Stampin! with Jaydee

In Wilderness

Hi Everyone.  Happy Friday.

It's not often I create masculine cards.  In fact I get completely flumoxed by them.  So, I decided to push myself out of my comfort zone after seeing Terri's card featured on this post.

I really do love the In Wilderness set.  It just doesn't get ink-love as often as it should.  I also love Always Artichoke - it is absolutely one of my go-to greens.  For tonight's card I also used my new background stamp, too!

 

Card recipe - all ingredients Stampin' Up!:

• Card stock:  Always Artichoke, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake
• Inks: Always Artichoke, Early Espresso, Chocolate Chip. (The buffalo is actually Chocolate Chip on the back end and Early Espresso on the front.)  Buffalo image was inked with Stampin' Write markers
• Stamps:  In Wilderness, Wonderfully Worn, Bring on the Cake (sentiment)
• Accessories:  Linen Thread, Neutrals button
• Tools:  Stamp-a-ma-jig, Stampin' Dimensionals

Tomorrow is the new Paper Players challenge and I have a little sneak peek for you.  In fact, you get a sneak peek of my card for tomorrow - and my card tomorrow features a sneak peak of a brand new set!

 It's a really cool stamp set - and for a very good cause.  I'll be sharing all the details with you tomorrow night with the Paper Players Challenge reveal.  I hope you will play along with us this coming week.  It's a great challenge hosted by the fabulous Ann Schach.  This week also sees the return of the wonderful Anne Marie Hile.  Marian is our guest designer again this week.

 

On a personal note...... It got to the low 40s today... yes.... the low 40s.  We awoke this morning to hoar crystals coating every available surface.  It was magical.  Even though I am truly tired of winter now, I can still feel awed by the beauty of Mother Nature.

Then.... I can be awestruck by the might of Mother Nature.  The earthquake that struck off Japan this morning was devastating.  It never ceases to amaze me how far the tsunami waves will travel.  What scares me even more, is that radiation is now 1000 higher than normal around the nuclear plant in Japan.  I am still not sure why we build nuclear reactors on such active geographic faults.

Continued prayers tonight for Missy.  Prayers too for those in Australia who were affected by massive storms  - and are now affected by flooding.  For those affected by the Tsunami in Japan.

I hope you all have a fabulous Saturday, one filled with love, laughter and time spent doing the things you love with those you love.

I will close out tonight's post with a quick photo of Mr Charlie sitting on top of my desk organizer whilst I work.

Look maw.... aren't I cute?

Hugs

Jaydee

Bring on the Cake meets Medallion

Hi Everyone.  Happy Thursday.

Well, you know.... sometimes you have this great idea in your head and you spend time creating something and somehow what comes out isn't quite what was in your head.  Then you add a little something to see if that makes a difference, then a little something else.  Then maybe a rhinestone and... sadly, still it doesn't match the image you had of this great creation......

Tonight, I am revealing one of those cards.  It has potential.  I know it does... but somehow the potential eluded me.

This is how it started:

 
 and then I added a little something else, and another rhinestone... and this is what I got:

    

Nah... still not right!  On top of that, I couldnt get a decent pic of the updated version, either!

So, the question for you tonight... .anyone else have this problem?

Prayers tonight for Missy and the family of her friend.  For those of you who need a little lift or a warm hug.

Have a fabulous Friday everyone

Hugs

Jaydee

Bring on the Cake

Hi Everyone.

Happy Wednesday night.  I hope you all had a great day.  It's almost the weekend!  yay.... and that has an added benefit for me this week.... my new crafting table is still on track to arrive on Friday!  I am so excited.  It feels like Christmas all over again!

Talking about Christmas..... I am still doing reasonably well with my new year goals.  Well, at least in the crafting department that is!  Tonight's card was created using the wonderful challenge across at cardpositioningsystems and Stacey's color challenge this week.... And it is another bright challenge.  Pacific Point, Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi, Real Red and Whisper White.... Which is a wonderfully, bright and challenge color scheme.... Well... it certainly challenged me, cos when I went to prep the photo for this post I realized something important... I'd forgotten the Real Red! Ooooops.  I am hoping I am not the only person to have ever done that! :-)  The silly thing is... it would have been so easy to incorporate the red!

Here's my card using the sketch from CPS and most of the colors from Stacey's challenge!

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

• Card stock:  Pumplin Pie, Pacific Point, Wild Wasabi, Whisper White
• Inks:  Pumpkin Pie, Wild Wasabi and Pacific Point markers
• Accessories:  Pumpkin Pie grosgrain ribbon, brights buttons, linen thread, silver pearls (non SU)
• Stamp set:  Bring on the Cake (121899 wood, 121958 clear)
• Tools:  Big Shot, Perfect Polka Dots embossing folder, labels 11 die (nestabilities) 

I hope you pop along to CPS and Stacey to check out their challenges.

 A couple of you have left questions on my comments over the last couple of days.  Let me take a moment to answer them here.

Adelle, you asked how I colored the focal layer from last night's post.  If I don't have to work this weekend, I will actually make a video of this quick technique.  It really is easy.  Using a blending sponge/tool, ink and the frame from your nestabilities.  The key is to try not to get the center of the layer too dark, because that is where you want to put the stamped image.

Beverly, you asked about the flower.  Isn't it the cutest.  In the new minion page 15 you can see them.  They really are pretty easy to miss.  They come in three colors.  Baja Breeze, Rose Red and Very Vanilla.  They are hard and are easily attached using your favorite embellishment glue.  In this case I used several mini glue dots.  The item number for these little beauties is 121879.  Unlike the buttons or brads, these flowers don't have "legs"

Patricia, you asked about the Of the Earth set that I used on this card.  The bird image is actually the debossed portion, so always comes out the color of your base card.  It really is a gorgeous stamp set - thanks for reminding me about it.  When using a solid stamp like this, don't forget to condition your stamp by rubbing over it lightly with a sanding block and then giving it a good clean with Stampin' Mist - or your favorite stamp cleaner to get a nice crisp image.  I also find that inking it up and stamping it onto scratch paper a couple of times helps to get the image even crisper!

More call outs in my shout outs tomorrow night....

Warm thoughts and prayers tonight for Rose.  Mary Jo.  Adelle.  Maria.  Vickie.  Germaine and Pri.  and for those of you who need a little lift tonight.  My prayers also for those still being affected by the floods in Australia and Brazil.

Have a fabulous Thursday everyone

Hugs

Jaydee