More with the banner/penant die

I love the banner/penant die from A Muse Studio. Its perfect for men cards. Images from: Stamping Bella.

Stay tuned for my first ever blog hop on April 2nd

Its going to be a bunch of A Muse Studio consultants so you can all see how cute the new A Muse stamps are ....

The frosting looks real don't you agree?

****I love this set from A Muse Studios called A Very Merry Un-Birthday. This piece of cake looks good enough to eat!! I got the idea from this blog. All stamps by A Muse (except for the "Do the Math, you're old" is by Rubber City Rubber Works. I've had it for YEARS!)

Keep the inner liner or toss it?

When you get your A Muse Studio stamp sets, they come in DVD cases. You have the choice to either take out the inner liner with the stamps in them and just let them stick onto the DVD case by themselves or keep them in their original places. I first took mine out but did not throw it away and I am glad I kept it. I prefer to keep the inner line inside and use it that way.

A different kind of fold ...

When I visited my friend Traci in February, she got this cool card from Joanne. You fold the card in half like you normally would, but then you trim off 1/2 of the top and you have this neat half fold card. Anyway, I used my newest A Muse Studio stamps for both cards but the "Where have you been?" stamp is by Penny Black. (That is going to a friend who I haven't heard from in a few months)

A Muse Studio grass die vs Martha Stewart grass punch

***I've had the Martha Stewart grass punch for a few years. I still use it quite a bit. When I saw that A Muse Studios had a grass die, I had to check it out and compare the 2. What do you think?

Ribbon organization

As you can see from my first photo, I was having a hard time remembering what colors of ribbon I had, how much ribbon I had, etc.

I decided to tackle this project this afternoon. I had 4 DRAWERS of ribbon like the above and now I have this:

I can't take all the credit. I saw it on someone's blog and I don't remember where I saw the idea (Sorry!). I already had this container that I had gotten from Hobby Lobby. I used it to store my necklaces that I made. I cut pieces of sturdy cardstock to fit in the compartments and then wrapped each ribbon around each one. Much better!!!!