Hubba Hubba...

Hope that you all had a great Christmas!! Time is just flying by, next week at this time we will be starting a brand new year!! In the blink of an eye it is going to be Valentine's Day, and this year I am going to be ready! (I hope...I may have just jinxed myself.) So I have been playing with some Valentine ideas, and new supplies! Also, there is a fun Consultant Challenge with A Muse Studio to use our Paper Straws that I wanted to participate in. So I took a little time yesterday, just to play, and I made this fun card.
This is  a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" square card- I don't make too many of these, but sometimes its good to change things up! I used, Cherry, Cherry Gingham, and Cherry Sweetheart card stocks, lots of red! I also accented with Cranberry Glitter as well, even more red! The heart is from our new Big Heart Die Set, this die cuts a full A2 sized card!! I made the rosette with our Rosette Die Set, but cut the pieces down so I had a smaller rosette to work with. The sentiment is from Love Me Do, so fun! Then I topped the whole thing off with an arrow made from one of our Cherry Paper Straws. Ta-Da!

So, what do you think? Leave me a comment and let me know you stopped by!

Have a wonderful day!

A Muse September Blog Hop

It's time for another A Muse Studio Blog Hop! This month our theme is Autum!! I chose Halloween!
 If you are participating in the blog hop, you should have come from Carissa's blog and if not, then you should start from the beginning with Karen's blog until you come to my blog.
I chose to make a cute little Halloween mini album for my project, I am loving all the fun new sets we have in the new Holiday Catalog. This is also a little sneak peek for all my Hostess Group girls, we will be making this together next week!!

For this project I used our wonderful Coasterboard as a base, it is great because you can cut it with your nestabilities! The papers I chose to use are Grass, Belini, Grape, Orange Cheveron, and Sleepy Hollow Card Stocks. The stamp sets I used are Toil and Trouble, Candy Corn Kisses, No Peeking, Screenprint Background, Mod Backgrounds 1 and 2.

I hope that you have enjoyed this fun Halloween Hop!!

 Here is the complete list,:

Karen Crisp http://www.papernstamps.blogspot.com
Linda Suarez http://www.luckydogstamper.com
Pamela Fredrickson www.attemptedcreativity.blogspot.com
Christina Seeger http://morethanalittlerandom.blogspot.com/
Carissa Fulkerson www.carissascottage.blogspot.com
Angela Kelley http://www.angelakelley.blogspot.com This is ME!

Thanks for stopping by! Have a great day!!

Bloom Where You Are Planted Challenge

  Today on the A Muse Studio Challenge blog it is all about the flowers! We have so many beautiful flower stamps and new flower dies in the catalog, it was hard to choose.  I settled on this new exclusive, spiral blossom 4 die from Spellbinders.

 I have had these wonderful little bird cages in my stash for quite a while now. Wouldn't this be lovely with a sweet cupcake tucked inside or a celo bag filled with chocolates?  I used three of the spiral blooms for this project, creating the little buds by clipping off an end piece of two blossoms before I rolled them up. The buds are rolled with the colored side of the paper on the outside, the larger flowers are rolled with the color to the inside. I sanded the edges of my blossoms before rolling, as well as worked a little to brake down the paper fibers a bit.

I also made a card to go along with my sweet little bird cage, you never know when you might need a nice little gift, this would be perfect for so many occasions! I hope that you will pop over to the challenge blog and take a peek, you can even join in the fun and be entered to win a prize!!

Products used A Muse Studio
Paper: Grape, Sage, Sugar
Inks: Grape, Amethyst, Toffee
Stamps: Script Background, Life's A Song, Chirrup
Other: Med. Dots  Impression Plate, Scallop Border die set, Twine, Blackberry Buttons

Hope that you are having a wonderful day, thanks for stopping by!! :)