an award

Hiya girls

Even though i wasn't blogging at all the last time , I just found out that sweet Anneke ( Lasize ) gave me award ..shame on me !!!

Thank you so much Anneke , I do appreciate it and maybe it's a good kick on my butt to start blogging again !!

Thanks for looking ,

hugs, Patti

Back for as long as it takes :-))

Hiya girls ,

Yea, i am back, sorta .... i am not going to annoy you with details , for the moment i am back :-))

Hope you don't mind i am not leaving lots of comments at your blogs, but i really enjoy watching all your wonderful work !!

This card i made for my brother in law , he loves fishing ( yuck ) , the blowfish is from Stampinback , so are the watercolors I used for the background ,the background stamp is from I Brake , the text stamp is unknown and the bubbles are gelly stickers ..

This inchie card is made with stamps from Inkadinka , i stamped them on a background made with the bleeding tissue technique .... all pieces are punched , a quick card to make , so I think i will make a few more :-))

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Scrappy weekend

Hiya girls ,

Even though my mojo isn't back yet I can show something ..... Recently I've read lots about finishing with all the leftovers and scraps that are around .

I decided to kick myself under my butt, go to my craftcave and finish with all scraps that were laying around on my table , specially the leftovers from the serendipity !!

The results are 4 cards , simple but nice , 2 ATC's , and 6 little giftlabels ... i still have to add a ribbon on them .... not bad for someone without any inspiration , i think.. lol

Thanks for looking !!!

hugs, Patti

Male challenge

Hiya girls ,

This week's theme on the Everybody Art Challenge is MALE ... I gave it a try , so here's my entrance ...

The background is made with Ranger's alcoholinks and the spin & splash , bikerstamp is from Fantasy Forever , Harley stamp is from Viva Las Vegas and the backgroundstamp ... I have no idea anymore :-))

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

some cards...

Hiya girls ,

First of all I want to say that I am really sorry for not visiting your blogs , or I better say , not leaving comments on all of your gorgeous creations , coz I am having sum health issues lately ... bit I am still alive :-))

This card I made with a brandnew stamp ( Fantasy Forever) , backgrounds are made with Ranger's alcoholinks and the swirl stamp is from Stampinback ...

And this is another serendipity card , bird stamp is from Stampinback ...

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Serendipity

Hiya girls ,

On one of the Yahoo groups , the Challenge of this month is make something in the serendipity technique ... I hope i did spell it right :-)

OMG , my table was messy like never before .. I had a few inches space left to work on , LOL, but I managed to make a few cards .

The quote stam is from Penny Black I think, but I am not sure , coz it isn't mine , hehe :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Victorie finished !!

Hiya girls ,

Yep, finally my Victorie socks are finished and now i love them !!! Thanks to an allergic reaction on my hands ( and to be honest... also a new game adiction) , my knitting goes very slowely ..... but I still knit !!!

So... what shall I start now ?? Maybe a pair of stashbusters ??

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Cards ...

Hiya girls ,

Some cards with new stamps again :-) All stamps are from Stampingback , except the quote ... Backgrounds are done with liquid watercolor, also from Stampinback !!

Some people asked me what I am gonna do with all those cards ..... and the answer is ... I don't know !!! I send them , but my family and most of my friends , they don't apreciate handmade cards ... I send cards to close internet friends ....

But most of the cards are in boxes , if I stop making cards now, I will have more than enough to send the rest of my life ! Sometimes I wanna stop , if I see all those boxes ....... but I just like making them !!

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Serenity (again)

Hiya girls ,

For me this gorgeous stamp from Artistic Outpost is just perfect if you want to make some simple , classy cards ... the stamp is beautiful enough !!!

For both cards I made the background with the brayer, dye inks and some watermist ...

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Victorie socks

Hiya girls ,

Yessss, I started a new pair of socks ...... This times there's a pattern in the socks and it is called Victorie .

The yarn that I am using is from Regia and until now I really don't like the colors .... actually I hate that yellow and orange .... I hope the other colors will brighten up the socks a bit, LOL

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Connected

Hiya girls ,

This is my very, very first connected ATC ever , I made it for a personal swap with Anneke M ...

