuck it down with Tombow.

I love the HodgePodge hardware, I bought this tin when I first became a demo in Nov 2009 and I'm still using it now as it has so much in it.

Off to regional training at Leeds tomorrow, can't wait, love meeting up with other demos and even better, having a whole day dedicated to Stampin' Up!

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Spot On Tutorial

Ooh I ache this morning. I had a night on the camp bed in Zac's room last night as he wasn't feeling well. Glad I made this card at the weekend!

The photo is a little dull as it's still well and no lovely bright day light again! I've used products from the March Frenzy offer again on this card. Items from the promotion are:

• A4 Shimmery White Card Stock - reducded by 30% to £5.25
• Cheer and Wishes Stamp Set - reduced by 30% to £11.87
• Spot On  Stampin Around Jumbo Wheel - reduced by 20% to £6.80

I've also used Versamark ink, white embossing powder, heat gun, brayer and Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Melom Mambo inks.

It's quite a simple card to make and you could use this method to make such a huge variety of projects too.

I started off using Shimmery White card for my base, it's lovely and so sturdy too. Using Versamrk ink I stamped the Spot on Wheel, then sprinkled on some white embossing powder and heat setting. Next job is to use post it notes or scrap paper to mask off all the white areas of card. Then brayer over starting with the lightest colour ending up with Melon Mambo.

If you receive my monthly newsletter you will get a tutorial on how to do this. I'm being hollered to go and build a space ship now, not sure if this means out of mega blox or if  have to get out the glue, some empty boxes and tin foil!

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Tutorial for you

If you visited yesterday you will know Stampin' Up! have just launched their latest promotion ' March Frenzy'. I've made a cute set of cards using some of the products included in the offer and put a mini tutorial together for you too.

These cards are made usinhg the following supplies which are included in the discounted products offer:

• Cheer and Wishes stamp set - Reduced by 30% to just £11.87
• Hidden Garden Blossoms rub ons - Reduced by 30% to £5.95
• Blender pens (pack of 3) - Reduced by 20% to £6.36

I have also used Crumb cake card for the base, Rich Razzleberry, Early Espresso and Whisper White ink pads and the Corner Rounder Punch.

These are so easy to make:

Apply your rub ons and stamp your choice of sentiment and then squeeze your inkpads whilst they are closed. When you openm them, there will be ink in the lid as shown in the photo above. This becomes your painting palette.

Pick the ink up by dabbing the blender pen nib into the ink in the lid. The blender pens suck up the ink, allowing you to colour with them. Then colour your images! You don't need a blender pen for each colour as you simply carry on colouring on a scrap of paper and the pen becomes clear again. For this card I have used one end for each colour for speed.

All you need to do is add ink and blend, just like you would with other colouring tools. The Whisper White helps to lift the darker colour and the best thing is it doesn't soak through the card, making one layer cards a breeze.

When colouring like this I tend to start with the darker shade and blend the white ink in afterwards. This works just as well with stamped images as you may have seen on recent posts of mine.

I hope you'll give it a try and let me know as I'd love to see what you create.

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March Frenzy is here!!

Oh my word - we just said good bye to the awesome Sale-A-Bration promotion yesterday and we wake up to another fabulous offer this morning. Welcome to March Frenzy!!!!

So what is it all about? Well Stampin' Up! are offering you discounts on selected products of up to 30%. How good is that? These are the products on offer, you can click on the image to make it easier to view!

These products are all fabulous and will be showing you some projects made with them throughout the month. I should mention though that these products are on offer until stocks run out and then they will return to their full price so you might want to be quick!

I've enjoyed playing with the Hidden Garden Blossoms Rub Ons recently and have a double scrapbook page layout to share with you using them. These layouts are both 12x12:

I love this photo, it's of me and my Mum on her 60 something birthday in Torrox, Spain. Mum lives in Spain with my Step Dad so vistiting is always fun! I've used Basic Black card, Brights and Neutrals DSP, All in the Family stamps, and of course the Hidden Garden Blossom rub ons - don't they look fab against the patterned papers?

This photo always makes me smile, it's me and James when I was pregnant with Zac chilling out on my Mum's roof terrace in Frigiliana. I've used the rub ons again down the black card and onto the photo and also as a little feature in the punched circles next to my journalling. Here are the layouts together:

I've used the layout and two optional extra themes from my current months scrapbook challenge. If you'd like to join in you can see the details and the prize HERE.

Got to dash now and pick Zac up from pre-school. Luckily my Mum in Law is here today so I don't have to take Blake with me!

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