Sept 15, 2014 - International DT My Bestie Challenge - My Bestie with a Pet

Oh my goodness.  Can you believe it is already the middle of September.  Where oh where does the time go.  We have started having a few cooler days here in the south and believe me these days are really welcome here.  It hasn't been cool enough for the leaves to start turning yet but I'm sure that is just around the corner.  I love Autumn.....in fact Autumn and Spring are my two favorite seasons.  

From the title of my blog post you can see that our new DT challenge this month is a My Bestie image with a pet.  Well I knew right from the start which one of Sherri Baldy's beautiful images I was gonna use.  I have two parrots...PJ my sweet little Cockatiel and then Jabber, my sweet African Grey.  First let me tell you that Jabber is very appropriately named.  Just ask any of my friends who have been around him.  I have to chuckle when I think of a couple parties (Tastefully Simple and Pampered Chef) that I have had and when the consultants started their presentations, well lets just say that Jabber was trying to out talk/jabber them.  It was so funny, 'cause everytime the consultants tried to speak a little louder....well yep, you got it, Jabber just got louder too.  It was hysterical.  Everyone had a good time, even the consultants.   So My Bestie this tiime can be found on Sherri's Etsy shop HERE.   Sherri has some beautiful images with pets so I'm sure you will find an image that just fits you and your pets.    

Now Jabber doesn't really look like this, but in his honor I colored the tail red.   When I look at this, it just reminds me of holding my sweet boy.  :-)  

I used my Faber Castel Polychromo pencils to color with.  I love the soft look you can get with them.  All of my papers came from my stash and thank goodness I had colors to match my image.  I am getting a little better better about picking my papers first and then coloring my images, but I colored this one months ago when I saw what our challenge would be and didn't have a clue what papers I was going to use.  Believe me, it really works better to choose your papers first.  I try to keep telling myself that.  LOL  

My flowers are from Wild Orchard Crafts.  They are my first "go to" flowers all the time.  The round stamp is from Whimsey.  

Be sure and join the My Besties International DT challenge.  We would love to see your beautiful creations and see which "pet" you chose.  You can enter our challenge by clicking HERE

Wanted to include a photo of my boy so you can see Jabber for real.  :-)  

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting my blog.  Please come back again and I would appreciate your comments.  

Have a wonderful September and I will be back next month with a brand new challenge.  

Happy Stamping and Crafting

Many Hugs and Blessings,

Pat

September 1, 2014 - New Aussie DT Challenge

Good Monday morning everyone and welcome to my blog and welcome to September.  Dang we are headed into Autumn very very soon.  I can't believe how quickly this year is passing by.  Hope you all are enjoying beautiful weather where you are.  It has been very sunny and pretty here.  Kinda hot still, but cooler weather is just around the corner for sure.  

Welcome to our new Aussie DT Challenge  - Anything Goes - Using a Bestie and Flowers.  Well that covers two of my most favorite things when I make a card.  Yeppers I love My-Besties and I love my flowers.  So that was a win-win situation for me.  :-)  

My card for this challenge once again served a dual purpose.  One for my design team card and then as a birthday card for a friend of mine who absolutely loves everything Lion.  So I knew immediately that I would use this image for Kaye and for the DT.  She is just adorable and you can find her in Sherri Baldy's Etsy Shop by clicking HERE

Another thing I loved doing with this card is using another of my favorite color combos which is using pinks and browns/tans.  I love her....well what can I say, I love all of Sherri's My Besties images.  :-)  

Supplies used:

MY Bestie Img 182 Click HERE

Cardstock - Close to My Heart

Flowers - Wild Orchid

Dies - Memory Box and Spellbinders

Embossing folders - Provo Craft

Decorative Paper - from my stash. 

Derwent InkTense Pencils

Sure hope you like my cutie pie above and that you will join us for this challenge.  I think everyone loves flowers and of course My Besties, so put your thinking caps on and create a beautiful card for the challenge.  When you do, you can enter the Aussie DT Challenge by clicking HERE

Challenges I am entering:
Anything Goes in  NL Scrapbook Stamp Society

Thank you once again for stopping by and please leave a comment on your visit.  Any questions, I will be happy to try and answer them for you.

