Stampin! with Jaydee

 

I had to turn the sketch on the horizontal to make it work for me.   I needed an anniversary card and the sentiment layout that I had in mind worked better with the sketch on the horizontal

 

I started with some watercolor paper and inked up some of the leaves from the new SU set - Vintage Leaves.  I used white embossing powder for the leaves as I wanted a subtle, soft look.

 

Once the embossing powder was dry, I got to work with some new Zig water color Brush pens.  I used three different shades of orange to create shades of soft peach.   I inked up the "happy" part of the sentiment from an old Papertrey Ink set called Wet Paint.   I really wanted the sentiment in gold embossing powder, but found that I had run out of my true dark gold powder and had to go with a gold/glitter mix.  It looks a little washed out in the photo, but is very pretty in real life, so it worked out well in the end!  I stamped the "anniversary" part of the sentiment on a left over piece of the water coloring and popped it with some foam tape.   All that was left to do was to assemble the card and add a couple of gold expoxy elements.  

 

Here's my card:

 

 

Of course, I had to create a co-ordinating envelope - and went with the "love" sentiment from the same PTI Wet Paint set and a leaf that I had used from the Vintage Leaves set.

 

On a personal note:

 

Well... we had quite the storm come through last night.   The rain was almost horizontal and it was impossible to see out of the windows.    I had looked out over the wetland just before it arrived and noticed the color of the sky and the fact that the trees and plants were being buffeted by the wind.  The darkening sky made the trees across the wetland look like bonsai trees!   It was wonderful looking at the last vestiage of sunlight though.  There's something about that time - just before the storm - when the sunlight seems so bright

 

 

It was so hard to capture a photo of the grasses and shrubs being buffeted - but I tried.  :-)  I love to see the movement in the woodland and wetland!   By the time the storm took hold, it was impossible to get outside and take a photo of just how much they were being buffeted by the wind during the storm. 

 

 

The storm brought lots of wind, very heavy rain and something pretty rare for us - hail.  It was so warm during the storm that the hail was pretty much melting the minute it hit the deck but, there were some reasonably large stones - around 2".  Luckily everything was good after the storm and very little damage.

 

Well, I'll be back tomorrow with another card.   In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you that need a little lift tonight and, if you are traveling for the 4th July weekend, travel safe!

 

Hugs

Jaydee

 

Card recipe:

• Card stock:  Water color paper - Strathmore.  Crisp Cantaloupe - Stampin' Up!
• Stamps:   Leaves:  Vintage Leaves - Stampin' Up!  Sentiment:  Wet Paint - Papertrey Ink
• Inks:  Zig Brush water color pens