Hi Everyone and welcome blog hoppers, I'm so pleased you stopped by today.
At any time on the blog hop you can always go back to the OWH page
to visit any one of the great blogs on the hop, all you need to do is
click on this link to go to OWH home page You probably came here from Karrie's page. If not, you can click on her name and go back and check on the projects that she has for you!
Brenda is the next stop on the tour and she has a fabulous card lined up to show you and a great layering tutorial for you. To see what she has for you, all you need to do is click on Brenda's link.
This weekend is a special weekend as my blog is part of the Operation Write Home Memorial Day Weekend Bloghop. OWH's motto is ""Supporting our nation's armed forces by sending blank handmade
greeting cards to write home on, as well as cards of gratitude to
encourage them." My readers and I have already donated 1000 cards for our service men and women and we are in the midst of another card drive for this wonderful cause.
Visitors to my blog during the blog hop, who leave a comment with their details, will be entered into a drawing to win stamps and accessories from Stampin' Up – the value of the package is over $50! All you have to do is leave a comment and you will be entered into the draw. It's my way of saying thank you. I've placed a picture of the blog candy, with a description at the bottom of the post.
The challenge put to us from OWH was to create a red white and blue card that featured the words "missing you".
Clean and simple is my style and this stamp was the perfect stamp to use. It allowed me to keep the focus on the sentiment with very little distraction. However, i couldn't just create one card – I had to create two!
The same "Hero" stamp has been used for both cards. The only difference is that I used my marker pens on the first one and only inked up the word Hero.
I used three stamps for this card:
Hero – from Paper Inspirations
Flag Star – from Stampabilities
and the "I miss you" is from the Stampin' Up! set called FYI.
I used three colors of paper for both of these cards and they are all from Stampin' Up: Night of Navy, Real Red and Whisper White.
tip #1: scoring card stock is a great way to add detail and dimension in a subtle way. All you need is a cutter and a bone folder or stylus. You can see that I added two scored and indented lines below the Hero.
tip #2: using marker pens to ink up stamps instead of ink pads works wonderfully to create a stamped image that has 2 – or even more – colors from the same stamp
For the next card, I took the same Hero and Flag Star stamps, which were inked up using markers.
I used an embossing folder from Stampin! Up! called "Square Lattice" to create the background.
tip: An embossing folder is great for creating texture on both background or foreground images and can be used for the entire card base, or just portions of it. You can see here that the texture really helps to make the focal point – the sentiment – pop from the background page.
I'd like to say thank you to all the past and present servicemen and women and their families – for everything they do.
You too can help out this great cause. All you need to do is donate your hand crafted cards. OWH and the servicemen and women they support will be very grateful for your donation. You can see stories and pics from servicemen and women who have been able to share a little love with their family and friends through a handmade card – and get details on how you can help – at this link.
If you have any questions on the projects I made or card making in general – just leave me a comment, or send me an email at [email protected]
Have a wonderful, safe, weekend and spare a thought for those brave men and women and their families. Thank you so much for visiting.
Don't forget to go visit Brenda next!
Hugs
Jaydee
P.S. here's your blog candy.
This is perfect for the beginner or experienced stamper.
- 1 brand new Stampin' Up! Level 3 Hostess set – Hand Drawn Bundle. Consists of 4 stamps, 2 sheets of rub-ons and 9 sheets of double-sided designer series paper. All designed to co-ordinate with each other. You could only win this package with a $500 workshop. So, it's a great prize!
- 1 x Stampin' Up! Pendant Notes kit, ready to be stamped, decorated and placed in the accompanying envelopes. Contains note cards and envelopes. (Designed to be hand delivered, included in a package, or placed in a larger envelope for posting.)
- 1 packet of 20 "hugs" die-cut notes cards and 1 packet of glassine envelopes to fit. These make great little cards to stamp a sentiment, add a rub on, and include with a gift.
- 2 sets of ribbon – one Certainly Celery (soft green) and the other So Saffron (soft yellow)
- 1 "Note of Thanks" mini note kit. Includes 4 gift notes and envelopes, stamps and a inking spot
All you have to do is leave a comment and your name will be entered into the draw. It's my way of thanking you for supporting Operation Write Home.
