40th Anniversary...

Good morning, friends!

Today, my DH and I are celebrating our 40th Wedding Anniversary.  This week has been full of family and friends arrving from out of town, and out of state, to share in the celebration with us.

Our two grown children have teamed up and are having a party for us at a local vinyard this afternoon, and we are looking forward to seeing even more friends and family!

I'll try to have a photo to share in the next post.

I thought I'd share a card with you that was published in CardMaker's Quick & Easy Cards Magazine. If you haven't seen this one yet, you are missing out!  Great photos, and so much inspiration!

Gina K. Designs Stamps

 

Have a wonderful day, and thank you for being patient with me the past week or so, as my time has been devoted to visiting with family!  Our DD and her DH will be moving to Germany at the end of this month, and will be gone for three years, so we have been spending as much as we can with them.

Have a wonderful day!

Patti J.

Roses...

Hi there!

Hope that you are all enjoying your weekend.  I have received 3 emails lately, asking me why I never post cards that have been published on my blog.  Well, I can only say "duh".  I just haven't thought to do so!  So, without further ado, or jabber, here are the cards that were in the July issue of CardMaker.

All photography by Melissa Gilliam Shaw, All stamps by Gina K. Designs

                                                             About the photo cards.....

I am absolutely NOT a photograper, so when the submission call came out for photo cards, I was bummed. What to do, what to do?  Then it hit me that our DD is a fabulous photographer!  She has had some of her works published, and loves to take photos.  The photo on these cards was taken by her.  She's been lucky enough to have worked in both the Phipps and Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, where beautiful flowers are in abundance, and this was just one example.  

I had originally submitted the blue card, with the black and white photo, and the editors asked me to make a sepia, and a full color card as well, so that is what you see here.

Also in this issue was a cheerful birthday card on page 39.  This call was for a rainbow color scheme. Unfortunately, it appears that I forgot to save a photo! Tee hee...

Enjoy your weekend, and thanks so much for stopping by!  

Hugs,

Patti J.

Monday, Monday...

So, we survived another Monday! Wonder why Monday's are so hard? Monday's are even yukky for retiree's! I had a gloomy day today...stayed in ALL day. Did a craft festival with DD on Saturday from 10-4, and it was and outdoor festival. It got into the 50's, and was a beautiful day, but the sun was high overhead all day, and this poor fair skinned girl got blistered. My neck, nose, chin, cheeks, and eyebrows look ridiculous! Lol.... So, today, I didn't budge. I moisturized all day long, and still feel fiery!

I took time to make one card, but couldn't stand to sit under my halogen lights any more than that!

I've never taken part in a challenge at Card Patterns, and decided this was 'the' week! Below is their Sketch #37. I'm such a rebel - I nearly always turn sketches all kattywampus! This was turned on it's side!

The challenge at There's Magic in the Air, was to use Nina's beautiful free digi image (shown on card below), with a slight twist! DT member, Curt, challenged us to pop up some or all of our image! So, dear Curt...I did!!! I printed the image twice, colored twice, and cut out the geese, all of the fence, the large and small pumpkins. All of these, in addition to the computer generated sentiment, were popped up! It's pretty cool the way popping them up creates shadows!

Other challenges met with this card were:

Created by Hand (Harvest Time),

Scrap & Stamp Saturday (Thankful),

Three Clovers Designs (Nature).

All coloring was done with Kooh-I-Noor colored pencils and low odor mineral spirits.

I really enjoy Nina's images! She posts a free image every Monday that stays up for a week. Run over and check it out!

Well, hope to be back on my feet tomorrow with some more cards to show... have a great night!

Patti J.

Did you know...Coca Cola was originally green!

A bit of bling...

The challenge over at Friday's Sketches had a sketch that I have included below. My Time to Craft also had a challenge to create your card using no (ZERO) designer paper - EGADS! And Three Clovers had a challenge using red, white, and blue... So, here is what I put together.







