Thanks

My husband and I went to the Greatest Show on Earth one time (that's the circus, guys, not the strip club) by ourselves.  We had a great time, bought slushies in souvenir mugs, cotton candy, and a plush elephant toy.  We also had ringside seats so we had a good view.  We both noticed that other adults gave us mildly concerned puzzled looks.  We started wondering about it and decided that they were looking at us and thinking, "Do these two know that their children have wandered off?"  I'm sure it didn't help that a couple of seats next to us were empty.

Little did these people know that we were the children.  We went to the circus again the next year but we took along a friend's child so we wouldn't worry the other adults.  You know, we didn't want to spoil their good time.  I have no idea why that story popped into my head but it did.  And then I had words to put in this post.  Isn't that just the second greatest thing on earth?


The Fine Print: No elephants or small children were harmed in the making of this post. All stuff by Club Scrap "Birds of a Feather" kit.  Sorry if this is a rerun card.  It was in my pending folder and I was too lazy to check it out.

Colour Challenge Mid-Way Post

A whole week has gone by and I can't say I've fallen in love with the colors for the latest challenge at the A Muse Studio Challenge Blog.  That said, I haven't grown to hate them either.  I just feel at a loss of what to do with so many colors.  Plus the inspiration photo has GUMDROPS in it and once I look at it all I can think is how I need some gumdrops.

My card has a distinct lack of stamping on it but by gosh, I did get all those colors in there.  This is a very simple card but I rather like it.  To remind you, here is the inspiration photo:

Now I must go hunt down some gumdrops.  Oh, and feel free to make something with these colors and join in our challenge at the A Muse Studio Challenge Blog.  And feel free to mail me some gumdrops.  Or money.  Money is an acceptable substitute.  You know, so I can go and buy gumdrops with it.

The Fine Print: All supplies by A Muse Studio, stamp set used "Friend to Friend;" cardstock used pebble, berry, shell, buttercup and melon; other supplies used onyx pearl and a corner chomper thingy.

The Scales of Injustice

On a scale of 1 to 10, I'm hot and itchy and overcome with a strange desire to lick the cat's ear.  I guess that puts me at about 8 with 10 being batshit crazy.  Hey, it happens.  And the cat just looks like he needs his ear licked.  And his nails trimmed, but that's a whole other story.

See, this is why I don't post when I don't have things to say.  Random insanity comes out instead.

The Fine Print: Stamps 'n Stuff by Club Scrap "Apothecary" set.  I'm still itchy.  And hot.  Spring has forsaken us for this thing called Summer, not to be confused with Furnace Blast which will be in a couple more of months.  I can see I am going to have to forgo purchasing stamps so I can purchase air conditioning instead.
 

Happy Day

I hope you are a having a happy day!

The Fine Print: Nothing funny here, just wishes for you to have a happy day.  You are under absolutely no obligation to have a happy day.  In fact, you can have a shitty day if that is your preference.  I mean, I don't know why you'd want to have a shitty day but maybe it is just happening and you've decided to embrace it, in which case, more power to you!  Card from some Basic Gray card kit but I don't know which one.  I hope that doesn't ruin your day.

Color Challenge

Sometimes I like the challenge of a.....um.... well, a challenge.  It can be fun to be given specific guidelines and then to come up with something using those guidelines.  Often it makes you think outside your box or comfort zone.  Other times it makes you pull your hair and gnash your teeth.

This was one of those times.

It is time for a new challenge at the A Muse Studio Challenge Blog. This time around it is a color challenge, where you are shown a picture and you need to use the color schemes shown in the photo.  I've never done one of those before and always thought they would be fun.

And indeed they are fun, if you are in a crafting mood.  After my this and that day this past weekend, I really haven't felt like settling down into any one project.  In fact, I've continued to dabble with this and that and ignored all the "need to do" crafting projects.  I did manage to crank out this challenge card but I'm not sure I really like it.

It could be the wonky color combo that I would never have put together on my own. Most color challenges I've seen are three colors, not five, so I found it hard t get them all in there.  In fact the light pink is barely represented by the pink pearls on the insides of the flowers.  The card design itself is a CASE (Copy and Steal Everything, in case you forgot).  The original is by A Muse Studio Consultant, Angela Kelley.  Her card was in a much more normal color combo in blues and greens.

The more I look at this card the more it grows on me (like mold).  That's the color combo this time around.  I hope you jump in and join us.  I'm not just saying that for the challenge's sake, but also for my sake so I can come up with another idea using these colors for the mid-way update.

The Fine Print: Stamp sets used--Papillon, Beautiful Botanicals 2, You're So Sweet, and Extraordinary Background. Cardstock used--Melon (the orange), pebble (the light gray), and sugar (the white).  Inks used--Pebble (the background), Slate (the sponged edges), berry (the bright pink), and Buttercup (the yellow-y color).  Other products used--Copic markers, poinsettia dies, Seattle and white baker's cording, and pink pearls.
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Birds are Just Like People

I learned something this weekend: wild birds are just like people.  Yesterday I found some very old trail mix in the cupboard.  Rather than just toss it out I poured it into the bird feeder out back.  Lots of svelte songbirds came to eat, as did the slim cardinals as they love that fancy non-seed stuff.  Today I had some left over popcorn so I poured that into the bird feeder.  Within minutes lots of overweight doves showed up to eat it.

See!  It is just like the people.  The anxious slender folks love their trail mix and fat and happy people love their buttered popcorn!  This proves that it is all Mother Nature's doing.  Some of us were born to be sleek cardinals and others of us were born to be pudgy doves.  We shouldn't fight it. 

The Fine Print: Remember that it isn't nice to fool Mother Nature.  So on that note, someone pass me a cookie.  Card parts, cut out, and bird by Club Scrap "Birds of a Feather" kit.  White rick rack by unknown.  And some of us were born to be annoying pigeons, but that's a other story for another day.

happy birthday

I'm having one of those days where I can't get settled.  I did a little of this, a little of that, a smidgen of this, and a bit of that.  Ultimately that means I didn't accomplish any one thing.  Except this card.  I did complete that.  I guess that's something.

The Fine Print:  Card base and cut out by Club Scrap "Lotus Pond."  Twine by May Arts.  Square brads by unknown.  I just realized there is quite the glare in the upper corner of this card.  Put on your sunglasses and it will be okay.