Painting, drawing, creating….
Cooking, baking, feeding….
Eating, exercising, relaxing..
Reading, writing, rhyming…
Exploring, photographing, dreaming….
Celebrating, experiencing, observing…
Singing, laughing, talking…
Watching, crying, listening..
Loving, sharing, growing…
Working, playing, enjoying time with family and friends…
It isn’t that hard!
Do More of What Makes YOU Happy!
#CherishTheMoments
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
It’s a color challenge at The Paper Players this week, and the colors are “cucumber crush” green, “crushed curry” gold, and “real red.”
I took a bit of a different twist with them for my Design Team inspiration card this week.
For my card, I took sponge daubers and dotted a sheet of very vanilla card stock with all three colors to pretty much completely cover it. I then heat embossed maple leaves in white over top it, allowing the colors to seep through like Autumn leaves. I then sponged Memento black ink over the entire thing, and rubbed it off the embossed parts with a baby wipe to give this dramatic masculine effect.
I layered this on top of real red and crushed curry card stock to frame it.
On a strip of vellum, I heat embossed Happy Birthday in black, wrapped it around and glued underneath, adhered to a very vanilla base, and added three black candy dot embellishments. Oh – and a Wink of Stella 😉 to give it a bit of sparkle that you cannot see in the photo, but adds just a nice shimmer and festive spirit to the card.
I added another green maple leaf on the inside, and this is a birthday card for my dear oldest son, Jake, who turns 28 this week! Where did the time go?! Seems like yesterday I held you in my arms for the first time. One of the best days of my life! Love you Jake! More than you could possibly know! ❤
Hope my stamping and paper crafting friends will join us at The Paper Players this week and you were inspired to create something from my post.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Stamp Sets Used:
Today is my BFF’s birthday. And what kind of bestie am I when I am pretty sure she is going to see this card here before she receives it in the mail???!!! UGH!
BFF Jill is one of the most creative, supportive, generous, loving people I know. And here I am late getting her card to her…
I have been wanting to draw and watercolor a butterfly for a while now.
This past week, however, had me in New York City for three days, home a day, and then off to Cleveland for an overnighter with another bestie for Saturday and Sunday. All awesome stuff I must say, but little time for relaxing and creating.
Sunday evening, I finally found some time to sit down and be “creative.” It was good to get my watercolor paint out again, draw a butterfly outline, and let it flow. I was inspired by some designs I had seen done using a butterfly diecut at SimonSaysStamp. For my card, I just drew a butterfly outline and then dropped in some color.
Jill and I have been through so much together. I don’t know what I’d do without her. She and her family are our chosen family. She is there for me in the most important of times (difficulties with family, emergencies, doubts, disappointments, but also celebrations, holidays, and milestones).
Many years ago, Jill and I went to a Bette Midler concert. We’ve watched the movie “Beaches” together.
You know how couples have a “song?” Well, Jill and I have a “song.” It is “Wind Beneath My Wings,” by Bette Midler. (and yes – hubby and I do have a song too – wonder if he knows it as the same one I do…. Merv?!).
So a butterfly seemed the perfect card for Jill – the wind beneath my wings.
If only I could have got it there on time….
Love ya Jill! Happy Birthday!
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
A Short and Random List of Just Some of the Things that make me HAPPY:
You can NEVER have too much happy – right?!
So I had fun making this card for Mojo Monday Challenge #357 and using this Stampinup Yippee-Skippee Stamp sentiment: “You Can Never have Too Much Happy,” which I heat embossed with white on Blackberry Bliss cardstock.
This is the sketch we were to follow:
I used some Park Lane DSP, some more of the new In Colors: Hello Honey and Tangelo Twist with some classic Old Olive, and stamped and cut out the flower and leaf from SU Flower Patch. I embellished with a few of my homemade faux enamel dots, and the finishing touch was a spritz of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (which I picked up on our brief shopping trip to Hobby Lobby this weekend). Fun!
I love how the light catches the Shimmer mist, but it was hard to capture in a photograph. I can’t wait to share this with someone and hopefully make them happy.
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
the creative life in between 