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! 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! Tranquil Tulips Birthday Card

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

I have been sending lots of birthday cards this month, someone turning 60 and a special crafting friend who turned 70 as well as eight other people who celebrated their birthday this month.

My birthday was back in August and I received a beautiful card from Donna Willows, a fellow Pootler, using the Tranquil Tulips stamp set. I decided to case this card for my October birthday cards. I have made it in various different colourways and just love each of them.

Although I must admit to perhaps liking this purple one a little more than the others, not sure why that should be!

I usually steer away from two step stamping but this stamp set is so easy and very forgiving, I just love the watercolour effect.

What do you think?

Which is your favourite colourway?

Don't forget to keep clicking the buttons below so you can see all the other beautiful creations that my fellow Pootlers have made.

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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! Boys Toys card

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

The Theme for the Great Card Swap for August was Boys Toys. This really stumped me, not having children or grandchildren so I went for the easy option of Lego!

Here's the card I made

All I can say is thank goodness for the new mini Stampin' Dimensionals - it would have taken me much longer if I'd had to cut the standard Stampin' Dimensionals to fit!

I do love taking part in these challenges, they really make you think outside of 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! Botanical Blooms easel card

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

Our challenge for the August Card Swap Challenge group was to make a card with a summer wreath, it had to have depth so not just stamping! This was the perfect excuse for me to get out the Botanical Blooms dies again. This is the card I made.

I was really pleased with how it turned out, I do love an easel card, I just think they look stunning. I used the Wood Textured DSP Stack to give an impression of a wreath hanging on a wooden door. I used Daffodil Delight, Tangerine Tango and Real Red cardstock for the flowers. The sentiment comes from the Climbing Orchid Stamp Set.

This is the card when it is closed

And here is a close up of the gorgeous flowers

This is the beautiful card I received from Michelle. Isn't it stunning? I will definitely be casing this one.

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! Colorful Seasons Easel Card

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

I'm so disappointed that it's the final week of August as that means it is also my final week on the Crafty Cupcakes Design Team, I've thoroughly enjoyed myself and would like to thank Lea for the opportunity.  I am on the Design Team with Emma Hudson of Little Crafty Me, you can visit Emma's blog here. We have been given the Colourful Seasons Stamp Set to work with. It also comes with the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies and you can save 10% if you buy the bundle. 

This week was a difficult one, as there are only four seasons and I've already done Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter what on earth was I going to do for this week? So I decided to take part of each of the four cards I have already made and put them onto an Easel card.

I die cut cardstock in Powder Pink, Daffodil Delight, Old Olive and Pool Party using the Stitched Shaped Framelit dies then die cut a scalloped square in Gold foil for the Summer and Autumn colours and Silver foil for the Spring and Winter colours.

I also die cut the flowers, chair, leaf and snowflake in Gold and Silver foil.

Then I had to decide which sentiment to choose and not only that what colour to stamp it in. So I decided on 'Just breathe' as that is my favourite and I used both gold and silver Heat Embossing powder, I was quite pleased how it turned out.

I think I might trying that again. I also layered the sentiment on Gold and Silver foil which is cut on an angle.

Here is the card in all it's glory. I'm not sure I would have chosen all these colours together but I actually think it works. What do you think?

Don't forget to hop over to see Emma's beautiful creation here.

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! Colorful Season Autumn Card

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

It is week 3 of the Crafty Cupcakes Design Team for this month. I am on the Design Team with Emma Hudson of Little Crafty Me, you can visit Emma's blog here. We have been given the Colourful Seasons Stamp Set to work with. It also comes with the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies and you can save 10% if you buy the bundle. 

This week I have decided to use the leaves and produce an Autumn card, this would be perfect for a Thanksgiving card as well, although we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in this Country.

I started off with a card base and top layer of Old Olive. I stamped the layer with the outline leaf stamp with Old Olive ink and also sponged the edges. Then I stamped the outline leaf onto Old Olive, Cajun Craze and Daffodil Delight cardstock and die cut using the Seasonal Layers Thinlit Dies. Again I sponged the edges of the leaves to give a more autumnal look to them. I die cut the outline leaf in Gold Foil and adhered that to the Old Olive leaf.

I decided to use the sentiment 'May all your tomorrows be as happy as today' which I stamped onto Old Olive cardstock and layered with some gold foil. This would make a fabulous sentiment for a Wedding Card, wouldn't it?

I'm rather pleased how this card has turned out, what do you think?

Don't forget to hop over to see Emma's beautiful creation here.

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! Colorful Seasons Sunset Card

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

It is week 2 of the Crafty Cupcakes Design Team for this month. I am on the Design Team with Emma Hudson of Little Crafty Me, you can visit Emma's blog here. We have been given the Colourful Seasons Stamp Set to work with. It also comes with the Seasonal Layers Thinlits Dies and you can save 10% if you buy the bundle. 

This week I have stepped right outside my comfort zone with this card.

I never seem to get the shading just right whenever I attempt to blend colours together, so I've been practising and am rather pleased with this. I used shimmery white cardstock and the Stampin' Up! sponge daubers and it seemed to blend much easier.

I die cut the chair from a piece of Wood Textures DSP Stack, I love this paper but just wish it was 12" x 12" instead of 6" x 6".

This sentiment is my favourite from this set, I just love it.

It just seemed the perfect stamp set to use with the chair and the sunset.

Don't forget to hop over to see Emma's beautiful creation here.

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

Jillian xx