AMAP Ribbon Challenge

Hope you're having a good weekend. Yesterday was the Rock n' Roll marathon here in Seattle. In conjunction with the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and its Team in Training program, I was a volunteer at their water station for the marathon. It was a lot of fun, but boy am I tired. My upper body feels like jelly after toting around cartons of 6 gallons of water and keeping my arms extended holding out water for the runners for eight hours! Once I got home I felt like I'd done a marathon myself!

Anyway, you're here to see a card, so enough of my personal ramblings! I made this card for the A-Muse-A-Palooza ribbon challenge. I recently got this beautiful flower ribbon as part of a grab bag at Packaging Specialties. I thought the flower design in the ribbon resembled the A Muse gerber daisy image, so I pulled that out, and the card just fell together. I wanted to color the flower like one in the ribbon, but I'm not sure I like the finished result. Anyway, I was too tired to come up with something else, so I'm sticking with this! Thanks for looking, and hope you have a good week!

A-Muse-A-Palooza Square Challenge

Hard to believe another countdown to A-Muse-A-Palooza is upon us! I had so much fun playing along last year that I just had to make time in my crazy schedule to participate again this year (while it was no fun being home for eight months last year due to cancer, I do miss the unlimited time for my creative pursuits!). The first challenge is to make a card that is an interpretation of "SQUARE." I was very pleased with how this card turned out, just wish my photo of it was better. I had fun practicing my shading techniques with Copic markers on the tulips, and it felt good to use my recent purchase of the beloved petite green gingham paper! Thanks for looking. Can't wait for the next AMAP challenge!

A Muse Challenge

Even though I now see I missed the deadline, I still decided to post my entry for the "Hit the Books" challenge over at the A Muse Lounge, which is to create a card inspired by a book. I recently purchased The Sweet Life in Paris by David Lebovitz. It's a delightful accounting of this pastry chef and cookbook author's adventures in Paris. So, this card is my interpretation of the book. All paper and stamp images by A Muse. Cupcake brad by Doodlebug.