Stamps, Paper, Scissors

All New One Sheet Wonder Kits & Class

Back by popular demand, I am offering my fabulous One Sheet Wonder Kits this year. If you've never tried one of these, you are in for a treat! It's simple to crank out 16 beautiful Christmas cards in a very short amount of time. This year I have two all new options:

Holiday Hoopla!

The kits contain all the cardstock, patterned paper, and ribbon needed, all precut and ready to go! You supply the ink, stamps, and adhesive.

The second option:

Season of Joy!

This year I'm doing these a little different; I'm using all the patterns in the patterned paper assortments I use in these kits. You will get 5 out of the 6 double-sided patterns in your kit and since I mix them up, yours will probably not look exactly like the samples. But if one side of a pattern doesn't work on a card, you can always flip them over and use the other pattern.

These kits are available as kits with printed instructions, kits with downloadable instructions (which gives you a little price break!), or just the downloadable instructions.

So hop on over to the Kit Store and get yours today!

I will also be offering this for those local to me as a class on December 4th. You can choose to do either one of these options at the class or both! Visit my class page for more information and to prepay for your class!

Phew! This was a lot of work putting this stuff together! I need chocolate! Ta!

 

A new kit!

What would this time of year be without a new JanTink kit?

No time at all, that's what!

I was really thrilled with this year's Christmas Simply Scrappin' kit, as it is a countdown kit! And even more thrilled to find out that the numbers on the countdown fit perfectly into a paper bag book! Lookie:

If you are not familiar with my paper bag book kits, you need to know that not only are there these pages, there are also sliders that fit into the openings of the bags:

All the numbers you don't see for the countdown are on these sliders, which look like this:

Both sides are decorated and there are a total of 6 of these, all different.

So you can scrapbook a photo for each day of December leading up to and including Christmas Day. I think this must be one of the most fun paperbag books I've ever done.

So if you are interested in purchasing this kit, I've put it up on the kit page. You can buy the instructions right now and download them immediately. You can also preorder the kit...I will take the first orders through the coming week and then place my order for the Simply Scrappin' kits I will need to create them. I do this because these kits are expensive and I do not want to order kits and end up stuck with them if I don't sell all the ones I placed orders for. So delivery on these kits will be a couple of weeks after you place your order.

The kits themselves have two options: with printed instructions and with downloaded instructions. I give those folks who order the kit with downloaded instructions a bit of a break since it saves me on paper and ink.

So bop on over to the kit store and order yours now! Ta!

 

Amazing Birthday Book kit now in the kit store!

 

If you've been waiting with bated breath, let it out baby! The kit is in the store! Hooah!

New Kit!

I've been working like a house elf here, trying to get a new kit available for you! Lookie:

 

This is the cover. It's what is sometimes called a "Squash Book" and sometimes " The Amazing Folding Photo Album". I call it FUN, but the particular name of this kit will be "The Amazing Birthday Book".  Here it is, open to the "inside":

And here is the other side:

You can fit a TON of photos in this book. I will supply all the cardstock for the photo matts you see, but you will also get some extra, in case you want to add additional photos to the areas I have simply decorated. The kit will have all the chipboard, ribbon, patterned paper, cardstock, and more sticky die cuts than you can even USE on this thing...basically, it's made from half a Simply Scrappin' Kit. I will cut the larger pieces to size, but the smaller bits and bobs you will cut yourself. As always, COMPLETE step-by-step instructions, with close-up photos of each page.

The kits will cost $35 each, with printed instructions. $33 with downloadable instructions, which includes postage. As always, the downloadable instructions will be $10.

Right now I need expressions of interest from those who are planning on buying one. Feel free to comment here or drop me a line. Once I know about how many people are interested, I will be putting the kit in the store so you can place a preorder with me and based on the amount of preorders I receive, I will place an order with SU! for the amount of kits, chipboard, cardstock, and ribbon I will need. It will probably take around 2 weeks to fill preorders, so please be patient!

Speaking of kits, I still have 6 of the Sunny Day Paperbag Book Kits that have gone unordered. If you were planning on getting one and haven't yet, please visit the kit store today and order yours!

But I'm feeling much better now....

Top o' the mornin' to ye!

Or bottom of the morning...or...well, never mind, the mind imagery created by this last is enough to make me shudder!

Well, anyway, Happy St. Patrick's Day!

The corned beef is simmering on the stove, giving out a very seductive smell...I need breakfast, LOL!

I know it's been a long time since i posted. I spent much time huddled under an afghan this past weekend as my raving sore throat turned into a full-fledged head cold. I decided to try to stay away from the basement since getting a chill always makes me sicker. But I'm feeling much better now, ready for some stampin' fun! And guess what's coming up?

The theme this month is spring! And since I have NOTHING done yet, genius will be burning down in the Stampin' Lair!

