Raining and Raining and Raining!

Hello - it's raining here in the California Bay area - and I love it. You see, this is a fairly rare happening here - sure, it rains a little, but not so much, and generaly by March it's all over -so when it rains, I HAVE to enjoy every minute of it!

Tomorrow I'm taking an Amuse Valentine Card class at Cranberry Hill in Sunnyvale. The super talented Tracy Falco is teaching, and she always has the most marvelous cards for us to do! I'll show you the cards tomorrow after class!

Back to watching the rain :)

Sunday

I didn't realize 90% of the movie "Letters from Iwo Jima" was in Japanese with subtitles, so is more a movie you have to "read". I am always working on a project of some sort when I watch TV, so I generally 'listen' to TV more than 'watch' it! Because of that I missed a lot of this movie, but think I got the gist of it! Thanks to Netflix it wasn't such a big deal!

I discovered My Favorite Things stamps recently, and my first order was just delivered. Obvioulsy I ordered this stamp set particularly for my sisters, so I made these cards today! I hope they get these before they see them on this blog! :)

Amuse Weekly Challenge

This week's Amuse Challenge is to create a window card - seems easy enough, but without the proper planning, the window doesn't end up where it's supposed to! It took 2 tries to get this one! It's still a little off center - but it will have to do!

Maybe 2 windows is too much? The rest of the sentiment on the inside is Sunshine!

Bella Time

I finally worked with the Bella's! I moved past my 'Mounting' anxiety, found some double stick tape and gave it a shot. It was O.K!

Here are my first 3 Bella cards! Fun, Fun, Fun!

Tools of the "Trade"

I like gadgets! I'm always ready to try (er - buy) something new!

You may have seen the Craft cutter lite advertised on TV - I certainly did and I bought it - and I'm not too happy with it. It doesn't cut clear through paper or standard card stock - you often have to pull it apart, and while that usually works well, from time to time it sticks and you end up with an uneven or ripped edge - I contacted their customer service and told them what was happening, it's like the blades are not sharp- the first person I was in contact with asked if Iwanted a refund or to have a new unit shipped.

I really like the idea of being able to make a lot of different edges, and I can't cut with scissors worth a darn, so I responded via another email that I'd like to have a new unit sent. A different person writes back, Why, what's wrong with the one you have -so I started all over again, and now, 4 weeks later, I still don't have a replacement unit and no one is responding to my emails!

I've been thinking about the Colluzle and finally decided I was ready to buy it after seeing
Lexi's review article at Craft Critique today. I stopped at the Michael's by my office, nope, they don't carry it any longer....figures! My local stamp store does have it, so I'll get it there - I was just hoping to use my 40% coupon! :)

Blog reading is how I came across Scor-Pal. Tracy mentioned it on her blog, and I thought it sounded like a good idea, and I have NO regrets on this one!

Photo Cubes

Have you seen this photo cube how to?

I discovered this yesterday and have spent hours making photo cubes ever since- for family, friends, my desk at work! Each side is about 2 1/2" square, they are so easy to make, you can make them and change them out all the time!

I made these two - one is of some of my favorite Amuse Holiday Cards and the other is some favorite shots of this past Christmas!

Try it, you'll like it!

Squares

This week's challenge on Amuse Addicts is to use Squares on your card. Here's mine!

All stamps by Amuse!