I Heart Hearts and Blog Hop Alert

Hi Everyone.

Happy Friday Night…. oh… yeah…. jaydee is doing the happy dance…. yep… me… dancing… kicking up my heels, whistling, swinging my umbrella… you know.. the whole happy dance bit.  why?  well… IT'S FRIDAY!!!!! and, my hubby is on his way home!  On top of that, I got to make 3 cards today!  So, all round, a jolly good day!

Before we get on to tonight's card – a quick heads up.  The Paper Players are having their first ever BLOG HOP starting on Sunday.  A brand new challenge will be revealed and the Paper Players have gone all out for you this week.  Some of the Players are even offering up blog candy.  So, don't forget to check back in on Sunday for all the fun.

For tonight's card I used the inspiration across at the moxie tuesday trigger and I tied that together with the fabulous layout at cleanandsimplestamping.  Now, those gorgeous fudge hearts at the trigger are making me really hungry.  I don't normally use a lot of pink, but I thought about the cleanandsimple layout and decided that gradations of color would work really well with the trigger, and the layout.

All I needed was 4 different shades of pink card stock, a little versamark, some iridescent ice embossing powder, some gorgeous ribbon – and away I went.

Here's what I came up with.  I must tell you, I like it.  I really do!  What do y'all think?

This card could make me fall in love with pink! 🙂

Card recipe – all ingredients Stampin' Up! unless otherwise noted:

• Card stock:  Whisper White, Rose Red, Pink Pirouette, Pretty in Pink, Blushing Bride
• Inks:  Rose Red
• Stamp set:  I {Heart} Hearts. Sentiment  i love you, Wordsworth
• Ribbon:  Rose Red Seam Binding Ribbon
• Tools:  Versamark, Iridescent Ice Embossing Powder, Stampin Dimensionals

I cut the stripes to 1 x 2 1/2" and stuck them on to a piece of Whisper White cut at 4" x 2 1/2".  Once all the pieces were adhered, I trimmed the edges and applied the versamark and the embossing powder.  I then stamped the sentiment and adhered the panel to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals.

Quick, easy and, I think, very effective.  In fact, I made another card using exactly the same layout.  You will see that later this coming week.

On a personal note:

I calculated that I had worked 72 hours this week – before I had even begun work today!  No wonder I was blown by the time I got to 2pm this afternoon.  I was completely exhausted mentally and couldn't do any more.  The only thing I could do is come down to my stamping space and wonder which stamps to apply to card stock!  Some time spent stamping was exactly what I needed.

Mind you, this week could have been worse.  I was supposed to be traveling to New York this week.  Well, in fact, I did.  Except, I didn't quite make it.  I got up at 5am on Wednesday to leave home at 7am to catch a 10am flight.  I caught the shuttle to Minneapolis, checked in, went through security.  Oh… mmm.. well, I actually had a full body pat down at security.  Not sure if you have had one of these recently, but no more wanding.  It's all hands on deck!  What was the cause of this full body pat down?  Ah. Well.  The underwire in my bra apparently set off the security sensor. 

After I finally got through security and it was determined that my bra underwire was of no threat to the airline crew or passengers, I was allowed to carry on my way.  I got to the gate with 10 minutes to spare.  I decided to pick up my messages on my cellphone.  Message from the meeting organizer…." if you haven't gotten on the plane yet, don't!  Major storm in NY."  Well, that was great, except they were calling my flight for boarding.  In fact, they were boarding first class passengers.  We waited for the guys up in the nice comfy front seats to get on the plane and waited….and waited… and waited… and waited… Mmmm.. something going on here, I said to myself!   Yep, about 7 minutes later they advised us that the flight had been cancelled and they were deboarding the passengers that had boarded.  I didn't waste a second, I turned on my heels and ran out of the building as fast as my legs would allow.  Luckily security don't stop me on the way out, so me and my underwire bra were allowed to leave the building unmolested.   I ran back to the shuttle station and was back home by 1pm.  Yippee!

Don't forget to check in for the Paper Players challenge this week.  My post will be later than normal tomorrow night, cos I don't want to post at my normal time and spoil all the fun!  So, my post will be scheduled to post in the early hours of Sunday morning instead of the usual time of around 9.30 pm Saturday night.

I was thrilled to hear that Madiba had been released from hospital and allowed to return home today.  But continued prayers for Mandela anyway for a full recovery.  Prayers also for Rose, Adelle, Maria, Germaine.  Warm thoughts and prayers to those of you who need a little lift tonight.

Have a fabulous Saturday everyone

Hugs

Jaydee