118 Responses
Love your cards. They are simple yet say everything. Thanks for sharing!
I also have a simple style and love your cards. I love OWH! Thank you for the opportunity for blog candy!
Oh, what great cards. I love your sentiments. TFS.
Fantastic cards! Love your use of whitespace in that first one, especially!
Wonderful cards!! I Love the CAS style! TFS!
Great job Jaydee! Thanks for supporting OWH. Hugs from Hugs from Blog Hop Stop #66, Loni’s Life at http://www.loniholt.blogspot.com
Love you card….they are so clean and crisp (sry if I make them sound like lettuce guess I’m getting hungry…LOL)
Your CAS card sare wonderful!
Very striking, beautiful cards! Really enjoyed your post and have a great holiday weekend! ;o)
Wow…what wonderful cards! Love them all…don’t think I can even figure out “my” favorite!! :)) Great job and holy super giveaway, batman!! Wow, thanks for the chance!
Karen
Beautiful cards. And, as a military wife, let me say thank you for sharing your creativity to help bring families closer who are separated by duty.
I love clean cards like this. And every time I see someone do the scoring like that I think I want to do that but I never remember to actually do it.
That first card is just spectacular. Really striking star embellishment you’ve created. So nicely designed I love every element and how you’ve put it together!
Thanks for supporting OWH and for the chance to win!
Fantastic cards – LOVE the hero miss you with the star. Perfect for them to send home to the homefront heroes they miss!
Your cards are fabulous and have given me several ideas- thanks! Thanks also for your very generous blog candy!
Wow, your cards are super! I love how you used the same stamp with and without the side sentiment. Really, really nice work.
Thank you for supporting OWH!
great card. really nice blog.
Stunning cards! Love your clean style!! Thanks for offering such a generous and awesome blog candy!
Love your cards!! Great candy!! Glad you joined the hop! Thank you
Super cards Jaydee! Love your style! I can’t wait to get my cards ready to send to you for this awesome cause!
Those stars are really eye popping.
Wonderful card. Look at all the comments! Yea!!!
Your cards are really beautiful! Thank you for supporting OWH!
I love your cards! Thanks for the chance at the blog candy.
Awesome cards, so clean and simple just beautiful. Thanks for sharing your ideas with us.
jackie, http://jackielwatson.blogspot.com
You did an awesome job,these are wonderful!!! Wow!! You have done a great job supporting our troops,over 1000 cards,that’s amazing!!!Keep up the good work!! 😉
Love the cards! They are so pretty! I’m sure whoever gets them will love them too!
Both of your cards are quite lovely. I especially like the second card due to the sentiment that is written. Also, I love how the star is designed as the American flag!
Thank you for offering such nice blog candy! I’ve heard of Stampin’ Up quite a few times and from your post, it looks as though it offers some nice products!
Both of your cards are gorgeous! I love the simplicity of the designs…so elegant! :O)
Wonderful, wonderful cards, I am so inspired by your work. I love Stampin UP too, so it’s always nice to see ideas using their product.
Your tips are so helpful. I have been drooling over embossed papers but don’t have the tools to do it, but never in a lifetime would I have thought of scoring them!
wow- your cards are stunning!!! Love them!
I love your clean and simple cards. I love OWH! I found them earlier this year. Thank you! Have a great weekend!
I love your clean and simple cards. I know some of nation’s heroes will enjoy them.
I love the clean lines of your cards, very elegant.
I can not make just one either….Thank you!!
love these cards and the CAS of them
Beautiful cards. I love the clean lines with the touches of embossing.
Great ‘Hero’ cards.
Love the cards. They are going to make someone very happy.
Loved your card. It was so clean and simple, but very elegant.
The blog candy looks great!
Thanks for the great referral! (Smiles)
I think the second card is my favorite. Thanks so much for sharing!
Jaydee: Your cards are fabulous-And I love your design. Would very muc love to be included in your blog candy giveaway. Happy Memorial Day Weekend to you!
I Love both of your cards, they are very clean and elegant. I know they will be appreciated when received. Have a Happy Memorial Day!!
