Halfway through...

Good morning! Goodness, can you believe we are halfway through another month? Yikes! Time really does fly when you're having fun!

Speaking of fun - I promised a surprise today! A few weeks ago, I was invited to become a member of the Digi Design Team at Clear Dollar Stamps, and of course, I said yes! How exciting to be a part of this team. The ladies are all so sweet and helpful, and the digi images and rubber stamps at Clear Dollar Stamps are wonderful!

Today is a "New Digi Release Day" at Clear Dollar Stamps! I'm sharing two awesome new sets with you today. The first set was so much fun...I've never ever colored radishes before! This set, Vegetable Garden Outlines, comes with all that you see here.

There are so many possibilities for this set with gardens in bloom very soon!

What's in it: Clear Dollar Stamps Digital Image, Bazzill CS, Copic Markers, Gingham Seam Binding from JoAnn's Crafts, Basket from The Red Rooster, Floss from We R Memory Keepers, Spellbinder Dies, Glossy Accents

This set also comes in the pre-colored version if you need a card or tag faster
than you can color one :)

The second set I chose is a Flower of the Month set, Lily of the Valley. I used the Happy Anniversary sentiment, as it seems there is always an anniversary to remember. This set comes with everything you see below.

Here is my card:

What's in this one: Bazzill CS, Spellbinder Dies, Ribbon from Hobby Lobby, Copic Markers, Clear Dollar Stamps Digital Image

You can find these, and several more newly released sets in the Clear Dollar Stamps Store. Also, don't forget to stop by the Clear Dollar Stamps Blog to see them all in one place!

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Have a great Wednesday...

Hugs and smiles,
Patti J.

Food for thought: I'm too blessed to be stressed.

Just Because...

I hope that you're all enjoying a relaxing weekend!

It's been very quiet here so far!
DH flew to Colorado to meet DS and DD and watch the Cardinal's play two
of their three games in Denver - what fun!
He's home now, so he and I will BBQ something,
and make a trip to the graveyards with flags and flowers.

Rosie the Wonder-doggie is still keeping us company.
It's going to seem very quiet when DD takes her home!

I decided to take part in a challenge today - don't faint!
I haven't been doing much of that lately, but I am going to try to step it up a bit!
I love C.C. Designs Images - I've never seen one that didn't just catch at my heart.
They make me think of my DD at a young age, and how can you not love that?

My card is for the Wednesday challenge at All That Scraps, which is to use felt.
Can you believe I had NO felt? Sheesh, what crafter has no felt?
I had to run into our local craft store to find a few sheets!
Anyway, my card features the absolutely darling Swiss Pixie Tulip Birgitta,
which can be found here.
I tried to keep this card very simple, and let the image 'shine'!

All coloring is done with Copics.
I used Glossy Accents on the butterfly and flower, and a white Sharpie Paint Pen to highlight. The felt was purchased at The Red Rooster Crafts store here in Farmington.

Hope she brought a smile to your face!
You have until Tuesday to take part in the challenge!

Thanks for dropping by - hope to get by to see you today, as well!


Hugs and smiles,
Patti J.


Food for thought:
Cherish each precious day! Each one is a gift - don't exchange yours unopened!!!

Garden Angel

I love time in my flower garden more than just about anything that I do.

This year, due to some issues here, we were unable to plant anything.

It's been so sad, walking outside, and seeing my normally beautiful garden look so bare!

DD brought me some hanging baskets for Mother's Day, so I am pampering them like crazy! They are a beautiful shade of purple, and were my inspiration for the colors on this card.

This is something that I made for a non-on-line contest. The stamp is an old one, and there is no company name on it...sorry!

It's a shadowbox card, so the back is actually the inside of the card. The image was stamped and fussy cut several times, so that the fence and flowers could be extended. I'm not sure if it is visible in the photo, but the face and hands were stamped and cut out of quilting muslin. I found the satin roses at The Red Rooster (you can check them out on Facebook) yesterday, and the Lavendar sprigs at Ivy and Twigs, both local gift shops here in Farmington. Scrapper's Floss is the 'ribbon' used.

Thanks for dropping by - hope this little angel brightens your day!

