Ring in the New Year!

Good morning!

Cheri Weston is our 'Hostess with the Mostest' for the Designer's Choice Challenge at 

The House That Stamps Built.  She's chosen to have us all 'Ring in the New Year'!

I decided to go clean and simple with today's card.

Here is what I did:

Repeat Impressions 9507-P 'Wine for Two', Repeat Impressions 9509-F 'Cheers'

Black card stock was used for the A2 card base.  A piece of scrap stock measuring 4 x 5.25, was completely covered it with Versamark Ink, sprinkled it with silver embossing powder, and heat embossed.  After it cooled a few minutes, it was placed in a dotted swiss embossing folder, and dry embossed.  I thought it looked a bit 'bubbly'! The next step was to stamp the image and heat emboss it as well.  This panel was matted in white, then black, using a 1/16" mat.  For the sentiment, I trimmed off the lower portion after stamping (it said 'who needs a shrink'), and matted it.  Oops....looks like I missed the black mat!  Silly me....

Anyway, this was easy peasy, and this stamp can be used for SO many occasions!

Hope you will do a bit of shopping at Repeat Impressions - see my sidebar to find out how to save some money on each order!

Now, it's time to hop along to see what my fellow Rock Stars have created to 'Ring in the New Year'!

Once you've hopped, we hope to see all of YOUR 'Ring in the New Year' creations 

at The House that Stamps Built!

Cheri     Deonna     Geri     Joy     Melissa     Karen

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Other supplies used:  

Perfect Papercrafting Perfect Layers Mini Rulers and cutting mat (see sidebar on how to get a free cutting mat!)

Tombow adhesives

Tim Holtz Embossing Powder

Marvy Heat Gun

Black Card Stock (Hobby Lobby)

White Hammermill 100# Card Stock (Office Max)

My Die-Versions Favorite!

Merry Christmas!

I hope that you and your family are enjoying this wonderful day!

I'll keep this short today....

It's my day to post for Die-Versions, and what better way to end the year, than by showcasing my favorite DV die!  I found that I used the "Crochet Lace" die #DVW-322 for so many things this year. It's so versatile, and cuts like butter!

Here's what I made with the "Crochet Lace" die:

Hope you've enjoyed this look back!

Be sure that Santa knows you'd like some Die-Version dies, and while you are out and about, check out the DV blog!  There is daily inspiration to be found there - hope you'll sign up to follow us!

Merry Christmas to you all,

Patti J.

Repeat Impressions Sketch Challenge

Merry Christmas Eve!

Hope you are ready for Christmas.  We are more than ready this year.

Very little gift buying - we adopted a mom and three kids this year in lieu of shopping for one another.  It will be fun to see the after Christmas photos - the kids are not expecting

any gifts at all - what fun!

Wendy, the Repeat Impressions owner, sent us another amazing sketch to work with. Her sketches make creating with her wonderful stamps SO easy!

Here's the sketch:

And here's what I did with it:

Repeat Impressions #4513-C Rubber Stamp Sm., Repeat Impressions #3210-F More Stamps

Cuteness, right?

I just hope that Santa has paid attention!

Now it's time to see what my fellow Rock Stars have created with this sketch!

Cheri     Deonna     Geri     Joy     Melissa     Karen

Stop by the Repeat Impressions blog, The House that Stamps Built, and check out the challenges. We have a Project of the Week each Monday, too!  LOADS of inspiration there!

Be sure to do a bit of shopping (Santa needs help, you know?) at the Repeat Impressions website!

Hope your Christmas is filled with all the blessings of this glorious season!

Hugs,

Patti J.

*Used my Perfect Papercrafting Perfect Layers Mini Rulers and Cutting Mat for the green mat - check out my sidebar to see how you can get the cutting mat free!!!

Incredibly blessed!

Hi ya'll...

So, have you ever just felt incredibly blessed by this hobby papercrafting fun addiction of ours?

Well Tuesday was one of those blessings days for me - let me tell you about it!

We pick up our mail at the Post Office in town.  Every. Day. Every. Day. Ho hum,

especially this time of year, when the lines are out the door, and down the steps!