Beautiful cards and love that “Hero” stamp. Thanks for the inspiration.
outstanding cards and thank you for all you do for the men and women of the armed serives.
These cards are beautiful and such a great cause! I especially like the tip of scoring to add dimension. Thank you for sharing.
Great cards. Simple and elegant, yet powerful with their message. Love the stamps you used. Happy Memorial Day.
WOW!!! I love these cards! Absolutely beautiful.
Jaydee – your cards are just gorgeous. I especially like the flag star with the heart in the middle. Thanks for the tip about using scoring other than to fold your card. I like all the other little tips you added – FUN!!
What a great cause and your cards are beautiful. No fru-fru just clean and simple.
It’s always great to see the versatility of a stamp set. I love clean and simple cards like yours!
Thanks for the inspiration!
Wendy
Hi Sweetie…
I love the cards you have created. I especially love the little red heart in the center of the button on the star in the first card. In your second card, I love the textured background, how creative that is. LOVE it. Your lettering is gorgeous and sure does pop on both cards. Thank you for the inspiration to give this card making a try.
I too want to make some card for OWH, so you have inspired me along with the other fine ladies on this wonderful blog hop trail. Thank you, thank you.
I am also thrilled at the opportunity to win a little eye candy. I am a beginner, I have nothing so this would be wonderful. I am going to go searching in the house today to see what I can find to start creating. I am a shut in (for a month now and have an additional 2 weeks as of Friday.) I am having issues with my lungs and acute asthma. It has been very hard on me. I spend a lot of time in a recliner, so this is something I could do from my chair. Yeah….
Please stop by and say hi. I would be so honored if you signed up to follow my blog. I love meeting new friends.
Country hugs sweetie…Sherry
Great cards! I really like the white space on the first one. It is so clean and crisp looking.
Oh Wow! What a great card and great tips about the coloring – I love how those stamps turned out so different looking just by the techniques. Thanks for sharing!
Very pretty cards, Jaydee. I had to check out the color of the blue. I didn’t think it was Night of Navy! It is just the right blue for patriotic cards. Thank you for the chance to win the blog candy. Beth
Both cards are beautiful. I love the miss you card.
OMG, what beautiful cards!!!!!
Both cards are lovely, esp. like the EF on the 2nd one. Thanks for your support for our Heroes and OWH!
R/
beautiful card!!!
Lovely CAS cards!
Am just learning about OWH and am loving everything about it. Love your creations. Someone will be very happy to receive them.
DianeL
[email protected]
I love your CAS designes! They make me believe I could make such nice nice cards too. Thank you for you participation in OWH!
Gorgeous cards and thank you so much for the tips!!!
I just love your cards! There are so many beautifully CAS cards being shared this weekend. 🙂
love your cards
they’re simple, but elegant
thanks for sharing
Wow, thanks for the blog candy. Lovely cards…as always!
Love your clean and simple style–it’s so crisp!
Love your card creations! My husband is a vietnam veteran and said he wishes they had a program like OWH when he was overseas. Thanks for supporting our patriots through this blog hop. And thanks for sharing your talents with us! Happy Memorial Day!
What amazing CAS cards! CAS cards are my favorite! Thank you for supporting our troops!
~Courtney~
I LOVE your “hero” cards!
I can’t wait to see what else you can make with them *wink*
I love your cards- love the brad on the first one- nice added touch and love the sentiment and the great star on the 2nd one. Great Blog hop!
love your 2 uploads today. i too help make cards for this cause. and also donate to others sending cards overseas. how could i not! my dh is retired USMC
Thanks for sharing your beautiful HERO cards—will definitely make some of these!
Very striking cards!!!! Love them…I think simple cards really pack a punch!!! Thanks for your tips also!!!
Great hero cards. TFS!
Your cards are just beautiful!
Your Hero cards both are gorgeous. Simple design and very classy!
My husband is retired vet and I really appreciate your cards. They are beautiful.
Thank you for sharing these HERO cards. I like the simplicity of these cards. Where did you get these sentiments? They are very fitting to the occasion. Enjoy your time off. Hugs.
