Talk about retro...

How about a pink and green living room, lol! Another "scene" card for AMPA. This chair and lamp is one of my favorite A*Muse stamps. For this card I colored the chair in with my prismacolor markers and colored the little hopper in with a Gable Green stampin' write marker. I also gave him some eucalyptus stickles on his wings.

The rug was created with the small skinny oval and then I drew some scallops with the stampin' write markers around the edges to make it look like a rug.

The background is Dotted from SU! and I added some small dots with a prisma marker. All the rest of the stamps are A*Muse, and the ribbon is from Mike's.

I really want to go to the beach, lol

And Jaden's pool just isn't cutting it. Here is another of my A*Muse beach cards. For this card I used my new lighthouse stamp. This card took quite a bit of masking. Once everything was stamped and masked, I created the background. The water, beach, and sky were all created with prismacolor markers. After they were colored I added the wave stamp in the water.

To finish it up I used my ticket corner punch, some gingham ribbon from Mike's, and a little charm that I picked up at Wal-mart I think.

Hide and Seek

Aren't these little puppies just the cutest? This card was inspired by the week 5 challenge from Amuseapalooza. I decided to make the scene with my dog house and Patch. The rest of this card kind of came together from there.

Everything is stamped with Hybrid ink and colored with Prismacolor markers. I also created the grass with a Prismacolor marker. It is handy that there are two sizes of tips on these markers. I drew long fat lines to create the grass and then used the fine point to color in the smaller places, like between the dogs' legs.

The ribbon is from Michael's and so are the little bling stickers in the bottom corner. Simple and sweet...

Circle Journal

I joined a circle journal swap on SCS a month or so ago. If you don't know what a circle journal is, you're in for a treat. A circle journal is a group of stampers (10 in this group) who all create a little book with a theme. You create your book, and do the fist layout yourself. Then you send the book on to the next person in the group. They complete a layout according to your book's theme and send it on to the next person.

Our group is 10 people and we are keeping each book for a month. We decided if we get them done earlier we may change the timeline in a month or so. As it stands now, we will each complete a layout in each of the 10 books, and then in 10 months we will get our finished book back. Sounds fun huh?

My book is going in the mail tomorrow. Before it heads out on it's long journey, I thought I would give you a peek. We each used the 5x5 book art book from Stampin' Up. I am not finished with the cover, I decided to finish it after I get it back in 10 months. I figure it has more chance of being messed up by the mail if the cover was all done up. But, on the other hand, I couldn't send it off to 9 other people's houses "naked" so I covered it with some designer paper and sanded the edges.

For the inside, I added a divider page for each of the 10 people's section. To create the dividers, I cute 5x5 pieces of cardstock, stamped them, and punched them with the spiral punch from the Spring mini. Then I cut a piece of designer paper to 5"x2", scored it down the middle, punched it with the spiral punch, and adhered it to the edge of the cardstock. I had to do it this way because the punch couldn't quite punch through the cardstock and 2 layers of designer paper. It lined up really easily though, and turned out pretty nice.


To finish them off, I punched the coordinating paper with the round tab punch, mounted it on matching cardstock and punched it out again. This gave me a cute and sturdy tab. I mounted these on the edges of the cardstock pages, lining them up along the sides so that they overlapped a bit and made their way down the side of the book. Five tabs fit down the side, so I ended up with 2 strips of 5 tabs down the side of my book.

I really like how it is turning out. Tomorrow I'll post some pictures of my layout before I put it in the mail. It's journey starts tomorrow, with a trip to the beautiful state of Washington. I am extremely jealous!

Lazy cow

Is that a lazy cow or what? lol This card cracks me up!

All the stams (the cow, the tractor, hay wagon, fence, and the sentiment) are all seperate images, and all from A*Muse. I stamped them all in hybrid ink and colored them with my Prismacolor markers. Then I added some yellow stickles to the hay to glitz them up a bit.

I cut a slit with my craft knife in the hay wagon and slid the cow in it and taped it on the back so that he looks like he is in the hay.

The card base is Garden Green stamped with the Flannel Plaid BG. To finish it up I added some stitched yellow grosgrain that I picked up at Michael's forever ago. I think it was on one of thoes tiny little baby spools. Funny, now that I have the ribbon in my jars, I am feeling much better about using it. Guess it's because I can't see the spool getting empty, lol.

Secret Squares

Have you checked out the AmuseaPalooza blog lately? They have a new game posted this week. It's called secret squares. Kind of like Hollywood Squares for stampers. How fun does that sound? Go check it out CLICK HERE.

Oh yeah, you have to be registered to play. You're registered right? You're not? Well register while you are there, and tell 'em Cori Bravo sent ya!

Doesn't San Diego sound nice about now?

Sure does to me. It was 102 today. Yuck! I am so not fond of heat,lol. I think I was supposed to live somewhere cold...like Denver. Thank goodness convention is in July- gives me a week escape from the nasty sun here in Tucson.

Anyhow, on to the card *wink*

I made this card for the weekly challenge on AMPA. The challenge was to create a "scene." The beach sounded like a good scene to me.

