Stampin! with Jaydee

Christmas Jingle Textured card

Hi Everyone and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space.  Today's card used the stamping411 layout number 126 and the November Fan Club challenge, which was to create a card with texture.  This one certainly does that!

Card recipe:

• Old Olive, Sahara Sand, Ruby Red and Chocolate Chip card stock
• Chocolate Chip striped grosgrain ribbon
• I ran the Old Olive matt through my Big Shot with a texturz plate - stampin backgrounds 1
• I ran a piece of Sahara Sand card stock through my Big Shot with the scalloped circle die
• Christmas Jingle scrapping set - two elements - the circular frame and the central sentiment
• French Filigree background stamp. I stamped the image with my versamark and then used clear embossing powder.  This creates a very textured background on the image

Then i t was just a matter of building the card and mounting the image.  Very quick and very simple.  The card has more texture than I normally use, but I enjoyed the challenge of pushing the texture outside of my comfort zone - the whole reason for doing challenges, right? :-)

I hope you all have a fabulous day and get to spend time doing the things you love - with those you love the most.  As for me... as you read this, we will still be crossing the Atlantic and hopefully won't have to have used our sea sickness pills!

As always, thanks for visiting my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits and your support are much appreciated.

Jaydee

3D with Jaydee - Noel

Hi Everyone - happy Saturday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space, where your visits are always appreciated..

  A couple of days ago I told you that I was looking to do some 3D items, instead of cards.  In fact, it was a good job I did, as cards were just not working for me today!  However, I did get three 3D items under my belt and a couple of failed cards!

I saw these Decor Blocks in the Stampin' Up! catalog and decided I REALLY wanted... no... scratch that NEEDED to do something with them.  I really love decorating for Christmas and these just screamed USE ME... USE ME... USE ME... ooops... this is beginning to sound like the start of a song from "Little Shop of Horrors"! 

So, I ordered the Decor Blocks and some decor elements Holiday Mix (i bought the Real Red and Chocolate Chip) and used my Christmas Jingle scrapping kit to decorate them.  Firstly, I started with the bare decor blocks and cut various papers from the Christmas Jingle scrapping kit.  I cut two pieces of patterned paper 3" x 12" and scored every 3 inches.  I then applied double sided sticky tape along the edges of 4 sides.

• I then went around and flattened all of the sides - after I took this picture :-). 
• This left me with two sides that were not covered. 
• I cut four pieces of card stock 3" x 3" in chocolate chip, real red and old olive. I applied two of the colors to the sides that were not covered with the DSP. 
• I then used Very Vanilla card stock and cut 4 pieces of card stock 2 3/4" x 2 3/4".
• I decided to use NOEL from the two decor elements sets and applied the letters to the Very Vanilla card stock.
• I rounded the corners of the Very Vanilla and matted them on either Real Red or Chocolate Chip.
• Once they were decorated, I applied them to the blocks.
• The final thing was a piece of Chocolate Chip striped grosgrain ribbon.  I was really torn whether to use the Chocolate Chip or the Old Olive and tried both.  The Chocolate Chip won out!

Here are the pics of the blocks from each side.

You can see that each side has a different piece of DSP showing! :-)

You can also see the closeup of the elements that I decorated the blocks with.

Here's the finished product, front on

In the end, I decided I absolutely loved it and it's going to be the feature piece of my mantle piece in the basement this winter.  I also have LOTS of decor elements left - and already have ideas on what I'm going to do with them. :-)

I hope you have a fabulous Sunday.  Hopefully, Im going to get more time in my stamping space tomorrow. I hope you have time to spend time doing the things you love - with those you love the most.

As always, your visit is much appreciated - as is your support.

Jaydee

Berry Christmas - Christmas Punch

Hi Everyone.  Happy Tuesday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin' spot.  A quick post for you tonight - and yes, it's another Christmas card!  Before we get started, I'd like to give a shout out to Darlene.  I so enjoyed our "play date" today - so thank you!

