Hi… I’m Carole Anne Patterson and I love crafts, sewing, and creating quilts. I’m a longarmer who loves making quilts come to life.

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Category: Challenge Cards

  • Card Challenges – Retro Sketch and Connie and Mary Color Challenge

    Card Challenges – Retro Sketch and Connie and Mary Color Challenge

    Retro Sketch Challenge RS207 and Create with Connie & Mary Color Challenge CCMC398     Dimensions: Watermelon Wonder Cardstock 8-1/2″ x 4-1/4″, 3-1/4″ x 4″ Birthday Bouquet Designer Series Paper 5-1/4″ x 4″ Watermelon Wonder and Mossy Meadow pattern with hearts Birthday Bouquet DSP 5-1/4″ x 2″ Mossy Meadow dot pattern Blushing Bride Cardstock 3-7/8″…

  • Down to the last second…GDP027 Chocolate Chip Thank You Card

    Down to the last second…GDP027 Chocolate Chip Thank You Card

    I really wanted to enter Global Design Project #027 and it’s in the last few minutes that I’m getting my card on the GDP site! I had the card made but then I went to pick up my son at the BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) station. He was at a Latin Convention in Los Angeles…yes, Latin…

  • It’s California…March showers bring March flowers

    It’s California…March showers bring March flowers

    I am an immigrant to California, yes…an immigrant from Cape Breton Nova Scotia Canada. When I was growing up it was April showers bring May flowers but since moving here 19 years ago, the weather is rather different. So, with El Nino bringing lots of rain lately; I decided to do a flower card with…

  • The Adventure Begins — Global Design Project #GDP026

    The Adventure Begins — Global Design Project #GDP026

    I love entering card challenges and this is a particularly interesting one. I wanted to keep the clean design in Teneale Williams’ sketch as well as keep the vertical design. For me, I don’t exactly have a set “style” of card making. It’s like my taste in music, or clothes,  I tend to be classic…

  • Silver on Black Elegance Awaits…

    Silver on Black Elegance Awaits…

    I decided to enter this card into the Paper Players Color Challenge PP270.  At the bottom of the post, you can see the original design in Cherry Cobbler. I attended a stamping retreat in beautiful Lake Tahoe over the weekend with four other demonstrators–we had a wonderful and creative few days and nights.  My friend Sharon…

  • Global Design Project #GDP008

    Global Design Project #GDP008

    Here is the Global Design Project #GDP008 CASE (Copy & Share Everything) and my first time entering a card with the GDP.  The “Case the Designer” is Kylie Bertucci and the Global Design Project is #GDP008 and I was inspired initially by the large circle so I built my card around that. I made a smaller…