Archives for May 2010

JustRite Sponsoring The Shabby Tea Room Challenge!

May 31, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 10 Comments

JustRite is proud to be sponsoring this week's (#12) challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room! Each week, they host a new challenge and this week the challenge theme is: ‘Dear to my Heart’ … use a heart as the focal point in your design. You can find all the challenge details and fabulous inspiration from The Shabby Tea Room designers over at their blog today – you don't want to miss all the amazing samples their design team put together using JustRite's stamps!

By entering their challenge, you'll be eligible to win the JustRite prize package (shown below) of some of our newest stamps that will be released this week: 1 Nested Frames set, 2 Nested Sentiment sets and a set of our brand new CLEAR horizontal stampers!

My sample for The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #12 uses a brand new 1-5/8" round Birthday Sentiments set that we'll be debuting and giving you more information about later this week:

I stamped the "Just for You" sentiment onto patterned paper with Espresso dye ink and then die cut it with Spellbinders Classic Heart Nestabilities die:

Isn't that a beautiful font?!! Don't forget to check out The Shabby Tea Room samples today using JustRite stamps and then come back here tomorrow morning for the first of our June release sneak peeks!

JustRite Stampers®: JB-09225 Birthday Sentiments
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Classic Heart Nestabilities dies
Paper: The Girls' Paperie-Paper Girl Vintage Patchwork
Ink: Ranger Adirondack Espresso dye ink & Antique Linen Distress Ink
Accessories: Tim Holtz Paper Distresser, Scrapbooking paper lace hearts (Target Dollar Spot), seam binding ribbon, Ranger Ink Blending Tool, sewing machine & ivory thread

JustRite Friday Challenge 020: Sponsored by Copic!

May 28, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 8 Comments

Welcome to another JustRite Friday Challenge … just in time to help keep you occupied over the long holiday weekend! This week's challenge, sponsored by one of our favorite marker companies, Copic, is to use your JustRite ROUND stamps with this inspiration sketch:

If you don't have any of our round stamps, then please feel free to use whatever JustRite stamps you do have – most of our stamp images will fit onto a round shape! So you could think outside the box and use some of our square stamper images, but just put them on a round shape.

The idea here is to help get you thinking about using some different shapes you may not otherwise use AND to see examples of how other people might get creative in layering their round images, which can only help grow YOUR creativity!

We'll be making our sketches a regular part of our Friday Challenges, covering a lot of different shapes and elements, so we hope you'll look forward to them! We will house all the sketches in a special photo album over in our sidebar, for quick & easy future reference.

I love designing with sketches, as it's one-third of your whole project already thought out for you! All you have to do is choose a stamp set and paper and you are ready to create! Here's my example using this sketch (another sneak peek project from the new 2010 JustRite Catalog & Idea Book!):

I went the more traditional route and used our 2-3/8" round Stitched With Love stamp set, die cut with Spellbinders Classic Circle Nestabilities (both the border and the center) and framed them with Big Scalloped Circle Nestabilities.

I stamped and die cut the center image separately from the border, masked off the heart image and airbrushed Copic R21 marker over it. Then I colored the heart with Copic R22, R24 & R29. Silver Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen was used to color the needle, to help make it a realistic! A real button was stitched onto the "O" in LOVE. The center was popped up on foam tape over the die cut border.

CHALLENGE RULES:
You will need to use JustRite products for your project and upload it to an online blog, gallery or photo hosting website. (Please see our blog post HERE for important information about our gallery on Flickr, how to upload to it, and another opportunity to win some JustRite products!).

You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post. Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily. (Links that are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted). If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_020 <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the Tag section of the Flickr gallery.

You will have until next Thursday, June 3rd at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as any possible advertising.

This week's challenge winner will receive a set of 12 Copic Ciao markers, similar to these (colors may vary):

Honorable Mention winners will each receive one stamp set of their choice and a new clear horizontal block from next week's release! We can't wait to see all your sketch cards! You can see some samples from our design team, using this sketch, in the first few linked entries below (they are ineligible for prizes) — we hope you'll check those out!

