Stampin! with Jaydee

Garden Greenhouse - Grateful

Hi Everyone.  Happy Thursday and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space.  You have NO idea how happy I am that it is almost Friday.  I'm looking forward to getting my 3D projects started - and finished! - this weekend.  Today's card is not...... wait for it... drum roll, please... a Christmas card!  Really.  Seriously.  Not a Christmas card... Nope!  You heard right.

Today's card uses one of my favorite nature sets Greenhouse Garden.

I love this set - it fits with so many different color schemes and I love the 2 step stamping.  Mind you, it's made much easier with the use of a Stamp-a-ma-jig!  So, not only is this NOT a Christmas card night - but it's also not a night where I have used Shimmer Paint!

I wanted to do a card using Gretchen Barron's Inspiration in Action sketch.  It's an interesting sketch and Gretchen's inspirationc cards are both gorgeous.  You should check them out here.  I ended up creating two cards using this sketch.  Tonight's card is a thankful card.  I have so many things to be grateful for and, as we are getting closer to Thanksgiving, I thought it appropriate to create a card to celebrate this.

I have many things to be grateful for. 

On the creative front, I'd like to thank the team at splitcoaststampers.com for choosing my Home for Christmas card to be the featured upload on the Stampin' Up Only gallery.  I was exceptionally honored to be chosen as the featured stamper.  I actually have a different take on this sketch, so keep your eyes out for that.  Additionally, my Gifts of Peace card was chosen as one of the top 3 submissions for the Palspaperarts challenge this week - and I was very honored by that, as well! I am grateful to be able to share something that I love doing with people who are responsive to my creations :-)

On the personal front, I am blessed to be loved by - and be in love with - the most amazing man.  Loved, unconditionally but a fabulous group of kitties, more than half of which are rescues; blessed to have so many amazing friends; blessed to have been born to the parents that I was born to, regardless of their issues, they taught me more things than any other parents could have - and made me the person I am today.  I am grateful to be surrounded by the nature - flora and fauna - that I love so much.  I am grateful for my health.  I am also grateful to those of you who have supported me on this journey into the blogosphere in the last 3 months.  So, many things to be grateful for!

Card elements:

• More Mustard and Really Rust card stock.
• Image stamped on Kraft card stock
• DSP is from the Patterns III hostess set
• Ribbon is Dusty Durango polka dot ribbon
• Rhinestones were removed from their housing and placed in the middle of the flowers
• Flowers from the Garden Greenhouse set... love. love. love.. the Greenhouse Garden set
• I used my Big Shot and the texturz plate for the background to the second matt.  (You can see that the diamond shape echoes the diamond shape in the DSP)

So, grateful is the theme for today.  I'd like to challenge you to take 2 minutes and think about what you are grateful for... and feel free to leave a comment letting us all know what you are grateful for.

I hope you have a fabulous Friday.  Thanks for spending time in my area of the stamping blogosphere - your visits, your comments and your support are always much appreciated.

Jaydee

GREENHOUSE GARDEN - Best Wishes

HI Everyone, Happy Wednesday evening!
tonight's card is the Stampin Up Greenhouse Garden set.  I wanted to create a clean and simple card really focusing on the flowers.

I created this for a friend who is in hospital and I wanted to create a bunch of virtual flowers as opposed to real ones. :-)

• Card Stock:  Whisper White Jaydee tip: (always my preferred card stock when I'm looking for a crisp, clean central image).  Matt is Melon Mambo.
• Jaydee tip:  when you want a really clean card which still looks rich, keep the colors to a minimum.  Here I used white as my neutral and chose three colors-  Melon Mambo, Rich Razzleberry, Certainly Celery.  
• Stamps:  Greenhouse Garden, Short and Sweet
• Embellishments: Pretties Kit, half pearls, Certainly Celery Ribbon
• I mounted the image with Stampin Dimensionals, to create a little dimensionality and separation between the card base and the image - especially as they were the same color.  My Stamp-a-ma-jig was a great tool for this.

If you like the Greenhouse Garden set, I have another card using this set here.  As always, thanks very much for stopping by and visiting my little area of the stamping blogosphere. 

Question for you..... let me know how you feel about the new header and color scheme!

Peace and hugs
Jaydee

Greenhouse Garden - Full of Life - Happy Birthday

Hi Everyone

Happy Sunday.  Today's card is my MojoMonday 99 submission.  I used the new Stampin' Up! Greenhouse Garden stamp set.  This is such a pretty set.  I combined it with the Full of Life set.  I used the new Cottage Garden Designer Series Paper and pearls from the Pretties Kit.

To make the card:

Card stock:  

Old Olive (A2)

Rich Razzleberry 4 x 5 1/8

Designer Series Paper

Cottage Wall 1 piece cut at 2 1/4  3 1/2 (polka dot) and one piece (patterned) cut at 2 1/14 and 2 7/8. I then cut a piece of the same DSP stripe 2 3/4 x 2 7/8.  I used a 1 inch circle punch
to cut out a half circle in the top of the stripe paper.

I used Old Olive card stock cut at 1 1/4 x 3 7/8 and cut a V in the bottom 

Sentiment:

I stamped the sentiment from the Full of Life (111500) set in Rich Razzleberry on a piece of Whisper White card stock 2 3/8 x 2.  I popped up the matt and the sentiment with Stampin' Dimensionals

Flowers:

I stamped the larger flower from the Garden Greenhouse in Orchid Opulence and then 
stamped the inner part in Rich Razzleberry.
The two smaller flowers were stamped in Perfect Plum and the centers in Rich Razzlberry.  To finish off the flowers, I added half pearls from the Pretties Kit. I love the dimensionality of the flowers in the Greenhouse Garden set and can't wait to try them with different colors.

Ribbon:

I used a small a piece of Rich Razzleberry Polka Dot (to echo the polka dots from the DSP 
and the circles from the half pearls) and I adhered this to the back of the Old Olive with snail.

I loved the Cottage Wall Paper and thought that the Greenhouse Garden flowers (one of my brand new sets) worked perfectly well with the paper.  The MM99 sketch is so flexible, that I have a yearning to make another card with it - if my neck holds out long enough to be able to make another sketch.

To add texture to the background, I used the Rich Razzleberry textured card stock against the Old Olive.  Overall, I was really pleased with the card, and think that the Greenhouse Garden is going to become a favorite.

I love the two step stamping sets and this particular set gives such clean, crisp images. (113824).  

Greehouse Garden (113824)                                  Full of Life (111500)

On a personal note... still not able to do much with my neck and the pills make me really sleepy and very foggy.  BUT... i've been away from my stamping space too long and really needed to create something tonight!  Mind you, my best friend Pam's hubby was pruning bushes last week and oooooppps..... instead of pruning the bush, pruned the pad off his index finger and half the pad off the second finger.  One quick trip to the emergency room later.... (aaaargggh... the thought of it makes me weak at the knees).  Mind you, it's what they found afterwards that made me really weak at the knees!!!  The next morning, they retrieved the pruning shears from the garden where he had dropped them.... to find the pad of his finger still attached to the shears.  OK.  can anyone say gross!  Me.... I thought it was rather an extreme way to get out of washing dishes :-)  Seriously, John.... get well soon and I have a pair of gardening gloves on the way for you :-)

Have a fabulous Sunday and I hope it's filled with lots of time doing the things that make you happy - with those that you love.  And thank you for spending a little part of your day in my area of the stamping blogosphere.

Peace and hugs

Jaydee