Stampin! with Jaydee

Happy Friday.  Where has this week gone?  It's been another one of those weeks with long work days that just run into each other!  I am hoping to get into my crafting cave this weekend to recover some of my equilibrium!

I have a card for you using the Stampin' Up! sets Very Versailles and Free as a Bird.  Another two sets that will stay with me long after they have retired!  I was inspired to use them because of the sketch across at As You See It

It's a really unusual layout and I decided to use a background stamp and the free as a bird image to create the focal elements.  I kept the color scheme to shades of yellow/orange and loosely colored the birds and popped them off the base layer.  For the element on the top left, I used the sun stamp from the June Paper Pumpkin kit.  Here's my card:

I carried the sunshine them to the inside

I used the same papers as I had used on the front of my card to decorate the flap of the envelope.  I die-cut the envelope flap using a die set from the mini catalog called Ornamental Envelopes.  It has some great holiday themed days, but I thought many of them (including this one) worked well beyond the holidays.

Here's the envelope:

I'll be back tomorrow with another card - and photos of what has been visiting the feeder.  In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Hugs

Jaydee

Card recipe:

• Stamps:  Free as a Bird, Very Versailles - Stampin' Up!
• Paper:  Playing with Patterns DSP - Stampin' Up!
• Dies:  Ornamental Envelopes - Stampin' Up!