Stampin! with Jaydee

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

 

Bloomin' Beautiful in shades of purple

Hi Everyone

Happy Saturday night.  I hope you have all managed to avoid the worst of this amazing storm that has plagued so much of the US this last couple of days.

Before we start on tonight's card - which uses - Bloomin' Beautiful, I'm going to ask you to add Beth to your prayer list right now.  Beth is one of the regular visitors to this blog and is currently with her Mother whilst her father has surgery.  So, if you could add Beth's Father to your prayer list for a quick recovery from his surgery, I would greatly appreciate it!  Beth - you and your Mom and Dad are in our thoughts and prayers!

I've had this set for a little while and haven't had the courage to use it.  Watercoloring isn't my forte, so I am always a little reluctant to use stamps that require it.  Lou has offered to buy me the set of Stampin' Up! Watercolor Crayons to make my life a little easier!  Isn't he amazing?  He know that to make me happy for Valentine's...crafting goodies would do the trick!

I love the little bee in this set.  We really should be very grateful for this industrious little creature.  They are responsible for the polination of so many of the fruits we eat, and flowers that we adore.  So, the next time you see them in your garden, welcome them and be thankful for all that they do for us!

Tonight's sketch was from a new challenge site that I found.  What a fabulous name... LordHaveMercy.  Mercy is a very talented young lady and does challenges every week.  Check out the website and see the wonderful inspiration and submission cards.  I know that you will find something that appeals to you and gets you running to your stamping space.  As though you need an excuse :-)

Card recipe:

• Whisper White, Perfect Plum
• Shades of Spring DSP.  I love the fact that the DSP had many of the shades of color that I wanted to use in my focal point
• Bloomin' Beautiful stamp set(111490)
• I watercolored the container and the flowers.  I wanted to have a few shades in the flowers themselves, as flowers never seem to all come into bloom at the same time and they take on slightly varying shades.  I hope I captured that in the flowers.
• I did the same with the container.  Various shadings and slight variations in color
• I colored the bee in crushed curry and basic grey. Black was too heavy, so I used the basic grey instead and it worked very well.
• Of course, I had to use some shimmer paint on his wings.  I stamped him on Whisper White and then used my paper snips to cut him out - including the legs!  I then adhered him with stampin dimensionals to set him above the flowers
• I stamped the sentiment in Perfect Plum and punched it out using my modern label punch
• I used small half pearls for the center of the flowers, and two slightly larger for the edges of the sentiment and in the top corners of the two layers, to bring your eye down to the flowers.

Have a fabulous Sunday everyone.  And for those of you who are watching the superbowl tomorrow and have a team that is playing... I hope your team wins!

Hugs

Jaydee