{toot, toot!!}

Hello to all my fabulous bloggin' friends!!!

I have a fun bit of news to share!

I am excited to join the Party Time Tuesdays new design team!! :)

The gig starts the first Tuesday in January 2011.

Hope you will all come on over to PTT and make some birthday cards with us!

Here is the card I submitted to try and grab a DT spot ~

{happy birthday to you}

...and as long as I'm sharing the above Imaginisce Birthday Bash card, why not share a lo I made of my nephew, Conner's birthday bash? :) :) I so love this line...but I promise I will try not to use it on every card for the next 6 months. haha!!

{conner's party} {Tell me this kid is not a total doll. He is such a good boy too!!}

I'm looking forward to having some card making fun with the PTT girls and you!

Thanks for coming by my blog! Hope you have a super great day!!!

hugs, patti

{party time tuesdays!}

{happy birthday 2 u}

Party Time Tuesdays challenge #24 is to make a birthday card and use some balloons. I got out my felt and free hand cut a couple of balloons, then I machine stitched them to add a little pizazz. {LOL Cassie!}

{materials - bazzill base, fancy pants & jillibean soup pp, jillibean journal spot, Stampendous b'day stamp, olive green staz-on, felt, offray ribbon, misc. buttons & dmc.}

You should stop by Party Time Tuesdays for some fun birthday card challenges!!

Ton of inspiration from the PTT girls!!

happy birthday card creating,

patti :) :) :)

{a star ornament!}

Thank you Sarah, for your blog tutorial on making a star shaped ornament!! I loved yours {so much!} that I made one as soon as I got of bed this morning. :) :)

Wasn't sure how scoring and bending a hambly overlay would go...but it went fine and the star stayed bent and really...I love how it turned out!

{materials - hambly overlay, maya road red trim, cream trim, prima flower, K&co. chip sticker, bazzill leaves misted w/olive glimmer mist & maya road stick pins. I used fabri-tac to hold it all together.}

The hubs and I are just back from picking out our Christmas tree today. I plan to decorate it tonight. Thank you for coming by my blog. Hope you are having a pleasant Saturday!! :)

hugs, patti

{eat, bake, love}

I started out thinking that I would give this wall hanging to my friend Margie for Christmas. She and I began baking together when we were only 11 years old. Our older sisters were friends and that's how we met. We are all still friends today - and Margie and I were 11 years old 39 years ago. Crazy, I say!!

Anyway, now I want to keep it. J/K!! LOL!!!! I will give it to Margie...but I really would love it for myself. :)

Materials - Maya Road chip piece, MF pp, For the Luv of Art pp, chip & stickers. Prima letter stickers - inked w/TH vintage photo ink. I chose this color because I thought it was the closest to a golden cookie's edge. I zig zag stitched the letters down too. The crackled, glittered heart was a pink one by HS that I altered. Pearls are Prima, buttons FP. Ek border punch, DMC & jute.

Thanks for coming by my blog! If you have a wall hanging project -- hook me up with a link because I'd love to come visit your blog and see. :)

Have a warm & happy day!

hugs, patti

{faith, hope, love}

...and the greatest of these is love.

For this card, I combined two challenges ~

Twisted Sketches #36 & The Paper Variety tic tac toe.

Card Supplies ~ Bazzill base, black bazzill embossed & scalloped cs, BG Jovial pp, Nestabilities Labels Eight, Technique Tuesday letter stamps, Inkadinkado spray mist, MS baker's twine & MME pretty red brad.

For the bird, I traced a chipboard bird by 7 Gypsies onto the black embossed cs and cut him out. The felt trim is by Offray.

Thanks to both the Twisted Sketches girls and to The Paper Variety girls!!

Hope today is a good one for all!! :)

hugs, patti

My Blog Give-Away Winner!!!

The winner of the "because I'm grateful blog give-away" is.........
can you hear the drum roll?.............
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my friend, the super talented,

pamala!!!!

pamala commented~ "I have been a follower, cause you are faboo! :) I would definitely love it all, but my fav would be the Bazzill 45 cards and envies. WAHOOOOOO!!!! I am totally addicted to card making, and love that I can squeeze in time to do so even when life is crazy busy. Thank goodness! ty for the fab chance, and good luck to everybody."
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I had so much fun with this give-away!!! Back in the day, we used to send out RAKs to each other. I had not sent a RAK in ages. It really feels good to pack up this prize and be sending it out to one of my scrappy friends. And this one is going to Michigan - home to those fabulous Detroit Red Wings!! haha!

Super psyched for you, Pam!!!!! :) :) :)

I'll leave you all with some quotes that I find inspiring ~

In daily life we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but gratefulness that makes us happy.
{Brother David Steindl-Rast}

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Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
{William Arthur Ward}
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You cannot be grateful and bitter.
You cannot be grateful and unhappy.
You cannot be grateful and without hope.
You cannot be grateful and unloving.
So just be grateful.
{Author Unknown}

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Thanks to all who had fun with me during this give-away. I am grateful for every one of you!! {Note - the original post states I would run it for 2 weeks, but we're getting closer to the holidays and I didn't want to wait any longer.}

xo, patti

{party time tuesdays!}

{for you - HAPPY BIRTHDAY}

Challenge #23 @Party Time Tuesdays is to make a birthday card of your choice.

I used the most cute Imaginisce Birthday Bash line to make my card. Started w/a bazzill base and attached a scalloped edge white bazzill piece to the back of the card. Added b'day bash pp, offray red ribbon, a b'day bash chip piece and a sentiment cut from pp.

MM paint was applied to the gcd chip buttons. Once dry, I shined 'em up w/glossy accents and then stitched some DMC through their centers.

I also finished the inside of this card w/a little popped up, b'day gift - cut from pp and embossed for some added sparkle. The heart shaped brad is by MM.

{close-up of the inside}

Thanks for coming by my blog and thanks to the PTT girls!!! :) :)

hugs, patti