Hi Everyone, Happy Saturday night and welcome to Jaydee's SU stampin space. Tonight's Clean and Simple card uses the wonderful Level 1 Hostess Set Of the Earth and the "you're a friend who makes good times great" sentiment from the fabulous set Great Friend. Before we get to the card though… we have some business to take care of!
Drum roll, please! …………….A winner of the December blog candy has been chosen! Bilbo Baggins was presented with a bowl of little scrunched pieces of paper and he was encouraged to choose one. After very little deliberation, Bilbo choose the piece that appealed to him most. But before Bilbo and I announce the winner…. all of you who left comments on my blog were entered into the draw. One entry per comment.
What did the winner, well, win?
- 1 packet Soft Suede in-color card stock (115318)
- 1 packet Melon Mambo in-color card stock (115320)
- 1 brand new un-mounted Font of You stamp set (113405)
- 1 set of Sweet Pea Stitched Felt embellishments from the new Occasions Mini Catalog
And who was the lucky winner????? MISSY. Congratulations, Missy. Please send me an email with your address, and I'll package up the goodies and send them off to you. Thanks to all of you who left comments – I really appreciate it.
I'll be announcing details of the January blog candy. Something very different for this month and I am really excited about it. Hopefully, you will be, too!
So on to tonight's card. I did a challenge… and for the life of me… I cannot find the details. I spent 2 hours trying to find the card that I used as my inspiration and cannot find it! It's so frustrating, because it was such a fabulous inspiration card. I think it was part of the featured stamper challenge on splitcoast, but I cannot find the card. If anyone recognizes the layout… please can you send me an email! A couple of night's ago I did recommend doing the featured stamper challenge on splitcoaststampers.com. When you are in a creative funk, it's a great idea to take a card you like and change 3 things about it. So, if you haven't tried that, give it a try:-)
I really find one layer cards tough, because I'm so into layering, as you all know:-) I don't ever think I have used Pixie Pink before. However, I loved the combination of Pixie Pink and Old Olive. My stamp-a-ma-jig was ESSENTIAL for this card, because I wanted to make sure that I had the flowers in exactly the right place so that they joined exactly at the base. The white satin ribbon was the finishing touch. Talking about satin ribbon, the new mini catalog has a whole lot more of the satin ribbon choices – and I am so excited. I love the way the ribbon on this card frames the sentiment and the flowers. The Pixie Pink is such a vibrant color, but you really can't pick it up as well on my photograph. Hope you like it. It's a really quick and easy card.
To answer Kelli's question in my comments yesterday….. Kelli wanted to know what I was ordering from the new catalog. Well, like many of you, I was holding off on ordering until January 5th, so that I can take advantage of the Sale-A-Bration offers this year. As you will probably all know by now, there are a couple of choices in the SAB brochurem but you can also choose items from the 2009/2010 IBC!! I was REALLY excited about that! So, Kelli, here's some ofwhat you can expect to see me using over the next couple of months:
- Pinking Hearts Border and Corner punches – LOVE the new punch style!!
- Scallop Trim Corner Punch (to match my border punch!!)
- Scalloped Heart of Hearts Emosslits Die
- Well Scripted (I love the sentiments – Whimsical Words – from the SAB) and I think this will be a great accompaniment
- Abundant Hope stamp set
and some other things, too! :-) I can't wait!
So, what are you planning to buy?
3 Responses
Oooh…aaahhh! I love the list of items. I have to check them out…thanks so much for sharing. One thing I know I love are the little heart embellishments…adorable. I also love the heart stamp set. So many things, such a small checkbook.
Jaydee,
I had already written the same things you had listed and more on my wish list! There is just so much in both of the books that I WANT! I have held on to my Christmas money so that I can get some of it but didnt’t get enough money to get it all! Boo Hoo! But I do have an anniversary coming up next month so guess what I am asking for! More Money! LOL!
By the way, thank Bilbo for drawing my name! And thank you for being so generous! I wanted that stamp set “Font of You” but never got around to ordering it! Plus it is retiring isn’t it? And I love those in color colors! Those sweet pea felt flowers were also on my wish list! So thank you & Bilbo!
Love, love, love the simplicity of this card. The ribbon really adds so much to it. I think that many of us struggle with one layer cards, and one reason is because you are limited in color usage. A couple of things that I plan on getting with SAB are the new Satin Ribbons, some of the new Punches, Well Scripted and Whimsical Words. I think that these two stamp sets are a great deal. I just love Vintage Vogue and Fox and Friends. I want tons more stuff, but we shall have to see what DH has to say about it. I think that this is a fantastic SAB and Occasions Mini Catalog. I expect SU! to do very well with these.
Trish in Wisconsin