Amuse Birds

Happy Sunday, and it's lovely to have the sunshine back around our neighborhood, after yesterday's glooms. We have window installers coming tomorrow (?hopefully? ...it's scheduled but we all know how that can go, don't we?). I'm trying to get a few cards posted ahead, in case I can't get to the computer.

Some time back, I had left a comment at a blogger who handles Amuse products. I wanted the flying birds I've used here, but shipping from the Amuse site for these tiny little birds, cost more than the dies themselves. The blogger very kindly sent me this set and charged me only the actual postage (which wasn't that much). Did I ever appreciate her doing that! Finally had time to hunt up the die and use it.

 

 

- Amuse bird die, Darice Birds embossing folder, Elizabeth Craft sentiment. The large bird is the die cut and the smaller elevated bird is the positive piece from the darker blue paper.

 

So many visitors left such sweet comments on the white card I did Friday, that I thought I'd see how it would work to use a light blue colorway. I'm really into the autumn colors at the moment, but blue just seemed better for these lovely birds. I saw this die used on a hot pink card, with just the one bird, no other embellishment at all, and thought it was so elegant & lovely. I did a bit of shading on the smaller bird, the outside of the raised panel, and at the last moment, added a tiny blue rhinestone for the bird's eye. Not sure about that eye!!!

 

• On another note, I saw on the MSN page last week about some new malicious software that one can pick up cruising the net. (my understanding of the article was that when downloading something that seems safe, the malware could be attached to the file...not sure if this is correct). You can clean off the malware, but it is set up to lock files that can't be reopened. Supposedly this was a legit warning, not some of the hoaxes that go around in email. Apparently some businesses have already been infected. I backed up our pc, so passing along the info to anyone who does not do such. Apparently the infected computers can be cleaned of the malware, but if you don't have backups of your files, you could lose them.

 

Ya'll have a wonderful Sunday. Our afternoon is going to be busy moving things back from some of our windows so that the installers don't have to do that, and can (?hopefully?) work a bit faster!

Many hugs and thanks for stopping to visit.