JustRite Stamps®: JB-09730 Stitched With Love & JB-08410 Wood Stamper 2-3/8”
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Nestabilities® Classic Circles Lg-Die 4 & Classic Circles Sm-Die 3, Spellbinders Big Scalloped Circles-Sm Die 5, Spellbinders Fair Isle Border Petites die
Paper: WorldWin Light Berry Red & Deep Heritage Black cardstock; October Afternoon Cherry Hill 8×8 patterned papers, Neenah Classic Crest Natural White cardstock
Ink: Tsukineko Memento Tuxedo Black ink pad; Copic markers R21, R22, R24, R29; Copic Atyou Spica Glitter Pen-Silver
Accessories: Copic Airbrush System; Papertrey Ink Pure Poppy Saddlestitched Ribbon & True Black Buttons, X-Press It Foam Mounting Tape, sewing machine & black thread

JustRite Friday Challenge 019: Christmas in May Winners

May 27, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 6 Comments

Wow, you all really got in the Christmas spirit with our JustRite Friday Challenge 019 to create a Christmas card … what a beautiful group of inspiration we had this week! Taking top honors and receiving a $50 JustRite Gift Certificate is:

Jeanne Streiff with this stunning group of mini cards:

You simply MUST click over to Jeanne's blog, to see the closeup photos of the gorgeous Copic coloring she did on these images! She used our Merry Little Christmas set, which is a 1-5/8" round stamp, but die cut it into oval shapes! (Little did she know, this leads right in to our next Friday Challenge that will be posted tomorrow!). Then she framed the images with square borders from our Hope set … brilliant work, Jeanne!

Honorable Mentions, each receiving a $15 JustRite gift certificate are:

Regina Mangum with this over-the-top-creative masterpiece:

Regina used the gingerbread man and present from our Favorite Occasions set to stack up this charming holiday greeting!

Pam Imholz used Kaleidoscope circles for a snowflake affect on this lovely Old Fashioned Christmas snowman card:

And Chriss Blagrave made this bright & beautiful card to celebrate the season, also using our Old Fashioned Christmas set!

Congratulations, ladies — please email me to claim your gift certificates! We hope you'll check back in tomorrow for our next Friday Challenge, sponsored by Copic, and your chance to win some markers!

JustRite Catalog Blog Hop & Announcing New Design Team Member!

May 25, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 15 Comments

Are you ready for an exciting new JustRite Catalog & Idea Book sneak peek blog hop?!! Today, each of our fabulous designers will be sharing one special never-seen-before project they each have in the new catalog. This will be just a small sampling of what you will find in this wonderful idea book!

And joining us on today's hop is a new JustRite Design Team member, Stephanie Kraft! Welcome to the team, Stephanie! Here's a little bit about Stephanie:

Stephanie took up scrapbooking for a brief time in the mid-1990s while she worked in the computer industry. She had a renewed interest in the hobby shortly after the birth of her daughter in 2003. Five years later as a stay-at-home Mom, she discovered the world of stamping blogs and found that she was spending more and more time being inspired by others but creating nothing herself. She created a blog of her own in September 2008 with the thought that it would motivate her to create artwork more regularly. Since then, rarely a day goes by that she doesn’t get inky! Though she loves scrapbooking and preserving family memories, her current passion is in making cards and handmade gifts. She also enjoys photography, cooking and spending time with friends and family. Stephanie currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her very supportive (and tolerant of her hobby/obsession) husband of 10 years and 7-year-old daughter.

Some of you may recognize Stephanie's name from winning a LOT of our JustRite Friday Challenges, so you may be happy to know that she won't be eligible to win any more of those challenges now that she's on our design team, LOL!

To read more about all of our Design Team, just click over to our newly updated "About Us & Design Team" page of our blog (linked at the top, right under our blog banner)!

