Mid Month Card - Warmth and Wonder

 Hello crafty friends!

I'm here today with a mid-month reminder for the Jan's Digi Stamps challenge for the month of December. We hope you'll enter a card!  Now...If you've never been to Jan's site, and looked at her images, you need to go! She offers both black and white, and colored images, and they are all so beautifully done!

The set I've used today is called Ornaments 2021, and it's free for a few more days! The sentiment is from a fun set, It's Cold Outside, and can also be found at Jan's Digi Stamps. 

 I've created a pretty card with this beautiful free set. Hope you like it! If you haven't finished your Christmas cards yet, these pre-colored images make the task so easy and quick!

Here's my card:

I used the image twice, flipping and shrinking it a bit on the left, and added a bed of snow!

That's all I have for you today! Hope to see you enter the December challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'll be back in a couple of weeks with some new digi creations!

Hugs and grins,

Patti J.

Santa's Gift

It's the first Monday of the month - that means it's time for another challenge at Jan's Digital Stamps!

I chose to work with a fun Christmas set called Santa's Gift. This set is on sale, and has some fun images, and some beautiful sentiments. I thought it would be fun to do a very simple card, highlighting a wonderful sentiment.

Here's what I made:

Check out the rest of the design team's great cards, and play along in the challenge! You have until 12:00 noon p.m EST Sunday, 02 January 2022 to enter your project into the challenge.  December winners will be announced on or before Wednesday, 05 January 2022.

See you soon - thanks for stopping by!

Patti J.

Baby it's Cold Outside!

Hello crafty friends!

I'm here today with a mid-month reminder for the Jan's Digi Stamps challenge for the month of November. We hope you'll enter a card!  Now...If you've never been to Jan's site, and looked at her images, you need to go! She offers both black and white, and colored images, and they are all so beautifully done!

The set I've used today is called Baby, It's Cold Outside, and can be found at Jan's Digi Stamps. 

 I've created a couple of cards with this fun new set. They made me smile, and hope that you like them, as well.

Here's my first card:

I used the fun new set 'Baby it's Cold Outside' focal panel. For this card, I chose to use a pre-colored image. I just chose the image, added the sentiment, and pushed print! Easy peasy! You can't tell from the photo, but I've added some Wink of Stella to hat, scarf, bow, mittens, and mugs, and it's SO cute!

Here's the next card:

I used the same patterned paper in the background, so you could see how different the images can look when worked up a bit differently. This time, I worked with a black and white image. The first image, I made a big large, and then brought the same image in much smaller, and placed it in front of the larger image, hoping for a mother-daughter look. What do you think? Look like mom and her little? This image was colored with Copic markers. The snow at the bottom is a shimmery embossing powder. I 'drew' on the snowbank with an embossing marker, and heat embossed with the powder.

That's all I have for you today! Hope to see you enter the November challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'll be back in a couple of weeks with some more fun creations!

Hugs and grins,

Patti J.

Ornaments-2021

 Hello crafty friends!

I have some fun news to share today!  I'm guest designing for Jan's Digi Stamps for the months of November and December!  If you've never been to Jan's site, and looked at her images, you need to go! She offers both black and white, and colored images, and they are all so beautifully done!

Jan's offering a free digi set as a 'Thank You' gift for everyone! This set is called Christmas Baubles, and will be FREE to everyone at Jan's Digi Stamps, starting November 1st. The freebie will run until Christmas Day, and will then be retired.

Be sure to check out the monthly challenge at Jan's Digi's!

 I've created a card, and a set of tags with this set, and I hope they inspire you to do some digital creating today!

First up, here is my card:

I used the beautiful 'Christmas Baubles' for the focal panel, and added 'Merry Christmas' from the Christmas Cardinals set. A piece of washi tape, and a gold metallic background finished this one off nicely!

Next, I downsized the image & sentiment quite a bit, and created some beautiful gift tags!

Here's a closer view:

Here are some things I created using last year's free images:

This one was pretty simple!  I brought the image and sentiment in, and trimmed them down to fit on the lower section of the card. A strip of patterned paper and some washi tape finished this one off nicely!

Next up:

For this card, I brought in the same ornament image as seen above, but greatly reduced the size, and used it 8 times to create a frame around this pretty sentiment from the Christmas Cardinals set. I absolutely love the beautiful script of this sentiment!

Well, thanks so much for stopping by! I'll be back in a couple of weeks with some more fun creations!

Hugs and giggles,

Patti J.

Santa's List

Hi everyone!

