Yodeling in the Night

This card is in honor of Jack O'Lantern.  He's my black Irish cat (as evidenced by his Oh-apostrophe name) who likes to yodel in the night.  He doesn't get to sit on a fence top and sing odes to the moon. He just hangs out in the house and signs to his anteater. 

Yes, you read that right.  My pet cat has a anteater.  He isn't a real anteater.  Well, I mean he isn't imaginary either.  He's stuffed and enjoys being serenaded to, apparently, unlike hubby and I who would rather sleep without musical accompaniment.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

The Fine Print: papers by DCWV, stamps by A Muse Artstamps, punched shapes by EK Success, wide ribbon by DeNami, skinny ribbon by A Muse.

When Autumn Leaves Begin to Fall

It is once again time for the latest from the A Muse Studio Challenge Blog.  This time the theme is autumn, which is perfect given the time of the year it is.  That is, according to the calendar...  Here in southern Arizona we are still cranking summer in the upper 90's.  You know, we might try on that "fall" thing once or twice in the next few weeks, but it is far too soon to get serious about it.

Meanwhile, we'll just turn the air conditioning low and pretend the leaves are changing.  First we'll pretend there are leaves.

So whether it is fall in your area for real or not, why don't you break out your autumn goodies and make a card and join in the challenge today!  There is a fabulous prize to be had if you live under the auspices of the United States (sorry, 'bout that, for the rest of y'all).

The Fine Print: All products by A Muse Studio. Top card stamps used "Best of Times," "Autumn Days," and "Woodgrain Background."  Paper used papaya and French Roast shimmer,  Inks used currant, orange, French roast, papaya, lichen, and Seattle.  Embellishments used French roast twine and pearls.  Bottom card stamps used "Autumn Leaves," "Autumn Days," and "That's the Ticket."  Papers used vanilla, orange, and French roast wood grain.  Embellishments used antique eyelets.

Girly Stuff

When it comes to being a girly girl, I am way down on the list of applicants.  In fact, I may not even be on the list.  I'm not sure what makes me a non-girly girl the most.  It could be my dislike of chocolate.  It might be my ability to go to the bathroom by myself.  I suppose it could also be my dislike of talking on the telephone, wearing makeup, doing my hair, and going shopping.  Perhaps it is my general dislike of children.  I also do queer things like research vehicles and buy them based on good ratings and not by color.  I also think women blame their periods too much and should just cop to being a bitch.  Speaking of which, I also don't give much of a shit if you call a bitch, or even the "c" word.  And look, I can say "shit" and "bitch."  If I keep this list up, I'll be growing hair on my chin and scratching my balls in no time.  Holy shit!  I'm halfway there.

Even though I'm not a girly girl I will admit to spending $400 on shoes this weekend.  But, how ungirly girl of me, I bought my shoes based on comfort, feel, and support.  And it was the first time I've been shoe shopping in years, possibly three or more years.  What girly girl can say that?!

The Fine Print: I can say the c-word too but in the interest of spam blockers everywhere, I opted not to.  Stamps by A Muse Studio "Glamour Girl" set, dies by Spellbinders, baker's twine by unknown.

Autumn on an Angle

A few days ago I showed off a card a friend sent me that was based on a sketch swap I am in.  I sat down today to make my card.  I wanted to use glitter paper for the center portion that sits at an angle.  I sat down and measured it all out correctly.  Since I was marking up the backside of the paper I then realized I should reverse the angle so it would lay the correct direction on my finished card.

As you see, that didn't work because I out-witted myself.  I had already planned for that when I started measuring so when I reversed it I made it backwards.  Well, that is okay because I can use the card for something else.  Now that I had the angle wrong I could do whatever I wanted to the card so I decorated the angle piece and put the something extra down in the lower left corner.  Then I went and made a card following the sketch correctly.

The Fine Print: Papers by DCWV, card bases from my stash, harvest stickers (top card) by Creatology, harvest bunch (bottom card) from my snippet box-someone sent that to me, stamp by A Muse Studio.

Bird Watching

Hewwo. My Name is Poppy and I'll be your guest columnist today. Probably maybe because my mom is feeling lazies.  Today is a bery cloudy day.  I axed my mom and my papa who putted the clouds in the sky but they didn't tell me. It has to be someone wif a bery long ladder.

Earlier dis morning I was doing bird watching. I wike to watch birds. They want me to eat them but I haz to make them sad becuz I can't get to them to eat them.  I hear you are supposed to look up the kind of birds you see in a book.  My papa just bought a book. It woz about zombies.  No zombies outside this mornings.  That is almost sads becuz if there had been zombies outside I bet my mom would have stayed home and played wif me! I mean I wood do it-call in to werk and say can't come in today, zombies outside.

I didn't see this kind of bird outside eivhers.  I fink he is a flamenco.  They do dances. 

The Fine Pint: Stamps by Stampin Up, orange and chevron orange paper by A Mew Studio, flowers by Prima, scallopy thing by A Mews too.  The feme of this card is pinks and orange which iz seeming more normal these days.

Actually.... no.

Actually it hasn't been lovely, but I still reserve the right to scream.

In fact, just try to stop me.

The Fine Print: Cat stamp by Penny Black, greeting by Art Impressions.  I really wanted to play with my new Lili of the Valley today but they are too sweet and delicate for the black ugliness lurking about.  There's always tomorrow (which will be today by the time you see this post).

Wanna see mine? (WOYWW 173)

Hi.  Today is What's on Your Workdesk Wednesday and that's a fact, Jack.  It is also a fact that what is on my workdesk is a mess.  That's just how it is, Liz.



Former card blank box



The sad thing about this mess, Bess, is that it isn't a very creative one.  It is one born out of necessity, or possibly desperation.  See I have had this pile of card blanks to the left of my desk for months and months.  You may have seen it in various WOYWW photographs. I add to it when I tidy up by I never pull back out of it.  That is because it was too poorly organized and it took too long to find what I wanted out of it.  That might look like a nice smooth white card blank, but then you'd pull it out and find out it was textured, or off-white, or had a subtle pattern, or was really flimsy cover stock and few of them were scored and ready to go.  Plus the whole thing was open to the world and it often got dusty, especially since I rarely touched it.  I decided to nicely organize it by color and ditch the cover stock. 

New card blank box

 Currently I have more card blanks than will fit in the box but my goal is to have no more than will fit in the box because I'll constantly be using them instead of constantly creating new ones.  So far it has worked well.  The last several cards I've made have had bases from out of this box.  I won't be able to ditch the old box quite yet because of the overflow but I hope I will be able to fairly soon. Stay tuned as I'm sure you'll be able to track the progress during Workdesk Wednesdays.

I received this fun Dracula card from a friend.  We are doing a sketch card swap (mentioned recently when I said I said I lost something important and only found half of it--what I found was her sample card and not the actual sketch, but with the card it was easy to recreate the sketch).  The sketch is the three pieces of different paper with the diagonal piece in the middle.  It is to be broken up by something in the mid lower right corner (Dracula in this case).  The spider webbing is strictly a bonus.  We'll see what I come up with as I haven't tackled this one yet (but when I do I'll have an easily accessible card base!!!!).

The Fine Print: I'm finally onto you wily UKers there! I know what you mean when you say RUB.  I always wondered what kind of box a RUB was as they seemed so wonderful and sturdy with nice lids.  So the other day I was pulling the "Made in the UK" sticker off my Really Useful Box and the light bulb came on!  RUB = Really Useful Box.   Yeah, sometimes you can teach this old gal new tricks!