Thinking of you....

Good morning!  What a beautiful morning it is in Missouri!

Today is going to be another short post.  I think I mentioned that I'm doing two workshops for a Women's Wellness Weekend at a YMCA about an hour from here on Saturday.  Well, you know what that means!  My craft corner would scare the socks right off of you!  I'm busy cutting and scoring and packaging kits.  LOTS of kits!  Tee hee....

Anyway, back to business here!  I took my friend Shirley some lunch last week, when she was too sick to get out.  Lo and behold, she had the above project ready for us to create after lunch.  Shirley is an A muse demonstrator, so it's always fun to visit and look at her fabulous new 'stuff'!!!  Edited:  I think this technique is in this month's Technique Junkie....   This technique was shown on an Amuse video.  We used four colors of ink, and some small finger daubers.  The leaves were stamped normally, by pressing the stamp into the green ink.  The butterfly, however, was inked using the daubers.  We daubed the yellow first, then the red, then the brown, and stamped.  Isn't that a beautiful way of shading an image?

There is an inspiration photo at Flutterby Wednesday today, that I think captures the colors in this card beautifully, so I'm entering this card in their challenge!

Hope that you all have a delightful day - back to the grindstone for me!  DH has some more surgery at 11:30, so can't waste any time!

Thanks for stopping by to say hello!  I don't know about the rest of you, but Blogger's newest form of word verification is kicking my butt.  Sometimes it takes me 5 or 6 tries to read the words and retype them.  If I'm in a hurry to get someplace, I may have to just stop trying.  That is happening a lot.  If you are noticing a decline in your comments and visitors, it may be worthwhile to complain to Blogger!  Just sayin.....

Take care, friends!
Blessings,
Patti J.

Peace on Earth

It's been a while since I was able to participate in the Mojo Monday Challenge. I decided to try it this week. I took the liberty of flipping the sketch, and using an oval rather than a rectangle for my focal image...

Here is the Mojo Monday sketch:

I had just stamped this sweet image (Recollections from Michael's) to use for the Flutter by Wednesday challenge, so I decided to go ahead and use it for the Mojo challenge too.

I love it when things work out that way.

It's not my favorite card, but perhaps it will make someone smile.

Here is my card:

Coloring was done with Copics, Spica Glitter Pens, and sponging was with a Marvy Bubble Gum Pink ink.

Hope that you have a delightful week!

Blessings and hugs,

Patti J.

Already?

Okay, so I'm just wondering - how in the world did it get to be Wednesday already? Sheesh!

Hello to all, and Happy Wednesday! As it is Wednesday, it's time for another great challenge at Flutter by Wednesday's Challenge Blog!

These girls are SO much fun! I am very much enjoying my month with them!

Today I bring you a wonderfully fun sketch by our Danni, and an equally fun CAS card! I absolutely love these type of balanced sketches! It's Danni's first sketch, so be sure to drop by and leave her a few angel {{{hugs}}}!

Here is the awesome sketch:

And here is my take on it:

DCWV makes it SO easy to cutesy up a card with their coordinating matstacks! It was simply a matter of choosing two that I liked, coloring (Copics) the darling snow angel (Stampendous), sparkling it up a bit (Spica Pens) and doing a bit of matting.

Did I mention that I loved this sketch?

Hope to see you join in the challenge this week! You have your choice of an open challenge that includes an angel, butterfly, or fairy, or, you can use this wonderful sketch with your angel, butterfly, or fairy.

Have a great Wednesday!

Hugs,

Patti J.

Flutterby Wednesday's....and me!

What an exciting day!

I was invited to be a Guest Designer at Flutter By Wednesday for the month of November, and I said yes!

Thanks so much, ladies, for inviting me to participate with your amazingly talented group.

This week, the challenge at Flutter By Wednesday is being sponsored by In Style Stamps. The sweet image that I have used, Ava, is an In Style Stamp image.

Ava is in the process of hanging up her summer wings, and has put on her winter wings. Isn't she precious? (Her winter wings are silver, but they look gray in the photo, sorry!)

This week's challenge is an open challenge, but don't forget to include an angel, fairy, or butterfly on your project!

Supplies: Image by In Style Stamps, DP is DCWV, Trim and Bling from my stash, CS is Bazzill, Martha Stewart Snowflake Punch, Dienamics Scallop Punch, all coloring done with colored pencils and loms, Copic Spica Pens for dress, angel wings, and shoes.

That's all I have for today. I hope that you have a great Wednesday, and don't forget to enter your project at Flutter By Wednesday Challenge!

Hugs,

Patti J.

Color Challenge at FBW

Click here for today's Stampin' Sisters in Christ post!

The challenge this week at Flutterby Wednesdays was a color challenge. We were to use orange, purple, and black on a card, and of course, include a butterfly, angel, or fairy. I managed to use these colors without making a Halloween card! Sigh...sometimes I surprise even myself! lol...

The sentiment is one I picked up at convention this year from Morningstar Stamps. Butterflies are punched with Martha Stewart Punches. Cardstock is all Bazzill. DP is from scraps.

Hope you like it! Thanks for stopping by!

