Smooches

I've been feeling in the loving mood today so I decided to do this "smooches" card using A Muse stamps!

6 More A Muse Cards

I haven't been working with A Muse stamps very long, but it keeps surprising me by how quick I can make cards with these stamps. I am so inspired by the entire A Muse Crew!

A Muse cards....7 today!

Wow...in between unpacking from my recent trip to Florida I surprised myself and managed to stamp 7 cards with A Muse stamps today. I think my favorite is that says...truly, madly,deeply. I made it for my parents 33rd anniversary which was yesterday....a day late, but I still wanted to do it.

Father's Day 2006 card

My father means the world to me. I stamped this ship for him because he has always been my guiding ship in life. He has always been a warm port to come home to. Having him in my life has made me a much better person. I stamped the anchor inside all over the card because I feel like he and his love is the anchor in my family. I hope he knows how much I love him this year, and every year!

Jimmy Buffett and A Muse cards

I went to a Jimmy Buffett concert in Charlotte, North Carolina on Sunday. The show was great...not that he has ever put on a bad show! I was inspired by all the flip flops and fruit drinks around to make these 2 cards using stamps by my new favorite company A Muse Rubber Art Stamps!

Green Woman/Flower Woman Card

I just love this Green Woman stamp from Wild Frog Designs. I made this card today since it is still Mother's Day and we all really need to think about Mother Earth and ways we can help like recycling etc!

Mother's Day stamping

Well, I finally finsihed a mother's day card for my mom. I wasn't sure what type to do this year, but decided on the traditional flower theme. The 3 roses on here got a little twisted on my scanner, but they are quite pretty when they are standing up! haha I used the TAC background stamp...The Beauty Of A Woman....it is quite touching for any woman I think! My grandmother is still in the hospital, so mom is with her today. I'll be going out there in just a bit to take her dinner.....Chinese...both of our favorites! happy Mother's Day to everyone!!!

Buying things I won't use....

Why do I continue to buy things I know I won't use. I went to Jo-Ann Fabric on Saturday and bought the Fiskars Scrapboss 12x12 Embossing System. I brought it home to play with, and tried it out. I bought a couple of extra theme sheets to go with it, and it was good, but I have already put it back inside of the box...probably to never be seen again! I'm not real big on dry embossing anyway. I hsould have learned after the last stamp convention and buying ten zillion of Dream Weavers and Heritage stencils that I used only a few of after I got home. I can't seem to resist...they seem to call my name whie I am there looking at samples. We also stopped by Wal-Mart. Wal-Mart has an entire new scrapbooking section from my visit a week ago. The albums and kits were actually very pretty, but they only seemed to have a few themes: babies, cats, dogs, and sports. It is a start though. Oh how I wish I had a REAL store here!!!! I did get a 12x12 pad of transparency printed sheets that I liked, and some pretty ribbon. On a brighter note I am proud of myself for getting a couple of scrapbook pages done this weekend. One heritage type page with pictures of my great grandma, and another of a short vacation to Tennessee. I also managed to do a couple of cards which I'll attach to this post. Both cards were done with what I call the Staz-On technique. Stamp your images in black ink, and cover them with yellow Staz-On ink, then use make-up sponges to add other colors of Staz-On until you like it.....very simple!

New Stamping/Scrapping DVD's

I just finished watching 4 new DVD's I ordered. I loved the new Tim Holtz DVD. I'm really getting into distressing my art, so that was inspirational. The Dutch Paper Crafting DVD was really good too. It finally made me understand spirelli string art, and ornanre paper piercing. As soon as the video was over I went and ordered several spirelli punches and metallic thread as well as some switch embossing templates, and ornare frames. I can't wait to use those! The Ink It Up DVD combined scrapbooking as well as stamping on every single project they did which was way cool. The HOTP DVD was alright, but I expected more from it somehow. The pages are all nice, but somehow I just wasn't all that excited about it. I buy up almost ever stamping or scrapping video ever made because I am not that close to stamp stores now, so those are the next best things to taking live classes from someone. Some other new goodies arrived with this order. I got severl punches since I am just love using an assortment of punches these days. I have to sets of the clip punches that I can't wait to try, a large Marvy punch....love those easy to use handle, a heart frame punch, more alphabet stamps this time they look like typewriter keys, and a couple of colors of walnut ink spray! I only managed to do one card last night before watching some Lifetime movie that was on called Wishcraft. The card I did used my new grid, but in the picture here you can't see the lines very well.

Let people know you stamp....

It is great to let poeple know you stamp. My boyfriend and I went to my little cousin's softball game this evening, and we ended up talking to another couple. I found out the wife loves to stencil, paint etc. After a while I mention I love to alter cigar boxes, and turn them into purses etc. The husband loves cigars and soon came back with like 10 really beautiful empty cigar boxes for me! Woo hoo.....those should keep me busy for quite a while. The pictures are just a couple of cards I have been working on this week.

New Goodies

Here are the goodies I bought at the new store I found in KY, but forgot to upload the other day. I am off from work today so maybe I'll actually get a chance to play with them today. Right now I ma getting ready to use a new plastic stencil for making grids by Impression Obsession....I hope it goes well...I'll post the results here later!

Creative Cards I Did Today

I love when several card ideas come to me at once. It is like I have to race to get them done before my mind goes blank again. I love Stonehenge and want to visit it someday, so I couldn't pass up doing a card in that theme. The brown and black Goddess card is done with a new plate I just ordered from one of my favorite companies called Cherry Pie Art Stamps. The other two are just my fooling around and trying the resist technique using my versamark ink pad, sponges, and dye inks!

This is a card I created today with my new stamps from The Enchanted Gallery. I love nature, and this woman/bird seems like a gentle mother earth caring for her creatures.

My First Blog Entry....

Hi everyone! I was becoming quite addicted to reading blogs, and decided I should create my own, and share all the wonderful gifts my muse shares with me in the wild world of art!