You Make My Day!!

So sweet!! Both Nancy and Tracy nominated me for the YOU MAKE MY DAY AWARD!! What a coincidence cuz they make my day too!! :D Thanks so much ladies for brightening my day with this sweet blessing!!

Award rules: Give the award to up to 10 people whose blogs bring you happiness and inspiration and make you feel so happy about blogland! Let them know by posting a comment on their blog so they can pass it on.

So here are a few ladies that bring me happiness and inspire me (in no particular order):

1. Nancy
2. Tracy
3. Jennie
4. Geeta
5. Michelle
6. Kim
7. Rachel
8. Nicole
9. Novell
10. Amanda

Thanks so much for your friendship and for brightening my days!! It was so hard to narrow this list down to just 10!! I could've put many more of you on here!! Can I just award this to my whole blog roll on the side of my blog???

HUGS!!
Rhonda :D

Elzybells Pocket Card

Here's a pocket card for the A Muse Addicts challenge this week. I flipped it sideways so it slides out and adhered the half circles from the notch, onto the slider so it fits together when it's closed. I also tried using my doodlebug design Paper Posies in place of the flowers in her hands.

Supplies Used: Elzybells Flower Girl and Daisy Trio, A Muse hi, friend, A Muse Mod Dot notecard and asterix PLP, Memories Balck ink, Colorbox Rosbud and Aqua cateyes, white and Cool Caribbean CS by SU, Marvy Mega and Giga Scallop Oval punches, SU 1 1/4" circle punch, 1/8" handheld circle punch, American Crafts Elements ribbon, Doodlebug Designs Inc. Paper Posies, dimensionals, paper piercer, II EP on edges of large oval, dimensionals.

Wow, I have to say I have had so much fun on the new A Muse Addicts forum and I'm so excited to have our new home!!! It definitely seems like a whole new COMMUNITY and place to chat and hang out there. If you wanna join us, feel free to click the big purple button on the right side of my blog! All A Muse/Elzybells/Saltbox Studio fans are welcome!! No matter how much or how long you've loved them!! :D

OOOHHH!!! Today is the Season Premiere for LOST!!! Woohoo!! Party time!! :D

New Forum for the A Muse Addicts!!!

We (Geeta Suggs, Michelle Clark, Jennie Moczan and myself) are PROUD to launch a new home for the A Muse Addicts Group. The Yahoo group is no more!

You must register to join and we request that you supply us with your mailing address and birthday info so that cards and such may be sent to you. If you don't want to do that, feel free to just fill in the blanks with No Thanks or zeros.

We are so excited about this and we hope you can join us over there for lots of fun things:

*CHALLENGES

*SWAPS

*CONTESTS

*PRIZES (did I mention PRIZES)

*FRIENDSHIP

*STAMPING, STAMPING AND MORE STAMPING!!!

COME JOIN US!!

Woohoo!! Let the fun begin!! :D

Happy Birthday Julie!!

It's Julie Ebersole's big day today!! :D Julie is famous for saying "SHUT UP!.....Thud!!" So a few of us decided to send her some bday cards saying "Shut up.....It's your birthday.....Thud!" Since she's the Truffle girl I definitely needed to incorporate the Truffle into her card too. This is a window card so the truffle is stamped on the inside. I used Cinnamon Stickles and some little pink seed beads to decorate the top. All stamps by A Muse, Notecards by A Muse, Pretty In Pink CS used for the scallop circle both by SU, Ribbon by American Crafts (Michaels or JoAnns?), Close to Cocoa and Stazon Timber Brown Ink used also.

A BIG Birthday wish for my friend Amanda today too!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GIRLS!!!

MWAH!!!! :D

Birthday Polar Bear

Hey everyone!! I miss you guys!! I've been away from blogging way too much lately. Honestly, I haven't been stamping much so I don't have much to show!! I'm just now getting my groove back I think.

I thought I'd share this card I made last week. I made a few of them to give to my LOSTie Sisters on SCS for their birthdays, speaking of, today is my LOSTie sister Anna's birthday!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNA!!! I LOVE this new Birthday Polar Bear stamp by Memory Box, it's too cute!!! If you watch LOST at all, especially from the first season, you'll know that there were polar bears on the island and nobody knows why, so I took this stamp and made an island theme to go with it. I made a similar card a few months ago, using the A Muse Wild Bear stamp, but I thought this was extra fun with the cupcake and balloon to celebrate!! :D I also pulled out my new Wasabi Striped Grosgrain ribbon by SU!! YUM! I love ribbon!! :D Sentiment by Elzybells, Palm Tree, Skinny Oval, and Waves by A Muse. I also used Fruit Punch, Lime Green and Yellow Stickles here and there.

I made a birthday card today for someone special, that I'll post later this week so stay tuned......I'll be back!! :D

I'm a slacker!!

Hey everyone!  I'm a complete slacker, sorry for not posting for a few days.  I haven't been blog surfing either!  I'm actually working on stuff, but may not post what I'm working on until after my Stampin' Up! workshop next month, just in case some of the girls coming to my class peak in on this blog.  Wouldn't want to spoil the surprise element for them!  

I haven't been using my Elzybells or A Muse stamps the past couple days, just focusing on Stampin' Up!  For some reason, they're 2 different worlds for me, if I'm in the A Muse mode, I can't do SU and vise versa.

Well, these aren't my favorite cards that I've made and I debated whether or not to share them on the blog, but since I have nothing else to post I thought I'd do it anyway!  Just so you'll see something different than my Bossy Elzy's I posted several days ago.

I made this monkey card for my friend Stacy to go with her LOST Secret Sister package I sent to her a couple months ago.  It went with some of the goodies I sent her.  Supplies used: Stampendous Changito Monkey, Deja Views PP, SU Chocolate Chip, Close to Cocoa  and white CS, SU Cocoa grosgrain ribbon, edge distresser from SU Cutter Kit, dimensionals.

This card I made for some friends for their birthdays, just a simple card, was playing with my new Stampendous Bee!! :D  Sentiment by A Muse, CS by SU, Aquapainter and ink pads used to color in image, Stardust Stickles on wings of bee, ribbon by BasicBasic (M's or JoAnns), PP by My Minds Eye.

Have a wonderful week!  I'm not sure when I'll be posting next, may be a couple days!  Sorry to leave ya hangin!!

HUGS!

Rhonda

Two Scoops of Bossy!

Hi there!!

I'm so excited!  I got a little time to play with a new Elzy today!!  I wasn't sure I'd be able to, but you know if you want to do something bad enough, you make time to do it!  

Here are a couple of Bossy Elzys that fit into the Window Card AMAC (A Muse Addicts Club) challenge this week.  She's so me!!  I can just picture myself looking like this when I'm reprimanding my kids!! :D  I also got to use some of my new Basicgrey Two Scoops papers for these.  I was at my LSS yesterday and couldn't resist them, they're SO pretty!! 

Yes, I know I still need some practice with coloring with my Copics, but I didn't want to redo it so it is what it is!!

This one is my fave of the 2, it was fun playing around with the paper and coming up with a different layout for this, I'm usually very challenged in this area!!  I had a heck of a time cutting the inside circle out though!  My Marvy Mega circle punch doesn't fit that far, not even far enough to make a scallop border with my Giga Scallop circle punch, what's up with that??  So, I used my CM circle cutter, but it would only do the top layer!  I had to use an exacto knife to do the other 2 layers.  This sentiment is from The Angel Company, it came in a cute little set.

Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I really appreciate all the love you guys have shown me the past couple days with your comments, it has really cheered me up!!! 

Blessings to you!

Rhonda :D