Happy Stamping and Many Hugs,

Pat

August 18, 2014 - My-Besties International DT Challenge - Your Favorite Colors

Good  Monday morning my friends. Today is the start of a new challenge for our My Besties International Design Team.  We were able to use some of our favorite color combos and I have so many it was really really hard to decide which combos I wanted to use.  I made this card for a dual purpose, I have a friend who's birthday was coming up and also needed a card for my DT, so I decided to combine for the one card.  I know it is only August and I know that this is a strange design to use for a birthday card, but my friend loves Halloween and this just spoke her name to me and purples and greens are one of her's and  my favorite color combos so I said why not!!!!.  

So for this card I used one of the cutest images from Sherri Baldy's Etsy shop called Trixie Boo and you can find her HERE.

Now don'tcha know that you would love to have a cute little Trixie Boo coming to your home Trick or Treating?  :-)  Who could resist loading her up with all those candy treats you have waiting.  

Supplies Used:

Papers - Close to My Heart

Spellbinders Dies

Cherry Lynn Dies

LaLa Land Craft Dies

Faber Caster Polychromo Pencils

Black Cat - Halloween Confetti Mixture

Hope you like this sweetie and sure hope that you will join us in our challenge.  Please be sure to check out the creations of all our DT members by going to the challenge blog by clicking HERE.

Thank you once again for stopping by and checking out my latest creation for our challenges.  I would so appreciate any comments you would like to leave.  They are all very much appreciated.

So that's all this time, hope you drop in again sometime soon.  

Happy Stamping and Blessings,

Pat

July 21, 2014 - My Besties International DT Challenge - Mermaids

Happy Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to my blog where this week our My Besties International DT challenge is using mermaids.  I have always loved mermaids and it brings back memories of Walt Disney cartoons/movies with mermaids.  It also brings back very old memories of the movie with Darrell Hannah when she played a mermaid.  Man that was a long time ago and I am dating myself for sure.  I am surprised that I can remember the name of the actress but can't remember the name of the movie.  Guess I'm having one of those senior moments.  :-)  

Back to our challenge.  I have chosen one of Sherri Baldy's beautiful mermaids that I got from her Etsy Store.  She is IMG 696 and you can purchase her HERE

I fell in love with this mermaid the minute I saw it.  Hope you like my card below.

The theme of using mermaids just called out to me to use aqua's and greens, so you can see that is what I did.  I also wanted to use something that truly came from the sea, so I found some small seashells and used those instead of using flowers that I usually put on my cards.  Somehow, flowers just didn't seem to fit the challenge.  LOL  

Supplies Used

Memory Box Dies

Derwent InkTense Pencils

Digital Sentiment - Whimsey

Waves and bubbles - JoLees

Papers and aqual rinestones - from  my stash

Corner Punch - Stampin Up

Thank you all once again for visiting my blog and I would encourage you to join us in our challenge of Mermaids.  Sherri has many different ones and I would love to see your beautiful creations using them.  If you would like to join our Bestie International DT challenge you can by clicking HERE

Happy Stamping,

Pat

July 1, 2014 - Monochromatic Challenge Using Light Greens - My Bestie Aussie DT

Oh my gosh, can you believe it is already July.   Where has the time gone??  Well it certainly has flown by that's for sure.  

Well we have a great new challenge on the My-Bestie Aussie DT Blog.  This time it was making a monochromatic card using Light Greens.  I really like monochromatic cards, but sometimes finding just the right colors to use together is certainly a challenge.  :-)  I have chosen to use a sweet image from Sherri Baldy's Etsy shop named Cynthia and you can find her HERE .

  

I used various papers from my paper stash, which I am sure we all have a lot of "stash" like that.  :-)  The dies are from Memory Box and are new.  I loved them and somehow they just found their way in my shopping card at the scrapbook store the other day. LOL .  Flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts, Lace around the bottom is from Wal-Mart (Can you believe that).  I used Derwent InkTense Pencils to color her and used stickles on her wings along with pearls from Stampin Up.  Found a couple of "hat" pins and added that for just a little extra.

