Of all good things upon the earth a faithful friend is best

It is time for our new challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and for this week the challenge is ANYTHING GOES WITH A TWIST WITH A GATEFOLD CARD. I made my card for a friend that was in the hospital, glad to say she came home today. If you do not know how to make a Gatefold card here is a link so you can join us.

In the front I added a sentiment I just love, some ribbon and used a couple of Martha Steward punches classic butterfly  and the monarch butterfly. The paper is from Die Cuts with a View.

I cut out my image with spellbinder die cut floral oval. My image is from Nicecane it is from his collage sheet of Little Magic Girls.  As you can see I went inside with the ribbon also it looked so pretty as well as the butterflies. Martha Steward butterfly edger.

Sponged around the image with brilliance coral ink, added some pink pearls to the frame, used some deco art glamour dust and added some stickles star dust for some more sparkle. Thanks for stopping by. I can’t believe it is almost the week end already. Say goodbye to May and welcome to June.
Challenges

Come and get it- Butterflies and flowers June 8

Summer Days

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Memorial Day week end spending time with your family’s. I had a wonderful time with family and working out in the yard. It was somewhat HOT but it did feel pretty good. I have not seen this shape of card around much but I received a card from a dear friend like this for my birthday and I had to make one so I email her and found out some information about the card so this is what I found out it is designed by Peerless and called Stubby Diamond card. I do have to tell you it is very important to have your measurements exacts because if you don’t it will not fold together right. I know because I had to redo it several times, but I got it.  The image I have here is from Nicecrane Designs, he has created a couple sets of these wonderful Little Magic Girls  and Little Magic Girls 2, if you would like to check them out. He also has some incredible collage sheets of The Wizard of Oz.

I did take several pictures of the finished card just incase in wanted to make it this way you can see how it looks done in different angles. The spellbinder I used is called lacey circles, Brilliance ink Victorian violet and sky blue. Diamond glaze, ribbon, Ice Stickles grape ice, mint ice and star dust. The little pearls and stuff I got in the bridle department at Hobby Lobby.

This is a picture of the inside.

Here you can see more of the front but on a side view. I hope these help.

This is from the back.

From the top.

I do hope you enjoyed my card. If you have any questions please ask. I do know the directions are in centimeters here you can convert inches and centimeters because I find it hard to change it to inches so this should help you change it to inches. Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges
Simon says- Anything June 7
Celebrate The Occasion- challenge #64 June 3
Crafts and Me- Add a ribbon June 4
Divas by Design- Challenge #37 anything goes June 4 
Inky Impression- Summer Fun June 6
Pennys Challenge- Chellenge #80 anything goes June 5

Color Me Creative Challenge Blog Hop to start off Suzanne’s “Summer Sale”!!!

Welcome to a special Color Me Creative site blog hop!! The Design Team has put together some awesome creations using The Saturated Canary's digital images to help Suzanne Dean start off her "Summer Sale". This means... DISCOUNTS on all CMC classes during the summer!!! A fabulous time to take the classes you've been wanting to and maybe a few more to help your creativity continue to blossom and grow all throughout the summer!!! Be sure to start your summer off right! Here is the project I created....

To kick-start the CMC Summer Sale! Starting May 25th thru August 24th all CMC Classes will be on sale and bundled classes will be on special too...see the CMC Classroom for more details!  It’s a fabulous time to take advantage of classes and once you sign up you get a full year in each of the classes you register for...but you can also buy them now and SAVE them to start this fall...you 1 year term does not start until you sign into a class.
We hope you hop along with the CMC DT today to see all the fabulous creations and be inspired! If you leave comments along the way on the DT blogs you will be entered to win some fabulous prizes including a Free CMC Copic Online Class, a $20 Gift Certificate to SCACD and a $20 Gift Certificate to 7 Kids College Fund! We hope you enjoy the hop and thank you for joining us today. Be sure to stop over and check out all the classes offered at CMC!
 

                                       

The challenge #44 ends June 8 and you need to upload your card at Color Me Creative gallery and the inlinkz and tag your card with the word PINKGREEN. Here are some samples to give you an idea for the colors.

