Find joy in the little things - Homage to retiring colors #5

Hi Everyone.  Happy Thursday Night.  Tomorrow is Friday... Oh yeah!!!

Tonight's card was for two challenges - 1 of them I missed the submission.  Time this week has been very short... no stamping time to load my submission cards!!!

Tonight's card is also a huge departure from the cards of the last two days.  The soft hues, the water coloring and.... it's BLUE!  Me... Blue!  nah!  you can't be on jaydeestamping! :-)

The Clean and Simple Challenge across at splitcoaststampers last week was an inspiration challenge.  The inspiration Mackinac Island.  One of my favorite places, I might add.  If you click on this link - which was the Michigan postcards link that we were to use as inspiration (the link on the challenge)...  you will notice the sunset scene at the top of the page, with the Adirondack chairs.  Well, as soon as I saw that, I knew exactly what I was going to do.  I pulled out my Peace Within stamp set and saw this great sketch on the unscripted sketches challenge site and I was ready to go.

As always, I encourage you to click on the links and go visit the challenge sites to see the fabulous inspiration and submission cards and, of course, to play along!

My homage color for tonight?  Bordering Blue.

What I used to make the card:

Card stock    Bordering Blue, Chocolate Chip (great combo, btw!!) and Whisper White

Inks:            Chocolate Chip,Old Olive, Bordering Blue, Creamy Caramel, Crushed Curry, Basic Grey,                        Pumpkin Pie - a mixture of water color crayons and markers

Tools:           Big Shot and the Square Lattice Embossing Folder (119976) - available for order May 1                              (behind the ribbon)

Ribbon:        Chocolate Chip Satin ribbon

Sentiment:    Retired rub on

I enjoyed coloring the image, it really was relaxing and the sentiment, really just seemed to fit the challenge.  Mackinac is a laid back place, where it is so easy to find the joy in little things.  Did you notice that I tried to emulate the look of worn down stain on the chair?  I'm still trying to get better at coloring.  Doesn't the cat look so peaceful?

I'm off to do a conference call with colleagues in Asia.  But.. before I go... why not pop along and see pictures of Rach's little bundle of joy.  Click the link and I promise what you see will make you smile!

I thought you might want to pop along and see some of the fabulous cards from some of our regular and new commenters

Lynn

Germaine

Ann

Ange

Kelli

Jean

Lesley

Laurie

Margaret

Pop along and visit with our talented friends.

I hope you all have a fabulous Friday and have some wonderful things lined up for the weekend.  Me?  Relaxing, stamping and trying to do a little more work on finishing up my stamping space.  I've really had withdrawals from not being able to craft this week!

Hugs to you all

Jaydee

Comments

[Susan]

I think you've inspired me to get out this stamp set and INK IT UP for the first time!! Now to check out that baby picture - I have two beautiful little granddaughters. The oldest just turned two and her little sister is 9 months old already - where has the time gone?!

Susan, aka Soozie4Him on SCS

[Marsha E]

Another great card! I've got to get this stamp set before it retires. Hope Bilbo Baggins did not get to jealous of you spending time with another kitty! TFS

[Laurie Zoellmer]

This is beautiful Jaydee! The bordering blue is so pretty and calming with this image. Nicely done!

[Cherie]

Adorable card Jaydee. I can almost hear the cat purring. Thanks for taking the time to put all of those links on. It was fun to blog hop and check out your other readers. If pressed I would even admit it was fun to see faces to put with the names I see on a daily basis.
Have a great Friday and all!
PS Rach, congrats on your beautiful little bean! She's jsut too sweet :)

[Germaine]

Oh Jaydee, Thank you for the mention! much appreciated! although, I have not been up to doing much... simply knowing something about my health issues has made me feel or at least think I feel better, being in pain is one of the worse things one can suffer! You give me a lot of inspiration, and I am hoping my hands will be better and I can do some stamping, last night I labled all my copics, as I am being helped to slowly move into my newly built studio! Hope you have a good weekend! will visit all the other ladies too! Love little Ellie!! Hugs to all!

[Patricia Hoffman]

Hi Jaydee, you already know that I adore this Stamp Set...I love your Card! You've got the coloring on the chair just perfect and I really like the leaves on the plant. I think that you captured them perfectly, they look almost real. Wonderful job on this Card. I hope you get time to relax and stamp this weekend, you deserve it after the week you have had. Take care my friend, and may God Bless You.

Cyber hugs, Trish in Wisconsin

P.S. Thank you so very much for sharing Rach's Family. New little Ellie sure is Beautiful. I spent several minutes just staring into her sweet little face, how adorable. She is one lucky Mommy. Also I enjoyed visiting each of the Blogs of your other follower's. There is some mighty good talent out there. I spent over an hour going back in time through the pages and having the time of my life looking at all of the wonderful creations. Thank you everyone for sharing, it made for a special day for me.

[Ann Schach]

Wonderful job with the coloring! I love how you did the chair! Awesome job! And...thanks for the shout out, too!

[Missy]

This is so adorable! I love those colors! My best friend is a cat lover too! She would love this card! I don't know why I don't have this stamp set! I need to get it! Thanks for sharing your awesome creation!
Thanks for sharing your commenters awesome creations too!! They are so talented too!

[Lesley Croghan]

I LOVE this card. Bordering Blue is so pretty and it looks great with this image. I hope you do get some stamping time in this weekend!! I hope to play tonight. I am thinking of tackling the CTD and the OCC sketch…looking forward to see more of your work!

Lesley :)