Brushed Beauty!

BOO! Happy Halloween!

I hope all is well with you! My g'kids seem to be doing very well! The oldest one we were really concerned about seems to be fighting the swine off! Truly answered prayers! Thanks so much!

My card today is for the sketch challenge over at Stamp TV. My card base is brushed copper from SU. This card stock has a wonderful sheen! My large panel is basic black layered with very vanilla. I embossed my script, which is from rustic rooster with gold ep. My snowflake is from serene snowflakes also embossed with gold ep. I added a few twigs from my Martha Stuart punch and a few pearls and there you have it! This card could be used for Christmas or just about anything else !

Have yourself a great weekend!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Nestabilities, Martha Stuart

Goin Pink!

Good Morning!


I have a non- traditional Christmas card to share with you today! My card is for the challenge over at Pals Paper Arts. The challenge is to go pink in honor of breast cancer awareness month. I love pink pirouette and sage shadow together, they just make a cool combo! My card base is sage shadow layered with whisper white and pink pirouette. My snowflake is from serene snowflakes. I stamped it in sage shadow and embossed it with iridescent ice ep. The sentiment is from all year cheer and also embossed. All in all this was a fun card to create!
Flu update! My daughters family is recovering. Her two younger children went back to school yesterday. They have to wear masks because they still have a cough. Other than that they are fine. However her oldest has been attacked by the dirty swine. She has some underlying health conditions and could really use your prayers. The two younger kids had the shot and got sick anyway. Taeler's dr. didn't want her to have it.... don't really know why! Makes ya wonder ... huh? We are all hoping and praying she has a mild case!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Nestabilities

Quick Christmas!

Good Morning!

I hope all is well with everyone out there! Stay away from the pig flu..... 4 of my grand kids have had it! One of them is still trying to fight it off. It's a miserable state of affairs! She got the vaccine and 3 days later was stricken down! The Dr. says she was exposed before the vaccine... My daughter says their trying hard to kill the pig!LOL!
Ok, onto my card. It was fast and simple. You could mass produce this really easily! My card base is bashful blue layered with whisper white and bella blue dp. I gold embossed my sentiment added a few pearls and a bow .... Walaaaaa!

Have yourself a happy and healthy day!
Patti

Recipe: SU

Kiddo's Christmas

Good Morning!

I have a very simple card for you today! It's for one of my grand kids! They love to get things in the mail. I did cover 3 challenges with this card.

1. Mercy's Tuesday sketch challenge #45
2. Stamp TV Potluck Friday #36
3.Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #39

Obviously my sketch came from Mercy. Stamp Tv required snow and Flourishes required a border of some kind. The only stamping on this card is the sentiment. It is from Creative Clear Stamps " Let it Snow". I was digging through my paper looking for inspiration and found this paper with the snowmen. My grand kids will love this! I made my snowflakes with my cricket. I started this card with real red layered with basic black and whisper white. My punch border is SU scallop punch. It's a pretty simple card all in all!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: Su, Creative Clear Stamps

Thanks Victoria!

My friend Victoria has bestowed this fun award upon me! Thanks Victoria! You should visit her blog, she does amazing work! She always puts a smile on my face! I have to tell you 5 things about myself and then pass it onto 5 of my friends. So here it goes:

1. I have 6 sisters and 3 brothers. 1 sister and 1 brother are steps !
2. I have 2 children 4 step children, 6 grand kids, 7 step grand kids, and
3 step great grand kids. I claim all of them as my own and love each
and everyone of them!
3. I am a hairdresser and have been for 22 years.
4. I love the outdoors!
5. Fall is my favorite season but hate what comes next! LOL!

I am passing this onto Linda, Olga, Theresa, Geri, Selma...... Can't wait to read 5 things about your girls! LOL!

Hugs
Patti

Happy B Day Donna!

Good Morning!

I hope this post finds everyone well! A few years ago when I first started stampin, my big sis sent me a birthday card. She used this image from Art Impressions. This is Madge and I love her! LOL! Terri's card is one of my very favorite cards and I cherish it! I was in total awe at what she could do..... the coloring..... glitter on the shoes.....yes I cased my sister!

This card is for a dear friend of mine, her birthday is coming up and I love to make her laugh! She's had some hard knocks in her life and always comes up smiling! She is my age which means she is going threw menopause! Madge knows exactly what that is all about! Hee! Hee!



