Celebrating Your Birthday

I love how this card turned out. This is one of my newest stamps from Great Impressions, purchased through hmstamps.com.

This stamp is "Fido".

I stamped him once onto Very Vanilla. I then stamped him three times onto some DS paper. I then cut out one complete Fido first and glued him onto my very vanilla.

I then cut out the front body and head and adhered it using pop ups to the body. Lastly, I cut out his head and adhered it again with pop ups. This stamp is great for paper tole as the cuts are easy. I then coloured Fido's tongue pink.

I punched the corners using my corner rounder and drew faux stitches around and then matted onto a piece of chocolate chip cs.

Using my Number Collage Cuddlebug, I embossed the River Rock and the Pumpkin Pie strip. With a strip of Chocolate Chip, I used my corner rounder to make the scalloped edge and adhered it to the back of my pumpkin pie strip. I then tied a piece of the chocolate chip twill - gotta love this twill as it is so soft!

Mounted my pumpkin pie strip onto the main card and popped up Fido. Voila! Here is my cute little birthday card!

Here is the recipe:

Stamps: Great Impressions - Fido

Paper: River Rock, Pumpkin Pie, Chocolate Chip; Very Vanilla, Brown DS Paper

Ink: Black

Other: Number Collage Cuttlebug, Chocolate Chip Twill Ribbon, Corner Round Punch

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

3D Ladybug Card

Is this not cute or what? I love how you can take a few punches and turn them into something so beautiful!

This little ladybug was made using the SU Circle Scallop Punch. I punched out 5 circles of polka dotted paper, folded each one in half and started adhering them together.

I then took the 1" circle stamp and punched out a circle for the head. I hand drew the antennas.

Using my Score-Pal, I scored 1/4" on each side of my white cs and stamped my sentiment.

The card is 4"x4" in size.

I love the simplicity of this card. To mail out, just flatten the ladybug and fits nicely in an envelope - just remember to tell your recipient to fluff it up a bit.

Here is the recipe:
Stamps: Amuse - "Little note"
Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Real Red
Ink: Black
Other: Circle Scalloped Punch, 1" Circle Punch, Black fine tip marker, Score-Pal

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

File Card

Here is my card that I made from Kelly Swan's "Sassy Sayings" card swap. Nancy had made an ATC rather than a card and Kelly challenged everyone in the swap to make a card out of Nancy's ATC. I am sorry, but I have absolutely no idea who makes this stamp and wished I had more images to play with. I believe it is TAC but could be wrong. If anyone knows who makes this stamp, please let me know.

I found it difficult as I wasn't quite sure what to do with the ATC, but I think it turned out quite cute!

I wish I had a few more images to make some cards with as I am pleased with the outcome of this challenge.

I call this my file card as it looks like a file folder without the tabs. It is an A2 size (4 1/4 x 5 1/2"). I cut 1" off the front of the card and rounded the corners.

I added the striped DS paper that I found in my litte stash and think the colours go great with Nancy's choice of colours - I believe that was just pure dumb luck!

I matted Nancy's ATC onto Pixie Pink cs, tied a pink grosgrain ribbon around the DS paper and matted to the front of my card.

I then punched the photo corners, one with gable green and the other with pixie pink and added that to the corner with some green brads that I also found.

The "Happy Birthday" is from the Sassy Sayings set. I also stamped on the inside using the swirls in Versamark from the "Stars & Swirls" set (retired) as I thought it looked a little plain.

Lastly, using my slit punch, I punched a slit at the top to hold the card closed.

Here is the recipe:
Stamps: Sassy Suzy, Stars & Swirls
Paper: Gable Green, Pixie Pink
Ink: Black, Versamark
Other: Ribbon, Photo Corner Punch, Brads

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

Blog Winner

My apologies for not posting this sooner, but the winner for my first Blog Candy goes to Charityhand! Congratulations. Please send me you snail mail and I will get your goodies out to you!

I have also decided to award a little something to cpullum. Please email me your snail mail.

Thank you guys for visiting my blog! Pat

Bloomin Beautiful Card

Ok, my last post of the nite. Here is a colour challenge that i wanted to try out - Soft Sky, Purely Pomegranite and Black.

I used the Faux Silk Technique on this card.

Although it is very faint in the background, I stamped Tres Chic onto the glossy paper in Soft Sky and sanded it.

I then stamped the Hydrangeas in a vase in black ink and watercoloured. I added the stickles to the middle to give it some dimension.

Punched two photo corners in Purely Pomegranite and adhered. I then tied the double stitched Purely Pomegranite ribbon on the right, adhered card front to black matting and then using pop ups, adhered it onto the Soft Sky card.

I love the look of this colour combo and may go back to make other cards using this combo. It gives it such an elegant look!

Here is the recipe:
Stamps: Bloomin' Beautful

Paper: Glossy Whisper White, Basic Black, Soft Sky
Ink: Black, Soft Sky
Other: Sanding Block, Double Stitched Ribbon, Photo Corner Punch, Stickles

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

Fintastic Friends - Tilt Card

I had some pieces left over from my shaving cream card and am so glad that I saved them. Doesn't it make a great water background?

This is my attempt on the Tilt Card as shown on Splitcoaststampers Tutorials.