Patti J.

Thinking of You

Well, as the sun is mostly out today, hopefully some of my driveway will melt off! Keep your fingers crossed! My thoughts are with all of you that have mountains of the beautiful white fluffy stuff!

I have a short post today! Here is a card that I made from some scraps for a small workshop I am doing soon. I would love to know what you think!

The sentiment stamp is an Inkadinkado, which I purchased at O'Dear's. I used Versafine black ink. The background stamp is also Inkadinkado, purchased at The Red Rooster.

Have a great Thursday! I'm off to get a shower, check out your blogs, and then to

work on some more samples for the workshop!

Patti J.

Food for thought: If you look like the picture on your passport, you probably need the trip!

Make and Take Saturday...

HELP! I need your opinion! Our little town is having quite the shopping extravaganza this weekend! The Red Rooster, is our local 'has everything' craft store. Everything, of course, (!!!) includes stamps, inks, designer papers, etc. I've been asked to get together a quick 'make and take' for the occasion, and will be there all day to be the 'teacher'... It needs to be a very quick project. I've worked this up, using DP by K and Co., a Kaleidacolor Ink Pad, and Inkadinkado stamps. It's VERY quick and very easy.

What do you think? If you happened into a craft store to do a little shopping and could walk out with this greeting card for free, would it be an okay project? It's a terrible photo - the ceiling fan was trying to blow it over, and I did a pretty sloppy job with my marker border, but hopefully, you get the idea! Please share your thoughts...

Have a nice night - it's off to bed for this tired gal! (Is tomorrow REALLY only Thursday?)

Patti J.
~Eat a live toad in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day. (really!)

Hi!

This is what I named tonight's 10 minute card! Don't you just love a quick, easy, cute projects?

After working and working out tonight, I stopped by our local craft store "The Red Rooster", and picked up a few spring colors of cardstock. I was just about to leave when I noticed that there were some cute new Inkadinkado stamps in the basket. Amazingly, I couldn't resist!

When I got home, I realized that I just didn't have much time to spare, so I grabbed a Kaleidacolor Inkpad, stamped two of my three new stamps, ran a square through the Cuttlebug, and put it all together. No coloring, no glittering, just stamp and stick!

On another note, I feel so lucky! I received a comment from Melisa, a fellow blogger, who gave away some unexpected prizes today. I got a stamp set of my choice from the Angel Company! What a nice surprise! Tomorrow is my birthday, so this is like a present early!!! Melisa has an amazing blog! Please go visit her!

The link is: http://www:paperliciousdesigns.blogspot.com and she loves to have visitors!

HELP!!!!! Did ANYONE out there record last night's ER episode? I tried umteen dozen DVD's we had here, and could NOT get it recorded. DH, the world's biggest ER fan was on his way home from Branson, and didn't get here in time to see it. Let me know if you have a copy I can borrow, beg, or steal!

DH and I are taking the day tomorrow and traveling to Jefferson City Missouri to meet with the retirement people. We need to finalize my paperwork, and see what is lacking in order for me to be ready to finish up on June 30th. We enjoy spending time together, and are looking forward to the day. There just happens to be a Hobby Lobby in Jefferson City.....hmmmmm.....

Well, I'm headed off to gather some paperwork for tomorrow. Hope you have a great friday!

Patti J.

~Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

Mmmm....Chocolate

Hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt!

I’d stop craving chocolate but I’m not a quitter.

I'd stop eating chocolate but I'm not a quitter.

In the cookies of life...friends are the chocolate chips.

Life...Liberty...and the pursuit of chocolate!

Some things in life are better rich...coffee, chocolate, men.

On that note:



Here is an 'oh, so quick' card for the Chocolate Lover in us all! Patterned paper is purchaed from the Red Rooster (sorry, don't remember which brand, this is just scraps...), as are the cute brads. Stamp is by Ann-Ticipations. I cut out a single cookie, and used pop dots so it would stand out. The ink is Color Box Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink, and the card is distressed with same.

Have a good day - think chocolate!!!

Patti J.
~A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.

I'm Hopeless...

