Hi Everyone. Happy Tuesday night.
It was a great honor to participate in the Operation Write Home blog hop this weekend. I really look forward to working with you on our current card drive for OWH and Hugs and Hope. Just a reminder, for every 10 hand made cards and envelopes you send me, you will be entered into a draw to win $100 worth of SU goodies supplied by moi! Trust me, looking at the previews of the catty, you are going to want to spend $100 on free goodies 🙂
Tonight's card features one of the sets that I am so pleased is staying C is for Cat (115764).
I did stay up until the very early hours of this morning going through the retiring list and the preview and placing my order. I am so looking forward to getting my hands on the new colors and some of the goodies I bought. I must admit, I wasn't that thrilled with the preview sets last year – this year, it's a different thing altogether. I was really happy with the goodies I bought. They arrive tomorrow, so you will start to see some sneak peeks in the next few days, especially as I have one more day of vacation. Hopefully, my box of goodies will arrive early enough for me to do some playing tomorrow!
I made this card for the CAS challenge this week. The challenge…. to create a card with moving parts. OK…. mmmm… I never normally do things like this and it had me stumped for a little while… but what's my motto about doing challenges…. YEP!!!! it gets me outside of my comfort zone and sometimes that I can be a very good thing. I certainly think it was for this card.
I played around with ideas in my head and then realized that what I wanted to do was a spinner card. I thought this set, along with the fishes in the slit, would make a cool card. It also gave me an excuse to use some of my new Cajun Craze paper.
Creating the spinner card is really simple and there is a great tutorial on splitcoast for you here. If you haven't tried one, try it out – it certainly was fun.
Here's the picture of the kitty in it's static position
and then another one of it spinning across the opening eating little Dusty Durango fishies as it goes!
It took a little measuring and outlining with pencil to make sure that I got the fish correctly placed – and a stamp-a-ma-jig certainly helps with that. Once I had stamped the fish, I erased the lines and was ready to finish the card.
I wrapped a piece of the (now retiring black and white gingham ribbon) around the card, stamped the sentiment in Black StazOn (always my preferred black ink for a crisp, clean, fast drying finish.
I stamped the cat in Versamark and then embossed him with Black embossing powder and heat set. I used my Dusty Durango marker to color his collar and name tag.
Want the sizes?
Card base A2 – scored at the 4 1/4" for folding
Cajun Craze is 4 1/4W x 2 3/4H. I adhered the Cajun Craze to the white card stock base using two stampin dimensionals on top of each other. You could use pop up glue dots instead. You need something higher than the normal dimensional so that the pennies have room to run along the track made in the slit.
Easy as fishing, really 🙂
On a personal note, it has been fantastic to have this week off and clean house, relax and chill. It always feels wonderful when you can clean out all the cupboards from top to bottom. The only thing we haven't done yet is our walk in closet. Otherwise, we managed to do everything. It certainly was a busy week – and a very hot one to be doing this sort of thing.
Our deck is now fully torn up and is being rebuilt. We are going for recycled materials that require no treatment, which we are really happy about. It should look fantastic when it is finished, but we won't be able to sit outside for another 8-10 days. I'll post some pics when it is finished.
Tomorrow I do three draws for Blog Candy. One for the big prize for those that commented on my posts for the OWH – and then two which I ran for my regular readers and commenters. Bilbo will be doing the draw for my regular reader blog candy – but I will be using random.org to choose a number for the OWH one – I think that would be way too much for Bilbo:-)
Trish, it is wonderful to see you back and commenting.. Welcome home! Germaine, we haven't seen you for a little while, we hope you are OK and that the pain is starting to subside – AND that they have found the reason for it. Alison, we haven't heard from you for a while. I know you will be getting ready for the world cup!
Tomorrow, we are taking a look at a featured project from Kadie. I promise you… it's worth coming back tomorrow for. You will be blown away with how gorgeous it is!