In the meantime, I want to show you my latest kit design:

This is the Sunny Days Paperbag Scrapbook! At this point I am reworking my directions for this new kit, so it is not for sale just yet. But I do need to get some idea of how many people would like to order one, so please comment here or email me at jantink (at) sbcglobal (dot) net. Once I know how many people are planning on ordering one, I can order the supplies, finish my directions, and be ready to put the order button in the kit store.

What's that? You need to see MORE? Okay!

Want to see more? Here's close-ups of the individual pages:

And here are pictures of the sliders (front & back) that go in the open ends of the bags:

The colors here were hard to render true...the green is Old Olive and the orange is Pumpkin Pie, but they look much darker, despite all my tweaking in Photoshop.

As with the Jingle Paperbag Book Kit, you will receive all the cardstock, patterned paper, sticky die cuts, ribbon, bags, and brads to create this cute scrapbook! The kit will be $35 including shipping and also includes extra cardstock for making photo mats. I will also be selling just the instructions for $10.

Doesn't this project make you think of warm, sunny days? And I'm sure you're like me, you need all you can get at this time of the year! Ta!

Redesigned Coaster Calendar Kit now in store!

It was a long and winding road to get back to you with this kit, but I finally finished it. Phew! Lookie:

The new color scheme is Bashful Blue, Old Olive, Rose Red, and Pumpkin Pie, specifically chosen because I liked the felt flowers, have a bunch, and wanted to use them up! Each kits flower assortment for the front embellishment will differ slightly.

 

I changed the stamp set on this page to the new one in the Occasions Mini catalog, but you could still use Love You Much if you liked.

Colors of the Irish flag now!

The one thing that was hard with this new Prints paper is that many of the patterns had a white background and that made it harder to balance with the white calendar page.

 

And there it is. Ready to order!

In other news, so far I have taken off 9 pounds using the Wii Fit Plus. I'm really happy about that! My goal is to be healthier and have more energy plus it will be nice to look less like the Pillsbury Dough Girl or the Michelin Lady!

Well, must be off...I have a final exam to work on, as well as the birthday of the boy with the wayward finger...he will be 11 tomorrow! Presents to wrap and cupcakes to bake. Saints preserve us!

Ta!

Update on Kit Store and My Health (or lack thereof)

I know you are all waiting with bated breath for new and astonishing creations from yours truly (YILM!), but the plain truth is this:

BRONCHITIS BITES!

After a week of no progress and crackly breathing and general yuck (no, this is not a special Chinese-American dish!), I went to the nurse-practitioner on Wednesday and she said I seemed to have bronchitis, so I got an inhaler and a Z-pack.

And maybe I should say

ANTIBIOTICS BITE!

Because the Z-Pack is kickin' my butt. I am soooo sleepy from taking it, but I'm hoping it kicks in soon. I'm a sicka dis s.....tuff!

On the Kit Store front, I am happy to report that I have changed my method of delivering instructions to those who buy them, due to endless hassles with corrupted files and emails just not getting where they were supposed to, by signing up for a cart service that will host my files and allow you to download them from their site. To date, only one person is still without the instructions she paid for and I sent her an email with the link to the site to download the instructions.

This will make MY life so much easier and yours too, I hope!

In the meantime, I'm working a little bit, as I have the energy, on the revised version of the Coaster Calendar Kit and hope to have the prototype done quite soon! And I do plan on stamping a card today so that  my blog will not be naked in this cold winter wind!

I had grumpy children to deal with this morning, as they were wishing, hoping, praying, and doing a snow dance to try to get the day off today. But we in Michigan are hardy souls...3 to 4 inches of snow do not close us down, nosirree!

Well, my mind says it wants to stamp but my body says it wants to nap! Can I resist? Will Jan overcome her body (which has never been all that cooperative, let's make that plain!) and stamp? Or will sleep overwhelm her so that the stamps fall from somnolent fingers as her head slowly tips forward onto her ink pad, making for a very colorful nose? Stayed tuned for the next exciting installment of BRONCHITIS BITES!

Christmas Jingle now in the Kit Store!

I'm happy to say that it's a go! I've placed an order to make an initial run of 12 kits since I've had that many people express interest. If I get more orders, I will be happy to place another order for more product.

Kit Store

I'm still working hard at getting these Coaster Calendar kits out the door. I was able to ship 6 more kits over the past couple of days and hope to get the rest out by Tuesday of next week! I've been hampered by some foot problems...weird blisters on the bottoms of my feet. At first I thought I'd been bitten by a spider, but now they are on both feet so I'm not sure what they are. A dip into the wealth of information available online didn't really supply any answers either. So standing up for long periods of time is not a good idea, but I am getting things done anyway...just leaving the cleaning for later, right? Luckiliy stamping can be done sitting down, LOL!

I've got an appointment with a podiatrist on Tuesday to deal with this, plus the other foot problems I've been having. Hopefully, I will be able to get my feet sorted out soon! Now...off to stamp a card for tomorrow's shoebox swap!

Ta!

Yippee!!!

