Catching up again!

 Happy Thursday!

Once again, I'm behind in sharing some things. I'll try harder to keep up in the future! Maybe I should have given up procrastination (or pro-craft-ination) for lent!

I made a couple of cards for a lady that has 2 new great-grandsons, and thought I'd share them. This was a card style that was popular MANY years ago, and every now and then, I feel the need to create one. Here's what I made: 

As you know, we had to let our little Sophie cross that dreaded Rainbow Bridge on New Year's Day. Her groomer was as devastated as we were, so I made this card to share with her:

Some cute treat boxes I made at Christmas for the ladies at Card & a Cuppa.

Made this one at Card and a Cuppa this winter - thanks Sally McDonald!!!

Also made these at Card and a Cuppa - Thanks Shirley Hotop!!!

That's all for today, hope this finds you all well, and looking forward to spring! It's been busy here - one doctor appointment after another! Heck to get old, right?

Hugs,

Patti J.

Food for thought: 

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

~Eleanor Roosevelt

(I used to change this up a bit when the kids were in school. I'd tell them 'No can can ruin your day today, without your permission'.

Behind once again!

Hi friends!

So, here I am, behind in posting again! How can I get so busy that I forget to post what I've been creating? Does that happen to any of you, or am I just an utter fail? Lol...

Anyway - here are some things I've been doing in the past couple of weeks:

This is a pretty card that we made at Card and a Cuppa with our good friend, Sally. She's a Stampin' Up demonstrator, and several of us meet with her at Panera's twice a month, hang out, have yummies, and make a card. I love this one! You all know me and plaid, right? Thanks, Sally!

My bestie, Shirley, found this die, and grabbed one for each of us. It makes some beautiful backgrounds! Easy mass produced cards! Thanks, Shirley!

So, a while back I purched some UBER-fun dies and stamps from My Favorite Things. I joined a 'verseless' swap, and thought these dies would make fun cards! So I made one to keep and send, and six to swap. Gotta love dies that create such beautiful scenes!

Last for today, I needed a fun quick gift box to send to a lady in Michigan. I am a 'Senior Angel', and the lady is my senior. I write to her every week, and try once a month or more, to send a small gift. I created this matchbox type box with ready made boxes from Stampin' Up that I got last year. The rest was easy! The ghosts and white boo shadow, from Memory Box, were cut from some glitter paper that I find at Wal-Mart. It cuts beautifully! I just cut a black panel, die cut all the goodies, and attached them. Filled the box with Hershey and Twix mini candy bars. Thanks, Pam, for the adorable Boo sentiment!

What fun it is to have made such good friends doing what I love to do! Thanks to all of you!!!

Hugs and grins,

Patti J.

Back soon with another LATE post! lol...

Whew....getting back to 'normal' ???

Howdy!

How are you? It's rainy, and oh, so dreary here in Mo. It's been a perfect day to be in my girl cave, playing with paper. I'm actually working on some things to share with you in June!!!

Things are slowly getting back into a normal routine here, but I still have SO many things to share that I created but never posted. I'm going to attempt to clear out that file in the next week or so. You can consider this your warning - I am going to flood the blog with photos and very little talk.

Enjoy!!! Ask questions if something jumps out at you :)

Thanks for popping in!

See you soon,

Patti J.

April Workshop

Hi there!

April was a pretty busy month! I made 20 of these for the grandkids teachers...

They were filled with cute 'shreds' of pink and green, and goodies! I designed the box to the size I wanted. The sweet die set was purchased from Taylored Expressions. It's one of their 'sack-it' sets. Love how easy it was! There was a cute little sentiment box added at the bottom of the box, between the bunny feet.

Shirley and I had an April workshop, as well. The first one filled up right away, so we scheduled one a few days later, which also filled up. We had a great time with some very fun creative ladies! Some were brand new paper crafters, and we loved seeing their smiles after they made cool stuff!

Here's what they made:

This card uses stamps and dies from an older Die-Versions set. It was one of my designs.

Cuteness....! This was Shirley's 3-D design. It's a popcorn sleeve. I think her stamps were from Crackerjack Palace.

This was one of my designs - it is a W card.

Here's another adorable card design by Shirley. This uses stamps from Repeat Impressions.

Here is Shirley's last design. It's such a pretty card, and the flap is held closed with a tiny magnet.

This project uses Stampin'Up supplies.

That's all I have for today!
Thanks for stopping by on this glorious Saturday!
If I don't see you tomorrow, Happy Easter!!!

Hugs and blessings,
Patti J.

Creating for fun...

Hello!

I was lucky enough to have a girl's day in with my friend, Shirley, last week.

Here are the two cards we made:

This first card used the Lawn Fawn dies and stamps from the 'Spooktacular' set.

Pretty cute, right?

This card came from a tutorial on Dawn Griffith's blog, and uses Stampin'Up! products.

You pull at the top, and the top two layers slide up.  What a fun idea!

