Little Mermaid

Little Mermaid
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

Well, I had to dig up my Little Mermaid movie to see what kind of outfit Aerial has. I knew she is a red-head, just don't remember her outfit.

I like this cardstock I'm stamping on, except that it doesn't like to take on color very well. I have another version, and hopefully do another one w/ marker and see if I can tell the difference.

Of course, last night, as I was working on my 2nd version, I started had a cough attack, then turned into an asthma-tack, then turned to trip to ER. That's just tons of fun. NOT!

Anyway, her hair has nice jews in it... they're pearls... figured heck, she lives under the sea, probably get a direct distribution than us human folks would. Personally, I'm more partial to pearls than other kinds of bling anyhow... so it's just fitting.

The Mermaid 2.0 will have different color hair and bling and outfit. I'm thinkin 3.0 will be different size... we'll see. ;-)

Supplies:
Card & Patterned Paper by DCWV
Eyelet by Making Memories
Stamp by Splendid

Expecting

Expecting
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

You know, ever since my friend Minty exposed me to A Muse, I always liked their stuff... Recently, they had a thing where they waived the shipping charge. I'm a sucker for that. I think mainly it's because to me, it's like paying for taxes, you have to spare extra for that charge. Except, you never know what it is... unlike taxes, there's a flat rate wherever you are. Some states has no sales tax. But, shipping charges sometimes seems arbitrary. I understand that small businesses like stamp companies need to recoup some of that cost, but some places just seems outrageous to me.

That's why, if there's a stamp company that said if you buy more than X, we'll waive the shipping, more than likely I will frequent your place. Versus, despite some of the stamp companies has excellent products, I'd rather go to LSS for that instead. I know it's silly because I do wind up paying a bit more at the LSS with their overhead and sales tax, just figure I might as well spread the love around, especially I'm just buying one or two stamps instead of a lot.

Anyway, so, had a sale and threw in some cards as a bonus. YAY! So, I went to town... well, sort of.

These are the 2 I've been dying to play with since I saw them online. Boy, did I enjoy inking that up!

I've volunteered my service to make invites for 2 different friend's baby showers. One is coming up soon... so I'm playing around w/ different style and layout. This is one of them. You can't see the word very well on the photo, but it said 'She's Expecting'. Thought that's appropriate.

I'm struggling w/ the color because when you make cards/invites like that, are you supposed to catered to the mother? Or are you supposed to cater to the sex of the baby? I'm very confused on that. We'll see.

Supplies:
Card by SU
Background and dress stamp by A Muse
Word stamp by Hampton Arts

Apple for you

Apple for you
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

You know, growing up in HK, I never had given my teacher any apple of any sort. Nor do we do gifts to the teachers. It's not until I moved to the States that people started to do it, and you felt like you have to keep up w/ the Joneses. Luckily, I liked my teachers here, so I'm happy to give, versus my teachers in HK were mean and they do believe in corpal punishment.

Anyway, I like Apple fine, nothing against it or giving it... but it's very weird to give food to people if you didn't hand made it. It's not fancy or whatever. Why Apple? Why not banana nut bread? Or muffin? Why food? As a teacher, I'd be afraid of what kind of journey that food item has taken in order to make it to your desk, wouldn't you?

Alright, off of my rant.

This is one of my cards going towards the Splendid Olympics. I know it's goofy of me, but the stamp is too cute... I just have to do it.

You know, what's weird? I actually had painted what you see is white in a light lavender but it's not showing up on the photo... go figure. Hmm...

Well, it's nice and sunny out, so hope it is where you are as well.

Supplies:
Card & Patterned Paper by DCWV
Stamp by Splendid

Two Scoops Pre-Order is ON!!!

OMG!!!!  You guys, this is uber exciting!!!!  Just saw on the on Two Scoops that they're open to take Pre-Order.

If you don't know what I'm talking about... Go here, here, and here.

They're just so cute you just have to have them all.

