Prom Night!

We sure have a lot going on at Color Me Creative Classroom challenge.

NEW CHALLENGE #21 will run until July 8th!
The challenge this time is all about, Coloring Folds, Pleats and/or Ruffles!
Use the Inspiration Photo below to inspire your project if you'd like but your image should have either Folds, Ruffles or Pleats on it.  If it doesn't you can easily create the look of folds on your images.  Any color will do, be creative and most of all have FUN!!! 
Photo Inspiration

We are super lucky to have a FABULOUS SPONSOR this challenge---Tiddly Inks.
Christy Croll is the very talented artist and owner and she has a ton of images that fit in this challenge or ones that are just super cute and fun to color!  You can check out her store below!

A $20 Gift Certificate to spend at Tiddly Inks thanks to Christy!!
UPLOAD YOUR ENTRIES to the Photo Gallery and TAG them with the word "FOLDS" so they can be seen easily!
Entries MUST be tagged and uploaded to the photo gallery by July 8th at 8:00 pm EST!  PLEASE ALSO PUT YOUR PROJECT IN THE LINK SYSTEM BELOW THE PRIZE INFO AS WELL SO WE CAN SEE THEM ALL!
My image that I used from Tiddly Inks is called “Bride and Groom”. The image is just beautiful. I made a step card, they are so easy to make and also look so nice. I used the Spellbinders Pata Set, I used the corner and the border from the set and Martha Steward Large Wild Flowers Border and Corner. The flower, dragonfly and flourishes are from Magnolia Dies.

There are also pearls, soft peach gems, soft blue gems. I did sponged around the flower, dragonfly and the flourishes with some distress ink aged mahogany.
At the bottom of there feet, it is like a tinsel silver in color, very small but I do not know what it is called and I put some bunched up ribbon in peach.

The sky B0000, B91, C00, C1 after I put those colors around I applied 00 all over the background so those colors would blend some and then I went over lightly with my template and brilliance ink sky blue. Her Hair E57, E55, E53, E51, E50. His hair E33, E30, YR23, Y20. Jacket C00, C1, C3. C3, C5, C7, C9. Shirt  C00, C1, Pants C1, Shoes C1, C3, Floor E43, E44. Her dress R20, R22. I added some peach glitter and some black glitter.
I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Thanks for stopping by.
Gilli Challenge- ribbon or lace ends July 3rd
Hugs, Patricia

Flying High for America

It is time for CARDS FOR MEN CHALLENGE #13 http://cardsformen.blogspot.com/ and the theme for the challenge is “STATRS”  The challenge starts June 20th, 2011 and ends July 3rd, 2011. Our Sponsor is The Stamping Boutique. There Website is http://thestampingboutique.com/ I cut my card out with Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Labels #11.
Logo:

Blurb:      I'm Tracey Malnofski, the artist and owner of The Stamping Boutique. My team and I are very happy to sponsor Cards for Men. My store has been open since September 2009. I am currently a stamp artist for Unity Stamp Co. and I've worked for In Style Stamps, Squigglefly, and The Digi Shack in the past. I'm a professional artist and an active member of the Artist' Guild in my community. I have quite a busy household with a husband, 3 teenagers, 5 mini-dachshunds and an Appaloosa mare. It's noisy, but I love them all. I'm truly blessed.
"The Stamping Boutique" is dedicated to quality products and original artwork. We not only provide wonderful digital images in our store, but also several lines of red rubber images. Our designers are chosen for their character and personality,as well as, their beautiful designs. We work hard to give you our very best. Thank you so much for having us as your sponsor this week. Used one of Tim Holtz Alterations Mini Paper Rosettee it has two sizes.The sentiment is from Meljen it was a Free one. I sponged around with with Brilliance ink Shy Blue added some stars and a gem heart. This punch is from stampin up it is called designer label. The little fibers you see that is what is called Fantasy Ferber and it comes in all colors. Little white and red stars are punched out of Funky foam, Eva Glitter Sheets. Put Diamond Glaze all over the plane so it would shine. The little stars are punched out with a corner punch.

Send Good Wishes, I made two different cards.