This is the inside of the card! The sentiment is from Creative Clear Stamps. Isn't it just the funniest? This card is for their challenge at A Fairy Creative Place. All we had to do is add buttons! I have a button on the front and on the inside. My card base is ballet blue, layered with whisper white and dp from a mat stack. Madge was colored with a combination of SU markers and prisma colored pencils. I used OMS and blending stumps from Gina K to blend. I love how this turned out and I know it will give Donna a good laugh! Oh and thank you Terri for the inspiration!


Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: Art Impressions, Gina K, Su, Creative Clear Stamps

Dasher Mojo!

Good Mojo Monday to you!

It's Mojo Monday ...Yea! :)) My card today is pretty simple! My card base is Gina K luxury white layered with basic black and real red. My focal image is dasher. I embossed dasher with iridescent ice ep. That little bit of glitter is for Olga! LOL! I punched my little ferns with a Martha Stuart punch and added little red pearls. Well that's it!

Have yourself a great Monday!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Martha Stuart

Truly Thankful!

Good Sunday Afternoon!

I can't believe the day is half gone! My house is clean, laundry is done...... now all I can do is play with paper! ;))

My card today is for two challenges:

Stampin' Sisters in Christ
Anyone for Anya?

The challenge for Stampin' Sisters in Christ is based on this scripture:
Chronicles 16:34 “Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.” (NIV)
The challenge for Anyone for Anya is a sketch challenge. That being said onto my card. My card base is not quite nave layered with kraft and very vanilla. The second panel is not quit navy layered with a piece of very vanilla that I embossed. The third panel is not quite navy and a piece of dotted velum. The forth panel.... you guessed it kraft layered with not quite navy and very vanilla! My sentiment is elegant thank you from SU.

Be sure and check out the new articles Carol and Bill have written!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Fiskers, Provo Craft

Bloomin Wonderful!

Good Afternoon!

Is everyone having a great weekend? It's the weekend..... it has to be great! LOL! As a rule I only work half a day on Saturday. Today however I had to put seven hours in. :( Oh well, I'm home now and have the laundry going .. So now I can play with paper!

My card today is for two challenges... Are you surprised? I've chosen Jugs 4 and Crazy 4 Challenges 8. For Jugs 4 we were to add three geometrical elements. I have a rectangle, circle and square. I tucked the corner of my square under the focal image. Crazy 4 Challenges is a dimensional challenge. We had to make our own flowers. I haven't made little flowers like this since I was a kid. That was a long time ago.... believe me! Okay back to my card! :)) I stamped my focal image from Su's Thoughts and Prayers. I then made my little flowers and attached them. My card base is chocolate chip, layered with whisper white and dp from a mat stack. My sentiment,square and circle were cut out with nesties. Well off to finish my laundry!

Have a great day!
Patti

Recipe: Su, nestabilities

Beautiful You

Good Evening!

I hope everyone is well! Sorry I was MIA yesterday! It was just one of those days! Well today was way better! It's pouring rain.... great for staying home and playing with paper!
My card today is for Color Throwdown and the Stamp TV sketch challenge. The colors to be used are purely
pomegranate ,certainly celery and taken with teal. Well since purely pomegranate was an in color way before I started stampin, I had to use rich razzelberry.... sigh! My card base is taken with teal, layered with whisper white and rich razzelberry. Not sure where my image came from. I stamped it at my sisters I think! Not so sure! LOL! My sentiment is from the Verve set called beautiful you.


Have your self a great, great weekend!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Verve, nestabilities, provo craft

Always Artichoke Christmas!

Good Morning!

I have a quick post! I had to bring my card to work and wait until day light to get a picture! My tone on tone made it difficult to get a good picture.

This card is for the technique challenge at Stamp TV. The challenge is to do tone on tone embossing. My card base is always artichoke . I then embossed with my nesties. My focal image is dasher from SU, embossed with clear EP. My sentiment is from Christmas greetings. The ribbon is from my stash. This was a fun and fast card..... I can see me using this technique a lot! Thanks for dropping by!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Nestabilities

Diva Coffee Break Designs

Guess what.... OMGosh ..... I've been picked as the featured artist for the week over at Diva Coffee Break Design. I'm doing the happy dance. So glad you can't see it... I'm rhythmically challenged! LOL! Thanks ladies for this wonderful honor!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

There are no small Miracles!

Good Evening!

My card today is for three challenges.