Had fun creating this card and hope that you will join us in our challenge this month and also go and take a look at all the lovely cards our talented design team members have created.  If you want to join or just take a look at the other cards, click HERE

Thank you for once again stopping by to visit my blog. Hope you like my card and I would really appreciate any comments you might want to make.  I truly appreciate each and every one of them.  

Happy Stamping and Many Hugs,

Pat

June 27, 2014 - Special My Bestie Aussie DT Blog Hop - Butterflies and Bees in the Spring!!!!

Hey my friends, just dropping by to let you know we have a new and exciting  blog hop starting today and we are "showcasing" some new digis from Sherri Baldy.  The title of our blog hop is Butterflies and Bees in the Spring.  I was given a precious image of a bee and here is my take on the challenge.

Don'tcha just love this sweet image?  I know I do.  If you want her you can find her at Sherri's etsy shop by clicking HERE.  I don't know why, but when I saw the image I knew she just screamed for yellow and aqua papers.  So I looked through my stash and found exactly what I wanted.  I also found in my stash the perfect flowers that were all connected in a row.  How great was that.  :-)  

We would love for you to come join us in this blog hop.  Please visit all the DT members blogs and make a comment.  Also, these precious images do not have names yet and you can have a chance to name them and if your name is chosen, guess what????   You win the digi!!!!!  How cool is that.  So please leave a suggested name in the comments on our blogs.  Good luck and I hope your name is chosen.  :-)  

So let's get started with the hop.  If you are reading my blog first, you will need to click the link below and start on our challenge blog first.  Then follow the list down to make sure you have visited all the blogs. 

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

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

(You are Here) PAT JAYNES  http://www.pjskreativekorner.blogspot.com

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

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

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

PAULINE YATES  http://paulinescardmania.blogspot.com.au/

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

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

BLOG HOP RULES

Make sure you follow these instructions

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 you to become a follower of each Blog

5.       Have Fun!

PRIZES

Once again thank you for joining our blog hop and thank you for stopping by my blog and I ask that you please leave a comment.

Happy Stamping and many hugs going your way,

Pat

June 23, 2014 - Besties World DT Challenge - Summer Days

Good Monday morning my friends.  Hope you all had a wonderful week-end and are looking forward to a great new week.  :-)

Welcome to our new challenge of "Summer Days"......and yep summer has definitely arrived both on the calendar and in the "heat" we are currently having here in South Carolina.  It has been over 90 and near the mid 90 degree weather for about two weeks now, and I am not a fan of very hot weather. My favorite seasons are Spring and Fall.  LOL

When I was deciding which one of Sherri Baldy's adorable images to color for this challenge, I found the absolutely perfect one which to me really says "summer".  Yep sunflowers and all.  I love this image and hope you like her as well as I do.  :-)  The image I used can be found in Sherri's Etsy shop and you can get her by clicking HERE

I did something a little different this time when I started this challenge.  What you say....well I chose my papers first.  LOL  I wish I would get into the habit of doing that for each challenge as it certainly makes life easier than doing it the opposite of coloring first and then looking for the papers.  Not good and it is certainly a time waster by doing it that way.    I had this 6x6 pad of paper for a while and absolutely knew it was what I was going to use.  The whole pad just screams "summer" to me.  :-)  Even down to the tree branches, birds and birdhouses.  

I love easel cards and since there were so many of the design papers I wanted to use, I decided this card had to be an easel.  I think it worked out exactly like I wanted and I loved using the birdhouse paper as showing when the card is standing open.  :-)  

Supplies used:

Grand Spellbinders Dies

Close to My Heart Cardstock

Wild Orchid Crafts (Flowers)

Derwent InkTense Pencils

Memory Box Dies

Stickles

So hope you enjoyed my take on the challenge and that it may inspire you to join us for the challenge.  You can enter your lovely creations by clicking HERE and uploading your cards. 

Entering these challenges:

Craft For the Craic 

Thank you once again for stopping by and please do come again.  I truly truly appreciate your visiting and I so appreciate each time you leave a comment.  I love creating and I hope that you like my projects and that in some way I have inspired you to pull out your images and get your creative juices flowing.

Happy Stamping and Many Hugs,

Pat