Drum roll please ……and Frosty Friends for Paper Players 117

Hi Everyone.  Happy Monday.

Before I reveal the other card I made for my color challenge at Paper Players this week, I would like to give a MASSIVE shout out to CAM, CINDY, DORIS, JUDI AND BRENDA for sending cards to me for our Operation Write Home card drive.  I am almost finished photographing the cards to put up slide shows for you.   I have to tell you that some of these cards were beautiful inside – and out and I was inspired by them for the cards that I have been making for the Enchanted Makeover card drive.

I promised two blog candy drawings for the OWH card drive participants.   One $100 gift certificate and one $50 gift certificate – both courtesy of me – and both for the recipients choice of Stampin' Up! goodies.

Well, my good four legged helper Mr Bilbo helped me choose two names and ……. DRUM ROLL, PLEASE……. here are the winners.

First prize – $100 to spend on SU goodies goes to:  JUDI

Second prize – $50 to spend on SU goodies goes to:  CINDY

However, I have not forgotten Cam and Doris.  Cam and Doris will receive a surprise goodie pack of SU goodies from me.

So, congratulations ladies.  Cindy and Judi – you can choose from the two current SU catalogs to the full value of your winnings.  I will cover postage and tax.   Cam and Doris, please send me your addresses via email and I will get your goodies shipped off to you.

Now….. I'd also like to send a massive thank you to Marcia, Rosie and Marilyn  who have already let me know that they will be creating and sending cards for the Enchanted Makeover card drive.  This is such a great cause and I really appreciate their support.  If you are interested in helping us with this card drive – you can check out all the details on this post – or send me an email.

On to my card.

You may remember that the color challenge for Paper Players #117 is Bravo Burgundy, Night of Navy, Cajun Craze and Very Vanilla.   It's such a gorgeously rich and regal color scheme.  You can see my first card on this post.  However, I wanted to show you that you can participate in a color challenge and actually use only a small amount of color.  

This card, using the same color scheme, is made using Frosty Friends – a brand new single stamp from SU that I absolutely love.

Isn't that image adorable?   You can see that I colored the accessories on the snowmen using the challenge colors and backed the focal image with the Bravo Burgundy and carried the Night of Navy through with the sentiment and button.  I added some Dazzling Details to the snowballs, ear muffs, mistletoe and lights just to add a little more bling.

The background layer is made from the new Argyle embossing folder.  There is something about this folder that just screams fall and winter.  It really does remind me of those soft, snuggly, argyle jerseys that I remember growing up with.  So, the Argyle embossing folder and the Frosty Friends image just seemed like a match made in heaven!

I actually turned this card into one of the card sets that I am making for Enchanted Makeover.  I changed out a couple of things though, so that the card could go through the post without extra postage and without being hand franked.  I'll show you that version later in the week.

On a personal note:

Lou and I had a great weekend. It was the first weekend since we moved into the house that we actually got to relax for the whole weekend.  Well, almost the whole weekend….. I decided that our ground floor bathroom really should have been painted the Toasted Marshmallow color that we have as an accent.  It has a gorgeous light fitting in there and it just seemed lost with the lighter color.  So, poor Lou, got out his paint brushes again yesterday and put down the first coat.  It looks fabulous and the light now really looks good.  I'll take a photo for you when he has finished!

Other than that, we got to go to movies on Friday night.  We went to see Argo – highly recommend it and then on Saturday we went to dinner to celebrate our anniversary.  I know it was a couple of days late, but we wanted to wait until the weekend.  So, we had a date night at a fabulous restaurant in Minneapolis where we got to eat some amazing vegetarian food.  I got to spend most of Sunday in my stamping space….. all round…. a great weekend.

As always, thank you or spending time in my little area of the stamping blogosphere.  Your visits and your comments really do mean a great deal to me.   Warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Have a beautiful Tuesday

Hugs

Jaydee

Card recipe:

• Card stock:  Very Vanilla, Bravo Burgund
• Stamps:  Merry Messages (sentiment), Frosty Friends (image)
• Inks:  Cajun Craze, Night of Navy, Bravo Burgundy
• Accessories:  Regals buttons, gold elastic twine
• Tools:  Big Shot, Argyle embossing folder, Stampin Dimensionals (to raise the focal layer)