Mandy by the Treehouse
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At first, I wanted to cut the wood grain patterned paper and make it look like a tree with branches and all, but I couldn’t. I can’t cut paper if there is no guide line. So I settled with just plain tree trunk. Well, Mandy doesn’t mine. She is very bubbly happy.
Created for the A Muse Lounge Challenge #7: Ink it Up!!
Stamps: A Muse Simple Wishes and Mandy’s World Bubble Girl;
Patterned paper, ribbon, gems: A Muse;
Coloring: Copic markers
It’s a treehouse with a window, okay! =) Oops, no door?
Hmmm… bubbles not so shiny. Must work on the coloring.
Shadow Book Cards
Number of View: 546
Until I made this card, I didn’t understand why stamp companies release Christmas stamp in summer. I mean why would I want Christmas stamps in July! I have tons of other pretty stamps that I’m dying to get my hands dirty. Winter stamps can wait till end of the year! But, now that I’ve made few winter cards, I’m liking the idea.
Last Tuesday, I went to my somewhat local stamp company, Angela’s Happy Stamper in Reston, VA. It’s about 20 minutes ride via toll road, but it’s kinda close to an outdoor swimming pool my son loves, so I stoped by the AHS. I had to get few EZ mount foams cuz I was expecting lots of unmounted red rubber stamps from Purple Onion Designs (I won $50 gift certificate from Caardvarks challenge, WOOHOO! BTW, POD is having an ANNIVERSARY SALE right now!).
Well, AHS had a special, spend $30 on new A Muse Palooza products (or was it just any A Muse? Hmmm…) and you will be entered into a drawing to win a goodie bag. Well, I can’t say no to goodie bags, so I bought four new A Muse winter themed stamps even though I had no intention of making any christmas cards till December. I didn’t win the goodie bag (boohoo!), but aren’t these cute!
Juggling Snowman, Snow Fort, Winter Houses, Girl with Sled.
Just yesterday I found out Cupcake Craft Challenges has a Christmas card challenge, so I decided to use my new A Muse stamps.
Size: 3×3
Patterned papers: A Muse
Gorilla glue to bind the spine and Tombow Mono and Sakura Quickie Glue for everything else.
Inspired by my kids’ book.
Coloring: Copics;
Snow: Layer and layers of Smooch, Sakura puff, and glitter pen.
Urmmm… It was my first time using the Gorilla glue to bind a book. And look what it did to the inside the pages! Hehe. Arghhh~. Heehee. I had to cover it up with another layer of paper. But I didn’t want to cover the last page, so I added snow accent paint all around the houses. Also, the houses were stamped too high, so I added another row of houses.
Book pages were created by binding several 120 lbs. cardstock (4 or 5 sheets) and the patterned papers cuz I was using a paper punch (Stampin’ Up! Curly Label) to cut the windows out.
Maybe I’ll coat the cover with Modge Podge glue later.
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Well, today we all went to the swimming pool again. And I had to stop by the Angela’s Happy Stamper since it was kinda in the same area. Got another A Muse Palooza stamp, hehe. This was my third visit to the store to buy new AP products, heehee.
“Snowy Peaks”
And here is another shadow book card. This time, I made a thinner one.
*Whew* I think this has been my longest blog post. =)
THANK YOU~~~~~~~~~~~~~!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RibbonRide
Number of View: 217
When I first introduced to the world of making cards using stamps (spring 2008), I didn’t think you need ribbons for embellishment. My thought was, stick with papers for paper projects. No need for fabric. Well, how little did I know. Now, I can’t get enough of ribbons!
Created for A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA “ribbon” challenge.
Colored with Copic markers. For white background, I used Cutter Bee Bugs double piercing tool.
Stamps: A Muse “Tractor” and “Pumpkin Wagon”;
Cardstock: A Muse Notecard;
Ribbons: A Muse; Close to my Heart (Ricrac- colored with Copic);
A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA Challenge: Square
Number of View: 130
I LOVE A Muse stamps. Love their designs. It makes me happy just looking at their stamps. For a while I had a hard time getting the crisp stamped image. The lines were always too think and uneven. I decided to give A Muse black dye ink pad a try, and it made a difference. Don’t know why, but I’m much happier with the result. It needs some drying time (I use heat tool), but it works great with the Copic markers as well.
The card was created for A-MUSE-A-PALOOZA challenge #1: Square!
Stamp: A Muse “Flower Girl”;
Ribbon: A Muse;
Patterned papers: Colorbok “Friendly Forest”;
Chipboard flower: Stampin’ Up! (Square die cut with a Sizzix die, “Square”)
Others: Smooch; Sakura Gelly Roll (stardust, I think); the Paper Studio (square gemstone)
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