Love Bug - 4 up and charity card drive showcase #4

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday!   TGIF!!!!  Oh boy!  I was so looking forward to the end of the day today.  I had this idea in my head all day that I wanted to make a card using paper that had yellow honeycombs on it and I was going to combine it with the Just Buzzin By set...... Well, it was fantastic in my mind.  Really.  Fabulous!  Except... well... when I finally got to my stamping space and opened up my paper... it was pink!  Now, I don't know about you, but I've never seen pink honeycombs before!  So.... thud... that sound you heard was me falling flat on my face.  Back to the drawing board! 

Along with my card tonight - using the Love Bug set, I am featuring a selection of cards from Cam's submissions for my card drive.  I loved looking through Cam's cards - they are fabulous and I would like to give Cam a HUGE shout out!  You Rock, Cam!  Please show Cam a little love and leave her some comments.  It's a great thing that the ladies have done to donate their time and their goodies to send cards to the troops and to critically ill children at hugsandhope.org.  I am so grateful that they came along with me on this journey.

So, tonight's card from Jaydee features Love Bug (115233).  This set is a really cute hostess level 1 set.  I've been dying to find an occasion to use it - and somehow the layout on the cleanandsimple challenge site - a new site I found btw - dedicated to... well.... clean and simple layouts! :-)  My regular visitors know that I love me a clean and simple challenge.  The fabulous layout was to use 4 squares in the bottom right hand corner.  When I looked through my sets, the Love Bug seemed perfect for it.  It makes a great Valentine's card - and is perfect for sending along with the cards to the troops in my fromourhearts card drive.

Isn't this set so cute? I used the single bug and stamped it using StazOn.  I then took my blender pen and used Real Red and Pretty in pink inks to create the stripes on the bodies.  I punched them out with a 1" punch and then took my 1 1/4" punch and punched out 4 Real Red squares.  I stuck the bugs to the matts using snail and put dimensionals behind the matts.  I wrapped a piece of Red and White gingham ribbon around the card.  I then stamped the Love Bugs sentiment from the set onto Whisper White card stock and used my jewelery punch to punch out the sentiment.  A grey half pearl was added as decoration.  I didn't want the coloring to be perfect... I know... Mom... I can hear you screaming at me from Heaven.. but seriously, I thought it would have lost a little of it's whimsical feeling if the coloring had been perfect.  I know, Mom :-)

Simple, quick and, I think, cute!

Now, on to Cam's cards.  I promise you, there is so much for you to find inspiration from here.  Please leave Cam a little love with a comment.  Enjoy the show of Cam's fabulous creations.  Cam's cards have stamps that you haven't seen on my site - so lots of inspiration for you.

here Cam uses Eastern Blooms (111626) and the Trio Flower punch (110711) to perfection.  Notice the piercing at the bottom of the card

 

Here Cam uses the Messages from Mom set (117016 or 118580) and the fabulous Kaleidoscope DSP (115680).  Having seen this... I have to go by myself some of this gorgeous DSP.  Love the spotlighting technique.

Here Cam uses a set you never see on my site - the Beary Best Friends (118052) set! and Thoroughly Modern DSP (115673).  Love that water coloring!

 

Here Cam uses the Garden from the Heart set (117004 or 118568) - its available in French and Spanish, too.  It's such a beautiful set.  Notice the stamped hat at the bottom.

 

I loved this card stamped using Autumn Days from the last holidays mini.  Most of us have used Autumn colors for this stamp set - and Cam went outside of the box and made it fresh and modern by using these colors.

 

I've enjoyed sharing these wonderful creations from the very talented group of women who have so far submitted cards for the charity drive.  Each style has been different and I hope you have enjoyed viewing them.  I still have a couple more collections to share with you. 

Tonight, I spent some time making my wood mount stamps that have just arrived into clear mount stamps!  Oh... the joy... the freedom... :-)  I love the feel of the wood mount stamps from SU.  It was the reason that I became an SU demonstrator.  I found myself scouring recycling sales at my local scraping store to see who was selling their SU sets. Why?  Because I always found myself drawn to them and the quality.  I bought a single stamp at my LSS this last weeked.  $7.99 for a single sentiment stamp.  I love it... but seriously.. it was a lot of money for a single stamp.  It reminded me why I always bought SU!  Anyway, the thing I am loving about the new SU stamps - is that I can buy the clear mount version.  Not only do I save money, but there are serious space saving advantages, too.  I will be placing a tutorial on how I have converted my stamps to clear mount in a post this weekend.  So watch out for that.

Have a fabulous Saturday everyone.  Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and please leave Cam a little love in the way of a comment.

Hugs

Jaydee

Comments

[Patricia Hoffman]

Cam, each and everyone of your cards is unique and special. They are all so well done. You are a fantastic cardmaker. I really like the Eastern Blooms and Follow your Heart with the Butterflies.

Jaydee, I giggled out loud when I saw your card. It really put a big smile on my face. I love it. Such a simple yet great card. I am going to have to try something like that with the "bug". She looks so cute all by herself.

Trish in Wisconsin

[Alison]

Cam you have stunning cards. My favourites are the eastern blooms and the butterflies.

Jaysee - your card is really cute. A fun valentines card.

[Kelli]

Cam did a GREAT job. I love each and every card that she made...all with such great detail. I love the herb card! Wow! I also LOVE that bug card...I might have to try something like that...just adorable.

[lou]

Cam
the cards are fantastic. Jaydee really enjoyed photographing them. Thanks so much for helping her with this card drive. It means a lot to her.
Lou

[Adelle]

Great collection, Cam! I love your color choices.

[Missy]

I absolutely Love those cards, Cam! You and Jaydee are awesome creators!! I also love the love bugs card Jaydee! I have that one so you know I will have to make that card! LOL! I like because it can be used for me than just Valentine's!! Thank you both for sharing your awesome creativity!!

[Lynn Hayes]

Cam, your cards are awesome!!! So very pretty. Great job.
And Jaydee.....love those (lady) bugs! So cute.

[Natasha]

Wow! These are all fantastic!