Critters

I missed the Holiday Critters day so I'm posting this card instead. ** This card uses retired images**, which I didn't realize when I made it. I still thought it was cute and wanted to post it anyway since it uses a new sentiment. If you look closely, you can see the faint grey image of the fireplace stamp. Of course the mouse is a perfect addition to get the sentiment across. I love that mouse. I can't believe he's retired! Bring him back!! LOL

I'll be at Stampin-In-The-Rain tomorrow for a Teacher Garage Sale. Getting rid of some stuff...never enough room, even after purging a bit. I'm bringing in my Christmas In July card samples so you'll be able to see what we'll be making at the end of the month with new AMAP images.

Birch Trees

I love these new Birch Trees! You can create such a serene winter scene by using a pale color palette. On this card I stamped the birch trees using VersaMagic Wheat Chalk ink. I stamped Rudy in brown ink on a piece of scrap paper, then trimmed him out and popped him on with dimensionals. One thing you can't see on this card is the fine gold shimmer from my Gold Glow Smooch Spritz. I think I may go back and add a red micro twinkle dot to Rudy's nose, though. And don't you love this new sentiment? The font looks sort of vintage to me.

Bare branch, Spooktacular

I thought I'd take a little different twist with the fabulous new Cling Jack-O'Lanterns set from the A*Muse*A*Palooza release. I stamped the jack o'lantern faces with Colorbox white pigment ink and embossed with glow-in-the-dark embossing powder. Can't wait til it gets dark so I can see the faces glow!

And since I was out of town yesterday for the first day of amuse-bouches, I'm making up for lost time with this next card...

It doesn't show up well in this photo but the slate paper is actually mounted onto a natural white (vanilla) 4-bar notecard. I used both the new Bare Branch as well as winter tree to create a tree scene with a small crow flying away into the night. I used a 2nd generation inking method (you know, stamp off first, then stamp onto your cardstock) with winter tree so the bare branch pops out. I did the same with the circle as the moon, then added a bit of color with last year's fun sentiment stamped onto some orange crush.

I hope you've been enjoying the little tidbits so far. I look forward to checking out the A Muse news blog every day and seeing what my fellow Creative Team members are sharing. Thanks for stopping by!

Amuse-a-palooza

I won't have any amuse-bouche to share until Sunday night but please be sure to check the blogs of the rest of the A Muse Creative Team for peeks at the new stamps!

New look!

What do you think of the new look? Kinda cute...not sure if it's too distracting, though. I like a clean page but maybe it's okay for summer?

Haven't had much creativity lately but I did manage to view some card galleries and found some really cute punch ideas. I thought this one was really fun using a Marvy heart punch. I mean really, who looks at these things and thinks "strawberry"! Genius, I tell ya!

Happy Summer?

My kids are out of school a little early this year. Neighboring school districts are still in session. We are all so ready for summer but.....it's raining! Boo!!! Not the way anyone wants to start summer vacation. We've had a week full of sleepovers already but all indoors because it's so icky out. Rains in the morning and if we're lucky, clears up in the afternoon. I suppose we should be thankful for the afternoon clearing. Hopefully we'll get some more 'camping' in this year. I put that in '' because our version of camping is parking our camper in my SIL's driveway of her lake house in Easter WA. LOL! We pretty much just sleep in there.

Happy Summer!

Where's my mojo?

Has anyone seen my mojo? I have lost it and cannot find it. Please return it if found. Thank you!