The swirl stamp is from Stampinback, the man from Cherry Pie , the quote from Art Journey, the flower from PSX and the girls .... I have no idea :-) ... I used Vivid dye inks ..

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

More bleach cards

Hiya girls ,

On the Yahoo group Kickostampers , this month the challenge is to make cards on which you use bleach, in one or another way ....

The used stamps are from PSX, Non Sequitor , Stampinback and I break for stamps ..

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Forever Stamps

Hiya Girls

On Brigitta's blog there is a challenge to creat something with her stamps .... Because I really love Brigitta's stamps, I had to make a card ..

For this card , the background , I added first a layer from Cats eyes in different colors in DTP technique ..... the second layer is dye inks brayered over de pigment ink, than I stamped the tribalmotive with bleach ...... and than the lizzard with StazOn ..

The Indian and feathers were stamped separatedly and added on the background ..

All stamps are from Brigitta !!

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Socks again :-)

Hiya girls ,

Finally I finished my Tex -Mex socks !!! Some people asked me how many pairs of socks I have kniited now .. well , only 13 pairs ..... I have given away 2 pairs , so that makes 11 pairs for me ..... and in comparation with some sock knitters on my blogrol , that's nothing..... LOL

If you want to see a real sock knitter , go and cheque out Angeli, she has a great blog !!

So...... what kinda socks shall I start now ?? :-))

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

ATC swap may

Hiya girls ,

Jeez, time really flies !!! This month on the Yahoogroup StampingFantasy , my swap partner for the month may was Ali ... we agreed a 2/2 swap , ATC's with some inchies on it .. This was the forst time i did something like that, but I love the idea ..

This are the ATC's I send to Ali, I hope she likes them ...

And these ATC's I got from Ali, I just love them , they are wonderful and the colors are so delicate !!

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Inchies card

Hiya girls ,

This card I made with an inchie punch .... I lifted the sketch more or less from the Art Journey Gallery .

The background is made in the wax technique with Vivid dye inks and all stamps are from Art Journey ..

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Miserable

Hiya girls ,

This card is made again on a spin & splash background with Ranger's Alcoholinks , Stamps are from StampinBack ( I love that Miserable stamp !! ) and Art Journey and the alphabeth stamps , i have no idea anymore ...

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Socksss ..

Hiya girls ,

Yes , with the help of my 2 lil friends I managed to finish anoter pair of socks .. just a basic sok in 3k-1p rib. Maybe you wonder why I make so many ribbes socks ... wel , my ankles and legs a a bit skinny and ribbed socks just fit me the best ... with ribbed socks I don't need to pull them up every time when walking :-)

For this socks I used dpn's european size 2.5 , and the yarn is Meilenweit Inca ..

And ofcourse I had to start a new pair .... I some webshop they called this color Tex Mex , and I love that name , so this are gonna be my Tex Mex socks :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

ATC swap april

Hiya girls ,

First of all I wanna thank you all for your sweet comments about my doggies !!! Nope, I didn't knit them by myself .. lol..

Yes, i knitted that sweater about 20 years ago ( OMG I am gettin old !!!) and it's still wearable..

Wendy , you are so right !! The dogs really don't like when I sit down to knit, they want me to play with them !!:-)

For the april ATC swap on the Stampingfantasy Yahoo group, my partner was Gerda V , we didn't have any theme , the swap was completely free, only non cute .... on the top pic you can see the ATC's I send to her ..... hope she likes them !

And this are the ATC's Gerda send to me ..... they are awesome , don't you think so ? I do love them !!

Thanks for looking!!

hugs, Patti

Knitting company :-)

Hiya girls ,

Think this pic doesn't need any comments , at least I know who to blame if I make a mistake , lmao !!!

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Playing with colors

Hiya girls ,

If it is with inks or with yarns , I allways love to play with colors ... when I make ATC's , usually I make 2 or 3 with the same image but with different colors ... I love to see the difference a color can do with an image .

