You Suit me to a Tea

I love this card!  I cut the strips into one inch wide and rounded the corners on the one end.  Layered them onto the Whisper White.  The white strip is dry embossed to give it some texture.
I stamped the large tea cup using Wisteria Wonder. 

I punched the little flowers using yellow scrap DSP, edged them using Eggplant Elegant. 

Using my scoring tool, I pushed down the centre of each flower on a foam mat to curl up the edges and added the purple brads.  The tea cup was mounted using dimensionals.

I then punched out the little tag and stamped the sentiment and the little flower on the tag.  Punched a hole at the top and tied white Baker`s twine to the cup.

Added my organza ribbon and voila!  Isn`t  it pretty?

Here is a close up of the tag and the flowers.

Here is the Recipe:

Stamps:    Tea Shoppe

Paper:       Whisper White, Eggplant Elegant DSP

Ink:           Eggplant Elegant, Wisteria Wonder

Accessories:  Baker`s twine, purple brads, organza ribbon

Have a wonderful day!  Pat

Breaking out Wisteria Wonder

Here is a card that I made casing Carrie Gaskin – I changed the colours and this is the first time I broke out the Wisteria Wonder cs since I purchased it.  I am still not entirely sure if I like the colour but I guess it will do.

I layered the front of the card with Cranberry Crisp and scored the next layer using my Score-Pal at 1|2 inch intervals.  The squares are using the 1-1|4 inch and 1-3|8 inch punches.  Stamp the flower onto the white cs and then layer onto cranberry crisp.  Line up and centre all four squares onto a white cs and adhere to main card.

I stamped the little flowers in cranberry crisp and punched out using the 1|2 inch circle punch.

Stamp the sentiment in cranberry crisp and cut your tails.  This will form one of my cards for a stamp-a-stack.

Here is the Recipe:

Stamps:    Fresh Vintage, Loving Thoughts

Paper:       Wisteria Wonder, Cranberry Crisp, Whisper White

Ink:           Wisteria Wonder, Cranberry Crisp

Accessories:  Gold Brads

Thanks for popping by, and have  a wonderful evening! - Pat

Happy Birthday Amy!

Meet Ellie!

Happy Birthday Amy!  Today is my niece`s birthday.  She is turning 9 today. 

Over the holidays, I picked up a new robe – it is white with colourful polka dots.  My husband told me that it reminded him of one of the toys from Rudolph and the misfit toys.  So that`s where my inspiration came from.  I am not very fond of colouring and wasn`t too thrilled about having to colour ¨Miss Ellie¨, so instead, I paper-pieced her.  I think she turned out very cute!

 I stamped the inside the card with 3 balloons.

Here is the Recipe:

Stamps:    Ellie

Paper:       Certain Celery, Whisper White, Blue cs (unknown source) and polka-dotted paper (unknown source)

Ink:           Basic Black

Accessories:  Circle Nestibilities, Circle Scalloped Nestibilities, Jumbo Brads, Certain Celery Ribbon

Have a wonderful day!  Pat

Last Birthday Card for January!

Woo hoo, I am done!  I finally got my last birthday card done!  This one is for my brother, whose birthday is on Saturday.  Now I get to play a bit (not really, but I`d like to think that I can). 

I found the image difficult to ink up, after several tries, I finally managed to get an image that I was happy with.  In order to get the dark image I wanted, I had my stamp upside down and using my ink pad, I patted the image over and over and over again onto the ink pad.  If you do it the other way (stamp to ink pad) the middle portion of the stamp will not ink up very well.

I ran the real red cs through the stripes embossing folder and adhered it to the front of my whisper white card base.  I then ran the pacific point through the dotted embossing folder.  Added a strip early expresso (punched using the scallop trim border punch) to the bottom of the pacific point.

I reinked the cupcake portion in pacific point, cut out and adhered to the front.  I then added the cherry cobbler glitter to the cherry and to the heart to give it some pizzaz!  I love the brightness of this card!

Here is the Recipe:

Stamps:    Sweet Cake

Paper:       Whisper White, Pacific Point, Real Red, Early Expresso

Ink:           Early Expresso, Pacific Point

Accessories:  Cherry Cobbler Dazzling Details, striped embossing folder, dotted embossing folder, scallop border punch

Have a wonderful evening - Pat

Birthday Card for my Dad

My card for my daddy.  My dad isn`t much a card guy but is still very much a kid at heart. This is using the stamp set Elementary Elegance from the Sale-a-Bration catty and any card using Crumb Cake and Chocolate Chip make great masculine cards!  I absolutely love how you can use the Curly Label punch to punch out the middle part. 

