Have to thank my Mom for this card. About a year ago she gave me a advertisement for Fruit of the Loom. It looked like pretty butterflies hanging around on acetate strips. She told me that she thought of me and wondered if I could use it as inspiration for a card. Well, I finally got around to trying it out. Thought the spiral card technique would work the best. So I cut a circle out of acetate and trimmed it into a long spiral. I used the new Cloud paper from A Muse for the inside of the card and thought the butterflies punched from the Doodlebug sugared paper would look so pretty floating around in the sky. The outside of the card HAD to be a flower! Used my brand new gerber daisy stamp, also from A Muse and did my best to shade it with Copic markers. If you click on the photo it enlarges to give you a better view. It was a really fun card to make and I think it may have brought me out of my recent slump.
Have to thank my sister too. She helped me figure out how to put 2 photos on one page! Amazingly easy to do but I have never known how to do it. You learn something new every day.
Look what happened the other day while I was playing with some scraps! I had the D monogram circle laying around from the cards I was prepping for my monogram class this month and picked it up along with some scraps from other classes and made this simple card. Couldn't believe my eyes when it came together so easily. Used my Nestabilities Labels Five set and the new Monogram Frames set from A Muse Artstamps along with the Birds and Swirls Cuttlebug embossing folder to make this little gem. Hope you can come to my monogram class and make a set of cards and a cute box to put them in.
The chickas finally got together for a day of stamping fun. I was gone so long in March that I forgot how much fun we have when we create together. Jane had a new technique she wanted to try out. It is called Geometric Overstamping. It is a fast, easy technique that made that martini stamp from Rubbernecker look delicious! We free hand cut the olive, pimento and the stick. The sentiment is from Rubbernecker and is one that cracks Jane up every time she reads it. Check out her blog here to see the card she made.Have you been checking out the Woodland madness over at A Muse? There are a ton of fun cards that the other Muse's are posting using lots of cute woodland critters and some new paper colors too. Look here and at my list of A Muse instructors blogs on the left side of the page for some clever ideas.
Here I am with the little treat basket I made for the gals that came to my Easter class. You might have noticed they are all holding their baskets in the photo I used on my last post. I brought back some Hersey kisses with macadamia nuts from Hawaii and wanted to put them in a little basket to let my ladies know I was thinking of them while on vacation. These simple baskets came together in a snap. I used my new Big Shot Express for the actual basket and then got out my scallop oval punch and regular oval punch for the little chick. The egg chick is made by A Muse Artstamps. It is called Cracking Up. Love that name! And of course the Happy Easter is from A Muse too.
Make sure you check out the other Muse's blogs listed on my side bar for the extra special Woodland Creatures inspiration posts. The ladies have some really cute ideas using creatures and new paper from the A Muse team.
Had my first class in a long time in Green Bay today and wanted to share a photo of of the fun ladies that came and made Easter cards with me. We all had a really good time chatting and stamping. I thought it would be a good idea to give away an A Muse spring green jacket to welcome Spring to our part of the world. Paula won! You see, she usually doesn't win the door prize but today she was the lucky one. Thank you Cindy, Mary Kay, Mary Ellen, Marilyn and Paula for a great class. Stay tuned for a couple samples and a couple more things I have been making lately. Happy Spring everyone!
There was only one rainbow on Maui and it showed up on our first day there. Was a wonderful welcome to an island that has changed very much since we were there almost 20 years ago. Still a beautiful island to be sure but there has been much development that has happened over the years. We had enough time to drive to most parts of the island but I have to say my favorite was the mostly undeveloped west side. Lots of twists and turns and beautiful scenery around every corner. It is so hard to capture what it really looks like but these photos are my attempts to give you an idea of the different sides of Maui. Part of it is lush and green and part of it is harsh and rocky. We have had a wonderful time and are now back to reality so stay tuned for some more crafty goodness.
We made it! Arrived on Kauai and are having a great time! This is our second trip to the island and we are enjoying every minute. Gary told me he has never seen a full rainbow so this was his first one. It was really beautiful, right outside our hotel window. I sure wish my camera had a wide enough lens so you could see the full view. It was really pretty. Could even see the purple colors. Love that purple, you know! A couple days ago we went up in a very small airplane, 6 seats and got a birdseye view of the island. It is so beautiful. All the valleys and tons of waterfalls just below us as we flew by. Was quite a sight to see. Not sure I will be doing that again as I got terribly air sick. The flight was bumpy but I am so glad I tried it. Thanks for sticking with my little blog while I am gone. Will post again when we get to Maui. Aloha!
Just wanted to let you all know that I am going to be even more scarce for the next month than I have been for the last month. You see, I will be traveling quite a bit. Once to see my daughter and once for a much needed vacation.
I did want to share a card I made for my Spring class. I am calling this the window box card. My friend, Jane, taught me how to make this card last Fall and I haven't been able to stop making them. There is a little shadow box in the square where I stamped and then paper pieced the house and trees. I made a card using this same layout at Halloween for a good friend. She seemed to like it and I thought it might make a nice Spring card. How about that MS tulip punch? Isn't it just the cutest??? As soon as I saw it, I knew it had to be mine.
Thank you all for putting up with my sporadic postings lately. There has been a lot going on in my life but I am hoping it will settle down in a month or so and I can get back to more regular posting.