 Sorry I have not been around much. Not been feeling very good but I’m fine and get back on track
 again. I made these cards for one of my clubs I belong to and I wanted to share then with you. We had to make a Birthday card. Of course nothing simple for me but this was not that hard at all and all the girls really like it in fact most of then made two. They thought it turned out so nice it would make a great Wedding card. Here is the second one I made also.

  As you can tell they are pretty much the same, I just used different punches and die cuts on then. I used my favorite color Brilliance Ink Sky Blue. Sponged around most everything tried to do it lightly. The sentiment was one I wrote using my word program.The embellishments are the same on both cards blue gems and pearls. I used a Pearl card stock and my sentiment would not go though my printer with that card stock so I had to use just my regular card stock that is why I used the Brilliance Ink Sky Blue it helps to hide the two different papers. Everything else is cut or punched out with the Pearl card stock.

   The first card I called Send good wishes and the second one I called Special Day. Now I will try and tell you what dies and punches I used on each card.
Start with Send Good Wishes. The card are center step cards (Both) Very easy to make. The center sentiment I cut out with Large Floral Doily Motifs Spellbinders Shapeabilities. I used mostly punches on this card Martha Stewards Monarch Butterfly. Garden Trellis, Doily Lace Trim, Double Pop Up Water Lily, Rock Fern that is from Punch Bunch.
Special Day. This is the main Spellbinders sets I used. So you can see what pieces. The sets are called Floral Doily Motifs and Floral Doily Accent and you can get both these sets ay Susana’s Custom Art and Card Design Store.

I also used on the Special Day card Magnolia Doohickeys dies the Flowers, Dragonfly and the flourishes. No punches.
Thanks so much for stopping by. Glad to be back.
Hugs, Patricia

Spa Time

I’m back again with my card for the SCACD Friends with Heart Challenge card this week We are doing Challenge #10 and it is a sketch. It ends Monday June 14 12:00pm.

My stamp I’m using is one of Victoria Case’s it is called “Spa Time” and I stamped my image with Memento Tuxedo black on Cryogen Heavenly White card stock. The Pearls are Bella Baubles string of Pearls. Used the Epiphany Craft Shape Studio Tool Solid Round 14 and I have the Epiphany Crafts Shape Studio Accessories Bubble Caps. You can get all these thing right at Susan’s Customs Art and Card Design Store and a hold lot more. I cut out my stamp with The Spellbinder Scalloped Oval and sponged around it with Brilliance ink “Sky Blue”. The Paper I used is from Affinity by The Paper Studio. Used Diamond Glaze and Stickles Glitter glue “Star Dust”. The three things I have punched out are from Martha Steward, that is her “Vintage Doily” punch.

The Copic markers I used are Cup B02, B00, B04. Water B0000, B01. Towel YR20, YR21, YR23, Flower Y02, Y06, Y08, Skin E11, E00, Hair E33, E31, Bee’s Y02, Y06, YR23 and the leaves YG93, YG95. You also can buy copic and refills from Susan’s store.

Thanks for stopping by. I hope everyone had a great week end and will have a wonderful week full of sunshine.

Hugs, Patricia

Flora sitting by the flowers.

I hope everyone has a wonderful Saturday and welcome to my blog. This card is for the Color Me Creative Classroom. This is my first card being on the design team and the NEW CHALLENGE #20 will run until June 24th BY 8:00PM EST. It is a BI-MONTHLY CHALLENGE. Your challenge this time is all about BRUNETTES!!! You have to use COPIC MARKERS TO JOIN IN ON THE CHALLENGE.

Use the Inspiration Photo below to inspire your project if you'd like but your image should have HAIR on it and should be colored in tones of brown to create a brunette look!  We love brunettes 'eh?  LOL!  Lots of ways to do this, make sure to check out the DT's creativity below if you click on the picture of the brunettes hair it will take you to a video of all the DT’s cards and you can see what we all did for inspiration as well!

UPLOAD YOUR ENTRIES to the Photo Gallery and TAG them with the word "BRUNETTE" so they can be seen easily!

Entries MUST be tagged and uploaded to the photo gallery.  PLEASE ALSO PUT YOUR PROJECT IN THE LINK SYSTEM. THE PRIZE INFO AS WELL SO WE CAN SEE THEM ALL!

