Happy Mother's Day

Hi Everyone

Very quick post tonight.

My thanks to the Palpspaperarts team for choosing my Dream Gardens card to be a pick of the week!  Also, to Trish for choosing my Vintage Vogue card as a CAS fav on splitcoast!  It's been a great week.  I'm always thrilled  - and honored - when one of my cards is highlighted.

I combined three challenges this week! One challenge was to make a transparent card!  I almost never make transparent cards!!!  On top of that They are really difficult to photograph!   Also... the PPA challenge this week calls for a CAS - KISS.. keep it simple, sweetie! card.  This certainly qualifies as Clean and Simple, which makes it perfect for the splitcoaststampers CAS - Wishing for Spring challenge!

I wanted to make a circular card - but have it fit in a normal A2 size transparent card base.  I used the Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set for this Mother's Day card.

I am really enjoying this Bloomin' Beautiful set.  The card was really easy, just a little putzy to put together.

• I used Certainly Celery and my Big Shot Scallop Circle Bigz Die.  I folded my paper over and placed the folded side just underneath the scallops at the top.  I wanted the folded edge to remain folded and not to have the scallops.  that way it fit into my transparent card base.

• ...stamped the flower image using StazOn black ink.  I then took my paper snips and cut the flower pot from the flowers.  I used white embossing powder for the pot and heat set it.  I used my classic pads and blender pen to color in the flowers.  I then adhered small half pearls to the flowers.

• ...stamped the "Happy Mother's Day" sentiment onto the Certainly Celery circle front. 

• ...adhered the flower pot just above the sentiment - also on the Certainly Celery.

• .. put snail above the flower pot - on the Certainly Celery, where I knew it would be covered by the flowers. 

• ....then slid the Certainly Celery circle into the transparent card base and stuck it to the card base.  At the back, I used Vellum glue sheet to secure the back of the circle to the back of the transparent card base

• ...then snailed the flowers... doesn't that sound strange!!! and adhered them, on the outside of the transparent card base, to fit where they would normally have been on top of the flower pot.

• ...stamped the bee onto So Saffron card stock and cut around him with my paper snips and adhered him, with a little dimensional, onto the outside of the card base

So... the flowers and the bee are on the outside of the card.... everything else is on the inside!  And no glue is visible through the transparent card base.

I'm sorry the photograph isn't so good... it's really tough to photograph transparent cards, you get the reflections of the tent and everything else!

Today is a bright and sunny day.  Temperatures almost 30!  Spring might just be on it's way!!

Not sure what you all did for Valentine's Day... Lou and I went to dinner at our local restaurant.  Now... my hubby is a truly wonderful man... but romance isn't really his strong suit and he's really not big on "days"... I don't know what it is, but it must be something to do with the fact that his family really weren't big on celebrating Birthdays, Valentine's Day, etc and consequently, they tend to be pretty much just another day... except for a gift and a card.  I'd complained to Lou about this at Christmas... you'd think after 15 years I would be used to it? :-)  Anyway.... we got to the restaurant on Sunday and Lou had booked a private dinner in the wine cellar.  He had gone there earlier in the day and set up the room with flowers and balloons and laid red rose petals from the door all the way into the room and all beautifully arranged on the white table cloth!  Champagne chilling on ice and a special dinner.  He'd spent the week scheming with the florist and the restaurant owner!

Needless to say I was floored!  It was so pretty AND ROMANTIC! and it made me feel really special.  It was fabulous!  So, everyone say.... AHHHHHHH! It really was fabulous :-)

I'll be photographing the last of the card drive contribution cards over the next couple of days and they will appear on my blog over the next few days.  On Sunday, friends of mine are coming over and we are going to put them in envelopes, get them ready and package them up for posting!  It's so exciting.

Hugs

Jaydee

 

Comments

[Ann Schach]

Love the coloring! The pearls are the perfect touch! Thanks for joining us @ PPA again this week!

[Beth Rigden]

Very creative and very pretty~you are one talented lady!
Sounds like you had a fantastic Valentine's Day! Aren't you glad you made the beautiful card for Lou?!

[Cherie]

Now we are all going to want our very own Lou! Poor Mr Jensen's Valentine's EXTRAVAGANZA (that's how he billed it) turned into a fizzledazzle (also his term)! One of these days we're going to have to get our DHs together so Lou can do some educating--that is if he can get past the thought of Springboks :)
Another Awesome card, you are SO talented-I'm embarassed to send my sad little contributions to the collection.

[Yvonne]

AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! What a wonderful surprise.Your evening sounds like a romance novel. I must say I am jealous!:) As you said, he is not the romantic guy, so you must have been floored when cupid hit you with the arrow again!

Have fun this weekend with your cards. I will not be getting you cards in time for this weekend. Sorry...
Tell your friend Happy Birthday!

Hugs
Yvonne

[Patricia Hoffman]

O.K.,O.K., enough with the drama...I get the point, it was BEAUTIFUL and you so deserved all of it! Your description brought tears to my eyes, I just love Romance. Lou did a wonderful thing. I think after 15 years it has finally sunk in. What a memory the two of you have made together, one that will last forever. You didn't tell us what you had to eat that night. I am itching to know. My DH is not big on romance either...want to give Lou my phone number and they can talk?

Love the card. I don't own the set, but have lamented over buying it ever since the Catalog came out. Really like the added touch of the Pearls and the white pot, it really gives it a different look than the traditional brown ones that we see all of the time. The little bee is cute hovering above the flowers. I like how you got the different shading in the flowers. When I got to the end of your description about how you put the card together, I just said "whew", that was a lot of work, but well worth it. Stay safe my Friend and may you always be as Blessed as you are today!

Trish in Wisconsin

[Linda Callahan]

Congrats on your pick last week! Glad you are back @PPA! Love how you used the transparency here - pretty card!

[Missy]

Jaydee,
That was so sweet of Lou! But of course you deserve it!! Love the card! Very pretty! Thanks for sharing your awesome creativity!

[Adelle]

How do you get the little pearls on? Maybe my fingers are just too fat!

[Adelle]

Another beautiful card. I have never bought this set but am now feeling like it is one I must have! I spent the day making Mother's Day cards this would be a great one!