Chat Info:
When: July 15th
Time:
8:00pm to 11:00pm CST.
Where: My Creative Classroom
The MCC faculty will be chatting about all things rubbah! I'll be a featured guest at 9pm CST, so I hope you can join us!
MCC will also be giving away free seats to
upcoming classes to those who participate in the chat. Yes, that's right, FREE!
All ya' need is an MCC user account to get in on the fun! Click HERE to get started!
Chat with ya' soon!
So jazzed to share that I'll be teaching 6 (SIX) classes at The Paper Garden Boutique in Sacramento, on the eve and first day of A Muse-a-Palooza! Please see Stephanie's blog for pricing and further details! Call the store at 916-487-2737 if you are interested in signing up!
Here are class descriptions, dates and times:
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Simply Sensational, 10am-12pm
Learn some of Julie's favorites--favorite A Muse stamps, favorite techniques and tips--for producing simple, yet sensational designs while making these 6 darling cards!
Happy Mail, 1pm-3pm
Everybody loves happy mail! Combine A Muse's whimsical images and colorful papers to create 6 clever cards for friends and family!
Simply Sensational, 4pm-6pm
Learn some of Julie's favorites--favorite A Muse stamps, favorite techniques and tips--for producing simple, yet sensational designs while making these 6 darling cards!
Make it Merry Part 1, 10am-12pm
Make 6 cards featuring the newest holiday stamps from the A Muse-a-Palooza 2008 Release!
Make it Merry Part 2, 1pm-3pm
Make 6 more cards using the newest holiday stamps from the A Muse-a-Palooza 2008 Release!Make it Merry Part 3, 6pm-8pm
Take this class for 6 more fresh and fun holiday A Muse designs, and you'll have the cutest collection of Holiday cards this side of the rubbah planet!
Note: These classes are all different, so take 'em all, and you'll walk out the door with 18 fabulous holiday card ideas!
Word on the street is that A Muse illustrator Missy Balance will be popping in--WOO HOO!!! I'm anxious to meet her in person! 
WOW! That's comin' up FAST! So much to do! I best get busy! 
Click HERE to see what Lisa did. Click HERE to see what Julie did.
Thank you, Lisa! It was *uber* FUN! 
Super Hero just CRACKS me!
How can anyone resist him??? He's just too hysterical!!!
BTW, if you have an inspiring idea yourself for Super Hero, hook me
up with a link down in the comments to this post--I'd love to see it!
He's one of my all-time favorites . . . I know he doesn't LOOK like
Sesame Street's Teeny Little Super Guy, but, he still REMINDS me of
him. Anybody else remember Teeny Little Super Guy?
Just wanted to share this design which was included among the week's Inspiring Ideas.
I love the To Go Cup--it's rare for me to grab a coffee at the espresso stand; I reserve it as a treat for moments when I actually get off The Island or am on a trip/vacation.
Anyway, this design is actually *so* fitting for me right now, as it is taking pretty much this amount of coffee today, to keep me going and getting everything I need to, completed.
Happy Friday and happy Holiday Weekend! 
If you love simple card designs with lots of fun and personality, be sure to sign up for the A Muse Weekly so you can get the COW (otherwise known as, the Card Of the Week--yeah, yeah, I know it's COTW, but, try SAYING that acronym. 
Uh huh. NO worky. COW is much funn•i•er!).
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ETA Recipe Info:
Stamps: Super Hero, To-go Cup, "With enough caffeine . . . " (Coffee Break Set) all by A Muse Artstamps
Paper: Chiffon Green 4 Bar Note Card by A Muse, Oatmeal/kraft card stock--I like this better than kraft as it's not so dark
Copic Markers: Cool Shadow, Sand, Baby Skin Pink, Willow
Ink: Brilliance Graphite Black by Tsukineko, Colorbox Fluid Chalk in Creamy Brown by Clearsnap
Embellishments: Mini Antique Copper Brads by Creative Impressions
Images, Papers, Stitched Grosgrain, Twinkle Stickers all by A Muse Artstamps
Well, this is a pretty big day! A Muse is celebrating 7 (seven) years! WOW! Be sure to check out the A Muse News blog today, because Linda has such a fun post, and something fun for 7 lucky winners that leave comments on that post!
I feel pretty blessed to have been a part of that growth, in one form or another for the last 5 years, and for Linda to have become such a dear and important friend in my life throughout that time. She is one very special lady!
In honor of the 7th anniversary, I thought I'd list 7 of my personal favorite A Muse focal images!
, , , that was a warm-up! 
7 of my favorite A Muse background stamps:
And, here are 7 of my favorite A Muse sentiment stamps:
*I told Linda I wished I had these in stamps, and she made my wish come true! 
Here are my 7 favorite A Muse papers
:
Here are 7 favorite A Muse card designs I've done over the years:
Pardon my lack of Photoshop skills, but, this was the best I could do, since I don't have a copy of Photoshop for Dummies on hand to guide me! 
Happy 7th, A Muse!
Link: amuseapalooza.com.
We had so much fun with last year's A Muse-a-Palooza and this year promises to be even bigger and better! It's been a wee bit crazy behind the scenes, as we gear up for this major event!
We have so much planned, including some fabulous online activities and prizes at the A Muse-a-Palooza blog, so make sure to get registered HERE because all that fun begins June 2nd and you don't wanna miss a thing! 
