Papercrafts by Patti

Winner!

2012-02-25T14:37:00.004-08:00

The random number between 1-8 chosen was....FOUR~ The fourth commenter on Monday's Blog Post was SueBee! Congratulations, look at the beautiful buttons that will come your way when you email me your address! Thanks everyone who left a comment for a chance to win. All eight of you had a pretty good chance to win!Don't forget to use my Website for your orders! Have a great weekend. I hope to get

Another Joy Fold Card

2012-02-22T02:25:00.000-08:00

Hello! I made this Joy Fold card for a friend whose grandmother passed away recently. I really enjoy this new fold in a card! I used Timeless Portrait Designer paper and the card base is Island Indigo. The matte on the left front panel is River Rock card stock. The frame is embossed on Very Vanilla card stock.On the inside, I used the Paper Doily die, cut out in Riding Hood Red. The sentiment

What Would YOU Choose? And A Prize!

2012-02-20T19:08:00.003-08:00

Hi Everyone! I'm glad to be back from a nice, relaxing weekend. I wanted to show you what you could earn with Hostess Benefits! My last hostess chose the Bigz Lattice Die and a package of Stampin' Dimensionals for her free merchandise. Because of Sale-A-Bration, she also earned 2 packages of In Color 8-1/2" x 11" paper, a package of Everyday Enchantment Designer paper AND the bonus reusable

Clean and Simple Friday

2012-02-17T02:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Friday! It's time for another Clean and Simple (CAS) card. This time it's another CASE. I got my idea from Sandy MacIver. She put a sentiment on her card and she used different colors than I did. I chose these colors by using my Color Coach.COLOR COACHPrice: $14.95I love the look of this Perfect Plum taffeta ribbon. It feels so silky and looks so elegant. The ink colors I chose were Perfect

Pals Paper Arts Sketch Challenge 129

2012-02-16T02:25:00.000-08:00

click on the photo to see the Edgelit detailWelcome to this week's Pals Paper Arts Challenge, a lovelysketch by our own Margaret Moody.I began my card with a 5-1/4" x 10-1/2" piece of Concord Crush card stock, which I scored at 5-1/4" and then folded. My next layer was Kiwi Kiss, cut to approximately 5" x 5". I used one of the new Adorning Accents

Pals Paper Arts Preview

2012-02-15T02:25:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone! I hope you will join me and the entire Pals Paper Arts Design Team as we reveal this week's challenge. Above is a little sneak peek!Thanks for visiting!Thank you for everyone for all of the kind comments on our February Pals Blog Hop yesterday! I think it was the best lineup we've ever had. Next month we'll be hopping again, so please keep visiting!When you are ready to purchase your

Pals February Blog Hop-- Sale-A-Bration and Occasions Mini

2012-02-14T02:25:00.001-08:00

It's time for the the Stampin' Pretty Pals share some fabulous cards and projects featuring Stampin' Up's Occasions Mini and Sale-A-Bration products on today's Pals Blog Hop!You've probably hopped over from Julie Trevitt Smith's blog, The Stampin' Affair, I'm stop number 16 on the Pals Hop and I'm glad you hopped in! I'll help you "hop along" from blog to blog where you'll find great ideas for

Storage Solutions

2012-02-13T02:25:00.000-08:00

Hi friends! Tomorrow is the February Pals Blog Hop! Join us as we tour around the Pals and see samples from the Occasions Mini and the Sale-A-Bration brochure. We hope to inspire you to make your own projects with the wide variety of products available now!Today I thought I'd share how I store some of my Stampin' Up! supplies. I hope you get some ideas for your own stamping space. I have a whole

Clean and Simple CASE - P. S. I Love You

2012-02-10T02:25:00.000-08:00

My Pal, Margaret Moody not only designs all of the sketches for Pals Paper Arts Challenges, but she regularly inspires me to be more colorful! Check out all of her works of art, including a card very much like the one I CASEd above. I hope you enjoy it and you will also be inspired. Get out your color scraps, your circle punches and some Basic Black card stock and see how fast this card is to

Happy Cupcake Birthday

2012-02-09T02:25:00.000-08:00

A shout out to my sister for her birthday today! This is not her card, I don't usually put those on my blog, but this is for a friend who has the same birthday as my sister! She has a sparkly personality, so I decided her cupcakes should dazzle and I used Dazzling Details on the frosting. The photo does not show how sparkly they are in real life.I double-matted the cupcakes for some dimension

Embossed Quilt Just For You

2012-02-08T02:25:00.000-08:00

Don't forget--there are two more days to get your RED on for the Pals Paper Arts Challenge! The link closes on Thursday, so please join us by making a new creation using your favorite RED products!I think you can tell I just love this herringbone piecing technique to use up my scraps! I really like the colors I put together on this one. I would never have done so on another kind of card. The

Feather Birthday Card

2012-02-07T02:25:00.000-08:00

Hello! Today's card is based on a card I saw here. I needed a card in someone's favorite colors, yellow and gray. This is a masculine card, so I didn't want frills. I used my Scallop Border punch for this "shelf" punched from Sahara Sand card stock. I inked the "celebrate" from Fabulous Phrases in Basic Gray. I tied a knot with Linen Thread onto a Mini Library Clip.To anchor my feathers, I offset

Valentine Treats Without Sugar

2012-02-06T02:25:00.000-08:00

I always remember my little neighbor girls with a sweet treat for holidays. I try to stay away from candy because I'm sure they get enough of that! This Valentine's Day, they will be getting these cute little bottles of hand sanitizer that I got for $1. Add a home made tag, and you have a *sweet* gift that won't send them to the dentist!Don't forget to leave a comment - I like to read them