Today's card is quick and simple and really easy to put together.

I used the Berry Christmas poinsettias and the Christmas punch hostess level 2 set.  For this card I used the Ruby Red card stock and the Christmas Jingle scrappin kit.  It really took about 10 minutes to cut the card and put it together.

I love the mixture of Old Olive and Ruby Red.  It's such a soft combination.  The Christmas Jingle  scrappin kit uses Very Vanilla as it's base - but for the central image, I wanted it to pop from the background, so chose to stamp it on Whisper White.  

I stamped the poinsettia's bracts in Old Olive and then the central flowers in Ruby Red. 

I inked up the Oval stamp from the Christmas Punch collection with my markers in Old Olive and Ruby Red.  Using markers is THE way to get a more interesting stamped image, because it is so easy to color the areas you want, with the color you want - even on a complex stamp.

I then rubbed over the image with a gel pen.  (in retrospect, I really should have used my shimmer paint... but.. if you don't have shimmer paint then a gel pen will do the job :-))  (although, it isn't showing up too well on the photograph....)

I hope you all have a fabulous Wednesday and that you get to spend time doing the things you love - with those you love the most.  I'm hoping I will get time in my stampin studio the next couple of days... I have some 3D projects I just HAVE to make!  I'm sure you have all been there... it's not something you want to do.. it's something you have to do... it itches away at you until you finally go and do it.  :-)

As always, thanks for spending time in my area of the stamping blogosphere - your visits - and your comments - are always much appreciated.

Peace

Jaydee

Christmas Jingle - Berry Christmas

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

Today's card is quick and Clean and Simple and uses a minimum of supplies.  I used the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin kit and the Berry Christmas stamp set.  I also pulled out my trusty texturz plate - but you can certainly create the card without that.

 

How it was made:

• I used Real Red card stock for the base and ran it through my big shot with the texturz plate\
• I used a border element from the Christmas Jingle scrappin kit and wrapped a piece of real red grosgrain ribbon around it for the backdrop to the central focal image
• I used two pieces from the Christmas Jingle kit to make the central image - the round border and then the sentiment.
• I stamped the bird from the Berry Christmas set and cut around it with a pair of paper snips.  I then placed it on the sentiment with a Stampin' Dimensional, which I cut into three
• I then made a bow from the Old Olive satin ribbon from the Mistletoe ribbon set (from the new mini)

So... quick and easy and clean and simple.... the hardest thing was cutting out the bird.... and there's a solution for that!  The Merry Details Stampin' Up! Sizzlets die...... lets you put your real red - or whatever card stock you prefer into the Big Shot and stamps out the little birds for you.... so no need to cut it out!  It also comes with two different size Christmas trees and a snowflake - so a great time saver and a cool die at $5.50 preferred pricing :-)


I hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday night and I'll be back with another card tomorrow.  The weather has been glorious today..... at home though.. is a different story altogether!

Peace

Jaydee

BTW.. if you like the little bird from the Berry Christmas set - you might want to check out my other cards made using the same set check this link

Patterned Pines - Christmas Jingle

Hi Everyone.  Happy Sunday. Welcome to Jaydee's SU stamping space!

Today's card is from the MojoMonday 106 sketch challenge.  It was a challenge for me this week, as there are so many layers of paper.  However, as you know...... that's the reason I do challenges - to take me out of my comfort zone.  So, pop along and check out the other inspirations - and challenge yourself.  the Mojo team will be loading a new challenge sketch tomorrow.

So.... can someone please do an intervention and let me know if there is a 12-step program for being addicted to making Christmas cards?  I have a serious addiction right now.... even my DH said to me... OK... can you make something other than Christmas cards!  Today's card uses the level hostess set from the Stampin' Up! mini catalog - Patterned Pines.  I love this set - and paired it with sticky strips from the Christmas Jingle simply scrappin' kit.

