Stampin! with Jaydee

St Patty's and Charity Final Card Count

Hi everyone.

Hope you all forgive me for not posting last night.  The girls and I were hard at work packaging and counting all the cards for charity.  Of course, it took longer than it should have done because we kept stopping every few seconds and saying... wow... did you see this one.  Hey, look how great this is!  Cool... why didn't I think of that!  So it ws a voyeurs delight getting to touch and admire all the cards that were sent one last time before they were sent off to charity.

Before we get to the count and the pics of the boxes, etc.  A card for you tonight - using Teeny Tiny Wishes and the Full Heart punch.

A few years ago I traced my genealogy and discovered that my grandparents on my father's side were Irish. Don't ask how I never knew that!  Anyway, I have been celebrating St Patty's day in earnest since then... especially as it also happens to be the day that Lou tried to propose to me in New York...but that's another story!  consequently, I decided to create a simple and easy St Patty's Day card for you based on the stamping411 sketch again this week.  It shows you how versatile the sketch is.

 

I punched the hearts out of Glorious Green card stock and covered them with Crystal Effects.  I left them to dry - they become really pliable.... stamped the sentiment, wrapped a piece of gold elastic cord twice around a piece of Naturals White card stock, adhered the hearts and voila.  My first St Patty's card.  Warning... the flecks you see don't mean that your screen needs cleaning!!!!  They are the flecks in the Naturals range of papers :-)

I wanted to show you some of the cards that we received for the drive.  These gorgeous cards are a selection from the ones sent in by Yvonne.  Please show Yvonne a little love and leave her a comment.

Yvonne used the Vintage Vogue and Well Scripted stamps for this lovely, soft feminine birthday card.  Creating a circle card with these elements works really well.

I love the tags on this :-)  really cute and the color combination works really well.  The scalloped edge helps to create visual interest and add to the feminine feel.

 

The use of the corner border punch, embossing, flowers and ribbon create a very special card.

Yvonne used great coloring to highlight the hat in the fabulous Garden from the Heart set.  You can really feel and see the heart that went into making this fabulous card.

I'll be showcasing a couple more of Yvonne's fabulous cards, along with others taken randomly from the boxes before we posted them.  Again... my thanks to everyone who participated.

NOW THE MOMENT YOU HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR...... HOW MANY CARDS DID WE GET.... well.... thanks to the additions by Brenda - thank you Brenda... who donated almost 300 cards, I might tell you! the grand total of cards collected for the drive was

800 cards for fromourhearts and hugsandhope

It was a very emotional moment when we had finally finished and counted the cards.  Here's a pic of my great ... and I mean that in the truest sense of the word... friends Brenda and Cherie as we were on the final leg of getting the cards ready.  When this pic was taken we were literally on the final 20 or so cards and were starting to clean up.  Oh yeah..... and we managed to do all of this without spilling a drop of wine!

 

Here are the cards all ready to go.  There are 50 cards per ziplock bag... and there is 1 bag that made it to the boxes after this pic was taken.

My thanks to Bethany, Brenda and Cherie.  Your friendship means so much to me.

My thanks to Adelle, Cam, Kelli, Tonya, Yvonne, Lynn, Beth and Hazel....your support means so much to me.

My thanks to my darling hubby who cooked for us, kept us supplied with water and wine - and supports my hobby - and me.

My thanks to all of you for your support.

Happy Tuesday everyone.

Hugs

Jaydee

Love Bug - 4 up and charity card drive showcase #4

Hi Everyone

Happy Friday!   TGIF!!!!  Oh boy!  I was so looking forward to the end of the day today.  I had this idea in my head all day that I wanted to make a card using paper that had yellow honeycombs on it and I was going to combine it with the Just Buzzin By set...... Well, it was fantastic in my mind.  Really.  Fabulous!  Except... well... when I finally got to my stamping space and opened up my paper... it was pink!  Now, I don't know about you, but I've never seen pink honeycombs before!  So.... thud... that sound you heard was me falling flat on my face.  Back to the drawing board! 

