Muse Challenge #173

I haven't played along with the Muse challenge in awhile....I always forget to go back and vote LOL but I thought I'd play along this week....Anita's card is just gorgeous!
I took inspiration from the inky background and the silhouette image on Anita's card.... I used Tim Holts distress inks,they seem to work the best for me since I have issues blending so I went for coverage then sprinkled with water..I like the blotchy look!
I used a stencil from the crafters workshop called Mini birds of a feather (now don't laugh but as I was looking at my card as I'm writing this I noticed something missing! I had to mask a lot of the stencil because it had a bunch of bird cages but I only wanted one on the branch...I totally forgot I wanted that on cage LOL and didn't realize I hadn't inked that part of the stencil until just now! )
Anyway I really like how it turned out!

Muse Challenge #173

Here's this week's Muse: Anita Bowden

Thanks for coming to take a peek!

Muse Challenge #167

Here is my take on this weeks Muse Muse Challenge #167   I was inspired by Jenni's use of the present die...I wish I had that one :( but I played around with my Silhouette program until I found a couple that I like!

 Here's this week's Muse: Jenni Murray

 

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Muse Challenge #163

Here is my take on this weeks Muse card...I didn't have any textured card stock so I used an embossing folder to create some texture.

Here's this week's Muse: Jenni Murray

Muse Challenge #163

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Muse Challenge #162

Here is my take on this weeks Muse challenge, I took inspiration from the flowers on Tracey's card

Here's this week's Muse: Tracey McNeely

 

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Muse Challenge #161

I love the look of the inlaid die technique that Anita used for this weeks Muse Challenge. I don't own many dies but I thought this leafy one would look good.

Here's this week's Muse: Anita Bowden

 
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Muse Challenge #160

I really loved the color combo Michele used on her Muse card this week and of course the background stamp...one I don't have but am seriously thinking about getting! My colorsa aren't exact but I liked them..

Here's this week's Muse: Michele Ferguson

 

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Muse Challenge #159

I love playing along with the Muse challenge blog because it gives me a reason to work on my coloring/water coloring....I really don't think I'll get the hang of it but it sure is fun trying LOL I love how my flower turned out but the leafy stuff not so much! :(
Anyway here is my take on the new Muse.....I love the poppy image Jenni used...well to be honest I loved everything about her card!

Here's this week's Muse: Jenni Murray

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Muse Challenge #158

I loved Tracey's card this week over at Muse challenge blog,her placement of the flower in the corner it what caught my eye so I kind of went with it....then I couldn't decided between purple or blue flowers so I made both...

Muse Challenge #158


Here's this week's Muse: Tracey McNeely

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Muse Challenge #157

I love Antia's card this week over at Muse challenge blog,I really liked the idea of masking off the center (keeping it white) when I started making this card I had masked off the area I needed but then I had a mishap my mist...haha I kind of dumped it so needless to say my masking wasn't as clean and my misting looked atrocious LOL so I tried to save it by cutting the panel and using a paint brush to move the extra mist around...

it didn't turn out like I planned but I like it!

Here's this week's Muse: Anita Bowden

 

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Muse Challenge #156

here is my take on the newest Muse challenge.....I really liked the technique Michele used on her card...I've seen it before but never knew it was called Camouflaging Die Cuts so I couldn't even look up how it was done until now ....so as you can see I had to try it out.....I don't own too many dies so I was limited and Michele wanted us to make a thank you card...
I wanted to keep it real simple since it was a new technique for me....I'll admit I was lucky I didn't toss the left over bits of the die cut (you know like in between the t and h)...I hadn't realize I had to add those back in at the end to make it look right ..

Here's this week's Muse: Michele Ferguson

 
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Muse Challenge #154

I really loved the new Muse inspiration card from Jennie...as you can see I took inspiration from Jennie's whole card layout LOL it just makes such a cute card!

Here's this week's Muse: Jenni Murray

 

Muse Challenge #154 

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Muse Challenge #153

Here is my card for this weeks Muse challenge,I took inspiration from Tracey's card in the form of it being one layer and 3 she had 3 flowers on her card so I used the 3 cats LOL

Here's this week's Muse: Tracey McNeely

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Muse Challenge 152

Here is my take on the ;latest challenge over at Muse blog, I took most inspiration from the card layout...I really loved the embossing folder that Anita used..I might have to go hunt for one!

Here's this week's Muse: Anita Bowden!

 

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MUSE Challenge 148

Here is my take on the new challenge over at Muse I think its pretty self explanatory where I took my inspiration LOL I loved Anita's clean and simple style so I stuck with that....now if I could just learn how to get my sentiments straight....they always seem to come out crooked !


this week's Muse: Anita Bowden

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Muse 147

Its been awhile since I've played along at Muse and Michelle's card is just fabulous! I used her layout of the card as inspiration for my card....

I used these cute stamps from Paper craft (I think its the first time I've used them)

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Muse Challenge #128

I love to use embossing folders so this weeks Muse challenge was awesome for me.....I used two different embossing folder the background one is from Sizzix and the one I used on the die cut is from Darice.

Here's this week's Muse: Michele Ferguson

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Muse Challenge No127

I really love the new Muse Challenge card and was very excited to play along this week! I played off the friend theme and the use of an embossed background

Here's this week's Muse: Joan Bardee

Muse Challenge No126

I decided to play along with the Muse Challenge again this week.....I just loved how Tracey did the stenciling in the background....I couldn't find a stencil I wanted to use so I used some snow flake stamps that didn't have a whole lot of ink on them....I really like how this one turned out!

Here's this week's Muse: Tracey McNeely
isn't it the cutest thing!

 


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Muse Challenge #125

I am playing along this week with Muse Card club... I loved Anita's card, the flower stamp is just so darn cute....its pretty obvious I took inspiration from her whole card....I truly didn't realize how close they were until I was making this post :( I'm suppose to take inspiration from the card not copy it!
But I really liked it...I just added more color and different flowers!

 Here's this week's Muse: Anita Bowde

 I swear I'll get the hang of this!

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Muse Challenge No.124

I am so upset with myself...I totally missed the voting :( I'll have to write myself a reminder LOL haha I have post its all over the place!
anyway here is my take on the new Muse 
 Ardyth is the new muse this week...

 I love the daisy like flowers in the muse card and of course the colors....so I tried to pull it all together with some water colors and a couple cut out from my Silhouette...

thanks for coming to take a peek.....