Mercy's Sketch Challenge #44

Stamp TV Color Challenge #35

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday #38

I really enjoyed creating this card. Things just fell together! The sketch is obvious. Stamp TV color challenge is blue, green and yellow. I used night of navy, always artichoke and my yellow is prisma color pencils. The Flouish challenge is water coloring. I used prisma color pencils and OMS on the flowers in the basket. I love the look you get with water coloring. My card base is always artichoke layered with night of navy. My sentiment is from the Verve set beautiful you. Thanks for dropping by!

Have a great evening!
Patti

Recipe: Su, Provo craft, Verve

Mojo Monday 109 & CCS 3

Good Morning to You!

I hope this post finds everyone well! My little sis has been at it again. She has a new article on "Gift giving with Paper Crafts". Our own Gina K and Beate Johns are spotlighted! It's a great article... pop over and take a look!
My card is a totally a nontraditional holiday card! It combines Mojo Monday and A Fairy Creative Place challenges! Of coarse my sketch is from Mojo Monday and my color combo is from A Fairy Creative Place. We are to think black tie and evening gowns! We can only use black, gray and white. No other color..... EKKKKKK! I so wanted to color that little nose orange! LOL! I really wanted to ink up my stamps I received from Creative Clear Stamps. I bought these with my 10% off code I received with my badge. This little snowman is just the cutest! He is from one of their new sets called Let it Snow! The card is pretty basic.... I used Gina K luxury white for my card base! I layered with black and dp from a mat stack. I made the little fella all glittery and added stickles to the snowflakes on the top panel to make them shine! Well this is my nontraditional black tie and evening gown snowman! Hee!Hee!

Have yourself an absolutely wonderful day!
Patti

Recipe: Gina K, Nestabitlites, Creative Clear Stamps

Stampin Sisters 9 & Stamp TV sketch 34

Good Morning!

Well I'm tucked in for the weekend! My weekend is Sunday and Monday! My DH and I have gone to the gym and grocery shopping already this morning. I have just a little house work to do today..... soooooo I think I will play with paper! LOL!

My card to day is for Stampin Sisters in Christ and Stamp TV sketch 34. This was a pretty simple quick card! Little actual stamping... the tree and sentiment are embossed with silver EP. The tree is from Lovely as a Tree and the sentiment is from Christmas Greetings. The rest of my card is done with the bigshot. I dry embossed the night of navy with a texturz plate. I cut the tag and the pieces for the focal point with nesties. I then punched the very vanilla with the fiskers sunburst border punch. My corner is a dye ran through the bigshot.

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: Su, Nesties, Provocraft

Peace Baby!

Good Afternoon!

Well it's barely afternoon here.... I know it's later where you are! My card today is for three challenges.

1. STVPF 35 Words only.... no other stamping!

2. JUGS 3 Color challenge... pure poppy, aqua mist & vintage cream. I used ridinghood red , baha breeze and very vanilla.

3.C4C7 Is a sketch challenge.


I love combining challenges! It's so much fun when they come together well! My challenge hero is Victoria. I'm telling you this girl is amazing! Her cards are a work of art! She has a great sense of humor too! LOL!

Anyhoo onto my card! My card base is ridinghood red layered with baha breeze and very vanilla. The dp is from ski slope. My sentiment is from a really old set called all year cheer. My little flower swag is martha stewart leaf punch and SU flower punch. I thought that turned out pretty cool! LOL! I flipped the sketch and sponged the oval .

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Martha Stuart.

PPA 12

Good Evening!

Did anyone miss me this morning? Well I had a late night last night and a busy morning so no post! I actually allowed my self not to obsess over it! Big for me! OCD! LOL!

My card today is for the challenge over at Pals Paper Arts. Yes it is a sketch challenge! My fav.! I used rich razzelberry for my card base, layered with whisper white. I embossed the two panels with the fleur cuttlebug folder. My focal image is from Essence of Kindness.

The next card I have to show you is actually the first RAK I have received! MY dear friend Olga sent me this beautiful card! It totally made my day! Just what the DR ordered!




Isn't it just a beauty! I love it! Thanks so much Olga! Your a true blessing! "Hugs to you GQSR"

Have yourself a great evening!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Provocraft

DCBD 149 & CTD 64

Good Morning!

I hope everyone is well today. Our weather is back to normal! The bitter cold has moved on! Yea! I have combined two challenges for my card today. The sketch is from Diva Coffee Break Designs and the color combo is from Color Throwdown. My card base is chocolate chip, layered with baha breeze and sahara sand. My dp is windsor knot and manchester. The stamped image is from Of the Earth.

