I'm Baaaaack!!!!!

I have so many cards to add today! I have not posted in a while so I have a lot of catching up to do!!!

Here are a few cards that I have done over the past few months:

I was away from my children for a couple of weeks, so I had made this to mail to them. Everyone loves to get mail (when it is not a bill!) I used Close to my heart stamps and paper.

This card I made for my husband while I was away. I used my Close to my Heart Paper and AMuse stamps. I stamped the usa on the paper and cut it out (inside the line) so you wouldn't see the ink. The heart is covered with glassy glaze to make it shine.

I had a lot of fun with this one. I embossed Cherry Cobbler with clear embossing powder then cut it out with a butterfly die cut. I love the effect it has when you add the embossed image on the die cut! I made this for my SIL. Got the idea from a Stampin up catalog.

This card is really a lot better in person. I really need to take a photography class! I made this for a birthday card. I die cut the butterflies in the brown paper so the lighter paper with the script would show through. I really like this effect! This paper is all My mind's Eye.

I have more so check back tomorrow! As always, I love comments and thank you for looking at my blog!

Shells For Sal

I really love this technique! I have used this AMuse shell set to make almost the same card, but I just really love this technique with anything beachy. I made this Birthday card for my Brother in Law. I hope that you like it!

I used A Muse Sea Shells, PTI inside out birthday and Father Knows Best, K & Co Paper, and Stampin up Paper.

Kid's Valentine Treats

As I said in my last post, I have been organizing my craft space. I have decided that I am not allowed to purchase any CS or DSP for at least 6 months....(really I should never purchase any, ever again.....but I know I will break at some point) So I set off to make easy valentines for my children to take to school using what I already had. Really...it wasn't hard to find supplies. My favorite holiday is Valentine's Day so I have a lot of paper.

I had a large amount of Valentine cards from Close to my Heart. They were the demo cards for a valentine kit that they sold MANY years ago. I had considered throwing them out many times in the past, but I finally decided that I would use them for the kids valentines for this year. I cut each card into 4 strips and the rest of the valentine was made with scraps that I had in my scrap paper drawer. I actually felt pretty good about using up supplies rather than buying new to make them. Having my supplies organized definitely helped with making them.

So...For the valentines, I used the Close to My Heart cards, red scrap cardstock , scrap white cardstock, 1/2" paper punch from Stampin up for the holes for the pencils,  The dog was a stamp from Technique Tuesday, Happy Valentine's day was from AMUSE studio, On the back is a happy valentine's day and to/from stamp that were both from PTI, Copics, and Heart stickers from AC Moore. It was a very easy card to make. I had to make 70 of them...so I needed something easy. I hope you like them!

Here they are:

Rin Give thanks

I just found another company called Sparkle Creations that has really cute stamps. I love the Rin line. My SIL loves all Asian themed stuff so I picked up a few of these stamps to make her some cards. This is a card I made for my friend. I used Autumn Rin, Buttons from A Muse, Paper from Basic Grey, and copics to color and a gold glitter pen to go over the ribbons  her hair and her Kimono. I hope you like it!

Itty Bitty Flower Challenge F4A76

I just got this spellbinders set that I am dying to use for halloween, but I decided to try it out for this Splitcoast challenge. The challenge was to use any itty bitty flowers that you have...DP, Stamps, prima's....whatever you had. I used y flower ribbon from A Muse. I really like it a lot. It is so easy to cut appart and add to a stamped image. I use CTMH Sonoma DP and my stamps are from A Muse and Papertrey ink. I hope that you like it! My pictures never show the colors the way they are suppose to.

A-Muse-A-Palooza Snow crystals

Wow...It has been a while! The kids are off from school so I have been busy with them. I had to bribe them today so i could just play along with a splitcoast challenge and use my NEW A Muse items from the winter catalog!!!! LOVE them!!!! If you want to see any of the new items, click on my A Muse link and download the winter catalog. Lots of really nice stuff in there! Anyway, here is today's creation Splitcoast challenge SC345:
**ALL ITEMS FROM A MUSE**


Sets: Snow Crystals, adnscript background
Ink: French Roast , sky
CS: french roast, sky, kraft, vanilla
accessories: A Muse snowflake Dies, A Muse Felt, french roast buttons, twine

Hope you like it!

