Some more Tattered Angels Sneak Peeks...

Here are a few sneak peeks of the projects I made for the Tattered Angels CHA booth.

In the first image you can see some of the new amazing colors that are being released and that little crab is one of the chipboard pieces that is included in the Beach Comber Glimmer Chips set.

The second image features the new framed font set - Postage Stamp. I've always loved the framed font sets because you get three pieces with each letter (a frame, a background and the letter itself). With this new set, I'm likely to use up all of the frames first, I love them and their size works so nicely on cards. 

The third image shows one of the frames from the Postage Stamp Framed Fonts set combined with a Calling Card from the Timeless Romance Collection. This image also shows a Tattered Trinket - the key. I love these keys, I got a copper one in a Glimmer Kit and thought it was so pretty - I really wanted more of them. They used to only come in the kits, now you can buy just the keys. They come in silver, cooper and black - copper is my favorite!

The last image features the frame from the Postage Stamps Framed Fonts set - see... I told you I love these frames - can't stop using them!

Also, I got another box today with some more of the new releases. Here are some photos of a few things in the Tattered Angels Heidi Swapp Collection. It's some really cool stuff!!! The images below show the chipboard and diecuts - as you can see some pieces have gold foil and what may a little harder to see is that some have clear glossy accents. Both the foil and the glossy accents will "resist" the glimmer mist, I can't wait to play with these!  If you check out Heidi's blog, you will see a lot of examples these products in use and she has some really good photos of the new Glimmer Glaze, Glimmer Glam and the Chalkboard Glimmer Mist. Enjoy!

Some more Anna Griffin Cards...

Here are a few more cards using the Darcey Collection from Anna Griffin. I love this collection - I've used up all of the patterned paper, I just have a few of the diecut tags left.  I wanted to make sure I made some birthday cards appropriate for guys in this set, I never seem to have those on hand when I need them.

I've been busy working on some things for the Tattered Angels CHA booth and I'm loving their new products. I'll get you some more sneak peeks at the new products this weekend.

And Marks Paper Company has released their Valentines digi/hybrid kit. I got it yesterday and I can't wait to play with it, but I really need to finish my other projects first! 

Oh - and today is my birthday - I'm enjoying the day in my syudio. I do have a couple birthday dinners this weekend and I see a gift downstairs for me (which I'm not allowed to have yet) - but from the size of the box I'm thinking it is the lightbox that I've been wanting - here's hoping!

Anyway, that's it for me today, thanks so much for stopping by and have a great day!  Patty

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, Jenni Bowlin; Ribbon: Offray; Sequin Flower: Prima.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, Jenni Bowlin.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, Jenni Bowlin; Ribbon: Pebbles, Martha Stewart.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, Making Memories.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, Making Memories; Ribbon: Offray.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Webster’s Pages, October Afternoon; Ribbon: Maya Road; Acrylic Drops: The Robin’ Nest.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, Jenni Bowlin; Acrylic Drops: The Robin’s Nest.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Webster’s Pages, October Afternoon, Jenni Bowlin; Ribbon: Offray; Acrylic Drops: The Robin’s Nest.

Want to see some of the new Tattered Angels products...

Well, Tattered Angels has some really exciting stuff coming out. They have expanded there art medium products to include: Glimmer Mist Chalkboard, Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam.  

Because everyone loved the semi-opaque white Glimmer Mist "marshmallow", I know you all are going to love Glimmer Mist Chalkboard. It's the same concept as Marshmallow, but in color!  Fabulous!!!

Glimmer Glaze is thicker than Glimmer Mist - you don't spray this product, instead each bottle comes with a brush attached to the cap (like a nail polish bottle). The thicker consistency allows it to adhere very well to Glimmer Glass as well as many other surfaces.

Glimmer Glam is similar to Glimmer Glaze, but with a more transparent color base and there is more than just shimmer in these bottles, there is glitter!!! And the colors are so yummy, I want them all right now!!! I have a few screen shots of the colors below, if you want a better look at them, you can watch the video from which I took the screen shots here.

And here is a peek at some of the glimmer glass from the Travel themed collection. Notice that the glimmer glass isn't tinted like it was is the previous collections - this allows you to customize the color of these embellishments to coordinate with any project. And, of course, the new Glimmer Glaze and Glimmer Glam products work great on Glimmer Glass.  :)

Well, that's it for tonight, be back tomorrow to post some new cards and other projects.  Thanks for stopping by today!  Patty

New Marks Paper Company Collection coming...

