Happy Birthday Sweetie

Happy Friday. My DH’s birthday is this weekend so here is the card I’ve made for him.   On on another note it’s very warm here today. I wasn’t feeling well this morning at all so I thought I’d sit on my deck and relax […]

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I Am the Diva Challenge #313

It’s been a rough week and a half for me. I’m having some difficulty with my right eye and the  vitreous fluid is pulling away from the back of my eye.  It’s causing a lot of floaters and my vision has become hazy. I went […]

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I am am the Diva #312 part 2

I didn’t have any red wine in the house but I have a lot of different fountain pen ink. So I decided to try a stain with one of those. I chose a purple shimmer ink, Purple Pazzazz by Diamine. It has tiny gold glitter […]

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I am the Diva challenge #312

Today’s challenge is to spill liquid, tea, coffee, whatever, on your tile and use that spill as the string. I  spilt coffee on part of the tile and I set the coffee cup on the spill to pick up some of the spilt coffee. Then […]

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I Am The Diva weekly challenge #311

It’s beautiful today here in Massachusetts. The temperature is expected to get in the 80s which is unusually warm for this time of year. I had the opportunity to go for a quick one and a half mile walk with a friend this morning and […]

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I am the Diva challenge 310

For today’s iamthedivaczt.blogspot.com challenge I’m used string number 142 from tanglepatterns.com website I tried  to use extreme shading but I’m not sure I was very successful. Any comments are always appreciated.

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A little card making

I thought I’d work on a couple cards today  based on a video I saw on StampTV. Gina K was showing a technique where you emboss only part of a card front. Here’s the link to her video. I loved the idea so I thought […]

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Designing and redesigning my website

I’ve had my website lauriepatterson.com for years. I haven’t updated it in probably five or six years. Recently I’ve switched my hosting service to something much more affordable for me. And in doing so I’ve decided to completely redesign my website.  I’m using WordPress as […]

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I am the Diva challenge #309

This week’s Diva challenge is to use one of the new tangles that was introduced last fall at ZenAgain, Noom.  I had the privilege of attending ZenAgain and they introduced 4 new tangles. For  for this Tangle the attendees got the opportunity to submit ideas […]

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I Am the Diva challenge number 308

I’m feeling artsy this morning, I guess. I’ve done two tiles. This one is for I Am the Diva challenge number 308, Mac and Cheese. Use your comfort Tangle. Mine is Bales, so I did a mono-tangle and showed some different ways you could enhance Bales.

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