December Calendar

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Smooch white, Spica glitter pen.

November Calendar

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento Desert Sand ink, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire.

October Calendar

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Images, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Versafine black ink, Memento London Fog and Tangelo inks, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Martha Stewart glow-in-the-dark glitter, Mono Multi glue.

2011 Calendar!

The 2011 A Muse Calendar is here! This year, proceeds will benefit Charley's Fund. (Click here to learn more about Charley's Fund.)

For my calendar design this year, I printed my calendars on colored pages instead of white. As you know, A Muse has lots of solid cardstock colors in 8.5"x11", so that made it super easy! And the white core gave a finished look on the back of each page. This is the A2 Calendar, but I selected the "shrink pages to fit" option prior to printing. So that made the text a bit smaller and added a little variety to the placement of the calendar text on each page.

For the stand, I used Julie's slick design you can see here. I started with two pieces of chipboard and covered them with cardstock. Then joined the bottom of them with another piece of cardstock as shown in Julie's example.

Please note about buying the calendar: The A Muse Calendars are a download product only. Nothing will be shipped to you. Calendar orders are only processed during regular business hours (monday to friday 8am to 5pm). Once your order has been processed, you will have unlimited access to the file(s) you have purchased.
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Images, calendar, and cardstock by A Muse. White pigment ink, white embossing powder, Angel Dust Art Glitter, 2-way glue pen, Memento canteloupe ink, 1/2" O-wires and bind-it-all.

2011 Calendars are here!

The 2011 A Muse calendars have arrived! Get the scoop on them along with lots of inspiration over on the A Muse News blog --> here. Stay tuned - I'll be back on Friday to share some pages from my 2011 design.

September Calendar

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Adirondack Espresso ink, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Spica glitter pens, Pigma Micron brown pen.

August Calendar - take 1

Hi all! School started for my son this week, so I am getting caught up on things. I didn't get a chance to add comments on my August calendar post, but I actually have a funny story about it to share! When I was working on it initially, I mentioned to my son (he was five years old at the time) that I thought the flamingo should be pink. I got distracted by something, left the project out on my work table and went upstairs briefly. I returned to find that he had decided to handle the coloring for me! He said happily "look mom - I colored it pink for ya - I knew it was for your work, so I did a really good job!" And he did do a really good job - see:

This is the original version that he colored with his bright pink crayon (*smile*)! He is generally sloppy in his coloring because he gets bored and rushes through it, so just look how well he colored the skinny neck area! Since I needed to make two of the calendars, I colored the second one (which is the one you saw earlier this month). But his version is the one I kept for my copy of the calendar - such a special memory!

August Calendar

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento New Sprout and Summer Sky inks, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Art Glitter and 2-way glue pen.

July Calendar

Wow - June was a busy month! Sorry for the lack of posts - was away on vacation for a week and am still catching up. Stay tuned - I have more to share tomorrow!
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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento Summer Sky ink, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Art Glitter and 2-way glue pen.

June Calendar

Continuing in my monthly calendar series - Happy June! When I created this calendar last year, the tire swing tree was a wood mounted stamp. Since then, it retired in wood mounted, but I was excited when I learned that it was back as one of the images in the Vintage clear set! Hope you had a nice Memorial day weekend.
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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Spica glitter pen.

May Calendar

Happy May! This is one of my favorite bird/tree stamps because the bird comes on the end of the stamp - so you can put him wherever you like! Stay tuned - I'll be back with another sneak peek of the Everything's Rosy stamps!

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Art Glitter and 2-way glue pen.

April Calendar

Continuing in my monthly calendar series - Happy April! This one was fun to create - a little masking on the chick's egg, then stamped the tall grass and nestled in the tiny eggs! Stay tuned for a woodland critter design this morning!
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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento New Sprout, Angel Pink, Lulu Lavender, and Summer Sky inks, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire.

March Calendar

Wow - we are cruisin' through 2010 and it is already March! I have some fun crafty news to share, so stay tuned for that coming soon!

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento Summer Sky ink, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Art Glitter in Angel Dust and 2-way glue pen.

February Calendar

I just love these owls - they are so fun! The pink on their bellies was inspired by a card that Julie created a while back. It is difficult to see in the photo, but the little heart trio is stamped in pink between them.

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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento Angel Pink ink, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Art Glitter and 2-way glue pen.

January 2010 Calendar

Happy New Year! I love this "Winter Friends" stamp - so fun with the little "bluebird" on her shoulder - makes me think of the song "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah" And how cool is it that this stamp just happens to be one of the A Muse Bluelight Specials this week - perfect timing!
As I mentioned in my September calendar release post, all of my calendars this year use the theme of Birds & Trees and I am looking forward to sharing them with you!

Hope you had a fabulous holiday season! A Muse Valentine sneak peeks start today, so stay tuned - I'll have something to share soon!
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Images, Black Dye ink, Juliette patterned paper, and calendar by A Muse. Memento New Sprout and Summer Sky inks, White cardstock, Copic markers, Bind-it-all and 5/8" wire, Art Glitter and 2-way glue pen.

December Calendar

The last calendar page of 2009... And leading into my 2010 "birds and trees" theme, I used a tree on this one!
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Images and calendar by A Muse. White cardstock, SU cardstock, Bind-it-all and 3/4" wire. Memento Bamboo Leaves ink, Colorbox gold pigment ink, Martha Stewart Crafts Red Glitter.

Advent Calendar

I was inspired by the advent garlands in the December issue of Better Homes and Gardens magazine... so I had to make one of my own! I already had the green dot fabric, so I picked up some red gingham and set to work making simple drawstring bags. Then I stamped each number on a snippet of white fabric (so it would stand out) and stitched the top of each one onto a bag. The bags are small enough that it will be easy to store them when the holidays are done, yet big enough to allow me to use them in different ways each year - whether it be for candy treats, or little gifts, or notes. This year I decided to go the note route and wrote something fun to do as a family (like read "Frosty the Snowman" or sing "Jingle Bells") on a bunch of 2x4" patterned tags. And if I decide not to make a garland out of them, they would also be fun to hang on the tree or hide them in various places around the house for a bonus treasure hunt! Now, if you aren't into sewing the bags... you could probably find some small muslin bags that would work well and it would be easy to stamp directly on them. Here's a photo of the whole group:

Are you making an advent calendar this year? What do you put inside each day?

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Images and notecards by A Muse. Brilliance pigment ink (not sure how well this will wash, but it worked fine for my purposes). Ribbon, Fabric, sewing machine, pinking scissors, mini clothespins, rope or ribbon for hanging the bags.

November Calendar

Hope you had a fun Halloween! Continuing in my monthly calendar series.... here is November!
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Images, Black Dye ink, and calendar by A Muse. White cardstock, SU cardstock, Bind-it-all and 3/4" wire. Copic markers: Raw Silk, Sand, Lipstick Red. Triplus fineliner orange pen. Memento Tangelo ink.

October Calendar

Continuing in my monthly calendar series... here is October! You can't see them very well in the photo, but I stamped a few lighter webs in various spots on the page. The webs are all dusted with glitter of course, so they sparkle!
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Images, Black Dye ink, and calendar by A Muse. White cardstock, SU cardstock, Bind-it-all and 3/4" wire. SU Going Grey ink and marker, Art Glitter.

2010 Calendar is here!

The 2010 A Muse calendar is here! This year, the proceeds from the calendar will go to Water 1st.

I'm excited about this calendar because I've had a theme in mind since last year! I was inspired by Julie's cover page on her 2009 calendar and thought it would be fun to make an entire calendar using a theme of Birds & Trees. The A Muse birds and tree stamps are some of my favorites and it was fun choosing stamps for each month! I decided I needed a little more space for stamping the trees, so this year I made an A2 size calendar. As usual, I plan to share one page each month throughout the year. But here is September 2010, to give you a little taste of what is to come. I backed each page with different colors of Juliette patterned paper - which gave me an instant color palette!

There's sparkle on both the cover page and the Leafy Tree leaves. (I hand drew the little falling leaves.) I can't wait to share the rest of the pages with you next year!

ETA: For the stand, I used the same stand design that I used last year - which is Julie's slick design and she shared details on creating it - here.

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Images, black dye ink, calendar, and paper by A Muse. Copic markers, Adirondack Espresso ink, Memento Tangelo and Bamboo Leaves inks, Art Glitter Angel Dust, quickie glue pen, Spica glitter pens, Spellbinders Nestabilities die, foam tape, Bind-it-all, 5/8" O-wires.