Crafty Lizzie

Le deuxieme amuse-bouche

For this second amuse-bouche I brought out my embossing heat tool and embossed both the open and solid zinnea with clear powder.  I love these new script sentiments, too.  Oh, and the new sage 4-bar notecards... what a gorgeous color!

Amusez-vous avec les amuse-bouche!

Well, today marks the start of the "amuse-bouche" (formerly known as "sneek peaks") for A Muse's new Love Blooms release!

Here's my first little appetizer (which is what amuse-bouche means... clever, huh?)... and be sure to check out the blogs of all of those other fabulous A Muse ladies for their tasty little treats!  Ok, maybe I am taking this food thing too far... maybe it's time for a snack, for real.  :)

For this card I used two of A Muse's new 4-bar notecard colors (latte and blush), and two of the new images.  Used the paper piercing tool and a little sheer ribbon... Pink Spica pen on her bouquet and ultrafine multi glitter on her veil... voila!  A lovely card created in less than 5 minutes!  Think Simple, Think A Muse indeed!!

More Oldies but Goodies

This afternoon I finally got a chance to play with some of the A Muse images that I had long coveted... then bought... then, for some reason, had not yet used... probaby because I am always so eager to play with the newest rubber!

As I've said before, I always love a good pun... and I love animals... so I had a ball making these two cards.

The chicks are, of course, all flocked out with Stampendous! Fun Flock in Ducky Yellow.  I can never resist an excuse to flock out some birds.  I had some difficulty trying to get proper (and remotely accurate) coloring on the hen... you know, there are a lot of different varieties of hens out there, each with unique shading and plumage and whatnot.  I ended up settling for a blend of Copic markers in Suntan & Sand, and then made little shading marks with the Colorless Blender.  Didn't turn out as well as I had hoped, but it's not too bad... at least, that is my opinion.  :)