Everything is stamped in hybrid ink and colored with Prismacolor markers. The ocean was created with a strip of Cool Caribbean cardstock that was stamped with the A*Muse wave stamp (I think that is it's name).

I have a ton of other beach stamps I wanted to use but decided that would be overdoing it. You know "Think simple. Think A Muse"

Ribbon storage

I love looking at other people's scrap space. I get tons of great ideas, and really just love it. I think crafters like the organization of their stuff almost as much as actually using it, haha.

Anyhow, I am in the middle of revamping my stamp studio (which is actually my dining room LOL). I figured I would start with my ribbon stash shelf cuz at the moment, it is my favorite.

I am a collector. I love to collect, and I have accumulated tons of glass jars. Big ones, small ones, cool ones, spaghetti sauce ones...you get the picture.

Anyhow, so this weekend I decided to reorganize my non Stampin' Up ribbon (I'll show you the SU! ribbon on another day) and this is what I came up with. I split the ribbon into 9 groups; pinks, reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, purples, browns/creams, and black/white. I put each group into it's own cool jar, and stashed them on this shelf. Pretty huh?

Above this shelf I have my background stamps. Next to them are my A*Muse stamps. They are stored in two big glass cylinders that I got at Mike's. I also have my Basic Grey 6x6 paper pads, my gamsol and blending stumps (also in a little jar...lol), and in the little tin bucket are my sponge daubers.

This shelf is right next to one of my tables that I stamp at, so it's convenient to have everything nice and close.

As I get my room organized, I'll post some more pics

SCS Sketch and color challenge

It has been forever since I did a challenge on splitcoast, so today I decided to do both the color and sketch challenge in one fell swoop.

The colors for this card are Cool Caribbean, Garden Green, and Chocolate Chip. I kind of wondered how it would turn out, but I'm pretty pleased. I made the scalloped back to the photo with 4 scalloped squares that were just taped together on the backside.

A little faux stitching, some Dazzling Diamonds glitter, and two of my favorite backgrounds (Paisley Print and Weathered) and this card was finished. Fun card, fun challenges...not sure why I hadn't done more of them lately...oh yeah...finals *yuck*

A little friend...

Jaden caught this little guy in our driveway yesterday. For those of you who don't live in the desert, this is a baby "Horned Toad" or as most people call them...a horny toad **chuckle** It is actually a lizard as opposed to a toad or an amphibian. They are pretty slow, so they are easy to catch, and are really sweet when you actually get one. This one just sat quietly in Jaden's hand for a couple of minutes while he pet it. Jaden has learned to be very gentle with them, and puts them right back where he finds them "so they can go home to their mommy's." Such a sweet boy.

Just thought I'd give you a peek into our desert, where it is already over a 100 everyday. **YUCK!**

Time to break 'em all out!

The weekly challenge (#5) has been posted on the AMPA blog, and it sounds like so much fun! This time around you need to make a "scene" on your card. Time for the houses, grass, trees, fences, etc!! I can't wait!

I promise to have some cards posted tonight. It just didn't seem right to be posting cards yesterday. Memorial Day just felt a little more important. But, no worries..I have plenty to post to make up for it, hehehe!

Did you know?

That A*Muse is giving away awesome prizes every week? Like a ton of seriously great stuff? All you have to do to win one is register (don't forget to tell them I sent ya!) and then participate in the weekly challenges! Fun and easy peasey! Kind of like blog candy on steroids, lol.

Ambassador weekly random winner

A Muse picked a random Ambassador on the amuseapalooza blog for a yummy prize!

If you're like me...you are now dying to know what "they" won, right? Well, go check! Just click HERE and you can take a peek yourself.

Don't forget to register and tell 'em I sent you if you haven't yet!

Let us not forget...

What Memorial Day is about.

Let us not forget about the great men and women who have died for this country...for us...for freedom. Freedom of not just ourselves, but freedom for the oppressed everywhere. On this day, let us forget our political feelings about this war (ya'll know I have some strong ones) and remember...

The blog candy winner is...

Terry Molineux!!!

Terry said...
what that really stinks no computer...I would be lost without mine....I don't have a life so I spend it mostly on the computer when I am not stamping or shopping!!! LOL

I will go register and mention your name...thanks!

Now can I please win........... I NEVER WIN ANYTHING...

BTW have you been watching Young & the Restless...? I thought Nick was alive? Where is he? When is he coming back???????

Hahahaha, well I guess you can't say you've never won anything before now Terry! I used random.org to generate the winning number, giving each of you who had registered at A*Muse using my name an additional 5 entries. For example if the first person who commented had registered at a*muse, she would have been given #1 for her post, and numbers 2-6 for the extra entries. :)

Anyhow, the winning number was "unlucky" number 13, so Terry, please shoot me an email with your snail mail address and I'll get your goodies in the mail asap!
(and I don't know what the deal with Nick is on YnR, but I know his contract was extended for 5 years, so he WILL be back!! ) lol!!