All my rowdy friends

     Does this include you? :-)  Don't say no, cause I can name off several of you who qualify.  LOL   Yes, that includes you, TTT DT member Lisa!
     Last week I was asked by the ladies at Top Tip Tuesday to be a guest designer for them when my "Blueberry Girl" won their "Caught Our Eye" spot for the last challenge.






     This week's challenge is "Anything but a Card" and their sponsor is Robyn's Fetish.  I knew I had this adorable RF image that I wanted to use, but I wasn't sure WHAT I was going to make.  The more I looked at the image, the more that old Hank Williams, Jr. song kept running through my head.  I  mean these guys look like their having a good ole time don't they.  :-)  Well the friends theme got me thinking of keeping in touch and I decided I would make a little notebook for email and snail mail addresses.  I've seen so many cute altered notebooks and journals so I set off to Michaels to scour the $1 bins for an easy to alter book.  I wanted to find one that I could easily take the cover off of and found this cute spiral one.  I actually bought two of these.  The first one had red wire and pink pages which REALLY clashed with my image after I finished the cover.  LOL  I went back to see if they had a green one.  No green wire, but yellow wire and green pages.  Much better.  :-)
     Nothing elaborate here.  I covered the cover with kraft  paper, then matted with some fun green plaid.  The image was printed on kraft and colored with Prisma's and OMS.  A little sewing, computer generated sentiment, and a couple of layered Prima flowers with a button for the finishing touches.
     So pop over to the Top Tip Tuesday challenge blog, check out all the DT examples and play along with anything but a card.  :-)
     I discovered last night that I had been picked as one of the Top Five at the new Fashionista Challenge blog.  They are doing something kind of cool by allowing the public to vote a People Choice Award winner from the five top picks.  If you remember my sweet little Easter card with Murray from Saturated Canary here and liked it, I'd love for you to pop over there and vote for me.  If it's not one of your faves then maybe you'd like to vote for my buddy Alyce's gorgeous Elven Samaneh.  My Aussie friend has mad coloring skills.  :-)
     I'd like to enter my little notebook into the following challenges:

Crafting For All Seasons--anything but a card
Simon Says Stamp--anything goes
Creative Craft Challenges 2--let's see some animal antics
Oldie But a Goodie--on the farm or in the garden (the kraft paper is over six months old and the Prima flowers are about three YEARS old LOL)
Party Time Tuesdays--anything goes + kraft  (LOVE YA JEN!!!)
Love To Create--anything goes
Tammy's Scrappin' Corner--anything goes with the twist of critters
The Outlawz Greeting Card Challenge--inspired by a song
Di's Digi Designs--let's meet your animal friends
Paper Play--animal antics

     Have a fabulous day!


Supplies

• Paper:  Recollections Kraft
• Stamp:  Robyn's Fetish "Friends Forever", Make It Crafty "Crooked Picket Fence"
• Ink:  Prismacolor pencils and OMS, Vintage Photo and Walnut Stain Distress inks
• Tools:  sewing machine
• Miscellaneous:  Prima flowers, The Paper Studio button, Kraft Outlet hang Tag String, Michael's $1 bin Spiral Notepad