A PARTY AT GILLI’S HOUSE AND EVERYONE IS INVITED.

I’m so EXCITED! and let me tell you why? I was asked to be the GUEST DESIGNER AT THE HOUSE OF GILLI CHALLENGE BLOG!! Everyone is unbelievably nice and so helpful. So if you would like to join in on the challenge just click on the link and it will bring your right over to the blog. The Challenge is GREEN. You do not need to use a Gilli girl stamp but if you do, you get extra points. Their is even more great news they have a store, you can find almost anything but most of all you can find Gilli’s Girls Stamps and they are the best. So if you click right here it will bring you to the store and you can see All Gilli’s Girls Stamps designed by Anary, She even has some NEW ones since the last time I was their, Cowgirl Gilli Stamp, Duty Gilli Stamp and Celtic Gilli Stamp their is even more NEW ones. So I put my order in and if you put your order in you will have a Gilli Girl Stamp and get double points. I’m really happy with the way the Stamps are made. They are red rubber and deeply etched so you get a nice clear image every time. For the door handle, lock and mail slot I used Smooch color Silver.

Here we go, I’m going to try and tell you about my card. It is 5 1/4 inches by 5 1/4 inches. The doors are the same. I made 2 strips for each side 5 1/4 inches long and 3/4 inches wide, then scored each 1/4 inch 3 times. It kind of makes like a hinge so the doors can open and close. I hope you understand. I do have to tell you the doors are a stamp that I found on line and I copied and paste it in Microsoft word so I was able to enlarge the door to the size I wanted then to be. Now if you want to try to make the card, no promises, you need to let me know you want the door so if you leave a comment leave your email address and I will send the doors to you, remember it is in Microsoft word so if you will have a problem with that then it will not open. Also the windows are not cut out I cut the windows out and used Acetate and glued it to the back of the doors and to my surprise the glue did not show after it dried. The glue I used was Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive.

See how nice the Acetate held and you see no glue. You also can so a little of the hinge of the door so you can get an idea.

Here is a picture with the doors wide open so you can see how everything looks. The 2 stamps I used are called Victorian Gilli Stamp she is on the left and Fairy Gilli Stamp is on the right. I did cut Fairy Gilli Stamp wings off because this is a party for just regular people. Copic Markers I used on the doors are E99, E53, E59, E25 and E33.

I do want to tell you about the wreath I have on this door. My really good friend Holly crochets and she will send me some flowers and last time she sent me these shamrocks. What a perfect place to put then. So I made a little wreath and put a little metal bow on the front with some scrappers floss colors line and green to tie everything together. I do want to say a BIG THANK YOU AGAIN TO HOLLY BECAUSE I LOVE ALL THE THINGS SHE SENDS. I have Arthritis in my hands and I can not crochet anymore. That why I say Thank God for Copics.

Her Wallpaper is from Made by Memory Box paper called Brioche. I think Gilli did a wonderful job fixing up her house for her party. I did use copic markers. On Victorian Gilli she is the one on the left for her dress the copic I used are G20, YG63 and YG67. Her hair E35, YR20 and YR21 and skin E11,E02, E00 and R21. Then for Fairy Gilli Her dress G00, G02 and G05. Her hair E11, E15 and E17. I added some dots on her dress with At You Spica Pen color Olive.

This is a button I found. I thought it would look nice as a wall ornament. I punched out a small shamrock and put it on the button and added some Stickles glitter glue color green. Sorry I do not know who made the punch, no name on the punch.

Here is the table of course. I punched out two Color Crayons it is a punch from Emagination for the legs of the table. Cut some card stock in half at an angle and added some 1/4 inch Christmas ribbon for the edge. Punched out another shamrock on the tablecloth to help it look festive.

Yes we have to have something on the table. What better then flowers. I made then with Flower Soft. Colors yellow/orange, yellow,light blue and purple. The leaves are from Martha Steward punch called Frond.

Here are the close ups of the girls. I hope you enjoyed my card and thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone has a wonderful week end.

Challenges:

Allsorts- Luck of the Irish

ECP challenge- GREEN

Telln's Place-St Patrick's Day

Raise the Bar- Create your own Green

Fairy Knoll- St Patrick's Day

Fairly Fun Friday- It's my Party

If the Shoe fits Scrap it- St Patrick's Day

Delicious Doodles- Use Green

Cards Cupids- Green

Hugs, Patricia

Mighty Kid wants to be like Super Man

I made this card awhile ago but I thought I would post it today as I have a little while before I will go to the hospital. I’m sorry I have not posted anything but I have been a little busy with my son Kurt he is only 38 and he has been pretty sick for awhile. He went in on Monday and had surgery. They had to remove a part of his colon (it not cancer) he had some large plops that has grown on his colon. See he thinks he is super man. They are cause by a person lifting very heavy things. Let me tell you about my wonderful son (things I did not know when the my guys where younger) No one would ever pick on Kurt’s brothers because everyone new that they where Kurt’s brothers and if they did Kurt would always take care of the problem. The boys where known as The St Martin’s boys is that not nice. How things get pass Mothers. On the other side of Kurt he is a very loving person. All my friends just love him, when he see my friends he will gives everyone a kiss and a hug. He is a very caring person but do not get him really mad. If you do not want to read all of this just skip over but it is kind of nice talking about him and if her new oh well I’m his Mom I can do things like this and he loves me very much.

One day it was summer he was coming home from work he was 17 years old and it was pretty late and we could hear someone yelling, What’s the matter with you? You do not hit a woman! Ladies I will help you leave. I will beat the shit out of you if you hit her again. I look at my husband and he looked at me and it sure sounded like Kurt and we both got up and went outside. So my husband went over to find out and I asked the lady if she wanted me to call the police and she said no that she was going to leave. The guy was so drunk, Kurt told him to go and sleep it off and he came home with his Dad. You never hit a woman we have always told our sons and our three sons will never do that. I could go on and on their are so many other stories. Kurt is really strong and not afraid of anything so now with the surgery he is going to have to take it easy or we will tie him done. ha ha. He is in the National Guard for the Army and he also works for the Army but he does all computer work so that is good.

About my card this is one of Mo manning images. He is such a cutie. He is called “Superduper Boy”. If you I added some brads the stars, ball and cars. It is colored with all copic markers.

Thanks for stopping.

Hugs, Patricia

I have the Versatile Bloggers Award

 

Oh Wow! What a wonderful surprise today. Thank You So Much. Award is from Ezra Taft Benson from Indiana. You are so kind to send this award to me. She is The Hoosier Stamper. So if you click on the Award you will go to The Hoosier Stamper blog. Now this is what you need to do when you get this Award. The main purpose of this award is to bring to life bloggers who are creative, make wonderful creations, but have less than 300 followers. Also I sent some time on Ezra blog and seen all the wonderful creations she has made and read some about her life so it is a nice way to get to know some of our blog friends that are out in this busy world. Now I have to think of all the wonderful friends I’m going to give this Award too. I know how happy they are all going to be.

1. Thank the person who sent you this blog.
2. List 7 things about yourself
3. Send this to 15 bloggers:

1 http://ambersantics.blogspot.com/ Amber

2 http://janeyscards.blogspot.com/ Jane

3 http://kittyskrafty.blogspot.com/ Kitty

4 http://nanaskeepsakes.blogspot.com/ Kym

5 http://cardsbylinda.blogspot.com/ Linda

6 http://thejoyofcards.blogspot.com/ Marie

7 http://wishcraftcards.blogspot.com/ Lisa

8 http://allidoisstamp.blogspot.com/ Vicki

9 http://the-purple-place.blogspot.com/ Lisa

10 http://dragonllew.blogspot.com/ Jenny

11 http://creativeaddictionsbysara.blogspot.com/ Sara

12 http://paulineguttrey.blogspot.com/ Pauline

13 http://chocolatecraftsandbearsohmy.blogspot.com/ Carol

14 http://paynehollercards.blogspot.com/ Linda

15 http://scrappypug.blogspot.com/ Carla

 

Here are the seven things about myself.

1. I love the color green in all shades.

2. I have 3 wonderful grand children Isaiah her will be 13 on March 31, Aiden he turned 9 on January 15 and Emma she will be 6 years old in September. Now we have Emma and she is a GIRL….. Thank God he still makes girls.

