Hi Everyone. Happy Thursday. Tomorrow is Friday. Oh! Yeah! The weekend.
A quick post for you tonight. This weekend I did one of the featured stamper challenges across on splitcoaststampers. If you are looking to get yourself out of a creative funk, doing a featured stamper challenge is a great way to try to counteract that. I pulled out Elements of Style and Nature's Nest for the card.
Before I get onto the card – a quick shout out to Soozie who supports me not only here on my blog – but also across at splitcoast. So thank you, Soozie!
The featured stamper was gloriousgreetings and she had this fabulous Taken with Teal, Chocolate Chip and Whisper White card. It was a great excuse to get out my sponge daubers, paper piercer and ink up a stamp that I haven't used before. It also gave me the opportunity to pay homage to Taken with Teal. A color I don't use often, but love when I do!
This was one of the few cards I have ever stamped without a sentiment!
Card recipe:
Card stock:
Taken with Teal, Whisper White
Inks:
Chocolate Chip, Taken with Teal (applied with a sponge dauber)
Ribbon:
Chocolate Chip Satin
Stamps:
Elements of Style (120045) (I can't believe how many times I have used this stamp!)
Nature's Nest (113826) (Sadly, another one of those that I speculate may be retiring!)
I kept the elements very true to the original card because I loved the colors and the elements.
One of the things I always do when I have pierced paper is to mount the layer on dimensionals. This gives the pierced holes space to "breathe" and note get "squished".
On a personal note… I feel as though I have been living back in England the last few days. It's been in the mid 40's for a high. raining. grey. dull. typical English summer weather! :-) I'm really looking forward to the weekend and getting some play time. Then at the end of next week, we are planning some vacation time. Time to do some chores around the house, spring cleaning, stamping…oh… and hanging out and stalking SU on June 1 for the new catty preview!
Please keep Trish in your prayers, she needs them right now.
Thanks to all of you for spending time in my little area of the blogosphere. You KNOW your visit and your support is much appreciated.
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Jaydee- this card is absolutely gorgeous! I love those colors! That dragonfly looks like it so real and he is fixing to fly right off that card! I love how you did the sponging! I kinda like the no sentiment! You can choose the sentiment when you want to send it to the right person!! It is a very pretty card!
Trish- hope everything is going your way! And that you are feeling better soon! I continue to pray for you and keep you in my thoughts!
I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!
Thanks for sharing your awesome card Jaydee!
Hi Jaydee I have been peeking in and not commenting much but love your cards. I have been working late most nights so not much time for cards or the internet. The idea of using 2 colours on a card works well. Yay maybe on Sunday I have a little time to make a card or two.
We are having so much rain and the eraly morning is very misty today.
Trish – I am thinking of you.
Very pretty! I can’t wait to get that stamp.
Sending good thoughts to Trish…
Very nice card! Love your work!
Gorgeous card. You are so skilled with placement of everything (something that does not come easy for me). Love the images, too. And that color combo is yummy.
Lovely lovely card. I LOVE Chocolate Chip–it is such a lovely neutral and works well with so many colors.
I have to chuckle at your “English summer” comment. Our lovely and dear friend Paul moved from South Shields to the US in 1994. When packing he asked if he would be needing a summer jacket. Since we live in Virginia, we tried hard not to laugh at him. A jacket in the South in the summer?!? Hee hee! :o)
Trish, my thoughts and prayers are with you.
Beautiful! I will case this one tonight!!! Love you work. Love the blue spong ion the middle.
TFS
Have a wonderful week end
Bixou
Frenchie
What a beautiful card even without a sentiment! I love the chocolate chip ribbon. You do such a nice job on all your cards.
Prayers go out for Trish.
Hope you have a wonderful weekend. I am attempting to sell some cards, etc at a sale. This is a new adventure for me-we’ll see how it goes… I’m kind of nervous!
Jaydee, totally off-topic, I apologize for that. Your comment this morning had me laughing out loud and I went ahead and posted the entire story of me being treed by the rooster. You inspired me. ;o)
Oh, just WOW!!! Love the colors and the dragonfly is actually in flight – isn’t he!! So very pretty. I’m glad you didn’t add a sentiment as I think it would have “taken away” from the beauty of the card.
Beautiful!!
WOWZIE! This is gorgeous Jaydee, thanks so much for sharing 🙂
Jaydee, thanks for the shoutout!! I just LOVE your blog! This is such a great card – both Nature’s Nest and Elements of Style so often require coloring – something I’m not good at. So it’s VERY cool to see a great design combining these two stamps that looks GREAT just stamped! They go together so well too!
I don’t think I know where you live – your garden is BEAUTIFUL! I am SO not a gardener that it’s pathetic! My girls come and plant impatience under our evergreens for Mother’s Day every year (the weather was lousy on Mother’s Day, so they’re doing it another day) and that’s the extent of our gardening – DH would like us to get some new and different landscaping. One of my favorite trees is really a “weed” that grew quite tall – it’s almost as tall as the house now. It’s BEAUTIFUL and has the nicest flowers in the spring – I refuse to let DH cut it down because I love looking at it while sitting and reading in our “library” (which is really our youngest DD’s old bedroom and now serves as our older granddaughter’s room for sleeping in when she’s visiting. And the closet has the overflow of retired stamps in it…
Hugs,
Soozie
Okay, now I looked at your “About Me” and see that you live in Minnesota! My oldest daughter’s in-laws live in Rochester, and my hubby’s cousin and family live in Goodhue, in farm country. Nearest big town is Red Wing. Hubby also has family in the Minneapolis area. We live in the Chicago ‘burbs, not too far from O’Hare.
Sorry your husband is having trouble with his traveling – my hubby HATES to travel for business, especially out of the country. Well, that could be because the places his company sends people aren’t exactly places people would choose to go on vacation – like Delhi (India) the and jungles of South America. Well, some people might want to go to India, but DH isn’t the adventurous sort!
Hugs,
Soozie