I've placed my order... you should go do that now!!!! 

Cupcakes!

Cupcakes!
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

Cupcakes!!!! YUM! I'm in a major sugar crave... Of course, I am a real cupcake connoseuer, so I know my cupcakes around town. Maybe it's time to stop by one.

Anyway, this is a cupcake card for a whatever occasion. I don't know if you can see the glitter pen. I told you I'm addicted to my glitter pens.
If I can glitter pen everything and makes them look good, I'd do it!

So, these stamps from Verve Visual, they are doing a sale and donation to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. So, if you've been on the fence about buying, this is the time to do it. Make a donation and get some good stamps.

Weather finally turn cold here in South Texas, hopefully true winter will be here soon! Can't wait!

Supplies:
Card by SU
Screen Print by Hambly
Stamps by Verve

Note

Note
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

I saw this card, it just calls for something in the middle... and so I did the flowers... I love how simple and effective the flowers are. I think because there are some serious illnesses around me, I'm thinking that this should be a sympathy card, but either way... it works as a Just Because type of notes too.

You can't see it, but the stamp: Just A Note, I had traced it w/ a glitter pen, and so it's shiny. I like all things shiny, sometimes I'm just trying not to go overboard.

Anyway, it's a simple and effective kinda card... one stone, 2 birds...

*yawn*

I've been doing some stamping over the weekend. Splendid is having a Olympic, to see how many cards you can make w/ only their stamps. I was doing so good on Saturday, but by Sunday, my mojo kinda fizzled out. Ah well.

If you wanna play, the deadline for the Olmypics is Nov.2nd, and you can only use their stamps. Post a link to your site or email her the pics. Good luck!

Supplies:
Card by Marco Paper
Stamps by Splendid

Dreams

Dreams
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

So, I sorta CASEed this from someone. I swear I saw it on the Verve Blog. But now I can't find the pic. All I remember was that their card was embossed. I don't know if I even Starred it on my Google Reader, but vaguely remember something like that.

Anyway, that said, from far away the yellow blended together and really makes the green pops. I like it!

Did you see that Splendid Stamping at Pink Poison is having a card Olympics? I'm going to have to see what I can whip up with. =)

Hopefully this will be a wonderfully relaxed weekend... work is getting crazy, I now have 2 bosses in hospital for different reason, and higher ups thinks that the place w/ go to pits. Which I kept telling them, I was here the last time this happened 3 years ago. But then, now the market is going to the pits. Oy!

Hope you have a great weekend. I didn't even noticed that I went pass 6000 posts. Thank you so much! I'm going to look around and see what kinds of goodie I can find for a blog candy to celebrate! See ya!

Supplies:
Card by SU
Green cardstock by Ellison
All stamps by Verve Visual

For you

For you
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

I know this is a tad plain, but I've been swamp and this is my 5 mins card. You know, the cards you need in a hurry but still needs to be presentable. Yeah, those.

This bunny is so cute that it's just made my job easy on all sides.

I have an enabler alert!!!!
A Muse has a secret sale... if you spent over $40 before tax, you get free shipping, but you need to put on the order 'FREE SHIPPING', in order to get that. If you spent $50 before tax, you get the Kitchen Notecards. That's a good deal!!! This deal is good till Wed (10/22) midnight PST.

Of course, I just read that My Favorite Things has a thing where your order over $40 will get free shipping but also $5 in gift cert towards your next order. That's totally awesome, too bad I've gotten all the stamps I want from them already... just waiting on the new release. That is good till Friday (10/24) and Kim will email you your gift cert when she gets back from the Stamping Cruise.

Supplies:
card by Marco
shadow stamp by Stampendous
Bunny statmp by Splendid Stamps

Pink Ribbon

Pink Ribbon
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

Is it me or is there seemingly less cards out there this year focusing on Pink Ribbon month? If you've been under the rock and don't know what Pink Ribbon Month is... October is Breast Cancer Month. While I'm lucky not to know of any victims, I do know people that are suffering thru cancer right now. So, I'm more sensitive to it, I guess.

