Just the Two of us.

We are having our first snow storm for this year today. It sure looks pretty outside with the big snowflakes but I have to be honest I have not missed the snow at all. We normally get snow around the first of December so we have been real lucky this year. Over at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday Challenge for this week it is FRIENDSHIP. I have had this stamp set for a long time and I finally got a chance to use it, it is called just the two of us by Sheena Dauglass at Crafters Companion. I stamped all the stamps with memento tuxedo black on Crygoen paper and I have to be honest I do not think that is the best paper for using Prisma Colored Pencils because I did have some problems with my pencils on the paper so I think I will keep it for my copics. I can’t wait to color my stamp set with my copics. I punched out the sentiment with 1.75” scalloped punch. Added some distress ink around the edges dusty concord. I did cut out the clouds and added some Styrofoam Fluff. Put diamond glaze on the bottle, added some shells, ribbon. If you should join us you need to tag you card TT011212.
I hope you enjoy my card. Thanks for stopping by.

Challenges

Crafters Companion- Anything goes- ends January 31
Hugs, Patricia

Hot Pink girl

 
We are up and running with our Color Me Creative Challenge #34 and for the challenge we are doing Retro Fun in Hot Pink/Black/White. Challenge ends January 19th 8:00pm.  We would love to see what you can come up with. Our sponsor for this challenge is GUYLOU’S INIMITABILITY ONLINE STORE. My image is called Danni-goes shopping and she is from the store. So stop by the store.  
These are the copic markers I used to color my image. I wanted to try coloring her with a tie dye patterns. This is my first time trying that. Suzanne teaches how to color and make Tie Dye Patterns in her New Color Me Creative Class #5. I used my copic Multiliner SP 0.3 pink and 0.3 wine and the Spica Blossom and Pink. My Peace Sign Stamp is from Raisin Boat. I used Memento Dual Markers and applied the colors to the stamp, colors Rose Bud, Angel Pink and Lilac Posies. Then punches it out with a scalloped I had.
  
I used my Spellbinder Mega Ovals Large to cut Danni out and used the size up to add a ring around her and then added some Brilliance Coral ink to highlight everything. The large flowers I had in my stash.

She was fun to do and the Tie Dye was fun to learn. Their are other patterns I would like to try. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Patricia

Framed in Flowers

Good morning everyone. I hope you have a wonderful Thursday. For some reason I just can’t sleep tonight so I thought I would get this uploaded know and them I would not have to do it in the morning. Over at The Outlawz at Twisted Thursday challenge for this week The challenge is create a card with die cuts and punches. How fun is that?? Stop by and check out all the card the design team made the girls out did themselves again. Then you can read what you have to do when you want to enter your card. I would love to see what you come up with.
The hardest part is trying to think of what to do. I know we all have so many punches and all these wonderful die cuts. Trying to be a little different. First I embossed my top layer of pearl paper color peach with Tim holtz alterations Bricked folder. I used one of the new Distress inks color ripe persimmon and applied it with a sponged all over the brick and it did highlight the the brick area.
Now to make the frame used Spellbinder Fleur De Lis square the largest one. Spellbinders classic squares used the second larges and the next one down and taped with removable tape so they will not move and run them though my Big Shot. After that I had three pieces so I glued down the Fleur De Lis first then added some mounting foam to the small frame and centered it and I though it looked better with the pearl white in the back so I glued that down. I hope you understand that.
For the greens used Cherry lynn Tropic Flourish and Martha Steward Branch.

For the flowers Nellie Snellen flower FLP02, and The mini flower is from Punch a Bunch. For the corner used stamp’in up Ticket corner.

Added the Pearl pen in the center of the flowers colors Salmon, Sunny Yellow and Lilac. Put some ribbon from my stash on the card was going to put a bow but I really did not think it need it. I do hope you like my card. Thanks so much for stopping by. I do hope you give the framed card a try it really was not had to do and you can use any kind of your Spellbinders that you have as long as you have one that will fit in the middle so you can make a frame and just pop it up.

Challenge:

My Mum's Craft Shop- Something New ends Jan 10th

Simon Says Stamp- Something New ends Jan Jan 10th

Hugs, Patricia

We are Recycling at Card for Men

Starting 2012 out right, our Challenge #1 at Cards for Men is “RECYCLING”. 
These were Frappuccino bottles that you can buy at the store. They look like this after you drink the Frappuccino and most people put them in the garbage. I save mine because you can put so many things in them and give them as gifts.