The sentiment is from the Berry Christmas set.

I hope you have a fabulous Monday.  It's hard to believe the weekend is almost over and I still have so much to do.... not least is about 4 cards I need to make!  

As always, thank you for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visit is always appreciated.  If you have any questions on the card, stamping techniques, or SU products, just send me an email.

Peace

Jaydee

Merry Christmas - Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin'

Hi Everyone.  Happy Wednesday and welcome to Jaydee's SU stamping spot!

Tonight will be a quick post.  A quick reminder.  If you are interested in free Stampin' Up! goodies - then click here to see how to play along for some great Blog Candy.  Winners will be chosen using a random generator on Monday morning 10/5.  I promise the blog candy is definitely worth it :-)

Tonight's card is quick, simple and easy to put together.  But, I think it has enough detail to give a little zing.. but then I would - cos I'm biased :-)  Me... nah... never :-)

I wanted to use the Christmas Jingle Simply Scrappin'.  I love this scrapping set - but I'm just not a great scrapbooker.  In fact I found some of my old pages tonight - it was an interesting trip down memory lane.  I realized that maybe the pages aren't so bad... but what I remember looking at them... is that I never seemed to have the right color papers with the right embellishments. 

Now, for those of you who visit my stamping space, you know that I don't do the "hard sell" approach. It's not my style - I love to share what I do.. and if you want to buy from me.. then that is fantastic.. but if you just want to hang out and get inspiration... then that's also cool.... so I can tell you, with all honesty, that I have been much more productive since I changed over to SU.  I have card stock that matches paper.... that matches ink.... that matches embellishments... that matches ribbon - and it's all fantastic quality.  I used to spend so much time running to my local scrapping store and could never quite find exactly what I was looking for... and my pages reflect that.  They aren't bad... but I know that I could do better with them now.

That being said... here's the clean and simple card I wanted to create.  I love - absolutely love the new grosgrain polka dot ribbon and wanted to show case that - along with the texturz polka dot embossing plate for my Big Shot.  I love my Big Shot - it's easy, quick and I use it frequently.  I also wanted something that I could create many Christmas cards of in a very short amount of time.

Here's a close up for you:  

Jaydee tips:

• Repetition in threes is a good thing:  there are three lots of dots... along the sentiment, on the background and in the ribbon.  Doing anything in odd numbers gives a balance to something.  You can see that there are also three ornaments and three colors + a neutral.
  
• To get the background embossed dots to pop a little - rub over them with a sanding block or a piece of sandpaper.  (Some of you already know that, because you have used that technique before - or seen me talk about it... so hang in there whilst I share this knowledge with those that might not have used the Big Shot and the embossing plates before :-))  
• The other thing - you can use your My Digital Studio - GOING LIVE TOMORROW!!!!! - and print out multiples of them - and then just add the ribbon or other embellishments to make that printed project look more hand made. 

I have so many cards to make.... and almost no time to do them... it's so frustrating and I swear I get really crabby when I can't find my creative release.

I hope you all have a fabulous Thursday - and please... go check out the My Digital Studio.  You can see the video at this link and you can see a couple of the projects I made here on my blog.  I'm really excited about it and am hoping to get the first of my coffee table travel books finished in the next two weeks (you can see the start of it on my link).  

And... don't forget - free SU goodies up for grabs including some of the ribbon used on this card, in-color card stock and ribbon, stamp sets, etc.  All for one lucky person.  

As always, thank you for stopping by and spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere. There are so many amazing and creative people who share their creations with you, that I am grateful that you chose to spend some time with me.  Your visits, your comments and your business are much appreciated.

