Guest Designer–Patricia St. Martin–A Party At Gilli’s House!

Welcome to our first Guest Designer Post!  We are so excited to have the very talented Patricia St. Martin as our Guest Designer for our Use Green Challenge!  Be sure to check out her amazing work over on her her blog Rubber Stamping is my Game.  Check out the amazing project she made for us! 

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Gilli was very curious about Patricia and asked her a few questions.  Here is the interview:

Gilli: How long have you been crafting and what are your favorite crafts?

Patricia:  The very first thing I want to say that I'm so happy to be here and say THANK YOU for having me be the FIRST GUEST DESIGNER AT THE HOUSE OF GILLI BLOG. All my life I have been doing some kind of crafting. When I discovered rubber stamps it was in the late 1980's. I totally fell in love with stamping. It did not take long and I started designing and creating my own cards. I also started teaching at several of the stores in our town. I know that was my calling. I love to teach people anything when it comes to my creating. I can not say I never loose my mojo but so far I have not had a problem with coming up with ideas and I have several of my friends that come to me for ideas and I have not failed them. I can not put a couple of pieces of paper together and call it a card. I need to put my hard and soul into it, that is what it is all about. When I give someone a card I'm giving them a piece of me and a gift.

Gilli:  What do you like best about Gilli Stamps?

Patricia:  I love how the Gilli stamps are made. The rubber is a really good red rubber that is strong. They have a deep cute in the image so their is no chance to make a mistake when you are stamping your image on your paper so the Gilli stamps stamp perfect every time you stamp them. And that fact the Gilli's girls are so cute.

Gilli:  Tell us a little about yourself.

Patricia:  I'm retired. I love it!!! I'm married now 44 years. We have 3 wonderful sons. David the oldest still single, Kurt the middle who is married to Jessica and has given me 2 wonderful grandchildren Aiden age 9 and Emma age 5. Robert my youngest still single but has given me one grandson Isaiah who is 13. I have one stamp club I run we are called the  K-Town Stampers, we get together the first Thursday of each month we do projects, make and takes, makes cards for Soldiers last year we sent over 1,000 cards. I all so belong to another club and we are just a group of friends that get together and make all kinds of things. I could go on but I'm sure this is way to much now.

Thank you so much Patricia for your great project and for being our very first Guest Designer!

Would you like to be a Gilli Guest Designer and have your project featured here?  To be considered as a Guest Designer – you just need to enter a Gilli project into our current Gilli Challenge.  It is that simple!  We will choose a guest designer from one of our Challenge entries that used a Gilli in their project.  So ink up your Gilli stamps and show us what you make!

Stole Gilli goes Green

Hi Everyone!  It’s Wini from LooneyBugDesigns with your GREEN project today!  I have to admit, green is not a color I normally use other then for foliage.  So…. when I saw anaRy’s Green challenge,  I was a little nervous.  But I do love to  St. Patrick’s Day and all fun I have with my kids dyeing all our food green.  Well I decided that If I can dye food green in March I can make a Green Paper Creation.

I decided to make a different sized project.  This card is 3x5 1/2.  Something different.  Stole Gilli is all dressed up for a St. Patrick’s Day party.  Her lovely green and brown dress with matching stole, cap, hair accessory, purse and shoes.  I love all her accessories.  Her pretty Irish red hair sticking out from under her cap is so cute!  I colored her with my Copic Sketch markers and added a few white highlights. 
I stamped the You and Me on a Frou Frou Tag and added a few Crystal Gems with my I-Rock.   Gilli is resting on a Color Me White flower (highlighted with a green Copic) and an Anglaise Lace Circle die.
I can’t wait to see your Green Project!  Be sure to enter it into the Inlinkz above this post – and remember you don’t have to use a Gilli but if you do you will not only get 2 entries into the random draw but will also be considered for a Guest Designer spot for our next challenge!!!

House of Gilli Challenge #2 :: Use Green!

Hello everybody!!! Here we are again with a brand new challenge for you!!! The very fist Gilli challenge was just so much fun!!! So let’s make this one a even bigger party…Spread the word! We have a few surprises!
House of Gilli Challenge #2 calls for one thing….easy breezy…USE GREEN! Yeap…put a little bit of this very eco friendly color in your creation and link over here! We will love to see you around!!! You can use any stamp for your creation BUT if you bring your Gilli you get DOUBLE chance to win! This is just too easy : )….just kidding…well it is : ).
Let me tell you now about my little project…St. Patrick’s day is around the corner and Gilli literally put on the TEE! Yeah she is dressed in green! Well, according to recent tradition you must wear green and be merry! Now if someone dare not to dress for the occasion ..you can pinch them! For real! Okay not too hard : ). I created this little Gilli St. Patrick card..that actually carry a little surprise…a cupcake!!!!!!!!!!! What is better then a cute cupcake with green buttercream to make someone happy? LOL…The cool thing is that this project idea can also be used as a nice place setting or a little goddie basket for your guest on a St.Patrick themed party!

Gilli tee was colored with copic markers…I cut the balloon card by hand and used K&Company papers and white pen. The little balloon basket is made of Sizzix bigz die cut…the basket was also decorated with copic markers..The little clovers were made from cardstock with  pattern that I created and cut by hand. All the sparkles… Stickles! I will be adding more details of this project on Gilli blog a little later today…
Now it is your turn to bring your green! No, no money here just a cute little project!! Please link you project using the inlinkz tool on the top of this blog. Don’t forget to drop by…we have a new inspiration from the DT team everyday! You don’t want to miss that!
See you around…we love reading your comments…and visiting all your cute blogs!
Oh yeah…I guess you want to know who won right the very fist Gilli Challenge…..lol…..
NANCY BROWN!!!
Nancy congrats and shoot us an email at anary@anary.com , please add House of Gilli#1 winner on the subject : )
Oh we will be choosing a honorable mention soon….and the lucky person will be invited to be a guest DT in the house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Yipeeeeeeee!!!

Huggies ,

anaRy