So, here it is Friday night, and I am STILL at my work space - my friend Shirley told me about Scraplings, and I tried one and can't stop! These are SO much fun, and so fast! They end up being 1 and 1/4" wide, and 4 and 1/4" tall. Can you say - YAY for scraps!

The first one I had trouble finding a scrap that I liked for the bottom, so I snipped a piece off of the last bag I got when I shopped at Red Rooster!!! The butterfly stamp is an Inkadinkado, the baby buggy is Angel Company, the three sentiments are Hero Arts, and the "I'm Thankful" is a $1 stamp from Michael's.

Here are the little inside sentiments. They are just the right size!



The card below is also made with mailing labels. I sponged the labels with Blue Ice Chalk Ink, stamped The vine (The Angel Company, Simply Divine) and the sentiment (Inkadinkado) with Chestnut Roan Chalk Ink. I mounted them on brown paper, mounted that on tan Bazzill c.s., and trimmed the bottom with my Fiskar's border punch. On the inside of the card, I put a border that would show through from the front, and used the border punch on the top of it.

I think it needs something at the bottom on the front, but can't figure out exactly what! Guess I'll sleep on it...

Hope these brought you a smile, I sure had fun 'playing' at my desk tonight! I really need to be planning a Valentine's class that I'm having next Saturday! Oh well, back to my desk...

Good night all!

~The sole purpose for a child's middle name is so that he can tell when he's really in trouble!

Patti J.

TGIF...

CONGRATULATIONS to my awesome friend and teacher, Shirley Hotop for winning the Terrific Trio Contest for The Angel Company. The idea is to use one stamp three ways. Her work is beautiful! You can go to http://www.theangelcompany.net/ and then to Creative Corner, then to Contest Winners. Her entry is on the bottom right - it's a pinkish/purple "tree". You can't miss it! Open the link and say OOOH and AHHH!!! Shirley - I am SO SO SO proud of you!

This has been a long week! It's amazing how much I have enjoyed the time being snowed in here, but it's also a crazy weird feeling to know that I can't get anyplace, as well!!! I had a pretty good conversation with God yesterday, letting him know how much I appreciate the power staying on, which allowed me to clean up my work space so I could start messing it up again!

Poor Stan the Man, got in at O-dark thirty last night, and has had to turn around and head right back to Branson (4+ hours). Hopefully, he'll be back here in the a.m. We have monthly reports and (egads-we forgot them!) W-2's to get out to our employees!

Anyway, enough of that - I have a picture to post, and then I MUST go sit down with my new catalog from The Angel Company (it's their 'magalogue', Serendipity) and make out my new wish list. I am so hopelessly addicted to this hobby! Now, I just MUST figure out a way for it to bring IN some money when I retire! Let me know if you have any ideas!

I got to thinking last night that there are not many cards made to fit in a regular sized stationary envelope, so guess what I made? Yep! A tall skinny card. And with the leftover pieces, my next project will be a Scrapling!

For this card, I used Bazzill c.s., and Inkadinkadoo stamps (it's a prototype for my next class at the Red Rooster, and she sells Inkadinkadoo stamps!). I punched with a straight pin around the tan c.s. I punched out 10 mini hearts and used a black marker to dot them. I used three of the hearts to hide the birds in the tree, and seven for the 'wreath' around the Love stamp. Once I punched all of the holes, the card took just a few minutes to put together. (You can't see it, but I stamped a heart with versamark on the red c.s., giving it a patterned paper look.

Hope you like it!

Have a super Friday night - hope to 'see you' tomorrow!

Patti J.


~Peace out dudes (and dudettes)!

Snow, Snow, Go Away....

28 years ago today, our precious daughter was born. Hopefully, she is having a good time in New York with friends tonight in celebration of her birthday! Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Mother Nature is angry with us for something! We now have lots of snow on top of our lots of ice! I've been cooped up at home, and literally forced to clean off my workspace so that I could mess it up again!

Quite frankly, the first thing that came to mind today was spring! Thus this springtime card made out of a tye died paper that I picked up at the Red Rooster the other day. The stamps are from Stampin' Up and Inkadinkadoo.

Hope you all had a good day! See you tomorrow...

Patti J.

~You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks!