Get Well Ladybug

Well...Some BAD news and some GOOD news.  First, my 5 year old computer crashed on Sunday and it was a sad day as I didn't back up all my files, but just some of them and pretty much lost everything.  All my digi's are now gone except for the Designed2Delight ones that I happened to backup on my external hard drive a couple of weeks ago.  So the only other digi's I have left are the ones that I had already printed.  But, life goes on and I wasn't about to give up on my computer and on Monday after a lot of thought, I spent the entire afternoon on the phone with a Dell Tech and now....my computer is like brand new.  I lost everything and have to start fresh, but my computer is running like brand new.  I am happy and thankful to the Dell tech that revived my computer and brought it back from the computer graveyard.  So even though it started out bad, it ended up being a very good thing :)

Now on to my card.

 "Little Ladybug"

I have had this adorable digi, "Little Ladybug" by Whimsy & Stars Studio colored for some time and waiting to be made into a card.  It seems that I never have a get well card when I need one. Now, I have one in my stash ready to be sent.  I used Glossy Accents on the center of the flower and the ladybug's spots and a white gel pen for the highlights on her cheeks.  It's hard to tell from the photo, but there is a black and red button layered in the center of the crocheted flower.  I kept the card simple to showcase the adorable image.

Recipe:

Stamps - "Little Ladybug" (Whimsy & Stars Studio). Sentiment (Innkadinkado)

Paper - The Goods, Rudolph (American Crafts)

Coloring - Copics

Misc - Martha Stewart edge punch, crocheted flower, buttons, floss, Glossy Accents, Rectangle dies (Spellbinders)

Challenges: 

Heart Song Inspirations - Buttons and/or Brads 

Kaboodle Doodles - It's all about Girls 

My Craft Spot - Anything Goes 

Pollycraft - Favourite Things (that would be ladybugs!)

The Hybrid Chick Card Caravan Challenge - Punches/Dies

Crazy 4 Challenges - Layer it On 

Make It Colourful - Shade with Reds

Mark's Finest Papers - 4 Layers

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle Saturdays - Anything Goes 

Crafts 4 Eternity - Clean and Simple 

Fussy and Fancy - Polka Dots 

Happy Day to You!

~pat~

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Pansy Birthday

"Love Blooms"

Today, I am featuring a Whipper Snapper stamp that was created by Faith (Designed 2 Delight, designer) that is called, "Love Blooms".  It's a sweet little pot of flowers.  Living in the south, pansies are prevalent all winter long.  I plant mine in the fall and watch them bloom all winter long, but when the hot weather appears, they start fading away.  

I went with the pansy color scheme for my flowers.  I am loving the combo of the gingham paper with the polka dot ribbon and the addition of the eyelet lace border.  The finishing touch was the little felt flower brad. Once the image was colored, the card was pretty quick and easy to put together. 

I made this special little card for one of my favorite Aunts that will be turning 82 on Saturday.  Not being able to celebrate her birthday with her this year, I am sending her a little card and some yummy chocolate goodies.  Who doesn't love a little chocolate on their birthday? 

Challenges:
Moving Along With The Times - Blooming Marvellous
Paper Crafting Journey - Floral 
Little Darlings Challenges - Polka Dots 
My Mum's Craft Shop - Flowers 
Ladybug Crafts Ink TLT - Bows
Birthday Sundaes - Birthday Card w/ birthday sentiment

~pat~

 

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Love Bear

Working on my stash of Valentine cards.  I came across this adorable image, "Love Bear 1" by Bugaboo and couldn't resist making a Valentine card.  Pretty clean and simple card and hopefully, mail friendly!  I used a black glaze pen to color in the bear's nose. I think that I will need to make a few more cards using this image.

Recipe:

Stamps:  Love Bear 1 (Bugaboo), Sentiment (Inkadinkado)

Paper - Ka Zoo Collection (K & Co.)

Coloring - Copics

Misc - Oval dies, crocheted flower, floss, black glaze pen, Arrow heart border punch (SU!)

Challenges:

Creative Card Crew - Seeing Red 

Heart Song Inspirations - Red and White and/or Ribbon 

Stamps R Us - Just Kiddin' Around 

The Pink Elephant - Photo Inspiration 

There She Goes Clear Stamps - Love is in the Air

Stamp, Scrap and Doodle - Have a Heart

The Poodles Parlour - Valentine /Love Challenge 

Craft Us Crazy - Valentine/Love and /or Animals 

Happy Day to You!

~pat~

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Designed2Delight January Reveal Blog Hop

 It’s the January Reveal of our NEW Release of digital stamps, and digital designer papers.  We are having a Design Team Blog Hop to show off all the new, cute images.

You should have arrived here from Debbie's Blog.  If not, here is the beginning.

Just to let you know this is going to be a long post as I have 6 different designs to share with you.  I am not going to go into detail on each one.

"Lovebug's Heart String" and "Pure Love" DDP

 "Precious Gift" and " Pure Love" DDP

"Lucky Dog" and "Pure Love" DDP

Inside of "Lucky Dog"

"Garden Friends"

"Bloomin' Buttons"

"Snowman Valentine"

I hope you stuck with me until the bottom of this post.  If you didn't start at Delightful Inspirations, go there and see the links to all the other Design Team designs with all the new images. There is a surprise for you, too and it's only good for 24 hours.  Your next stop is KIM.

If you have any questions about any of my cards, please let me know.  I didn't go into great detail on each of the card.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

~pat~

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Snow Friends Thank You

I used the same digi, Snow Friends by Whimsie Doodles for my Christmas Thank You notes that I used on my Christmas cards.  Once again, I kept the design on the simple side.  It's a fun digi to color and mass produce.  I went with a blue theme instead of red, like I did on my Christmas cards and just changed out the sentiment.  Of course, I had to add a little snowflake with a blue brad in the middle.  Well, here we are in the middle of January and I am staying on my "stay organized" plan.  So far, so good!

Recipe:

Stamps - Snow Friends (Whimsie Doodles), All Holidays (SU!)

Paper - The Paper Studio

Coloring - Copics

Misc - Black ink, Snowflake, brad, Square and Lacy Square dies (Spellbinders)

Challenges:

Creative Stamp Friends - Winter

Crafty Cardmakers - No Floral Embellishments

Kaboodles Doodles - Baby It's Cold Outside

My Craft Spot - Winter Wonderland

There She Goes Clear Stamps - Back to Nature

Di's Digi Designs - Thank You

Fussy and Fancy - Let It Snow

Stuck On U Sketches - Winter Fun Die Cuts

Sarah Hurley Challenges - Giving Thanks/Thank You

Sisterhood of Crafters - Let It Snow

Scrapbook Sisters - Snow

Thanks for stopping by!

~pat~

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Delightful Inspiration Saturday Challenge

It's Saturday and that means...the last Saturday DT Challenge for Delightful Inspiration.  I am the host this week and since today is exactly one month until Valentine's Day, I chose "hearts" as the challenge.  It's time to get started making Valentine cards, gifts, etc...

"Cupcake Love Ya"

This is a simple, mass-producible card and it is also, mail friendly.  I just love this digi and it's so quick and easy to color.  I just added some DP and a doily that you can find in the baking aisle.  You should be able to find them easily this time of year with all the Valentine displays that popped up overnight as soon as Christmas Day was over.

Recipe:

Stamps - Cupcake Love Ya

Paper - Trick or Treat Polka Dots (The Paper Studio)

Coloring - Copics

Misc - Doily, Glossy Accents

Challenges:

Drunken Stampers - Love

Pixie Dust Studio - Put Your Heart Into It

I Brake For Challenges - I Brake for Simple!

I couldn't stop at one and used a retired digi.

"Simple Valentine"

I paper-pieced the heart-flower, added some DP, scalloped borders, stitching, buttons and ribbon to a premade Cricut tag.

I used the Heart Blocks EF on the card base.

Recipe:

Stamps - Simple Valentine (D2D), Greetings (Heidi Grace)

Paper - Ka Zoo Collection (K & Co.)

Coloring - Copics

Misc - Buttons, floss, Scallop border punch (SU!), Tag (Cricut George), Hole reinforcer, ribbon, Heart Blocks EF (Provo Craft)

Challenges:

Pixie Dust Studio - Put Your Heart Into It

Paper Play - In Stitches

The Pixie Cottage - Sketch and/or Stitching

Hop on over to the Delightful Inspiration Blog and check out some more "heart" projects and play along with us with a chance to win a free digi of your choice.

Thanks for stopping by!

~pat~

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Try It Tuesday

Delightful Inspiration is full of changes for 2011 and one of them is the "Try It Tuesday" post.  Today's theme was altering a food container.  I couldn't resist making something fun for Valentine's Day.

I started with a Quaker Oats container and ended up with this...

1. Measure the height and diameter of your container.

2.  Cut DP to fit and attach with "Sticky Tape" or "Red Line Tape".  You want your DP and embellishments to stay attached.

3.  Decorate as desired with border punches, ribbon, etc...

4.  Select an appropriate digi or stamp, color and decorate as desired, attach to the container.  I used "Love Ya Cupcake".  It was perfect for Valentine's Day.

