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Bumper Digital Stamp Issue * Six New Jellypark Digital Stamps * * Beautiful Design Team Cards to Inspire You * * ‘Painting Pictures’ – Claire Keay’s illustrations * * WIN a set of Jellypark Greeting Cards! *
Welcome to the third edition of the
Jellypark Magazine Here we are already on our third edition and we are really enjoying producing our own little magazine, letting you know all our our news and showing off some of the design team’s work. This time we have six new digital stamps to show you, an article with a bit more background about how I became an illustrator and our latest competition to win a set of Jellypark greeting cards. Jellypark are sponsoring the Fetch A Sketch challenge this month, for more information see page 18 and there is also news of how you can help out a member of the crafting community and get your hands on some exclusive digital stamps at the same time on page 19. Thank you for all the kind messages and cards after my operation, it’s lovely to be back!
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We are big fans of the Mel Stampz blog – she makes the most AMAZING craft projects with lots of free downloads to help you create them yourselves too. Mel made this beautiful craft project using the Jellypark dinosaur boy image. Isn’t is cute?! You can buy the image as a digital stamp from the Jellypark Store or as a real stamp from MFT Stamps. Pop along to her blog to follow the detailed tutorial and to download all the extra bits you need.
We would like to start featuring some of your cards in the magazine – so lets see some of your creations! We LOVE seeing what you make with our images here at Jellypark and we know that other crafters enjoy sharing and inspiring each other. Come and join our friendly group on Paper Craft Planet, post on our Facebook wall or email your pictures to Claire at jellypark@live.co.uk and let’s see what you are making – it could be you in the magazine next time! See our first Jellypark Friends Show and Tell on page xx
Soon you will be able to download digital stamps and scrapbook kits instantly from the Jellypark Store. We are working on updating the website to trial this new feature after a customer survey showed they really loved getting their images instantly so they can start crafting straight away! We may have to raise the price of the stamps a teeny bit (5p we think) but customers indicated that they would be happy with this for that extra benefit of instant access… 3
Making Pictures It probably is the best job in the world, I get to draw and paint all day and dip into my imagination to earn a living…I never forget just how lucky I am. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t spend most of my spare time scribbling on paper and colouring in so it was not a big surprise to those around me when I eventually made it my career. I took my time though, I left school at 16 and had a variety of jobs including insurance clerk, working in an advertising agency, nursery nurse (loved that), sports club leader and shop assistant while all the time keeping my art as a much loved hobby. Then I started a family, which I loved but there wasn’t much time for a few years to do much creating - it felt almost like I’d missed the boat for being a ‘proper’ artist. I still held a childhood dream though, illustrating a children’s book had always been a secret aim and if I was going to do it I really needed to pull my finger out. My boys were getting a bit older and suddenly there was more time to spare so I got out the paints and pencils again and drew and drew and drew. I nervously started to sell some paintings on the internet, first on Ebay then on my own website and gradually my confidence grew. I took the plunge one day and sent off a load of images to a big London artist’s agency and was beside myself when then emailed back that they though they could get me some work. Exciting and a bit terrifying to be honest, I wasn’t sure I could pull it off.
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I was so nervous and made loads of mistakes early on, not understanding some of the terminology or quite how to go about things when little jobs came in for me. I was expecting to begin with odd pictures for greeting cards here and there (if I was lucky) but I quickly got a few book commissions and before I knew it I had half a dozen books to my name! Some were for a Spanish company and others for reading schemes so I never did get to see the final books. I did one book for Little Tiger Press in America though called I Love You All Year Long which I finally got a copy of. That was quite a moment…opening the parcel and holding in my hands the children’s book with ‘illustrated by Claire Keay’ written on it. Wow, childhood dream fulfilled there and then. Illustrating work has taken a bit of a back seat for a while now as I established Jellypark, which I created to sell prints, original artwork and digital craft supplies. I am loving doing the craft side of things, I have got to know so many lovely people. As I often say, I get such a kick out of seeing what craft people create with my images – it feels like we are collaborating together to make these cards !
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New painting for sale in Jellypark Store An original watercolour illustration by Claire of two little rabbits off on an adventure in their hot air balloon! This is painted on watercolour board and detail is in fade proof artist ink. The image measures about 8" x 11" with plenty of room left on the border to allow for framing. This painting comes unframed and without a mount to allow you to choose the best frame for your own taste. ÂŁ40
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! New Jellypark Digital Craft Stamps
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We have a bumper 6 new stamps in the shop for you, hope you are going to have fun with them! The design team have been working their magic as always and on the next few pages we have some inspiration of what you can create with them‌
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Superhero to the rescue!
Mel Ruth 8
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The football season has begun‌
Jennifer Tracey
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Ruth
Who’s for tea and cake?
Jennifer
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‌can you resist a huge pile of leaves in the Autumn?
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Diane
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Dressing up time!
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Fly me to the moon‌
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New Jellypark Papercraft Challenge
There is a NEW challenge for you n our Jellypark Friend’s Challenge Blog and it is very simple‌ create a papercraft project that you will gift to someone else i.e. 'pass it on'. it could be for a person who is ill, a birthday card, a 'thinking of you' card, just something that you are going to give to another person. and then DO IT! :)
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Jellypark are sponsoring the latest challenge on Fetch A Sketch and we are offering a £5 voucher for the Jellypark Store to the winner. The girls at Fetch A Sketch are also offering some markers as part of the prize‌so what are you waiting for?!
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Lend a Helping Hand… Want to know how you can help out a member of the crafting community and bag yourself some exclusive digital stamps? The internet means that crafters can connect all over the world and share their hobby together. A few weeks ago a blogger from Australia put a call out for help because her very good friend was in need and she is trying to raise fund to help this young family where the mother Lyndall is very poorly.
Many people have come forward to offer to sell cards, give prizes for a raffle and some companies have offered up digital stamps to sell to help to raise funds. You can buy some special digital stamps designed by Claire – not found anywhere else – amongst the collection so pop over and have a look. Why not treat yourself to some digital craft goodies and help out too?!
Click here to find out more about Lyndall and find out how you can join in giving her and her family a helping hand.
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Fancy winning this set of 5 Jellypark greeting cards?
Featuring some of Claire’s illustrations, these glossy cards could be yours if you can answer this question: How many Jellypark digital stamps are there on page 7 of this magazine? Email your answer to jellypark@live.co.uk and one winner will be selected on September 30th 2011! 18
The Jellypark Show and Tell Page We love seeing everything you make with the Jellypark digital stamps and scrapbook kits so we thought we would start a regular feature where we can share your creations with everyone else! Here are a small selection of the fab creations we have come across or been sent this month‌
Dotty Jo
Jane Wetzel
Wenche Papirkaos
Wenche Jensen
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Mel McCarthy Miranda made these birthday invites for her son with our Knight stamp.
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Now it’s your turn! Lets see what you make! Email us
your pictures or you could post them up on our facebook page or at the Paper Craft Planet group. We’ll look forward to seeing them all! 20
Where to find us‌ We can be found just about everywhere! Come visit us for a chat, keep up to date with all our news and join in all the fun!
The Jellypark Store
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