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

                                 

STYLISH BLOGGER AWARD

Blogger Award"

And this was given by my wonderful Shirley from nanieflash. Shirley and I have been friends for awhile now we are both on the design team for Cards for Men since it started and I love her dearly, she is from the UK and I want to thank her for this, right Shirley?. This is not my favorite thing to do is pass theses along. I hate not passing them because some people really look forward in getting these awards and if I miss you I’m sorry Please forgive me. Do not forget to post the award on your your blog.

As you can expect to receive this award you've got several rules and these are as follows:-
Step 1 - Make a post linking back to the person who gave you the award!
Step 2 - Share 7 random things about yourself
Step 3 – Award 7 recently discovered bloggers with this award
Step 4 – Contact these bloggers and tell them they’ve won the award

7 random things about me...

1. I hate having to pass these Awards on as its difficult to give it to no more than the Award Allows. (I’m leaving Shirley first #1 right here)

2. I really do not like to cook any kind of food. Many years ago I was a chief at a restaurant here in town it was a pretty fancy place and I was the head cook and I hated it, was so glad when I got out of that job and I sill hate to cook.

3. I LOVE to teach people I guess my calling in life was to be a teacher but I did not know that when it mattered.

4. I love to Bird watch. Birds are very interesting. I could watch them for a long time and enjoy every minute.

5. I also love to garden and grow flower and watch them grow.

6. Pictures, my hubby thinks I’m crazy I love to take pictures of so many things.

7. Help people and animals and I will leave it at that.

That was not easy to do, I can think of lots of things but they are just stupid things.

1. Holly Young http://hogwildaboutstamping.blogspot.com/

2. Helen Dooley http://tomorrowstreasure.blogspot.com/

3. Mandy http://craftyfoxcards.blogspot.com/

4. Stephanie http://stephaniemino.blogspot.com/

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

6. Chelsea http://cjpbcreations.blogspot.com/

7. Vicki http://stampedsmiles.blogspot.com/

I do hope girls you will accept this award and enjoy it. I will be back a little later, I do have a post to do but I wanted to get this done.

Hugs, Patricia