Enjoying the Ride

The first craft fair of the season is done! What a great day! There are five of us who stamp together and share the booth space. It's great to do something fun together! Our next one is in two weeks so have to get busy creating items to replace those that sold. good times!

Here's a fun card using a Phyllis Harris stamp from the now defunct company, The Angel Company. Love this image and know that it will bring a smile to the recipient. :)

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Sympathy Card

Here's another quick and simple sympathy card. Loving Memories is a set that is simple and stunning. I love that tree and the sentiments are great too! A little cuttlebug action added a little texture to the card.

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Pick Me Up

Here's a super fun card ready to bring a smile to a friend. It's a retired TAC set but I see myself using it for years to come. It's got so much personality and so many options. Can't wait to play with it more!!! (Thanks, Julie, for hooking me up with this set!)

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Oh - and if you're in the Beloit, KS, area on Saturday, our first craft show of the year is the Beloit Holiday Fair on October 29th! Can't wait to see you!!!

Swingin' Day

Here's a quick masculine card for the golfer in your life! It's simple and fun and quick! What can be better? The stamp set is "Swingin' Day" from A Muse Studio. It's currently out of stock but should be back in soon.

Have a wonderfully creative day!!!

Loving Memories

Here's a clean and simple sympathy card that will go through the mail easily since it doesn't have any raised embellishments. A little bit of black paper sets off the image. I think the Labels 8 provides a nice "frame" for the sentiment, don't you?

The trees are from Loving Memories and the sentiment is from Essential Sentiments. Both are A Muse Studio stamps stamped in the wonderful A Muse Studio cranberry pigment ink.

Bookworm Ruby

Here's another one of Sparkle Creations lovely stamps! This is Bookworm Ruby and she's just delightful!

I colored her with Copic markers and have to give a shout-out to Angela Kelley for teaching us how to color hair at this year's TAC seminar. I'm still working on it but love the effects!. A cuttlebug folder added some texture and, of course, there's always room for a little bling to finish off a card, don't you agree? :)

Have a wonderfully creative day!! 

You are One of a Kind

Here's a fun friend card to pick up someone's day. I used Heather's sketch - well a loose interpretation of her sketch #152: http://stampez.typepad.com/my_weblog/2011/09/monday-sketch-152.html

I used all the same elements but turned the card and oval to the side.I think the pink, grey and blackberry cardstocks work well together, don't you? And, how about the baker's twine??? love it! Finally, do you see the little heart bling in the middle of the gumballs? That's a twinkle sticker that was colored pink with a copic marker. So great to take something clear and make it a matching color. Inside the card says, "You are one of a kind". Fun!

Thanks for popping by my blog and have a wonderfully creative day!

Birthday Cake

Here's another piece of chocolate cake to celebrate a happy day. I love it with the pink polka dot paper and a pretty green border which mimics the frosting and the cake plate. Yummy!

And, how about that pink polka dot organdy ribbon over the pink polka dot paper? love it! My final favorite touch is the twinkle stickers just on the edge of the spellbinder cut-out. Just a touch of bling - so fun! These products are all a*muse studio. You can pick them up anytime online at www.amusestudio.com/seleise.

Don't forget to check out the new specials on the A*Muse Studio Spotlight Specials page (see the tabs at the top of this blog post) or go to this link: http://amethystcat.blogspot.com/p/muse-studio-specials.html

Have a wonderfully creative day!

1 martini, 2 martini...

Here's a pink drink to brighten up your day! Or, better yet, 3 pink drinks!! :) Am loving the Tini Time set from A Muse Studio!!! So fun and so silly and so perfect!

This card features the bubblegum ink and bubblegum polka dot organdy ribbon - love it!

What do you think?

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Relaxing Charlotte - Sparkle Creations

How cute is Relaxing Charlotte?!!! I love this image from Sparkle Creations. So much fun to color and so much life in the image. good times. :) Parts of the image are popped up off of the crimped and embossed pieces. It adds a little dimension to the card.There's a little glitter on the bubbles too.

I do have to say that this card looks better in person. I've really got to improve my photo-taking ability. :)

I hope you have a wonderfully relaxing and creative day! 

Just a Note of Thanks!

Music makes me happy! So, a stamp set with music notes makes me even more happy!!! And, two stamps with music notes send me over the moon! :) Can you hear me singing? I know some of you can! ;)

The bird and music notes are from Avian Notes (love that set!!!) and the sentiment and birdcage is from Life is a Song - so fun!!! Here's the inside  - it's Bazzill paper so had to layer to get my white inside piece so a note could be written. It's a quick little thank you!

I hope your day is filled with a happy little tune while you get done what has to get done! Have a wonderfully creative day!!!

Gingham Sympathy

The beautiful botanicals stamp set looks great in a monochromatic sympathy card design - especially layered on the gingham paper - don't you agree? I love, love, love the A*Muse Studio paper. Not only is it made with a soy-based ink but the inside is white so you don't have to worry about layering paper inside to be able to write your message. I repeated the puff floral inside but again, forgot to take a photo of the inside of the card. Sorry about that...

