Tag: Penny Black

Tea Party Friends – Maya

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I have some exciting news to share and it’s a bit of a secret revealed here… that is, until I make the official announcement on the Little Miss Muffet Blog on Friday/Sunday!  What’s the secret?  I’m going to start having Friday Freebies and Sunday Spotlights!!  They’ll give everyone a chance to pick up some extra images to play with in the challenges and also discounts on certain rubber stamps in the store!  How cool is that?!

This post is sort of a kick-start to get me into the swing of things.  So for this week’s unofficial Sunday Spotlight is on this card!  For this project I used the following supplies…

Penny Black I Chart Happy Birthday

Thanks for coming by today and make sure you set your calendars and alarms for Friday and Sunday – they’ll be one day specials that you don’t want to miss out on!  😀

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:

Yvonne

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It’s another project day at Little Miss Muffet Stamps and this fortnight it’s all about “Simplicity!”  However, remember, that if you use a LMMS then you can always submit an “Anything Goes” project, which is what category my project falls into today.  😀

For my project I created a birthday card using Yvonne from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and some of that neon blue that I just “love!”  I have colored all four of these images with this paper as inspiration and little did I know how bright the colors would photograph.  LOL  Ah, well, it’s a bright and cheery card which is just perfect for birthdays!  The sentiment is from Penny Black and is such a fun way to bring a little bit of “geek” into the card. 

A little something I did different with the banners this time is wrapped ribbon around the paper banner to create a layered effect.  Then I cut the bottom of the ribbon to match.  The silk ribbon was a little slippery at first but I like how it turned out… don’t you?!  Anyway, thanks for coming by today and be sure to head on over to the Little Miss Muffet Challenge Blog to see all the wonderful projects the DT has created for you today – they’re awesome!!

Birthday Josh

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It’s been a long time since I’ve had the luxury of creating a card that wasn’t part of a DT commitment so I’m excited to this one off today.  I created it to participate in the Sparkle Creations Challenge #87 where the theme is to use “Neutral Colors” – mainly backs, grays, browns, creams and whites.  I thought these would be perfect colors for another boy card as well.

The main image is Birthday Josh from Sparkle Creations Rubber Stamps and the sentiment is I Chart from Penny Black.  I kept the layout simple, added a little ribbon for a tag, a chippie from Make it Crafty and finally went around the edges with a white gel pen.  I colored the images using Copic Colors from the “E”arth and “C”ool Gray markers.

These colors also lend well to some other pictures I have been meaning to share.  I recently went out into the wilderness and spotted this little creature less than 20 feet away from me!!  I know it’s a little unbelievable but keep with me as the story unravels a little more.  He he he

 Update: I was the lucky winner at Sparkle Creations for this project!

This animal is called an Axis deer but are also know as Chital deer or spotted Indian deer. They have a bright reddish coat marked with white spots that remain throughout it’s life and are originally native to India, Nepal, Sri Lanka.  Did you know that Axis deer are good swimmers with no fear of the water?  Also their fawns are protected by both parents, but stay close to mother. So what is one of these doing in Texas?  Good questions, but first, as I was admiring this little fawn and taking pictures, I found this guy lurking next to the tree right beside us!

Ok, now I’m sure if you had hackles they would be raised by now, but don’t fear as I wasn’t in any immediate danger.  We were actually taking a day jaunt to the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center where over 1000 animals live, 50 species native and non-native, on 1700 acres of land, a sanctuary for endangered species.  It’s a place that you can drive around in and feed these animals right at your car window!!

It was amazing and these animals would stick their heads in the car window if you weren’t watching closely – and did one too!  Nearly scared the bajeezies out of me!  LOL  We bought a bag of feed and were were allowed to throw out on the ground near the car so many of the animals came right up to us.  We were allowed to feed the giraffes from our hands unfortunately none of them were hungry enough to come eat.  Above is a close up of a Wildebeest.

It was great day trip and I’m sure I’ll go again.  This time with a fully charged camera battery and backup memory sticks!!  None the less, we were able to see all these different species, most of them up close and personal: Wildebeest, Addax, Backbuck, Bontebok, Waterbuck, Aoudad, Emu, Ostrich, Shanhill Crane, Bison, Cheetah, African Spurred Toroise, Anglo-Nubian Goat, Boer Goat, Vietnamese Pot-Bellied Pig, Axid Deer, European Red Deer, Fallow Deer, Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra, Giraffe, Jackrabbit, Roadrunner, White-Tailed Deer and Black Rhinocerous.  Above is a picture of the Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra with it’s beautiful brown stripes!