3. My Father had three brother, My Mother had two Brothers, I have two brothers Robert and Bill, I have three sons David, Kurt and Robert. So when I was born it was nice I was a GIRL….. I always wanted a sister.

4. I’m retired and I love being retired.

5. My girlfriend tell me that I’m the embellishments queen. I do love to embellish cards.

6. I have a lot of girlfriends and I should not say a lot because a person can never have to friends.

7. I LOVE sharing all the things I know with my friends.

Hugs, Patricia

Verity is ready for St Patty’s Day

Here is some of my new images I got from Sugar Nellie. I love her images, This little girl is called Verity but this is just her head you can get her hole body and I did. I can not wait to start coloring her also. I want to color so many images and stamps that I could color all day and night and never color all of them. That is ok, I love designing and creating cards so much it is my passion. I remember when I was a little girl and I would color a page in my coloring book I would always have to do just so because whatever I was coloring would not come alive until I had it colored perfect. Like the face they could not take a breath until I had their face all done and it had to to just so. I guess I was a little strange! I went around her face to frame it in with ribbon, their also is two different types of ribbon behind her and on top and bottom. I used designer paper for the background from DCWV (Die Cuts with a View). I used Cuttlebugs Swiss Dots and embossed the strips I laid some of the ribbon on.

I used Nillie Snellen Punches to create the flowers. Martha Stewart punches, Branch, Frond, Autumn Branch, McGill Large Branch and Marvy Uchida punch for the middle of the flowers.

Here is her close up. I started using E35,E34,YR20 and YR21 for her hair and I was not happy with the color of her hair with her skin tone do I added E11 only where I had the YR20 and YR21 very lightly and I so happy with the color it turned out to be. She look like a natural red head. I have 4 natural red heads in my family and that is what their hair looks like. For her skin I used E13, E11 and E00.
Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy Verity, she is a pretty girl.
Challenge
Really Reasonably Ribbon- Green Theme March 15
Gilli Challenge- Green
Hugs, Patricia

Blueberry Girl

We have a challenge this week at For Fun Challenges and it started March 2 and ends March 8. It is a color challenge this week Purple,green and Gold (yellow). I’m not a gold person so I did not know we could of used yellow instead, so what do I know. This is one of Mo Manning images and it is called “blueberry girl”. Now remember you need to upload your card to For Fun Challenges.

I used purple beads for the blueberries. I thought it gave them more life them laying their flat.

As you can see the blueberries are falling and these are the flowers I did not make. I do say they look a little blue but they are purple.

Here is the close up of the little girl. She is so cute. I colored with copic markers. Used a template to create the sky (clouds) background.

Challenges;

Thanks for stopping.

Hugs, Patricia

A Valentines Card from my Dad

I made this card for a friends (man) daughter for Valentines day. She is 12 years old, so I asked him a couple of questions about her trying to figure out what kind of a young lady she is. What is her favorite color, is she a Daddy girl, is their anything she loves to do? As you would know Dad do not know anything. One thing I found out is she is not a sweet little Daddy girl so I showed him this image and he said perfect. This is an image from The Stamping Boutique store. The image is called KK. When I’m just making a card no problem but when I’m getting paid to make a card I want the card to be very nice and for sure I want the person to like it but when I do not know the person it is really hard. I have know ideas about her. Her father said to me just make your magic, and I said Oh thanks! So I wanted to make it special one she would not be able to buy at the store. So I though a step card that is different and most girls like purple she is a little to old for pink, so purple it will be.  

This is the left side view. I sure hope she was not a tomboy. So I added some purple and white flowers and the leaves are ribbon. I had some more of my beaded hearts, they look pink but they are a little more lavender.

On the right side I found some heart embellishments in shades of lavender and light lavender so I glued them on. I had a charm that had the word LOVE on it so I put a fishing line one it and hung it from a brad. I also found some purple heart brads. I put a ribbon a long the front and tied a bow. So now I find out that The latte Lounge is having a challenge for a Card from The Stamping Boutique with an image made with flowers that ends March 3, so I think I will enter her. I do not know why, I never win anyway but I will try. They also have another one going on At The Stamping Boutique Challenge Blog that is a month challenge and you make a card with one of their images and you can enter that challenge, WOW!!!

