Blog Candy Winner! PPA #128 & Paper Players #81

Hello to all my Blogging friends, I hope this post finds you all well and happy!

Yippee!!! We have a winner of the Love Coupon Booklet!
Our lucky winner by random selection is Carolyn B.
Thank you all for stopping by My Little Patch of Dirt and for leaving such wonderful comments. They certainly want to make a gal try harder!
 Here is what Carolyn B said "What a cute idea? I love the hearts as "handles" for the pages"!
Carolyn, I left you an e-mail message asking you for your snail mail addy. If you do not see the message there please contact me at trygod20@verizon.net with that information and I will mail it out ASAP!

I made a couple of sketch challenge cards today. The first one is for the Pal Paper Arts #128 Color Challenge "Anything Red"
http://www.palspaperarts.com
Here is my card;

The flowers are from Awash with Flowers stamp set. This is a CAS (Clean and Simple) or as CAS as I can possible make it (Smile). The cover sentiment is from Because I Care and the inside sentiment is from a retired stamp set called Pretty Amazing. All products are from Stampin' Up! Here is a peek at the inside;

The next card is for The Paper Players sketch challenge #81 http://www.thepaperplayers.blogspot.com Their theme challenge was for "Flowers".
Here is my second card;

I just love the versatility of the Awash With Flowers stamp set. There are so many options for floral creations you could play all day  and not get tired of this set. I tied my little bow to look like a Butterfly or at least that is what I was trying to achieve. You tell me lololo.
Here is a look at the inside of this card;

Both cards are CAS.  I so wanted to add more to the cards, but what seems to be the hot thing now is less. So there you have it!

Congratulations again to Carolyn and Thanks again to everyone who stopped by and My Little Patch of Dirt.

Have a great day and I hope you find some time to create something fun.
Patrice

Honeys Valentines Presents & Blog Candy

Hello to all my blogging friends, I hope this post finds you all well and happy!

I am now officially done with creating projects for my DH Valentines gifts. I know he will love his new Cookie Container for sure because he is a real Cookie Monster but, He will certainly also appreciate the Coupon Booklet as well hehe!

Here they are together;

And here they are separately. The Cookie Container is or rather was a Coffee container that was made from the New Size Maxwell House can. It is a great cookie/candy container size, short, wide and has a large opening at the top. It is their Original Roast coffee-the wrapper is blue just in case you want to get one.

 One side for cookies and the other for candy.

I baked him a couple dozen Toll House Cookies but those went while we all watched the Super Bowl. Guess I'll have to bake more next week lolol! He wasn't happy about sharing his cookies (Smile).

Remember, I am offering Blog Candy for the second Love Coupon Booklet I made, so please leave me a comment and your e-mail address and Honey will select a random winner on Tuesday evening.

Here is a photo of the Coupon Booklet that I am giving away. You can find more information on yesterdays (Sundays) post.

Hope you enjoyed my projects and find some time to create something fun for yourself or your Honey!
Patrice

Love Coupons and Blog Candy!

Hello to all my blogging friends. I hope this post finds you all well and happy!

I have been very busy this week making a super special surprise for my Honey. But, I wanted to mention that my blog counter is at 76,666 hits! Oh My Goodness we should celebrate don't you think! We are well on our way to hitting 100,000 by my birthday at the end of May. Thank you all for stropping in and taking a look around BTW. I really do appreciate all of your comments. You help me to be inspired!

The special surprise is a Love Coupon Booklet that I created as part of his Valentines present! I had to make an additional one because of the blurred pictures I took earlier this week (What A Bummer). So, I thought I would give the second one away as Blog Candy to celebrate breaking 75,000 hits. What do you think about that?
                                            
                                                              Anyone up for some Blog Candy?

All you have to do is let me know what you think of the Love Coupon Booklet. Leave me a comment along with your e-mail address and I will have Honey select one random lucky winner. The second Booklet without the coupons added will be the Blog Candy as this gives you the opportunity to make your own coupons for your sweetheart.
You have until Tuesday Night Feb. 7th, 2012 to enter to win.

I am working on the tutorial as we speak and most of the photos have instructions on them, so stay tuned.

Front covers. The insides are almost the same but, I did make a few DSP changes on the second one.

The second Booklet without the coupons is the Blog Candy!  Each of the 4 outside hearts is a pull out coupon. There is space for 8 coupons.

 

 

 

Inside page one and two.

