November Thank You Cards

Hello, Crafters.

I hope you’ve had a great weekend.

* * * Don’t forget that today is the Stampin’ Up! Flash Sale and it’s also the last day of the Online Extravaganza * * *

Products available in the Flash Sale today only are:

Flurry of Wishes Stamp Set and Snow Flurry Bundle 20% off – €37.60/£28.00

Big Shot Magnetic Platform – 35% off – €31.85/£23.40

Playful Palette DSP Stack – 40% off – €7.35/£5.40

Bell Punch – 40% off – €13.20/£9.60

Don’t
forget to check the Online Extravaganza list! 

All details of what’s available can be found
in my 24/7 online Stampin’ Up! Shop at:
  
www.janbcards.stampinup.net

On
not such a happy note – again – my
eagle-eyed friend in New Zealand spotted that another demonstrator’s
videos were being hijacked. 

She sent me screen shots so
I could try and find out who the demo is – no names were visible on the videos or on the titles anywhere!

With
hubby’s expertise, we were able to find out who the demo is and I’ve
emailed her to let her know.

As I
haven’t had any joy getting any advice on prevention or protection from
YouTube, I’m recommending all video-makers do what my lady in NZ
does. 

That is, go to YT every day, type Stampin Up in the search box and
set the filter to LATEST.  

Check the actual videos, not the names, to
see if any of them are yours. 

This is an inconvenience but a small price
to pay to be able to nip it in the bud. 

If you’re a video-maker and can
offer any other hints or tips, please share them in the comments box below,
or email me.

Equally, if
you’re a video-maker, and are unfortunate enough to become a victim of
hijacking, please email me, and I will let you know how I finally had
my hijacker closed down. Email: janb@janbcards.com 

Of course the obvious
question, is the new hijacker, Rodney Potter under a new name?

On
a much, much happier note, I spent yesterday afternoon making my
November Thank You cards. 

I don’t normally use Washi tape, but one way
or another, I seem to have accumulated a lot of rolls and I decided to try and use them. 

Unfortunately, or fortunately, depending on which way you look at this, there is so much tape on each roll, I hardly made an impression on my stash, despite making well over fifty cards! 

As you can see
from the photographs, no two cards are the same, even though I kept to the same pattern for each of the three colourways!

I think all the Washi
Tape I’ve used are retired designs but the beauty of this card is that
it can be made with any three Washi Tapes, preferably different widths,
that complement each other. 

Washi Tape has been designed to be torn but I
prefer to cut the ends! 

The only other consideration I gave to the
design was to position each card on my Grid Paper, so I had the same
amount of clear space above the start of the Washi Tape as I did after
the end of it. 

I also tried to keep it centred although I was
 so way off
on one card, I had to put the sentiment
 on the right-hand side to keep it looking balanced! 

The sentiment on all the cards is from the Circle of Spring Stamp set and was die cut using the smallest circle Stitched Shapes Framelits Die. 

I layered them on a small scalloped circle die cut with scalloped die from the Layering Circle Framlits Dies, using Silver Foil for the silver Washi Tape, Gold Foil for gold Washi Tape and Cherry Cobbler Cardstock for the silver and red Washi Tape.

That’s about it for today. Until tomorrow, happy crafting.

JanB.