Tuesday Greetings

Just wanted to share a couple of cards I created recently. I actually made three cards using the same color scheme, but I sent one of them off before taking a picture of it. So you'll just have to settle for seeing these two! Both cards use the orange sherbet 4bar note cards and brown vintage designer paper from A Muse. The first card showcases the acorn leaf stamp from A Muse's Leaf clear stamp set. The thinking of you stamp is also from A Muse and was punched out with Stampin' Up's word window punch.

The second card uses the the larger flower and three small flower stamps from A Muse's clear circle set. This card has several of my latest purchases from Stampin' Up: The sentiment is from the Best Yet set; I also used the tab punch and the scallop border punch.

Thanks for looking!

Happy Monday!

Mondays normally aren't that exciting. When I return to work in a few months, I KNOW I won't be happy when Monday rolls around! However, even though today is Monday, I'm super excited! About a month ago, Linda Carnell, the owner of A Muse Artstamps, contacted me about being part of her annual calendar project. Last year the project raised nearly $1200 for Scleroderma Research. This year, she wanted the proceeds to go to another worthy cause. I was astonished when she told me she had received several suggestions to have me select the cause! ME?!

Since I was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease earlier this year, I decided to direct the proceeds to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. It is an honor for me to be involved with a company like A Muse that believes in the importance of social responsibility. If you are so inclined, please visit the A Muse website and order a copy of the calendar. You will truly be helping a worthy cause!

A Muse Addicts Challenges

Rhonda persuaded me to post the cards I made at her house on Thursday. The first one is for the A Muse Addicts weekly challenge, which uses the Mainly Men clear stamp set. The second one is for last week's Stamp of the Week challenge, which was to create a card inspired by your favorite sports team. I love the Seahawks, so I made a card using the Seahawk colors, blue and green. I inked enough of the pennants from the banner stamp (Fancy Borders clear set) so I could write in "Go Hawks" on them, and colored them in with Koh-I-Noor pencils. I mounted that on top of the green asterix Pretty Little Paper and then on to the French Blue note card, which I stamped with the A Muse football stamp. I hope the Seahawks win their first home game of the season today. Go Hawks!!

More Fun with Rhonda

Yesterday Rhonda and I had another stamping play date. I wasn't feeling very inspired, but I did attempt a couple of cards for the A Muse Addicts weekly challenges. They weren't my best effort, so I won't post pics of them. However, Rhonda and I did have fun playing around with Photo Booth on her computer, and then we had her daughters take pictures of us with her digital camera. This picture is one of those.

Today I had surgery to remove the port catheter in my chest that was used while I was receiving chemotherapy. Boy, was it great to get rid of that! However, the sterilization solution the nurse used on me turned my chest and neck a really yucky shade of GREEN! Now I look like some weird alien! LOL! Can't wait til I can take a shower and try to get rid of that! I start daily radiation next Tuesday.

Life Is About Who You Love

Earlier this summer my local stamp store started carrying these wonderful kid saying stamps from Inkadinkado. I loved them so much, I've bought nearly all of them. Some of my favorites are related to love, and I got this idea in my head to make an accordian card with them. Last weekend I finally put my idea down on paper, and these pictures show you the end result. The last picture shows what the inside of the card says. The stick people stamp is from Wordsworth. Note card is from Memory Box. Someone very special will be getting this card!

Better Than Ice Cream

I went to my friend Kelly's house for dinner last weekend and we had ice cream for dessert. I wanted to send her a thank you note for having me over, and remembered this new set of stamps I recently purchased from My Favorite Things. The main image was stamped in Versafine Onyx Black and colored in with Prismacolor markers (I forgot Versafine is NOT a good ink to use with Prismacolor/Copic markers. The ink bleeds if you touch it with the marker). I then cut out the image and mounted it on several different pieces of colored cardstock (Memory Box). I added the pink and green dot ribbon around the base of the image, and then finally stamped the sentiment at the bottom of the card.

Sweet Scallops

This week's challenge over on the A Muse Addicts site is to create a card and use scallops on it. I just got this Hey Cupcake stamp, so thought I'd ink it up right away for a change (rather than let it sit in the drawer for ages, as I usually do!). It's colored with Copics and embellished with a red rhinestone sticker. I punched it out with the small yellow Marvy punch, and then mounted it on a piece of Kitchen pink card stock that was punched out with the blue Marvy scallop punch. Black Kitchen note card and black and pink stitched grosgrain ribbon by A Muse.