Stephanie, along with all of our designers, are very excited to share their project sneak peeks with you and you'll be able to find the full project supply lists for their projects in the catalog!

The 2010 JustRite Catalog & Idea Book is now available for pre-ordering and will begin shipping June 12. <= Just click on the purple link to preorder it! The catalog is 84 pages and it includes all our current stamp sets as well as the next four months worth of releases!

It will quickly become your JustRite Reference & Inspiration Book: You can check off the stamps sets you have and the catalog becomes an easy reference guide to what you own in your personal JustRite collection. And you can also make your JustRite wish list from this handy reference guide! Inside, you will find over 127 project ideas from our very talented design team, including complete supply lists for over 75 projects! The 2010 Catalog & Idea Book retails for $6.95.

We will be introducing NINE new Christmas/Holiday stamp sets and over 37 new products! And what's that on the lower left side of the cover? JustRite will begin introducing CLEAR STAMP BLOCKS on June 1st! These blocks are the same great design as our wood blocks but make positioning your images a breeze! We will have more information about the clear stampers the week of June 1st.

Here's a new project I have in the catalog, one of my favorite things to create … cookbooks!

Here's a close-up … I used our 1-3/16" Recipe Borders & Centers set for the tabs and I had fun using the "Bon Appetite" phrase as a semi-circle accent down the left spine of the book:

I customized the cover with "Family Favorite Recipes" of the Harnists — my last name spelled out with our Small Letter Set and monogram initial using Times New Roman Uppercase font! They are in the center of a Spellbinder's Dahlia flower die cut.

You will find the complete supply list for my cookbook in the new catalog, along with each of the projects our design team is sharing with you today!

Before you start your hopping, we wanted to let you know that we are moving our May release introductions to next week. Our team needs to take a deep breath and spend sometime with our slightly neglected families and enjoy the upcoming U.S. Memorial holiday weekend. The pre-order site for the release is already up on our website and you may begin placing your orders today. We will begin shipping this release on June 1st. The new release has a brand new JustRite concept which will inspire you to use our new stamps for scrapboooking as well as cardmaking! So enjoy the hop and the long weekend and stop back in here on the JustRite Inspiration blog beginning next Tuesday, June 1 to see our cool new JustRite concept!

Until then, you still have until this Thursday morning, May 27 to enter our JustRite Friday Challenge to make a Christmas card with your JustRite Stamps! And we'll have a new challenge for you on Friday, sponsored by Copic, to help you make it through the long weekend!

Please visit each of our designers (linked below) to see their fabulous catalog projects!

JustRite Friday Challenge 019: Christmas in May & A BIG Announcement!

May 21, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 9 Comments

For this Friday Challenge … it's time to start thinking about your Christmas cards! If you get an early start on your Christmas cards, you can actually enjoy making them and enjoy the holiday season with a little less pressure! To help you get started early this year, this week's challenge is simple: We want to see your ideas for Christmas cards! To help get you in the Christmas spirit, JustRite Stampers is very proud to introduce to you our fabulous new 2010 Catalog & Idea Book!

How do you like all those gorgeous NEW Christmas images on the cover — THAT should help get you thinking about Christmas! The 2010 Catalog & Idea Books are available for pre-order beginning today and will ship at the beginning of June. <= Just cick on the purple link to preorder it! The catalog is 84 pages and it includes all our current stamp sets as well as the next four months worth of releases!

We will be introducing NINE new Christmas/Holiday stamp sets and over 37 new products! And what's that on the lower left side of the cover? JustRite will begin introducing CLEAR STAMP BLOCKS beginning with our release on June 1st! These blocks are the same great design as our wood blocks but make positioning your images a breeze. We will have more information about the clear stampers next week, when we reveal our June 1 release!

And on Tuesday we will be having a catalog hop so that you can get a sneak peek at some of the fabulous projects included in this catlalog, so mark your calendars!