Those ATC's are colored with liquid watercolor on semi glossy paper , I heat embossed all sides with gold ...

This wonderful stamp is from Artistic Outpost .....

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Socks :-)

Hiya girls ,

Yep, another pair of socks is finished !!! Usually I don't care about the colors , as long as you can see the socks are from the same yarn, it's okey to me .... but with this Kaffe Fasset yarn I wanted to knit 2 socks who are the same .. Because I didn't want to disturb the colorpattern I made an afterthoughtheel in those socks ..

So... what color I shall put on my needles now ?? :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Perfect resist

Hiya girls ,

On the Dutch Yahoogroup Kicostampers , the challenge for this month is to make something with the Perfect Resist technique ... I made 3 cards , I used the same stamp ( Stampers Anonymous ) for the resist background on all of the 3 cards and the other stamps I used are from Paperbag Studios and Stampinback ... the coloring I did with the brayer ...

Thanks for looking !!!

hugs, Patti

Playing with new stamps

Hiya girls ,

It was allready very hot in my stampingcave , so i think in summer it will be boiling there , but never mind .... for me it is better than suffering cold :-)

This card I made on a Spin & Splash background, made with alcoholinks from Ranger and the stamps are from Stampinback and I brake ....

So, now I am going back to the heath there to finish some ATC's :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Need your advice !!!

Hiya girls ,

Recently I picked up this UFO ... it is gonna be a folk sweater from all kind of cotton leftovers ... My intention was to make some simple folk roses in swiss darning on the black stripes , in bright colors ... but now I am not so sure anymore if this is gonna look good ...

So shall I add roses on the black stripes or not ?? Please , help me or it will be an UFO forever :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Blue socks

Hiya girls ,

Yes, I started something new , something blue , and it are socks ... LOL ... I am doing these in a simple 3k-1p rib , coz those ribbed socks really fit nice (usually) :-)

I am using dpns 2.5 eropean size and the yarn is from Meilenweit .

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Mindless knitting 1

Hiya girls ,

Yesterday I finished the first of the 2 pairs mindless knitting socks .. for the first time i made a short row heel and it did it the easy way..LOL.. I tried the "no wraps, no holes" thing, or whatever it is called ..... and it fits perfect !!

I am afraid that the other pair gets a vacationtime in the WIP drawer , coz I am a bit tired of the plain stockinette stitch ... I wanna start something new, something blue .... and there is also still this folk sweater that I have to finish ...

OMG . where can I buy time ?????

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Think spring

Hiya girls ,

This is my entry for the Stamp Something Challenge , they want us to think spring ...

My card isn't exactly a Dutch spring, but never mind, LOL !! I used Vivid dye inks , the swirlstamp is from Stampattack and the butterfly .. I dunno anymore ...

To be completely honest , I found the inspiration for this card by Hetty !!

Thanks for looking!!

hugs, Patti

Mindless knitting

Hiya girls

Yesterday I borrowed the DVD box of Sherlock Holmes , so you can understand that I need some mindless knitting that I can do while watching all those movies :-)

I started 2 pairs but I wanna try some different heels , so they are not completely mindless, LOL !!

Both yarns are from Regia , the one in top is from the Kaffe fasset design line , and the other one is a Galaxy something....

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti

Emergency Plea for Chopper

Hiya girls

While hopping across Blogland , I read this horrible sad story and the only thing I can do is ask you to read it , with the hope that someone can help this poor man and his dog !!!

Please go to Kim’s blog to read the sad story.

OMG , I whish I could do something , but here we have the same idiot law and I hate it ...... the dogs are not guilty but their owners !!! It takes a bad man to breed a bad dog !!

I truely hope someone can help Jody and Chopper !!!
Thanks forlooking !!
hugs, Patti

Sockssssss ...

Hiya all ,

Yep , another pair of socks finished !! So now I can spend the rest of the evening with deciding what yarn I take for the next pair.... lmao :-)

And Yes Dawn ...in summer I'm also gonna knit , coz the Dutch summers are lousy , before we realize it is autumn again :-)

Thanks for looking !!

hugs, Patti