I have been in need of some cheering up today, and this lady stamp (American Art Stamps)always makes me smile. I looked for a small blue flower for her hat, but didn't have any small enough. Hope you like her. Have a nice holiday.

GO CARDS!

Patti J.
~Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverbs 3:5 (NIV)

Dream Girl...

Happy Thursday!

I saw that there was a challenge over at Three Clovers. The challenge was to do a ONE LAYER card! You could add an embellishment, but the card needed to be one layer. Wow - that's a big challenge for folks like me that just keep adding another layer, another flower, more bling...you get it, right?

Well, I thought - what better opportunity to show the new duster technique that I learned from Darlene Domel last weekend at the Rubber Stamp Getaway!

So, without further ado, here is my card. I will be nice, and just list the supplies below! I've named this card "Dream Girl", as my only embellishment is a little metal piece that says "dream", and this gal looks to me, like she's dreaming of a handsome man coming to rescue her on his beautiful white stallion! If I had to name her, it would be something exotic, like Jasmine, or Genevieve.... I hope you like it! Let me know what you think!

Supplies: Stampland Extra Special Matte Cardstock
Eclipse Art Masking Tape
Marvy Uchida Matchables Dye Ink
Judikins Color Duster Brushes
Stamps: Clock, Tower, Star, Girl are by Stampland Chicago - Vines are Inkadinkado


Thanks so much for looking!

Patti J.
~Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Father's Day

Father's Day is just around the corner - can you believe we are nearly halfway to Christmas and taxes again???!!! Yikes! Time sure flies as one gets older...

I made this card last year for a swap, and just put it away in a box. (This was long before I even knew that this world of blogging and sharing was out there!)

I thought it turned out pretty cute! The base is DCWV CS, topped with a sheet of glossy paper which I used Tim Holt's alcohol inks on! The papers are scraps, and the sentiment is TAC's Trendy Greeting set. The rest is pretty self explanatory! A trip to the hardware store for sme 'junk' and cork, and voila!

Hope you enjoy it! Again, the photo is terrible. The way the light hits it, it looks wrinkled and it is not! I promise, I am going to find an outside spot for picture taking, really I am!!!

I am going to post it over at 3 Clovers Designs, where the challenge this week, is not only to create a Father's Day card, but to be sure it has metal, etc., on it - I'm pretty sure this qualifies!

Well, I have 24 Baby Shower favors to make, which means wrapping about 288 candy nuggets! Off I go to cut and paste - lol!!!

Have a great night - see you later!

Patti J.
~Did you know that every time you get angry or sad for a minute, you lose 60 seconds of happiness? Smile...it's all good!

What's Moo?

I'm sorry I have been so neglectful lately! As most of you know, it is my last 20 days of work, and I am just a nervous wreck about leaving things 'undone' there. Also, DD and I are working on a baby shower, and DH and I worked on our business' monthly reports this past weekend. Lots to do, very little free time to do so! I hope to start doing MUCH better in July!

Hopefully, all of you are crafting your little fingers to the bones! Speaking of little fingers, Tami.... any new rings in our future??? lol

So...What's Moo? That's tonight's card title. It features the cute TAC "An-Udder Birthday" set, and TAC papers. The little Rubber Ducky is one of Michael's clear stamps from their $1 bins. The bottom of the card is actually cut out as the shape shows (I have it sitting on black paper background). I made it for a contest (not an online contest) that is supposed to be a swimming type theme. It's so silly that it's kind of cute! Let me know if you think I should file 13 it and not send it in, 'kay??? I was daydreaming about swimming pools, so my inspiration was a pool on maybe the Kayak Pool Company? Anyway, I think I will enter this also into the 3 Clover's Ship Shape Challenge before I mail it off! The challenge is not to use a square or rectangle, and since this has the pool shape for the bottom edge..... you can get a better idea of the card shape in the second photo, which is the inside.



For tonight, sleep well, and I will 'cya' soon!

Patti J.
~Our difficulties in life are supposed to make us better, not bitter!