You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post. Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily. (Links that are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted). If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_019 <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the Tag section of the Flickr gallery.

You will have until next Thursday, May 27th at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as any possible advertising.

This week's challenge winner will receive a $50 JustRite gift certificate and Honorable Mentions will receive $15 JustRite gift certificates … just in time to go shopping with our May release next week! We can't wait to see all of your Christmas card inspiration!

BY THE SEA BLOG CANDY WINNER

The winner of our By The Se a blog candy giveaway, selected by Random.org is:

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Which is Lynne Phelps, who said…

"We go to Captiva Island, FL, every summer. We meet the whole family there where we have neighboring condominiums. This has been a tradition for 20 years! They have wonderful shelling and amazing sunsets. I love this Just Rite stamp set and would be THRILLED to win it!

Congratulations, Lynne — hopefully this set will help make some pretty scrapbook pages of your summer vacations at the beach! Please email me to claim your By The Sea stamp set!

JustRite Friday Challenge 018 & Blog Candy Winners!

May 20, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 9 Comments

The winner of our Kaleidoscope blog candy giveaway, selected by Random.org is:

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Which is Donna Rinckel, who said…

"My kaleidoscope would be baby blue, grass green and orange. I love kaleidoscopes and used to make them with my Girl Scout troop."

Congratulations, Donna! Please email me to claim your Kaleidoscope stamp set!

Now on to the winners of our JustRite Friday Challenge 018 Kid Time, sponsored by Spellbinders. The winner of the Spellbinders Nestabilities dies (Big Scalloped Circles-Lg & Labels 12) is:

Regina Mangum with this fabulous kid's birthday card:

Regina HAND DREW the monkey body to go with the monkey head from our Let's Celebrate set! Click on over to Regina's blog for more details and photos about her card!

Honorable Mentions, each receiving these Spellbinders Impressabilities templates (Flourish & Circles):

Jeanne Streiff with this wonderful scrapbook page of her grandson, using our Stitched With Love set — so bright and cheerful!

Linda Beeson made this adorable oh-so-girly card and candy bar wrapper (I think I know a few girls who would love this!):

And Pattie made this wonderful baby girl card with our Stitched With Love set — so pretty and feminine:

Congratulations, ladies — your kid projects were outstanding! Many thanks once again to Spellbindersfor sponsoring this challenge! We hope you'll check back tomorrow for another JustRite Friday Challenge and then also over the weekend, when we'll continue our April release recap of inspiring projects AND more blog candy to give away!

By The Sea Release Recap & Blog Candy!

May 19, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft

Before we recap our By The Sea stamp set release, we want to announce the winner of Monday's Applique giveaway. Random. org chose:

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#66 Marge R, who said:

"I would use this set similarly to Debbie & Laurie's cards, plus I think these stamps make gorgeous BGs for cards — a really fabulous set to add to my little JRS collection! Thanks for a chance to win."

Congratulations, Marge, please email me to claim your Applique stamp set!

Now on to some amazing By The Sea inspiration from several of our designers and blogging friends …

Amy Sheffer and Michelle Rodgers each used the lighthouse image from this set in totally different nautical styles … Amy's leaning toward shabby chic and Michelle's more crisp, clean and masculine:

Cindy Lawrence and Dawn Easton each used a different color scheme for their beachy scenes … Cindy's is sunny, bright & feminine, while Dawn's reminds me of more masculine plaid Bermuda shorts or swim trunks! I love that the umbrella can be colored for whatever theme you are trying to achieve.

Debbie Olson and Tosha Leyendekker both used the more masculine sailboat from this set to achieve totally different knock-out looks!

Linda Coughlin and Denise Marzec each show totally different, fabulous styles can be achieved with the shell grouping from this set:

Kellie Fortin and Sharon Harnist both used the beach chair image for these wonderful projects:

Ready for some By The Sea blog candy? Just answer this question below in the comments: What is your favorite spot by the sea? Leave an answer by Thursday (tomorrow) evening and we'll let Random.org choose the winner to be announced on Friday morning!

