You all know that I really enjoy Amy Westerman’s blog and work. She does wonders with designer paper. If you haven’t been at her blog yet, head on over. You will be dazzled!
Look what a gorgeous card she send me.
She also send me some Hero Arts bird images I had been drooling over! Thank you sooo much, Amy! You rock!!!
Thank you all for being so excited about my challenge. I am having so much fun! Here is a card I made last night with the challenge sketch. I received a great RAK from my newest downline member Sheri (the RAK will be posted Monday morning). She had used this color combo and I really liked how fresh it looked. So I used it for this card.
Stamps: Simply Said, Kindness Jumbo wheel
Inks: Palette ink black, Real Red classic ink and Marker, Certainly Celery Marker, Cool Caribbean classic ink
Paper: POP designer paper, Shimmery White, Basic Black and Real Red cardstock
Acc.: Aqua Painter, large oval punch, vintage brads, ticket corner rounder, decorative scissors, Dimensionals, white gel pen
A Muse is celebrating their 6th birthday with a great sale. I was just thinking today that I need more A Muse stamps. Perfect timing!
Here is what Linda wrote over at A Muse News:
We have 7 pages filled with stamps that are on sale for 25% off. And, if you order 6 or more sale stamps, we will give you an extra 15%!!! (total discount = 40% off) Many of these stamps are slated to be retired with the release of our new catalog in July so get them while you can!! We need to make room for all the new A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA stamps that are coming!!
The sale begins today and runs through May 31st (midnight pacific time). All orders must be emailed {to [email protected]} or faxed {toll free: 1-888-605-6474}. Phone orders will not qualify for discount. Discount applies to sale stamps only.
Some items may sell out quickly, we will ship you what we have on hand. If you order an item that is no longer available but your order includes 6 items to qualify for the additional 15% discount, the extra discount will still be given. You are welcome to order non-sale stamps with your order, additional 15% discount only applies when you order 6 or more *sale* stamps.
To view the Birthday *SALE* Stamps, click here
Rita Ryer is one of my oldest stamping friends. She send me this card a while ago and I forgot to show you all….I am not sure what company the sayings are from. The images are from Stampin’ Up!.
This card totally cracked me up when I got it.
I love the way Rita folded the one corner down and overlapped it with the sentiment in the front.
Rita, you know how much I love your stamped art. Thanks soooo much for this wonderful card and the big chuckle.
Eclectic Paperie started sending out weekly newsletter a little while ago. If you haven’t signed up yet, hop on over and do so. Since I send you over to the store all the time, I thought I share the great discount code in this weeks newsletter post:
” Joy’s birthday is Monday and we decided the best way to celebrate would be to give everyone 10% off all merchandise starting Friday, May 25th and continuing until Monday(11:59pm PST), May 28th. So go ahead & eat cake, and buy a present … for yourself. Just use discount code “Cake4Joy“.
You must use the discount code(Cake4Joy) at checkout in order to receive the promotional offer. This offer does not apply to the purchase of gift certificates.”
That’s what I wanted this card to say at first….but then decided to use a different sentiment, so I could be able to actually send the card away. This little monkey does look a bit lecherous though with his tongue hanging out…what do you think? To me he looks like he wants to monkey around!
I just love these monkey images. I stamped my little guy with Black Palette ink on shimmery white cardstock. I colored him with aqua painter and classic ink pads: Close to Cocoa, Ruby Red, Real Rust and Brocade blue.
The patterned Paper is from My Mind’s Eye. I ran it through the cuttlebug and used the Tiny Bubble dry embossing folder. I have been waiting forever for this to come back in stock. Kim McNutt made me NEED that folder in a bad way.
The sentiment is stamped with Everyday Flexible Phrases.
I had so much fun the last two weekends checking out everyone’s work with the sketches that I posted, that I decided to post one every Friday! You guys are so creative.
I liked how my Monkey card turned out yesterday.
That’s where my sketch comes from. I love this layout. It’s definitely one I use a lot.
If you decide you want to play, please upload your card on your blog or in your splitcoast gallery and add a link to it in the comment section of this thread.
I will randomly draw a winner on Monday Morning 9 a.m. Central time and send out a few monkey images with a bit of ribbon.
Here is the last of my A Muse cards I made a little while ago with the Pristine Paper from Paper Salon.
For this one I used A Muse’s Bird cage (7-4102C) as focal point. Since I don’t have any birds yet to go with that (I know…crazy), I thought I use the sentiment….Missing you. I stamped it with Karen Forster mini casual Snap stamps on a 3/8″ wide strip. The left side is rounded with the window word punch from Stampin’ Up!
Sentiment and Image are stamped with black Palette ink on Whisper White cardstock. Image is colored in with Copic Markers. The doodle border is made with a black Micron pen.
Again, the card base is 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″ folded in half. This time it’s chocolate chip. Ribbon is from May Arts.
Ally Fradgley send me a gorgeous RAK. If you haven’t been to her blog Rubber Rambles yet, make sure to check it out. She is an amazing stamper and one of the sweetest blogging friends you can find!
She added lots of bella images. I had told her that I don’t own any yet. Ally, you are wild! I really appreciate all the images you send. I just got my Stampendous Monkey’s in….I feel another RAK coming on. LOL
Julia is killing me with her Bold and Bright challenges. Today’s Way to Use it challenge dares you to use YoYo Yellow. I can’t even remember when I used it last. It has to have been over a year at least!!! It’s so bright, I never reach for it.
I really didn’t think I would participate in this challenge. It’s just too much out of my comfort zone. BUT…I had my latest order from Eclectic Paperie on my table. I had ordered the super cute Changito images. One of them is a monkey with a banana. I thought I might be able to work YoYo Yellow into a card with that image.
I tried to make it into a rectangle card, but in the end, the chocolate chip card base was cut back down to 4 1/4″ x 8 1/2″. I just can’t help myself. I love square cards.
I stamped the little cutie pie in Black Palette ink on shimmery white cardstock. I started by coloring the banana with my YoYo Yellow marker. Then I added some Summer Sun and More Mustard so you could look at it without sun glasses. I went over it with an aqua painter to blend them a little bit.
The monkey was colored with creamy caramel Marker. I added several layers over most of his body part, just colored the lower face region only once to make it look lighter. I then punched a small oval out of a post it note and used the negative image to color the shadow under the monkey with aqua painter and Bordering blue ink from the ink pad. Next I went all around the monkey with bordering blue.
I layered the image first on More Mustard, then on Chocolate Chip cardstock. I use the small oval punch to make the two tabs out of chocolate chip cardstock and added More Mustard brads.
The background started out as a 4″ square of YoYo Yellow. I added circles with my sponge dauber and More Mustard and Summer Sun ink. then I stamped the Palm image in Summer Sun over the dots.
The horizontal strip is a scrap piece of Au Chocolat Designer paper I had laying around. I added Summer Sun and More Mustard ink over it with my daubers.
The saying is also from Stampendous. The stamp comes as “Hang in there”, I used the stamp-a-majic to make the Hi on shimmery white cardstock. I punched it out with the 1/2″ circle punch, cut a chocolate chip mat with the coluzze and adhered it overlapping the main image just a bit. Then I stamped there from the saying on the bottom right.
