Idea book

Would you believe that this is the first actual project that I've made with my Bind it All that I bought 4 months ago. Shame...shame...shame!

Anyhow, I decided it was time to purge the millions of magazine scraps, notes, ideas, napkins, etc. that I save for ideas. I can't bear to actually part with them though, lol. Because of this, I made this little idea book.

The cover is 8x4 inch chipboard (half of an 8x8 piece) that I bought from Eclectic Paperie. They have really reasonable prices on the chipboard, and it is SO much easier than using backings to designer paper, etc. The chipboard is cut to size, white on one side, and heavy weight.

I covered the chipboards brown side with some Basic Grey paper (from the Urban Couture line) and then used the Big Deal Alphabet to stamp the title on some Shimmery White cardstock. I masked off the letters and stamped some of my favorite critters from A*Muse to make the title fun and springy.

This title was mounted on some Basic Grey paper (from the Lilly Kate line) and then onto the journal. The cute little flower shaped rhinestones are from Michaels. I picked them up a while back, a whole pack of them for a buck!

To finish up, I added bunches of ribbon to the coils (7/8th inch coils) to make it more fun to look at. All of the ribbon is either from Michaels or Cindy at Starlit Studio.

Thanks for looking! Did you sign up for my swap yet??? Please...

Deserted

Poor Patch looks like he was deserted on a beautiful tropical island. How can you look sad when it's so pretty? lol. I guess it doesn't

make alot of sense that there is no water, but that the "island" is water...but I don't care, I still like it. *wink*

The stamps are from A*Muse, the background stamps are from Stampin' Up, the ribbon is from Michael's, the rhinestone brad is Making Memories, the flower is Prima, and the sparkle is Stickles.

I actually think this is the first time I've ever used a prima flower on a card. The brad wasn't quite big enough to fill in the entire center, so I went around the edge of the brad with my stickles. Added even more bling, and brought out the water under Patch.

HELP!1

Um, yeah...I did something to the html code on my blog by accident and now the font on the side bar and all the lower posts is HUGE!! I don't know how to fix it lol!! Can anyone help a tech tard out?

Updated...well I think I fixed it myself! WOW I am shocked. Some of the posts still have blue fonts, but that's alot better than KING KONG font, lol!

Ok, I'm gonna give this another shot...

Won't you please join my little A*muse swap? Pretty Please?? I really need the points for the Ambassador contest. The "famous" bloggers are killing me in points cuz everyone wants to do their swaps, lol. You get 30 points for every swap with 6 participants.

So, pretty please won't you swap with me? This time around I would like to try and host a 4x4 inch full card swap. I need 6 participants...I'll be the 7th, cuz I don't count. The cards will be due to me 2 weeks from the date the swap is closed.

To sweeten the deal, I'll even throw in a great surprise prize to one lucky swapper. I'll let my 5 year old pick out his favorite card and then send the winner a prize along with her/his swaps. Can't tell ya what it is, but it will be from A*Muse!

Maybe the begging is working...
1. me!
2. Sarah Bertolino
3. Heather L.
4. Ally Blankenship
5. Chris Hauck
6. Tiffany Walls
7. Nancy Woltman

Post it note holder

I stopped at Office Depot today to pick up some bubble envelopes. While I was there, I came across these cute little pop up post it note holders. They are a really heavy acrylic holder and use the pop-up post it notes.

What was totally cool about them is that they came with an insert. A removable insert...and what do stampers do with removable inserts?

We remove 'em and make new ones!! lol

So, I bought one even though it was ridiculously priced I thought (12 dollars). I go through post its like they are going out of style. Mostly for masking pieces of my projects. If you didn't know, post its are the BOMB! for masking. They are thin enough that they lay flush with your project, and the removable adhesive is awesome. I always have 4 or 5 pads of post its laying around on my desk and in my studio, and thought what a cute way to store and display a much needed tool on my desk?

We all know that half the fun of being a stamper is organizing your tools, hehe. Anyhow, I know the picture isn't the best, but I thought I would give you a peek at my "bright idea" of the day. Now be careful driving in your rush to buy post it note holders! *wink*

Much better...

I like this card MUCH better than the last one I posted, lol. Something about this Patch stamp...I just love him to bits.

I found a piece of this designer paper in my stash that I had only used a tiny bit of. The paper is MOD from Autumn Leaves and the other card I used it on back in April is on THIS POST

Anyhow, this card was inspired by the paper and my love for little Patch. The background is Canvas from Stampin' Up, the gingham ribbon is from Michael's (5 yards for a dollar **Yippie**), the stitched ribbon is May Arts, and the doodles around the scalloped frame are mine, lol!