I'm back today with another fun Christmas card !

Remember, we send out over 180 cards each year, so I am always looking for some fun, easy cards that can be easily mass produced.

This adorable image, Santa's List, from Jan's Digi Stamps, comes in either a black and white, or a pre-printed format. Once again, I was looking for fast and easy, so I chose the pre-colored image, matted it on pink, and then on a white card base

I wish you could see the tiny embellishing that I did with Glossy Accents & Wink of Stella! So cute!

I'm off to create...!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Patti J.

Peppermint Mice

Hi everyone!

I'm back today with another fun Christmas card !

Remember, we send out over 180 cards each year, so I am always looking for some fun, easy cards that can be easily mass produced.

This adorable image, Peppermint Mice, from Jan's Digi Stamps, comes in either a black and white, or a pre-printed format. Once again, I was looking for fast and easy, so I chose the pre-colored image, matted it on pink, and then on a white card base

Aren't they darling?? I wish you could see the tiny embellishing that I did with Glossy Accents & Wink of Stella! So cute!

I'm off to create...!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Patti J.

Caroling...

Hi everyone!

I'm back!

I have another Christmas card to share with you. Remember, we send out over 180 cards each year, so I am always looking for some fun, easy cards that can be easily mass produced.

This adorable image, Caroling, from Jan's Digi Stamps, comes in either a black and white, or a pre-printed format. As I was looking for fast and easy, I went with the pre-colored image, and matted it on green, and then on a white card base

Aren't they darling?? I wish you could see the tiny embellishing that I did with Glossy Accents & Wink of Stella! Too, too cute!

Okay, off I go to work on another card!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Patti J.

Merry Chris-Moose...

Hi everyone!

Can you believe that it's October 10th, and 80 (yes 80) degrees in small town Missouri! Any of you that know me personally, know that I am greatly enjoying it! 

So...today I have a Christmas card to share with you. Generally, we send out over 180 cards each year, so I am always looking for some fun, easy cards that can be easily mass produced.

This adorable image, Merry Chris-Moose, from Jan's Digi's, comes in either a black and white, or a pre-printed format. As I was looking for fast and easy, I went with the pre-colored image, and matted it on black, and then on a piece of plaid background paper to match his shirt.

What do you think? Is he adorable, or what???

Okay, have made a few of these...off to create a few others!

Thanks so much for stopping by today,

Patti J.

Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to the "It's A Girl Thing: Turner Syndrome Awareness 3rd Annual Blog Hop! For this year we have added a Card Challenge so that more people can play along with us!

Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born missing partial or all of her second X chromosome leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities.  This condition occurs one in every 2,000 female births worldwide, but is more common among pregnancies that do not survive to full term.  That is why Turner Syndrome Females are considered MIRACLES!

Prize Winners will be announced on March 13th, 2021.

23 Caring and Generous Sponsors and 12 Design Team Members are offering prizes to a commenter and card makers and they are helping bring Turner Syndrome Awareness to the Public.  For details on how you might win any of these fabulous prizes, please see Lori's TS home page.  Thank you for learning about Turner Syndrome.

Blog Hop Sponsors

One lucky winner from MY blog will receive a $30 gift certificate to shop at Technique Junkies!

My TS related projects are inspired by this TSF Mood Board (graciously created by Jan Mahew):

First up is this sweet card, created with a Digi Set that Jan Mahew designed just for the TSA Blog Hop! If you've never shopped for digi images at Jan's store, please do yourself a favor and go look! She has some of the best digi's I've seen, and many, like this one come in both black and white, and pre-colored images!

To create this card, I printed the image once on white cardstock. I took some rectangle cutting dies, and cut out 2 rectangles from the image. These two pieces were matted with cardstock matching the card base. Beginning with the largest piece, each piece was adhered over the other, being careful to line up the image. The sentiments were printed onto white cardstock, and also matted with the green. These were popped up with foam dots. Last step was printing and fussy cutting the single pink butterfly, and adhering it with a teensy tiny glue dot.

Next up, is a card that I made with NBUS (never before used stuff). I had won a box of goodies from Susan Opal last year, and this stamp set 'Tropical Chic' from Stanpin' Up was in there. I thought it called out to be created with the colors from this amazing mood board, so here it is!

The leaves and flowers were all stamped and fussy cut. I stamped on the little gray 'whispies'? and layered the pieces over top of the gray. The flower on the bottom was glued to the card front, the next one was popped up with a tiny (low dimension) foam dot, and the last flower was popped up using a deeper dimensional foam dot.