Anyway, as I was saying, there's just seems to be less cards featuring Pink Ribbon theme that last year this time. Not sure if it's because there's no new set of stamp that's Pink Ribbon related or is there 'better' things to feature.

Either way, that issue is still very real for alot of people. Many sufferer is still going thru it, many more have been thru it. I hope the effort to find a cure never seize until we got it right.

I know this is a simple card, but hopefully we didn't forget.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper by Cloud 9
Card by Bazzill
Stamp by MFT.

Yum Yum

Yum Yum
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

Today I can sure use a cupcake... been on a sugar crave all day.

Super news! Marie at Splendid Stamps/Pink Poison features some of my cards on her blog. I'm so thrilled and honored!

Her stamps are super fun and cute, you just want to squeeze and hug... except, they're stamps. Gosh, I wish I'm talented enough to make my own stamps. Except all of the stamps are the cutesy stuff non-stop. Haha... That's ok, I'll leave that to the experts!

This weekend, I got hooked on a new game. It's sorta like a Suduko but with math in it. It's called KenKen. And I just got hooked!!!

Alright, need to finish up an head out.

Supplies:
All Cardstock by SU
All Stamps by Splendid Stamps

Cup of cute!

Cup of cute!
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

This little guy is just too darn cute... I just have to play with the stamp as soon as I got it. You know what else I'm hooked on right now? Gamsol. I know that's not new, but it's so fun... When I first played with it couple years ago, I was thoroughly confused... not sure why it's working for others and not for me.

But I came back around this time, and it seems to be doing the trick. Whatever that trick is, I'm sticking with it... It gives very good watercolor-like results. Can't be beat!

At the very bottom I did stamp Happy Day trying match that brown-ish grey in the paper, but it didn't come thru as I had hoped. Ahh well, you win some you lose some.

Glad today is Friday, too much drama going on at work. For those who don't know, I work in the Financials. So, needless to say, we have been pulling our hair out. So glad the weekend is almost here.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper by Making Memories
Stamp by Splendid Stamping

Halloweeny

Halloweeny
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

Man, yesterday I started typing and in the middle of it some crisis was going on, and totally forgot about the rest of it...

So, here's yesterday's card... will post one for today later.

I really like this sassy witch, I dare say that I like her because she reminds me of Bewitched's Samantha. She does have 'that' retro feel to her.

Although, if I was smart, I would've cut out the moon by the house since the flying witch already has a moon... Oy! Maybe it's cool enough to have 2 moons??? Me thinks that's pushing it... hmmm...

Supplies:
Card by SU
Stamp by Teraberco
Rubons by Making Memories

Cat and tree

Cat and tree
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

I swear I wasn't going to do more Halloween cards, but I just had so much fun with some of the supplies I just have to. HAVE TO!

It's funny when you re-organize you find stuff that you didn't know you have. And this is one of those times where I didn't know I have so much Halloween related stuff until I found them. I know, that's bad, that means I need to be better organize, but who has the time if you're stamping or crafting?!

So, I found the MME paper and die cut. MME always has beautiful paper and they used to have matching die cut. Now their die cuts are complementary, I know it's a hair of a difference, but anyway... In my pile I found 2 black cat die cuts. So, what's better than have the cat be taunted by little ghosts.

When I was playing w/ the ghosts, it really (I mean genuinely) spooked me. I had the faded black ink pad, and it's not quite showing the entire image but it does. And on matte paper, it was freaky. So, I was trying to duplicate results on glossy, and it's just wasn't the same.

Anyway, cat being taunted by ghosts... it's seems to be typical that cats love trees, what if the tree is haunted? And what if it's a black cat? Would the cat go up the tree and chase away the ghosts?

Sorry for rambling, it's early and I'm at work... bleh!

