After posting my class schedule today, I realised that I haven’t shared any cards in quite awhile! Here is one I made for a friend of a friend to give to a friend who is newly engaged. I even used satin ribbon on this gem – a rarity for me.

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I love the A Muse Marigold stamps very much, and often reach for them when I need an elegant card. Also in love with their Currant shimmer couture paper – the colour is delicious. I experimented with Copics for the colouring and tried that cutting technique I keep seeing everywhere. I just stamped the image on a square piece of white cardstock (on top of the Hero Arts Friendship Definition cling stamp), coloured and cut along the edge of the definition stamp, then trimmed around part of the flower.

Hope this finds you all well – I’ve been making a LOT of cards lately to sell. Fun! 🙂

I’m headed to Orlando tomorrow, where I will be taking a TON of great classes from Friday morning until Monday afternoon – including a 2.5 hour long Copic Workshop on Sunday! Good thing they’re calling for thunder showers; no need to worry about missing out on the Florida sunshine 🙂

Hopefully I can fit in some shoe shopping, mama needs a new pair of shoes!

I started reading back through Sarah’s Blog and came across this list that I decided to “borrow”.  I’ve actually been making mental notes of my goals since I turned 30 in August, and this week I even crossed a few items off the list – woot! I’ll check back once a week to see if I have anything new to cross off my list. Some items will need to be worked on throughout the year, so I’ll have to repost on August 1st when I turn 31 and see how I did 🙂

http://www.criminalgrace.com/?p=2247 (check out the rest of her blog for tons of inspiration).

30 Goals for my 30th Year:

1. get my learner’s permit and learn how to drive (september 10th)
2. figure out how to use my canon rebel
3. do something that terrifies me
4. get my taxes done (shocking, i know) (april 10th!)
5. make at least two cards a week
6. redesign the website at work
7. live by myself (as of may 1st!)
8. keep a camera in my purse for all those kodak moments
9. sell things that i just don’t use (ie: my computer desk)
10. buy my very own brand new laptop – no more hand-me-downs!
11. get a grown-up comforter for my bed  (august 18th)
12. quit drinking diet pepsi (do i have to?)
13. see the northern lights
14. travel outside canada (september 23-28th, flew to orlando, back to toronto, took a bus to buffalo)
15. read at least one book per month
16. weed through my belongings
17. go to deep water fitness every week
18. learn how to cook and eat healthier
19. get 8 hours of sleep a night
20. start a savings account (april 15th!)
21. make jewelry to sell
22. sell my handmade cards in stores downtown (2015! FINALLY!)
23. go somewhere to see built to spill live (a girl can dream) (september 28th, 2010 in buffalo, NY)
24. sort out my dual (american) citizenship (september 14th)
25. see my niece more often
26. keep a paper journal
27. drive across the country (okay, so that probably won’t happen this year)
28. get a credit card  (april 15th!)
29. rely on myself more
30. contribute something to a charity (september, it wasn’t a lot but i donated to the a muse calendar project and emailed others to participate as well – hopefully made a small difference in donations). organized a charitable bake sale at the work on valentine’s day weekend and another on easter weekend. donated to heavenly creatures when their donation boxes were stolen in march).

(updated on april 15h, t2011 – crossed a few more off the list!)
(updated again in August, 2015 – crossed a lot more off the list!)

It’s been awhile, so I thought I would share a few birthday cards I’ve made. This one was made today in a mad-rush…

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 Stamps used: A Muse Marigold, Leaf Trio; Hero Arts Old Letter Writing; computer generated sentiment.

The second card is one that I brought out to Seattle in October to give Linda for her birthday – Linda is the owner of A Muse and it was such a pleasure to meet her and become part of the A Muse family. I was tickled to find out that Linda’s great grandfather is actually from St. John’s – small world, hey!?

A Muse stamps: Octopus, Seaweed, Tiny Hat, Submarine, Simply Sublime.

Love that Octopus, as you can tell from my Blog header – I had my friend Erin design my header around the A Muse Octopus, and thought it would be cute if his little  mouth was an “o” of surprise, after making such a mess with the ink. The Octopus was designed by A Muse Illustrator Nina Seven, who draws many of my favourite A Muse images. Cute cute cute!