This last card was made with stamps and patterned paper from Lavinia Stamps. They have beautiful silhouette images, and I felt this card was perfect for today's blog hop! The sentiment and image were stamped with VersaFine Black Ink onto to patterned paper. I went over the fairy dust and wings with an Embossing pen, then heat embossed in silver.

Here is how to win a prize from the Blog Stops:

To be eligible to win a prize from one of the Card Designers Blogs

You have to leave a comment on each of the Designers Blogs. You could possibly even win at more than one blog.

To be eligible to win a prize for the Card Challenge:

You have to make a card, write a blog post that includes the details and supplies used to make your card, something you learned about Turner syndrome (It can be just one sentence) and link your post back to the “It’s A Girl Thing” Turner syndrome Awareness Card Challenge. Cards should be feminine and have an uplifting or encouraging message.

The Blog Hop and Card Challenge starts on February 1st at 6:00 a.m. EST and ends at midnight EST on February 28th. Winners will be announced on Saturday, March 13th.

Hope to see you creating a card, and linking it up! What fun!!!

Thanks for stopping by, and don't forget to leave a comment - you could be a winner!

Patti J.

Getting ready for a workshop...

Hi all!

Just a quick note to say hello - and have a good week!

My bestie, Shirley and I are holding a workshop on Friday, and these are a couple of the table favors that I've been working on during evening TV hours!

The digi images are all from Jan Mahew, and the bunny box dies are from Taylored Expressions. I built the box itself, and used the TE dies to bring it to life!

Hope you enjoy them!

I'm going to enter these in Jan Mahew's 'Anything Goes' challenge.

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

It's A Girl Thing!

Hello Blogging Friends!!

Welcome to "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness 2nd Annual Blog Hop!  

Turner Syndrome is a genetic disorder where a female is born with only one X chromosome, instead of two, leaving her with life-long medical issues and learning disabilities. This condition occurs one in 2,500 female births worldwide, but is more common among pregnancies that do not survive to full term. That is why Turner Syndrome Females are considered MIRACLES!

Prize Winners will be announced on February 15, 2020.

Thirty-six caring Sponsors and eight DT Members have partnered with us to bring Turner Syndrome Awareness to the Public. For details on how you might win any of these fabulous prizes, please see Lori's TS home page. Thanks for learning About Turner Syndrome. 

Eight talented and caring designers (including me!) are offering prizes on their personal blogs as well:

My prize will be a $20 gift card! I'll announce my winner on February 15th - good luck!  To be eligible, just leave a comment below, telling me something you've learned about TSA during this hop!

My TS related project is inspired by the TSA official color board:

Jan Mahew from Jan's Digi's has made a beautiful stamp set for the Turner Syndrome Foundation and for the Blog Hop. You can purchase it HERE in her store for only $2 and all the money from the sales of this stamp set is going to be donated to the Turner Syndrome Foundation!! Isn't that AWESOME!!! Thank you so much Jan Mahew!!

Here is my card:

I wish that you could see the pretty shiny dimension! Each of the butterflies, and the flowers/ribbon, were fussy cut, and popped up with dimensional foam. Each was then highlighted with Glossy Accents. I love the feminine softness of these images, AND they were pre-colored!!! Bonus!!!

I have learned a lot about a syndrome I wasn't aware of until Lori's hop last year. I feel blessed to be a part of this awareness blog hop! 

Be sure to visit the "It's A Girl Thing" Turner Syndrome Awareness Blog Hop 2020  page to become eligible for prizes.

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

2 Crafty Critter Crazies - New Challenge!

Good morning everyone!

Today, I am sharing another fun creation for 2 Crafty Critter Crazies!  

As you know, each creation must include a critter, and you all know how much I love critters!

I have three posts today, so if you are looking for my post for The Turner Syndrome Blog Hop, or the Technique Junkies Blog Hop, please scroll until you find it!!!

Since it's the first of February, there is a brand new challenge at the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies Challenge Blog!  The sponsor for January is Jan's Digi Stamps.

Jan's images are fun!  If you are looking for something a bit special, please take time to check them out!  I couldn't wait to create with a fun image: Knight Owl.

This was a pre-colored image, so all I did was add a few whispy clouds, some glitter pens, and glossy accents, and frame it up on a card base. WAY too easy!

Here's my card:

Hope you like it!

Please check out the 2 Crafty Critter Crazies blog to see some great inspiration that the design team is sharing with you. We hope that you will all play along this month - can't wait to see your critter creations!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hugs and blessings,
Patti J.