5.  Measure the lid and attach DP or card stock paper.  I used a circle die cut that was the same size as the lid. Decorate as desired.  I used a homemade felt flower that was made with 5 circles of felt of graduating sizes, sewn together and attached.

I love how the top of the oatmeal box fits snug.  I can't wait to fill it with lots of Valentine's treats and give it to someone special.

Hop on over to the Delightful Inspiration Blog and check out some more great altered food container  ideas.

Recipe:

Stamps -Love Ya Cupcake (D2D)

Paper - Ka Zoo Collection (K & Co.), Anna Griffin

Coloring - Copics

Misc - Ribbon (American Crafts), Liquid Applique, felt, Apron Lace border punch (Fiskars), Circle die cuts (Spellbinders)

Thanks for stopping by!

~pat~

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Winter Flowers

Delightful Inspiration's Design Team Saturday Challenge

Theme:  Winter Flowers

"Poinsettia"

I guess, Winter Flowers depends on where you live.  In Alabama where I live it would be pansies.  They bloom all winter long, but I decided to go with the Poinsettia.  It reminds me of the holidays and winter.  I went a little different direction and colored mine blue.  The DP (some really old stuff from The Paper Studio) reminded me of snowflakes and snow swirling around.  I kept my card clean and simple and wanted the flower to be the main focal point. 

Hop on over to Delightful Inspiration and check out some more great DT creations.  Play along with us for a chance to win a free digi.

Recipe:

Stamps - Poinsettia (D2D), Sentiment (Rubber Soul)

Paper - The Paper Studio

Coloring - Copics

Misc.- Swiss Dots EF (Provo Craft), Apron Lace Edge Punch (Fiskars), Corner Rounder punch (EK Success), Sheer Ribbon, Black Ink

CHALLENGES:

Stamp, Scrap and Doodles - Winter Something

Sweet Stampin' - Spots and Dots

Simply Create Too - Layers, Layers and more Layers

Do You Stack Up? - Let it Snow

I Brake For Challenges - Clean and Simple

Heart Song Inspirations - Anything Goes

My Craft Spot - Winter Wonderland

Stamps R Us - What Did You Get for Christmas or Anything Goes

Crafty Emma - Anything Goes

Happy Saturday to You!

~pat~

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Christmas Organization

Here is the little Christmas planner that I made to keep myself on track during the Christmas season and the best part....everything was in one place.  I don't know about you, but I usually have coupons, lists and receipts everywhere and can never find any of them when I really need them.  This year was wonderful and I will  plan on making a new one every year or possible altering this one to just change the date for next year.

Here is the outside cover  that is really just an altered composition book.  This is the same image that I used on the last post to make my Christmas Card Keeper.  The download for the design can be found here at the Eighteen25 Blog.  They have the coolest ideas and great FREE downloads. 

 Here is the inside cover.  I just used some white 6" x 9" envelopes to hold all my coupons.  It was very nice to  have all my coupons in one place.

Here are all my tabs...I had the following, Calendar, To Do, Gift List, Menu/Recipes and Cards.  The patterned paper and pre-made tabs were from a kit from s.e.i called, Smarty.

And last, but not least the inside back cover where I kept all of my receipt corralled.

This was one of the best organizational crafts that I have ever done and I will not go another Christmas season without one.  It kept me very organized and on track with one of the most stressless holiday seasons ever.  A big Thank You to Eighteen 25 Blog.

Happy weekend to you!

~pat~

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Christmas Card Keeper

I never know what to do with my Christmas cards after Christmas is over.  I usually just put them in a box with the Christmas decorations and there they stay.  Well...this year I saw a really cool idea on pinterest and decided that since I started a "new life" in 2011 when I got married that I would start some new traditions with my new husband.  I made a cute little card keeper to showcase the cards year after year.  It will be fun to go back and read the cards again every year.

I made a front from chipboard and some DP.  The snowman image is a freebie printable from  the Eighteen 25 blog that I used to make my holiday organizer that I will post soon.  I just punched 2 holes in each card on the left side and added the binder rings and of course, some ribbon. I am looking forward to continuing this tradition every year to showcase my Christmas cards and it will be fun to go back and look at them year after year. 

Recipe:
Image: Freebie (Eighteen 25 Blog)
Paper:  Green Gingham DP (D2D), Sugar Plums Collection (Recollections)
Misc:  2 Binder Rings, assorted ribbon, Scallop edge punch (SU!), Lacey Scallop dies (Spellbinders), Tag Sticker (Doodlebug Designs), Glitter Alphabet Stickers.


Challenges:
Unstampabelles Challenges - Anything Goes (No Stamps)

Happy 2012 to You!

~pat~

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