Stampin! with Jaydee

Detailed Dove Dies for Freshly Made Sketches

Happy Monday. I have a very quick post for you today. I did get into my crafting cave for a couple of hours yesterday. One of the cards I made is for the Freshly Made Sketches sketch this week and I was inspired to use my Detailed Doves Dies from the new Stampin' Up! mini catalog. I love these dies and this will be one of the Christmas cards I make to send out this year. You can see that I had to flip the sketch to make it work for the dies. Die cutting and assembling the elements of... Read more →

Prized Peony for Paper Players #503

Happy Sunday. It's the fabulous Joanne's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and it's color week and it was another chance for me to showcase my favorite Stampin' Up! set - Prized Peony: So, I have to be honest, Melon Mambo is one of my least favorite colors. I just find it a little too bright for my taste. I love what other people do with it, but I do like that Joanne paired it with Night of Navy to offset it. However, I did take the chicken way out this week and used it sparingly! I... Read more →

Forever Blossoms and Peony Garden for Atlantic Hearts #380

Happy Saturday! I managed to escape to my crafting cave today. It was a good day to be there. It has been really muggy and very overcast and rainy. So Charlie and I spent some quality time - he on the chair fast asleep and me playing with inks and stamps. I found some inspiration across at AtlanticHearts. They always produce sketches that force me to stretch my creativity and I love that. Here's this week's sketch: I decided to ink up my Forever Blossoms flower and pair that with some strips of DSP from the Peony Garden set and... Read more →

Very Versailles and Free as a Bird for As You See It #231

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... Read more →

Seas the Day for Case this Sketch

Happy Monday. I did get into my crafting cave yesterday and managed to make a couple of cards. Tonight's card uses one of my old favorite sets - Seas the Day from Hero Arts. Here's the sketch from Case this Sketch I stamped three elements - two of the seagull and one sea shell, colored them and then fussy cut them. I separated a stitched rectangle layer to give place for the sentiment. I adhered the two pieces together and stamped the tree stump directly onto the card base. I colored it with pencil instead of my Copic's so that... Read more →