Delightful Decorations - silver and white

Hi Everyone - happy Tuesday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space.  Tonight I have two of my babies keeping me company - it's so good to know that someone is keeping an eye on me! :-)

Tonight's card uses Delightful Decorations and the fabulous layout from the very talented  stamping411 team.  It was such a great layout to use that I ended up creating three entirely different cards using the layout.  I'd also like to say a massive thank you to the stamping411 team for putting my More the Merrier card from last week into the gallery.   There were some amazing submissions - and inspiration cards, so I am very, very honored to have been put in the gallery this week.  I really do love the team's challenges - and visiting their individual sites.  So, mosey on over to stamping411 and check out the challenges and the great cards on the site. 

If I thought last week's challenge was inspirational...this was even better!

Card recipe:

• I used Shimmer White as my card base
• I ran the card base through my Big Shot and used my Stampin' Up! Backgrounds 1 plates
• I then cut a piece of brushed silver metallic as my first matt
• I cut a piece of Going Grey as my second matt - and ran that thru the Big Shot using the same plate as the base
• I cut a final piece in Shimmer White - to act as the base for the decoration
• I then stamped my Delightful Decorations "Joy" stamp with Versamark and embossed it with silver embossing powder.
• I tied a little silver elastic cord around the ornament and attached all the matts using stampin dimensionals
• I stamped the sentiment from Christmas Greetings - again !!!! - and also embossed that in silver embossing powder
• I attached the delightful decoration to the top matt with stampin dimensionals

I love the layering and the depth of the various levels of matting and the juxtaposition of colors because of the placement of the layers.  Tip:  one of the great things about the SU stampin dimensionals is that they are 1/16th of an inch - which is the ideal height for multiple layerings like this.

I was really happy with the result - which is probably why I went rushing off and created two entirely different cards to this one - and hey... neither of them are Christmas cards :-)

Today, winter was certainly starting to take her grip - but even though it felt cold today, the weather people tell us that the average temperature is 10 degrees above normal for this time of year.    My old-man cat, Merlin, doesn't believe that it's 10 degrees above normal... in fact, as far as he's concerned it's about 60 degrees below where he likes it - thank you!  So he hugs the register underneath the sink, or climbs under the soft blanket on the bed.  This afternoon he sat next to me on the couch.  I was on a conference call working on my PC close to the fire :-)  I really didn't mind that he was sitting next to me on the couch but...... he was snoring so loudly that I swear they could hear him on the other end of the phone!  I mean it wasn't just loud.. it was REALLY loud! Oh well.. I suppose that could possibly happen with age :-)

I hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday and get to spend time with those you love - and I hope they don't snore too loudly, especially when you are on conference calls :-)

As always, thank you so much for spending time in my area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits, your comments and your support are much appreciated.

Peace

Jaydee

Comments

[LeAnne]

Wonderful job & congrats on the showcase pick!

[Krystal/skdeleeuw]

Gorgeous! So elegant. Love the clean and simple look. Congrats on being chosen for the Stamping 411 Stampers Showcase!

[Kay Kalthoff]

Fantastic card! Love the elegant look this has!! TFS!
Kay

[Connie Babbert]

This is stunning, Jaydee! Love the clean look. Great job this week! Thanks for playing!

[tiffany]

This is down right gorgeous!!! I love it!! Thanks for playing along this week!!

[Gretchen Barron]

Oh Jaydee -- this is just beautiful! So crisp and fresh! You did a fabulous job!!!! Thanks for playing along with this week's Sketch Challenge. I hope you'll join in with the Stamping 411 Operators again soon! Blessings, Gretchen

[Laura Thorpe]

Beautiful card! Just wonderful.

[Selene Kempton]

Another Beauty! This is so simple and elegant! Love this! Also ~ thanks for sending donations along for the troops.. You are wonderful!

[jaydee]

Lee.... what I said to Robin - applies to you, too :-)
jaydee

[Jaydee]

Hi Robin. Good Morning and happy Wednesday!
thank you so much for leaving a comment.. you know that I really appreciate the fact that the team goes out of their way to deliver individual comments for those who submit cards... its a really cool thing that you do.

and... Im especially flattered when someone with so much talent wants to CASE a card! :-)
have a fabulous Wednesday and thanks for all that you do
Jaydee

[Kelli]

I love the ornament stamps and punch. I'm still debating on whether or not to get it. I love the card and of course the Merry Christmas. I'm so excited that it is now mine! Happy Wednesday.

[Lee]

This is a wonderful card.....clean, simple and so very Elegant. I will be casing it too!

[Carole'Anne AKA Stampin Stressaway]

This my friend is soooooooooooooo ELEGANT
LOVE IT
I love that it's simple and yet so super BEAUTIFUL!
you are a lot of talent and we are blessed that you share it with
thank you Jaydee

[Robin Merriman]

Oh, I am SO casing this card! Love it! Such a CAS design, but so much impact. Fabulous job!
So glad you played along this week!