Hi Everyone. Happy Thursday and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space. You have NO idea how happy I am that it is almost Friday. I'm looking forward to getting my 3D projects started – and finished! – this weekend. Today's card is not…… wait for it… drum roll, please… a Christmas card! Really. Seriously. Not a Christmas card… Nope! You heard right.
Today's card uses one of my favorite nature sets Greenhouse Garden.
I love this set – it fits with so many different color schemes and I love the 2 step stamping. Mind you, it's made much easier with the use of a Stamp-a-ma-jig! So, not only is this NOT a Christmas card night – but it's also not a night where I have used Shimmer Paint!
I wanted to do a card using Gretchen Barron's Inspiration in Action sketch. It's an interesting sketch and Gretchen's inspirationc cards are both gorgeous. You should check them out here. I ended up creating two cards using this sketch. Tonight's card is a thankful card. I have so many things to be grateful for and, as we are getting closer to Thanksgiving, I thought it appropriate to create a card to celebrate this.
I have many things to be grateful for.
On the creative front, I'd like to thank the team at splitcoaststampers.com for choosing my Home for Christmas card to be the featured upload on the Stampin' Up Only gallery. I was exceptionally honored to be chosen as the featured stamper. I actually have a different take on this sketch, so keep your eyes out for that. Additionally, my Gifts of Peace card was chosen as one of the top 3 submissions for the Palspaperarts challenge this week – and I was very honored by that, as well! I am grateful to be able to share something that I love doing with people who are responsive to my creations 🙂
On the personal front, I am blessed to be loved by – and be in love with – the most amazing man. Loved, unconditionally but a fabulous group of kitties, more than half of which are rescues; blessed to have so many amazing friends; blessed to have been born to the parents that I was born to, regardless of their issues, they taught me more things than any other parents could have – and made me the person I am today. I am grateful to be surrounded by the nature – flora and fauna – that I love so much. I am grateful for my health. I am also grateful to those of you who have supported me on this journey into the blogosphere in the last 3 months. So, many things to be grateful for!
Card elements:
- More Mustard and Really Rust card stock.
- Image stamped on Kraft card stock
- DSP is from the Patterns III hostess set
- Ribbon is Dusty Durango polka dot ribbon
- Rhinestones were removed from their housing and placed in the middle of the flowers
- Flowers from the Garden Greenhouse set… love. love. love.. the Greenhouse Garden set
- I used my Big Shot and the texturz plate for the background to the second matt. (You can see that the diamond shape echoes the diamond shape in the DSP)
So, grateful is the theme for today. I'd like to challenge you to take 2 minutes and think about what you are grateful for… and feel free to leave a comment letting us all know what you are grateful for.
I hope you have a fabulous Friday. Thanks for spending time in my area of the stamping blogosphere – your visits, your comments and your support are always much appreciated.
Jaydee
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Grateful is the theme of my life these days. For friends especially and the entire caring and sharing stamping community that has shown me concrete evidence that the human heart has a tremendous capacity for love, joy and giving from the heart with no sign of letting up anytime soon. Whether supporting each others endeavors or helping hurricane survivors or sending cards to kids or troops or other needed venues or supporting food banks and Children’s Hospitals stampers keep the love moving out and around the world.
I’m grateful for my furry companions who keep me centered and focused outward on caring for others even the least of God’s creatures (though in a cat’s mind it’s probably us and the mice who are the least) and who take such good care of me.
I’m grateful for the lessons God has placed in my path and the people I might not have embraced without that gentle nudge. Some are lessons I thought I knew but obviously needed a refresher course. I’m grateful that we as Americans are rising to the latest occasions of difficulty and helping each other and opening our hearts even more than in the past. That sense of working together seems to have been strengthened of late and more people are discovering that a single person can make a difference. And that a single person helped is all it takes to start a chain that helps the world.
So many, many things to be grateful for…thanks for the reminder to take a minute and call them all to mind. And lest I forget to mention it I’m grateful for friends like you who share their inspiring talents and warm hearts and put themselves out there to make the world a more interesting place to live, work and play.
Hugs and blessings to you, Lou and the fur babies – keep the love alive my friend.