Finally a sneak!

Here's a sneak peek at some of the new A Muse Valentine stamps. The love birds and the saying are so cute. The birds are together on one stamp, but you can easily ink them separately. Check out some of the cute designs from the A Muse Creative Team! On this card I also used the "Tree" stamp. I just love to use the branches on this stamp. In fact, now that I think about it I don't know if I've ever use the whole tree! I inked the leaves with a pink pigment ink (ColorBox-Rosebud) and quickly applied A Muse Simple Stick. Once I heated it I sprinkled ultra fine glitter. IRL the leaves are very sparkly!

A Candy Cane a Day....

Here's what's inside my advent box. Since I had a candy cane box I guess this is pretty obvious. You can't see from yesterdays post on the A Muse blog, but the side of the box is stamped with "A candy cane a day keeps Santa on his way." I'm hoping that's true. I've been eating a lot of candy canes!

Got Trees?

I found this card in my stash and decided to post it for you. It's from a couple years ago. Even though the brownstone on the right is levitating a little I still like this design. I liked it so much I sent it in to Take Ten (a better sample of course) and they published it!

Check out tomorrow's post on the A Muse blog. If you've been following along, the A Muse Creative team has been making little advent boxes. My is coming up tomorrow. Woohoo!

Here's Two!

Here are a couple of Christmas designs! Enjoy!

If I give you a present?

.....will you come back and look at my blog? I know I've been away much too long. I really don't know what happened, but the time just got away from me. I knew it was time to post again when my friends started making comments.

Well, I'm finally back and I promise I'll post more often.

Here's a card we made in one of my Christmas Wishes classes. I thought this shopper would work perfectly with the "visa" sentiment. It's a little difficult to see, but the packages for the middle shopper are popped. I also used coordinating glitter glue for each shopper.

See you soon (I hope)!

Way too long!

I didn't realize it had been so long since I last posted! I have so much going on right now...I guess "life" just got in the way!

I'm working on some cards for my upcoming classes, so as I finish them I thought I would post a few. This card is for my Elegant Christmas class at Angela's Happy Stamper (Nov. 23). This shot doesn't show it very well, but it's very ***sparkly**** IRL. I stamped the tree (on this card I made it branches) with grey Versafine, outlined it with a Quicky Glue Pen, and used ultra fine glitter.

I hope to be better at posting cards. Come back soon!

Go Pink!!!!

This weekend the 3Day Walk for the Cure is going on in Washington, DC. Hundreds (thousands?) of women and men are participating in this joyous and (I'm told) life altering event. Alicia (center) is a colleague from our Memphis who is a 3 year survivor. Our staff here in Falls Church decided to go and support her and her friends! I thought I was going to give support, but I think I really got more out of it! These women (and men too) are just incredible, whether they are survivors or supporters. They have so much joy, energy and determination it brought tears to my eyes. All I could do was thank them for their courage.

As we waited for Alicia and her friends to walk by, I heard someone call my name. It was Tami McVey a customer and friend from Angela's Happy Stamper! It was such a wonderful surprise that all Icould do was give her a hug. I wish I had been able to take a picture with her.

These wonderful people will be walking 60 miles over the next few days. Go Tami!!! Go Alicia!!!