Muse Challenge #11

Saturday! My favorite day of the week. I stayed up very late last night to work on this card because we had a terrible volleyball game, and I was determined to finish off the day on a positive note. Also, the fire department is supposedly burning down the condemned house across the road this morning, so I figured I would be distracted by that, but there's been no action yet. I hope it's still on. We have been waiting for this day since fall. I'm anxious to see how they control it. I wouldn't want to see any of the trees get damaged. It's a beautiful lot, minus the house (the living room window just fell right out of it last winter!).

I'm not sure what happened with this card. I started out intending to use the layout from the inspiration card on Muse, but I had some new toys I was dying to play with, so I went off on a bit of a tangent! I just couldn't bear to cover up the die cut strip, so I changed up the layout.  I'm loving this new Memory Box die called Piestra Tile. Piestra? I've never heard of that before, despite the fact I have this exact same pattern as my background on this blog, and some throw pillows on my couch (and an embossing folder, and a new background stamp I haven't taken for a test drive yet. You get the idea. I'm a tiny bit obsessed with it). Do you like how I worked a matching throw pillow into this shot? ; ) 

 

The birthday greeting is new, too. I hope you can see better in this photo that it has a chevron pattern which gives it a fun texture.

Well, I did use the color scheme, some polka dots, and a bit of bakers' twine, so I guess I'm not completely off track. Here is the lovely Muse card provided by Laurie Willison:


Thanks for stopping by,
T

Supplies
SU: early espresso and pool party cs, pool party ink, beautiful butterflies bigz die, beautiful wings embosslit, espresso bakers' twine.
PTI: white and limeade ice cs, limeade ice ink, wonderful words: birthday
Memory Box dies: piestra tile