Stampin! with Jaydee

Mistletoe and Greetings of the Season

Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday night. Well, from the title of the blog post, I am guessing you realized this was a Christmas card! :-) I combined three challenges for this card: Freshly Made Sketches - who are celebrating their 1 year anniversary! I used sketch #18 Cas-ual Fridays - color challenge - Black, White and a color of my choice MoxieFab World - Cath has a great challenge - The Focal Point Challenge It's not often I get to combine challenges, but when there is a color challenge I generally go looking for a sketch. The Focal Point Challenge was... Read more →

More Merry Messages for Paper Players #113

Hi Everyone. Happy Saturday. Nance is our fabulous hostess across at the Paper Players this week and she has a wonderful CAS challenge for us. I had an idea to make a Christmas card using this theme and, of course, had to use Gumball Green. I really am loving the vibrancy of this new color. Here's my take on the challenge: This really was a quick and simple card to make. I already had a piece of Very Vanilla that I had run through my Big Shot with the new bark embossing folder. All I had to do is trim... Read more →

Line Art for Justusgirls

Hi Everyone. Happy Wednesday. Oh... yes.... it's half-way through the week and we are now on the downhill to the weekend :-) The challenge across at JUGS this week really caught me attention. This was a challenge for me because I ALWAYS.... well, just about always color in my line image stamps. This challenge got me thinking about how I could add the punch of color without the obvious way of coloring in the image. I knew that I wanted to keep it clean and simple. This is what I came up with I used the new SU In Color,... Read more →

Watercolor Winter for ispysketches

Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday. Hope you are all having a great week and I have a quick post for you tonight. I really loved the Watercolor Winter set that SU just released. However, I haven't had a chance to use it yet. I saw this sketch across at ispysketches and realized that this sketch was the perfect opportunity to ink up my new set! Here's what I came up with: I used all of the stamps in the set and inked them up with either Cherry Cobbler or Always Artichoke ink. But.... because this set is called "watercolor" - I... Read more →

Snow Festival for Fab Fridays Challenge #01 and Operation Write Home Card Drive

Hi Everyone. Happy Sunday. Want to join in on the Operation Write Home card drive and blog candy? Check out the bottom of this post. There's a new challenge blog in town! FabFridays. I was so excited to see that Mindy had started a new challenge site and the first sketch doesn't disappoint. I saw the Snow Festival DSP in the new Holiday mini and knew that I wanted to make a card using the houses. I also knew the exact sentiment that I would use with it. The sketch across at FabFridays proved to be just the one that... Read more →