Brilliante Award

Awards are going around for sure!! :D I got nominated by Kim, Jennie and Victoria for the Brilliante Award:

The rules for the "Brilliante Weblog" award are:

The winner can put the logo on his/her blog.

Link to the person you received your award from.

Nominate at least 7 other blogs.

Put links to those blogs on yours.

Leave a message on the blogs of the people you have nominated.

So of course I think the women that nominated me have Brilliante blogs as well, so consider them nominated, and they nominated others that I think are Brilliante so consider them nominated too, but here are my nominees for blogs that I think are Brilliante as well:

1. Lori
2. Lexi
3. Katie
4. Mo
5. Amanda
6. Linda
7. Kim
8. Rachel
9. Stacy
10. Novell

Although I could keep going and nominate many more, I'm gonna stop at 10.

Thanks so much girl for the sweet award! Please stop by and show some love to the Brilliante bloggers I listed above, I know they'll appreciate it!! :D

~Rhonda :D

Weekly Challenges

Happy Hump Day!!! :D (giggle) What a fun week it's been so far, it's goin by way too fast for me though. Sunday we went boating on Lake Washington for SeaFair and got to see the Blue Angels put on their air show!!! Too fun!! Here are a couple pics:

It was so cool to be right in the action, seeing and hearing them LIVE!!! I don't think I've ever done Seafair before and I'm so happy I finally got to experience it. It's such a huge rush to watch them and hear how loud they are!! I can't imagine being inside the cockpit with all the flips and tricks and crazy things they do. I know I'd lose my cookies!! LOL!! The lake was PACKED with boats!! So fun, everyone was having water fights, shooting water guns and throwing water balloons at anyone close to them!! We were hoping to get a glimpse of the hydroplanes too, but we were on the other side of the lake when it was happening. Maybe another year!! :D

I got together and stamped with my friend Mo yesterday too!! We worked on a couple A Muse Addict weekly challenges. She's a blast to hang out with. She brings out the goofy side of me for sure. Reminds me of hanging out with my sister or something, I can just be myself, silly side and all!! :D She cracks me up!! I love stamping with friends, it's the best!

I don't know about you, but there are times when I get an idea in my head and it just doesn't translate onto paper the way I had hoped. It's great to have another set of eyes to bounce ideas off of. On this first card that I did for Jennie's Stamp of the Week challenge (tireswing) I was originally gonna stamp a sunshine in place of the Tiny Bird, but she suggested the bird and I'm so glad she did!! We decided to leave off the legs and make a wing!! :D My favorite part about this card is that I made the tiny bird RED!! I don't know why I'd never thought to do that before, but it's such a fun little punch of color and I think Tiny bird likes being red!! :D

Stamps: Tireswing, Tiny Bird, Life is Good
Papers: Soft Sky, black, white, Madeira green, Grass Green Kitchen notecard
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Garden Green, Copics, Signo white gel pen, Sakura black glaze pen, Clear Spica glitter pen, Staedtler fine liner black pen
Accessories: A Muse ribbons, Marvy punches, scallop scissors

This next card is for the weekly challenge to use (one of) your newest A Muse stamp(s). I picked up several last Saturday and decided to use the new Party Silhouette one. I've been thinking about this card since I first saw that image, to pair it up with the Hostess. Well, it didn't quite translate how I hoped, I wanted it to be simple and just a one layer card (on the pink), but I ended up adding too much and couldn't get the ribbon to work right and then ended up cutting it down and mounting it on a different base card. It's popped up on dimensionals to give it a little umph. I hand drew the Martini glass to scale it down since the one in the Party Time clear set was a bit too big for this card. It's tough to see, but I colored the Martini Blue to give it an extra punch of color.


Stamps: Hostess, Party Silhouette, Cheers to you
Papers: Popsicle Pink, black and white striped A Muse notecard
Inks: Memento Tuxedo Black, Copics, Clear Glaze pen, Spica Clear glitter pen
Accessories: A Muse twinkle stickers, Stardust Stickles, dimensionals

Sorry for the LONG post!! Thanks so much for stopping by today!!

Blessing,

VMAA BONUS - Friends

Woohoo!!! Our last challenge is a bonus challenge posted by none other than the Queen of A Muse herself, JULIE!!!

Her challenge is to make a humorous friendship card.

Here's what I came up with:

My mom let me borrow her old Garth Brookes CD (yes, I'm a closet Garth fan) and I had this song stuck in my head all day while stamping away. I wasn't quite sure what to do for this challenge and as I was looking through my drawers of A Muse stamps, the dog house popped out at me and screamed "use me!!" There isn't much lower of a place for a friend to be than in the dog house, right?? :D

Thanks so much to everyone who played along with us and I hope you enjoyed the challenges even if you weren't able to play this time.

Thanks for stopping by!! Hugs and blessings to you!!

VMAA - One Tree Hill

Can you guess who's challenge is OTH??? :D If you know anything about Jennie, you know she's a HUGE OTH fan!! :D

Her challenge tonight is a super easy one, use one stamp on your card!!!

Here's my sample:

This is the new Madeira stamp from A Muse and their new Vintage blue notecard!! :D This card is inspired by a mug I saw at Starbucks the other day (the blue one on the top shelf of the picture):

I hope you're all enjoying the challenges!!

VMAA - LOST

Surprise, surprise!! A LOST challenge from me!! :D

Imagine your plane crashes on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. You survive and all you have with you is your carry on filled with your absolute favorite stamping essentials.........

The challenge:
Make a card using one of your favorite A Muse stamps, your favorite ribbon, your favorite color or A muse notecard, your favorite layout, your favorite accessory, your favorite punch, etc. Use as many of your favorites as you can!!

Here's what I did:

It's tough to pick a favorite A Muse stamp, there are so many favorites, but this Tire Swing is definitely at the top of the list. My favorite A Muse colors are French Roast, Cabana Blue and Madeira green. My favorite layout (large square on square notecard), my favorite ribbon (May Arts sheer polka dot), my favorite decorative scissors (tiny scallop), favorite ink (Palette Hybrid), Favorite coloring medium (Copics).

VMAA - Grey's Anatomy

Challenge #2 tonight is hosted by Geeta!! Her favorite show is Grey's Anatomy and her challenge is to make a card that has something to do with LOVE!! She says she's a hopeless romantic (I think she has a crush on McDreamy!!)

Here's my card:

Stamps: Elyse, Love Monster, Heart Sings, Ice Cream Truck
Papers: Kitchen yellow, Cabana Blue, white, SU Pretty In Pink
Inks: Palette Hybrid Noir, SU Certainly Celery, Soft Sky, Copics
Accessories: Marvy punches, A Muse ribbon, SU mini brad, SU paper piercer, dimensionals

VMAA: Passport to Europe

Let's get this party started, shall we??? It's VMAA time (Virtual Meeting of the A*Muse Addicts)!!! Our theme this round is TV time, all the challenges will be based on our favorite TV shows. The first challenge is hosted by Michelle and is based on the travel show Passport to Europe.
Michelle has given us a beautiful photograph from her trip to Europe as our inspiration piece. All we need to do is make a card inspired by this picture:




Here's my challenge card:

All stamps, papers and ribbon are by A Muse, Marvy Oval punches, SU Slit Punch and rectangle punch, Palette Hybrid Noir ink, Soft Sky ink and Copic Markers also used.

I hope you're able to play along with us!!!