Category Archives: Challenges

Sep 7 2018

Global Stamping Friends – Color Feature

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Hi and Welcome back to another month of awesome projects made by demonstrators from around the world. You are visiting me, Jenn Charles at BFF Stampers.  This month we thought we’d challenge ourselves with a color feature.  I really liked this idea and will be featuring a color monthly.  This month for the Global Stamping Friends hop we decided on the color Call Me Clover.  I’ve fallen in love with this color while using it these past couple days.  It is a beautiful bright green. We were allowed to also use black & white in our designs.

For both of my cards I used the Tropical Escape Designer Series Paper.  I love the bold prints on the back but it also has some black and white designs on the opposite side.  And I love the 1/8″ size of the ribbon.  It’s my favorite size as you will also see in the next card. There is a list of all the products I used in these two cards down below.

In this card I used the 1/8″ Whisper White ribbon.  I told you I loved that size ribbon.  The pop of Call Me Clover adds so much to this card.  This stamp and die cuts are from the Stitched All Around Bundle.

I hope you found some inspiration to try this bold In-Color.  Next up in the blog is Amanda Farlinger.  Click on the arrow below to go to her blog.  Scroll to the bottom on the page if you’d like to see a list of everyone in the hop.

Thanks for stopping by,
Your BFF,
Jenn

 

Blog Hop Roll Call

  1. Amber Thompson
  2. Tricia Butts
  3. Anastasia Radloff
  4. Karie Beglau
  5. Susan Simpson
  6. Anja Reuss
  7. Kimberley Morris
  8. Lisa Ann Bernard
  9. Libby Dyson
  10. Marieke Bart
  11. Jan Musselman
  12. Angélique Stempelkeuken
  13. Jenn Curtis Charles
  14. Amanda Farlinger
  15. Narelle Fasulo

UPCOMING CLASSES (RSVP on FB at BFF Stampers):
September:
8th – Stamp Camp (RSVP by 7th)
16th – Abstract Impressions Product Class (RSVP by 9th)
17th – Team BFF Meeting (RSVP by 15th)
21st – Timeless Tidings Christmas Kit Class (RSVP by 14th)

Do you like Halloween Treats?  Then this Paper Pumpkin is for you!  Click on the picture to sign up today.  No commitment.  If you have any questions, email me at charlessj5@yahoo.com I can’t wait to see what’s in this box!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the Holiday Catalog PDF HERE.  If you’d like a hard copy of the catalog, contact me and I will get you one!

SHOP Here
Use the hostess code VAWSY73E if you make a purchase online between $60 – $150, you will receive the new Take Your Pick tool.  Check it out here:

May 4 2018

Global Stamping Friends – Sketch Challenge!

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May the 4th be with you!  Just throwing that out there for some of my friends.  You know who you are!!! 😉

Hi BFF’s!  Doesn’t it feel like this year is just flying by?  It’s almost summertime!  I know in some areas it’s still snowing.  If that is you, I am very sorry.  What a winter it has been for some places around the world, but I can’t complain much here in San Diego, California.

Welcome to another blog hop with the Global Stamping Friends where demonstrators from all around the world are showcasing awesome Stampin’ Up! products!  This month we are working with a sketch.  I love sketch challenges.

Here is the sketch we are working with and here is what I came up with using some new, some retiring and some current products.  I really stuck to the sketch with the circle and stripes and accents.  I added some dimension with the Sparkle embossing folder.

I fell in love with this designer series paper called Painted With Love that is only available while supplies last.  The gold accents really caught my eye.  So I decided to stamp the circle and the sentiment using Versamark and heat embossing in Gold.  This circle came from a brand new not-yet-released stamp set called Swirly Frames.  It coordinates with the Circle and Square Framelits.  It will be available in the new catalog on June 1st so you’re getting a sneak peek. 🙂

I used a current bundle that will be carrying over into the new catalog.  It’s called Colorful Seasons.  The sentiment and the flowers are from this bundle.  The colors I used were Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride and Rich Razzleberry.

I added a thin strip of the designer series paper inside the card also to finish it off. 🙂

I hope you liked my card. Next up is Tricia.  I know you will enjoy what she has come up with.

Thanks for stopping by.  Below is a list of everything I used today on this card except for the Swirly Frames.  If you’d like to shop with me, click HERE and use the Hostess Code BNQEJNBK when you check out and I will send you a surprise in the mail.