Supplies:
Card and Patterned Paper by DCWV
Stamps by MFT
Cat die cut by MME's 6th Ave

Fall together

Fall together
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

So, I was on vacation last week, that's why my posts were more intermitten than usual. I also promised myself that I would stamp more and do more of this, that, or another. For some reason I'm less productive than I am at work. Guess that's because I'm forced to do more when I'm stuck at my office 45 hours out of the week.

Well, what ended up happening was me not stamping, but admiring my stamps. Do you do that? Every so often just admire your stamps and maybe something will jump out at you and you make something. I essentially just rearranged things around, not being productive but yes at the same time.

Anyway, this is a stamp from Splendid, they're are just so dear and cute at the same time. I just *heart* it so much! Just want to squeeze it...

Supplies:
Card by SU
Patterned Paper by Basic Grey
Ribbon by American Craft
Stamp by Splendid Stamps

Joy & Peace

Joy & Peace
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

This is another card that I CASE-ed from a card catalog... I think they have one thing per color, but I just can't stand the emptiness some of them looked. Plus, I have these 3D stickers that I've been dying to find a reason to use. So, what a great opportunity to use them?

It's so funny, now that people know that I'm into making cards, whenever they get any catalog people are saving it for me. Which is funny because naturally all of us just trash those catalogs since we get so many.

But now, I'm getting so many... oy! I do tab the ones I'm interested in learning from or just trying out the sketch. But I feel like I should set up a recycling bin just for catalogs.

Supplies:
Patterned Papers & Rub-On by SU
Stamp by Splendid Stamping
Dots by Paper Studio

OMG! OMG! OMG!

I got picked to be part of a DT for a new stamp company called 2 Scoops Rice.  That is so freggin' awesome!!!!  You have got to check out their stamps, it's so darn cute that you just want to eat them up... well, in a 2D kinda way.

Well, don't take my word for it.  Go look:twoscoopsricedesigns.blogspot.com/

She'll have stamps available in November. Can't wait!!!

Sweet as cupcake

Sweet as cupcake
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

I don't know if I've told you but I love cupcakes... it's sugar, it's sweet, it's small and it's yummy!

Anyway, I just love cupcakes... so much so that I've subscribed to alot of blogs just because it's cupcake related. Crazy I know.

You know what I'd love to try? A Coca-cola cupcake, I know they exist, as does Dr. Pepper cupcake. I just wanted to know if they actually taste like the soda. =D

Yum!!!

Supplies:
all stamps by Splendid Stamping
Patterned paper by Making Memories (on cupcake), SU (on word)

Fleur

Fleur
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

So, this is a fancy schmancy card for me... I just wish that I had done a better job on the borders... don't look so close!

I got the idea to do this card from a catalog that we get at work. This time of year we usually get alot of cards and gift basket catalog to get people thinking about their client during the holidays.

I just like to flip thru to see what's the trends are. Some of them are truly hard to duplicate, but this is one of the ones that when I saw it, I immediately jumped on it and thought how cool is that? I have the stamps to make it and it'll come pretty close. I wish I've kept the catalog because now I got another one at work and don't know which is which and I don't see the card to show you.

Anyway, the one they had the box is on the other side and it was for Xmas but I just did a solemn thank you... that would be perfect for guys.

Supplies
All supplies by SU

Birdie

Birdie
Originally uploaded by Patty_kins

I had made this card while I was watching the Sandra Bullock marathon on TV. They were showing While You're Sleeping, Hope Float, Miss Congeniality, and Practical Magic. See, I told you, a marathon.

I think While you're sleeping and Miss Congeniality were way over played on TV, I haven't seen the others in quite some time.

Anyhoo, one of the characters in Hope Float was named Birdie, and I was flipping for my new uninked Birdie stamp...

I kinda liked how the colors turned out. It's not quite brown, not quite red, there's a hint of yellow...

Gosh, can't wait for my vacation next week to play more.

Supplies:
Patterned Paper by Making Memories
Stamp by Splendid/Pink Poison