30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 4

Gosh, four days in a row!  Are you as surprised as I am?

Lol....thanks for stopping by today!

Here is my card for Day 4 of the 30 Day Coloring Challenge:

This is another beautiful image drawn by my friend, Mynn Kitchen.

It's been colored with Copic Markers.  I sort of did a reverse 'outside the box' technique. I started with the black matting panel with a circle cut out.  I laid it over the image and made pencil marks at the points that the black mat would cover, and trimmed them to overhang the mat. Added a fun little Memory Box die cut, adhered to a peach card base, and voila!

Hope you're coloring this month, too!

I'm off to enter this in the Cropstop challenge-June Link Party #40

Hugs and lots of smiles,

Patti J.

30 Day Coloring Challenge - Day 2

Here is my card for Day 2:

This pretty image and sentiment were created by Mynn Kitchen, of MHK Designs. She's so talented, and I have fun coloring her images! Sadly, Mynn closed her store in May. I will miss her beautiful work!

Hugs and blessings!
Patti J.

30 Day Coloring Challenge

Happy Sunday, everyone!

After wishing forEVER that I had time to take part, I finally decided to MAKE time to participate in the 30 Day Coloring Challenge.  Whew.....what was I thinking?  Lol, it's really therapeutic and very good for me!  I'm using up a lot of pre-printed, pre-stamped images that I've had in a box.

Without further ado, here is Day 1:

Here's a closer image of this poor sunburned fella!

This fun image is a Bug-a-Boo image!  I was going to enter this in a challenge someplace, where the theme is 'Summer', and the sponsor is Bug-a-Boo, but I can't remember where the challenge is!  If you know, please tell me!!!

Have a great evening, my friends!

Hugs and blessings,

Patti J.

Loving Sympathy

Hello out there!

Sigh....I always dread making a sympathy card, but needed one last week

for a longtime friend and mentor of my husband, whose brother had passed

away.  I immediately went to my digi files, and pulled out some

beautiful items from MHK Designs.  If you haven't been there to shop,

you should go...Mynn has some very lovely images and sentiments!

Here's my card:

I'm going to enter this in the monthly challenge at MHK Designs.

Hope your week is off to a good start!

Hugs and blessings,

Patti J.

Birds and Branches

Hello, hello....

So, what's new with you?  

Not much here. 

We're trying to get over the 'Creeping Crud', avoid raindrops, 

and stay ahead of the yard mowing.

Made a card yesterday for someone at church, and thought I'd share it.

The digital image is from a beautiful set by MHK Designs, called 'Birds and Branches'.

A wee bit of Copic coloring, a black mat, and a bit of bling finished off this

card quite nicely.  I think our friend will like it.

Hope that your week is going well.

Tomorrow is a business/pleasure day here. I have to go out of town

for the Mister on business, and I'm taking my bestie, Shirley, along. We will

definitely 'NEED' to do some shopping and lunch out after the hour long

car ride!

I'll be entering this card in the monthly challenge at MHK Designs.

Their challenge is always either to use their photo/color inspiration, or if you use MHK Designs images, it's anything goes!

You should totally check out Mynn's lovely digi images!

Hugs and grins,

Patti J.

Beachy Keen!

Hey ya'll...

Thanks for your patience with me the past couple of weeks. 

DH and I took a road trip

to Virginia to be of some help to our daughter and her family, as they moved from

over 3 years in Germany, to the good old US!  An added bonus, was that our son

and his family had business in DC area, so we were able to see the whole family!

We even had a family photo session, which I hope to share with you later.

Last month, I was a big winner at MHK Designs. I won this awesome 'Beachy Keen' set,

and thought I'd dash in just under the wire with a card for the August challenge.

Here's what I created:

Supplies used:

White Cardstock

MHK Designs 'Seaside Papers 04 Distressed Stripes White Blue'

MHK Designs 'Seaside Papers 02 Distressed Shells Kraft'

Beachy Keen - 'Friend'

Beachy Keen - 'Beach Scene'

Hope you are all doing well, and that your weekend is much drier than ours is!

Hugs,

Patti J.

Loving Sympathy

Hello!

I'm here with a card for the MHK Designs June-July challenge.

These sets are all digi images designed by Mynn Kitchen, and they are beautiful.

When I found a few minutes of creating time today, I printed some images

and a sentiment from the Beginnings and Endings set.

Here's what I made:

Lately, I've been seeing a lot of cards where the image is left in black and white,

and thought this would be a great image to try that technique on.  What do you think?

Hopefully, this will sit in my stash for a while. I hate having to use

my sympathy cards...

Thanks for stopping by - it's been busy here, but things are finally beginning

to slow down. Hope you are all enjoying your summer!

Hugs and blessings,

Patti J.

Loving Sympathy

Hi all - Happy Sunday!

I've created a card 'just because', and wanted to share it with you.

Have you heard of MHK Designs? Mynn Kitchens is creating some gorgeous digi images

and papers, and the set I'm using today is one of her beautiful sets.

Here are the inspiration colors that I used for the MHK challenge:

Hope you like it!!!

I'm entering this in the Feb/Mar challenge at MHK Designs.

Thanks for stopping by!

Patti J.