Soaring By to Say Hi

Good Morning!

It's Wednesday, and time for a new Repeat Impressions Designer's Choice Challenge.  Today's hostess is Karen, and she has challenged us to use three elements in our projects: A stamped image, embossing, and a die cut or punch.

Supplies: Repeat Impressions 9116-N Air Balloon Cluster, 9104-G Soaring By To Say Hi, Spellbinders Circle Dies, Martha Stewart Border Punch, Quick Kutz Embossing Folder, Amuse Cardstock, Bazzill Basics CS, Offray Ribbon, Stampin' Up! Bashful Blue Ink, Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, Tsukineko Sponge Dauber, Recollections Dimensional Squares, Copic Markers.

I'm featuring stamps from the latest Repeat Impressions Release.  I've wanted to ink up this Air Balloon Cluster for weeks!  What a great image, and one that would work for such a variety of occasions!

Hope to see you at Repeat Impressions' Blog, The House that Stamps Built!  We would love to see you enter the challenge.  All the details are on the blog - if you don't own any RI stamps, it's okay - you can enter whatever you have!  If you do use RI stamps, you'll get an extra entry in the challenge drawing! 

Thanks for stopping by!

Hugs and blessings,
Patti J.

First of Many...

Good morning!  Hopefully, you've all had a wonderful and restful weekend.

I'm so happy to be out from under the blanket, AND posting on here today! 

Don't anyone faint, but I've actually created a card this morning for a challenge.  It's also a challenge I've never tried before, using Flourishes' stamps, which I've never stamped with before, (thanks to a wonderful blogging friend!)   and I am hopelessly addicted already.

Today's card features the Flourishes "I Love Roses" Set #40.  I'm entering it in the Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 147.  Silke Ledlow is the hostess and here is her sketch...

And here is my card...

Supplies: Kraft CS, My Mind's Eye 'Lost & Found Christmas' DP, Flourishes 'I Love Roses', Copic Markers, Tim Holtz 'Antique Linen' Distress Ink, Nestabilities 'Classic Circles', Offray Ribbon

Isn't it nice when an amazing image, and an amazing paper pad make following a sketch so easy?  Ha ha...I'm barely squeaking this card in to the challenge, as it's due by 6 p.m. tonight.  Whew.... naps have been the priority for the last 4.5 days! 

Have a great day, and a wonderful week - I'm planning to do a lot of catch-up blurfing tonight, so prepare to be stalked!

Hugs and blessings,
Patti J.

Food for thought:  

If you aren't making any mistakes, you probably aren't making anything!