Fly Me to the Moon

Inspired by "Fly me to the Moon" sung by Frank Sinatra and many other artists. The idea for this actually came to me one day when my son and I were playing at the park. The park has a big play structure that looks sorta like a fire truck. My son and I were sitting in the seat area while a little girl pretended to "drive" the truck for us. When I asked her where she was going to drive us, she said "to the moon!" *love it*
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Images by A Muse. SU Brocade Blue cardstock, Palette Hybrid ink Noir, SU Craft white ink, Pebbles shimmer chalk, Pigma Micro black pen, CM circle cutting template (to make large circle frame mask).

Sweet Pea

Another baby card for a friend and it also fits the A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA ribbon challenge! I bought a huge pack of My Mind's Eye patterned paper from Costco, so I thought I'd finally use some of it - LOL! I have a couple other designs that I made with paper from the pack, so I'll have to upload those soon too. I don't use scrapbooking paper that frequently in my card designs, but I do like it especially for name frames. Seems like I usually end up searching stores for just the right pattern when I have a name frame to make, so hopefully I will have just what I need now for the next one. The A Muse Pea Pod and Sweet Pea stamps are some of my favs since they were the *first* A Muse stamps that I bought maybe five years ago!
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Images by A Muse. White cardstock. Patterned paper - My Minds Eye pack from Costco; Fluid chalk ink Lime Pastel, Prismacolor marker, 2" Marvy super jumbo circle punch, ribbon, dimensionals, Art Glitter and Sakura quickie glue pen.

Circle punch info

Hey all, just sharing some info... I picked up an EK Success "Whale of a Punch" circle today. The box just says "up to 2 inch size". So I measured it and thought you'd like to know the dimensions - it is about 1.75" - so it works well if you wanted to layer with your 1.5" or 2" punches. Hope you are having a great day!

Ellie Shower!

For a friend's baby shower. The bedding they picked for the nursery is the cute Zanzibar collection from Babies R Us, so this card was inspired by one of the pillows! I love it when I have an item to use as inspiration - makes it so easy to pick colors! To make the border, I wrapped green thread across the scallops. The tuft of grass is just a small section of the A Muse grass stamp. Then I used a blue Stardust pen to make the little drops of water from Ellie's trunk.

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Images by A Muse. White cardstock, SU Vanilla and Celery cardstock; Adirondack Pitch black ink, Aloe Vera Versachalk ink, Prismacolor marker in Periwinkle and Avocado; Copic marker in Powder blue; Sakura Stardust pen in Marine-star; Marvy scallop square punch, dimensionals, thread, ribbon.

Rainbow Fish

A sparkly fish for the A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA glitter challenge! Glitter is one of my favorite embellishments - just adds that little something special to a simple design. And when I saw Connie's cute fishy card, it reminded me that I hadn't yet had a chance to play with my new A Muse Animal Wishes clear set! The colors for this were inspired by the children's book "The Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister. For the bowl, I used my CM circle cutter to make a 2 1/8" circle, trimmed off the top, and then used the SU Word Window punch for the base. The water line is just one squiggle from the A Muse Dotted Lines bl stamp. Then the sentiment normally says "have a FAN-tastic day" so I just omitted the "A" and hand-lettered an "I" (hee, hee I just *love* doing that!).
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Images by A Muse, white cardstock, SU Cool Carribean and Orchid Opulence cardstock; Palette Hybrid ink Beaux Arts Blue and Starry Night; Fluid Chalk Lime Pastel and Ice Blue, Caran D'Ache Prismalo watercolor pencils, CM Navy journaling pen, SU Dazzling Diamonds and Sakura Quickie glue pen, dimensionals, CM circle cutter, SU Word Window punch.

Z is for Zoo!

The Grand Finale in my alphabet series! *grin* I just love all the A Muse animals and it was so fun to put several of them together. The Martha Stewart Crafts Starburst punch was a birthday present (thanks Mom!) and I thought it would make the perfect sun! Hope you've enjoyed my alphabet series as much as I've enjoyed creating and sharing it with you!
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Images by A Muse. White cardstock, SU Summer Sun cardstock. Adirondack Pitch black ink, Palette Hybrid ink Burnt Umber, Colorbox Fluid chalk Tangerine; Prismacolor markers in Sunburst Yellow, Mineral Orange, Orange, Ash Grey, Cinnamon Toast, Apple Green, Crimson Red, Light Cerulean Blue, and Eggshell; ribbon, dimensionals, Martha Stewart Crafts 1" Starburst punch.

Y is for Yo-Yo!

I came up with the yo-yo for my son's alphabet cards and thought it'd be fun to do a little more with the idea. To make the yo-yo, I punched two 1 1/2" cardstock circles and adhered a clear sticker to one of them. Then used my crop-a-dile to punch a 1/8" hole in the center for the brad. I adhered one circle to the card and then attached the second one over it with a dimensional. So when you look at it from the side - there are two sides with the string in the middle just like a real yo-yo!
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Images and clear sticker by A Muse. White cardstock, SU Ruby Red cardstock, Fluid chalk ink Ice blue, Palette Hybrid ink Starry Night, Circle punches, American Crafts brad, white crochet thread, dimensionals.

Fun Stuff!

There is so much fun going on over at the A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA blog! Challenge 6 is heating up and yesterday we posted info about Julie's classes and a sneak peek coming tomorrow (Friday)! You don't want to miss it because it is awesome!
Congrats to everyone who guessed me or Heidi in Round 2 of Secret Squares! I had no idea I was holding the prize until last night! If you guessed right, hurry and enter your guess for Round 3 because it ends Friday night! Fun, fun, fun! And did you see that you can now order your own A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA t-shirt?! What color are you getting? Mine is green!

Stay tuned, I have a letter "Y" card to post for you today!

X is for Xylophone

When I was thinking about words for letter "X", xylophone came to mind. I remembered my son's Little Tikes piano and thought it would make a cute card - similar in concept to my drum design. Instead of using quilling paper on the ends of the sticks, I thought beads might work. And I was happy to find that they fit perfectly on the toothpicks! Wouldn't this make a cute card for a music teacher?

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Images by A Muse. White cardstock, SU Yo-Yo Yellow, Green Galore, Ballet Blue, Real Red, Only Orange, and black cardstock; Palette hybrid ink Noir, Colorbox Fluid chalk Yellow Citrus, SU copper brads, 1/8" circle punch, toothpicks, beads, ribbon, EK success music note punch.

Birdie Winner!

Thank-you for all the wonderful Birthday wishes! I had a great day and it was nice to take a bit of a blog break too! Ok - on to the random winner of the Rhonna Farrer birdie....... congratulations.....
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who said this "Have a Happy Birthday Emily!!! I think the birdie would love to come to California! :)"

Congratulations Tracy! Please email me your address and I'll send the birdie your way! Stay tuned for my letter "X" card in my alphabet series!