So remember a few weeks ago, I posted my card for a swap my upline.  Well I was thrilled to receive a package from her the other day.  Here are the swaps received:

Susan Paterson, my upline

I wish I had a wedding to go to because this is an absolutely beautiful card!

Lori-Anne Woodbury

Ria

And the rest didn’t have a name attached so therefore couldn’t give credit.  If these are yours, please send me a message and I will correct it.

Thanks for the beautiful cards and inspirations ladies!
~Pat

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