fresh & fun

After I had seen the Map for A Muse, I thought it would be a cool feature for my blog. I added it on the side bar under my blog links. 

I hope you guys sign into my guest map book! You can add a quick hi and a picture of yourself here. Right now it looks pretty pathetic. Help me fill it up!

Okay, so sometimes I am a little slow. I saw these banners at other blogs before, but I didn’t really pay attention. Today I read it again. This is so cool! A Muse is holding weekly challenges! You can win free A Muse Merchandise! I love challenges! I love A Muse! I am sooooo in! It’s already the third week that this is going on, but better late then never, right?

Well….run to the A Muse blog and check out this weeks challenge. It’s a sketch challenge. I LOVE those!!!!

Here is my card made with the sketch.

I started out with a 5 1/4″ x 10 1/2″ piece of Basic Black cardstock. I cut a 5″ square piece of shimmery white cardstock and stamped the Paisley Background (Stampin’ Up!) with Going Gray classic ink.

I cut a 2 1/4″ piece of brushed silver cardstock and stamped it with Black Palette ink and My Favorite Things “Behind the Scenes” polka dots. I love clear stamps for backgrounds like that. It’s a piece of cake to line the dots up. I taped the silver cardstock on to a bigger black piece of cardstock and cut the edges with decorative scissors. I added black organdy ribbon with silver cord on the top third of that strip.

For the center image I stamped A Muse’s Chandelier stamp (7-4101B) in Black Palette ink. I colored it with Prisma color Pencils and blended those with gamsol. I added shine to it with the Sakura Sparkle pen and even more sparkle over the lights with Stickles Stardust.

The main image was layered on a black scalloped circle and taped on with dimensionals.  Last I stamped you light up my Life in Black Palette ink with Karen Forster snap stamps.

Check out all the A Muse stamper on this map:

This card is my next Sketch challenge for you. I am still a newbie in making sketches on Adobe, and I am having trouble, making this one because of the wavy line. 

 If you are interested in participating, add a link to your card as a comment to this post. I will raffle away some stamped images of my bees on Shimmery White as well as some matching May Arts ribbon. You have time until Monday morning at 9 a.m. to enter.

I am excited to see what Lori and Sharon will upload. Here is my bee card. It’s not only the card for our bee challenge, but also fit in perfectly for today’s limited supply challenge on SCS.

I started with stamping the Bee Daisy   (Follow the link!!! Eclectic paperie has 20 IN STOCK right now) on shimmery white Cardstock with Black palette ink. I colored the bee with classic inks and aqua painter. The colors I used were Apricot Appeal, Ruby Red, Close To Cocoa, Chocolate Chip, Sage Shadow, True Thyme and Bordering Blue.  I layered the image on a Giga scallop circle punchout in True Thyme and set is aside.

The card base is Ruby Red cardstock. The next layer is Apricot Appeal. The dotted paper is from Scenic Route. I drew my wavy line on the back of the Scenic route paper before cutting it. I layered a piece of Ruby Red cardstock under it and cut it with my Decorative scissors. I added some May Arts ribbon and taped the top part on to the rest of the card.

After adhering my main image, I added a trail for the bee with black journaling marker and stamped Thankzzz from Stampin’ Up!’s Cute as a Bug set.

Sharon Harnist, Lori Craig and I were talking about challenges and decided to do one together. I send both some stamped images of Stampendous Bees. I love those little fellows and they both didn’t own them yet. I also send some paper, ribbon and primas along with a quick card.

Well….I meant to make it a quick card, but then had a bit of a creative blog.  I wasn’t sure it turned out quite right, but I send it anyway. I  wanted to get the packages out to them on Saturday. I used Notations Designer paper and Office Accoutrement, Stamp with Authenticity and Genuine Article to create this card. I also used my spiral and round tab punch as well as several colored brads.

I can’t wait to see what the girls come up with!

This was 2 weeks ago. Sharon just got her package today. I wonder where that was stuck! We will all post bee cards sometime today! I need to add a sentiment to mine and photograph it. Almost ready!