Shirley and I always have a good time together - this time, we got pedi's, then went to her house for lunch and creative time.

It was a good day - we hadn't gotten together since before my surgery, so it was almost a month

between seeing each other!

I'm feeling better each day. Hopefully, I'll be back on schedule in the next week or two,

posting regularly again, and commenting more often!

Thanks for your patience,

Patti J.

It was a special 'Girl's Day In' - Look what we made!

Happy Sunday!

I was one of five ladies invited to our friend, Shirley's home, for a crafting marathon that began on Friday morning EARLY, and ended Friday night LATE.  It then resumed on Saturday morning EARLY and went into the early afternoon.  Three of the ladies had traveled 1.5 hours, so they brought jammies and stayed all night.  2 of us live very close, so we came home, to return the next morning. Thanks to Shirley for hosting, and for all of the ladies for the FUN weekend!

Warning:  This post is photo heavy - wink, wink!

Here is what we made:

This was a project of mine. We used a Sweet 'n Sassy Background stamp, and an Amuse Studio sentiment. Heat embossed with white powder, then sponged on distress inks.  Fast and fun!

This was another of my projects.  Supplies used: Die-Versions Crochet Lace Border Die, Hero Arts Stamp/Die set for butterfly, Close To My Heart Sentiment, Amuse Studio inks, Copics, and cardstock.  Another fast and pretty!

This was a project of Shirley's.  Oh, so pretty - love the pastels!  I was chatting and not paying attention. The two small flowers were to have been blue.  OOPS!  Beautiful card!

This was another of Shirley's projects.  LOVE this!  It's a new stamp set from Stampin'Up! called Grunge, or something like that.  We had seen a similar card online (so sorry - can't remember whose it was), and just HAD to give it a try!

This beautiful card was one of Diane's projects.  OMG, it was SO much fun making those satin butterflies! We used Elizabeth Craft Silk Microfine Glitter and double sided sticky paper for the butterflies.  Note the OOPS (can't miss it - it's a BIG one!) on this one?  I wanted a different sentiment than the Get Well that everyone else used.  I thought I'd stuck it on the back side of the acrylic block, but guess not~so this one's in my 'fix' pile!

Marian, who is Donna's mom, brought this beautiful project. The technique is called Northern Lights. OMG, what a gorgeous card this makes!!!  Marian doesn't have a blog, but creates such pretty things!!!

This was a project that Cheryl brought.  This was a stamp set and matching embossing folder.  We stamped the image, which was beautiful alone!  Then, we lined up the image in the embossing folder and ran it through the Cuttlebug. Talk about quick and elegant - OMG!!!  Cheryl has no blog - but she will retire in 2 years, and we'll be sure she gets one then!

This was another CAS of mine.  This is a Bugaboo digi image.  So it was print, color, and add a few sparkly dots with a Sakura pen.  Glossy Accents on the bubbles was the perfect finishing touch.  The borders on the card base were made with a new set from Close to My Heart, which I love!

This fun card was another of Cheryl's creations!  What a fun card - I think it's going to go to my Senior Angel that I am a buddy to.  I'll include some Microwave popcorn, and it will be a fun package.  We used some Liquid Applique on the popcorn for some extra dimension.

Donna brought this lovely creation.  She showed us how to make a 'finger bow' that we had seen on a Stamp TV video. This card is fun, as it uses the negative pieces left over after dies were used.  And, we have the die cuts for another card later! 

Another of Donna's projects!  I am totally smitten with that red and white ribbon!  The stamps on both of these are from Amuse Studios, as are the inks.

Here is another gorgeous creation that Shirley contributed.  The image and sentiment are heat embossed on watercolor cardstock.  Then, we used distress markers and scribbled different colors.  Used a water brush to blend each color to the edges.  Isn't this just too pretty???

Another card project from Cheryl, using the embossing folder and stamp set.  I think this might be on my wish list!  Just sayin'....

Donna brought this beautiful card, too.  It's pretty self-explanatory! Can't wait to mail it to someone special!

This is a magnet.  I've really zoomed in, so you can see the details, but it only measures about 2.25" square.  Pretty, pretty, pretty!  Shirley dreamed up this one!

Our friend Diane, brought another wonderful project with a great, fun fold, but I had to leave Friday night before we got to it.  I have the kit here, and as soon as I create it, I'll post it for all to see.

The only other thing I can remember us making is an A2 card box, using our Envelope Punch Boards. It was so quick and easy!  However, my boxes were empty, and got squashed, so I have no photo to show. That will be a project for another day!

So....if you have hung in there with me through ALL of these photos, you deserve a high five!

Be watching for some special blog candy!  Before February is over, I will reach 1,000 blog posts, and I also missed my 5th Blogaversary!  I'm thinking maybe the latter part of March..... working on something special for my faithful followers!

Hugs and smiles to all,

Thanks for stopping by, and taking a photo tour of craft marathon!

Patti J.