January Monthly Colour Collection Kit - Spice Cake

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and welcome to a new year of crafting.

My January colour collection kit has been designed around a  set of  Designer Series Papers 'Spice Cake', available from the 4th January 2012 when the new Spring Mini Catalogue launches.

In the kit you will receive 12 pieces of 15cm x 15cm Spice Cake papers (2 each of 6 double-sided designs) together with 10 x A4 matching cardstock in Pear Pizzazz, More Mustard, Soft Suede, Pool Party and Very Vanilla. The kit also includes 4 x half-metre lengths of co-ordinating ribbon, a selection of brads, and a selection of punched/die cut flower shapes, together with an inspiration sheet of card ideas to get you started.

The price of the kit (inc postage and packging) is £16. If you would like to place an order please send a cheque made payable to Julia Jordan by the closing date of Thursday the 12th January. Orders will be despatched week commencing 23rd January 2012, a little later this month due to the Christmas and New Year breaks. If you do not already have my address please send an email to juliajor@googlemail.com and I will reply to you with the details. Please note I can only despatch kits to a UK address.

Julia

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to everyone who has followed my very erratic blog posting over the past year. I hope 2012 brings you everything you wish for, and lots of happy hours of crafting.

 

Back soon

 Julia

Picture Post - Various

Hi, just a quick picture post today showing a mixture of cards.

Stamp Set:  French Foliage

Stamp set:  Creative Elements

Paper:  First Edition 

Stamp set:  Simply Soft (Hostess)

Paper:  First Edition

Thanks for visiting, Julia.









Monthy Colour Collection Kit - Mocha Morning

I have had a good response since launching my Monthly Colour Collection Kit for December - Mocha Mornng.

Just a reminder that the closing date for current kit is 6th December so if you are thinking of odering please contact me asap at juliajor@googlemail.com. Details of the kit can be seen in my previous post.

I would like to clarify that if you buy one kit you are not committed to purchase a kit every month. However, I am already working on the January kit with some bright cheerful colours to welcome in the new year and hope to announce details of this by the end of December.

My thanks to those of you who have already ordered the December kit, and as planned I will start despatching these on the 14th December.

Launching my Monthly Colour Collection Kit

I am very pleased to let you know that I am launching a Monthly Colour Collection Kit. This is an ideal way to give colours and papers a try before you buy.

Each month I will design a new kit which will include colour themed cardstock, papers, embellishments and ribbons etc. With the kit I will supply an inspiration sheet showing four card ideas, but there will be plenty of items in the kit to make at least ten cards. The inspiration sheet will also give details of the Stampin' Up stamp sets, inks and punches I used to create the sample cards which can all be ordered through me, but you could easily use your own stamps and punches to achieve similar results.

The December Colour Collection Kit Mocha Morning is available to order now at a cost of £16 inc postage and packaging, and features the beautiful Mocha Morning Designer Papers which include designs with black flocking and metallic ink finishes.

This kit contains 2  x A4 cardstock in 6 colours, 10 x pieces of 15cm square Mocha Morning papers, 3 x half-metre lengths of ribbon, 1 x half-metre length of crochet trim, 10 x contrasting glimmer brads, 10 x contrasting mini brads, together with the  inspiration sheet. The picture above shows the kit contents plus one of my sample cards.

If you would like to place an order for the December Mocha Morning Kit please email me at juliajor@googlemail.com and I will reply to you with details of where to send your payment. Cheques should be received by the closing date for this kit of 6th December 2011. I will start despatching kits on 14th December 2011. Please note I can only send the kits to a UK address.

Details of additional Stampin' Up items used in my samples.

Stamp Sets: W = wood mount and C = clear mount (please note some sets only available in wood mount)

Lovely as a Tree (W) £25.95, Perfect Punches (W) 22.95 (C) 17.95, Four Frames (W) 19.95 (C) 15.95, Oval All (W) 16.95, Everything Eleanor (W) 33.95 (C)26.95

Inks:

Basic Black 4.95, Soft Suede 4.95

Punches:

Eyelet Border 14.25, Decorative Label 15.50, Scallop Oval 15.50, Large Oval 14.25, Extra-Large Oval 15.50

You can view these items via a link to the current Idea Book and Catalogue on the left hand panel of my blog.

Thank you or your time.

Julia





Season of Joy Christmas Card

The card I am sharing with you today is a variation on the same theme used in my previous post.

This card features the Season of Joy stamp set.

I have stamped the images onto paper from the Designer Series Paper Stack in Pool Party. Firstly I stamped the flourish in Pool Party ink across the paper, then added the Christmas flowers in Real Red and finally the snowflakes in Island Indigo.

I punched a small hole in the side of the card and tied a piece of Real Red Satin Ribbon in a double knot to form a 'cheats' bow, and finished with a few rhinestones.

I was really pleased with this card and the Season of Joy stamp set is a favourite of mine. I think I will be making a few more of these in various colours so if you know me you might even receive one of these for Christmas!

Back soon with details of my new Monthly Colour Collection Kits, so watch this space.

Julia

Delicate Doilies Christmas Card

I had a lovely afternoon on Saturday at a workshop for Cath and her friends in the beautiful village of Stockbridge, Hampshire.

I was asked to put more card ideas on my blog, so as promised here is a quick and easy card taken from an idea by Amanda Fowler at Inspiring Inkin here. I have used the Delicate Doilies stamp set to create my card whereas Amanda has used the Serene Snowflakes set.



The doilies have been stamped in a 'flurry' across the card and by using the lightest colour Pool Party first, then Lucky Limeade and finally the darkest colour Island Indigo there is no need to use a masking technique. It is not obvious from my scanned image but I stamped a second image of the focal dark blue doily onto a spare piece of card and punched out the centre, then fixed this on top of the first image using pads to add dimension.

Cardstock colours: Pool Party, Island Indigo and Whisper White.

Back soon, Julia