Stampin! with Jaydee

Geared Up Garage for Freshly Made and Festive Friday

Happy Monday. I managed to get into my craft room yesterday and made a card for Freshly Made Sketches and FestiveFriday. (Plaid, blue, things with wheels, clean and simple) I was so excited that Festive Friday had plaid as one of the options. I love plaid and have tried a couple of the stamp sets that allow you to make your own stripes. To be honest, my stripes made with stamps look more like drunk worms. I can never get them straight and get frustrated. However, The Greetery came out with two different plaid making stencils - one for horizontal... Read more →

Pinwheel Party for Paper Players #545

Happy Sunday, It's the fabulous Claire's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's color week: I love these bright, summery colors they work so beautifully together and even though they are way outside of my comfort zone, I loved playing with them. I decided to bring out my Pinwheel Party set from the Greetery. I thought these colors would make a fabulous birthday card. I know you saw this set a couple of weeks ago on this post, but for this card, I changed the direction, but still get the bright colors. Here's my card: One... Read more →

Pinwheel Party for Festive Friday #85

Happy Monday I love playing along with the Festive Friday challenges when I can. They really are such fun and educational! The most recent challenge celebrates National Flag Week and I'm getting this card in right under the wire! For my card I went with CIRCLES, BRIGHT COLORS and STARS. I pulled out my Pinwheel Party set from the greetery. It comes with some fabulous layered stencils (btw... no-one does stencils like The Greetery - they are SO easy to use!) I used some really bright greens, yellows and oranges to create multicolored circles. My stars were added around the... Read more →

Free as Bird for Atlantic Hearts Sketch #423

Happy Sunday, again! I have a quick post for you tonight. I managed to escape to the cool of my craft room and make some cards this afternoon. I went looking for some inspiration and found exactly what I was looking for at AtlanticHearts For some reason the minute I saw this sketch I thought of the SU set Free as a Bird. I paired it with some retired SU DSP and a couple of gold leaves/flowers that came in an old Paper Pumpkin set. I stamped and colored the birds in a way that I thought complimented the pinks... Read more →

Robin and Wren and Boxwood Wreath for Paper Players #544

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Ann's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week - and this is her theme: I know most of you would the thinking beaches, sand, lakes, school holidays ... but for me... my card was based on what was going on outside our front door! The Robins had nested in our front door wreath again this year and we have spent the last couple of weeks watching her feather her nest (with the finest grasses, I might add), lay her eggs, roost and regularly turn her eggs and then we saw the little babies... Read more →