Making Cards & Papercraft Magazine stamp set

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Generally I only use Stampin' Up! products but a friend of mine came to visit me for a crafty morning and brought with her the Best Friends stamp set which was free with the March Making cards and Papercraft magazine.  I just loved the sentiments so wanted to make a couple of cards using it.

Good friends cheaper than therapy! And Whenever you need me I'll be there in a Prosecco! How brilliant are they?

I used the fabulous Painted with Love Speciality Designer Paper for the base and gold foil to mat the sentiments.

On the inside I used Best friends don't care if your house is clean, they care if you have wine!

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! 10th Wedding Anniversary card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

It was our 10th Wedding Anniversary last week and I wanted to make a very special card for my wonderful husband. I love this concertina box card from Samantha Clayton of Mixed Up Crafts, you can find her video here

I started off with Elegant Eggplant cardstock to make the box. The front panel is stamped in Elegant Eggplant ink using the Marbled stamp. I then cut out a white heart using the Sweet and Sassy Framelit dies and stamped Happy Anniversary.

I used Whisper White cardstock to make the concertina and layered with more Marbled pieces. I used more heart dies to decorate the four inside panels and the large number dies for the 10.

I also printed out two of our favourite wedding photos for inside the box.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! You're Inspiring Easter Card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Happy Easter everyone. This year I made my Easter cards using the fabulous You're Inspiring stamp set.

 Don't you just love these daffodils. As always it's a very clean and simple card and I used the new Stampin' Blends to colour in the daffs.

I also used the small daffodil stamp on the inside of the card.

Enjoy your Easter Eggs!

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Scattered Sequins Thank you card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Thank you for joining us for another Inspireink Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. Simply use the button at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

This month we had a sketch to work from and this is it, clean and simple, just my style. 

 I started off with a base of Calypso Coral and a Smoky Slate layer which I dry embossed with the Scattered Sequins Dynamic Textured Impressions Embossing folder.

I tied a piece of the Sale-a-Bration Calypso Coral ribbon around the Smoky Slate layer before adhering it to the base.

The Thank you sentiment comes from the Southern Serenade Stamp set, I stamped it in Calypso Coral ink on Smoky Slate cardstock before die cutting with my stitched shaped framelits. I layered it onto a scalloped circle of Calypso Coral.

I then added some of the basic Rhinestones but I didn't like the look of them so I painted them with the Calypso Coral dark Stampin' Blend to give them a hint of colour. I think they look perfect now.

Here's a close up of the fabulous ribbon, coloured rhinestones and the embossed sequins.

Don't forget to click the next button below to continue hopping, we have some very talented crafters in our group and I know they will have made some incredible cards for you.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

  

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Black and White themed card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

The theme for the Great Card Swap challenge group for January was Black and White.

This is the card I made using the Just Add Colour Speciality Designer Series Paper. It took a lot of will power not to colour it in!!

When I blogged about the last Great Card Swap Challenge one of my lovely subscribers, Lorraine Turner, left me a comment saying that it would have interesting to see what the other crafters had used in their swaps too. I thought this was a brilliant idea and asked the other members of the team if they would mind me putting their cards on my blog.  So here they are, in no particular order.

This is the stunning card I received from the very talented Sally Shaw of SallyStampers  

This beautiful card has been made by Janice Thomson of JazzleDazzlecrafts

Nicky May made this stunning card

Toni Harris of TLHPapercraft made this beautiful wedding card card

I'm not sure who made the following cards but they are still fabulous

Thank you so much Lorraine for your brilliant suggestion.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Fresh Florals Twist top Box

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Welcome to the Crafty Cupcakes Team Stampin' Up! Blog Hop for March 2018. Each month members of the Team take part in our Team Blog Hop to share with you our cards and projects made using the fabulous Stampin' Up! products. You are currently visiting Jillian Selwood from the UK and below you will see the full list of everyone taking part. To move to the next blog just click the name after mine in the list. This month our theme is Boxes and Bags.

I wanted to gift some of my homemade biscuits and decided it would be nice to put them in a box instead of a cellophane bag. I'm still in love with these twist top boxes so that's what I've made.

I used three of the 2017 - 2019 In-Colours, Powder Pink, Fresh Fig and Lemon Lime Twist and I decorated them with the Fresh Florals DSP. The sentiment comes from the Just add Text Stamp Set and I used the Stampin' Up! White Embossing Powder, although I do think it looks better on the Fresh Fig box as it stands out a bit more.

The boxes are huge so I will be able to fit a lot of biscuits in them, I hope the recipients are hungry!!

The Team have worked really hard on our Blog Hop to bring you a variety of creativity and inspiration. Make sure you click the next name on the list to carry on through the Hop.

Thank you once again for visiting my blog and taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss so make sure you carry on hopping through the list. Remember that currently you are at my blog Jillian Selwood so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next.

Until next week

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Climbing Orchids Fancy fold Mothers Day card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

On Sunday it will be Mother's Day in the UK. I've made this card for my lovely Mother in Law. She has good taste as she likes purple! I've chosen Wisteria Wonder as the base for this card.