Here is the close up. I used copic markers to color. I do need to tell you she loved her card, her Dad told me she took it to school to school and had to show all her friends.. I was so glad.

Thanks for stopping.

Hugs, Patricia

Having Fun

It is time for Cards for Men Challenge. Our theme for this time is “WATER”, you need to make a card that has something to do with water and that would be for a man. My images is called “ Trevor Turtle”. So I have him floating in some water and I did color the background with my copics and I put Diamond Glaze from Judi Kins, them I put some white Liquid Applique’ to make a wave affect. Remember when you get your card done you need to upload it the Cards for Men Challenge Blog.

Start date: 28th February 2011
End date: 13th March 2011
Theme: Water
Sponsor: Hope Jacare
web: http://stitchybearstamps.com/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=1_68
Prize: 3 images of your choice.
Blurb: I'm a SAHM with three young children. I trained in Textile Design at the Glasgw School of Art and I love all things handmade, but especially paper crafts. I love to doodle ... and my doodles are available to purchase as digital images through Stitchy Bear Stamps.
Logo:

Here is a little closer look, I also added some Diamond Glaze to the turtle belly, eyes, feet nails and hand nails (I think that is what you would call them).

I do not know if it helped I did cut the turtle out and made my so called water and then tried to make some waves and then laid the turtle on top.

Thanks for stopping. I hope you had a wonderful week end. It just started snowing here not sure how many inches we are going to get but I sure am tired of looking at snow. The snow is the real big fluffy flakes that are real pretty. I hope you have a wonderful week.

Challenges.

Sentimental Sundays- Anything Challenge #44

Hugs, Patricia

Maisy and her Easter Basket

We are starting a new challenge at Squigglefly starting today Feb 28 and ends March 6. The challenge is to USE YOUR SCRAPES. Not a problem on my end I have lots of scraps and I'm sure a lot of us do. My image is from Squigglefly it is called “Easter Basket Maisy” and was created by Diane Carubia. If you would like to see the other images you can click here on it will bring you to the store. My little girl is colored with copic markers. I added some ribbon, metal dots, and a butterfly sticker. Here is the close up.

I think she is so cute. I did the background a little different this time. I dotted my copic markers all over until I was happy with what it looked like.

Thanks for stopping.

Hugs, Patricia

We had club last night and I want to share the cards.

 

We had Club last night we had for our challenge to make something using only black and white. This is not my favorite thing because I love colors so much but ok. This is what I made, it is called THE BOX and I’m going to show you how to make this BOX.  I want to share with you what the other girls made, all their cards turned out beautiful and I’m going to try and keep this short.

This one here Chris made. The paper was just beautiful.

This one is Lee’s card. She always teasing me because she calls this a Pat’s card. I love to embellish my cards and Lee said she had a Pat moment. I just love her, we have so much fun. She did a beautiful job.. She is also my best fan….

  

Here is Kathy card. I do have to tell you she stamped her card with celery ends. Turned out wonderful. Kathy is very creative.

Here is Jo’s card. Wonderful job, I love it. Jo is very new at stamping and she does a fantastic job.

Here is another one Chris did.. We go to Chris’s house once every month. She has a craft room in her basement to die for. You could live in it. She has everything you need. We all bring food and we are their for the entire day and most of the evening.

After we make our cards we always have some kind of project to do each one of us takes our turn. It was Kathy turn this month so this is what we learned how to do. I’m not going to get into how to do them but if you are interested I can do an How to in another post just let me know, because if your are not then I will not do them.

 

These are so easy to make and where a lot of fun to do.

Most of the girls are a lot faster them I am because I am too fussy and I drive them crazy.

They got done a lot more them I did but that is fine. Now on the top you can see I used some of them on my box, they sure look pretty and if you make them smaller you can put them on cards. So we had a really good time together, we always do.

Thank you for stopping by. Have a wonderful week. Now I’m going to show you How to make the BOX.

Hugs, Patricia