You're a Fun-Gi

Hello! I did a little arts and crafts today with the kids to come up with a father's day card for them to make. I had gotten this stamp set from UNITY and I love it. Who would think you would be making a father's day card with a mushroom? (Or three???) The kids used the shaving cream technique to color their mushroom. They each picked out their ink colors (that is why they are all a little off on matching) We cut out the clouds with the A Muse cloud die, used A Muse cloud paper and the grass mounds were done with A Muse paper. We embossed the brown with a woodgrain plate from papertrey ink and the sun was from A Muse. lots and lots of pop dots too......

Anyway, this is the card we have come up with....Hope you like it!

Dragons of Life...Vintage A Muse

I made this birthday card for my Brother in Law.I love the verse on the card! I totally stole the fire idea from .... This Awesome card.......

I did it using the grass die from A Muse. The stamp set that I used for this card was the Vintage A Muse set. colored with copics and I sponged with ink. I really wish I could get the true colors of the card in the picture. It doesn't do the card justice..... Hope you like it!

Harry Potter Birthday Card

This is a digi image of Harry Potter from Karber stamps. I love this image. I got it a while ago and had a birthday this weekend I needed Harry Potter for. I was so excited to finally use it! The paper is from Making Memories wedding and black tie. The stamp that I used for the stars by the wand is from A Muse Glamour Girl. I added bling to the stars. I got the color scheme for the Harry Potter digi from this post: http://simpleandsassycreations.blogspot.com/2011/01/karber-weekly-challenge-22-dots-stripes.html

Hope you like it!

In case you want to know what colors I used to color him in....

Scrapbook Expo

I went to the Scrapbook Expo in Somerset yesterday with a few friends and It was a lot of fun. I have never been to one before, so I didn't know what I was going to find there. I have to say that I behaved very well...I stayed away from any DP and Cardstock. I was never really into stickers, so they didn't entice me. (I did get a few that were cheap for my kids, but other than that.....Nada. ) I got a few Nesties that I had wanted. They were WELL worth the price and the other thing I splurged on were Technique Tuesday stamps. I have always like them and they had some real cute new designs. I have dedicated this weekend to make TT cards with my new stamps. Then on Monday, I will be back to my wonderful A Muse stamps. Anyway....Here is my first card from Technique Tuesday. The two girls, on the swing and pushing her, remind me of my girls.

You cannot see it in the picture, but I did spray the white and black image with the stardust finishing spray from Amuse and it has a shimmery effect.(I really love that stuff) and I used a spica pen on "GOOD" to give it the same kind of shimmer. The ribbon is A Muse, Paper is from K&Co. and A Muse.

Keep swimmin'......

I wanted to try out the bargello technique from Splitcoast stampers (that would be the staggered pieces of paper behind the dolphins). It was not hard and I really like how it turned out. I glittered the dolphins and  also used the recessed window technique for the A Muse challenge. The stamp set that I used was Keep Swimmin' and All of the paper and supplies are from A muse. The only thing that isn't is the wonky rectangle nestabilities die to cut out the windows. I need to change the picture because this one doesn't show the true colors of the cardstock. Hope you like it!

It's a JUNGLE out there...

I wanted to do the Splitcoast Stampers challenge SC333 and I had the mighty jungle set from A Muse in mind. I had a lot of fun coloring the monkeys in using Copics E44, E31, YG03, YG23 AND W2. I topped it off with french roast twine. Thanks for looking!

Note for you...CASED!!

I really loved this card made by Julie From A Muse Studio.....  Julie's Hello Card

I loved it so much I used it to create my notepad covers. They are 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 in size and I really like how they turned out. I just wish the pads were white instead of yellow. Grrrrr. Anyway, Hope you like them! Thank you for the inspiration Julie!