Your cards are beautiful. I love the CAS look!
Simple, yet stunning cards!
Absolutely beautiful card! I love the simplicity of the design and your design. Wonderful!
Love your cards. The stars are awesome!
I really like the HERO with the desciption on the side. THe embossing just seems to set it off. Thanks for remembering our veterans.
LOVE your cards. Thanks for your support of OWH.
A quick “Hello” tonight, just want to say that your “Hero” Cards for the Troops are fantastic! Both are winners in my book. I can’t pick a favorite, they are equally as good. I really like the scoring lines in the first card, and I just can’t seem to get enough of that new embossing folder. It just adds so much to a card. Great job all around as usual. Gotta run…other Blogs to check out! Thanks for sharing and being a part of the Blog Hop.
Cyber hugs, Trish in Wisconsin
Those are some Great cards! Thanks so much for sharing!
wow love your cards… love that lattice emboss folder – might have to pick that up (darn hop is killing my pocket book…LOL)
thanks for offering the candy – got my fingers crossed
SUPERB cards, WONDERFUL tips, GREAT and GENEROUS candy!! thanks so very much :)…new subscriber 🙂
Susan
(78 on the list)
Hey Jaydee,
I love the cards you created. It may not be SU but that Hero Stamp is really wonderful – I thought at first you had taken apart one of the wheels and started flipping through looking for it – lol! Then of course I read on…sad when a brain can be so easily distracted when the info is right in front of it.
The simplcity and elegance of the cards really add to the overall impact. And the texturing really adds a lot of pizzazz and pop!
As always thanks for sharing your remarkable talents my friend.
Hugs to you and the family…human and fur!
Love your cards. They’re really great!
Really like the scoring under the sentiment. It is so simple but so effective. Thanks for reminding about it.
As always you inspire!
Thank you for great cards but especially for the tips.
I love the simple clean look of the cards you made. I’m really getting inspired with all the great work.
Love your cards. WOW !
You have great cards and projects.
That is some blog candy.
Thanks for being so generous!
Those cards are stunning! I love that they’re clean and simple- it really makes what’s there pop beautifully!
What such Great cards. Love your star and HERO stamp. Thanks for sharing.
I really like both of your cards but the top one is my favorite. I love the scored line. I think it adds the perfect, subtle touch.
cute card! love the clean and simple look. and that square lattice embossing folder is so cold. thanks for sharing.
Love both the cards, thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas.
Heidi McDonough
[email protected]
Beautiful cards. Thanks for sharing.
Linda D.
Wow, your cards are incredible! So CAS and yet elegant! Thanks for sharing all the little details that make your cards incredible!
Love your cards! Thanks for joining the Hop!
I ooooed and aaaahed at all your creations! I loved the way you flipped the stamp and added the additional sentiment! Stampin Up has such wonderful products! Thanks for making cards for the troops!
Hugs,
Carmen L
cal8007 at aol dot com
I forgot to add the sentiment LOL
You make me light up with happiness!
or
You are my guiding light.
Carmen L
cal8007 at aol dot com
I really like your cards. 🙂 Good job!
Thanks so much for sharing!! I love the clean simple cards too and that way can get more made for OWH!! So many inspirational ideas so keep up the great work. Thank you for helping with our OWH card making!!
Your cards are fabulous!!!
Thanks so much for sharing!
Happy Memorial Day!
God Bless our Soldiers & their families!
~Ola
okj83 at live dot com
Wow great cards. I really like the 2 lines you scored on the 1st card. Thanks for the inspiration.
I love your cards !! So clean and simple yet elegant. Thanks for sharing. I’m days behind but still trying to plug away..
Patty
Very classy cards. They are going to bring many smiles.
You are always so thoughtful to participate in great causes. You’re cards will be loved! I love the star with the brad in the middle…very adorable. And I would have never thought to add the score lines…I will have to try that. Thanks for sharing and being an amazing person.
Wow I just found your blog thru SCS. Gorgeous you will certainly be on my list of daiy checks! Thank you for sharing your beautiful CLEAN work. Your cards are some of the pretties I’ve seen in a long time.