The image I used from Saturated Canary’s is called “Springtime”. The dies are spellbinders foliage and scalloped circle. The paper I used is from K & Company.

 
Added a slick flower and tipped the petals with shimmerz opal. Add a couple buttons. Used memento ink bamboo leaves to give some extra color to the leaves.

 
Here are the copic markers I used to color my image and I did used some spica pens colors melon and pink. Here is a close up of the image.

Now hop on over to see what they’ve created today!  Remember to leave a comment so you will be able to be in for the prizes.

Blog Hop Order:

Suzanne

Alyce Keegan

Tina

Brook

Anary

Melanie

Marie

Pat  (ME)

Jenn Michele Spera
Sandie Dunne
 Dana Joy
Steph Lee
Suzanne Foard
 Andi Murdock
Shelby Goolsby
Renkata Pacheva

Thanks so much for stopping by, I do hope you have enjoyed yourself. I do hope you enjoyed all the cards the design teams has made. Have a wonderful Memorial Day.
Challenge
Joyful stamper- anything goes

Fishing

It is time again for the challenge at The Outlawz at Twisted Thursday and for this week the challenge is ANYTHING GOES WITH THE TWIST OF SPORTS.  The challenge ends on May 30th so we would love to see what you can come up with. The stamp I used is from Northwood's stamps , the fishing pole is from Lasting impression and the birds are from Stampscapes. I did mask my image I used Eclipse sticky adhesive. Stamped everything with Memento Tuxedo black. I distressed the edges and I used 4 of each color on the corners and 2 blue ones of brads. I have found I never use brads anymore so I’m trying to use then more as I have so many. Created the background with distress inks and  sponge's, the colors I use are mustard seed, wild honey, scattered straw, bundled sage, forest moss, stormy sky's, tumbled glass and chipped sapphire.
These are the copic markers that was used to color the image. Tried some twinkling H2o’s iridescent blue to give the fish a fishy look not sure if it even helped. Added some white liquid applique and heated it a little so it would bubble up some to give the look of some waves. Used some diamond glaze from Jude kins to give a shinny look on the water and the fish.
You can see the fish a little better now with the close up but I’m not sure if I like it or not and I tipped with a little white on the branches to give them a little highlight.

I hope you can join us at Twisted Thursday if you can’t stop by and see the DT’s cards, the girls all did a wonderful job. Thanks so much for stopping by and have a wonderful Memorial Day week end everyone.

Challenge
Simon says- male card

Congratulations and we have a DT call

Hello to all my wonderful followers! We had a fantastic week end here in Wisconsin beautiful sun shine and nice warm to a little too warm for me but the garden is all planted but still have some flowers I want to change and add. I put my Hummingbird feeder out yesterday and had some little visitor come by, I was so excited. I feed my birds all year around, I love seeing them come around. I wish I could keep the black bird away but I guess they have to eat also. Can you believe May is almost over. I sure hope things start slowing down.

We had a fantastic turn out for our last challenge so I want to thank everyone that join us. Now it is time for Challenge #11 at Cards For Men the theme can be anything but you need to have the word “CONGRATULATIONS” somewhere on your card.  The challenge ends June 3, 2012. So you have a lot of time.  Our sponsor for this challenge is Meljen and the prize is 4 digi’s.

 

Meljen's Designs is a lovely stamp company owned and illustrated by Melissa Jenkins. She illustrates whimsical rubber and digital images inspired by her kids and family. Meljen's Designs has new releases along with a new challenge every Thursday, freebies every Monday and a Guest Designer each month at the Meljen's Designs Blog. Please visit the Meljen's Designs line of stamps at http://www.meljensdesigns.com/ and browse and enjoy Melissa's wonderful images! The image I used for the challenge is called Topsy Turvy Birthday Cake. My sentiment is from The Angel Company.


The spellbinder I used to cut out my image is called FLORAL OVAL, I do have to say I just love this set. McGill’s punch 3inch Word Tag to cut out the sentiment and is stamped with Memento Rich Cocoa ink and sponged a round the edges.  Paper is from DCWV the stack is called Sweet Premium. Added some brown pearls and ribbon. These are the copic markers I used to color my image. I did use some Spica colors sky blue, baby blue, yellow, orange and lipstick.