Thanks for checking in today and please come back tomorrow for the announcement of our JustRite Friday Challenge winners and Friday for another new Friday Challenge! We'll get back to another April stamp set review and blog candy on Saturday and Sunday!

This giveaway is now closed … thanks for entering!

What Color is Your Kaleidoscope & Blog Candy!

May 18, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft

Barb Schram Kaleidoscopes

Do you remember spending endless hours looking through a kaleidoscope when you were a child? All the interesting shapes and colors were mesmerizing! So that's today's question — What color is YOUR kaleidoscope?!! After taking a look through these amazing Kaleidoscope samples, please answer the question below for your chance to win:

JustRite's new 2-3/8" round JB-09750 Kaleidoscope set will keep YOU entertained and mesmerized, with all the color possibilities it presents! Gaze upon this gorgeous recap of designer samples (click on any photo, for a larger view):

Angela Barkhouse stamped and then colored her fresh Spring pink Kaleidoscope to coordinate with the pretty patterned papers:

Becca Feeken's gold elegance card — just fabulous for a wedding or anniversary!

And Becca's amazing Kaleidoscope shoes and coordinating card set:

Cindy Lawrence's elegant white embossed Kaleidoscope:

Dawn Easton's soft and subtle bejeweled version:

Michelle Rodgers' Kaleidoscope is striking stamped in black, sponged with pink ink and accented with pearls and a fabulous Spellbinders die cut:

Sharon Harnist's Kaleidoscope patterned paper and coordinating focal image:

Barb Schram had a fabulous time transforming these tealight holders into materpiece paperweights, using stamped and colored Kaleidoscope images in the centers:

Here's a view of all the fabulous Kaleidoscope images, not under glass so you can see them a little better, that Barb colored gorgeously with different colors of Copic markers:

Mesmerizing, aren't they?!!

Remember to answer the question "What color is your personal Kaleidoscope" in the comment section below for your chance to win this set! Tell us which three colors you would use to design your kaleidoscope colored image. You have until Thursday evening, May 20 to answer and then the winner will be chosen by Random.org and posted on Friday morning. You still have until tonight to enter the chance to win our Applique set on the post below … good luck!

This giveaway is now closed … thanks for entering!

Applique Inspiration-One Stamp Set With Endless Design Possibilities!

May 17, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft

This week we'll be doing a recap of our April release, spotlighting a different stamp set each day … along with blog candy! That's right — each day right here on the JustRite Inspiration blog you'll find a TON of inspiration for each stamp set, along with the opportunity to win that day's stamp set! Please read on for more details:

Today's inspiration is for Applique. This set has endless possibilities, as you'll see in these samples. Everything from stamped in one ink color, to many ink colors on one project, to stamped and colored images, to using the images for background papers, from bright & fun to shabby & chic – the sky's the limit! So sit back and enjoy . . .

Debbie Olson:

Tosha Leyendekker:

Kazan Clark:

Kazan's Wedding Card uses the Applique image to create a background paper:

Kazan's Burst of Color Applique Card - The Make a Wish sentiment is a sneak peek from one of our stamp sets being released next week!!

Barb Schram:

Barb Schram has really been enjoying coloring in the Applique designs!

Laurie Schmidlin:

Michelle Wooderson:

Kellie Fortin:

Michele Kovack:

Sharon Harnist:

Sharon also used the Applique stamps to create a background paper:

Michelle Rodgers:

Leslie Miller:

Now for your chance to win this set, we'd like to know what YOU would do with it and what kind of projects you see yourself using it on! Just leave a comment on this post — you have until Tuesday night, May 18 to do so and then we'll let Random.org choose a winner and post it on Wednesday morning … good luck and thanks for stopping by today. Don't forget to check back each day for a new stamp set of inspiration and blog candy!

This giveaway is now closed … thanks for entering!