Pages three and four. The center heart of the 3 hearts on the left is very shiny.

Pages five and six. The last page (Special LOVE Coupon) The pull out page front and back are 2 super special coupons. xoxoxo

Back cover.

Let me know what you think of my little Love Coupon Booklet, and don't forget to leave me a comment with your e-mail address, so I can contact the winner.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you find some time to create something fun this weekend!
Patrice

Red Hot Stampers Sketch Challenge #21

Hello to all my blogging friends. I hope this post finds you all well and happy!
I saw this really fun sketch over at Red Hot Stampers http://www.redhotstampers.blogspot.com/2012/01/rhssc21.html#comment-form

Here is what I came up with. I used a Polka Dot acetate scrap piece behind the Heart isn't it cute!

 and here is a peek at the inside too!

I hope you like it.
I noticed my camera was out of focus in these pictures but I had already given this card away so I couldn't re-take it. Sorry about that!
This was a fun sketch, I'm going to have to go back and vist these gals again next week !

I hope you have having a great weekend and try to find some time to create some fun things!
Patrice

A Little Something to Hold You Over lolol!

Hello to all my blogging friends, I hope this post finds you all well and happy!

If it's not one thing or another. I can't seem to get into my Studio to craft!! I'm going nuts lolol.

However the good news is I get to spend all weekend here starting right after dinner YIPPEE!!!! Then I will have time to redo the Special Project and Tutorial I was working on. Remember, my camera was out of focus  for a few days! I have no idea why it did that? But, I have to re-take almost the entire project. Oh well, a lucky reader will win it once it is done!

Here are a few cards I made but didn't get a chance to show you last week! Hope you like them!

And one more for you.

Have a great weekend. Chat soon!
I hope you find some time to create something fun!
Patrice

PS Northridge Publishing has really cool  give-a-way going on here is their link! http://create.northridgepublishing.com/departments/northridge-giveaways/giveaway-friday-peachy-cheap-2

It's Sketch Frenzy Friday!!!!

Hello to all my blogging friends. I hope this post finds you all well and happy!

Yes, it is Friday already! And that means another amazing SFF Mini Blog Hop. Boy oh boy do we have a great sketch for you all this week. Deb Currier designed this one for us. There are so many facets to this little sketch which made it very fun to work with!

 Don't over look the light patterned paper behind the focal image and the bow. (hint, hint) I almost did, hehe.

Here is what I came up with.

I wanted to make a bright and Cheery card for you so I used big bold bright colors! I used the Textured Impression Tulips Embossing Folder and the Lattice Impression Folders on this card. I also used a new  Sale-A-Bration Stamp Set called Sprinkled Expressions for the flowered focal image.

Here is a peek at the inside. I carried over the Tulip Impression Folder on to the inside border of the card and made a duplicate stamped image to tie it all together.

I hope you enjoy today's sketch challenge. We would love to see what you come up with, so please feel free to upload it on to our web page so we can all enjoy your creation. http://sketchfrenzyfriday.blogspot.com/
Now it is time to visit the uber talented Robbie Rubula's blog. She always does such a great job with our sketches.
http://inkedx2.blogspot.com

That's all for today so far... I am working on the special tutorial that I mentioned earlier. Hopefully, I will get it done by this weekend! So much to do so little time lolol.
Have a great weekend and I hope you find some time to create!
Patrice

Something Sweet for my Sweetie

Hello to all my blogging friends, I hope this post finds you all well and happy!

I have been very busy in the Stamping Studio this week???? I have created a really beautiful surprise for my honey. Made a couple of cards and some Valentine treat holders. I will show you the treat holders before I leave, but not just yet hehehe.

I made a big tutorial of the Special Surprise and took a ton of pictures to try to make duplicating much easier, but somehow my camera was out of focus! Now I have to redo the entire thing (YIKES). At lease I do have pictures and measurements so it will only take half as long to make another one! I think I may give the second one away for Blog Candy??? What do you think about that???
Anyone interested in Blog Candy?

Here are the cute little Valentine goodie bags I was playing around with.
What do you think? I loved those little treat bags that came out for Halloween. I was thinking why not fill them up with Valentine candy too!

Hope you all have a wonderful day today. I am off to visit Mom.
I will be back in blogland tomorrow with my Sketch Frenzy Friday Sketch Challenge card.

I hope you find some time to create something fun!
Thanks for stopping by,
Patrice