Spot Light at GCD Studios...

Today I am honored to be the spot light gal at the GCD Studios blog. They have a few of my cards posted, but the cool thing is today is their 100th post! So if you leave a comment by tomorrow morning (11 am PST) you have a chance at winning ONE PACK OF THE MARGARITA COLLECTION! It's a beautiful collection and as Heidi said, it's perfect for summer cards and scrapping. Good luck everyone!

Marks Paper Sew Simple Contest...

This month's Marks Paper Company Blog Challenge is almost over, so if you haven't checked it out, you still have a couple of days. This month is all about hand sewing - all of the details are here. The prize this month includes the new English Garden Collection, if you haven't seen it yet, check it out here, it's beautiful! So get sewing for your chance to win it!

Here are a couple of cards I made using the August and Old Fashioned Courtship Digital Kits. The first card includes some hand stitching on the flower stems. The second one uses one of those fun build your own brads from Chatterbox. I filled it with a dried flower from my garden.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Ribbon: American Crafts; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee; Gems: MAMBI; Thread: Bazzill. Digital Products: Patterned Paper and Elements: August and Old Fashioned Courtship Collections by Marks Paper Company.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Ribbon: Chatterbox, Creative Imaginations, Offray; Brad Kit: Chatterbox; Letter Stickers: Doodlebug; Dried Flower for Brad Center. Digital Products: Patterned Paper and Elements: August and Old Fashioned Courtship Collections by Marks Paper Company.

Thanks for stopping by today! Patty

Card-A-Licious Challenge...

This is a card a made for this weeks challenge at Card-A-Licious, you had to use pink, brown and scallops. I haven't ever participated over there before, but I love how this card turned out, so maybe I should try their challenges more often. :)

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Basic Grey, Making Memories; Chipboard, Stickers, Alpha Stickers: Basic Grey; Ribbon: Making Memories; Gems: Studio 18; Conch: Scrapworks; Stamp: B-Line Design; Ink: Clearsnap.

Thanks for stopping by today! -Patty

Really...a scrapbook page...from me?

I really want to do more scrapbook pages, but I always seem to end up making a card or two instead. Anyway, I recently made this page about my cat and how sometimes I look over at her napping away without a care in the world and I think...I want to be her. :)

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill; Velvet Flowers: Maya Road; Brads: Making Memories; Felt Photo Corner: La-di-dah; Alpha Stamps: Leave Memories; Ink: Clearsnap; Pen: Marvy. Digital Products: Patterned Paper: Marks Paper Company; Font: Pharmacy.

This is a really easy to make hybrid design. Today, this page is featured on the Marks Paper Company Blog along with some instructions on how to make it. There is also an amazingly cute project posted there from DT member Patty Schaffer. It's an adorable little house with a mini album inside. You really need to go see it!

And here are a couple hybrid cards I made using the Marks Paper Company digital kits. I was going for something clean and simple, I like the way they turned out.


Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Acrylic Drops: The Robin’s Nest; Ribbon: We R Memory Keepers; Pen: Uni-Ball. Digital Products: Patterned Paper: Marks Paper Company; Font: Avant Garde.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Brad: Imaginisce; Ribbon: Fancy Pants. Digital Products: Patterned Paper: Marks Paper Company; Font: Teen.

Paper Flowers...

I hope everyone enjoyed last weekend and had a great NSD! I had a nice weekend, the weather was nice here and a friend was in town, so not too much time on-line on Saturday, but I did get a few cards done, I'll post them later. Today I want to tell you about my new position on the Creative Team at scrapbookgraphics.com. My primary focus on the team is hybrid projects, and the first Tuesday of each month I will be posting a cool new hybrid project in the Mix It Up column on their blog - Studio Matters. Today was my first post!

With Mother's Day right around the corner, I wanted to focus my hybrid project on flowers. So, I created some custom designed flowers using my digital scrapbooking papers and elements. I printed digital papers onto trace paper and cut my petals from that. The trace paper worked well with the printer inks and is thin enough to easily fold and twist into shapes and the translucent quality of the paper adds a very nice look to the flowers. By printing your own patterns, you can make the flowers whatever color or pattern you want, you essentially can have made-to-order flowers for your scrapbook pages, cards, gifts, bouquets, whatever! I think that is so cool! And I really didn't embellish these much, but you can add buttons, glitter, inks, stamps... it's really endless. Anyway, here are some photos of the finished flowers and I have a very long post at scrapbookgraphics.com that has instructions and lots of photos showing how to prepare the trace paper for printing and how to assemble the flowers.

Products Used: Digital Papers: Frivolous Sunday Love Collection by Doris Castle at scrapbookgraphics.com; Trace Paper: Strathmore; Flower Stamens: Impress; Floral Wire; Floral Tape.

Products Used: Digital Papers: Home Sweet Home Kit from Baers Garten at scrapbookgraphics.com; Digital Elements: Late Summer Afternoon Kit from Baers Garten at scrapbookgraphics.com; Trace Paper: Strathmore; Felt Circles; Floral Wire; Floral Tape.

Products Used: Digital Papers: Birthday Surprise from Doris Castle, Mr. and Mrs. Fall Kit from Baers Garten (both kits at scrapbookgraphics.com); Digital Elements: Late Summer Afternoon Kit from Baers Garten at scrapbookgraphics.com; Trace Paper: Strathmore; Felt Circles; Floral Wire; Floral Tape.

Products Used: Digital Papers: Late Summer Afternoon Kit from from Baers Garten at scrapbookgraphics.com; Trace Paper: Strathmore; Felt Circles; Floral Wire; Floral Tape.

Thanks for stopping by today, be back tomorrow with some cards and a layout! - Patty

Happy National Scrapbooking Day Everyone!

So. I'm just getting around to looking at what's going on-line for NSD. But I already see a couple of places I'm going to hang around today:

Scrapbook.com
A Cherry on Top
Cuttlebug Challenge Blogspot
Two Peas in a Bucket

These two digi-sites don't have any official activities or challenges going on, but they have good sales!

Scrapbook Graphics (30% off everything today)
Designer Digitals (20% off everything this weekend)

Whatever you do today, I hope you have a very happy scrappy day! Any try not to feel stressed about being super productive today, remember to enjoy the process of creating and enjoy the memories and thoughts that flow through you as you create pages, cards or gifts for the people (and pets) you care about. And if after that you've managed to get a boat load of scrapping done, well...that's icing on the cake! :)

Take care and thanks for stopping by today, Patty