Marks Paper Company (MPCo) has a new Valentine themed collection coming out (see image below), isn't it fabulous! Keep an eye on the MPCo blog, there will some annoucements and give-aways coming up!

I was out of town for a few days for work - went to Fort Drum - WOW! it's really cold up there!  Anyway, back here in DC I'm working on some projects for CHA and later this evening I'm going to post some images of the new Tattered Angels products being released soon!  And I have some cards and other projects that I made last week that I'm going to get posted soon also, so it will be a busy blog for the next couple of days. See you later!  Patty

A couple mini albums...

Here are a couple mini albums that I made last year. I'm very fortunate that my neighbors are also really good friends. Each of the albums was made as a gift for a neighbor that was going to be away from home for three months to over a year due to job related activities. Each album includes photos of everyone (including the dogs) and we all wrote a little note to each of them.

Products Used: Album: Creative Imaginations; Chipboard Elements: Maya Road; Letter Stickers: Making Memories; Ribbon: Offray; Ink: Clearsnap; Brads: Basic Grey; Metal Clasps: We R Memory Keepers; Digital Patterned Paper and Elements: Transitions Digital Kit at acherryontop.com.

Products Used: Accordion Album: Melissa Frances; Chipboard Elements: Maya Road; Ink: Clearsnap; Digital Patterned Paper and Elements: Pitter Pat Kit by Meredith Fenwick at twopeasinabucket.com.

OK - so that wraps up my projects for 2009!  It feels nice to be caught up here. :)
Again, thanks for stopping by my blog today and I hope your weekend and start of the New Year is going great!  Patty

Finishing up 2009...

Today I'm uploading all of the cards I've made in the past month or so that haven't been posted yet. Trying to clean up so I'm ready to start my 2010 project file!  Most of these cards (along with some others that have been previously posted) went into a card box that I made as a Christmas gift for my sister-in-law. I bought a pretty box from Joann Fabrics, made nine tabs to divide the box into sections (birthday, care and concern, congratulations, just because, thank you, spring holidays, summer holidays, fall holidays, winter holidays) and then I filled it with cards. Sorry, the only photo I have of it is this one.

So, this first card is a quick and easy one. I just sprayed some glimmer mist on the card and then applied a bunch of rub-ons and gems. I love how the white rub-ons create the look you would get from using a mask, but with the rub-ons, the lines are much more defined than you would get using a mask. 

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Rub-ons: Imaginisce, We R Memory Keepers; Gems: Imaginisce; Spray Ink: Tattered Angels.

Here are a few cards with an autumnal feel to them. My favorite part of these cards are the flowers assembled from little felt pumpkins.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Journaling Sheet: Making Memories; Felt Pumpkins: Target; Chipboard Flower: Target; Gems: Prima; Twine: Stampin’ Up!; Leaf Stickers: EK Success; Greeting Stamp: American Crafts; Ink: Clearsnap.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Journaling Sheet: Making Memories; Felt Pumpkins: Target; Chipboard Flower: Target; Gems: Prima; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee; Twine: Stampin’ Up!; Lace: Making Memories; Ribbon: Offray.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Journaling Sheet: Making Memories; Ribbon: Offray; Glittered Leaves: Michaels; Twine: Stampin’ Up!; Chipboard: EK Success; Greeting Stamp: American Crafts; Ink: Clearsnap.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Target; Pumpkin Stickers: Target; Leaf Sequins: Target; Ribbon: Target; Gems: Imaginisce; Glitter: Ranger; Glittered Greeting Stickers: K&Company.

Below are a couple more cards I made using Anna Griffin's Darcey Collection. I've previously made five or six cards with this collection. I really like it; the papers I have left are going to be good for making more masculine cards like the second one below.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Ribbon: Offray; Gems: Prima; Leaf Pins: Maya Road; Button: Papertrey Ink; Rub-on: Deja Views.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Anna Griffin; Diecut: Anna Griffin; Letter Stickers: Pink Paislee, October Afternoon.

This card was made using the Marcella by K Marmelade Collection. I made one of my all time favorite cards using this collection - it was a birthday card, and you can see that one here.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Marcella by K; Flower Stickers: Marcella by K; Letter Stickers: Doodlebug; Gems: MAMBI; Ink: Clearsnap.

Here is one using Making Memories Chloe's Closet Collection, I have good supply of this collection left in my stash, but I'm not sure I'm feelin' it. I'll probably give it one more try, but so far, I don't like what I've made with it. I made two cards, and one isn't even going to get posted, because I just don't like how it turned out.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Patterned Paper: Making Memories; Flower Sticker: Making Memories; Diecuts: Making Memories; Rub-on: Melissa Frances; Button Brads: Making Memories; Twine: Stampin’ Up!; Lace: Making Memories.

Next are some really simple cards made using stamps from Papertrey Ink. I have bought their stamps before, but this is the first time I actually got around to using them. :)  I like them very much. I was particularly impressed with the greeting stamps and how thin and crisp the lines came out (unless you mess it up a little like I did on the second card)  :)

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Flower: Prima; Leaf Stamps: Papertrey Ink; Greeting Stamp: Papertrey Ink; Ink: Clearsnap.

 

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Flower: Prima; Leaf Stamps: Papertrey Ink; Greeting Stamp: Papertrey Ink; Ink: Clearsnap.

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Buttons: Papertrey Ink, Autumn Leaves; Stamps: Papertrey Ink; Ribbon: American Crafts; Ink: Clearsnap.
 

Products: Blank Card: PaperSource; Cardstock: Bazzill; Buttons: Papertrey Ink, Autumn Leaves; Stamps: Papertrey Ink; Ink: Clearsnap.
 
So, here is the last set. This is a bunch of mini cards/tags that I made using some Colorbok tags. These were very inexpensive to make. All together, there are 18 of them and it probably didn't cost more than a couple of dollars to make them. The printed tags I used came in packs that cost a dollar. I embellished them with a few small prima flowers, rub-ons, and acrylic drops. Because the cards are so small, I was able to find the cardstock for the card bases in my scraps pile. Really, the most expensive thing will be the envelopes if I use them like cards instead of tags. 
 

Products: Cardstock: Bazzill; Tag: Colorbok; Flowers: Prima; Acrylic Drops: The Robins Nest.
 
OK, so that wraps up the 2009 cards. I still have a couple of mini albums from last year to post, hopefully I can get to that today as well.    Thanks so much for stopping by!  Patty

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year everyone! Did you make any resolutions this year... are any of them the same as the ones you made last year... :)  Some of mine are... and that's kind of depressing, so I'm going to try really hard to stay focused this year and keep that from happening again! 

One of them is to be better with keeping up with my blog. So, here is my first post for the New Year. This is a Family Mini Album I made as a gift for my Mother this Christmas. I made using the Tattered Angels Regal Chip Tile Kit. This kit is fabulous - all of the elements included in the kit work together perfectly, it made creating this album so easy. 

The image below is of the front and back covers. I sprayed all of the chip tiles with sand glimmer mist (first time I’ve used this color, I love it, one of my new favorites!) It was easy to cut the photo to fit inside the glimmer glass frame. I just placed the glimmer glass on the photo; traced around the inside and then just cut my image a little larger than the line I drew so it would be sure to fit completely under the frame. On the back cover, the patterned paper used behind the journaling card and on the heart actually came from the packaging.

The next two set of images are the interior pages. The concept of the album is “family”. I made a page for myself and each one of my brothers and sisters. Each of our pages includes a couple photos on the front side and a note to my mother written on a journaling tag and inserted into a slot on the back of the page. The inside front cover has photos of my parents and the inside back cover had a group family photos that was taken last Christmas.

All of the pages were covered with sand glimmer mist. For each of the “kids” pages, I inked the fronts to bring out the details on the glimmer chips (red-pink on the girls and blue on the boys). On the backs I used the included glimmer screen mist to create a swirly pattern. I used Starfish Glimmer Mist on the girls pages and the Patina Glimmer Mist on the boys pages (both of these colors come with the kit).

The next two sets of images show detail views of the album. I accented the pages with all of the goodies that came in the kit: glimmer glass, buttons, tulle and ribbon. The key that comes in the kit is beautiful; I tied it on the binding ring with ribbon and tulle (you can see a photo of that on the first image).

Also, I recently got a peak at some of the new releases that will be coming up from Tattered Angels, including the exclusive Heidi Swapp collection. And, I must tell you, it is all FABULOUS!!! Hopefully there will be some sneak peeks coming out soon. You are definitely going to want to be watching for these products as they get released, you are going to love them! 

Thanks for stopping by today, wishing you and your family a happy and safe New Year!  Patty