So I stamped the main image using Chocolate Chip and added a little strip across the middle giving it little tails on either end.  I stamped the Happy Birthday on a scrap of cs and punched it out using the Curly Label Punch.  Sponged around it to give it more vintage look and adhered it using dimensionals over the strip.  I added three little pearls to either side of my strip of chocolate chip and then layered the Crumb Cake onto chocolate chip.

Here is a closer look at the punched out part.

Haha, 3 cards down, 1 to go.  Not bad for a day of playing!  Let's see if I can get my last card made later tonight.  Wish me luck.

Here is the Recipe:

Stamps:    Elementary Elegance

Paper:       Crumb Cake, Chocolate Chip

Ink:           Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Curly Label Punch, Mini Pearls

Thanks for stopping by!  - Pat

Mixed Bunches Birthday Card

So besides celebrating Chinese New Year in January, we have four birthdays to celebrate as well.  Well I managed to get my sister`s card done. This was a fairly quick and easy card to assemble.  I layered a strip of pink pirouette dsp and gave it little tails. 

I punched the Cranberry Crisp using the new Blossom Punch.  Stamped the flower using pink pirouette and cut it out by hand – I didn`t want to use the punch as I wanted the cuts along the petals to go all the way down so that I am able to curl the edges up.  I stamped the smaller blossom in cranberry crisp – you can use the 1inch circle punch with this, but I chose to cut it out by hand to emphasize the little flower and added a gold brad to the centre.  Mounted it using dimensionals.   

Here is the Recipe:

Stamps:    Mixed Bunch, On Your Birthday

Paper:       Pink Pirouette, Cranberry Crisp, Whisper White, Basic Gray, Pink Pirouette DSP

Ink:           Pink Pirouette

Accessories:  Blossom Punch, Gold Brad

Pat

Card Swaps

So I didn’t get a chance to blog as much as I wanted to in the past few weeks.  I think I may have taken on more than I can handle ~ I’ll explain more later.  I decided I wanted to join a swap through Stampin Connection – this is where all demonstrators can pow wow.  I signed up for two spots in the hopes of making a feminine and a masculine birthday card.  The feminine one was easy peasy as I cased E. Holloway’s card as I absolutely love it.

 The masculine card wasn’t as easy as I had hoped it would be as I soon realized I didn’t have any current masculine stamp sets or ones that I didn’t want to use in any event.  But overall, I think I really like this – it is bright and cheery and will put a smile on anybody's face whether young or old!  Let me know your thoughts!

 Recipe:

Stamps:    Perfect Punches / Fox and Friends

Paper:      Whisper White, Early Expresso, Cranberry Crisp / Whisper White, Real Red, Tempting Turquoise & Big Top Birthday DSP

Ink:         Cranberry Crisp / Tempting Turquoise

Accessories:     Buttlerfly Embosslits, Rhinestones, Large Oval Punch / Grosgrain Ribbon

have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by! ~ Pat

Gung Hei Fat Choi!

Happy Chinese New Year!  As you all know from my previous post, Chinese New Year is on January 23, 2012.  This is the year of the dragon.  I made these Chinese New Year Cards to give to my parents and my siblings.  My youngest DS has asked for a card as well.  I am going to make his special and will post that at a later date.

I used my Dreamweaver Stencil and applied embossing paste all over the stencil.  Gently lift your stencil up and apply glitter all over.  I then spray varnished – gave it 3 coats so that my glitter won’t rub off and let dry over night. 

 I had wanted to add some other Chinese elements such as a Chinese coin, but only had one (in fact my oldest DS gave his up for my cards) and I couldn’t bring myself to use it – although, I may add it as an element to his special card.  I would have gone back to my local stamp store, but seeing that I had already been there twice, I thought I should stay put and see if I could find something else to use.  They would have thought that I was crazy!

 So instead, I added the rhinestones to the eyes to give it a more fiercer look and in two instances, I used brads just to see what it would like.

I made different colour variations.

This one has got to be my favourite one – even though black, ivory and gold are not the traditional colours for Chinese New Year.  But oh well, you can’t win them all.

 What do you do when you don’t have Chinese DS paper to use?  Well, I used some of my old DS paper that was not being used like the picture below, and stamped it using my Chinese Calligraphy stamp.

