Stampin! with Jaydee

 Hi Everyone.  Happy Sunday.

It's a double billing day today, so two cards for a single visit :-)

I was thrilled to be invited to be the guest designer across at Sunday Stamps for June. A huge thank you to Holly for inviting me to play along with this very talented group of crafters!

The challenge at Sunday Stamps is a color challenge and what a gorgeous collection of colors:

I love the soft, subtle colors and the pop of blue really lifts the neutrals.  I thought about these colors for a while and realized that they would work for a gender neutral card and I decided to take a slightly different approach by using some word bubbles colored with Copic markers.

I began with an Early Espresso base and then added a piece of SU Very Vanilla Neutrals DSP.  I used a Tim Holtz stencil and added some Pool Party ink over the Very Vanilla layer.  I liked the additional, yet subtle, interest it added to the base.

I then took the balsa wood word bubbles and colored them to match the challenge colors.  I adhered these to the Very Vanilla layer with Matte Multi-Medium.   I also added some SU neutral Candy Dots to the base layer and the card was ready.

Here's my take on the challenge:

 I really love the colors together and this combo will be added to my favorites collection.   I do hope you will join us across at SundayStamps this week.  We would love to see your take on the challenge.  The design team have created some fabulous cards for your inspiration.  Check them out and then come and play along!

Now... on to my second card for tonight.   It's the wonderful Joanne's turn to host the Paper Players challenge this week and she has a theme challenge for us.

Now... I don't know why, but my go to SU set for masculine cards is Rev Up the Fun.  I know it has been retired, but it is one of those stamps that will be staying in my collection.  I love it.

 

I decided to add a little pizzazz to this card and used some of the Stampin' Up! silver foil and a Tim Holtz embossing folder.  I used that as the base and then stamped the car in Real Red ink and embossed it with clear embossing powder.  I love the colors together.   Mind you, the card was really hard to photograph because of the reflection off the foil paper!

 

Here's my card:

Isn't that embossing folder fun?  It's especially effective with the Silver Foil paper.  Lou approved of this card :-)

The design team have created a fabulous collection of masculine cards for your inspiration.  I do hope you will check out the cards and then play along with us.

On a personal note:

As I type this blog post the wind is howling, the lightening is lighting up the wetland and the rain is pouring.  AGAIN!  It was quiet the thunderstorm.  Luckily the storm has passed and all I can hear are the frogs ringing out their mating calls.   I love this time of the year in the wetland.  It's much, much quieter than last year though.  I can hear very few spring peepers and they are normally defeaning at this time of the year.  I'm hoping they are just a little late!

The wetland is certainly looking green!

It's good to see some water in it, too!

I got to spend some quallity time in my craft room today with my SU goodies from the new catalog.  I did a "3 day" order because I wanted to make sure it got to me before the weekend and it arrived yesterday!  I spent some time unpacking it, labeling it, sorting out my stamps and everything was ready to play today.

I have to tell you that I am absolutely in love with Mint Macaron.  It's a gorgeous color and, of course, I LOVE Watercolor Wings.  So you will definitely be seeing cards made with those two items this week.

I'll be back tomorrow, in the meantime warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jayde

Card recipe - Sunday Stamps:

• Cardstock:  Early Espresso (Stampin' Up!)
• DSP:  Very Vanilla Neutrals DSP pack (Stampin' Up!)
• Accessories:  Neutrals Candy Dots (Stampin' Up!).  Word Bubbles from stash
• Inks:  Copic Markers

Card recipe - Paper Players- all products Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted:

• Cardstock:  Smoky Slate.  Silver Foil
• Stamps:  Rev Up the Fun (retired)
• Inks:  Smoky Slate, Real Red
• Tools:  Tim Holtz embossing folder