Only 2 more days

left to enter challenge #5 on the Amuseapalooza blog. What are you waiting for? This week's challenge was to create a "scene" with your A*Muse stamps. There are only 85 or so entries. That is WAY down from the previos weeks.

Know what that means?? Way better chances to win, tee hee hee! Just click-------->HERE and it will take 'ya right to the challenge 5 post. Go enter a card, or if you really don't want to enter, just go check out the ones that have allready been entered, they are Amazing!!!

Did I mention there are prizes???

Not quite sure...

if I like this card or not. I had a plan, and it didn't look quite like this. I think I may need to dismantle this one and try again.

The flower image is from A*Muse, and the sentiment on the ribbon and the slight scalloped edge below the ribbon are both from PaperTrey Ink (the Faux Ribbon set). The flower's bling center is from Mike's, and well, that's all I have to say...I don't think I like this card, lol.

Pretty Pastel Puppy #3

And the last puppy for the day is Blue Puppy...drats, my "P" theme was destroyed by the blue card, lol. Hmmm, maybe I can think of a shade of blue that starts with a "B"...any suggestions?

This one reminds me of a baby announcement lol. I guess it is the Flannel Plaid bg (from SU!). It always reminds me of baby cards for some reason. The ribbon I got from Cindy at Starlit Studio. Did you see the white doodles on the scallops of these 3 cards? Couldn't actually make a card without my Signo gel pen, now could I? LOL!

Have a great night!

Pretty Pastel Puppy #2

Meet "Pink Puppy." Isn't she sweet? I think this one of my series may be my pastel puppy favorite. She just looks sweet.

The background is Paisley from SU! and the ribbon is from Mike's. I'm not sure if you can tell in the pictures but I used my 20% cool grey marker under Sniffer's feet on each card to create some shadow to ground her. Stay tuned there is one more coming today, lol.

Pretty Pastel Puppy #1

I needed a set of quick thinking of you note cards to send to my Grandma. She love to send notes to family and friends, but will buy cards from 1950 at the thrift store if I don't keep her well stocked. **chuckle**

I made her a set of pretty pastel puppy cards. This is the first one... I call her "Purple Puppy" (real origional huh?) The puppy and sentiment are A*Muse, the background is Linen from SU!, the strip was created by using 3 images from the SU! set Little Pieces, and the ribbon is from Mike's.

Sniffer looks pretty diva in purple doesn't she?

Quick summer note card

I needed a quick note card to stick in with some stuff I am sending to a friend, so I whipped this little guy up. Funny how strawberries are such a summer image huh? I swear I can almost taste this card, lol.

The images are both A*Muse and I used the "poppin' pastels" technique to create the strawberry behind the sentiment. Super quick card. Seriously, it took me longer to type this than it did to make the card, lol!

Yuko's circle journal

I got my first circle journal in the mail yesterday. This one belongs to Yuko Yamamura, and she would like her book to showcase everyone's favorite techniques.

I was so excited to get it in the mail that I went right to work on it and finished up my layout last night. My favorite current technique is Faux Stitching. For my layout I used the Unfroggetable set to create a focal image that I faux stitched around.

Then on the right hand side, I gave the rundown on faux stitching, titled the page, and the faux stitched around the whole page. Even added a little stitched corner. I like it...hope Yuko does!

Quick birthday card

Another quick card for the scene challenge on AMPA. I hope this is considered "a scene." I'm not sure if it is, but it uses two stamps, so I'm hoping.

Both of these stamps are from an acrylic A Muse set that I got recently. I colored everything with prismacolor markers and created the frame with 2 giga scalloped squares.

Along the edge I made sort of a patterned paper with some different sized strips of cardstock. Looks perfect for a little kid birthday card doncha' think?

I'm sad, and so very jealous

My local stamp store "Stampin' Sanity" sent out a postcard yesterday letting us know that they are closing. Wahhhh! Back to online shopping I suppose. On to the jelous part now...

On the AMPA blog they are featuring a local scrapbook store every week from all over the country. They have allready showcased 2 absolutely adorable shops in the past couple of weeks, but I just wanted to give you a peek at the most recent one posted just click on --------> Artsy Tartsy and it will take you to the AMPA blog to check out this adorable store. They even have an "A*Muse Yourself Buffet" how jealous am I??