3 lay-outs, 4 cards and a coaster!!!

Holy crap, I have not scrapped this much in months & months!!! Had the BEST TIME @Citrus Tree Studio this week-end {thanks to the entire DT & Cindy!}. I only went outdoors once all week-end and that was to get the mail. LOL!!! The hubs called these past 48 hours "a scrap-a-palooza". :) :)

I'm not going to put everything on my blog from this week-end. Instead I'm just going to post my favorite cards which were a challenge by Rita. A very simple challenge. We needed to make a set of 3 cards and use cs, pp, ribbon, a large embellie & a sentiment.

I went with Christmas cards and used this fun Crate pp ("chimney" is from last year; "festive" is from 2010). I mixed them up, kept it simple and came up with these.

{Crate pp, chip, sticker, stampin' up stamp, stickles & offray ribbon}

{Crate pp, chip, stickles, Fancy Pants stamp, & offray ribbon}
{Crate pp, chip, sticker, Inkadinkado stamp & offray ribbon}

I swear, one could put offray ribbon on a ratty paper bag and it would make it pretty. I {love} offray ribbon!!!

Thanks for coming by! Have a great week!! :)

rock on.

...just another birthday card that I made using the fun Fancy Pants "it's your day" line.

PP, a very fun rub-on, offray ribbon, thickers, a FP sparkly button, and some chip stars covered w/Martha Stewart micro beads complete this rockin' card. {haha!}

thanks for lookin'!

p.s. on-line crop starts this morning at Citrus Tree Studio!! The DT girls have really fun challenges (I can tell from the sneak peeks) in store. :)

party time tuesdays challenge #17!

The challenge this week at Party Time Tuesdays is to make a birthday card - your choice, anything goes. What scrapper doesn't love that freedom to create? I know I do.

This past week-end, I bought some Fancy Pants "it's your day" line. So, so cute!! For this card, I used the FP pp, rub-on & sticker. After putting it together, I added some handstitching. The card was finished w/Queen & Co. sunflower pearls and light green jute. :)



Thanks, PTT girls, for the fun challenge. I'm loving your site!

melonie's sketch challenge @ citrus tree studio

I used Mel's sketch @CTS for this lo - yosemite.

Last month, Tom (the hubs of almost 26 years) and I flew into Sacramento for a ten day California driving adventure. And adventure it was! Scary at times driving into & around Yosemite...scary (at times) driving along Big Sur & the coast....but always, always spectacular! California is such a beautiful state and I am so glad that I got to see it. :)

For the yosemite lo, I used Coredinations cs and Pink Paislee pp.

Citrus Tree Studio is having a crop this coming week-end. Challenges & prizes galore. :) :) :)

party time tuesdays!

Party time Tuesdays blog challenge this week is to make a Fall themed birthday card.

Right away I thought of this Cosmo Cricket pp. I cut the leaf, did a little backstitch, and then mounted it on a piece of chipboard. The Chatterbox chip piece underneath is ancient - I embossed it for some sparkle. The sentiment rub is Basic Gray, pearls are Queen & Co. Not sure if you can tell from the photos, but I crimped the CC pp.

Thanks, party time girls, for the fun card challenge!

Happy Fall, everyone! (We don't say "y'all" way up here.) :) :) :)

...a challenge.

Hi all my bloggin' friends!

Yesterday I saw my friend Jan's blog that has the easiest, you-can-do-it-challenge posted.

She is part of the Party Time Tuesday's design team. The challenge is to make a birthday card.



This morning, I made my first card in 5 months. Yay, right? :)



Feeling a little bit rusty...but how can you not love this prima paper? I took the easy route and started with the prettiest piece of pp in my stash. The flower is prima, chip piece is 7 Gypsies, stamp is Inkadinkado. I added a little bit of zig zag stitching, and some buttons & twine.




Thanks Jan and Party Time Tuesday's girls for helping me to get back into the swing of things!

Citrus Tree Studio Kit Reveal!

It's the fifth of the month people...that means kit reveal day over at CTS! There are two kits available to purchase this month - both of them so fun and fabulous!!

The kit I worked with is "Fifth Avenue". Fun Bazzill combined w/Pink Paislee Cottage Bayberry pp & die cuts, PP resin frames, vintage blinged up buttons, AC fabric green letters, PP letter stickers, etc. - it's a versatile, classy kit - and at $29., it is deal on wheels! :)

My first lo is my favorite. Let me preface it by telling you that neither one of my adult sons enjoy getting their photos taken. They started getting shy and uncooperative about it a couple of years ago. {I'm hoping they grow out of it!}

Anyway, this is the only photo I have of our youngest son on his 21st birthday, this past April.

The journaling on this lo is straight from my heart. I love this kid to pieces and I'm telling you...he is going to make some young lady the BEST CATCH. He needs to work on his tolerance skills ;) - but he loves with his whole heart. :)

(most proud)

For my second lo, I used pics from my Relay for Life's night of cosmic bowling. Who knew it would be so hard to get decent pics in the dark w/strobe lights? LOL! I had not been bowling (real bowling I mean, w/out the bumpers), for 20 years! I found my bowling ball in the basement closet, dusted it off and out we went. Had a couple of beers and a blast. :)

cosmic bowling
...and of course I needed to make a card using a PP resin frame and a blingalicious Bazzill button!

I painted the frame w/black MM paint and glimmered it up w/frost Glimmer mist. The prima got a bit of mist as well, the center pp piece is cut out and popped up.

Thank you for stopping by to see my CTS creations!

Scrap on, patti :)