Greetings....

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Greetings from rainy, and attempting to sleet or snow, Missouri!

Brrr......it's pretty windy, and that makes it seem even colder!

Here I sit, though, warm and cozy with a cup of cappucino, so I am certainly not complaining!

I do love living where the seasons change! (Remind me of this in late February, okay?)

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The cards above are all new stamps from Inkadinkado.

I'm preparing for a class, and these are just a few of the prototypes that I'm thinking about using. Our LSS carries only Inkadinkado stamps, so that is what I use for classes.

The theme for December's class will be 'easy to mass produce', so must stay very simple!

Would love some feedback! (On the easel card, I plan to use a Ghirardelli chocolate square where the button is!)

Feel free to critique through comments or email, and if you have any 'quick and easy' holiday ideas that you think my ladies would like, feel free to share!

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Well, have a great evening - I'm off to set up the sewing machine. DD is coming to learn how to use it!

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The weekend is approaching!

Patti J.

Food for thought: Is it okay to use an AM radio after noon???

Merry Kiss-Moose!

We have had a great holiday, and hope that all of you have enjoyed the many blessings of the season. We certainly have eaten too much, but have loved having family home with us. Tomorrow, sadly, we take DS to the airport to fly back to California. The only upside to putting him on that plane is knowing that we will see him again in a month! Silly me, you'd think that I'd be used to saying goodbye by now, but these old eyes are tearing up thinking about it! He's 34, not 16 - I feel so foolish!!! Lol...

Today's card is another image of total sweetness from Nina at There's Magic in the Air. I think the moose is really supposed to be wearing a blanket, but I chose for him to be cute and brown! The challenge was to use the image, and to fuzzy it up a bit with something. I used Fun Flock on the mouse hat, and the ribbons, and the star. As usual, Nina's images are just so much fun to color!

I am also posting this to the Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturday's challenge. The theme there this week is to use a Christmas theme. Hopefully a Kissmoose theme will suffice!

The Charsma Cardz Challenge for this week is to use 'anything Chirstmas' - I think this works!

Last, but certainly not least, the Colour Create Challenge calls for using Red, Green, and White on a project. Muhahaha....I am 100% certain I have achieved that!

Have a great Sunday!

Patti J.

Food for thought: Health food? I don't think so! I need all the preservatives I can get!!!

Still Stuffed!

I don't know about all of you, but this gal ate too much, too late yesterday! Lol.... We had an awesome day. DD was in the America's Christmas Parade in St. Louis yesterday morning. Since she was already there, she went to the airport to pick DS up when he arrived. They got here about 4:30, and we had dinner ready to eat!



I have a card to show today that I made just because I loved the image! It sort of encompasses all of the holiday decorations, boughs, ornaments, candy canes.... This image of total sweetness was created by our Stef, aka Glitterbabe! You can find it at The Stamping Boutique, along with many other adorable images by Stef and by Tracey Malnofski, owner of the Boutique. If you get a chance, drop by Stef's blog and tell her how wonderful she is!!! I hope to have some more of her images soon! The darling wee sentiment is The Angel Company's 'Tag Tidbits'!







Hope you enjoy my holiday card! I trimmed the small section of bough, and left it out of the Nestie when I punched, as it wouldn't all fit!!!


Images were colored with colored pencils and blended with mineral spirits.


Have a great Saturday!


Patti J.
Food for thought: I intend to live forever - so far, so good!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Have a safe and blessed Thanksgiving holiday, one and all! If you are a Black Friday lover, be careful and have fun!

Patti J.

House Mouse Challenge

Hello!!!

Wowzers, talk about a challenge! House Mouse has the most incredibly cute images, and I've only done their challenge a few times. I decided that I would give it a shot today! Janneke's challenge this week is to use a HM image on a double pocket bag! Thank goodness that a tutorial was included!

Here's what I cooked up this evening... I thought about putting make-up in the bag since the image is busy getting her cheeks nice and rosy for her date with Mr. Mouse... however, most of the make-up that I could find to go in the bag is as old as I am! So... I decided what better use of this adorable bag than to hold some adorable greeting cards!

As usual... my image is colored with colored pencils and low odor mineral spirits!

Thanks for stopping by - hope you like it!

Have a great week!

Patti J.

Food for thought.....He who laughs last, thinks slowest!

Happy Birthday Jesus...

This little cutie is an ornament that I made for the Inky Impressions Challenge this week, which was, of course, to create an ornament!

Thanks to Maria, I will also enter it in the Saturday Spotlight challenge, which is also an ornament challenge!

The image, is a sweetie from Inky Impressions. (Thanks to a great friend!!!)

I just hand wrote (I'm SURE that's obvious!) the sentiment out to the side.

She is colored with TomBow Markers.

I took an old ribbon spool, took one cover off, and decorated the rest.

The image is covered with Crystal Laquer for a glossy look.

I couldn't get the camera and the gloss to cooperate, so it looks like it's got lumps and bumps, but that is really just camera fussies and stubborness!

Her legs were attached to the back, (I remembered how cute those lil' 'shelf sitters' used to be!

I certainly hope that your week is off to a good start! It's going to be busy here. DS is flying in from the west coast (YIPPEE!!!), it is monthly report time (UGH!!), I have tons of grocery shopping to do, a gift bag swap to start and finish, business trucks and trailers to be inspected and licensed this week.... if you don't see me, you'll know where I am!!!

Have a great day, and if you missed the blog candy winners, please go to my last post!

Patti J.

Food for thought:

If you woke up breathing today, congratulations! You have another chance!!!

Blog Candy Winner!

Thanks so much to everyone that dropped by to leave nice comments, and to enter the drawing for some yummy 'candy'...

I am happy to announce the winner of my blog candy! The lucky name that was drawn was Linda, from North Carolina! Congratulations Linda! I will be emailing you for your address! You can check out Linda's blog here!

Don't leave yet! I also have an unexpected 'surprise' for Chris, from Alberta Canada who was lucky enough to sign up to be my 100th follower! Chris, I will also email you! You can all check out Chris' blog here!

Drop by and leave them both a little love and a big CONGRATULATIONS!

Gosh, this was so much fun - we'll have to do it again sometime very soon!

Have a wonderful week! Congratulations Linda and Chris!!!

Patti J.