Just thinking of You

I made this adorable card for Splitcoast Stampers sketch challenge SC369. The cute image I used is from Sew Many Digital Images called "Eris watering Flower". Image was coloured with Tombow and Stampin Up Markers.

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Hugs..Pat

MMTPT146, Thinking of You

I created this beach scene for the Teapot Tuesday challenge #MMTPT146. I can't get this twang! The music's way to slow. I like what you sang. Let the beach steal the Show.

I will be sending this card off to Anthony who is recovering from a serious accident. Anthony loves the beach and music. I hope this card will put a smile on his face.

The lighthouse image is from Stampin Up's - Coast to Coast set and the cowboy him is from Sutter Enterprises - singing cowboy.


Hugs..Pat

Just Thinking of you

Happy Monday everyone.... Hope you all had a wonderful Mother's Day - I sure did, spoiled rotten by my children and husband. :)

Here is my cute little "Ava with Flower" card - I made for a few challenges. This week over at

Totally Stampalicious - the challenge is to get BUGGY. The challenge over at Bugaboo Stamps Catch the Bug challenge is ANYTHING GOES. Plus, I made it also for the clean and simple challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers - BANNERS.

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Hugs..Pat

Thinking of You

Happy Saturday everyone... I love how this card turned out :)

It is for a few challenges - Splitcoast Stampers Queen for the Day #QFTD59, Inspiration challenge #IC283, April fan club theme - shapess #CT0411 and I am putting it in the
Crazy 4 Challenges challenge #C4C86 - May Flowers.

I cased this beautiful card of Faith's (aka markie's mom) . My bird image is from Martha Stewarts "Bird - Clear Stamps" set. Water coloured image with Stampin Up reinkers. Cuttle bugged the silver metallic paper with Square Lattice folder. Sentiment is from Stampin Up's Bird on a branch set.

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Hugs.. Pat

Owl be Thinking of You

Happy Tuesday everyone.... I'm a little late uploading my card today - I was babysitting my twin grand babies for about 5 hours. My sister, Valerie-Raye, and I brought the twins back to my house so that their Mommy could catch up on some much deserved sleep.

I made this card for the Teapot Tuesday challenge MMTPT133. Some of us will be sending our cards to Marie - the sister of a SCS/teapotter Philsmom (Fran). Marie is a quadriplegic as a result of progressive MS. We are hoping that our cards will bring a little cheer into her day. Marie loves owls - this was the theme of today's challenge.

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Hugs.Pat

MMTPT131, Thinking of you

Happy Tuesday every... Here is my card for Mothermark's Teapot Tuesday Challenge MMTPT131. This weeks destination is for Cindy's very own niece - Shari - who has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer. For details on this challenge go Here.

The Bowl of Cherries digital image is from a fund raiser by Jak Heath - for Katie Renz - who is battling Stomach cancer. The image was drawn by Kim Teasdale - Lovin from the oven.

The layout I used is from Crazy 4 Challenges - #C4C71.

Thanks for looking,

Hugs.. Pat

MMTPT128 = Thinking of you = Katie

I made this card for SCS Teapot Tuesday challenge MMTPT128 - our destination this week is to Katie Renz - she is a young mother, wife and talented stamper who was recently diagnosed with stage four Gastric cancer... We are sending our cards to give her some love and encouragement at this difficult time in her life. One of Katie's stamping friends "Jak Heath" has gathered some talented artist together - in order to raise funds to help pay for some of Katie's medical expenses. For a donation of L15 (15 GB) you get a variety of digital stamps.

The stamp set I used to created Katies card is from Clear Dollar Stamps called "Everyday Jar-gon".

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Hugs..Pat

Wishing you a speedy recovery - Jess

I'm a little late uploading this card. I made this card for this weeks Teapot Tuesday challenge (#MMTPT117 ) on Splitcoast Stampers for Charlene Merricks (where m & m's gather) step-son Jess. Jess was attacked by a neighbours vicious Dog and now is faced with plastic surgery to repair the damage to his face. I will be sending this off to Jess - wishing him a speedy recovery.

Jess is a big Nascar fan and loves Dale Earnhaardt Sr. I don't have any racing card stamps so I went on line and found this colouring page image. I printed the image twice, cut one out and coloured it with markers. Dry embossed the back side of the image on the front portion of the car to give it some dimension. Matted image with black and red cardstock. I created the checkered background by weaving the black strips into the white panel. Matted the checkered panel with red card stock. Stamped sentiment (from Stampin Up's Bird on a Branch set), matted with black card stock. Sewed all panels. Attached the screw brads.

Patricia

Thinking of You

Happy Sunday everyone... Just wanted to share this card with you. I made this yesterday morning, before I went to work. This was for a few challenges on Splitcoast Stampers, Queen for the Day - we were honouring Lesley (aka Marleygo) - Here is her beautiful card that I cased. I used the Black magic technique on my Kraft card stock. This card also fits for Splitcoast Stampers Fan Club theme - anything that grows....

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Happy Stamping and Creating,

Hugs... Pat

Thinking of You

Hello everyone.. I am late with posting this card. I made it for several challenges... Splitcoast stampers colour challenge (barley banana, ballet blue, old olive, neutrals of choices and the desert option - red). The Teapot Tuesday challenge MMTPT91 - to help Sadie, my fair lady - win the Gardner of the century award... I used an old SCS sketch - #SC243.
The stamp set I used is from Clear Dollar Stamps - called "Everyday Jar-gon".
This card qualifies for the challenge over at Clearly I stamp - #C1C12 - all tied up, and Our Creative Corners - Blooming Blossoms.

Must rush back to work..

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Happy Stamping and Creating,

Hugs.. Pat

Thinking of You

Happy Sunday everyone.... my favourite challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers is the featured stamper challenge... I am so happy to see that Pat Smether's one of the sweetest and nicest ladies has been chosen for this honour.... here is the card I cased. Make sure to check out her amazing gallery (patsmethers), full of wonderful works of heart.
This is an image of my youngest son "Guy" - he was about 6 years old at the time - we were at a Rodeo in Falkland, British Columbia... he is looking a little sad in this picture..
I made the faux leather background - stamped the paisleys and flowers in versa mark ink onto More Mustard card stock and then clear embossed them.. Next I overstamped the whole panel in versamark ink and clear embossed again. Base card is Barely Banana, next is black and then the faux leather panel.. Matted the image with black - all edges were distressed and sewed. I stamped the sentiment, cut it out and clear embossed it. Assembled card. Cut a strip of black leather and attached Armadillo concho and the two silver brads. Finished inside of card.
Enjoy you day in the spotlight Pat Smethers...

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Happy Stamping and Creating.

Hugs... Pat

Thinking of You

Here's another card that I made today. Splitcoast Stampers technique challenge was to make your own Designer Paper and the Clean and Simple challenge was to use Green and Brown. I used the sketch from Bugaboo Stamps Blog. This also qualifies for Crazy 4 Challenges challenge - to make a masculine card.

I stamped the white bg panel with the Sanded and Canvas backgrounder stamps in chocolate chip. The old olive leaves were randomly stamped and the edges were sponged with chocolate chip. Matted the panel with chocolate chip and sewed around card. The tree image was stamped in Stazon timber brown and water coloured with Stampin Up reinkers. Sponged edges and matted image. Stamped leaves onto the old olive strip. Punched out scalloped strip. Sewed all edges. Stamped on sentiment (from Bird on a Branch) in chocolate chip, attached the three corner brads.

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Happy Stamping and Creating.



Hugs - Pat

Thinking of You

Here is a card I made last week for Splitcoast Stampers Colour challenge and Teapot Tuesday challenge. I used a retired stamp from a Stampin Up set - Best Borders. I coloured the teapots with markers. Matted the panels with pink and blue and then black. Sewed all edges. Coloured an extra panel and cut off the three teapots for my sentiment tag. The sentiment is from Clear Dollar Stamps - Everyday Jar-gon set. Used a large scalloped border punch for the bottom edge of base card.

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Happy Stamping and creating.

Hugs... Pat

Thinking of You

Happy Sunday everyone.... I finally got to play today..... I combined a couple of challenges... The Featured Stamper challenge over at Splitcoast Stampers.... "Vera" is today's FS - #161 and so deserving of this honour... Plus I used Our Creative Corners sketch for my layout. Here is the adorable baby card that I cased. The adorable giraffe image is from Clear Dollar Stamps - called "Patchpal Giraffe". I water coloured the image with Stampin Up reinkers. Cut out the image, made the background from the dp. Matted all panels with real red. Rounded corners on large red panel and dp panel. Used large scalloped border punch for the middle strip. Attached cream coloured ribbon and red brads. Sewed all edges. Sewed on the red heart button flower. Added Diamond stickles to the dp. Stamped sentiment (Fiskars - Just between Friends) on lower left panel in Real Red ink. I made this for Clear Dollars Stamps challenge C1C8 - Be square and Crazy 4 Challenges - paper piercing... I pierced all four corners of base cream coloured card.

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Happy stamping and creating...

Hugs - Pat

CAS - Thinking of You (Spring CAS DT call)

There is a call out for the "Spring Clean and Simple (CAS) design team on Splitcoast Stampers". We were to pick two CAS challenge cards from Dec. 2009 until now, plus two CAS non CAS challenge cards and then pick one CAS previous challenge and make a new card. This is my new card.

When I arrived home from work yesterday there was some happy mail - I won this cute stamp set from Clear Dollar Stamps called "Everyday Jar-gon". I couldn't wait to use this set - this is what I came up with for my NEW CAS card. I use used the CAS26 challenge - to use stitching - real or faux. I stamped my images (first the jar, next the flowers and then the bee) onto water colour paper with Stazon Jet black, Coloured with markers and SU reinkers. Matted image with gingersnap and barely banana paper. Stamped the sentiment onto white panel, Matted with barely banana. Sewed all edges. Image panel is popped up. Added Diamond stickles to the flower centers and bees wings.

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Happy stamping and creating

Hugs - Pat

Thinking of You - CAS

Happy Monday everyone... Here is a quick card I made yesterday - my second card for the Featured Stamper challenge FS157 at Splitcoast Stampers.. Here is the card of Barbara Anders (Bar) that I cased.

I inked up my Paisley embossing folder with whisper white in, then put the creamy caramel panel in the folder - ran through the cuttlebug. Note: I only ran part of the panel through the bug - left the bottom portion blank - to stamp my sentiment on. Matted panel with chocolate chip. Punched a strip of chocolate chip with my Stampin Up scalloped border punch. Attached the brown gingham ribbon. Sewed edges with brown thread. Pierced holes in the scallops. Stamped on my sentiment (Fiskars - Just Between Friends) - pierced the two lines in front of the sentiment. Made my bow and star button embellishment. Attached bow to card. Popped up panel over top of Creamy Caramel base card 4 1/4 x 5 1/2.

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Happy stamping and creating,

Hugs - Pat

THINKING OF YOU

Happy Tuesday everyone..... Was I ever thrilled when Betty Wright asked to make a SAMPLE CARD for this weeks COLOUR CHALLENGE #CC249 on SPLITCOAST STAMPERS .

The colours are So Saffron, Mellow Moss, Mellon Mambo (Regal Rose) and Neutrals of Choice. Plus this weeks desert option is polka dots (big bold dots, itty bitty dots or any dots in between).

I had the perfect DP in my stash and the stamp I used is one of the very first stamps I had purchased - it has seen any love for awhile and it goes perfectly with my DP.

I used the Spotlight technique on my card and Outside the box.

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Happy Creating,

Hugs - Patricia

THANK YOU SEW MUCH

Here is the card I made yesterday for the Tuesday Teapot Challenge, Colour Challenge and Double Dog Challenge. Here is the story behind this card... Poor little Dusty Bear has been left in the attic for many years.. The tea party ladies have been asked to help Dusty Bear out.

I have also used yesterdays Splitcoast Stamper colour challenge (CC244) - bravo burgundy, very vanilla and kraft. This also qualifies for the Double Dog Dare Challenge - to make at least a four layer card, use ribbon - plus make a card for the Tuesday Teapot Challenge...

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Happy creating and stamping.

Hugs... Pat

Thinking of you Shirmcat

I made another card today, combining two challenges. The featured stamper challenge on Splitcoast stampers - FS127 - Kelly (aka Shirmcat) and Our Creative Corners challenge - use a pet or any other animal on your card.
Here is the card of Kelly's that I cased called "Tin Roof". I wanted to keep the country theme, Kelly loves her sheep, cows, farm scenes. I used an old stamp set my husband bought me off eBay - made by Imaginations - I don't know the name of the set.

Recipe:

Stamps - Imaginations - farm set, Studio G- sentiment, You make me Happy, Fresh Fillers

Paper - kraft, chocolate chip, white, My Minds Eye - 29th Street Market, K&C Company

Ink - more mustard, ruby red, going gray, basic black, pretty in pink, close to cocoa, old olive, basic brown

Accessories - sewing machine, wood fibers, button, sponge, pop dots, stamp-a-ma-jig, piercing tool, cuttlebug, oval nestability

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy Stamping

Pat