Finally, I'm a Muse ing...

Well, I think I'm amusing pretty much all the time, but in this case, I'm getting to play along at the rather new challenge club called Muse.  I have admired Jackie Rockwell's work since I 'found' her, and have paid attention to her philosophy about cardmaking and blogging, and was thrilled when she created Muse. For the first two challenges, I could only look, drool, and dream--no time to play along. Laurie Willison, whom you all know to be another one of the best card makers in blogland, is the guest designer over there this week, and her card is amazing. I worked on a card yesterday and today it lays in the recycle bin. Just couldn't get my mojo going on the colors (blues & whites) that I had chosen. I knew I had some yellowy, greeny, orangey, flowery patterned paper in my stash, so this morning I pulled it out and just like that, a card appeared on my craft table.You'll see it below Laurie's. Muse has some rules, but don't worry if you haven't checked out this challenge; the rules are easy peasy.

1. Use the Muse card as your inspiration, explain your whys and hows, then do the linky thingy
2. Support your fellow Muse members. Leave comments on at least 3 cards (this one is waaay easy)
3. Then at the end of the challenge, vote for 3 of your favs.

Could not be more simple. Do go over and check this challenge club out. Leave a little love to for Jackie and Laurie, and for those cards that have tickled your fancy.
  

As I said before, I was inspired by the colors that Laurie used, but make sure you enlarge the photo so you can really see her flowers. Amazing. So onto mine.

Now, in real life, the oranges and yellows are muted and not quite as screamingly bright as they appear in the photo. Dang. I am just going to have to win the lottery, hire a photographer to be at my beck and call for whenever I need photos of my cards. Who's with me on this???!!! So here's what I used. SU white cardstock, scraps of orange, yellow and green from the scrapbox, hence no brand here, Memento Bamboo Leaves ink, Queen & Co. Slime Green pearls, Scenic Route patterned paper, and a random brad and random flowers. That's it. Happy Dances everyone.