VMAA #2 - ONE WEEK from today!!!

By now, you've probably seen this news on the A Muse blog and/or the A Muse Weekly Newsletter. If you haven't, VMAA #2 (Virtual Meeting of the A Muse Addicts) will have their 2nd online stamping party next Saturday evening from 6-8pm Central.

Michelle, Jennie, Rhonda, and I will be the hostesses for the evening. We'll have challenges every 30 minutes. You won't want to miss it.

SO... go to the Addicts site, register (for free) and come read all about it.

Oh... and sssshhhhh..... I have a secret, too... it will be revealed next Saturday night ;)

Stamp of the Week!

Every week over on the A Muse Addicts forum, my dear friend Jennie comes up with a brilliant Stamp of the Week Challenge. This week, one of the stamps is the Eiffel Tower. I made a card about a month ago using this stamp. Here's what happened though... I wasn't feeling particularly inspired or crafty... so I made myself create something just to get the ideas flowing. This was the first card of a stack of 5 or 6. The last ones I did I really liked. I'll share those sometime soon. But I wanted to play along with the SOTW (stamp of the week) because I don't always get to! So here it is...



What do you do to get your creative juices flowing? Sometimes I just clean up my studio and that all by itself makes me want to create! But sometimes, I just force myself... like here. And then sometimes, I just watch a movie instead!

VMAA #2

SAVE THE DATE: April 26th 2008 8pm CST

Lots in store for our 2nd Virtual Meeting of the A Muse Addicts! Have no idea what I'm talking about? Well, head on over to the A Muse Addicts forums at www.amuseaddicts.com... registration is free and then you'll be in the know! You won't want to miss out... tons of fun.


And sssh.... we have a secret that will be revealed that night. :D

Good Things Come in Threes

And can you believe we're on challenge 4 already??? HOW FAST 2 hours can go when you're having so much fun. The girls and I can hardly keep up with all the fun!

Jennie is bringing in our party.... Challenge #4 over on amuseaddicts.com for our first ever VMAA..... Did I mention there are prizes? Oh, you can't play right now? Well you have until 8pm CST tomorrow (Saturday) to enter!

Challenge #4.... Good Things Come in Threes
The idea is to have 3 of something on your card...

Here is my card...

Know anyone having triplets and all boys? :D

All images, card stock, and ribbon by A Muse

Don't you love the new stitched ribbon from A Muse?

So, how did you do? Did you get all four done in 30 minutes or less?

Sketch-a-licious!!!

Challenge #3 is brought to you by Rhonda. It's called SKETCH-A-LICIOUS! She created a very cool sketch for all of us to try over on amuseaddicts.com for VMAA!

Here is my card... can you believe it's the FIRST time I've used the polka dot coffee cup! I've had it for a long time!


All images and cardstock by A Muse


I colored in with my Copics but then I put used the lemon spica on the dots and a Sakura glaze pen on the cup to make it look ceramic. Here is a close-up:
Are you having fun? Let us know!

You Da Man!

Here it is challenge number #2 brought to you my yours truly! VMAA is underway over on amuseaddicts.com. Are you over there playing with us?

When I thought of this challenge, I thought geez it would be nice to get some more ideas for manly cards.... I'm not talking about little boy cards. I'm talking about ADULT Masculine cards. Then I tried stamping... Yikes. What a hard challenge this was for me. I think it's because I wanted to do a "serious" card. Well, I ended up with two cards... Let me know what you think!

Card #1:
So, I was going for the serious one here. I liked it when I did it and then I slept. And I'm not certain it's what I was going for. I saw a card done by Mark of Deadbeat Designs (local Texas artist) and he did the road thing that way so I had that in my mind. Problem is that my road doesn't really go anywhere.... I thought trees would seem "mature" and manly.

All images and cardstock by A Muse


Card #2:
I don't know a sole that golfs. It seems like engineers golf but I don't know any. Anyway, I used PENCILS on this to color... haven't done that in a long time! I used my new pencils...Koh-I-Noor Woodless Colored Pencils
They are one of Linda's favorite things and they work wonderfully.

All images and cardstock by A Muse



Are you enjoying our first ever VMAA? Let us know what you think!

Don't Color Me Baby!

Tonight is our first ever VMAA = Virtual Meeting of the A Muse Addicts! And the party has started!!! Are you over there? No, go register and join in the fun!

Up first is Michelle's challenge.... Don't Color Me Baby! (know where that is from? ;))

Here's my card....

I, of course, grabbed my "go-to" stamp... spiral daisy. I *love* that stamp. Last week, I was at Michael's with a 40% off coupon burning a hole in my pocket so I decided to get my very first Brilliance dew drops - in JEWEL TONES... HELLO? Aren't those my signature colors?

Look at this shimmer.... ooh, I *love* them. JULIE=> Why didn't you tell me about these ;)?

Oh, and Michelle, GREAT challenge and I used *purple*. LOL.

FRUSTRATED and behind....

Okay, I'm so dog-gone (insert your own non-preschool, colorful terms here) FRUSTRATED. If you know me in RL, you know that I just can't stop until I fix the problem. Well, being a SAHM (mom), EMAIL is my link to the world beyond diapers and Pok-e-mon! And this week has been a really quiet email week for me... WHY? BECAUSE APPARENTLY NO ONE HAS RECEIVED ANY OF MY EMAILS SINCE MONDAY????? WHAT????

So, I've been working on this all day... and some of last night. I called RoadRunner (my ISP) and then pointed the finger at Mozilla's Thunderbird (my email reader of choice). Told me to use Outlook Express.... so I tried that. Changed ONE, YES ONE option and now Outlook Express won't EVEN LOAD for me. I *despise* Microsoft products.... especially today.

More research... and guess WHAT I THINK IT IS? I found documentation to support this - but I'm still testing.... MY SIGNATURE LINE is being blocked by my ISP as spam.... NOT Mozilla you goons....

Anyway.... GUESS WHAT TODAY IS????

I copied Heather (who copied me! LOL! THANKS HEATHER!) for this info:

OVER ON THE A Muse Addicts Site.... Tonight we have our FIRST VMAA - virtual meeting of the A Muse Addicts...

9-11pm Eastern
8-10pm Central
7-9pm Mountain
6-8pm Pacific

Wait ... what the heck is a VMAA you ask? Every little detail you could ask for can be found on the A Muse Addicts forum:

"VMAA will be a time to test out your stampin' skilz but more importantly just have FUN with your fellow A Muse buddies. We are going to have some challenges and you'll have a time limit to do it in. And of course there will be prizes!"

Thanks for listening... OH and if you're waiting for an email from me or I didn't respond to something all week.... please resend!

Good grief.

BIG NEWS for A Muse Addicts!!!!

We (Michelle Clark, Rhonda Maynard, Jennie Moczan, and myself) are PROUD to launch new home for the A Muse Addicts Group. Yahoo is no more!



You must register to join and we request that you supply us with your mailing address and birthday so that cards and such may be sent to you. If you don't want to do that, just fill it in with No Thanks or zeros.

We are so excited about this. We hope you can join us over there for lots of things:
* CHALLENGES
* SWAPS
* CONTESTS
* PRIZES (did I mention PRIZES)
* FRIENDSHIP
* STAMPING, STAMPING, STAMPING!