 I hope you have enjoyed this post as much as I had fun creating the cards!

Supplies:

Stamps:    All Night Media – Chinese Calligraphy

Ink:           Gold Embossing Ink, Real Red and Basic Black

Paper:      Black, Very Vanilla, Red Shimmer

Accessories:      Dreamweaver Dragon Stencil, Embossing Paste, Fine Glitter, Brads, Rhinestones
Thanks for stopping by!  I would love to hear your comments as to which one you prefer!  ~ Pat

Red Envelopes

Chinese New Year is on January 23, 2012.  So rather than run out and purchase red envelopes from the local Asian store, I decided to make my own red envelopes.  It is tradition that all children in your family receive money for luck.  Between all my nieces and nephews and my own kids, I made eight little envelopes.

The envelope was made using the SU Scallop Envelope in real red. I edge each of the envelopes in gold to add a bit more bling.

This is the year of the dragon, so I thought it would befitting to stamp a little dragon on the front the envelope and gold embossed it.  Is this not the cutest little dragon you`ve ever seen? 

Here is a close up of the dragon- sorry it is a bit dark.

On the back, I stamped Happy New Year from the Teeny Tiny Wishes stamp set and also gold embossed it.  I hand penned the gold around the scallop.  I wish I had a stamp that said Happy Chinese New Year, but I guess you can`t have everything, so this will do.

I am working on some Chinese New Year cards to give to my mom and dad, and each of my brother and sisters and their family – just for some fun!  So stay tuned.  I think you will be impressed!

Recipe:

Stamp:  Imaginisce – Enchanted Collection

Paper:  Real Red cs

Ink:  Gold Metallic

Accessories:  Scallop Envelope Die, Gold Embossing Powder, Gold Gel Pen

Can you believe 2 posts in one day?  Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day  ~ Pat

Christmas Baking

I am just getting around to posting this now, but I did a bunch of Christmas Baking with the intention of giving away little care packages to various people.  I went hard for a whole week baking 2-3 three items a day (of course all the while, the boys were taste testing and giving their opinion).  So I think I went a little overboard, but I totally enjoyed it! 

These are just plates of my sugar cookies – a plate of stars

And a plate of giant snowflakes.

A plate of coconut shortbread

Here is the plate I put together to give to a good friend who was so kind to give me and the boys each a present, but I had no idea as to what to give them and thought, aha . . . something that they each can enjoy over the holidays without breaking the bank.

In total, I made up four of these plates – one for my sister-in-law – she hosted Christmas Dinner.  One to my long time girlfriend whom we visited on New Year’s Eve , one for my family as I hosted Christmas Eve dinner and of course the other to our good friends – both our boys are the same age and have grown up together.  

Thanks for stopping by ~ Pat 

Bridal Favours

Before Christmas, I was asked by a local coffee distributor to design some Bridal Shower favours for her to give away at an upcoming Bridal Convention.  These were to hold individual packets of coffee, tea or hot chocolate.  As there was no theme, we decided to go black and white to keep it simple.  Below is the combination of what I created. 

I have also attached close up shots of the individual projects.

Mug:

   

Pillow Boxes - I made a white one as well, but the black took a much better photo than the white:

Tea Bag Holder:

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nside of the tea bag holder:

Recipe:

Stamps:    Together Forever, Perfect Punches

Paper:       Black CS, White CS, designer paper – non SU

Ink:           Black

Accessories:      Leaves a la Carte Jumbo Wheel, Heart to Heart Punch, Vintage Wallpaper Embossing Folder, Scallop Oval Punch and sticky strip

Drop me a line and let me know your thoughts. 

Thanks for stopping by ~ Pat.

Peek-a-Boo Notes

Happy New Year!  Here is a little thank you card I made to include with the orders from my group.  I cased Becky Roberts peek-a-boo Thank You Notes!  I had purchased the peek-a-boo die cut and had absolutely no idea what do with it until Becky`s post. 

The only thing I changed was running the stocking through the Big Shot Snow Burst Embossing Folder to give the stocking a bit of texture.  Otherwise, these are an exact copy of Becky`s.

I also created a little card using the peek-a-boo die cut for each of my ladies.

Hope they enjoy it!

Recipe:

Stamps:  The Snowflake Spot (retired), To You & Yours

Paper:  Cranberry Crisp, Whisper White, Frostwood Lodge DS

Ink:  Cranberry Crisp, Chocolate Chip

Accessories:  Peek-a-boo die cut; white organza ribbon