Cards:Snowflake Challenge

Ok...another challenge! Same blog as the last post. This time the challenge is snowflakes! I love snowflakes!!! Well, maybe not the real thing but I like snowflake stuff/stamps/pics:) They don't require that you use A Muse products but I always feel that it's an A Muse Challenge Blog entry should at least have something A Muse in it! My card is ALL A Muse. I actually tried something new this time. I recently went to my card club and we made some adorable cards using the A Muse snowflake die. We were left with cute snowflake cutouts when we were done so I took them home...I don't actually own it but I should! I used it as a template and with my daubers inked up these cute snowflakes. I then cut them to look like it's a window. Hope you enjoy!

Birthday Tag

I'm doing another challenge on the A Muse Studio Challenge blog. The current challenge is to create a Tag. I'm thinking the challenge was for more of a holiday tag but I had a birthday to go to last night so I really needed to make a birthday tag anyways so here it is! It's all A Muse products and the swallow stamps are from the Clever Girls set and the Happy Birthday sentiment is from Essential Sentiments set.

Cards:World Card Making Day/Halloween

Today is World Card Making Day so I decided to take a little time and make some halloween cards. I made the one in the last post for the challenge and these two. I'm in love with A Muse Studio Stamp sets! The first card uses "Mad for Plaids" and "Too Cute to Spook" and the second just uses "Too Cute to Spook".

Card:Halloween

Here's a halloween card I made for an A Muse Studio Challenge on this blog. The requirement was to use twine. I recently had an A Muse Workshop at my house and my wonderful consultant Pamela gave me the twine I used on this card. It's hard to tell on this picture but I flocked the spiders bodies to give them a creepier effect...I hate spiders! All the ingredients on this card are from A Muse Studio.

Cards:A Few Punny Fun Ones!

Card:Hello Sunshine

Totally love this cute stamp set I got from Green Grass Stamps. It's called "Oh Happy Day" and it totally makes me smile when I use it...it's soooo cute!

CARDS: Yes, more cards...

Here's a couple I forgot...

Stamps: "Tissue Box" by Lockhart Stamps and "You are in my thoughts" by A Muse
Card Base: Memory Box
Paper: Solid colors are Bazzil and printed is ??


I broke out an older clear stamp set for this one that I had never used before. The coffee beans and "thanks a latte" are from the Coffee Break Set by A Muse Artstamps and "To Go Cup" is from the same company. They're all retired but you can get some of them from my friend Pamela at A Muse Studio.

Card Base, Ribbon & gingham paper are A Muse

Solid paper is Stampin' Up!

Cards: May 10th

Here's a bunch of cards I made over the last couple days.
Card #1 ingredients:
Stamps - A Muse
Card Front - A Muse
Ribbon - A Muse
Paper - Bazzil
Ink: Versa Mark, Memento (Tuxedo Black & London Fog)















Card #2 Ingredients:
Stamps - Apple is Stampin' Up! Sentiment is A Muse
Card Front - Memory Box
Paper: Red Gigham is retired Creative Memories
Markers - Stampin' Up! (apples)
Ribbon - ?




















Card #3 Ingredients:
Stamps
Stampin' Up!: Aviary
A Muse: Tiny Flower, Pinecones, "A Little Birdie Told Me..."
Ink: Memento "Tuxedo Black"
Ink: A Muse Studio (watermelon, lime & ocean) Memento (tuxedo black)
Paper: All A Muse
Other: Glaze Pen




















Card#4 Ingredients:
Stamps:
A Muse "To Go Cup" "What's Brewing?"
Stampin' Up! "Label Classics
Card Front: A Muse
Paper: A Muse & Bazzil
Ink: Memento (tuxedo black)
Markers - Stampin' Up!
Ribbon: Martha Stewart

My New A Muse Goodies

I had an A Muse Studio workshop at my house a couple weeks ago and got some really nice stamping goodies! I spent some time yesterday at my friend Pamela's house and made some cards. I gotta tell you...I'm loving the ink pads and colors! The first two cards are using the 3 colors I got, LIME, OCEAN & WATERMELON!


This card is using stamps from "Happy Everything". I'll be using it ALOT!


This card is using the beer mug from the new "Hey Man" set from A Muse...

Cards:Baby

Posting this to thank yet another awesome friend (Pamela) who lent me an amazing stamp set. This one is called "Wee Tees" by Melanie Muenchinger but sold by Gina K. Designs. What a cute set! I know I haven't used it to it's full potential but I just LOVE the onesie stamp!

The pink one uses A Muse gingham paper, Memorybox card, cuttlebug folder and some ribbon I probably bought at Michael's...

This card uses A Muse gingham paper, neon green paper & ribbon. The card is Memorybox, Martha Stewart border punch and I used a Stampin' Up embossing folder.

Yes, more of the A Muse gingham paper that I LOVE as well as A Muse cloud paper and ribbon. I also used a Basic Grey button and Nesibilities.

