Stampin! with Jaydee

Baby Blue Onesies (Baby Tees)

Hi Everyone.  Happy Monday evening.  I hope you all had a fabulous weekend.

Tonight's card uses the Baby Tees jumbo wheel.  I am loving this wheel!  The challenge at Palspaperarts this week was to create a KISS (keep it simple, sweetie) masculine card.   Well, I couldn't resist doing yet another baby card.

I saw a card on the blog of one of our regular blog visitors where one of the onesies had been cut into a tag.  I know I made a comment, and I know that I loved it and filed away the idea.... what I can't remember is WHO this talented person was... so, if you recognize the onesie being used as a tag, please can you let me know so that I can give credit.

Here's my clean and simple baby boy card.  Oh, Rach!  It's not Baja Breeze...it's Marina Mist.  I know you will be proud of me using a different blue :-)

Card recipe:

• Card stock:  Marina Mist, Whisper White
• Inks:  Marina Mist, Cherry Cobbler (for the heart on the onesie tag), Craft Whisper White
• Accessories:  Marina Mist grosgrain ribbon, Subtles buttons collection, Onesies Jumbo wheel, white embossing powder
• Tools:  Wheel guide, heat gun, versamark, paper snips, mini glue dots

Card instructions:

• Cut Marina Mist to A2 (11 x 4.25).  Score and fold at the 5 1/2" mark - fold at the top
• Ink up Onesie wheel in Craft Whisper White ink and run across the bottom of the card base
• Cover with white embossing powder and heat set
• Ink up wheel with Marina Mist and run across Whisper White - just far enough that you have the onesie that you want to color.  Cut out onesie and color using your favorite markers.
• Wrap ribbon around card and tie.  Add onesie tag and then add button

That's it.  you are done! It was a very quick and easy card.  Couple of tips:

• When embossing, prepare the card stock with an anti-static cloth.  I use a swiffer cloth.  I cut them up into pieces and put them in a drawer underneath my embossing powders so that I always have them on hand.
• When you heat emboss, heat from both the back and the of the surface.  This helps to stop the paper bending a little when it gets too hot.  It also seems to keep the embossed image looking shinier. 
• After you have finished embossing, you can clean up the stray bits of embossing powder with TACK CLOTH.  You can get tack cloth at your favorite hardware store.  It's brilliant for picking up messes and stray bits of embossing powder.
• I always keep a very fine paint brush for removing any embossing powder that has gone a little astray.  I can carefully take it off the card stock before heat setting it
• If you are wrapping a present to go with this card - you could always cut out a gift tag using the onesie and use it on the outside of the gift

On a personal note:  Lou and I had a great weekend and it was topped off last night by a visit from Brenda, Cherie and Bethany.  I met Brenda through Stampin' Up!.  I found her on line and saw that she was doing classes.  I signed up for a couple and I am so glad I did.  Not only did I renew my love of stamping - I found a marvelous friend.  Then, if that wasn't enough, Brenda introduced me to her daughter, Bethany!  What a gift they both are to me.  And, if that wasn't enough.... (mmmm... this is beginning to sound like one of those late night infomercials... and... if you phone within the next 10 minutes, we will send you another friend! :-)...) but seriously, Brenda introduced me to Cherie.  It is always an amazing time when I can spend the evening with the three of them.  I am incredibly blessed to call them all my friends. 

Lou, loves looking after us and making sure we are happy whilst we spend a little girl time.  Love you, Lou!  Last night we spent some time on the deck - baking in the heat I might add - but hey, that's what you do for friends, right?  Brenda loves the heat - I hate the heat.  Brenda conversely hates the cold - I love the cold... so our house is always about 20 degrees too cold for Brenda!  So, we started the night off in the heat on the deck and came inside so that I could finally cool down!  But it was gorgeous sitting out there.  Trish, we all talked about we are ready for you to come and play with us when you are finally feeling up to it.

All in all, it was a great weekend.  I got to spend time with my darling hubby, time with my dear friends and time in my stamp room!

In case any of you are interested, little Charlie is still with us.  He is just the sweetest thing.  He'll never be a big cat and he's not the prettiest of cats - but he is absolutely adorable.  He chitters and chatters and talks to you and is so grateful that you bring him food.  No-one has come forward and said they lost him and we really think that he was dumped.  So, he's still with us for a little while.

Prayers for Trish, Germaine, John and Sue, T (who is apparently starting to feel better!), Pri, Missy's family, Arthur and Hugo.

I hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday and you all know that I appreciate you stopping by to visit my little area of the stamping blogosphere.

Hugs

Jayde

Congrats

Hi Everyone.  Happy Monday night.

Very quick post for you tonight.  This was a card that I made for the Justusgirls color challenge (orange, navy, green and white)... love that color combo! . The sketch uses the fabulous sketch from ourcreativecorner for this week.  I love being able to combine a color and sketch challenge!

The card uses the new Baby Tees Jumbo Wheel.  It was an opportunity to use this cool new wheel along with a masculine color scheme. That of course, led me to a baby boy card.

 

The colors really are fabulous together and I really enjoyed making this card, coloring in the tees and the sketch was great!

Card recipe - all product Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted:

• Card stock and inks/markers: Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz, Pumpkin Pie, Whisper White
• Stamps:  Baby Tees Jumbo Stampin' Wheel.  Sentiment: Papertrey
• Ribbon: Pumpkin Pie (retired)

Card instructions:

• I'll be back later with the sizes.  I am not at my stamping desk right now so don't have access to my card to measure it up for you, but will do that later tonight when I get back into my space.
• I inked up the Baby Tees wheel with Night of Navy ink and rolled onto Whisper White card stock.  I colored the images using Night of Navy, Pear Pizzazz and Pumpkin Pie Stampin' Write markers.  The colors are so vibrant together and really make the card pop.
• I cut the Whisper White to 5 1/2" inches and let the height be dictated by the size of the tees.
• I put a Pear Pizzazz mat behind the Whisper White to lift it from the Night of Navy base and adhered it to the top of the card.
• I stamped the sentiment "congrats on your new little bundle" in Night of Navy, onto Pumpkin Pie card stock.
• I tied a piece of the Pumpkin Pie and Whisper White ribbon around the Pumpkin Pie layer and adhered it to the bottom part of the card base.

Tips:

• An image as bright and bold as this, needs a strong sentiment.  That's why I chose to go with this particular sentiment.
• I wanted to stamp the image in Night of Navy so chose to color with my markers instead of my blender pen and inks.  If I had used my inks and blenders, I would have had to have used my Stazon, and I didn't want to introduce black into the card.

Why is it that I love making baby boy cards?  I asked myself that same question, so decided it was time to make a baby girl card, too and you will see that later this week!

On a personal note... still hot and muggy here. Mind you, the one very positive side benefit of the humidity and heat is the wild flowers..... we drove down to the cities last weekend and anywhere there wasn't farmland - there were carpets of wild flowers and grasses.  Better than I have ever seen them.  Even the medians in the middle of the highway were so beautiful, they made me want to take off my shoes and run through them like I did when I was a child.  Just beautiful.  Mother nature sure knows how to paint a beautiful picture.

Our furniture still hasn't arrived for our deck... I think they must be sending it by ship... man.. how long can it take to get two chairs and a coffee table.  Just to tease us, Restoration Hardware sent us the cover to protect the coffee table via UPS.  thanks guys!  but can I have the table to put the cover over, please? Oh, well!  I know we will really appreciate them when they arrive.

Well, it's back to work (yes I am trying to do this post quickly between conference calls).... I'm not usually this late, but last night was a long day and a late night and I didn't get to my post:-)

Prayers for Trish, as always.  I know this is a tough journey and one that you often feel you are doing alone.  Stay strong, my friend.  For T & Pri.  Rach, time is indeed your friend.  Hannah will always be with you and will always be around you, looking over you all.  Germaine, I hope Pri is healing.

Have a wonderful Tuesday everyone.  Thank you so much for your visits, your comments - and your support

hugs

Jaydee