Your BFF,
Jenn

Bloghop 21 Rollcall

  1. Jenn Curtis Charles
  2. Tricia Butts
  3. Anastasia Radloff
  4. Anita Wifladt
  5. Anja Reuss
  6. Jan Musselman
    7.Lisa Ann Bernard
    8 Angélique Stempelkeuken
  1. Sharon Dalton
    10.Vicky Wright
    11.Marieke Bart
    12.Mary Ann Kay Rossiter
    13.Sarah Mcdermott
    14.Kimberley Anne Morris

May Upcoming Classes (RSVP on FB at BFF Stampers):
**Please note that Stamp Camp has been permanently moved to the 2nd Saturday of the month**

May 5th – 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. – My House
Come make a Mother’s Day card or 2 or 3!  There will be 4 different designs to choose from with envelopes included.
Cost: $4 each or 3 for $10.
RSVP: May 4th with how many cards you’d like to make.

May 11 – 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. – My House
Make up day for the Perennial Birthday Kit or come and make your Paper Pumpkins that are piling up!
Cost: FREE, bring your kits
RSVP: Just so I know you are coming.

May 12 – 6 p.m. – 9 p.m. – Sew Easy Studio
Come join me at STAMP CAMP to make 10 cards.  2 each of 5 designs.  We will be using some product from the new catalog.
Cost: $20 or FREE with a qualifying order.
RSVP: May 11th

May 16 – 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Sew Easy Studio
Come join me every 3rd Wednesday of the month to learn a new Fancy Fold Card or a treat box. This month we will be learning a fancy fold using the Delightful Daisy stamp set and Punch bundle.  A printed tutorial is provided so that you can go home and make more. This month we will be making an extra card learning the Eclipse Technique using the Big Shot.
Cost: $5 each card
RSVP: May 15th

May 20 – 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. – My House
Share What You Love Suite Product Based Class.  This is a beautiful suite that’s being released early just for us from the 2018-19 new Annual Catalog!  Come make 8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs, using these new products. We will be packaging up 4 of the cards to give away as a gift and keeping the other 4 for ourselves 🙂
Cost: Take a look at the bundles HERE.
Cost includes shipping + tax and card kit. (FREE items in all the bundles!)
Just Getting Started Bundle: $79
A Little More, Please Bundle: $115
Gotta Have It All Bundle: $149
RSVP: May 12th with payment to Paypal
This class is also offered as an online class also.  I will send you your card kit with a tutorial.

May 24th – 1 p.m. – Ramona Library
I will be teaching a simple papercrafting class at the Ramona Library.  We will be making 4 cards, 2 each of 2 designs.  The cards will be fairly simple for newer stampers and feature easy to duplicate techniques.
Cost: FREE
RSVP: May 23rd

May 27th – 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. – My House

This class will be featuring the new 2018-2020 In-Colors.  We will be making 5 cards using each of the new In-Colors and you will go home with all 5 stamp pads and a pack of in-color cardstock.
Cost: $55
RSVP: May 18th with payment to Paypal

If you have any questions, just ask!  Whenever you bring a new friend to Stamp Camp, you and your friend will get to choose 5 FREE cards from my homemade card bucket!

Have a wishlist a mile long?  Join Stampin’ Up! and you can get 20% off all your purchases!  Ask me about the kit or check it out HERE on my website.

Dec 1 2017

Global Stamping Friends – Festive Celebrations

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Happy December!  December! Already!  Where has the year gone?

Welcome to this month’s Global Stamping Friends Blog Hop featuring Festive Celebrations!  These ladies never cease to amaze me with their creativity and the projects they come up with every month.

For my project, I’ve come up with a card and tag idea with a coordinating box.  I made it less feminine because it will be for my husband’s friend.  Coming up with manly ideas is very hard for me.  Do you struggle with that?

I coordinated them all using the Colorful Seasons Designer Series Pack.  The Christmas tree came from our timeless Lovely as a Tree stamp set.  It’s been around forever!

The Happy Christmas banner stamp is from a newer stamp set called Labels to Love.  You can find a list of everything I used down below.

These boxes are really easy to make.  They are very convenient for gift packaging year round, making them any size you need.

To make this box I used:
Thick Whisper White cardstock – 8×8 scored at 2 inches on all 4 sides.
Designer Series Paper – 6×6 scored at 1 inch on all sides.
Fold all the score lines. You will have 4 square corners on both pieces.  Cut one side to the line and adhere it together.  I like to use tear & tape so my box won’t dare to fall apart even with heavier items inside.

I CASE’d this card from a card in our Annual Catalog on Page 141 for the CASEing the Catty Sunday Challenge #156.  I love challenging myself to come up with something new while also making it easier by using something already done! Does that make sense!  LOL.

I hope you got some inspiration from my card and gift packaging idea today.  Thank you for hopping along.  Click on the NEXT arrow to check out the talented creations by Marieke Bart.  There is a Roll call of everyone hopping today below for your convenience.

Your BFF,

Jenn

 

BlogHop RollCall

  1. Anita Wifladt
  2. Rebecca Urban
  3. Libby Dyson
  4. Jan Musselman
  5. . Lisa Ann Bernard
  6. Karie Beglau
  7. Amanda Farlinger
  8. Kimberley Anne Morris
  9. Tricia Butts
  10. Amanda Bates
  11. Kristie Neal Walthall
  12. Anastasia Radloff
  13. Erica Jones
  14. Jenn Charles Curtis
  15. Marieke Bart
  16. Courtenay Heuston
  17. Angelique Stempelkeuken
  18. Sarah McDermott

 

Upcoming Events (RSVP on FB at BFF Stampers):

Dec 2th – Stamp Camp at Sew Easy Studio

Dec 8th – Be Merry Kit Class

Dec 10th – Bags, Tags and Boxes Class

Take Advantage of the Year End Sales Event with all the info on what is retiring for the year and some special discounted items!  Click on the picture below to be taken to my website.

Apr 21 2017

TGIF Challenge – Scrapbooking!

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Happy Fri-YAY!

Click the pic to join the challenge!

I joined the TGIF Challenge today with the fun theme of Polka Dots and I was going to make a card but then my son came into the house with a ladybug on his face!  A beautiful polka dotted ladybug.  And I took pictures and then I wanted to scrap them!  I wanted to make a page and hang it up for my son to see.  So I did.

When I first started paper-crafting (10 years ago) my focus was scrapbooking.  I scrapbooked all the time.  In fact, I made my now 7 year old daughter’s entire baby album while I was pregnant!  Then she was born and 2 years later, I had my son, and I just didn’t have the time anymore.  I would only scrapbook at the retreats once a year and it wasn’t fun.  The camaraderie, a BLAST, but the actual scrapbooking, a chore.  I continued to attend Stamp Camps at my friend’s house.  She was a Stampin’ Up! consultant.  As my kids got older, she let me help her prep for classes and I learned to love that part of it.  The cutting, the prepping, the organizing became my passion.  But then she decided to pursue another passion, sewing.  I wanted to sign up and become a demonstrator for Stampin’ Up! but I didn’t think I could do it by myself.  A year and a half ago, my BFF Lisa and I decided to join together and start up BFF Stampers.  I was so happy to host classes and get back to prepping for card kits.  But I still never got back into scrapbooking…until today.  A few of my customers have been asking about scrapbooking.  They want to scrapbook but they want to scrapbook together.  We want to be with friends and that’s mostly what makes it fun!

So I’m going to start a Scrap Class specific to scrapbooking.  Kind of like a stamp camp, but specific to memory keeping.  If you are interested in this type of class, let me know!  Tell me when is a good time to meet and I’ll go with the majority.  I think there’s about 5 of us interested right now.  And if you have friends that like to scrapbook, pass along the info.  The more the merrier!

After I got the Bug page done, the Easter page just fell together.  I guess I just needed to get my groove back.  I made a double layout for Easter with one page as a traditional page and one page as a pocket page.  I usually do the traditional 12 x 12.  What sizes and styles do you do?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still need to print my pictures for these ones.  I made the eggs using the Balloon Adventures stamp set and the balloon bouquet punch.  I just trimmed off the bottom of the balloon and turned them upside down 🙂

Your BFF,

Jenn

Upcoming Events (Facebook Event Page):

April 24 – Paper Pumpkin open house – Bring your Paper Pumpkin!

April 29 – BJ’s Open Crop at her Studio

May 6th – Stamp Camp