The Prize for the winner of this challenge (randomly chosen) will get: -3 Copic Markers -or- Refills of your choice -$20 Gift Certificate to 7 Kids College Fund

Here is a color chart to help you put some colors together, I hope it will help you with putting some brunette colors together.-NEW PDF File HERE and in the RESOURCE tab on this site and all the classroom sites called "Copic Coloring Combos"! It's a list of multiple Copic color combos for each color family, along with favorite color combos for fun items and repeat colors that you don't need to spend $$ on!!

 

This is the inside of my card. The image I’m using is from Sugar Nellie it is called “Flora”. Dies I used are: Magnolia’s Dragonfly, lovely Fence, lovely swirl. Spellbinders Large Standard circles. Punches are Bunch Punch’s branch, hydrangea. Martha Steward grass The paper is from Die cut with a View. Paper for the flowers and the dragonfly was some foil paper I had.

Here are the Copic markers I used.

Dress YG91, YG93, YG95, YG97, YG99, E81, E87 I love these colors together.   
Hair- E37, E35, E33, E31, E50.
Shoes- C01

Face-E00, E11

 

      

 

If you are interested Suzanne has classes and you can check then out here. They start from COPIC CLASS BEGINNERS 1, LEVEL 2, LEVEL 3, LEVEL,4 SUZANNE IS WORKING ON A LEVEL 5 SOON TO COME. COLORING WITH DISTRESS INKS CLASSES CALSS 1, COLORING WITH PRISMA PENCILS LEVEL 1 AND LEVEL 2. So their is something for everyone. So all you have to do is click on CLASS PRICING. Suzanne is having a summer special going on right now.

Have a great week end and enjoy the sun. We are finally going to have some sun today we have not seen the sun in several days and it has been pretty cool or you might want to say cold here it was in the 50’s can you believe that?

 

Hugs, Patricia 

 

It is a little late but This challenge is in Honor of Memorial Day.

With Memorial Day already over with all I could think of was Happy Birthday America. Memorial Day or July 4th I’m so proud of our Soldiers each and every one of then. So I created this card. Theme of the challenge is they want to see STARS in Honor of Memorial Day, This is for the Challenge #9 at SCACD Friends with Heart Challenge Blog. You need to use one of the stamps that they sell at Susana’s Custom Art and Card Design Store, I love the stamps she sells you should stop by and see all the wonderful ones she has in the store and she also has a lot of other things also. The stamp I used is from Victoria Case and is called “CELEBRATE”. The paper I used was Cryogen Heavenly white that is my favorite. I stamped the stamp with Memento ink tuxedo black. I used a Spellbinder Big Scalloped Ovals Large to cut the cake out. The paper I used in the background is from Die Cuts with a View.

 

I punched the stars out with the Funky foam. That foam has so much glitter and it looks so pretty. I cut the sentiment out of paper.

I tried to make one of those banners that people hang in front of their house.

I’m playing with my new toy. I just got Tim Holtz Alterations sizzix Decorative strip Rosettes it has 2 sizes. The upper one is the larger one and this one is the small one. I did not want to big of ones because then I can not put then on my cards, this size is perfect.

This is it, the stamped image. The copic colors I used are R21, R22, R24, R27, R29, B21, B23, B24, B26. I used the Gellie Roll Clear star. Spica colors sky blue, orange, chocolate, yellow, red, melon and olive. i-Rock come in crystal or studs. I think they are made by imaginisce called hot rocks. i-Rock has a melting tool and what you do is put these little studs where you want then and then you use the heat tool and the top of the studs or crystals and maybe count to 5 seconds and the heat tool melts the glue that is under the studs and they are on your project. I got then at Michaels. I have had mine  for awhile but I have not used then so I better get then out and use then. Trying to use all my things I have.

