Stampin! with Jaydee

Paper Players Challenge # 36 - It's all about fabric

Hi Everyone.  Happy Saturday night.

It's time for the weekly challenge across at the Paper Players.  This week Nance is hosting the challenge and her challenge was to use fabric on our cards.

Now, as I hardly sew at all these days, fabric is pretty hard to come by in my house.  Consequently, I decided to use ribbon as my fabric.  Well.... ribbon is fabric, right?

I really wanted to do something a little different with my ribbon. However, mojo must have gone AWOL for a little while..... I actually made 3 cards before settling on this one.  

My new Hostess set - Something to Celebrate - arrived a week ago and there is a lovely Happy Mother's Day sentiment in there.  That led me to making an early Mother's Day card.  That in turn led me to flowers.  mmmm.... now we are on to something!  

Here's what I came up with

I was so happy with it.  The rose looks fabulous in the satin ribbon and I know exactly where this card is going.  It's going to have to go in a box though to preserve the flower!  I really wanted to keep a very clean and simple backdrop and let the flower be the absolute star.   What do you think?

Card recipe - all ingredients Stampin' Up!

• Card stock: Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke (leaves)
• Stamps: Something to Celebrate - Occasions Mini Hostess level 2 (121955)
• Accessories:  Purely Pomegranate satin ribbon (retired), Little Leaves Sizzlit die
• Ink:  Bravo Burgundy
• Tools:  Mini glue dots, snail, stamp-a-ma-jig, Big Shot

I wasn't using Stampin' Up! products when Purely Pomegranate was a color... but I have to tell you, I bought this ribbon on the clearance rack and I LOVE IT!  Purely Pomegranate is a gorgeous color.  It's beautiful with the richness of the Very Vanilla.

Now, don't forget to pop along to the PaperPlayers Challenge blog and play along with us.  I know you will all come up with some creative way to play with fabric.  It can be a scrapbook page, a card or a 3D project.  It's entirely up to you.

Sue - I hope John had a fabulous birthday weekend.  Happy 90th Birthday, John!  You are a beautiful couple.  Pop along to Sue's blog and check out the pics that she has posted.  Scroll down to the entry for February 22 to take a look at the photo of John as a young boy!

Have a fabulous Sunday everyone.  I hope it is a wonderful day where ever you are!

Hugs

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

 

With All My Heart - winners showcase

Hi Everyone

Happy Tuesday night.  I have for you tonight a sampling of the cards that Hazel and he friends sent in for fromourhearts.  Hazel had read that they were looking for Mother's Day cards, so she got a couple of her friends together and they made Mother's Day cards for the troops to send home to their moms!  Love it!

So, with thanks to Hazel and the rest of your who participated, here is a sampling of the Mother's Day cards.  I know you will find lots of inspiration.

Here's the I {Heart} Heart stamp.  I love the way they positioned that hatch stamp over the punched stamp.  The sentiment is from All Holidays.

Love this Sending Love DSP.  The heart is from the I {heart} hearts and the sentiment is from All Holidays.  Love this pretty in pink and chocolate chip combo.  The little flower is from With All My Heart

Again, this gorgeous paper from Sending Love. The stamp in the middle of the flower is from With All My Heart.  The flower is, of course, the Extra Large Fancy Flower punch from the new mini.  I'm thinking I might have to get this one!!!  Sentiment from All Holidays.

Well, you all recognize the wonderful Fifth Avenue stamp.  I love the way this was done twice - the middle piece was cut out on the second image and raised above the first with dimensionals.  The embossing powder on the outer edges adds just the right amount of dimension.  I love this scallop border punch!  The sentiment is from Well Scripted.

Of course, you recognize the Beautiful Wings embosslit... I love these butterflies.  The background is the Perfect Polka Dot impressions folder

Lots of great inspiration for you tonight.  Congratulations again to Hazel on winning the Big Shot!  However, as you can see, Hazel has a Big Shot already, so has chosen to get Dies for her Big Shot instead!

Have a wonderful Wednesday everyone.  More inspiration cards to come from the wonderful ladies who helped with the card drive over the rest of this week!

Hugs

Jaydee