I have one last favor to ask you…… it is the Paper Players first design challenge this week. We post on Sunday and REALLY hope that you will play along. We'd really like to see it be successful. I know that I really want to give back to the challenge sites, because they have really helped me grow. So, please won't you come along and play with us. I'll put a link up tomorrow for you, so that you can bookmark it and also see what other challenges are coming up this month.
Finally, yesterday was Memorial Day and I put up my Memorial Day Remember card. I'd like to dedicate this post to my Father. It would have been his 90th birthday today. My Father went into the army as a fresh faced kid of almost 17. He came out of the jungles of Burma a man just 8 years later. He was stationed in India and Burma for almost all the time between 1940 and the end of 1945 and saw things that he would never talk about and carried those memories to his death. Things happened to him there that changed him forever. Even as a kid I can remember that something would happen – sometimes just a small thing – and you could see in my father's eyes that he had gone to another place and another time and that they were not good memories. It was only 20 years or so after his death, that I began to realize just what had happened to the young boys and men in those jungles and the sorts of things he had seen during some terrible incursions. He was also a POW under the Japanese for a while. I cannot even begin to image what that must have been like.
I'd like to leave this subject with the epitaph that is on the Burma memorial for all those that did not make it home from Burma – this is the inscription on the Kohima 2nd Division Memorial
"When You Go Home, Tell Them of Us and Say,
For Their Tomorrow, We Gave Our Today"
So… Dad, here's to you and everything you did. I miss you and yes, I have grown up to be my Father's daughter. You can take a look at me and there is no denying my heritage :-) Now… if only I had gotten Mom's skinny gene :-) Oh! yeah! I forgot! My brother got that!
I hope you all had a fabulous weekend and got to spend time doing things that you love with those you love the most. Happy Wednesday everyone… and Cherie and Brenda… GREAT JOB guys – best time on your half Marathon for the med-cities. WAY TO GO!
Thank you to all of you for spending a little part of your day in my little neck of the stamping blogosphere. You know your visits – and your support – mean a great deal.
Hugs to you all
Jaydee
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You C for Cat slider is so cute! I just happened to need a fun idea for a cat card today, and here you have it! Also, loved reading about your dad–I always enjoy your blog so much. I’m jealous about the clean cupboards from top to bottom. I’ve just found out we’re moving in July, and mine have been desperately cluttered–so now it must be done!
I love how you keep everyone in your thoughts and prayers…just a sweet and caring person! Cajun Craze is one of the new colors that I really love and can wait to get my hands on. I can’t wait to see your goodies. Oh and I think I missed the details about the card drive because I’d like to do that again. Would you mind emailing me?
This card is so cute Jaydee! My best friend has 9 fur babies and she would love this card! I will have to do this for her! Thanks for sharing your personal story about your father! I appreciate the sacrifice he made for all of us! Without him & others we wouldn’t have the freedom we have today!
Trish & Germaine-I continue to pray for you both!
Oo! This one is SO cute!! I LOVE the fishies and the kitty. :o) The color works beautifully with the design. Well done!
Hooray for a de-cluttered, clean house. There is something soothing about that, isn’t there?
Have you placed your SU! order yet?!? :oP
Hi Jaydee: I have so much to comment on today – Just hope I don’t forget something (actually, my first attempt to post did a disappearing act on me after spending several minutes commenting). First of all, thanks for the shout out tomorrow on my blog – can’t wait to see that connection. Secondly-WOW on your closet project! Would you like to come to SaddleBrooke Arizona and inspire me? Your spinner Kitty Kat card was ADORABLE! Have to say that receiving that card would be one of those that I probably would wear-out playing with. TOO STINKIN CUTE Jaydee. Can’t wait to see pics of your new deck – My daughter and son-in-law are working on replacing their deck and it’s turning into a HUGE project….Good Luck to you! And lastely – Your post on your Dad made me Cry (but good tears). I too was my Father’s Daughter and it wasn’t until his passing that I even understood his greatness. I miss him beyond words and will always look at him as my hero. We must be sisters because I too have a brother who received all the skinny genes-URRRRGGGGHHHH! Thanks for all the amazing work you put into your blog – it’s seriously one of my favorite blogs to see every morning in my mailbox. Hugs to you!