I just love that rich brown look. If you are interested in joining us for the Design Team we are looking for 4 new members and all you have to do is enter a card and put your name and put DT just after your name for example PATRICIA DT, you only need to do 2 cards a month and it is a great way of getting cards done if you have a lot of guys in your life. Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a wonderful week.

Meljen Challenge- Colors of Black 
Inspired Me Friday- Anything goes

Toadally Awesome

Hello everyone, I hope you are having a wonderful week end. I wanted to share my card with you this is one of Saturated Canary images called Frog Princess. Just want to tell you Krista is moving her blog so if you can’t fine the store give it a day or so and Krista should everything moved. Over at Color Me Creative we have a challenge going on it is ANYTHING GOES, so if you would like to join us we would love to see your creations.
I add three buttons each a different color, they are shaped like little flowers and for the middle used scrappers floss yellow, orange and dark blue. The paper used is from Paper Studio Designer Paper called Affinity Paper Pack. Added brads 2 green, 2 yellow and 2 blue. The sentiment is from The Angel Company.

These are the copic markers I us3ed to color my image. Here is the close up of my image.

It is still taking me a little time posting but each day I think I’m getting a little better. Thanks for stopping by have a super Sunday.

 

I did it!!! with my signature.. One more thing I learned.

GOTTA, LOVE THEM! They are just too funny.

Rainy Days

Hello all my wonderful friends. We have our challenge for The Outlawz Twisted Thursday starting today. The challenge is ANYTHING GOES ON A RAINY DAY. Stop on over and check out the design teams cards everyone did a fantastic job. The images I used for my card is from Sassy Cheryls and is called “Land Swimmer’s”, I thought it would work with the theme we have for this week and it is a fun image. So the challenge ends on May 23, and we would love to see your creation. So I hope you can join us this week.

I had some problems putting my watermark on my first card as you can see but I did figure it out. I’m still having some problem trying to get everything to work right. I uploaded a image and I still can not find where it went. I had Window XP and now I have Windows 7 and so far I’m not to happy with Window 7. It takes me forever to do anything. Sorry you did not want to read this. But I know you will understand.

These are the copic markers I used to color my image. This is a pretty simple card. Add Diamond Glaze to give a wet look. The clip I added to the card is called Classic Clips I have had them for a long time. I have 4 different one’s 2 in gold and 2 in silver each has a different look. I do not know if you can even order them. Added glitter dots and a strip that had sticky on the back over the ribbon. Here is the close up of the image.
 

I do hope you like what I did. I tried some different colors and i9t was fun to do. So have a super week. I’m going to try and put my name on here but the last time it did not work so we will see if it works this time..
Sorry can’t figure how to get the black out of the box???

Hugs, Patricia

Don’t bug Me

Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful Mother’s out their. I hope you had a fantastic day with your family. I’m so excited today my guys got me a NEW computer for Mother’s Day, as you all now I have been having computer problems and this is my first time posting on my blog so hope everything posts and I have no problems. So today is the big day for me and I sure hope everything posts fine. Our NEW CHALLENGE AT COLOR ME CREATIVE has started and it is ANYTHING GOES.  The challenge ends May 25th 7:00 EST. Remember you can enter up to 3 cards in each challenge. Love to see what you create. Our sponsor for the challenge is Some Odd Girls. Stop by and check them out they have some wonderful images.
 

What I made is called a Spinner Card, when you tip the card from one side to the other the card spins on a circle. Most kids get a charge out of these cards. The stamp is from Whipper Snapper Designs stamp is called Lizzy Ladybug. My sentiment is from The Angel Company. Paper is from Die Cuts with a View. I stamped the image and the sentiment with Memento’s tuxedo black ink. Colored the image with copic markers.

Here is what the inside of the card looks like the person I made this for love ladybugs.

Here is the close up the image.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you had a great Mother’s day and week end. Here is another one of these cute pictures I have found hope they bring a smile to your face.

Hug, Patricia