Cupid's Arrow for Pals Paper Arts

2012-02-02T02:25:00.000-08:00

PPA128 Color Challenge: Use Any RedHello everyone and welcome to the Pals Paper Arts Color Challenge. Use any red! I hope you will play along with us and use any of your favorite RED products. When you post your card onto your blog or gallery, please label it PPA128.I chose Stampin' Up's Poppy Parade for my "red" card stock base. It's perfect for a Valentine. My next layer is a Whisper White

Beau Chateau Birthday and PPA Sneak Peek

2012-02-01T02:25:00.000-08:00

It's now February and I have been able to get ahead making birthday cards. This one is for March! Once again, I began my design with a die-cut from the Beau Chateau Side Notes (122379 pack of 24 die-cuts $5.95) There are two die-cuts of each of 12 designs. Think how many projects you can create using these designs that are ready-to-go. The die cuts are made of heavyweight felt-weave paper, so

Beau Chateau Package Tie and This Week's MDS Releases

2012-01-31T09:20:00.000-08:00

Here is my completed gift bag tag. Below you will see what I began with. This is a die-cut tag from the Side Notes (122379) Beau Chateau package. These tags coordinate with the Beau Chateau Designer Series Paper (122357) as well as the entire Beau Chateau Product Suite found on pages 132-133 in the 2011-2012 Stampin' Up! Idea Book and Catalog.Such an easy project when you begin with the above "

Clean and Simple Friday-Valentine

2012-01-27T02:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Friday! I'm trying to be more disciplined with my postings and having Clean and Simple Friday is one of my routes to that end!Here I have created a fun and easy card that really takes just a few tools and could be modified by using any stamped sentiment that you like!I stamped the "greenery" from Fabulous Florets in Basic Gray about 1/4" from the bottom front of the card. Add a Full Heart

Dreams and Sale-A-Bration

2012-01-25T08:16:00.000-08:00

Good Wednesday to you! I made this card for my daughter, who has set a goal for this month to begin a business. I'm sure she is going to accomplish this goal very soon (she is a master at keeping on track!) By now, she has received the card in the mail, so I won't ruin the surprise!I used a bunch of strips of paper I had cut from several retired Stampin' Up! Designer Series papers. The strips

Sale-A-Bration and My Digital Studio Updates!

2012-01-24T02:25:00.000-08:00

I'm very excited to share my very first My Digital Studio scrapbook pages! I have played with the MDS program here and there, but never really competed a whole project with it. Here, you will see that my pages are complete. I had so much fun. Wanna know how I did it? I took a lesson from my friends Jan and Wendy. You can find the details on Jan's website. My page is about a trip we made to

Notebook Trio and Sale-A-Bration is Almost Here!!

2012-01-23T02:25:00.000-08:00

I bought a 4-pack of post-it type pads and they were all different solid covers in matchbook style.The fourth booklet was a pink color that I could not match with any of my designer papers, so I took the other three: a blue, green and red and found that they coordinated with the Everyday Enchantment Designer Series Paper (Available during Sale-A-Bration, Jan. 24-Mar. 31).Each cover got a square

Cherry Lip Gloss-P.S. I Love You

2012-01-21T02:25:00.000-08:00

****UPDATE: Here is the link to the recipe for Lip Gloss: Homemade Lip Gloss ****A pile of puckery shine! I made some home made Cherry Lip Gloss (learned from Pinterest posts), put it into these sweet containers with attached snap lids and then decorated a label for the tops with the "P. S. I Love You" stamp set (heart rings). I spelled out "Cherry" with the "Calendar Alphabet & Numbers" stamp

PPA127 Sketch Challenge-Perfect BIG Top Birthday!

2012-01-19T02:25:00.000-08:00

Welcome to the Pals Paper Arts 127 Challenge--Sketch. Margaret Moody is our sketch artist and she has been providing our sketches faithfully for a couple of years! This sketch was particularly "challenging" for me (haha) because I only have a Large Oval punch, which looks too small for this sketch, or the Oval Scallop Frame die, which is too large! What to do? (okay, besides place an order for

Package Decoration and PPA Preview

2012-01-18T02:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Wednesday! I hope you are having a fantastic week! I made this quick package decoration with a scrap that has been on my desktop forever! You can punch out quite a few of these Large Hearts if you run a half sheet of Blushing Bride card stock through your Big Shot with the Fancy Fan Letterpress Plate that has been inked in Cherry Cobbler ink. Let it dry and start punching! I adhered the

Thank You Kindly Set

2012-01-16T02:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Monday! I made a FUN set of Thank You cards using the Thank You Kindly Stamp set and these colors which were inspired by the label on a bottle of liquid soap! Colors: Whisper White, Melon Mambo, Blushing Bride, Baja Breeze and Lucky LimeadeI used each of the stamps in the set once. For the circles, I stamped with Circle Circus stamp set and then cut out each image using the 3/4", 1" and

Memento Photo Book

2012-01-14T02:25:00.000-08:00

Happy Weekend! I created this last weekend, after taking one peek at Amy Celona's 6 x 6" books. I got so excited! I knew that I wanted to make my book with the stamps and papers from the upcoming Sale-A-Bration brochure. The Fresh Vintage Stamp set and the Everyday Enchantment Designer papers coordinate beautifully and use the colors Lucky Limeade, Pool Party, Peach Parfait, Calypso Coral, Poppy