I've also used some retired DSP and a retired Stamp Set.

This is the bottom view of the card

And then when you open it up it looks like this, I used the fabulous Climbing Orchids Stamp set, I just love this stamp and dies, they are so versatile.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Concertina Thank You Card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

I recently needed to make a very special Thank you card and fortunately I remembered watching Jill Chapman of PaperDaisyCrafting make a beautiful Congratulations card on You Tube. You can find the link here

It was a little difficult to photograph as it was so long, I had to stand on some ladders with the card on the floor to fit it all in!! Here it is scrunched up a bit. 

So I wanted something every cheerful and bright so decided to use Night of Navy, Real Red and Daffodil Delight cardstock.

This is what it looks like folded up, I  used the Night of Navy 5/8" Crinkled Seam Binding Ribbon to secure it.

The recipients were absolutely delighted with it so massive thanks to Jill for the brilliant tutorial.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Fancy Fold card using You're Inspiring Stamp Set

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

 Thank you for joining us for another Inspireink Challenge! We’re so excited to be sharing this hop with you.  The products used are all available in the current Annual, or seasonal, Stampin’ Up!® Catalogues*. Simply use the button at the bottom of the post to keep hopping!

The lovely Helzie Lou chose our theme for February and it is a Fancy Fold card. Thanks Helzie they are my favourite cards to make.

I'm not sure what this fancy fold card is called - I only know that I love making them.

I knew I wanted to use the You're Inspiring stamp set so decided to use Daffodil Delight and Old Olive cardstock. The spotty DSP is from the Cake Soiree Speciality DSP pack and I think it looks perfect on this card. I coloured the daffodils in with the new Stampin' Blends. I am absolutely no colourist but I am so impressed with how it has turned out. They are so easy to use even for an amateur like me.

The card opens the wrong way and that is probably why I like it so much! I used the smaller Daffodil stamp on the inside of the card.

Don't forget to click the next button below to continue hopping, we have some very talented crafters in our group and I know they will have made some incredible cards for you.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Poppin' Box Cube card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

My lovely husband celebrated his birthday at the beginning of January so I made him a Poppin' card. I watched a You Tube video by the very talented Gemma Clarke of Made By Gemma last February and have wanted to make one since. You can find Gemma's link here, please check it out.

I started with a base of our favourite colour, Elegant Eggplant and as SU don't have any DSP with Elegant Eggplant I decided to make my own. I used one of the stamps from the Timeless Textures stamp set and stamped at an angle all over the Whisper White Layer. I the used the Happy Birthday die to cut out an Elegant Eggplant sentiment which I cut in half.

Thanks to Gemma's great tutorial and the PDF instructions, the box was very straightforward to put together. I used the large letters framelits to cut out a G, A, R and Y which I adhered on the four sides of the cube.

I'm pleased to say that Gary loved his card and it still has pride of place on our mantelpiece.

Thank you for stopping by this week and reading my blog, I do hope you’ve enjoyed it. Until next week.

Jillian xx

Stampin' Up! Sweet Soiree Book Fold card

Jillian Selwood, Purple Jelly Designs, Independent Stampin’ Up! Demonstrator

Welcome to the Crafty Cupcakes Team Stampin' Up! Blog Hop for February 2018. Each month members of the Team take part in our Team Blog Hop to share with you our cards and projects made using the fabulous Stampin' Up! products. You are currently visiting Jillian Selwood from the UK and below you will see the full list of everyone taking part. To move to the next blog just click the name after mine in the list. This month our theme is Fancy Fold Cards.

I absolutely love making fancy fold card. They are usually so easy but look like they have taken you hours. A couple of years ago Lea Denton of The Crafty Spark sent me a book fold card. I loved it and have wanted to make one ever since, just not got round to doing until now.

When I started to make this card I hadn't really got a plan in mind, apart from the book fold inside. So I sat down with my DSP's and looked for inspiration. I decided on the Sweet Soiree Speciality Designer Series Paper. Then I choose two coordinating cardstock colours, Marina Mist and Powder Pink. I used the card Lea sent me to get the measurements for the cutting and scoring lines for the book fold part of the card.

I used the Picture Perfect Birthday stamp set for the sentiment on the front and both sentiments inside the card. I really like the fonts and I thought the sentiment 'Today we celebrate wonderful brilliant fabulous you!' was perfect for a special birthday card. Not sure if you can see on the photos but I dipped the edges of the Whisper White cardstock in my Versamark and heat embossed with silver embossing powder.

The Team have worked really hard on our Blog Hop to bring you a variety of creativity and inspiration. Make sure you click the next name on the list to carry on through the Hop.




Thank you once again for visiting my blog and taking part in our blog hop, there are so many amazing ideas and inspiration you don't want to miss so make sure you carry on hopping through the list. Remember that currently you are at my blog Jillian Selwood so check the blog hop line up list to see who is next.

Jillian xx