JustRite Friday Challenge 018: Kid Time Sponsored by Spellbinders

May 14, 2010 by JustRite Papercraft 5 Comments

This week's Friday Challenge #018 has been taken over by the kids and is sponsored by Spellbinders! For your chance to win some Spellbinders dies & templates, we want to see what you can create for kids — whether they are your own kids, neighbor kids, grandkids, nieces/nephews, or maybe even something to donate to the kid's wing of your local hospital — we want to see your kid gifts, encouragement notes, birthday cards, special treats, or scrapbook pages of kids!

Here are a few jumping off points for you to consider:

Of course our new Let's Celebrate set is a perfect choice for kid's cards, but you can also find whimsical sentiments or images great for kids in these stamp sets, too:

Favorite Occasions, Tiny Words, Just A Note (Dream Big, Make a Wish). The sailboat from By The Sea would make a great boy's birthday card or wonderful accents on beach scrapbook pages for the kids. And any of our floral images would make wonderful cards for girls! The shopping/shoes & purse images, and "Just Divas" sentiment from our Girl Time set (on sale this month!) make darling cards or scrapbook accents for girls, too!

Our large cupcake center with bonus 25-point font is another great choice for kid's birthday cards, as well as the "Birthday Girl" sentiment from our Birthday Wishes set (also on sale this month!).

Even Romantic Sentiments (Thank you for being my sunshine every day!), Seeds of Kindness (You make me smile, Bloom where you are planted), Loving Thoughts (Sending you a bucket full of kisses) can work well on encouraging cards for kids, when combined with bright colors & fun papers!

JustRite design team member, Angela Barkhouse, created this fun kid's birthday card using our Let's Celebrate set:

And Michelle Wooderson created this fabulous kid's birthday card using Let's Celebrate:

My samples also use our new Let's Celebrate set:

I made these 2" x 1.75" refrigerator magnetic clips to keep track of each of my kids' mounds of important school papers (I'm sure some of you have this, too?!!). This way, they're in plain sight and not forgotten or in the way where something can get spilled on them! Here's what the magnetic clips look like before embellishing — they have very large & strong magnets on the back and I found them at Staples Office Supply:

I stamped the images with Memento Tuxedo Black ink onto Neenah Natural White cardstock and colored them with these Copic markers:

I used JustRite's 25-point Times New Roman Uppercase font to spell out my girls' names and then die cut them with Spellbinders Tiny Tags die. I adhered the patterned papers and images to the clips using my Xyron. A little bling and ribbon finish them up!

You will then need to link to your project back here on our blog post, using the linking system on this challenge post. Please make certain your link is directly to your project, not just your general blog home page or overall photo gallery, so we can find it easily. (Links that are spam, commercial in content, or are not linked properly/directly to your project will be deleted). If you choose to upload your project to www.Splitcoaststampers.com OR our Flickr gallery, please use the weekly challenge code (example: JRC_018 <== that's an underscore between the letters and numbers) in the keyword section of the Splitcoast project upload page or the Tag section of the Flickr gallery.

You will have until next Thursday, May 20th at 9am Central to make your project and enter a link to it below. Then the winners will be chosen and announced a little later that day here on the JustRite Inspiration Blog. By entering our challenges, you grant JustRite Stampers permission to use your artwork here on our blog as well as any possible advertising.

This week's challenge winner will receive these Spellbinders Nestabilities dies (Big Scalloped Circles-Lg & Labels 12):

Honorable Mentions will receive these Spellbinders Impressabilities templates (Flourish & Circles):

We can't wait to see all your kid projects!

JustRite Stamps: JB-09765 Let's Celebrate, JB-08060 Times New Roman Uppercase Font
Dies & Punches: Spellbinders Tiny Tags
Paper: — patterned paper, Neenah Natural White cardstock
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black ink, Ranger Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink, Copic markers (shown above)
Accessories: Staples magnetic clips, ribbon, Hero Arts Sparkle Gems, Xyron