I really can’t tell you how I cover the carton because I just measure it and cut out what I need and glue the card stock. The Paper I used is from DCWV The at home stack. Cut 1.50 inch strips about 10 inches long to go around the bottles, I used Martha Steward linked trim to go on top of the strips and weaved gold or blue ribbon in and out of each linked trim. The circles punch out 2 for each bottle are Stamp’in up 1.75 inch, and the scalloped punch out 2 for each bottle is 1.50 inch. Used .25 inch ribbon to go a round the bottle caps. I add the Fleur De Lis, I had them in my stash. They both where charms but I filed off the loop on the ones I add to the scalloped circle. I thought they would work nice because our last name is St Martin.

This is what I did to the tops. These work so nice for gifts because you can add different kinds of candy, bath salts, sewing things, put felt in the bottom and use them to hold all kinds of things. Just depends on how you decorate the bottles. If you give them a try let me know I would love to see what you do.

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Thanks for stopping by. Hope you had wonderful Holidays.
Hugs, Patricia

New Colors for COPIC, Have you seen the New Colors?

I’m so happy about the new colors. I love the Violets and Greens. I think I’m really happy about all the colors. Just thought I would share them with everyone.

G43 Pistachio, G46 Mistletoe, BG57 Jasper, BG90 Gray Sky, E84 Khaki, E89 Pecan,
BV34 Bluebell, V22 Ash Lavender, V28 Eggplant, RV52 Cotton Candy, R56 Currant, YR27 Tuscan Orange

In February 2012 these carefully chosen colors will be available in the Sketch Marker style, as well as Various Ink, bringing us to 358 total Copic colors.

Winter Wishes

Hello to all my friends. I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas and received all kinds of goodies from Santa. I hope everyone is looking forward to a brand New Year in 2012. Have you made your New Year resolutions yet? Starting next year what I want to do is enter my cards in more challenges. That is something I really do not like to do because to me it takes to much time and I never win anything anyways.
We have a new challenge going on at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday and it is starting today it is ANYTHING GOES OR MY FAVORITE THING AND STRIPES. The challenge ends on January 3, 2012. We would love to see what you come up with. You should stop by and see what the design team has made, everyone has out done themselves again.
This is a stamp from Heartfelt Creations it is called Cardinal Pine Cone Border stamp. I also have the die cut set of the birds but I love how the birds turned out so I did not use it. I took out my Birds and Blooms Magazine and tried to copy the coloring from that but I do say the female cardinal was the hardest to color. I did use some copic marker and prisma colored pencils. Brilliance sky blue ink I sponged around the birds and over the large snowflakes that is a Martha Steward punch called sky land snowflake. The snowflakes I have on top is a punch from Punch a Bunch. Not sure if you can tell I used Smooch Illuminate color to give the sky land snowflake some shimmer. Added some Pearl Pen color light green around the half circles.
Here is a closer look. I applied diamond glaze by Judi Kin’s, Aleene’s snow and some stickles glitter glue by Ranger color star dust to the needles. Added some stickles glitter glue color cinnamon on the pine cones. Used my Epiphany Craft and the bubble caps size #25 and #14 to add embellishments with some of the strip paper  and finished it off with some ribbon.
Thanks so much for stopping by. This is going to be the last card for 2011 so I will be back for 2012 looking forward in sharing my creations with everyone. I want to thank all my wonderful followers for taking the time to leave a comment for me. Those comments mean so much to me and I love all of you. So God Bless Everyone in the coming New Year.

Love to all, Patricia

 

Snowmen fall from Heaven

Happy First day of winter.. to all my friends. This card is just perfect to post on that day. Do you think??? The Outlawz Twisted Thursday has a challenge going on right now and it is to make a card with a snowmen and have lots of glitter. I made a side step card and here are the directions. I colored my snowmen with Prisma Color Pencils. I also did some paper piecing on him. My paper is from DCWV Winter Collection. The images I used are all from Digital Delight called, Flurry the pattern snowman, North Pole sign, Postcard and Stamp1. The sentiments used are all from The Angel Company. Burnish everything and stamped with Brilliance ink Jade color. I found some snowmen ribbon I had.

I had several of you ask me about the white stuff I used on another card and I used it on this one so I wanted to share it with you. I really like it, you need to use a paint brush to put it on and it does wash out with water and it dries real fast. I did find it on line so here is the link if you are wanting to buy it. You do not need to just use it on Christmas cards you can use it on your winter cards and I could see it being used for a bubble bath. I also put my own sparkles on top if the snow before it dries.

Thanks for stopping. Have a great week.

