Love you Much With A Happy Heart

Hi Everyone – Happy Tuesday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space.

Tonight's card is a Valentine's/Love/Anniversary card and features the stamp sets from the SU 2009/2010 catalog – Love you Much and A Happy Heart and I was inspired to do this because I'm really missing my hubby. Poor Lou – he is still trying to get home! 

Those of you who read my posts this week will know that he left at 6.40am on Sunday morning for a 3 hour meeting in Milan on Monday afternoon.  Europe was hit with a major storm and his plane was canceled coming out of Milan on Tuesday.  He spent 4 hours in a hotel last night and was back at the airport this morning trying to get a flight out.  They finally got him a flight into Amsterdam departing at 7.40pm, so that he could connect with a 2.30p.m. flight tomorrow – timed to arrive back in the US at the time we are expecting an ice storm and 12-18 inches of snow!!!!  Well, his flight didn't take off at 7.40p.m.  Apparently there were no Milanese baggage handlers to take the bags of the plane for the arriving passengers! In the end the captain and flight crew were taking bags off the plane at 12a.m.  He called me at 12.50 – he was finally on the plane and on his way to Amsterdam!  Where he is scheduled to be sitting in the airport on standby for an earlier flight in the hope he can beat the storm back here…. so… the saga of traveling at this time of year!

He did ask me to thank all of you who have left comments or sent emails hoping that he gets home in time for Christmas – and I am very grateful to all of you 🙂

So, tonight's card is all about Love…..  I used the MojoMonday 118 sketch challenge and really wanted to keep it clean and simple, but as always with lots of little details.

I am in love with this new punch… and don't forget… it's one of the options available to you in the SAB catalog which goes live on January 5.  It also comes with a matching corner punch available in the new Mini – also available on January 5.  I've got quite an order ready to go in on January 5- courtesy of my hubby – it's my Christmas present:-)  For every $50 (excluding shipping and taxes) you get to choose a free gift….and if you are anything like me… I love free things 🙂

Card recipe:

• Shimmer White and Real Red card stock.  I really wanted to use the Shimmer White card stock – it has such a gorgeous luminescence ….. which is fabulous not just for Christmas cards, but for this sort of card, too.  I combined it with Real Red card stock.
• Love you Much and A Happy Heart stamp sets
• Real Red marker and classic ink
• I stamped the heart from A Heart Heart in Real Red Craft ink.  This allowed me to use transparent embossing powder to give it that glossy look
• I inked Love from the Love you Much with my Real Red marker and stamped it on Shimmer White card stock.
• When the ink was dry on the Love – I used my shimmer paint to color in the middle of the letters – I wanted the shimmery effect, but also to soften the outlines of the LOVE.
• I cut around the heart with my paper snips
• I cut a piece of Real Red card stock and used my Scallop Border punch on both the top and bottom. 
• I attached the Love on to the Real Red and then attached it to the Shimmer White base layer.
• I then attached a Fire round rhinestone to the top of the paper – after I had lined up the middle of the heart.
• Once the rhinestone was secured, I wrapped a piece of Silver elastic cord around it and fed it underneath the heart.  I then attached the heart to the card with stampin' dimensionals.
• You can see that I made the middle layer the width of the card, and not of the Shimmer White card stock – I thought it gave a nice finish to take it all the way across the card.  The sketch had made the middle layer the same as the base layer

All in all, I was very happy with it.  Clean, simple and yet with bling and shimmer.  It'll be waiting for Lou when he gets home late tomorrow… you will notice the positive tone here :-)uyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyym …. and and this little piece the u's and ys', etc.  is courtesy of Bailey.  He decided to visit and of course his big fat paws absolutely HAVE to walk all over my keyboard.  So, I think he was saying thank you to you all!  He is absolutely adorable – but he's all TROUBLE!   So, where was I before Bailey so rudely interrupted me?  Oh yes, the positive tone… Lou will be home tomorrow.  Lou will be home tomorrow.  Lou will be home tomorrow. 🙂

Our garden really does look like a winter wonderland.  Tomorrow I'll take a pic and post it for you.  The snow that fell last night was the dry powdery stuff… the type of snow that Hollywood tries to recreate – it's absolutely gorgeous – unless you have to shovel it 🙂

Happy Wednesday everyone… I hope you have a fabulous day and that you get to spend it doing things you love with those you love…. and if you have snow.. I hope the snow fairies come and clean your driveway so that you don't have to shovel it 🙂