Peace Out

I love this new beetle bug car stamp!  Too cute.  I made these cards today. I stamped "Peace Out" on the license plate.  

Super Bowl Card

Nothing better than crafting while watching football!  Glad the Giants won. I'm not a Pats fan at all!  I made this card as I watched. Flowers go with the Super Bowl, right?

Mito Awareness

Threw this together:

The stamp "Hope for a Cure" is only a few dollars from Ippity. 

Blank Note

Threw this together tonight: 

Live, Laugh, Love

This is what I've been working on today: 

I found this sketch design on-line at Sweet Shop:

Source: sweetstopsketches.blogspot.com via Pattie on Pinterest

Work in Progress

I found this sketch challenge at the Sweet Shop blog (click on image to visit the blog) and I want to make a card using the sketch.  If you check out their blog, you'll see several cute examples with this sketch design. I hope I can come up with something as cute!

Source: sweetstopsketches.blogspot.com via Pattie on Pinterest

Merry Christmas!

It's that time of year, where we send out Christmas cards to friends and family.  I try to make them all.  Here's another one I decided to sew last night:

I have no idea why I decided to sew cards.  :o) One observation:  sometimes I don't stamp straight! Oh well, it is still fun to send handmade Christmas cards, right?  I made a few of the cards below, too.  I embossed over stamped images. 

Unity Stamp Challenge

I broke out the sewing machine to make this card for the Unity Stamp Challenge. 

Another Pink Christmas Card

Cards for a Cure

These are cards I made over the last few weeks.  All Unity Stamps. These will be Christmas gifts, eventually!  I like to put them in packages and give them out as gifts.  (I don't shop at Christmas-- gave it up years ago) If  people receive the cards, look up the blog and read about Shwachman-Diamond and Mito, it is a bonus! 

1 Cross + 3 Nails = 4 given

I don't like all of the cards I make... I love the stamp set, but I'm not sure about the card. I figure I should go ahead and share those cards I feel are dismal failures, too. This is the first week in a long time that we have not had to go to ANY doctor's appointments.  I thought we might, but we were able to avoid going. Yeah us! Sean has finally recovered from football and made it to play racquetball at the Y for the first time since we joined. He has always been too tired to come along.  No one stayed up or woke up with pain last night, so life is good.

I just posted my Sugar-free Vanilla Creme Brulee recipe in Pattie's Kitchen. Check it out.  I can't tell the difference and I am a sugar snob.

So, now for the card I don't think is all tat great. You win some, lose some.

See what I mean..... not my best work ever.

Unity Opportunity Challenge

Here is a card I made for the current Unity Opportunity Challenge:

I used a set by Unity (Jillibean Soup) called Snowflakes Fall From Heaven.

Unity November KOM Sketch Challenge

Here is what I came up with for the Unity November KOM Sketch Challenge

Here is the template we needed to follow for this challenge:

Unity Opportunity Mini Challenge

I made this card for the Unity Opportunity Challenge

The challenge is to make a mini.   a mini card (4x4 or smaller) - a mini layout (6x6 or smaller) - a mini book - etc.

Unity Challenge Simple Cat

Another 4X4 card I made... very simple. I was going to add other things, but decided that simple is sometimes best!

Unity Challenge- Butterfly

Here is another 4X4 card I made for the Unity challenge

Look on the Bright Side

Unity Stamp Challenge

Here is a card I designed for the Unity Stamp Challenge. They wanted a fall themed card, but I don't really have any Unity Stamps with a fall theme, so I just went with this and used fall colors! 

CPS Card Sketch Challenge

Here is another one I entered today..... The CPS Sketch Challenge .This really is addicting.  With only one appointment scheduled this week (unless the brewing toe infection gets worse) -- I can craft my heart out. Teacher work day!  Just kidding... homeschool moms never get a "teacher work day" - I made this card while fielding questions and getting kids back on task:

This is the sketch template we had to use to make our submission:

Happy Halloween, y'all!

The House that Stamps Built Challenge

Yes, I am on quite a roll here with these challenges. Surprisingly, the boys are doing their school work QUIETLY and I'm sitting here next to them crafting. Isn't life grand? This is the card I made for The House that Stamps Built What if Wednesday sketch challenge I included the sketch design we used in the challenge. I may never win any of these challenges, but it sure has been fun creating cards!

Here is the template we used for the challenge: