Stampin! with Jaydee

Hi Everyone.  Happy Thursday evening and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space, where it's cold and blowing lots of snow! :-)

Tonight's card uses the Stampin' Up! Love you Much and A Happy Heart sets.  I made this card using the Justusgirls challenge #14.  You may remember I made my flower and cottage wall birthday card using the same great layout.  All I did for this card was reverse the sentiment and the embellishment.  I love the fact that you can choose one sketch and make entirely different cards out of it.  So, my thanks to the creative team at JUGS for providing us with such a great sketch.  There are some great cards that have been submitted for the challenge - I would highly recommend you go search it out for inspiration.

Before we get started, I'd like to give a shout out to Adelle tonight.  Adelle is a fellow crafter, all round fabulous lady and a tremendous supporter of my blog.  Adelle has just gotten back from Vermont and was telling me that she and her family went for a sleigh ride the day after Christmas.  It sounded so incredibly magical and such a great thing to do with family.  I was green with envy!

Well, my goodies arrived!  Oh yeah! However, they sat on the cold front porch for heavens knows how long.. I hadn't heard my UPS man arrive and drop off the box.  The goodies were so cold when I was unpacking that my fingers went numb!  However, everything is now unpacked and put away - tomorrow night I have to mount the stamp sets, and this weekend.... get creative.  Let's hope my mojo is flowing!

Here's tonight's Valentines/Love card... you can see more of my valentine's/love cards here

I really wanted to use different colors to the red and white's that I've used in the last couple of weeks and Rich Razzleberry and Melon Mambo just seemed ideal for this.  I absolutely LOVE the heart from the A Happy Heart set - I love the shape of it and have really enjoyed using it.  So here's what what I did to make the card:

Card Recipe:

• Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo and Whisper White card stock
• Melon Mambo DSP
• I inked up the Love you much stamp from the Love You Much stamp set (113756) with Rich Razzleberry - and Melon Mambo on the "you much" using my markers
• I inked the heart from the A Happy Heart stamp set (111758) with my Melon Mambo ink and stamped it onto Whisper White card stock.  I used my paper snips to cut around the heart.
• I used the Whisper White Satin Ribbon for the embellishment.  Jaydee tip:  Don't forget, you can always buy the Whisper White Satin Ribbon and then dye it using your classic inks.  That way you always have the color you want.:-)
• I used my Heart to Heart punch - and used a piece of DSP to punch out a small heart to put into the vase

I was really pleased with the way it turned out.  I love the fact that the sketch is so versatile; I love the Rich Razzleberry and Melon Mambo combination and I love the fact that it doesn't have to just be a Valentine's Day card. So, I hope you like it, too!

All I can tell you is that I am SOOOOO pleased I finally got my new blades!  These ragged edges are driving me crazy when I look at them on the pics!  Now, I have to go off and make a sympathy card.  They are not my favorite cards to make - but, in the never ending circle of life, I do have to go off and make another baby card!

I'm looking forward to spending some quality time with my new goodies this weekend and am hoping that I get some inspiration for some of my new stamp sets.  I'm dying to work with my new punches, too.

Don't forget - if you need an SAB or Mini Occasions catalog and you don't have a demo - just email me and I will get one in the post to you.

Have a fabulous Friday and, as always, thank you so much for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  I REALLY do appreciate it.

Hugs

Jaydee