I have a new routine for stamping. I used to stamp all weekend and make enough cards for the week of posting. Now I am checking challenges on a daily basis and creating a card each evening. It helps keep my juices flowing by stamping everyday.

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, fiskars

MTSC 43

Good Morning!

I have done something way cool! I made a folder in my bookmarks just for challenges. I went through all the challenges I had marked and separated them into sub-folders by the days of the week. Now I just click on Tuesday and find all the challenges for that day.... How cool is that! I had marked a lot of challenges that I had never played. Mercy's Tuesday Challenge would be one of those! Being a sketch challenge lover, this is right up my alley! Mercy's sketch is the inspiration for today's card!


I changed the sketch up a bit! Sometimes I just can't help myself! LOL! I instead of the squares I used circles. My card base is soft suede layered with very vanilla and always artichoke. I used a texturz plate to emboss the always artichoke. My side circles are very vanilla layered with autumn traditions. My focal image was cut out with nesties. The sentiment is from Verve's Asian Flair.



Thanks for dropping by! The coffee is always on! LOL!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU ,Verve, nestabilities

Cuttlebug challenge 52

Good Morning!

My card today is for the challenge over at The Cuttlebug Spot! The challenge is monochromatic. Well you can't get much more monochromatic than all white!

My sketch for this card is the sketch Linda Payne created for the sketch challenge on Stamp TV.

My card base is Gina K pure luxury white, layered with whisper white. Layered again with whisper white that I embossed with a cuttlebug folder. My next layer is...... you guessed it whisper white layered with another embossed piece of whisper white! My focal image is a poinsettia from A Year of Flowers stamped on whisper white . I then added a white ribbon and there you have it!

Have your self a great day!
Patti

Recipe: Gina K, Su, Provo Craft, Cuttlebug,Nesties

MOJO 108, C4C6, STVCC34, CCS2

Good Mojo Monday!

I hope everyone had a great weekend! Today I've combined four challenges. Mojo Monday, Stamp Tv color 34, A Fairy Creative place and Crazy 4 Challenges!


Speaking of A Fairy Creative Place. My lucky number is now 3..... Yes they drew my number! I am so excited.... (big huge dimpled grin) LOL! I can't wait to get my badge and of coarse I need to shop and use that 10% savings code! Thanks so much girls!

Ok to my card.... My sketch is Mojo Monday, color is Stamp TV 34, Thanks is Crazy for challenges and the scallop is A Fairy Creative Place. My card base is Gina K pure luxury white layered with ridingood red and bashful blue. My stamp of choice is from branch out. I used versamark ,bashful blue and iridescent ice ep to create the snowflakes. That one is for Olga! Hee! Hee!

Have yourself a great day! I know I will!
Patti

Recipe: Gina K, SU, Nesties, Provocraft

JUGS 2

Good Sunday Morning to you!

Baby it's cold outside! We have a whopping 10 degrees with a stout wind...... GRRRRRR
My card today is for the Just us Girls challenge. We were to paper piece and add a little pink for breast cancer awareness month. This is my PPP card! Paper pieced, pierced and lot's of pink! My card base is Gina K luxury weight white layered with regal rose and sweet always dp. I cut dp with my nesties to coordinate with my pink paper pieced pickup! Say that 10 times.... pink paper pieced pick up, pink paper pieced pick up..... ok stop! I need to go play in my studio!

Have yourself a really great day!
Patti

Recipe: Gina K, SU

STVPF 34

Good Saturday Morning!

I think I'm going to live! Yea! I still have a little bit of a cold, but for the most part it's gone! Now maybe I can get some creative juices flowing! I thought I would start with the Potluck Friday challenge over at Stamp TV. Lori McAgree is the hostess. Lori challenged us to make a kickstand card. Something I've never done.... but had to try! They are great fun and really pretty simple!
My card base is perfect plum, layered with very vanilla and the dp is from a mat stack. My kickstand is cut out with labels 8 nestabilities. The sentiment is from all year cheer. It was hard to get a good picture since it gets dark so early now :( This will have to do!

Have a great weekend!
Patti
Recipe: SU,Nestabilities

STVSC 33

Good Morning!

My card today is for the sketch challenge over at Stamp TV. Linda Payne is the hostess and she has come up with a great sketch! She is such an inspiration ..... her work "wows" me over and over!
My card base is perfect plum layered with old olive and dp from a mat stack. The dp is textured but you can't see it in the picture very well. My side panel is perfect plum layered with a piece of old olive that I ran through the big shot with the swiss dot embossing folder. My focal image was cut out and dry embossed with nestabilities. The image is from the set Of the Earth. I colored the image with SU markers and sponged around it with the die still attached.

