Merry Christmas

Hello Friends - wishing you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving has slipped up on us so quickly, and you know what that means...Christmas is almost here! It's time to get those holiday cards created!

I'm up on the Technique Junkies blog to share a beautiful card, made with a beautiful new sentiment stamp '#SDX174 Retro Merry Christmas' from Technique Junkies. I also used a favorite from the September release, 'SD1016 Beautiful Mandala'.

The Mandala was stamped in red and Catherine Pooler's Deck the Halls green, and once more with Versamark Ink, and heat embossed with gold embossing powder. The sentiment was also heat embossed in gold, and matted with some gold cardstock.

I sure do love creating for Christmas, and love this release!

So glad you stopped by today!

Don't forget!!! You can always save 10% on any order by entering TJ10Patti at checkout.

Be sure to head over to the Technique Junkies store and do a little crafty shopping!

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

Let it Snow!

Hello!

It's time for a new challenge at The House that Stamps Built! Our challenge for this week is 'Black, White + One Other Color'.

Here's what I made:

I stamped on some fun glitter paper for the printer that I found at Wal-Mart, thanks to my friend Shirley telling me to go look! The hat, bird, and scarf were colored with a Spectrum Noir Glitter Pen. I added some red glittery rick rack washi tape, and cut a section of the white glitter paper in a zig zag pattern to fit between the red pieces.

Christmas will be here before we know it!

I used these Repeat Impressions' stamps:

Snowman and Friend

Let it Snow

Let's see your projects! Remember, you don't HAVE to use Repeat Impressions Stamps, but if you do, you have double the chance of winning!

I can't wait to see your beautiful scene cards!!!

Check out my sidebar to see how you can save money on your RI orders!

Now, it's time to see what my DT friends have created!

Joy     Laurie     Heather   Shirley     Donna

Happy Hopping!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Music Speaks

Hello there!

I have a pretty lovely card to share today, so glad you dropped by.

For this card, I used two new release stamps. The piano image is #SD1012 Piano Key Border, and the sentiment used is #SDX166 Music Speaks. These were stamped with Catherine Pooler Midnight Ink. Next, I used an old favorite, #S857 Burst, to stamp in blue ink behind the sentiment. This panel was matted with a strip of black, and the panel was adhered to a blue card base.

Our daughter is a music lover, so these stamps really stole my heart!

Super easy! Give it a try!

So glad you stopped by today!

Don't forget!!! You can always save 10% at any other time, by entering TJ10Patti at checkout.

Now, be sure to head over to the Technique Junkies store and check out their incredible stamps!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

Border Stitches

Hello Friends!

I'm up on the Technique Junkies blog to share a fun, pretty card, using three beautiful new stamps from Technique Junkies.

For this card, I used #SS140 Border Stitches, #SDX200 Little Holly, and #SDX174 Retro Merry Christmas. I didn't have any 'stitch' stamps, so was excited to get this set. 

The stamping on the stitches, sentiment, and holly leaves was done using Catherine Pooler's Twilight Ink. The leaves were stamped 4 times. 3 were left gray, and the 4th was colored with Copic markers, and a few dots of Stickles added for the red berries.

Have I mentioned that I'm a Christmas Junkie? Loving this release!

So glad you stopped by today!

Don't forget!!! You can always save 10% on your orders by entering TJ10Patti at checkout.

Be sure to head over to the Technique Junkies store and do a little crafty shopping!

Hugs and smiles,

Patti J.

Use a Border...

Hello!

It's time for a new challenge at The House that Stamps Built! Our challenge for this week is 'Use a Border' - this week, we are using a border on our cards!

Here's what I made:

I know it's a wee bit early for Christmas, but I couldn't help myself!

I used these Repeat Impressions' stamps:

These Three Gifts

Lace Ribbon Border

Let's see your projects! Remember, you don't HAVE to use Repeat Impressions Stamps, but if you do, you have double the chance of winning!

I can't wait to see your beautiful scene cards!!!

Check out my sidebar to see how you can save money on your RI orders!

Now, it's time to see what my DT friends have created!

Joy     Laurie     Heather   Shirley     Donna

Happy Hopping!

Thanks for stopping by,

Patti J.

October 25th Workshop

 Welcome, friends!

My friend Shirley and I had a workshop on Monday, October 25th. Here are the cards that we made:

What a fun card Shirley had!  I love this fold, and will use it often.

This one is hard to see. I just got a new light box for taking pics, and can't get it to photo nicely, as the strip in the middle is gold metallic.

Here's another beauty from Shirley - love, love love this!!!

When I saw this fun fireplace die set at My Favorite Things last month, I had to have it! Added some 'wallpaper', 'baseboard', a wreath & bow, 'gray floor', and some trees, to finish off this cute card.

Here's another card that uses some metallic papers. Wish you could see it in real life - SO gorgeous!

This is a Pinwheel Tower card. It was fun designing all four sets of 'pages'.

These last two cards were not part of our workshop, but since I had lots of scraps, I decided to make some Thankful cards for our family!

Hope you found something today that made you smile! Let us know if you have any questions - we will do our best to answer!

Hugs and smiles,

Patti and Shirley

Baby it's Cold Outside!

Hello crafty friends!

I'm here today with a mid-month reminder for the Jan's Digi Stamps challenge for the month of November. We hope you'll enter a card!  Now...If you've never been to Jan's site, and looked at her images, you need to go! She offers both black and white, and colored images, and they are all so beautifully done!

The set I've used today is called Baby, It's Cold Outside, and can be found at Jan's Digi Stamps. 

 I've created a couple of cards with this fun new set. They made me smile, and hope that you like them, as well.

Here's my first card:

I used the fun new set 'Baby it's Cold Outside' focal panel. For this card, I chose to use a pre-colored image. I just chose the image, added the sentiment, and pushed print! Easy peasy! You can't tell from the photo, but I've added some Wink of Stella to hat, scarf, bow, mittens, and mugs, and it's SO cute!

Here's the next card:

I used the same patterned paper in the background, so you could see how different the images can look when worked up a bit differently. This time, I worked with a black and white image. The first image, I made a big large, and then brought the same image in much smaller, and placed it in front of the larger image, hoping for a mother-daughter look. What do you think? Look like mom and her little? This image was colored with Copic markers. The snow at the bottom is a shimmery embossing powder. I 'drew' on the snowbank with an embossing marker, and heat embossed with the powder.

That's all I have for you today! Hope to see you enter the November challenge!

Thanks so much for stopping by! I'll be back in a couple of weeks with some more fun creations!

Hugs and grins,

Patti J.