Peace and hugs

Jaydee

Dasher - Old Olive

Hi Everyone.  Happy Friday.  Welcome to Jaydee's SU stamping space! Oh yes. Oh yes. Oh yes.  It's friday.  Has anyone ever written an ode to the absolute unbelieveable joy to the end of the work week?  If they have, can you let me have a link.  It's been a tough week this week and I haven't gotten to do anything creative.  I sure have spent a lot of time on the phone listening to people talk, though :-)

So... tonight's card is... gosh, what a surprise.... Dasher.  Question of the day... what on earth is Jaydee going to do when Christmas is over... try to turn Dasher into the Easter Bunny? :-)

Splitcoast Wednesday card sketch 246 inspired me to do two cards this week.  Both very, very, very different.  I posted the Big on Christmas Snow card yesterday - and here's my Old Olive ode to Dasher.  Oh.. and please... no-one remind me that there is already a new Wednesday sketch that I haven't even gotten to yet.  :-)

I used the Dasher image from the Christmas Jingle simply scrappin kit.  I also used the large scalloped circle die with my big shot and the texturz plate with my big shot.  I loved the way the polka dots on the card stock mimicked the polka dots behind the Dasher image from the simply scrappin kit.  You'd think I'd planned that, wouldn't you?

Jaydee tips:

1. with the texturz plate - run 2-3 pieces of spare card stock... anyone NOT have spare card stock?.... underneath your texturz plate for more texture
2. take a sanding block and gently rub over the textured image to take the top layer of ink off.  You will see that the dots are now raised and more visible, and very like the ones behind Dasher.

  
  I love this wide striped grosgrain ribbon.  It's immensely versatile.  However, the most versatile stamp in my entire stamping space is ... without a doubt... Dasher.  You can see all my Dasher cards - and how varied they are here.  Considering that this stamp is less than $9.00 on preferred pricing - it's an absolute steal.  I promise you, you will find no end of uses for Dasher.  I can see him as gift cards, Christmas cards, dressing up a menu card for the Christmas table, as an ornament... you can see many other inspirations on splitcoaststampers.com.

It's Friday.. so take a mosey on over to my friend, and fellow demonstrator Jean Fitch's website. She does Frugal Friday for you.  Jean takes a stamp and highlights it and then finds the best uses of this stamp set on the web.  It takes her ages to put this together for us - and there's lots of great information.  So go check out this Friday's featured stamp Think Happy Thoughts,

On a personal note.  It's beginning to scream Fall.  We finally had some rain over the last two days.  It felt - and smelled - fabulous  I just love the smell of wet earth after a drought.  The trees are beginning to turn - but not with their usual magnificent veritable cornucopia of colors.  This year is going to be a more controlled - and less spectacular - fall season, I think.  So, to make up for it, I went and bought myself a bright orange jersey .... I know... I know... any excuse to buy something.  Actually, it's amazing that I didn't find an excuse to buy another stamp set instead!  My jersey is almost an exact match with Pumpkin Pie.  So... how many of you also describe colors to match SU papers?  Or whatever your favorite paper is???  Come on... fess up!

I hope you have a fabulous Saturday and that you get to spend time doing the things you love - with those you love the most.  I'd ask you one thing.. can you all go across to either of these links and click to feed homeless animals... if you are a dog lover you can click this link freekibble.com and if you are a cat lover click this link freekibblekat.com.  I visit every day and do my clicks.  I do it, not only because I love animals, but because I want to support a young lady who decided to show us all what a difference one person can make.  So do yourself - and homeless animals a favor - click the links and go check it out.

Peace and hugs to you all

Jaydee

Christmas Jingle - Inspiration in Action Sketch Challenge

Hi Everyone - Happy Tuesday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stamping spot.  Today's card was a very different layout and one that had me pfaffing around rather a lot.  I swear I had so many stamp sets out on top of my workspace that it looked like a used stamp sale!  I just couldn't decide on what to do.  There was something about Saturday morning that my mojo was flowing reallllllly slowly.  However, the thing about doing challenges... is because they are a challenge.  It's boring doing the same old stuff and I find that doing these challenges forces me to think outside of my normal style and layouts - and that's a very good thing.  Otherwise, it's like eating the same meal every day, at the same table, with the same view.... :-)  Here's the sketch challenge layout from Gretchen Barron's Inspiration in Action sketch challenge

Anyway, I finally decided to do something different and take out my SU Christmas Jingle scrapping kit and work with that.  Once I'd made that decision, then things moved very quickly.  Here's what I finally came up with

I used my texturz plate to emboss the background card stock and then elements from the Christmas Jingle scrapping kit for the images.  I also used Old Olive and Real Red markers to color in the hearts to give them more substance.  In the kit they are just colored outlines.  To give a little more bling, I added Crystal Effects on the hearts.