It seems I'm always in need of a Sympathy card but I end up selling them before I get them mailed (that's a good problem to have!). I am late getting a couple of cards out the door so hopefully will be productive this week and get some more of these made.

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Cocktail Emily

I finally had some time to put some copics to work on my Sparkle Creations stamps! Here's my first card with one of Sparkle's fabulous stamps. How cute is this image??!!! I love it! This is Cocktail Emily and she's awesome! I put an a*muse studio sentiment on the inside from Tini Time but I forgot to take a pic of the inside. oops! I added a little shimmer gel pen to the image and used a border punch to finish off the card. Fun stuff!

Have a wonderfully creative day!!

Road of Life

Red, Black and Kraft! A great color combo for a quick and easy card. Some onyx/white baker's twine finishes it off perfectly, don't you think? Love the spellbinders dies with this image. And, a little heart bling adds the perfect finishing touch to the card. Quick, easy and fun  - what could be better?

Have a wonderfully creative day!

Halloween M&M Treats - 1X8 bags

Here's a fun way to give Halloween treats! The 1" X 8" bags carried by A*Muse Studio are super for little treats! This one is filled with m&ms and has a simple spellbinder circle in Sugar and scalloped circle topper in Onyx with Too Cute to Spook images stamped on top in Blackberry and Slate inks. Love the inks! The sentiment is also on the Onyx paper with the Slate ink.

My niece and nephew wanted to make m&m treats too. They love making projects!! They picked out their die shape - they each picked a different shape from the Classic Tag Dies. They also picked out their images and helped stamp and cut. They did great, didn't they?!

Have a wonderfully creative day!!!

Products used:

out of stock until week of 10/17/2011

World Cardmaking Day Blog Hop

Happy World Cardmaking Day!!! Welcome to an A*Muse Studio Blog Hop celebrating the occasion!!! We've been having big fun making cards to celebrate! I decided to make a fun black and pink polka dotty card. I love polka dots and black and pink is one of my favorite color combos. Here are the A*Muse Studio products that I used on a fun friendship card!

Now, I should stop here and apologize for the photos. It is close to midnight and I am at my sister's house. She is recovering from surgery so I'm helping my mom take care of the kiddos so my bro-in-law can keep farming and help take care of my sis. :) My sweet, little and youngest, adorable nephew threw up all over me and the rocking chair about an hour ago. Since then I have been cleaning chairs and carpet and washing clothes and having a wonderful time. :) OK - perhaps there is a touch bit of sarcasm in the last part but my nephew is a sweetheart and he can't help it his tummy hurt. However, with the added complications, I had to finish my card quickly and get some pics taken and uploaded so please forgive the photo quality. The card does look better in person. :)

 Tini Time is a super fun set. You can use it for cosmos and celebrating the love of fun cocktail drinks. Or, you can turn the glass into a hanging light or a table or other fun things!

Check out a close up of the image and layers of the fabulous onyx, onyx polka dot and bubblegum polka dot papers. They're layered on A*Muse Studio Vanilla as their polka dots have a cream tinge. So pretty! And, check it out - the Sakura quickie glue pen makes it easy to add some bubblegum glitter to the image. A "sugar" rim was added to the cocktail glass and a glittery border to the sentiment. The sentiment is popped up over the glass image. And, check out that fabulous polka dot organdy ribbon - adds such a cute touch to the card. Oh, and before I forget the onyx (black) layer of paper has been spritzed with the stardust finishing spray so it has a wonderful shimmery look.

Finally, check out the inside of the card. Pink and polka dotty and fun! Hope you've enjoyed a splash of Tini Time and I hope you continue on to Pamela Frederickson's blog for more hopping fun!! The full blogging list is below:


Amber Smith: http://theneatery.wordpress.com/
Veronica Zalis: http://lk2thestarz.blogspot.com/
Jennifer Corson: http://www.scripptyscraps.blogspot.com/
Karen Crisp: http://www.papernstamps.blogspot.com/
Jeanette Cloyd: http://www.smoreamusement.blogspot.com/
Sherri Thacker: http://www.sherri-iloveflipflops.blogspot.com/
Seleise Barrett (this is me - you are here): http://www.amethystcat.blogspot.com/
Pamela Frederickson: http://www.attemptedcreativity.blogspot.com/
Carissa Fulkerson: http://www.carissascottage.blogspot.com/
Melissa Roell: http://www.totogal62.blogspot.com/
Angela Schellenburg: http://www.gypsypaperie.blogspot.com/
Lisa Chapman: http://www.piesafepapergoods.blogspot.com/
Heather Scott: http://www.oz-somestamps.com/
Suzanne Dahlberg: http://www.thecardyard.blogspot.com/
Dana Vincent: http://www.danasamazed.blogspot.com/
Julie Dylingowski: http://www.simplyimpressed.blogspot.com/

Have a wonderfully creative day!