So very cute. I have never done a slider card before-can’t wait to try one.
Your comments about your father were touching. My father also never spoke of his war times. When I first started dating my husband, he talked for hours about the war to him. I really learned so much that I had never been told from my husband.
Can’t wait to see your new cards. Enjoy your last day of vacation! I’m off to clean the garage.
Jaydee, this is CUTE CUTE CUTE!!! (Squealing)!!!
Jaydee, your card is super!!!! Love the kitty and fish. Wonderful.
Thanks for the wonderful story about your dad. My father was in WWII and stationed in the Pacific. He would never talk about the war so I have a feeling he just saw too much horror. So sad that young men had to go through something like that – and still are going through it.
Lynn
Cute card, Jaydee! Love the fish!
Hello Jaydee, your Spinner C is for Cat Card is amazing, and right up my alley. You know I love the Furrbabies! I really like how the cat turns around to eat the fish, so darn cute and unique. I have not ever made one of these cards yet, but have bookmarked the directions that you linked to so that I can try one. I wonder what Stamp Set I shall pick as my first go at it? I am so jealous of your wonderfully clean and uncluttered house, now how about a little help for a friend in need? Lol. I know that we will be moving eventually, so we have slowly, very slowly I might add, have been decluttering, and cleaning out no longer needed items. It is amazing what you accumulate and don’t even realize it. I bet you can’t wait for that New Deck to be completed, it will almost feel like a new home with the new addition. I am sure you will have many hours of enjoyment outside, especially in the Spring and Fall times of the year. I was going to keep a bookmarked folder with all of the Challenges that you have entered so far. I thought that once, quite a while back you mentioned something about giving us a list of them. I cannot recall ever seeing such a list. Someone please refresh my memory if one was Posted and I will go looking for it. Thank you.
My Father talked about the different parts of the World that he has been to and experienced on his many voyages as a Sea Captain, although he didn’t start out in this rank. He never did though talk of the war and war times, just said that he was part of the war and many lives were lost and that it was a very sad and hard time. Never anything personal or specific. I guess maybe most of them tried to block it out, they went to war as such innocent young men (boys), and came home so very changed. My DH is retired from the Air Force, but thanks to our Lord, Jesus Christ has never been deployed during actual war time. He just speaks of fun times and tough Drill Sergeants. Lol.
I am so very happy to be able to be back and commenting again. I missed Jaydee, the Blog, the Cards and banter and of course Everyone! Missy, thank you so much for your continued support and Prayers, they sure paid off big time this past week. Congratulations to Cherie and Brenda on the Half Marathon, I can only imagine the training that goes into preparation for something like this. I really admire both of you for your commitment and stick-to-it-ness! Germaine, I need to write to you, I am sorry about being late. I do hope you are finding some comfort and relief some how. I think of you and say a Prayer everyday. You are constantly in my thoughts with your pain. Allison, you’re absence is noticed, but come back when you can. I can’t wait for Kadie’s Project, I hate teaser’s! Now I will be on pins and needles until you release it to us. Lol.
Good luck to Everyone that is participating in the Card Challenges. I haven’t started mine yet, it is hard to find time between appointments and being sick to your stomach. I will plod through this!
Thank you Jaydee, for another unique and totally cool card. Your blog is always open for invitation and offer’s Love in return. What more could anyone want in a Blog? Thank you for your continued dedication to us! I know that I would dearly miss it if you were not here for me to come and gather some inspiration and catch up on some interesting tid-bits of daily living. You always make me smile, and sometimes cry happy tears too.
Cyber hugs to All and Jaydee, Trish in Wisconsin