Hi Everyone.
Happy Saturday Night.
Tonight's card is for the Paper Players Challenge number 38. Ann has a great color challenge for us all this week. Perfect for Spring and I know you will love playing along with this color scheme. The design team have some fabulous inspiration cards for you.
I decided to use a brand new set, soon to be released by Stampin' Up! Now, you all know that I love stamping for a purpose, and this one is particularly dear to my heart. Stampin' Up! will be donating $2.00 for every Strength and Hope stamp set or digital set sold between May 1 and August 31 to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. It's a fabulous set and I will be showing you several cards before the release of the stamp set.
Here's my card.
Card recipe – all ingredients Stampin' Up!:
- Card stock: Very Vanilla
- Stamp Set: Strength and Hope (available May 1), sentiment: So Happy For You
- Inks: Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze, Early Espresso
- Accessories: Iridescent Ice (covers the butterfly), Basic Pearls
- DSP: In Colors Patterns Pack (Hostess Level 1 set)
- Ribbon: Blushing Bride
The butterfly (which is beautiful, I might add) is from the Strength and Hope set, as is the words of encouragement and support along the bottom of the card. I stamped the words across the bottom of the card until I had covered the entire area. I inked up the butterfly with Stampin' Write Markers and stamped onto a piece of scrap Very Vanilla card stock. I then snipped around it and covered the butterfly with Versamark and Iridescent Ice. I mounted the butterfly to the card base using Stampin' Dimensionals. I then stamped the sentiment in Early Espresso.
My biggest problem with this card? I couldn't get a decent photograph of it. I tried several different times and it just wouldn't photograph well. I promise, it really is pretty in real life. So, what am I going to do with this card? Well, Germaine sent me a great magazine from the UK called Creativity. In the magazine they told us about a campaign to collect hand crafted cards that can be donated to any of the Cancer Society shops in the UK and they will be sold for 1 UK pound each. So, I am making some up cards and will take them with me on our next trip back and donate them to the Cancer Society. Cancer really is a disease which has affected my life on so many levels. Giving back in any way I can is important. For those of you who live in the UK, you might want to check out this cause – Craft for Life.
Continued prapers tonight for Missy and for all those affected by the Tsunami.
I hope you all have a wonderful Sunday, filled with love, laughter and time spent doing the things you love, with those you love!
Hugs
Jaydee
12 Responses
Beautiful card Jaydee! I love it! Thanks for sharing another beautiful creation with us!
Huge hugs & prayers to all who are in need!
Thanks for sharing with us Jaydee, yes it is beautiful. I have been slipping this week, but I have been tuning in and seeing all of your great projects that you so *inspire* us with.
Have a great day!
Just lovely—-another amazing creation using this special set!
This is just lovely in every way – I love how you made the one butterfly stand out!
Stunning card Jaydee and such a beautiful use of this worth set. I’ll bet that butterfly is absolutely stunning IRL–so sparkly!
Love that iridescent ice on that pretty butterfly.
Thank you for everything!
xo, Marian Garcia (Studio M)
The Paper Players March 2011 Guest Designer
Can’t wait to see more of this set–LOVE that SU is sharing with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. It makes me proud to support such a caring company~and makes me miss Trish and her daily comments.
Thanks for sharing Jaydee!
I love the repeated buttefly. So soft and pretty, you have created another CAS beauty!
Very serene and lovely card
Oo, what gorgeous colors for the challenge this week! I love love love that butterfly and can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Your card is gorgeous!
Hugs and prayers for those in need.
Jaydee, this is gorgeous! I can’t wait to get this set and I love that SU! is helping such a great cause. Do you have an address to send cards to the UK shops? I would love to send some cards along, too.
Very pretty card, I can’t wait until I order that stamp set. More importantly, thank you for always ending your posts reminding us of those in need. In busy lives, it is so easy to get wrapped up in our own little dramas and your blog always helps me step back and see the big picture. You are truly a treasure.