It's about a five mile drive, and by the time I get there, I'm usually thinking of the 1001 things 

I need to be doing!  So....by the time I actually get my mail, I'm working on a tiny bit of grumpy.

Well........Tuesday was so NOT a grumpy mailbox day!  

Let me show you what was in there!

First, a padded envelope.  Nope - not showing you that....lol.

When I opened the envelope, this absolutely adorable tag was inside...

Those of you that know me, know how much I love me a cute snowman, and this

sweet feller even has googly eyes!  Be still my heart!

The note on the back of the tag was so very sweet.  I actually teared up.

Under the tag (which was gift enough!) was this sweet envelope (and just look at the

teensy tiny Patti tag!!!!!):

Inside the pretty black envelope were these beautiful doilies - look at the colors...OH MY GOODNESS!  I cannot wait to glue them to something :)

To my online friend, Taunya, a huge thank you!  You are one of the sweetest

bloggers that I've every had the pleasure to visit with, and I'm so grateful

that our paths have crossed!  To all of you out there in Blogland, if you have

never checked out Taunya's blog, you should!  She is so generous, and has such a 

creative mind - I'm inspired each time I go.  

Thanks for letting me share my happy mail with you!

Hugs to all,

Patti J.

Think Snow...

Happy Wednesday!

Today is a Repeat Impressions' Designer's Choice Challenge, at The House that Stamps Built.

Melissa Cash is our talented challenge hostess.

Melissa chose the theme 'Think Snow' for her DCC challenge.

While I'm totally NOT ready to think about snow yet, I do have a lot of fun

creating with it!  Here is what I created:

This card uses Repeat Impressions 'Let it Snow #2006-H', and Repeat Impressions 'Holiday Preparations #2004-L'

To create this card, I made my white A2 card base, and stamped the sentiment.  I then took a Copic BG10 marker and made snow dots everywhere!  The little snowflake in the sentiment was highlighted with the marker as well.  The incredibly fun image was stamped on another piece of white cardstock.  I took a black marker, and brought all of the snowdrift 'lines' all the way out to the edges of the cardstock, colored the image, and yep, more dots!  Then, some glitter was added to the snowflake, some of the dots, and the snowdrift lines.  Fun flock was added to the hat for some additional dimension. After it was finished, I fussy cut around it all, and popped it up on the card base.  Oh, what fun this was to create!  Someone VERY special will be getting this in the mail!

Now, it's time to see what my fellow Rock Stars have been up to, while they've been thinking 'snow'!

Cheri     Deonna     Geri     Joy     Melissa     Karen

While you are checking out their blogs, stop by The House that Stamps Built, and sign up to follow! We have some fun new things in store for 2015 - you won't want to miss a thing!

You can always save money on your purchases at Repeat Impressions - check out my sidebar for details!!!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Winner!!!

The Coffee Lovers Blog Hop was so much fu, don't you think?  There were nearly 300 entries!  I'm not the only one that loves my coffee...tee hee!

Okay, drum roll please.........it's time for a winner!

The winner of my coffee project is:

Judy 1223!

Congratulations, Judy!  please email me with your mailing information so I can get this out to you. Thanks for your comment!

Hugs to all and Happy Monday! I'm off to Zumba...

Patti J.

Miss You...

Good morning!

I'm here today with a project for the Die-Versions blog.

Since it's the holiday season, and we are missing our family, this die called out to me.

These word dies are so cool - they nearly fill an A2 card front, lengthwise, 

and look at how much fun you can have with the die, along with mixing and matching patterned papers on a 6 x 6 card!

Die-Versions "Miss You" CutOut Die DV-421

Hope you will stop by the Die-Versions store and do a bit of Christmas shopping (for yourself, of course!  To me...from me is always the best gift, right?)

While you are out and about, be sure to sign up to follow the Die-Versions blog.

Each day, one of the DT members posts an inspirational project to help inspire you to use your dies!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Other products used:

Green glitter cardstock

The Paper Studio 'Christmas Basics' Patterned Paper Pad

Perfect Papercrafting Perfect Layers Mini Rulers and Cutting Pad

(see my sidebar to find out how to get a free cutting pad!)