Stampin! with Jaydee

Hi Everyone.

A quick post for you tonight.... Lou and I have been very busy and it has been pretty impossible for me to get to my blog, but I did want to send you all a little sunshine tonight.  I don't know about your neck of the woods but Minnesota has certainly got its fair share of rain.... but nothing like poor Colleen has been experiencing down in Texas... along with the baseball size hail and..... earthquakes!  Colleen, glad that you are alright and that you received little damage.

One of the things I have challenged myself to do this year is use up all of the bits and bobs from the various card kits that I have in my stash... whether they are from Stampin' Up! kits that I bought, from Paper Pumpkin or Simon Says Stamp.  I end up making one or two cards and then the rest of the goodies sit in my stash waiting for that "right" moment.  As I needed some cards for the Splitcoaststampers cards for a cause, I pulled out my kits and got to work.

I found this fabulous background DSP in an old SimonSaysStamp kit and realized it was perfect with the new Sunshine stamp set I got from WPlus9.   I added a little SU gold glimmer paper and some sequins and my card was ready to go.

Here's my card:

 I also wanted to share this photo with you.... I have a new camera and am playing around with it - it has a much greater zoom than my old camera and is much better in low light.  When I was playing around I caught this shot of one of my favorite birds

Isn't he just beautiful?  I love to watch him fly from the safety of the cedar's that we planted onto the feeder.  His incredible red feathers bring sunshine to my day!

I'll be back on Saturday with my Paper Players card.  In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers to those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee