May 26, 2014 - Bestie World DT Color Challenge

Hello again my friends.  Welcome from warm sunny Florida.  Yep we are on a little side trip right now and are certainly enjoying this beautiful weather.  We love being around all these palm trees.  Somehow they are soothing.  :-)  

Well once again It's time for the Bestie World DT challenge.  This time it is a color challenge and red seemed to be the main focus of the photo we were to get our inspiration from, so red it is.  LOL   Hope you all like my take on the challenge.  

I just love this image as I do all of Sherri Baldy's Besties.  :-)  She is Image 208 and you can find her in Sherri's Etsy Shop HERE

Well for the life of me I can't remember the manufacturer of the papers I used this time.  But I will tell you that I purchased them from Scrapbook Creations in Spartanburg, SC.  A couple of papers were also some snipets in my stash.  :-)  

I colored her with my Faber Castell Polychromo pencils.  I tend to use those lately as I am so enjoying coloring with them.  If you have never used them......they are so easy to use.  I only use a dry blending stump to blend with.  

Supplies:

Faber Castell Polychromos

Lace from my stash

Red Bling from AC Moore

Butterfly charm from AC Moore

Dies:  Spellbinders, LaLa Land Crafts Banner, Cherry Lynn Doily 

Red Stickles and Crystal Stickles

All these sweet images always put a smile on my face.  Hope they do yours also.  :-) 

Would love for you to take a look at the other DT members cards and come join us in our challenge.  Please visit the blog and if you will please leave comments.  We so appreciate them.  You can go the blog by clicking HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting my blog.  I would so love for you to leave a comment and I sure hope you enjoy my creations.  

Happy Stamping and Many hugs,

Pat  

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May 19, 2014 - Anything but A Square Card

Happy Monday everyone.  Well we have had an absolutely beautiful week of sunny and warm weather and I sure hope it is like that wherever you are located.  

Today is the day for our new Aussie DT challenge and as you can see from the title above, it is Anything But A Square Card.  So once again the ole thinking cap went on and I decided to pull out my large Spellbinder dies and use them for an easel card.  I am ashamed to say these dies have been under my cutting table for several years (ever since I purchased a Grand Calibur) and I had not used them yet.  So this was a good excuse to pull them out.  :-)  But guess what......I used the 3 smallest die in the set and 

 my trusty electric Big Shot that was already on my cutting table cut them beautifully.  LOL  

For this challenge, I chose Sherri Baldy's image called Viola Violet.  I love this image.....well truth be known.....I love all of Sherri Baldy's images.  :-)  If you like her as much as I do and wish to purchase her, you can find her by clicking HERE

Here is my card when it is closed.  

Now tell me, don't you just love this cute imge???  

Here is the card when it is opened.

When I first saw this image, I immediately knew I wanted to use  Red and Blue for the card.  So I went to my trusty paper stash and came up with exactly what I wanted.  That rarely happens.  Even with all the paper I have on hand, and believe me I have way too much, I seem to always be going to the craft store and picking up more to add to my stash.  LOL  

I have to admit something here......I am NOT a baseball fan, however when I saw this image I had to have it.  She has such a "sassy" look about her with her stance and I thought, yeppers she is my kinda gal.  :-)  I really should have made this card for my BFF Suzanne J. Dean 'cause she is one of the biggest baseball fans I know and as she pointed out to me today, I chose the Nat's colors and I shouldn't  tell my hubby, because  he is a big die hard Braves fan.  LOL 

Not being a "sports" fan, I have no sentiments that were appropriate for this, so I sat down at the computer and thought of some sayings that would be cute with this image.  So I typed them all up in Word and then went searching on the internet and found some clip art that I inserted below the saying.  I thought it worked out good.  The one I finally used is not the one I originally thought I would use, but it is so appropriate, because I feel this way about my sweet hubby of 49 years.  He IS my home run!!!!!!

Supplies Used:

Spellbinders Oval and Scalloped Grand Dies

Memory Box flourish Die

La La Land Crafts banner Die

Faber Castell PolyChromos Pencils

Close to My Heart Card Stock and Designer Papers

Ohhhh and did you notice, for once in my life, I did NOT use flowers.  Well flowers just didn't seem like they would work here.  LOL

I sure hope you like my card and I invite you to enter our challenge.  Whether you enter or not, please go and take a look at all the other creations our Aussie Design Team has done.  You can find our challenge blog by clicking HERE

Challenges I am entering:
Besties UK Challenge - HERE

Thanks for stopping by again and I welcome all comments.

Happy Stamping and God Bless,

Pat

May 4, 2014 - Aussie DT Challenge Using Flowers and Two Laces

Happy Sunday everyone.  Hope you had a great week-end.  I have been fighting catching a germ the last few days and I sure hope I have kicked it early.  :-)  Got too many wonderful things coming up this week and the next couple to be sick.

So our Aussie Challenge this time is for us to use flowers and two types of laces.  Since I love using flowers and I love lace, it wasn't too hard to visualize my card.  :-)

The image I used from Sherri Baldy's Etsy shop is called Viola Violet and with such a sweet name you can already tell that she should have lace and flowers on her card for sure.  :-)  You can purchase this image by clicking HERE

Here is my card for the challenge.

I decided to color her entire dress using blues and when I finished the blues, I was having a very hard time deciding what other color I wanted to use.  I was texting at the same time I was coloring  to one of my BFF's and she suggested that I use a creamy yellow and that is what I did.  I loved the color combination and luckily I still had some of the creamy flowers left in my stash.  I have been using flowers like crazy lately and I have to replenish my stock.  :-)  Well it sounds like a great excuse to me to order more.  LOL  

The papers I used were ones that I had on hand. The lace at the bottom was found at WalMart believe it or not, but the lace on the corner was purchased from Betty's in Greensboro, NC.  I added the pearls to the lace after I placed on the card.  Flowers are from Wild Orchard.  Love me some Wild Orchard flowers.  :-)  The lace doily die is from Cheery Lynn Dies.  Ticket sentiment is out of a set of stamps from Whimsey.    A dab or two of Stickles was used on the flower in her headband.  

I had lots of fun creating this card and invite you all to come and join us in our Aussie challenge.  Please come and take a look at all the other DT Members cards by clicking HERE

I am entering this in the following challenges:

The Ribbon Girl Challenges and Inspiration HERE

CreativeFingers Challenge Blog HERE

OutLawz Saturday Challenge HERE

Outlawz May Challenge HERE

Thank you once again for stopping by and welcome to all my new followers.  You are all so appreciated and I welcome all of your comments.  

Happy stamping and hugs to all,

Pat

April 28, 2014 Besties Design Team Challenge - Anything But A Card

Hi my friends.  I hope you all had a lovely week-end.  I know I did, in fact I had a blast.  Myself and three other gal pals went to a crafting Expo and took some classes and stayed over and we certainly had a great time together.  We stayed up way to late talking and laughing that's for sure.  

Well our challenge this time is "Anything But A Card".  Hmmmmm that definitely had me thinking what on earth am I gonna do for this challenge.  Thankfully, I guess (cause I spent way too much money LOL), I went to AC Moore for a couple of things and walked by a bin and saw something, and it hit me, yeppers I am going to use this for my challenge.  So I purchased it and then put my thinking cap on and here is what I came up with.  I hope you all like it. 

As you can see, I chose a chalk board and decided to go with a "girlie" look.  :-)  I had Sherri Baldy in mine when I created this, as she loves pink and lace and of course she is the designer of these precious images, and she is our "Bestie"  The image I used was I Say A Little Prayer and you can find her in Sherri's Etsy Shop HERE.

Here is a close up of the image.  

I used my current favorite medium to color with.  I have been using my Faber Castell Polychromos and I am in love with them.  Love the way they blend so easily and with 120 colors a gal can't go wrong.  :-)  I also used my brand new dies from Joy Crafts.  From the very first day I saw this die, I knew it had to come home and live with me.  So I went on a search and found a place in the US that I could order.  The die is really a heart border, but I cut them apart and used randomly.  My flowers are mostly Wild Orchid.  Lace and ribbon flowers were from my stash.  

So I hope you like my interpretation of the challenge and that you will decide to join us.  So grab your favorite Bestie image and come join us on our Besties Challenge Blog HERE

Thank you for stopping by and I sure hope you come again.

Happy Stamping and God Bless,

Pat 

April 20, 2014 - Aussie DT Challenge Using Folds

Hello my friends.  Today our Aussie DT challenge is using folds.

 So I got the old thinking cap on and wanted to do something a little different that some of the folds I've been using, so I am revisiting a technique using folds that I'm sure we all have used many times in our card making.  Its been a long time since I have done a Joy Fold card, so that is what I decided to do. .   I also wanted a larger card than you usually see with a Joy Fold, so I just started guestimating (ok I know that is not a real word LOL) and I was pleased with the final size.  During my thinking and looking at different tutorials, I stumbled upon one that I wish I had seen prior to making this card, 'cause I certainly did the base of it the hard way.  LOL  So the easy way is....figure the finished size card you want  and double the length.  Then fold the CS in half and then cut one of the folds in half.  Saves you trying to figure out where to score and fold.   

I don't know why, but when I chose the image I wanted to color, I immediately though of blues and aquas.  Wasn't sure how it was going to turn out, but overall I think I am pleased.  :-)

The flower at the bottom left is a dual reason for being there.  One because I love flowers and usually have them on all my cards, but the other reason....it is keeping the blue fold that the image is mounted on closed.  You will see what I mean in my next picture which shows the entire card opened.  :-)    I loved this image the first time I saw her, my first thought was how sweet and love that little bunny she is holding, so a little bunny love.:-)

If you would like to add this sweet image to your collection you can find her at Sherri Baldy's Etsy  HERE  

A really good friend of mine, Suzanne J. Dean, is a great enabler and  a few months ago and was telling me all about these really neat pencils by Faber Castell called Polychromos.  Well yeppers I had to have them and this image was the first image I colored with them.  And can I tell you all that I am in love with them.  I love they way they color and the ease of coloring too.  I used a hotpress watercolor paper from Amazon.  It was a little pricey, but love the way it worked with the pencils.  I also used a blending stump to soften the colors together.  I will list the colors used when I list the supplies below. Oh and by the way, I am also a very good enabler to all my friends. too.  LOL  

Here is the inside of my card: 

I wanted to use the sentiment, Some Bunny Loves You and I didn't have a stamp or a digi, so I typed it in Word and printed on some cardstock and used a Spellbinders die to cut it out. 

