Stampin! with Jaydee

Love you Much with a Happy Razzleberry and Mambo Heart!

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

Love you Much With A Happy Heart

Hi Everyone - Happy Tuesday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space.

Tonight's card is a Valentine's/Love/Anniversary card and features the stamp sets from the SU 2009/2010 catalog - Love you Much and A Happy Heart and I was inspired to do this because I'm really missing my hubby. Poor Lou - he is still trying to get home! 

Those of you who read my posts this week will know that he left at 6.40am on Sunday morning for a 3 hour meeting in Milan on Monday afternoon.  Europe was hit with a major storm and his plane was canceled coming out of Milan on Tuesday.  He spent 4 hours in a hotel last night and was back at the airport this morning trying to get a flight out.  They finally got him a flight into Amsterdam departing at 7.40pm, so that he could connect with a 2.30p.m. flight tomorrow - timed to arrive back in the US at the time we are expecting an ice storm and 12-18 inches of snow!!!!  Well, his flight didn't take off at 7.40p.m.  Apparently there were no Milanese baggage handlers to take the bags of the plane for the arriving passengers! In the end the captain and flight crew were taking bags off the plane at 12a.m.  He called me at 12.50 - he was finally on the plane and on his way to Amsterdam!  Where he is scheduled to be sitting in the airport on standby for an earlier flight in the hope he can beat the storm back here.... so... the saga of traveling at this time of year!

He did ask me to thank all of you who have left comments or sent emails hoping that he gets home in time for Christmas - and I am very grateful to all of you :-)

So, tonight's card is all about Love.....  I used the MojoMonday 118 sketch challenge and really wanted to keep it clean and simple, but as always with lots of little details.

I am in love with this new punch... and don't forget... it's one of the options available to you in the SAB catalog which goes live on January 5.  It also comes with a matching corner punch available in the new Mini - also available on January 5.  I've got quite an order ready to go in on January 5- courtesy of my hubby - it's my Christmas present:-)  For every $50 (excluding shipping and taxes) you get to choose a free gift....and if you are anything like me... I love free things :-)

Card recipe:

• Shimmer White and Real Red card stock.  I really wanted to use the Shimmer White card stock - it has such a gorgeous luminescence ..... which is fabulous not just for Christmas cards, but for this sort of card, too.  I combined it with Real Red card stock.
• Love you Much and A Happy Heart stamp sets
• Real Red marker and classic ink
• I stamped the heart from A Heart Heart in Real Red Craft ink.  This allowed me to use transparent embossing powder to give it that glossy look
• I inked Love from the Love you Much with my Real Red marker and stamped it on Shimmer White card stock.
• When the ink was dry on the Love - I used my shimmer paint to color in the middle of the letters - I wanted the shimmery effect, but also to soften the outlines of the LOVE.
• I cut around the heart with my paper snips
• I cut a piece of Real Red card stock and used my Scallop Border punch on both the top and bottom. 
• I attached the Love on to the Real Red and then attached it to the Shimmer White base layer.
• I then attached a Fire round rhinestone to the top of the paper - after I had lined up the middle of the heart.
• Once the rhinestone was secured, I wrapped a piece of Silver elastic cord around it and fed it underneath the heart.  I then attached the heart to the card with stampin' dimensionals.
• You can see that I made the middle layer the width of the card, and not of the Shimmer White card stock - I thought it gave a nice finish to take it all the way across the card.  The sketch had made the middle layer the same as the base layer

All in all, I was very happy with it.  Clean, simple and yet with bling and shimmer.  It'll be waiting for Lou when he gets home late tomorrow... you will notice the positive tone here :-)uyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyym .... and and this little piece the u's and ys', etc.  is courtesy of Bailey.  He decided to visit and of course his big fat paws absolutely HAVE to walk all over my keyboard.  So, I think he was saying thank you to you all!  He is absolutely adorable - but he's all TROUBLE!   So, where was I before Bailey so rudely interrupted me?  Oh yes, the positive tone... Lou will be home tomorrow.  Lou will be home tomorrow.  Lou will be home tomorrow. :-)

Our garden really does look like a winter wonderland.  Tomorrow I'll take a pic and post it for you.  The snow that fell last night was the dry powdery stuff... the type of snow that Hollywood tries to recreate - it's absolutely gorgeous - unless you have to shovel it :-)

Happy Wednesday everyone... I hope you have a fabulous day and that you get to spend it doing things you love with those you love.... and if you have snow.. I hope the snow fairies come and clean your driveway so that you don't have to shovel it :-)

A Happy Heart

Hi Everyone.

Happy Thursday!

Hope you had a fabulous stampin day!

A quick post for you all tonight.  I haven't posted a card using the Stampin Up A Happy Heart set before.  I decided to use it for a new challenge.  Inksipration Sketch Challenge #11.  Makeesha is a very talented lady "down-under" and I'll be doing more of her challenges.  Check out her website :-)

I liked the circles and squares in this sketch.  I decided to not do a literal circle on the top right hand of the sketch, but to use a stamp which had a circular element to it. Those of you who are following my blog, and who know me personally, know that I tend to stick to fairly clean cards and this layout was ideal for that.

Here's the sketch for the challenge:

I love the sentiment from this stamp set.... who wouldn't want a Happy Heart! :-)

On the personal front:  it's been a really busy week at work and I've had much less time than I would like to play.  However, my favorite man in brown delivered a little box for me today.  I swear - I look more forward to the arrival of the UPS man (in fact I recognize the sound of his truck from about a mile away!) than I ever did Father Christmas.  Mind you, I'm not sure if Bailey (my cat... you can see him on this post) doesn't appreciate the arrival of the UPS man more than I...... He gets to play with the paper, the wrapping, and inspects everything in the box (whilst purring VERY loudly) to make sure that everything meets his approval! :-)

As always, I hope you have a day full of time to do the things you love - with those you love!

Peace and hugs

Jaydee

Card:  A2 

Cardstock:  Always Artichoke, Ruby Red.  (I chose the Ruby Red because of the softer tones than found in the Real Red and thought it was idea with the Artichoke).  The image was stamped on Whisper White.

Ink:  I used Real Red and Old Olive to ink up the flower and the stamped the flower.  Then I masked the flower off and inked up the sentiment with Old Olive classic ink.  I inked and stamped the image and the sentiment separately, as that allowed me to position the flower where I wanted it.  

I really love this stamp set as it's versatility takes it beyond just a Valentine's day set.  (111758). 

I chose to ink the image, sentiments and "embellishment hearts" in Real Red and Old Olive to make

pop against the softer Ruby Red and Always Artichoke.
 

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