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Spook-tacular Greetings....

Just a reminder for my upcoming A Muse class this Saturday 10/10 at Cranberry Hill Mercantile!  We'll be creating 5 spooky cards and 1 treat holder using the latest Halloween/Fall stamps from A Muse!  (Can you believe it's already October?)  Time is running out to get those Halloween cards finished.. eek!  Please give CHM a call if you'd like to join us for a 'wicked' good time!

new stamps.. new stamps.. new stamps..

Yes... new stamps are coming... summer is in the air and you can tell by the stamps of course!  If you've been hopping around the A Muse gals' blogs, you'll have seen some great sneaks of the new summer release that is finally out now!  I can't wait to use these stamps in my upcoming A muse class at Cranberry Hill Mercantile coming up on June 20th (All occasion greetings).  Give the store a call and sign up if your'e interested!  As I wait for my new summer stamps to come knocking on my door, here's a sample of what we'll be making at my Toddler Time A Muse  class on June 7th. (There will be an option to do the 'boy-version' of this card of course!)

 

Also... if you look over to my right sidebar... you'll notice another new stamp release coming out very very soon! ohh... just too much goodness at once!

Botanicals & Blooms...

                  
Next week's A Muse class is gonna be fun! We'll be doing some fun folds, playing with  flower soft, and doing some interactive card making... the A Muse instructors have come up with some fabulous ideas and I'm excited to share some of them in this upcoming class!  Two sessions next Saturday, April 18th at Cranberry Hill Mercantile  so give them a call if you'd like to join us!  We'll be using spring images and the latest from the botanicals release.  Just a quick shout out to Kumi, one of my long time class attendees who recently moved to Japan... Will miss you in class!  =)

Valentine release...

is now available at the A Muse Artstamps website!  Check out all the fun new Valentine/love images that A Muse has for this season.  So very cute!  And we'll be using some of these stamps in my card class this weekend (2nd card reveal to the left here!)  Class details are posted on my blog - right sidebar.  Give Cranberry Hill Mercantile a call and reserve your spot!

Valentine Sweets (A Muse style)...

I think I am finally moving on to the next holiday (but my tree is *still* up and I will slowly work on taking it down this week... sniff, sniff.)  I'm working on my A Muse Valentine's class for this weekend at Cranberry Hill Mercantile on Saturday!  This cute card will be one of six we will be making using the new A Muse release (out 1/7!) and some old favorite images from the past.  Check my blog side bar for times (2 sessions) and call to reserve your spot. (408-736-9151)  Let's start stamping in 2009!

On the 20th day of Christmas...

If you've been following along on the A Muse blog, we've been doing a fun countdown to Christmas with these cute homemade boxes.  My day is today!  Wow, I can't believe it's already the 20th!  (I don't even want to THINK about the things I still have left to do before Christmas in <ahem> 5 DAYS! ahh! stress!)  You can't really tell in the photo, but my box was actually a little bigger than most of the others.  Oh.. and what's inside? Hm... I will reveal that very soon.  Hope you are all enjoying the days leading up to the 25th!

Where am I?

  Yeah, where the heck have I been? Sigh... I just can't seem to make time slow down (can anyone? If so, please let me know.)  It never seems like I have enough time to do anything I want/need to do... I'm just constantly doing stuff that I 'have' to do. And that's no fun right?  Plus not only was today Monday, but the lovely Christmas tree that I was so excited to have cut down at the tree farm last Sunday may be dangerously too big for my stand!  (Okay, so I really wasn't thinking about THAT detail when I was going for a REALLY BIG TREE!)  Sigh.  So if you all just pray that my tree stays up for the next few days while I figure out how to prevent a repeat of 'xmas tree fiasco '98' that would be great... (Think Christmas day, tree on the floor, out to the curb!)
Okay, back to stamping... I have a list of 'things to stamp and craft' and it's already the 9th.  15 days till Christmas? Hmm.. Still doable right? you think? maybe? please?  This card was a fun one we did for my AP/Holiday A Muse class.  Loved the A Muse twinkle stickers on the headlights.  And that skyline stamp has been used for so many great ideas by all the instructors and designers. I just love seeing how that stamp can be used!

I love blog browsing during the holidays because everyone has such great crafty ideas.  You all are so talented!  I wish I could just channel that energy and output it into my own creations.  This card to the right was made for my Cat's Pajamas RS class last month.  Simple, but cute. And I really like those marvy snowflake punches... I'll have to see about getting the other sizes for use next year. hm.  I love that the coloring is simple to do and using those nestabilites give a nice scallop frame around the whole image. Easy. Hm.. maybe I should consider this for my xmas card this year?

Back to our regularly scheduled program...

Well, back from a great weekend in Seattle where I met up with a bunch of other instructors and designers from A Muse Artstamps...  Most excellent time was had by all!  But more on that later...
Right now, there are upcoming classes to prepare for!  This Saturday, November 15th at Stamper's Warehouse in Danville, CA I'll be holding an A Muse Holiday Happenings II class, as well as a Hip Holidays with The Cat's Pajamas. (Did you check out the new TCP releases last Friday? Hope you did b/c we'll be using some of them!)  We'll be making six A Muse cards, and five TCP cards (one shown to the left) as the holidays are fast approaching (must too fast!)  Get a jump on your holiday cards and get into the crafty spirit this weekend!  Call the store to sign up as there are a few spots left available in each class.

A Muse Holiday Happenings II (repeat)

Calendar Time!