I love days when that man in brown comes to my door!

Especially at this time of the year, when so many of the packages are my Christmas shopping, done thankfully in my comfy clothes in front of my computer and no pushing, shoving, sore feet or expensive lunches necessary. Ah, gotta love it!

And particularly today, since I got a couple of shipments that will let me move ahead on the kits. I should get out some more of them by tomorrow, then it will be just waiting for the next two shipments to get here. I should have them all out the door by early next week.

And yes, I got some FREE stuff today. Because if you haven't heard, I got my picture, not on the cover of the Rollin' Stone, but on a two page spread in the January issue of Stampin' Success! I was the featured guest artist. And that garnered me some brand new goodies! Yippee! Plus I got to play with a set from the Occasions mini even before anyone else had ever seen it! Made my ego get even bigger, I tell ya! Pretty soon I won't be able to fit my head through the door (after Christmas it will be a different part of my anatomy that will have that problem, what with all the Christmas cookies, holiday meals, and chocolate!)

After people have gotten their magazines, I will probably post pictures of what I did for the magazine. But in the meantime...

In between working on my kits, working on my MT stuff, and doing stupid things like cleaning (totally pointless) and shuttling children hither and yon, I actually got something new done! It's probably going to be a kit if I get enough interest in it, but I will need people to let me know if they would like to purchase one. Lookie:

It's a paper bag scrapbook, all made with the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrapbooking kit! I had made a bunch of these a couple of years ago and when I found these red paper bags, well, my motor just started to turn over! Look at the inside:

 

Isn't this GOJUS?!?!? (YILM!) It's made out of lunch bags and is about 5 1/2" square. There are 3 small slide-out journaling pieces such as this one:

And in the openings at the ends of the bags, there are 6 sliding pages that come out like this one:

These are decorated on both sides and every single one is done differently. This is how they fit into the open ends:

There is no stamping involved, so these babies go together really quickly!

I'm going to be asking $35 with postage for this kit if I get enough interest. You'll receive full color instructions plus all materials, including bags, ribbon, half a Simply Scrapbooking kit, extra cardstock for making photo mats, and embellishments. Right now I do not have the materials to make these kits as I don't want to order a bunch of stuff on speculation and then have product that I end up stuck with if the amount of people I guestimate will want them does not match reality. So this is the timeline...let me know if you are interested by commenting or emailing me. If people are interested, I will put an entry in the kit store for preorders and based on initial numbers, I will place an order for the materials and will start working on the instructions...by the time the materials arrive, I should have all the rest of my kits done and out of the way and be ready to cut, package and to ship these.

I know it may seem a little late to put these out here, but I figure people might be wanting them to scrap this years' photos...of course, you can use them for previous years as wel!

Well, time to go put on the taxi driver's hat again and shuttle my lil' darlins home from school, where they went gloomily this morning when they woke to find that rather than the snow day they had anticipated, all they got was a bunch o' slush!

Ta!

Snowed under!!!

No, not that kind of snowed under!

I have had an amazing response to the Coaster Calendar Kit I put in the Kit Store a few days back. To date, I have 24 orders for kits! I am highly gratified at the response and am working hard to satisfy everyone's orders!!

Most of the time, when I put a kit up on the blog, I get 4 or 5 orders here or there. So I was not expecting to get 10 or so the first day and 14 more in the two days after that! I am excited!

I fully expected to have enough patterned paper to last through 40 kits, with some variation in a few of the patterns. But not having expected so many orders all at once, I have made haste to place an order for more ribbon, cardstock, brads, and cello bags for the kits. Those should get here next Wednesday...in the meantime, there is enough for at least 17 kits (I think!) and I will be working most of the weekend to get them out by early next week. Then with Wednesday's shipment, I should get the rest out by Friday. If you've ordered a kit,  please be patient as I work through all of these orders...I want to make sure that each and every kit going out the door has everything in it that is supposed to be and that every piece of paper, cardstock and ribbon is cut exactly right. Because I am a CONTROL FREAK and that''s the way I roll, yo?

You can see in the photo above my process for kit making. I lay out envelopes, cello bags, and start adding product...here I  have the coasters for each kit and the little ziplock bags I put the hardware in. I am printing the instructions (had to run out to get more ink for the printer!) and should be cutting cardstock this weekend. I will enlist the aid of my lovely daughters, if necessary, to get everything ready to go out the door.

BUT in the meantime, Santa came a little early for me yesterday!

Yup, my preorder from the Occasions mini arrived! In between working on kits, prepping for tomorrow's Stamp-A-Stack class (more kits!), and trying to study and take tests for medical transcription, write my sermon for Sunday and do the pew bulletin, not to mention there are these pesky people in my house who seem to still expect me to take them back and forth to school, take them to the doctor for check ups and even cook dinner (!?!?!?  ) I need to remember that my loyal readers up here still want to see GOJUS cards and projects! Do not fear! I will manage...somehow! 

Back to work! Ta!