Jaydee tips:

• when using the textures plates, I like a little more depth.  I do that by putting 3 sheets of old card stock underneath the texturz plate before running it through my Big Shot
• Sometimes I also like to highlight the embossing even more - as I did on this card.  I did that by taking my sanding block and rubbing it backwards and forwards and then in a circular motion over the top of my card.  This takes off the top layer of card stock and exposes a slightly lighter color underneath.  It really highlights the embossing.
• when using the scrapping kits for cards... if you have a color printer/copier and it will print on card stock - you can actually photocopy the elements onto cardstock and then use them for multiple cards
• You'll notice that I decided to echo the round elements on the edges of the ribbon.  I didn't want to cut them at an angle - or give them a fish tail.  I wanted a softer look to echo the other round elements - especially the button.  A different detail that adds another element of interest.
  

In the end, I was actually pleased with the card.  It was very different and a painful process to get there.  However, once I had the image in my head and knew what I wanted to do - it was a very quick card to assemble.  Almost no stamping required.

Hopefully you will be inspired by the sketch and have ideas of your own.  Why not participate in Gretchen's challenge and add your card to her site.  There are some amazing sketches out there - and Carole'Anne did another amazing card.  If you haven't clicked to go visit Gretchen's challenge site in the earlier part of my post - you can check it out here. 

On the personal front - we finally had some rain last night.  We haven't had rain for a month and it was great to finally smell wet earth.  If any of my readers are in the Atlanta area - I hope you and your families properties are all safe.  I spent a lot of time working with a client in Atlanta and couldn't believe the pics when I saw them on the news today.   

For those of you visiting my site regularly, you may remember the story of Sacha - my best friend's cat who went to Rainbow Bridge a little while ago.  You can read about it here.  Well, I'm happy to report that Pam has adopted two abandoned kitties - a result of a breakup!  Sox and Sparkey..... ooops... Sparkey is such a big girls blouse - that they have renamed him Spooky!  Apparently he gets spooked by everything - including John's creaking knee when he climbs the stairs in the middle of the night.  Mind you....when I read her note, I could picture Alfred Hitchcock writing the scene.   "The bedroom fades to a deep inky darkness.  A small thin slither of pale moonlight escapes between the not quite closed curtains.  Sparkey Spooky feels the tension - its palpable - his heart is beating fast - but he barely breathes.  The noise, quite faint at first, is getting louder.  Creak. Thump.  Creak. Thump.  Creak Thump.  His heart beats faster and faster..... he knows it's coming for him.  Creak. Thump.  Creak. Thump.  His eyes widen in terror and Sparkey almost screams, his tail expands to enormous proportions.   Creak. Thump.  Creak Thump.  He can't take it any  longer it's getting closer and it's coming for him... he jumps from the bed as high as he can up the curtains...  ooops....  fade to Monty Python moment.... Spooky forgets he's been declawed :-)...."  well... he hasn't been declawed but it sounded good :-)  OK... so now you know why I didn't go into screen writing :-)

And on that note - I'm going to wish you all a "good evening" (for those of you old enough to remember Alfred Hitchcock's program "Alfred Hitchcock Presents"....)  Thank you for spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  You are always welcome and your visits area always appreciated. 

Any questions.... send me an email or leave me a comment.  I look forward to hearing from you.

Peace and hugs
Jaydee