By the way, we will be pulling the camper in next weekend, so maybe I'll be back to normal blogging/blurfing next week! Thanks for being so patient with me!!!

Hugs,

Patti J.

Rainy Day in Missouri....

Actually, I guess my title should be rainy DAYS in Missouri! Goodness, has it ever rained! It should make for a gorgeous fall, though. The leaves will be every shade of beautiful!

I have a quick post today. This card is for the Inky Impressions Challenge. The challenge was to make an easel card, and it's over tonight at midnight eastern time, so I am livin' on the edge, for sure! The prize for this challenge is a spot as a guest designer at Inky Impressions - now, you tell me, how much fun would that be???

Anyway, life certainly got in the way of this card. I had it planned very differently, but had many interruptions, and was only able to start on it this afternoon. Then when I went to photograph it, I realized that my camera is in DH's work truck. Sheesh! I found another old camera, and made it work, however, I cannot get it to stop posting the date. So, please, dear friends, ignore the ugly 09 in the bottom corner! lol...

I am also entering this at Flutterby Wednesdays (include a butterfly, angel, or fairy on your card, AND the color PINK!)

Hope your week's been awesome. We are almost at another weekend! There's a special singing at our church tomorrow evening that we are very much looking forward to. It's a benefit for our minister and his wife who were married the last weekend in June. They flew to Calif. for their honeymoon where she became terribly ill and had to have an emergency hysterectomy. Of course, the insurance was not yet in effect, so their financial situation is pretty grim. Bills are in excess of 100k already, and still accumulating.

Have a nice evening!

Hugs and blessings,

Patti J.

Snow Angel...

We are getting closer to the weekend every minute! Wahoo! Hopefully, we can pick up our camper Saturday morning! I will include pictures as soon as possible :)

My card tonight was made for the following challenges:

Cuttlebug Challenge #93 (Sketch shown, and theme of Christmas in July)

Flutterby Wednesday (Christmas in July - include butterfly, angel, or fairy)

Have a wonderful Friday!

Patti J.

Flutter by Wednesday on Thursday...

Yesterday's challenge at Flutterby Wednesday was that

we could make whatever we desired, as long as it contained a butterfly, angel, or fairy, and included at least three layers.

This card features some more of Paulette's amazing work over at Create with TLC.

The lion, and the sentiment were both freebies on her site.

If you haven't checked out her website, hurry over and do so!

All coloring was done with my colored pencils and loms. Butterfly punch is Martha Stewart. CS is Bazzill.

Thanks a kajil"lion" for stopping by! Hope to see you tomorrow :)

Patti J.

Food for thought:

Why do people recite at a play, and play at a recital?

Ship by truck, and send cargo by ship?

Park in a driveway and drive on a parkway?

Have noses that run, and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?

You have to marvel at the language in which your house can burn up as it burns down,

you fill in a form by filling it out,

and in which an alarm goes off by going on!

A break from my ladder duties....

Well, actually, today it's more likely my 'down on the floor' duties! I'm working on the lower half of a wall right now! I took a short break to work on the 365 Cards challenge for the day. Since it contains butterflies, I am also entering it in this week's Flutter By Challenge. Today's challenge is "Ad Inspired". Amy found an ad with this photo:







and challenged us to be inspired to create while checking out this ad photo.





Here is my card:







The small stamped area's say "oh, yeah" and "u rock". All sentiment stamps are TAC. Ink is Versafine Black, Adirondack Denim Blue, and Stampin Up Groovy Guava. I used the Groovy Guava on the background stamp. It's an old wood mounted stamp with no name on it. The striped DP is Cloud 9 Designs, and I added a couple of thin blue stripes... I used my Tombow markers on the Happy Birthday stamp so that I could two-tone it.




Back to work I go. Sorry I'm being neglectful of your blogs. I promise to make up for it when this remodel job is done. You will actually be quite tired of me then!!!




Have a good night...




Patti J.
~Once you are in heaven, are you stuck wearing the clothes you were in when you got there through all of eternity??? (Yikes!)

Paper PIERCING, not piecing!

So, today, I was on the ball! I was actually going to have a challenge done early, posted early, and get some cleaning done. Ha! I misread piercing for piecing and had to start planning all over again! Best laid plans....gotta have a sense of humor in this hobby! Notice that once I got started, I nearly pierced this thing into obliteration!

The challenge for day 139 at 365 Cards, was to use the paper piercing technique to create a pattern on our cards. Here is mine.....



Looking at it on the 'big screen', I realized that it would have been prettier if I'd pierced the two outside edges in reversed format so that the little round part in the center was to the outside edges. Oh well, I will for sure know next time!

Supplies:
Stamps: TAC, Stampland, Inkadinkado
Piercing Template: Lasting Impressions (a gift from my bestest stamping bud, Shirley)
Inks: Marvy Heritage Collection
Dusting Brushes
Starburst Glitter Pen
Colored Pencils
Flat Brown Pearls

Since this has a butterfly, it may also be entered in the Flutter By Wednesday challenge if I'm not too late!

Off I go - am headed to St. Louis on an excursion to find eyeglasses for DD.

Hugs to all! Have a great day! Pat, you are in my thoughts and prayers, chin up girl!

Patti J.
~Dance your little heart out...