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The last challenge of the evening was to make a thank you card, and I used these cheerful strawberries.

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The third challenge was to make a card based on your favorite new or returning tv show. Now that ER has gone off the air, I'm down to no favorite tv show. But I do like to watch Rick Steves Travel shows, so I made a card for Paris in honor of his travels.

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Challenge 2 was to make a card using fall colors.

A Muse Lounge Fall Pajama Party

The fall challenge pajama party was Saturday, Sept. 19. The first challenge was to design a card based on your favorite candy. I love Dove dark chocolate nuggets, so I used the colors of dark blue and silver from the wrapper, and the brown dot cardstock for the chocolate. I used silver embossing powder for the glitz.

Amuse Pajama Party

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The fourth challenge was to make a card inspired by a favorite movie. A favorite during pajama parties is The Sound of Music. So I made a scene of Eidelweiss, the little white Alpine flower.














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Since friends are at pajama parties, Challenge 3 was to make a card for your best friend. I would love to give my friend a bouquet of flowers.




















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Games are a favorite part of pajama parties, so the second challenge was to make a card inspired by a game. We loved to play Freeze Tag on the beach at dusk, and even later. Here is my beach card.














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Good eats are mandatory for a successful pajama party. The first challenge was to make a card inspired by your favorite food or drink. I have to say that there isn't a meal, situation or day that can't be improved by a cup of tea, so I chose to make a tea inspired card.

My Prize Package Arrived Today

I'm such a lucky girl! I was chosen as the A muse winner for the VSN on Split Coast Stampers which was held Feb. 20-21. My awesome prize package arrived today. There was a lovely card from Heidi, and a package of kitchen red notecards, two stamps, the balloon and tiny gift, and two Copic markers. I've never tried the copics before, so I am looking forward to experimenting. Thank you, Geeta and the A muse team.

Stamping to the Music

This month's challenge at the A Muse Lounge is to create a card inspired by a song. I chose "Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop" by Langdon Pigg, a very mellow and relaxing song.
I used the Love Mugs stamp from A Muse, and the color brown to carry out the coffee theme.

Valentine

Every year I try to participate the the Red Tissue Exchange, a card exchange for calligraphers. I designed this card and lettered it using Hot Cinnamon Twinkling H20 watercolor. I used the A Muse stamp called Heartline for the image.

Train card

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My grand-nephew Jacob is a big fan of trains, especially Thomas the Tank Engine. I made him this train card "The Birthday Express" for his 2 year birthday. His mom Deb assures me that he loves the card!

Here is another card which I made from my new stamps. It is from the A muse sushi set. I love the kimono, and I wanted to team it up with some bright origami paper.

Christmas presents

My daughter visited her boyfriend's family in Seattle before Christmas, and she made a shopping expedition to the A muse store. She and my husband teamed up to make my Christmas very a musing! I am so excited to have new stamps to play with. Here is a photo of my newbies, and a card I made using the snow angel.

Christmas projects

I was a busy little person before Christmas. I made cards for the faculty and staff at the school where I work (about 35), using the
A muse snowglobe stamp. I finished those the weekend before the last day of school before the vacation, which was was quite unlike me. But then I was still faced with making the cards to send to our family and friends, which did not get mailed until Dec. 23. I went with a black and white theme this year, and I was happy with how they turned out.









I also made some thank you notes for friends. I chose the A muse gerber daisy and thanks stamps, and made sets of five cards.