Amuse Studio February Blog Hop

Welcome to my blog, today I delighted to be joining some of my fellow consultants in a blog hop featuring products from the wonderful new Amuse Studio Catalog, if you are joining us in the hop you should have come here from ZZZ, if not why not start at the beginning with Karen Crisp's blog and hop on down until you get back to me?


Of course I am always doing things at the last minute so I came up with a quick card.  I used the new Venetian Palette Cardstocks.  The colors I chose were Burano and Rialto.  I also used Sugar cardstock.  I used the Burano and Rialto inks alongs with Memento Tuxedo Black.  The stamp set I used was Charming Gardners.  You can find all of this at my website here.

Next on the list to visit is Sarah Callahan.  If you get lost or need the list to start at the beginning you can follow the links below:


Karen Crispwww.papernstamps.blogspot.com/
Pamela Fredrickson www.attemptedcreativity.blogspot.com/
Angi Kelley www.angelakelley.blogspot.com/
Lianna Vigil www.llamatales.blogspot.com/
Carissa Fulkerson www.carissascottage.blogspot.com/
Kristine Vincente www.checkerberrylane.wordpress.com/
Jennifer Corson www.scripptyscraps.blogspot.com/
Samantha Kania www.kania-amusestudio.blogspot.com/
Rita Holmes www.ritaholmes.blogspot.com/
Sarah Callahan www.wastamper.blogspot.com/
Tracey Jean H www.traceyjean.blogspot.com/
Ruza Rebel http://www.ruzascraftcorner.blogspot.com/

I hope you enjoy browsing the blog hop.  Enjoy!!!!!

Valentine Chocolate

Time has gotten away from me and I really wanted to share my Valentine Chocolate Bars.  There is not much stamping to it but I used several A•Muse products.

This is the large Chocolate bar that weighs a little over 4ozs.  I used the Bubblegum Heartbreaker Cardstock for the candy bar wrap.  It measures 6 3/4" x 8 1/2".  The border pieces are just white and black cardstock.  The black is cut 1 1/2" x 6 3/4" and the white is 1" x 6 3/4" and punched with a Fiskars border punch.  The ribbon is the Onyx 1/4" Organdy Polka-dot Ribbon..unfortunately it is out of stock but the Sugar or Bubblegum would work great too.  The heart is cut from our Heart Trio Die Set with the Bubblegum Sweetheart Cardstock.  I placed a pop dot on the bottom point of the heart and pressed it to the bow so it would stand up. 

Here is a regular sized candy bar done.  The paper is Cherry Heartbreaker Cardstock cut 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" for the candy bar wrapper.  The black cardstock is cut 1 1/4" x 5 1/2" and the white is 1" x 5 1/2".  The ribbon is Sugar 1/4" Organdy Polka-dot ribbon.  The heart is cut from the Heart Trio Die Set with Cherry Sweetheart cardstock. 

Both cards are stamped with "Happy Valentine's Day" from the Essential Elements stamp set with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.







Of course you can click HERE to order all of these products.

Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have a great weekend!

Here is our January Spotlight.  The Specials are good until the end of January.  You can visit my website here if you would like to place an order.

 

You can also visit here to see the ideas!

Have a great day and check by for some Valentine ideas!

New Beginnings....2012

It is a time for new beginnings.  Have you all thought about what you want to do in 2012?  I have thought about it but am happy the ways things are right now.  I can't think of anything I want to change.  We all have those little things like lose weight, make more money, etc., etc. BUT I am talking big things.  I am content with life and just want to have a happy and healthy year.

I did get to do a little bit of creating.  That always makes me happy.  I am going to be a vendor at a weekend retreat towards the end of this month so I was working on some ideas for a Make & Take.  The retreat is to raise money for Cancer.  The card for the Make & Take is to do with Thinking of You.  They can turn their card into the lady that is hosting the retreat and the cards will be used to sell for their cancer benefit.  Anway...here are three designs they can choose from for their Make & Take..or they can mix it up however they like to make their own creation.

All products are from A•Muse Studios.  I used the stamp set Wild Rose.  It has the border, vine, flower and sayings all in that set.  I used Vanilla and Blackberry cardstocks.  The inks were Blackberry, Sage and Memento Tuxedo Black.  The first card also has the twinkle embellishments on it.  You can visit my website here to order any of these products.  I hope you enjoyed the cards.  I enjoyed making them.

Santa Candy Bar Cover

I found this cute little candy bar cover on the A•Muse Website under templates.  It didn't have the measurements on the diagram but I didn't it a little different anyway so I will explain that here.

I started with a 5 1/2" x 5 1/2" piece of red cardstock.  Lay it flat on your work surface.  Take a piece of white cardstock cut 1" x 5 1/2" and adhere to the center of the red cardstock.  Use a circle punch which measures about 1 1/4" and punch a half circle centered over the white cardstock.  This will be the front center of the candy bar holder.  Add score tape to the back side of one of the straight sides of the candy bar cover that are going vertical.  Center the candy bar to the back side of the cover and wrap the cardstock around the candy bar and adhere with the score tape.  You want it kind of snug but not so tight you can't slide your candy bar.  Use a piece of black cardstock cute 1 1/2" x 5 1/2" and wrap around the candy bar to represent Santa's belt.  Adhere to the back of the candy bar cover.  ONe the next step I used two of my clever lever square punches.  If you have these...it is the blue one and pink one.  I used glittle  cardstock for the buckle.  I first punched a square out using the blue punch.  I then centered the pink punch over the negative part of the blue punch (it is the hole in the glitter cardstock)...I then punched with the pink punch making a buckle.  It is a very easy technique to do making belt buckles or frames.  Adhere that to the front of the candy bar wrapper.  I used two different oval punches I had and punched a white oval out of the smaller punch and a black oval out of the bigger one.  I stamped the words "Sweetest Wishes" from the stamp set Holiday Tags from A•Muse Studio which you can order here  Hope you have enjoyed this cute little candy bar cover.  Have fun...would make great teacher gifts.



Simple Christmas

It is getting down to the wire for making Christmas cards.  Here is a quick card I came up with.  I do love the simplicity of the card.  I think I will try to whip out a bunch of these within the next couple of days.  I am such a procrastinator when it comes to my cardmaking.  I really need to organize my time better for this.  Anyway...here is my card:

I used the set Holy Night from Amuse...You can get the stamp set here.  It is hard to see the colors..the picture did not do it justice.  I used vanilla cardstock and a burgundy color I had here.  The ink is Memento Rich Cocoa and a gold sheer ribbon for accent. The punched corner is EK Success corner punch.  Quick and easy..just the way I like it.

I am going to be posting some other things that are really cute on my other blog.  I have made quite a few things that aren't Amuse stuff so I am using the other blog for that.  Please check it out by clicking here.  Hope to see you there!!!!!

A•Muse Specials

I just wanted to pass on some specials to you that A•Muse has going on.  The special starts today and goes to December 15th.  There are some great buys.  Be sure to check them out.  You can go here to place an order with me or call me if  you have enough to make a $150 workshop so you can get your hostess benefits as well.