Cards:Birthday Girl

Jessy is home sick from school today and sleeping on the couch so I decide to sneak in some crafty time. My friend Karen C. was nice enough to allow me to stamp a bunch images the last time I was at her house. I just LOVE these Pure Innocence stamps!!! I'd buy them all if I could. The images are so soft and sweet and although they seem to show the images colored with Copic Markers (which I love), I like them so much more colored in with Watercolor Pencils. Maybe I'm just better with watercolor pencils? Anywho...here's the card I made today...

Here's a close-up of the colored image...

Ingredients:

Imaged stamped with brown Memento Ink

Staedtler Watercolor Pencils blended with a Stampin' Up blender pen

A Muse, Basic Grey and Bazzil papers

Memory Box White Card

Tools:

Nestabilities

Fiskars scallop border punch

Birthday Card for my niece Devyn

Over the summer I bought some Just Rite stamps which I really didn't understand but they were on sale so of course I had to buy them. The block is round which came with semi-circle stamps to attach. I couldn't figure out why they didn't sell the bottom half of the round stamps so I ordered a teeny tiny alphabet set that's supposed to fit in the block to personalize the stamp. Clear as mud? Ya, me too! Anyways...I tried it out tonite since I needed to make my niece a card for this weekend and I'm really happy with the result. It wasn't as hard to do the teeny letters as I thought but I definitely needed my reading glasses!


Here's the card I made. As you can see, I was able to put a personalized message on the bottom half of the circle.

Ingredients:

Paper: Basic Grey "Sprinkles" from Two Scoops Pack, Pink glitter adhesive paper

Stamps: Cupcake is from the A Muse Cupcake Set, Flower is A Muse "Tiny Flower", sentiment is all Just Rite stamps

Ink: Stampin' Up! "Pink Passion" & "Pretty in Pink", edging ink Color Box chaulk "Chestnut Roan"

Other Goodies: Quickie Glue Pen, Pink Glitter, Glaze Pen, Memory Box Card & Nestibilities

Happy Birthday A Muse - One more time!

I was inspired by the A Muse birthday celebration to make yet another card. All the paper is A Muse, including the paper pieced cupcake from the clear set "Cupcake Builder Set". The ribbon is also A Muse.

Happy 9th Birthday A Muse!

It's A Muse Art Stamp's 9th birthday! In the A Muse Lounge of course there's a card challenge. I decide to use the clear set "Party Time" which included the tiny cupcake and tray. I haven't used this set as much as I'd like so I was thrilled to be able to ink it up! I also used the sentiment "you're sweet" from the "Cupcake Builder" clear set. The cupcakes are paper pieced and topped with A Muse teeny tiny red gems.

Herringbone

Yesterday I went to my friend Pamela's house to make cards...we had decided to make it a new technique event. The technique she chose was "herringbone". At first I thought it was going to be really hard but once we got going, It was a pretty simple concept. It's a great way to "use your stash" since you can make it with scrap paper. I happened to have a bunch of 6x6 Basic Grey paper packs that I wasn't really doing anything with so I brought those. These two cards were made with Basic Grey "Ambrosia". I LOVE the way they came out and Pamela suggested I put the A Muse kokeshi doll stamp on one of them. I think it looks like a quilt!

Paper: Basic Grey "Ambrosia" (from the 6x6 paper pad)

Card: Memory Box

Stamp: A Muse - Kokeshi Doll.

Copic Markers

A Xyron was used to adhesive the strips

I made the A Muse Blog!

I know I sound like such a loser but I'm so excited! The cupcake card I posted last week has been one of 12 cards chosen to be featured for the "spot" challenge on the AMuse Blog! Here's a link to the blog...

AMuse Blog

A*MUSE*A*PALOOZA Challenge #4

Challenge details from the A Muse website...

The challenge for this week is SPOT, and here is how you can play along:
Create a card using the word SPOT as your inspiration. Again, this challenge is very open to interpretation, so get creative! :)
The card must feature at least one (1) A Muse stamp image.

Well, I'm not sure how creative with the challenge I was...I took it more literally and put spots (dots) on my card.

Here's a close-up of the cute pearls I put on the cupcake!

Another Simple A Muse Card

This is another super simple A Muse card that took maybe 10 minutes to make. It's a Mother's Day card for my Mother-in-Law. I love how simple and pretty it turned out. I used another A Muse stamp for the inside that says "Happy Mother's Day".

A Muse stamps "Cherry Blossom" and "Retro Rectangle"
A Muse card
A Muse Pigment Ink - black
Copic Markers

Glitter (can't really see in pic)

A Muse Lounge Challenge #4

Think Simple...Think A Muse was the theme of this challenge. This card was SUPER SIMPLE!

Stamps are: Blossom branch with bird and Little Bird told me by A Muse

A Muse Irish Green square notecard

Random Amusing Challenge #22

This challenge on Glenda's Blog was to make a card using pink and green. I happen to love the combination of colors so it was easy for me! The card is A Muse paper, bazzil paper, A Muse stamps "Milkshake" & "Dessert First", copic markers & liquid applique. I also used a Martha Stewart border punch.