Corner Bookmarks

The top picture are some quick little corner bookmarks that I made. They are sooooo easy! Simply cut a square of paper (these are 3" x 3") and fold into quarters. Unfold, cut out on of the triangles, refold, and tape the loose end down. Decorate. Done. See, I told you it was very simple! If anyone needs a tutorial, let me know & I'll post one, but I doubt you'll need it.

The second picture is of a card that Diane (djuseless @ SCS) sent me when she sent the rub-ons. I love this little card. Of course, right now I'm really into butterflies, (we plan on going to the butterfly farm in Vancouver on our cruise). And the colors are perfect. Pink & purple.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend. I'm making 12 move of the orange & yellow birthday cards today. (~ 2 posts ago). I'm coloring the flower image now. That's probably all I'll get done today, so I'll have to work very hard tomorrow to make things so that I'll have posts for the next week. I have to make some masculine cards, and don't have any ideas for them right now, so we'll see what I come up with.

DH & I are going to the movies again tonight. Wow, twice in a month, and we hadn't been to the movies in 3 years! We're going to see Tom Hanks in "Angels and Demons". I actually like Angels & Demons better than the DaVinci Code. So I'm excited. We're going to the Thai resturant before the movie too. What a fun night we have planned!

Happy Stamping!

Patty & Winnie

More Candles

My good friend Diane (djuseless on SCS) was sweet & sent me these SU rub ons. I wasn't sure how well they would work on these dollar store candles, but I think the candles came out great! Thanks so much for sharing Diane!!!!

Well, it's now official. My DH is retired from the Army. After 28 years. The retiremetn ceremony was very nice. The 3rd Infantry Division soldiers as well as Pershings Own, Marching Band & the Fife & Bugel Corp in period costume do the retirement ceremony each month. Except for the Fife & Bugle Corp, the rest of the soldiers were their dress blues, and are so professional. It was a very nice ceremony. I took some pictures & will post them next week.

Hope everyone has a restful & wonderful weekend. I hope to get a lot of stamping & scrapbooking done!

Happy Stamping!

Patty & Winnie

Orange Birthday

Orange & yellow are not colors that I normally use. However, I saw a card very similar to this over on SCS and thought it was lovely! So of course I had to make my own version. I couldn't find the card I cased, but if you know who I need to give credit to, please send me a message & I'll update this post.

Here's the deets:

Stamps: Bloomin' Beautiful & Warmest Regards
Paper: Summer Picnic DSP, Parisian Summer DSP, Tango Tangerine, Marigold Morning & Whisper White
Ink: Tango Tangerine
Misc: ticket corner punch, crystal stickles, earth element brad, key tag punch, linen thread, prisma colored pencils, blending stumps & baby oil

I hope everyone has a wonderful evening!

Happy Stamping!
Patty & Winnie

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Patty

Merci'

I hope eveyone had a wonderful Tuesday. It's raining here AGAIN!!! Suppose to rain through Thursday! UGH, enough already! But, my flowers are loving it.

Winnie doesn't like the rain though. She saw "Mr. Bug" (her boyfried) this morning. Mr Bug is a black & white Japanese Chin, and he's as cute as a bug (no pun intended!) He has the most wonderful personality, and just loves the women! He doesn't care what species, he just loves women. Anyway, she saw him this morning & he had on his red rain coat & bright neon orange booties! It was the cutest thing! Winnie told him that he should be on the cover of GQ! I wish I had gotten a picture!

The card today is another quick & easy card. I really love the Stampin' Up! designer paper. It's so easy to pull colors together using the paper. The dark paper looks black in the photo, but it's really Bravo Burgandy.

Stamps: Merci & Echoes of Kindness
Ink: Bravo Burgandy
Paper: Pink Pirouette, Bravo Burgandy, Mellow Moss, Whisper White, Parisian Summer DSP
Misc: 1 1/4" & 1 3/8" circle punches, scallop punch, large needle for piercing the scallops

Happy Stamping!
Patty & Winnie

Happy Memorial Day

Happy Memorial Day! God Bless America!!! What a wonderful event that Damon & I were fortunate enough to attend again today. The President laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns, and then addressing the public. His speech was very solemn, as well as encouraging. He promised not to send our men & women in uniform into battle unless it was absolutely necessary, and if he had to do so, he would ensure they would have the best possible equipment. Wow, how very powerful. It was a wonderful speech.

The first picture is of President Obama with Admiral Mullen, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The second picture is President Obama during his speech. The third picture is Audie Murphy's tombstone, the most decorated hero in all of America. For some reason, people place pennies at his grave. The Superintendent of Arlington has no idea why, or how it all got started.

Lastly, this is a 12x12 scrapbook page that just came to me. I will re-post it when I get Damon's pictures on it. I just thought it was appropriate for today. I made it late yesterday. Here's the details:

Stamps: Godspeed

Ink: Night of Navy

Paper: Real Red, Whisper White

Please remember all of our soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen serving their country so bravely. Say a special prayer for them and their loved ones. They are America's Finest!

God Bless America.

Patty

Memorial Day Godspeed

Happy Memorial Day weekend everyone!!! It's been very pleasant here in Northern Virginia thus far! Hopefully the weather will hold until after the memorial activites tomorrow.

I got some stamping done today! YEAH! I'm so happy. Winnie didn't help me this afternoon, she slept on her daddy's lap all afternoon while they watched the Indy 500. Now we're settling in to watch the NASCAR Coca-Cola 600 in my home town, Concord NC!

Last night we went to a surprise dinner for one of the SGMs that worked for Damon. It was a very enjoyable evening. His wife had it catered, and their home is lovely. He has a music room dedicated to mixing his own "sounds". It was amazing.

The pictures tonight are some of the pens my DH turned as thank you gifts. So we took one to give to his SGM. I'm sorry there's such a glare off of the bag, but I couldn't get rid of it.

Here's the supplies:

Paper: Old Olive

Ink: Versa Mark

Stamps: Godspeed

Misc: Top Note die

Well, I think I'll get a glass of wine & run upstairs to make a thank you note for ours hosts' last night before the race starts.

More tomorrow!

Happy Stamping!

Patty & Winnie