Stampin! with Jaydee

 

I loved the diagonal element behind the focal layer and decided that it would work really well for my leaves stencil die.

 

I began by adding some green distress ink to my craft sheet and then added some white embossing paste and mixed the ink with the paste.  I then added the paste to the base layer quite thickly, and then left it to dry.   Whilst it was drying, I die-cut the tag and stamped two flowers from the Enchanted Garden set on opposite corners and colored them lightly with my Copic Markers.  I love this sentiment from the Enchanted Garden set and know that I will use this often.  It works for general cards, birthday cards, hello cards, friendship cards... Can you tell I just like it :-)

 

Here's my assembled card:

 

 

For the tag .... there are two sides - one is the front side, which produces a smooth tag - the backside of it shows more distressing and stress from when the die is run through the Big Shot.   I decided to use the backside of it because I liked the distressed feel of it - I thought it worked well with the other textures on the card.

 

I needed to add a little more interest to the flowers, so used by Irresistibles white for one flower and clear for the other.  I also used some new ink colors from Fun Stampers Journey for the  flowers - they are really bright, neon colors and I think are perfect for summer.

 

On a personal note:

 

So... many of you enjoyed my emu card - you can see her again here.  Well, Jeanette decided to share another photograph with us from Down Under - and show us what a real Emu looks like!  This delightful photo was taken at a Koala Sanctuary a few years ago.   Full disclosure - more photos coming from that trip later this week :-)   So, thanks Jeanette for sending this photo. 

 

 

SO much prettier than my stamp.... but still as cute. :-)     

 

I'll leave you with that shot for tonight.  I'll be back tomorrow with another card.  In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee

 

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