Along with my card tonight - using the Love Bug set, I am featuring a selection of cards from Cam's submissions for my card drive.  I loved looking through Cam's cards - they are fabulous and I would like to give Cam a HUGE shout out!  You Rock, Cam!  Please show Cam a little love and leave her some comments.  It's a great thing that the ladies have done to donate their time and their goodies to send cards to the troops and to critically ill children at hugsandhope.org.  I am so grateful that they came along with me on this journey.

So, tonight's card from Jaydee features Love Bug (115233).  This set is a really cute hostess level 1 set.  I've been dying to find an occasion to use it - and somehow the layout on the cleanandsimple challenge site - a new site I found btw - dedicated to... well.... clean and simple layouts! :-)  My regular visitors know that I love me a clean and simple challenge.  The fabulous layout was to use 4 squares in the bottom right hand corner.  When I looked through my sets, the Love Bug seemed perfect for it.  It makes a great Valentine's card - and is perfect for sending along with the cards to the troops in my fromourhearts card drive.

Isn't this set so cute? I used the single bug and stamped it using StazOn.  I then took my blender pen and used Real Red and Pretty in pink inks to create the stripes on the bodies.  I punched them out with a 1" punch and then took my 1 1/4" punch and punched out 4 Real Red squares.  I stuck the bugs to the matts using snail and put dimensionals behind the matts.  I wrapped a piece of Red and White gingham ribbon around the card.  I then stamped the Love Bugs sentiment from the set onto Whisper White card stock and used my jewelery punch to punch out the sentiment.  A grey half pearl was added as decoration.  I didn't want the coloring to be perfect... I know... Mom... I can hear you screaming at me from Heaven.. but seriously, I thought it would have lost a little of it's whimsical feeling if the coloring had been perfect.  I know, Mom :-)

Simple, quick and, I think, cute!

Now, on to Cam's cards.  I promise you, there is so much for you to find inspiration from here.  Please leave Cam a little love with a comment.  Enjoy the show of Cam's fabulous creations.  Cam's cards have stamps that you haven't seen on my site - so lots of inspiration for you.

here Cam uses Eastern Blooms (111626) and the Trio Flower punch (110711) to perfection.  Notice the piercing at the bottom of the card

 

Here Cam uses the Messages from Mom set (117016 or 118580) and the fabulous Kaleidoscope DSP (115680).  Having seen this... I have to go by myself some of this gorgeous DSP.  Love the spotlighting technique.

Here Cam uses a set you never see on my site - the Beary Best Friends (118052) set! and Thoroughly Modern DSP (115673).  Love that water coloring!

 

Here Cam uses the Garden from the Heart set (117004 or 118568) - its available in French and Spanish, too.  It's such a beautiful set.  Notice the stamped hat at the bottom.

 

I loved this card stamped using Autumn Days from the last holidays mini.  Most of us have used Autumn colors for this stamp set - and Cam went outside of the box and made it fresh and modern by using these colors.

 

I've enjoyed sharing these wonderful creations from the very talented group of women who have so far submitted cards for the charity drive.  Each style has been different and I hope you have enjoyed viewing them.  I still have a couple more collections to share with you. 

Tonight, I spent some time making my wood mount stamps that have just arrived into clear mount stamps!  Oh... the joy... the freedom... :-)  I love the feel of the wood mount stamps from SU.  It was the reason that I became an SU demonstrator.  I found myself scouring recycling sales at my local scraping store to see who was selling their SU sets. Why?  Because I always found myself drawn to them and the quality.  I bought a single stamp at my LSS this last weeked.  $7.99 for a single sentiment stamp.  I love it... but seriously.. it was a lot of money for a single stamp.  It reminded me why I always bought SU!  Anyway, the thing I am loving about the new SU stamps - is that I can buy the clear mount version.  Not only do I save money, but there are serious space saving advantages, too.  I will be placing a tutorial on how I have converted my stamps to clear mount in a post this weekend.  So watch out for that.

Have a fabulous Saturday everyone.  Thank you so much for stopping by my blog and please leave Cam a little love in the way of a comment.

Hugs

Jaydee