On the main card front, I adhered Blue Bayou on and then layered with Soft Sky and added another layer of Blue Bayou DS paper on the bottom. To hide the seam, I added the stitched ribbon across.

I stamped the two fishes from Whale Wishes stamp set twice in Blue Bayou. I mounted my main focul point onto Only Orange. Then mounted with pop dots on the main card. As you can see, I've left the sentiment off again so that I can refer back to any cards for any occasion and then stamp the sentiment on.

Here is the recipe:
Stamps: Whale Wishes
Paper: Whisper White, Soft Sky, Blue Bayou, Only Orange, Blue Bayou DS Paper
Ink: Blue Bayou
Other: Double Stitched Ribbon, Pennies

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

An Udder Birthday?

I just love cows and this is one of my very first owned cow stamp from TAC. Sorry for the blurried picture - but I had tried several times to take a picture of this, and have failed.

I stamped the cow in black ink and coloured with my SU markers. I added a bit of 3-d Glue to the ice cream cone. Matted my cow to pretty in pink and then used my small rectangle nestabilities to cut my scalloped rectangle piece.

I then used the cow print to randomly stamp all over the pretty in pink cs. Adhere the cow with pop ups onto the black piece and adhere using pop ups again onto to the main card front. Tie a stitched ribbon around the card front.

Here is the recipe:
Stamps: TAC - "an udder birthday"
Paper: Pretty in Pink, Basic Black, Whisper White
Ink: Black
Other: Nestabilities - small rectangle, SU Markers, 3-d Glue, ribbon

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

Masculine Cards

Happy June! Can you believe that it is almost summer? The next following cards were a series of card I made during a Shoebox Swap. As you can see in a few of these cards, I left the sentiment off so that I can go back and add whatever I wish when I am in need of a masculine card. I am sure that everyone is looking for some ideas for masculine cards. I hope this was helpful:

This card here is made using the Chalkboard Technique by stamping with White Craft Ink and then going over the ink with the SU Pastels.

Using the pine leaf, stamp using old olive, by stamping off first onto a scrap and then onto your cardstock. Repeat this several times as well as on the opposite corner. Then take your pine cone and stamp repeatedly in Chocolate Chip over top of your pine leaf. This card is actually a tri-fold card, the photo mount on the top holds the "Happy Father's Day" up. When you undo the photo mount, it flips down and you have another section that flips up to reveal a section where you can write your sentiments, etc.

This is a shirt card. I love SU DS paper and the Sky Blue DS paper does the job! The circle was cut using the collozle and then cut in half. One side of the circle is stamped using the Print Pattern Background Stamp. I love how SU texture paper gives it that added "umpf"!

My last card, using our new star punches. Most of the pieces were inked up using the Canvas Background and then punched out.

Here are the recipes:

Card 1
Stamps: Angler, All Holidays, Canvas
Paper: Not Quite Navy, Chocolate Chip, Kraft
Ink: White Craft
Other: Pastels, brads, Linen

Card 2
Stamps: All Holidays, Peaceful Wishes
Paper: Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke
Ink: Chocolate Chip, Always Artichoke
Other: Photo mount, Brad

Card 3
Stamps: Print Pattern
Paper: Whisper White, Textured Chocolate Chip, More Mustard, Night of Navy, Very Vanilla, Sky Blue DS Paper
Ink: Versamark
Other: Glitter, Coluzzle

Card 4
Stamps: Canvas Background
Paper: Chocolate Chip, River Rock, Always Artichoke, DS Paper
Ink: Versamark
Other: Large Star Punch, Small Star Punch, Brads

Thanks for stopping by!!
~Pat

Happy Father's Day!

This card was created by my upline, Julianne Harvey.

It measures 4.75" x 4.75" square. Using the images from Happy Camper (p.102 of the Spring Summer Catalogue), she stamped various images onto Very Vanilla scrap cs and then punched out using the 1-1/4" square punch.

The images were then matted onto squares punched out using the 1-3/8" square punch. The squares were then matted onto the River Rock cs and the onto the main card.

Here is the recipe:
Stamps: Happy Camper; All Holidays
Paper: Very Vanilla, Not Quite Navy, Real Rust, River Rock, Old Olive
Ink: Real Rust, Night of Navy, Old Olive
Other: Ribbon, Button, Linen

Thanks for stopping by!!

~Pat

Playing Scattergories

My friend, Ethel, the Paperquilter, is playing Scattergories on her blog. I thought I'd do the same. You take the first letter of your first name. Erase all of the answers you see on my post, and then answer the questions using the first letter of your first name to come up with your answers. Then, post your answers on your blog, and please link it back this post on my blog. Are you ready to play?

Here we go:

WHAT IS YOUR NAME? Pat
FOUR LETTER WORD: peas
VEHICLE: Porsche
TV SHOW: Pokemon (I know this is lame, but it was the only show I could think of - my boys watch this every morning)
GIRL'S NAME: Patricia
BOY'S NAME: Patrick
CITY: Panama City
OCCUPATION: Pathologist
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: Pants
FOOD: Pizza
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: paper (toilet)
REASON FOR BEING LATE: Procrastination
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: PLEASE! It's what I always teach my boys to remember their manners (he, he)