I will add the list of supplies later today.... I am too tired!

You look Fabulous

This card was made for two challenges. It fits in the splitcoast stampers sc332 challenge and A Muse is having a recessed window challenge. I had a lot of fun using the A Muse window sheets in my compact. I also had the chance to try out the A Muse Bow maker. I used GLAMOUR GIRL stamp set, blush and black paper with black gingham DP. Hope that you like it!

This is just a picture to show the recessed window! Thanks for looking!!! AND....this is the link on how to use the bow maker:

A Muse Bow Maker Demonstration

There is No One Like YOU!

I am, by default, programed to go to blues and browns when stamping. I wish I could take a better picture of this card. I used the A Muse stardust finishing spray on it and is looks so pretty on the flower and the bottom of the card where I stamped Marvelous Marigolds with sky and fern ink. I also used B23 phthalo blue copic with the colorless blender to add dots to the flower. I ended it with a pearl in the center of the flower. Hope you like!

A*Muse Marvelous Marigolds Stamp set

This picture is just to show the shmmer from the A Muse shimmer finishing spray.

Wish you were here....Stained Mosaic Technique

I still wish I were there!!!! I loved my family trip to the Bahamas. AND I am so ready for the summer and the beach....I am always ready for the beach. Anyway, I made this card using my A*Muse stamp sets: Sea Shells, Mesh background, and Life's a breeze. I used Memento Rich cocoa, A*muse Latte, and A*Muse french roast ink. Other supplies used were french roast twine, Sky CS, sponge daubers and BG10, E31, W2 Copic markers. I used a stained mosaic technique that I got from splitcoast stampers here:

Stained Mosaic Technique

YIKES! ***I almost forgot...you NEED versamark and clear embossing powder!!!!!!****Otherwise, you cannot do this technique....

I hope that you like this card. I had so much fun making it and have wanted to try this technique with sea shells. I have done it with flowers....but really wanted to try it with a shell set. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. If you like what you see, you can get all of the products from my website. Thank you for looking!

Marvelous Marigolds

Hello Everyone! I really like this set from A Muse. I see so many possibilities with it. It is called Marvelous marigold and I colored it in with Copic color RV09 (Fuchsia). Then I cut it out and popped it up. I stamped the center of the flower, colored it, cut it out and popped that too. I stamped the leaf on kraft cardstock with Fern ink. Had to add the bling to the center of the flower! I you have any questions about the products, let me know!





Sheltering Tree

This card is made using all A Muse products. I am going to list the items later tonight. I had a lot of fun making this card. I used the colorless blender from copic to remove color from the kites and the tree. I hope that you like it!

Peeking Bird with A*Muse

I have made a few cards with my new products and I am having a lot of fun. Unfortunately I cannot photograph anything to save my life. You really cannot see it, but I sponged A Muse Sky ink on the background for color and added shimmer pebbles chalk to give it a shine.
I used only the products that came in the kit. This is the list of supplies:
A Muse Ink:
Ocean
Grass
Papaya
Current
and I sponged Sky on the white to look like the "Sky"!

The stamps that come in the kit are a sample of a few sets. I LOVE the stamps!!!! They are rubber but cling on clear blocks. but the best part is...They already hae the image on the cling side so you open the box, and you start using them! No Trimming, No attaching...NOthing! Just Ink and use.

The stamps that I used are from the following sets:
Beautiful Botanicals 2
Life is a song
The perfect Blend (I used the bean stamp for the red buds on the tree)
Hand Scripted
and Graphic Sunflower

I used Pebbles Ink. Shimmer chalks to give the leaves, sun and sky some shimmer. Then used the spicca clear marker to glitter the buds (beans)

I also used the stitched grosgrain ribbin in Sky.

Finally, I used a gem for the door knob on the bird house. I got the idea of cutting open the door on the house from another A Muse consultant, Lisa Wakabayashi.
I hope you like my card.