Supplies Used:

Polychromos:

Sky Blue

Hello Blue 

Dark Phthalo

Grey II

Light Magento

Light Flesh

Medium Flesh

Cinnamon

Buster

Naples Yellow

Light Chrome Yellow

Burnt Sienna 

Dies:  Cheery Lynn, Spellbinders & Joy Crafts

Flowers:  Wild Orchid and Prima

Aqua Emblishments - Some in my stash

Card Stock - Stamping up

Designer papers - some in my stash

So I hope that you like my card and you will leave a comment below. I always appreciate hearing your thoughts about my work.  :-)  

I will end todays post with I hope everyone had a very blessed and happy Easter.  May God bless and keep you all.

Many hugs and Happy Stamping.

Pat

April 6, 2014 - Aussie DT Challenge and Blog Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog.  Are you ready for something exciting???/  Well we are celebrating our one year anniversary on the My Besties Aussie Challenge Blog and we are inviting you to celebrate with us.  We are having a Blog Hop with some awesome "candy" for the winners who go "blog hopping" with us.  Now come on, you know you like candy and you know you want to win, so come on and visit all the blogs and you may get some awesome prizes.

Our challenge this time was using Brown and Yellows.  This was definitely out of my comfort zone because I rarely use yellows and browns together even though I think they look really good together.  My color family tends to lend itself to the purples, pinks, soft greens, etc.  But I had great fun creating this card for the challenge and hope that you all like it.  Since I love to shop, this image was perfect for me.  :-)

Supplies Used:

Distressed Ink Markers

Miscl Papers on hand

Wild Orchid Flowers

Memory Box and Spellbinders Dies

Martha Steward Border Punch

OK now for the fun.

  

START HERE MY BESTIES AUSSIE BLOG
– http://mybestiesaussiechallenge.blogspot.nl/

ROSE ANDREW http://www.cardsforallreason.blogspot.com



PAT JAYNES http://www.pjskreativekorner.blogspot.com

GEESJE BOUTKAN http://www.hobbyhoekje-engelchen.blogspot.nl/

BELINDA LEWIS http://beelewis.blogspot.com.au/

KARIN LUBBERS http://scrapblog-karin.blogspot.nl/

DENIELLE SARGEANT http://angelscrapbookgoodies.blogspot.com.au/

MELISSA BROOKE http://melissabrooke001.blogspot.com.au/

BEVERLY
STEELE http://yorkiemomscrapping.blogspot.com.au/

JULIE GLEESON http://juliegleeson34.blogspot.com.au

RETURN TO
MY BESTIES AUSSIE BLOG
– http://mybestiesaussiechallenge.blogspot.nl/ And Answer Question

Blog Hop Rules

Make sure you follow these instructions to be in the running to win our delicious Candy!!

1. Firstly make sure you are a follower of the Aussie Besties Blog - and leave a comment.

2.  Visit each Blog on the Hop List.

3.  Leave a comment on each Blog

4.  We would also love for you to become a follower of each Blog.

5.  Return to the Aussie Besties Blog and Answer the following question - How many Bestie DT members have you visited on the Hop?

6. Have fun.

7.  Good Luck

Blog Candy is for an Aussie Winner and the $25 Gift Certificate is for an International Winner.  Good Luck!!

We are all excited for you to be a great part of our celebration.  Come on, blog hop with us and lets make our first year anniversary a tremendous success!!!!

Thank you for stopping by and your next stop is:  

Geesje Boutkan - to go to her blog, Click HERE 

Thank you again for stopping by and I hope that you have enjoyed visiting blog and that you are having fun with our first ever Blog Hop.

Many hugs and happy stamping,

Pat 

April 4 - Blog Hop Coming Up Soon

Hey my friends.  Just wanted to check in quickly to post that the Besties Aussie DT  is  getting ready for a Blog Hop and you know that you want to do this, 'cause you have a chance to win some awesome goodies from Sherri Baldy's Besties.  

So write down the date of April 6th on your calendar and be sure and come back and read here to get all the scoop on what you have to do.  The  link to the Aussie DT Blog is below the picture and you can go now and see our last challenge of using ribbons.  Coming up is our challenge using Yellow and Brown.  

Here are some pictures of the blog candy that you can win.  

Remember the blog hop starts on April 6 and here is the link for you to check it out. 

 My Besties Aussie BlogSpot Challenges