Merry Christmas Everyone, Patricia

Merry Merry Christmas

I made this card for someone that came into my life sometime around August of 2010. Her name is Suzanne Dean, she is a special lady. I remember when I first met her. I was so excited, I found someone that new about copic markers. I was one of those people that went out and picked out the colors because I liked the color. I new nothing about the letters and the numbers or anything else about copic.

She had talked about starting her classes and at Color Me Creative she started talking about having challenges. The first challenge Suzanne had was “grass”. Now Color Me Creative we are on Challenge #33. To me Suzanne is very special person. All of us girls that are on the DT wanted to something special for Suzanne. Just because she is so special to us and sometimes it is hard to tell someone, so we wanted to show her. So we (all 17 of us) worked together and set up a blog roll starting on the 15th of December and the last posting will be on December 23rd. Each of us then mails our card to her so she should receive something from us each day almost up to Christmas. For all the people that do not know Suzanne is a very loving, kind, caring, way too much fun to be with. I’m so happy to have you as my friend. I know… STOP IT…… Love you my friend.

I wanted to share this video with you. It is by Sandi Patty the song she sings is called Love in Any Language. Here are the words for the song.

I do hope you enjoyed the song. It means a lot to me because it say so much. There is so much knowledge and so many things to do over at Color Me Creative Classroom. I meet Suzanne this summer and she is a special lady. I took two of her On The Road Classes and I’m so glad I did because I got to meet Suzanne.  Now for tomorrow you need to go by Jenn and Dana.

Merry Christmas Suzanne, Hugs, Patricia

Santa

 
This is the last week end before Christmas. We got a little dusting of snow this morning when we got out of bed and it did stay on the grass but by the afternoon it was all ready melting. So not sure if we will have any snow for Christmas. I finished this card the other day and I wrote everything down and now I can’t fine my paper I wrote with on. So I will try my best. The card size is 5 by 5 and used Martha Steward snowflake punch around punches. This is a Prairie Fairy image and is called Santa and the deer. The sentiment is from MMD circle plate digi stamp. I cut out my image using the spellbinder rectangle and them I cut out two more times using the rectangle to make the frame.
Here is a close up of Santa. I did use my copic markers. I also added some of my Styrofoam fluff in white with some glitter in it for Santa’s sleeves, hat and jacket. I also added some crystal snow to the branches and the ground.

Thanks for stopping. Hope you are having a wonderful week end.

Merry Christmas to all my Wonderful Followers,
Patricia

Christmas Joy

Hope everyone has had a great week and is almost finish with their Christmas shopping. This is the time of year I like to stay out of the stores. It is really crazy out their. So I lit my fingers do the walking. Time this year has gone by so fast and I say that every year. Remember when you where a child, waiting on a Saturday for something you have planned with your friends and if seam like time took forever. So many things we did not know then. Even waiting for Santa and you thought he was never coming and that was for just one day and now we are talking about years!!!
We are starting a new challenge at The Outlawz Twisted Thursday, I do have to say the DT’s have more then out done themselves for this challenge you need to stop by and see all the wonderful cards and if you do please leave some love for all the girls. The challenge is GATEFOLD/HOLIDAY THEME. Their are all kinds of Gatefold cards here is one from Splitcoast stampers so if you would like to join us we would love to see your card. The challenge ends December 21, 2011.
This is the front of my card. Spellbinders Fleur De Lis Accents, I used two of the dies from that set. I also used Aleene glitter snow. I’m sorry it looks a little messy but some how when I was gluing the medallion in the middle the glue smeared on the left side and it did not look so good and that was the last thing to do. So what can I do??? But cover it up, so that is why the glitter snow is their. The sentiment stamp is from The Angel Company. The tag is punched out with Stampin’up Large and Extra Large tag punches. Used 1/16” hand punch from McGill’s to make a hold for the thread on the tag.

 
 
Here is a picture of it opening. I rounded all the edges wit the Zutter 1/2 inch corner rounder. I really like the Zutter because it will round pretty much any thickness. My paper is from Holiday Collection from DCWV. I used a sticker for the Merry Christmas and that is from Stampendous.

Here is the close up of an image from Mo Manning called Christmas Fairy Holly. I colored her with Prisma Colored Pencils. Burnish around the edges with Brilliance Pearlescent ink color Line. Spellbinder die is Fleurde Lis Rectangles. Add some Pearl Pen in Pearl White and Red.
Thanks so much for stopping by. I love all your comments and really appreciate it when you take the time to leave one. Merry Christmas everyone.

Merry Christmas Everyone, Hugs, Patricia