October 13, 2014 - Besties Challenge #21 Bling it up

Happy Monday!!!!  Hope you all had a great week-end and getting ready for the new week.  Well we hope that you will take time to join us in our new My Bestie World DT Challenge.  The theme of the challenge this time is "Bling It Up". Starting today for two weeks, you have the opportunity to enter our BLING IT UP challenge and  possibly win some great prizes.  

 Now....who doesn't like bling???  Well I love bling.  As I keep telling all my friends, the older I get the "gaudier and glitzier" I get.  Now I know those aren't real words, but hey they work for me.  LOL   So get those images and start coloring.  I want to see all  your lovely creations.  

The image I chose for this challenge is called Making Faces Cupcake and you can find her in Sherri Baldy's Etsy shop by clicking HERE

All supplies used were items I had in my stash and I certainly had a lot of "bling".  Even the butterfly had bling.  :-)  I used my distressed inks to color.  

Now don't forget to enter our challenge for a chance to win some great prizes.  You can enter by clicking HERE.  

Thank you all so much for stopping by again and I would love it you would leave comments.  They are all read and truly appreciated.  Until next month.  

Many hugs and blessings,

Pat

  

October 1, 2014 - Anything goes with a Bestie

Good day my friends.  Today is the day for our new My Besties Aussie DT challenge Anything Goes with a Bestie.  I just love this cute image and I decided to once again pull out my Distressed Ink Mini Pads and color her with them.  It has been a few months since using the distressed inks, and once I got into the coloring again I wondered why I stopped.  Well guess I just like to use a multitude of mediums.  :-)  I truly need to get back to my Copics, so you may be seeing something colored with them really soon.

I chose a beautiful image that is available on Create and Craft TV.

Well once again, I colored my image first and then went looking for the papers.  I was surprised at how quickly they all came together and felt pretty good about them.  :-)

I pulled out my Distressed Inks Mini pads and colored the image using a watercolor technique.

Hope you all like the card and once again invite you to join us in our Aussie DT challenge.  You can find the challenge by clicking HERE

Thank you all for stopping by and I hope your weather is as beautiful as it is here in South Carolina, USA.  Our leaves are beginning to turn and oh how I love autumn.

Happy stamping and blessings to all,
Pat

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