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!
Hooray, A Muse Calendars are now available for download by donation. This years cause is to support Charley’s Fund – read more about it here.
This is my first time actually finishing an A Muse Calendar, if you can believe that. I was going to use the Bind-it-All but then I thought “what else could I do with this?” Then it came to me. A tear-away calendar!
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I started with the A2 A Muse Calendar pages mounted on black cardstock, then perforated with the Scor-Bug 0.5 inches from the top (it’s best to go back and forth a few times for extra perforations because there are two layers). The top of the calendar pages were punched with the Crop-a-dile and then taped together with Scor-tape above the holes so you can easily tear away the pages one month at a time. The ribbon is threaded through the back of the calendar out through the lip of the matchbook and tied in a bow.
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It stands up nicely on its own, but once I start tearing pages away each month I will likely prop it up on a little easel or a CD jewel case. I went fairly basic with the stamping because I had it all taped together before figuring out what I wanted to put on each page – talk about doing things backwards! Definitely not recommended 🙂
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=2247Â (check out the rest of her blog for tons of inspiration).
30 Goals for my 30th Year:
(updated on april 15h, t2011 – crossed a few more off the list!)
(updated again in August, 2015 – crossed a lot more off the list!)
Guess what! The Paperie is sending me to Orlando to take classes and attend a trade show! I really appreciate Chris & Janna’s continued support to make me the best instructor that I can be. I will be attending COPIC classes with Chris, one of the owners of The Paperie and we will be ready to teach you more about these wonderful markers in the Fall – I can’t wait!
We are also taking classes with TIM HOLTZ! But the excitement doesn’t stop there; I’m taking a class from Claudine Hellmuth of Ranger, and both Chris and I will take classes with Sally Traidman of Hero Arts! We are actually signed up for over 15 classes altogether and can’t wait to bring back some exciting class ideas to The Paperie.
When my mom told me to find my passion and turn it into a career, she really knew what she was talking about. I ♥ stamps. I have a secret ambition to one day illustrate a stamp line. I always joke that if I knew how to draw, I wouldn’t stamp but that’s not quite true – I actually can draw! I’d just rather stamp. 🙂
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