For a sweet baby....

Here is one of my new fav. designs...it's so simple and streamlined. Here I've used some of my old stash of Creative Impressions ribbon, a CTMH button, and images are from A Muse. So sweet...this is going to a friend who just had a baby...boy - of course!

Brithday Card for CJ

My littlest and onlyest is 4. Wow! Here is a card that I made for her. CS is bazzil, patterned paper is some japanese paper, stamps are A Muse and PSX.

Also, to go with her *cars* themed birthday party, a stash of thankyou cards that were so quick. Diecut is Quickutz, stamp is CTMH, paper is Sandylion cut into 3x3 and cards are 4x4.

A different style for me.

It's kind of collagy, a bit vintagy, and artsy too...definetly, not the cutesy that I usually do...but I like it. What do you think? I also finally got around to using some UK stamps that I friend gave me in the summer. There's a lot going on, stamping, stitching, layering, piecing. I've used quite a bit of a lot. Stamps are from Crafty Individuals, The Old Island Stamp Company and Judikins. Ink from Tim Holtz and CTMH; patterned paper is from Autumn Leaves, and old old French/English dictionary. Flower is from Heidi Swapp; and button is from CTMH.

Birdies in August

I was browsing the newest SU catalog and found a few card layouts that I liked. This is an annual thing for me, browsing the SU catty and dog earing what I like, want and wish for. Usually, I get around to buying what I want, but hardly ever do I lift the layout that I like...so this week, I sat down and went for it. It was a lot more time consuming for me than I thought. Lifing a card is not the same as lifting a scrap page. Anyways, here is what I came up. Stamps are A Muse and Hero Arts, rest of materials are CTMH except for CS which is bashful blue by SU. Oh, and flower was from a Jenni Bowlin kit - can't remember who the maker is.

Just changing the paper

Sometimes a simple card is best...and this one is as simple as it gets. I've made a few of these just switching out the paper and the center image - but keeping the sentiment the same. Everything is from Close To My Heart. I've used Uptown Girls, Life's Delight stamp sets and the Let's Play papers.


Here are a few more altered items that I've made for gifties.

Mini-Class - pocket card

I'm not sure I'm 100% thrilled with this card, but it is late. I really like the design sketch, courtesy of A Muse. I paper pierced some of the bits of the image using some old Chatterbox paper - I liked how that turned out.

It's not over...the challenges

OK - I thought they were over...but guess not. This time, the challenge is to use 9 stamps...I had to be a bit creative here....realizing that I don't have many A Muse background stamps makes it more difficult - maybe I'll win some. Try your luck at http://amuseapalooza.typepad.com/.

Here's my entry.

I also made a bunch of quickie cards earlier this morning...and I'll try to post them later.

Final Amuse Challenge - anything but a card

I'd bought these plaques from Winners (TGmaxx) eons ago and finally got around to altering one. When I was at a friend's house a couple of weeks ago, she had this saying in her window sill, it made me wish to have one too...and now I do. It was really difficult to photograph and I've realized that I am not a very good "stager". It's a lot nicer in real life.

and a close up.

What I've used: CS from Autumn Leaves, inks from Close To My Heart, die Cut font: Quickutz, stamps: A Muse, paint: making memories, modge podge. flower bling: Close To My Heart.

little birdie card

I made this b-day card for my husband's granny in the UK. I'm pretty sure it's not her type of card - but I love how it turned out I love the birds ( hero arts), the punches ( scallop giga and mega marvy clever), I love the stitching around the edges and the whole piece of it. The other stamnps that I used are Autumn Leaves, and A Muse. Cardstock is from a cheap Autumn Leaves paper pad that I got from Michaels - one of the foof a las ( I think).


I've also just finished a birthday album gift. I've recently really got into the whole Simple Scrapbooks idea...and so I decided that I would gift an essentially pre-made scrapbook album. My MIL is visiting her mom ( granny) in the UK, and it's her birthday so I thought I would share the whole scrapping thing with them and make it a "craft kit". I'm going to pack the album, instructions, journaling pen, adhesive for the pics - and hope that they go through some photos and create this " let me tell you about the time" scrapbook. How fun and easy can that be?


What I've used: all paper is from Autumn Leaves paper pad. I've used making memories tiny stickers ( luv them), American Crafts rubons ( not that fun to use - luv the font - too bad), stamps CTMH alphafont. Ink, CTMH. Ribbon - own stash.

I totally lifted the design and idea of this scrapbook from Becky Higgins and Lisa Bearnson's Our Family Scrapbooks. Makes it all simpler - and I'm so into that these days.

Another A Muse Challenge

This time the challenge is for "silly" card, so after really thinking and thinking for days, here is what I have come up with. Happy it's raining cats and dogs day. Love all my new A Muse stamps too.

What I've used: Heidi Swapp tape, CS: SU bashful blue, ink: SU bashful blue, CTMH citrus leaf, Memories black ink. Giga Marvy scallop circle punch, fiskars tiny tiny tiny hole punch.

Here are some cards that I made for a friend's for an upcoming special birthday. I used a gorgeous paper from my stash, it's embossed, stamps: SU, ink is CTMH, ribbon is from an old chatterbox kit.

For this card, patterned paper is Heidi Grace, CS and ink is CTMH, stamp is CTMH, floral is Prima.

and one that was a quickie for a little boy's 2nds birthday. Stamps are Memory Box and fontwerks. Ink is CTMH.

Kids birthday cards

Here are some cards that I made LATE.




For the Dora card, cardstock is from CTMH, patterned paper is Nickoldeon paper, stamps: Fontwerks, Penny Lane and CTMH. sticker is Nickoldeon, ink is CTMH.
For the ladybird card, cardstock is from Bazzill, die cut is Revolution, Cardstock is CTMH, stamps are CTMH, ink is from CTMH, ribbon is from stash.

Entry #2

Here is my second go at it.

What I've used: stamps: A Muse art stamps, Stazon black, cardstock: Close to My Heart, patterned paper: scenic route, punch: marvy uschida

A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA challenge - entry #1

As a result of waking up before 6AM, I started blog reading and stamp shopping way to early. I landed into one of my favorite cute wood stamp company called A Muse Art Stamps. Lucky for my wallet, I hadn't really found a good stamp shop that carried them since moving back to Ontario...so I had to be a bit creative with my use of punches and my little selection of A Muse stamps. Hope they are OK.




What I've used: Stamps: A Muse art stamps, ink: Close To My Heart, Ranger, Stazon, Cardstock: Close To My Heart, punch: Whale of a Punch

Twins card

I was inspired by all the card blogs to start making cards again - and to even try to make them just for no reason...or for the joy of making a card. I'm not sure if I can get there as I've given away so many of my cards. For me, my cards are not my babies yet, I love them, admire them, and usually wish that I'd made two of them, but I think that with this blog keeping a record of my card making - it will be enough for me. Which, in a way is a good thing - I already save almost all the cards I get - whereever will I store my art cards?

Here is a card that I've made for my SIL who is expecting twins. I'm going to the baby shower on Sunday. I used Stiletto quickutz font (almost killed me putting on the 2 dots), Heide Grace paper and some safety pin concho thingys that I'd bought a while ago. I really like the paper and it nearly killed me cutting into it. Inside, I used the sans serif CTMH alphafont set. Gotta love clear!