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Nestabilities, Provo Craft

Recipe

Good Morning!

Back with another recipe for the 6x6 scrapbook! This one is done on rich razzelberry card stock, layered with razzelberry lemonade. The recipe is sitting on crushed curry and rich razzelberry. My corners are done with the photo corner punch and I used the white gel pen to make the little dots! Pretty simple!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU

SSCC 7

Good Morning!

I have to say the crud finally caught me :(
My face hurts...... I usually only get sick about once a year so let's hope this is gone soon! It's really just a face cold.... every bit of it is in my face, except for the part that's running out of my face! LOL! Enough whining....

My card today is for the challenge at Stampin Sisters in Christ. The challenge is to make a card showing the earth rejoicing. Blooming flowers, trees bursting with fruit....... I love flowers, you can see the Lord in every petal.
My card base is melon mambo, layered with whisper white and razzelberry lemonade. I colored the flowers from Of the Earth with SU markers. My sentiment is from Heard from the Heart.

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU

CCS 1

Good Morning!

I hope everyone is well today! I found a new challenge! Yepee! Can you see me jumping up and down? Glad you can't.... it's not a pretty site! LOL! The new challenge is at "A Fairy Creative Place" This is the Creative Clear Stamps blog. The challenge is all about texture!
For my card I pulled out baja breeze and blew off the dust! The card base is baja breeze layered with ski slope dp on the bottom. The top panel is whisper white embossed with a texture plate. My focal image is kissy deer. I colored him partly with prisma color pencils & OMS and partly with SU markers. I added glitter to his nose, scarf and skates! My sentiment was punched out with the modern label punch.

Have yourself a beautiful fall day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, CC designs.

Mojo 107

Good Mojo Morning!

This is one late post for me! Mojo woke up late..... I couldn't believe I got out of bed before Mojo Monday! LOL!
This sketch was really fun! My card base is Gina K luxury chocolate kiss layered with very vanilla and merry moments dp. My panels are very vanilla and real red. Gotta love real red! My focal image is dasher nestled on very vanilla and real red. I then added my polka dot ribbon and few brads! There you have it another Mojo Monday has passed!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Gina K, Nestabilities

C4C5

Good Afternoon!

This is my submission for the Crazy 4 Challenges week 5 challenge! I love this new challenge blog! They mix up the kinds of challenges they offer! Variety is the spice of life after all! LOL! The challenge this week is to sew on your card in some way or another! My card base is soft suede layered with always artichoke and autumn traditions dp. My stamped image is from the set called Of the Earth. Pictured below is the inside of the card.


That's it for today! Have your self a great evening!
Patti

Recipe: SU

SC248 & STVPF33

Good Morning!

I hope this finds everyone well! The crud is trying to catch me..... but I'm running fast to get away! LOL! Lot's & lots of herbal tea! My clients come in sick and say they will feel better after they get their hair cut! They may feel better but I usually don't! Grrrrrrrr :(

My card today is for two challenges. The first challenge is the sketch challenge at Splitcoasters. The second is Potluck Friday at Stamp Tv. The challenge for potluck Friday was to add gold... see my sparkly gold ribbon? Pretty huh? My card base is very vanilla, layered with handsome hunter and merry moments dp. My stamped images are unknown. I embossed them with iridescent ice, they sparkle too! It's all about the sparkle today! Hee! Hee!

Have yourself a great Saturday!
Patti

Recipe: SU

STVCC 32

Good Morning!

Can you believe it's Friday already? And it's Oct 2nd! Where does the time go? They said time would fly the older your get..... I must be really, really old! LOL!
My card today is for the color challenge over at Stamp TV. Joy Hadden is our faithful leader for this challenge! She has us using pink, navy, white or ivory! My colors are night of navy, regal rose and whisper white. I decided I needed to show my upsy daisy set some love :~)

Have a great weekend!
Patti

Recipe: SU

Tree Trimmings

Good Morning!

I have a CAS card to share with you today! My card base is Gina K luxury white. I pulled out the SU set tree trimmings, then stamped and embossed all 3 ornaments with real red. I used silver to emboss the sentiment and the ornament ties. I used iridescent EP so my ornaments twinkle! I really like how it turned out! Just like my card... my post is short and sweet!

Have yourself a great day!
Patti

Recipe: SU, Gina K