Happy April!

The new A Muse stamps have arrived! You can see them all on the A Muse News blog --> here. Which ones are your favs?
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Images by A Muse. A Muse calendar. White cardstock, Yellow cardstock, Brilliance Graphite black ink (heat-set), Copic Shadow Pink marker; Prismacolor Canary Yellow, Sky Blue Light, Avocado, and Cinnamon Toast markers; bind-it-all and 3/4" wire.

Fish *sneak peek*

One more sneak peek for ya! This adorable little fish is one of the images included in the new Oval Frames clear set (coming tomorrow!). I decided to color the front fish like a clown fish (inspired by "Finding Nemo" of course!) to make him stand out from the rest of the school. He also has some Spica glitter pen to make him *sparkle* and notice that he is also the leader! Then I used wave scissors to make the waves at the top (see this post for tips on how to cut straight with decorative scissors!)
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Images and notecards by A Muse. Black cardstock, Brilliance graphite black ink (heat-set), Palette Hybrid ink Charcoal, Fluid Chalk ink Lime Pastel, Copic Orange marker, Spica orange glitter pen, Fiskars wave scissors.

Life is Good *sneak peek*

Ahhh - Life is good! This is a fun new sentiment in the A Muse spring release coming next week. I can see it being used alot! I was playing around with some older stamps last night, started putting things together and came up with this! I live in the desert, so I see sun, dirt, and palm trees ALOT. Now the water - not so much - but it sure would be nice, so that's why I included the water ribbon here. Then I added a little glitter pen on the palm tree leaves to make them *shimmer*.

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Images and notecards by A Muse. Adirondack Bottle and Latte ink, Stampin' Up Summer Sun ink, Versafine black ink, Spica green glitter pen, ric rac.

The Journey is the Reward *sneak peek*

Woohoo - sneak peek time! This new A Muse runner stamp totally reminded me of the Nike commercial in the Mel Gibson/Helen Hunt movie "What Women Want". So that's what inspired this design! For the road, I used one of the stamps in the fancy borders clear set - which made it even easier! I also love that it's a simple one layer card. The sentiment isn't new but it's one of my favorites. What do you think, it's perfect paired with the runner, yes? I've seen a few other sneak peeks already this morning - so make sure to check out Elena, Erika, Heather, Michelle C, and Becky's blogs!

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Images and notecard by A Muse. Brilliance graphite black ink (heat-set), Fluid Chalk creamy brown ink, Palette Hybrid charcoal ink, Copic markers (new leaf, baby skin pink, frost blue, tahitian blue, sand, warm gray no 2), Staedtler triplus fineliner marker.

Sneak Peeks are coming!

Psssst...... A Muse sneak peeks are coming..... stay tuned!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter, hope you had a great weekend! Thought I'd share my Happy Spring card which was the card-of-the-week in the latest A-Muse-letter Weekly! Supplies and instructions for this card are available --> here. If you are an A Muse fan and aren't receiving the weekly email, you can click here to sign up! On this design, I actually used an orange pencil to color the carrots since it made them look a little more carrot-like but you could also use markers. For the dirt, I used the Big bl stamp (love that thing - comes in sooo handy!) with Creamy Brown Fluid Chalk ink, but you could use markers for that as well.
Then here is a bonus card for you! This is one of my other designs featured in the "inspiring ideas" section of the A Muse weekly.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Just playing around with a fun idea for St. Patrick's day! The Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy ink shimmers on it's own, but I decided to add even more with my Pebbles shimmer chalks. You can't really see it in the photo, but it is super shimmery in person. Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Images and notecards (Kitchen Grass, Madiera Green, white, and Irish Green) by A Muse. Brilliance Pearlescent Ivy ink, Versafine black ink, Pebbles shimmer chalks, 1 3/8" and 1.5" circle punches, dimensionals.

Swimmers - Take 2

You may remember this post from last summer where I shared my swimmers COTW. When I saw the A Muse Fancy Borders clear set, I thought it would work great for this card. Well, I recently needed a card to send to my cousin for her divisional swim meet - so this was the perfect opportunity to finally test out my theory! So here I used the same basic design, but replaced the ribbon "lanes" and the "finish line" layer with stamped borders! I changed up the colors a bit as well (her team color is purple). Of course the new A Muse stitched ribbon would be great for the lane dividers too, but I just love how *easy* this was!

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Images and notecard by A Muse. White cardstock, Brilliance Graphite Black ink (heat set), Fluid chalk ink Ice Blue, Copic markers (lemon yellow, milky white, and chrome orange), Prismacolor marker (violet), Copic Spica clear glitter pen.

Close but not quite

Whenever I pass this shop at the mall, I think it'd make a fun blog post. I actually had my camera with me this time (a new one that fits in my purse!). Oh how I'd love it if it were THE A Muse shop instead. A girl can dream, right? As you can see, they don't sell stamps!

Feel Better

I sent this to a friend whose 2-year old son has been very sick. This is the card that I used as inspiration for this VMAA design. Hope you are having a good week!
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Images by Elzybells. White cardstock, Brilliance Graphite black ink (heat-set), Copic markers, Spica glitter pens, A Muse ribbon, Martha Stewart tag punch, crochet thread, pop dots, Cuttlebug swiss dots embossing folder.

March Calendar

Continuing in my monthly calendar series... Happy March!

Sorry for the lack of posts this week! My son had a cold and then of course I caught it. Finally today, I think we are starting to be back to normal.

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Images by A Muse. A Muse calendar. White cardstock, Pink cardstock, Brillance Graphite black ink (heat-set), Fluid chalk ink lime pastel, Copic Shadow Pink marker, Prismacolor Canary Yellow marker, Staedtler Triplus fineliner pens, Copic Spica glitter pens, bind-it-all and 3/4" wire.

VMAA Challenge #4

This is for Jennie's VMAA challenge - to use three of something on a card! I've been meaning to try Linda's technique of using the Essential Glue Pad with shimmer chalks, so I decided to play around with them. Worked well and I love the colors and shimmer! Ok, this is my last card for the night - whew!

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Images, notecards, and ribbon by A Muse. Tsukineko Essential Glue Pad, Pebbles shimmer chalks, Marvy Mega scallop oval punch, Versafine black ink, dimensionals.