I hope you are having a great week end. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Patricia

SMALL WONDERS

I made my card for a challenge at CMC Copic Challenge. So if you work with copics stop by and join our challenges we have some wonderful prizes and most of all GREAT people. You need to upload your card to the link and to the gallery and TAD it “FLUFF” Challenge ends June 10th 11.59pm. The Theme is FEATHERS.
That is what these Ruby-Throated (Anna’s) Hummingbirds are. They can do magical things. When I’m at my brothers house in Austin Texas her has then in early spring tell they leave. He get quite a few of then every year and I just love watching then one year we even got then one video, they are fast. I used my Birds and Bloom Magazine to get a good picture of then. I found a really awesome one it is called Rufous sometimes called Bully hummingbird because it is very serious territory it lives mostly in the north Alaska area and makes a trip back to Mexico it is over 4,000 miles. These images are from Tiffany Doodle Store. These are the Hummingbirds image and the flowers are called Petals Up image. I sponged the sky with Brilliance ink color Sky blue. Green ribbon and metal dots. The Small Wonder stamp is from Stampin up.
Here is the close up and I used copic. These are the ones I used R14, R17, R81, R83, R85, R89. E30, E31, E33, C00, C01, YG21, YG23, YG25, YG91, YG93, YG95. Spica Pens Red, Melon, Pitch Black.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you are having a good week.

Paper Creations Ink- Ribbon or lace ends June 14

Hugs, Patricia

Graduation Day 2011

I just finish this drawer card for one of my best friend who just Graduated from Collage. I’m so proud of her. I was with her when she first started and believe me it has been years and she has gone though a lot of ups and downs and I’m still here for her. I wanted to make her something really special and I know she will treasure for the rest of her life. I thought she could put some special things in the drawer. I also reinforced everything with cardboard so it should last a long time. Blue is her favorite color so I did a lot in blues. The Graduation girl and the class of 2011, I found is from Digital Delight shop. The Congrats image I found at Stamp Fairy. I did used Spellbinder Labels #8 the large one to cut out the the cardboards and cut out the paper I wanted on top. The blue the is behind the girl is the labels #8 it is the second on in and I cut her out with labels #8 3rd one in. I hope you understand that. I created the bottom myself. I can give you a pattern from Splitcoast stampers, it is different then mine but I’m sure you all know me, I do it my way.


Here is with the drawer open. I did line the inside of the drawer. I also took a picture before I put the watermark on so you can see what the front of the drawer looks like. I had a little piece of wood that swirled so I put that on the front and I had this little knob and I colored it with Copic E49 because it was unpainted.


 

 Several of my friends we are going to take her out to dinner on Friday and spend some time together, we always have a good time together.
I added a charm to her card, I thought she would like that. Something she could keep.
I used my copic. Hair E29, E25, E31. Face E11, E00, Sky BOOOO, B91, C00, C01, 0. Grass YG61, YG63, G94, G85. Diploma C1.
Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week.
Challenge
Just some lines- Graduation ends June 3
Cas-ual Friday- Graduation ends June 3

Hugs, Patricia

Come along now.

This is from the New release called The Natural Beauty collection from Carmen Medlin. This stamp is called “The Traveler”. I did for the challenge at SCACD Friends Challenge Blog with Heart  and for this week it is anything but it ends on Monday May 27th at 12:00pm and you can tell I’m really late with my card. If I was not this late I would do my dog over again. I’m not happy with how her turned out. I just love this stamp and I’m going to do it again. The dog is so beautiful but I did not do him right. I’m happy with how my lady turned out. The girls on the Design Team did a wonderful job this week on their cards you should stop over and check out their cards. The paper I used id from K & Co. the set is called Winter Wonderland. I did cut out The Traveler and used pop dots to raise her up. I added some yellow ribbon. Also some gem stones.

Now you can really see what I mean about the dog. Here is the close up of the stamped image. I used copic markers. Her dress BG70, BG72, BG75, BG78. Shall YG23, YG25, YG21. Feather in her hair Y06, Y02. For her hair, dog, the brown on her dress and her face E00, E11, E30, E31, E33, E35, E41, E42, E43, E44, E47, E50, E59.

I do want to thank everyone that has commented on my cards. I have had a problem commenting on peoples blogs and from what I understand other people are having the same problem. Personally I’m really tired of this. I get to the blog and I write everything out and I go to post and it tells me I’m ANONYMOUS… Then it want me to sign into blogger and I do but it just keeps doing it over and over again. I sure wish they would get this fixed because I’m tired of this. Sometimes I get lucky and the comment will post but most of the time it will not post so I’m not staying away from you blogger is not letting post a comment and I do not know what to do.

Thanks you for stopping by. I hope you have had a wonderful Memorial week end. Here in Wisconsin it was not very nice. It was very cool and rainy so I hope it was nice by you. Have a great week.

Hugs, Patricia