I'll be teaching a whopping 6 classes (am I crazy?! I must be crazy, but it'll be FUUUUUUUUN!!!) at The Paper Garden Boutique in Sacramento, on the eve and first day of A Muse-a-Palooza! Please see Stephanie's blog for pricing and further details! Call the store at 916-487-2737 if you are interested in signing up!
Here are class descriptions, dates and times:
Sunday, July 6th, 2008
Simply Sensational, 10am-12pm
Learn some of Julie's favorites--favorite A Muse stamps, favorite techniques and tips--for producing simple, yet sensational designs while making these 6 darling cards!
Happy Mail, 1pm-3pm
Everybody loves happy mail! Combine A Muse's whimsical images and colorful papers to create 6 clever cards for friends and family!
Simply Sensational, 4pm-6pm
Learn some of Julie's favorites--favorite A Muse stamps, favorite techniques and tips--for producing simple, yet sensational designs while making these 6 darling cards!
Make it Merry Part 1, 10am-12pm
Make 6 cards featuring the newest holiday stamps from the A Muse-a-Palooza 2008 Release!
Make it Merry Part 2, 1pm-3pm
Make 6 more cards using the newest holiday stamps from the A Muse-a-Palooza 2008 Release!Make it Merry Part 3, 6pm-8pm
Take this class for 6 more fresh and fun holiday A Muse designs, and you'll have the cutest collection of Holiday cards this side of the rubbah planet!
Note: These classes are all different, so take 'em all, and you'll walk out the door with 18 fabulous holiday card ideas!
I can hardly wait to see Stephanie's store, which everyone tells me is rockin' AWESOME, and see her once again--she's rockin AWESOME herself--and Missy Balance, one of our A Muse illustrators, has promised she'll pop in so I can meet her in person for the first time!
I've never been to Sacramento before, so I'm MUY jazzed!
GOOD TIMES!!!
Link: A Muse News: Guest Designer Dawn McVey.
Looky who I am having the pleasure of writing about for the next few weeks!
Me and the mini van are hittin' the high way for beautiful British Columbia, for the
I'll share the shenanigans later this weekend!
With pictures! 
Been busier (bee-zier???) than a bee hive (not just a bee, the whole hive, I tell ya'!) this week! *chuckle*
Posted the 2nd article on Stephanie Nishikawa-Yee! I can't believe she even hesitated to be one of our Guest Designers--isn't her stuff da' BOMB???!!!
The 2nd Session of Simply Great Card Design began on Wednesday! The enrollment is still open, so if you're interested, you can still sign up and get going; I'll prolly leave enrollment open until Monday, and then close it, tho.
Kawaii-sian Inspired Greetings is an on-going, load & go class. If you missed it the first time, no sweat; now you can take it any time. If you want the class kit, but, not the class, you have that option, too.
I'm up to my eyeballs right now preparing the supply kits for 225 participants at the Precious Memories' 9th Annual totally-sold-out Scrapbook Spectacular! Gonna be a blast!!! Have you been to the new store yet? It looks fabulous! I can't wait to see it! And, I'm so excited about the projects I created for this event--I was really tickled with how they turned out!
Taylor had his first Little League Game of the season Friday night . . . And, whoever did the scheduling of the games needs a bit of serious gob-smacking. 
Every one of Taylor's teams games, unless it's on a Saturday, has been scheduled for 6pm. This means we'll be eating a lot of tube steak from now 'til the end of the season.
They lost by one run, but, Taylor's never been a pitcher before; he did strike out 5 in the first 2 innings, which is a good start, methinks!
Hayley just got a job down at one of our local restaurants on the waterfront--the one that serves one of my absolute favorites: Penn Cove mussels, in a delectable creamy broth that makes you wanna climb into the bowl and just swim around in, I kid you not! If you're ever on Whidbey Island, check out The Mad Crab in Coupeville, and have the mussels! 
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Other juicy tidbits:
This coming weekend the A Muse Addicts are having a virtual stamp night! Pop in there to find out about all the planned activities! Linda and some of the A Muse Designers/Instructors are also going to be online participating! Good times!
Oh, MYLAAAAAANTA!!! HEADS UP, SAN DIEGO!!!
I'm pretty excited for my buddy Michelle White!
Cuz she is opening up Paper Tales in San Diego!
It's gonna be one of those magical destinations for stampers in California, I already know. I mean, just looking at this, gives you a delicious hint of what's to come:
Exudes fun and whimsy and all goodly rubbah stuff! Like Linda sez: Ooh la la!!!
(honestly, I wish I had an audio clip of Linda saying it--it's just the way she says it that always makes me laugh!)
Mebbe ya'all will get lucky and get to hear that for yourselves--Linda's gonna be there for the Grand Opening on May 31st, so mark yer calendars, and keep an eye on A Muse News and the Paper Tales' site for more deets! Michelle will be carrying the *entire* A Muse line!
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It's another week of burnin' the midnight oil for me, so I best hunker down, and gidder done!
Link: A Muse News: Guest Designer Stephanie Nishikawa-Yee.
Stephanie owns The Paper Garden Boutique down in Sacramento--I was so tickled to meet her at CHA in Anaheim this year! She is SO SO NICE!!! Like The QUEEN of Nice--that's how nice she is! 
If you also enjoy making non-card items with your stamps, you will find her creations absolutely enchanting--they are so simple, and yet so darn CUTE!
The A Muse Gerbera Daisy is one of my all-time favorites, and hers, too! I absolutely love how she used it on that pocket party invitation!
You'll also enjoy seeing all the DARLING stuff she shares on her blog, too!
Thanks a latte
