Stampin! with Jaydee

Notably Ornate Butterflies

Hi Everyone.   Happy Friday. I hope you are all having a great week so far.

I hope everyone is managing to stay warm, too.  It was very cold at home yesterday, the coldest day we have had so far.  Around -3 but because the winds were so strong yesterday, the temp was -29 with windchill.  We also saw the beginning of a snowstorm that is expected to finish today.  Snow totals will be around 3-6 inches.  Still much less than we have normally had by this time of year, but at least winter has finally arrived.  Cherie, I hope Mr J gets enough to make snow angels!

I have a quick card for you tonight using the background stamp from Notably Ornate and a couple of different butterfly stamps that were in my stash.  I wanted to keep it clean and simple.  It was only after I made the card that I realized I really should have just stamped the background stamp directly onto the card stock instead of cutting it out and layering it.  

The butterflies were easy.  I stamped those with Versamark and black embossing powder and then used my markers to color them in.  I adhered them with a little Crystal Effects on one wing and down the body of the butterfly.  I made sure that I left one wing loose from the card base.  This really makes the butterflies pop and addds interest.

So, here's what I came up with.

I love the Very Vanilla on Very Vanilla.  It really is such a soft color scheme.  Once again I tried to make use of stamps that I rarely use.  I cannot remember the last time that I used the Notably Ornate background, but it made me realize I should use it more often!!!

On a personal note:

Poor Sam.   We thought that we had the UTI under control, only to discover that it was only temporary.  He was back at the vet yesterday (our normal vet not the emergency vet) and they discovered that he has lots of crystals in his bladder.  They are not sure whether he has a stone which is shedding the crystals or not.  Right now, he has to continue the antibiotics, but is also having sub-cutaneous injections of water to make sure that he flushes as much out of his system as we can get.  He also has to go on a special diet to try to get his body back to a lower acidity level and hope that everything gets better in the next two weeks.  He's such a sweetie and so uncomplaining and we do worry about him.  So, thank you to those of you who left a message asking me how he is.  We really appreciate it.

Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee

Merry Monday Challenge # 3

Hi Everyone. Happy Monday.

I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.  We certainly did!

You may remember that my good friend Lesley chose this card as the card of the week in the first Merry Monday challenge.  I was thrilled when Lesley sent me an email this weekend and asked if I would be the guest designer for challenge #3.  It is such a gorgeous sketch and I couldn't wait to play with it.  I know that Lesley will be thrilled if you would pop along to her challenge and play along this week.  Remember... if you play along every week, then you will have 52 cards already to go for Christmas. 

Here's the sketch:

For my version, I turned it on its side.  I used the Alleluiah Angel from Flourishes and it needed just a little more space than I had on the vertical.

As per my resolution to use things I don't often use, I pulled out the fabulous Well Worn DSP.  Who would have thought you could use Well Worn DSP for Christmas.  But it certainly fit the bill.

I added a background Christmas Music stamp from Hero Arts over the DSP and also over the vertical River Rock layer.

I colored the Angel using Copic markers and used a little SU tea stain ink to distress the edges of the oval.  The oval was cut out using my nesties.

Here's what I came up with

I know you can't see it, but the angel wings and trumpet were colored using a jelly roll pen to give those areas lots of shine.  It really is such a pretty card in real life.

I told you it was a great sketch - and it is really versatile.  So pop along to Lesley's blog and join us this week.

On a personal note:

Poor Sam.  As though it wasn't bad enough having a urinary tract infection and blood in the urine, today he developed an allergic reaction to the pills he was on and now has diarrhea.  Sam is a Norwegian Forest Cat and the wegies are VERY hairy.  The hair is also very, very soft and sticky. Mmmmmm... not so great when you have an upset tummy! So we had to change out his meds and hope that this now fixes both issues!  He really is such an incredibly sweet cat and he is, as Brenda said, very dog-like in nature and because he is so uncomplaining it really makes me sad when he is not well.

Lou and I visited our new home today we also took some pictures.  But that's for another night!

As always, thank you for visiting my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits and comments are always greatly appreciated.

Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee