Valentines!

I'm teaching a Valentines workshop this weekend at my dear friend Jen's house this weekend. There'll be food and wine! How fun! I'm bringing sweets, of course. :)

Here's the thank you card I'm giving her. I'll have scans of the cards we're doing later (after I get back from CHA). I want to keep them as a surprise for the participants.

All stamps by A Muse Artstamps.

February Classes

This is one of the cards I'll be teaching. I'm teaching the same class at two different stores in February.

Welcome Spring with a fun bunch of cards made with A Muse rubber stamps. A Muse's motto is "think simple" and you will learn to create
5-6 Spring and Easter cards with simple, but cool techniques. Detailed handouts will be provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive
and pencil with eraser for notes.



Ultimate Hobbies
Orange, CA
a muse Spring I Class
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2006
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Please pre-register in store or call (714) 538-3111


Stampin on Cloud 9
Monrovia, CA
a muse Spring I Class
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Please pre-register in store or call (626) 358-2886

Ventura Classes, April 15

This is one of the cute and fab cards you'll be making! Call the store to find out about the special offer if you take all three classes.

Violet’s Rubber Stamp Inn

Ventura, CA

A Muse Artstamps All Occasion I

Date: Saturday, April 15

Time: 9:30-11:30A

Everyone loves a handmade card. Be ready for any occasion with fresh and delightful designs from certified A Muse instructor, Shauna. You will make 5 cards using the latest A Muse stamps. . This class will feature designs different from other All Occasion classes. Detailed handouts will be provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive and pencil with eraser for notes.

Please pre-register in store or call: (805) 648-7610

Violet’s Rubber Stamp Inn

Ventura, Ca

A Muse Artstamps All Occasion II

Date: Saturday, April 15

Time: 12:30-2:30P

Thank you cards? Birthday cards? Just because cards? Go around the calendar with Shauna, certified A Muse instructor. Make 5 oh-so-cute cards that can be used for any occasion. This class will feature designs different from other All Occasion classes. Detailed handouts will be provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive and pencil with eraser for notes.

Please pre-register in store or call: (805) 648-7610

Violet’s Rubber Stamp Inn

Ventura, CA

A Muse Artstamps All Occasion III

Date: Saturday, April 15

Time: 3-5P

Weddings? Babies? We got you covered! Shauna, certified A Muse instructor, will teach you 5 cards using the cutest A Muse stamps. The cards gets you ready for all the late Spring/Early Summer occasions. This class will feature designs different from other All Occasion classes. Detailed handouts will be provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive and pencil with eraser for notes.

Please pre-register in store or call: (805) 648-7610

Storage and more rubber ramble

I'm trying to figure out how to make my space work better for me. I need more storage! I put all my Queen & Co brads and things into watchmaker tins last night. I feel I'm on my way to being more organized already.

There's so much buzz about the tins at Target. I should go over and take a look but I like my watchmaker tins. And if I ever find a way to move the toolchest of drawers and stuff full of embellishments I would be a happy camper.

I decided to sell off old stamps and magazines. It's getting to the point of "I still like everything but I don't use it." So, it's time to get rid of it.

I'm going to test out my old eyelets to see if any of them work with my new Silent Setter. I found it worked with SU eyelets but not the Making Memories ones I have. I have so many random brands that I'm just going to have to go eyelet crazy. I still like the even, clean look of hammering the eyelets down myself with my special tool but the Silent Setter is pretty easy and "hard to believe" fun!

CHA Planning

I'm still trying to figure out my flight to Vegas. Now that I want to fly one way and drive back with friends, the logistics are daunting. I have a workshop on the 29th so I'm thinking of running it 12-2 or 1-3. Then I can take a 7 p.m. flight out. I would ideally fly out of Ontario or LAX. Or even Burbank. The problem is, I would like to have someone take me to the aiport. The shuttle is rather pricey. And shuttles always want to get to the airport so much earlier than I want to get there! Hmm. But once I get there, friends will pick me up.

I'm excited about the CHA designers dinner at the Hilton. I signed up too late (I knew I should have looked into this last month) to get a goody bag. I hope I win a door prize!

Tons of wonderful and talented people have said they're going that I know so I hope to see everyone. I'm most excited about just taking it all in. I printed out the exhibitor list yesterday (I should have seen if it was in my packet but the online version is more updated anyway). Oh, my goodness! There will be tons and tons of vendors there. It sounds like a lot of the scrap companies will have make and takes. That'll be wonderful.

I booked an all-day session (three classes) at Violet's Rubber Stamp Inn in Ventura. I am in the process of creating samples boards and writing up descriptions. All three classes will be different. I hope people will spend the day with me. I will be teaching "all-occasion" classes. That should be fun! The new A Muse stamps are SO CUTE.

I finished my January DT work for SunSpiritStudio. com. Check out my gallery for the latest Valentines and Spring cards. I love the Be Mine Or Else cards. Too funny. Those stamps remind me of one of my favorite Guadalupe Fun Stamps conversation heart stamps, "be my baby or die." Ah, it just makes me think they would be perfect for some junior high school girl to give. Or perhaps recent divorcees. Heh.

I got a giant box of double sided tape and an dispenser today. Wow, I can't believe tape makes me so, so happy! I don't know what I would do if I actually have to glue things down! Heh.

I'm sitting on 30 cards for submission. I have 20 ready to go but 10 more need write-ups. I've just been too swamped to properly write them. What happened to my days of leisure? I need a secretary! But the buzz of the new year is still going strong. I feel so refreshed and ready to tackle whatever may come.

Class Schedule

Ultimate Hobbies
Orange, CA
a muse Spring I Class
Date: Saturday, February 4, 2006
Time: 10 am - 12 pm
Welcome Spring with a fun bunch of cards made with A Muse rubber
stamps. A Muse's motto is "think simple" and you will learn to create
5-6 Spring and Easter cards with simple, but cool techniques.
Detailed handouts will be provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive
and pencil with eraser for notes.
Please pre-register in store or call (714) 538-3111


Stampin on Cloud 9
Monrovia, CA
a muse Spring I Class
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Welcome Spring with a fun bunch of cards made with A Muse rubber
stamps. A Muse's motto is "think simple" and you will learn to create
5-6 Spring and Easter cards with simple, but cool techniques.
Detailed handouts will be provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive
and pencil with eraser for notes.
Please pre-register in store or call (626) 358-2886


Stampin on Cloud 9
Monrovia, CA
a muse Spring II Class
Date: Tuesday, March 7, 2006
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Can't get enough of Spring cards? Me neither! Join Shauna for a
different round of hip Spring/ Easter cards made with A Muse rubber
stamps. You will make 5-6 cards. Detailed handouts will be provided.
Please bring scissors, adhesive and pencil with eraser for notes.
Please pre-register in store or call (626) 358-2886

Stampin on Cloud 9
Monrovia, CA
a muse Mother's/Father's Day
Date: Friday, April 21, 2006
Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Everyone loves a handmade card, especially Mom and Dad. Shauna will
teach you to make 5-6 fun cards with A Muse rubber stamps. Want to
make than you or birthday cards instead? Not a problem! Shauna will
have alternative greeting stamps on hand. Detailed handouts will be
provided. Please bring scissors, adhesive and pencil with eraser for
notes.
Please pre-register in store or call (626) 358-2886

Happy New Year!

I'm so excited for this year! I feel really energetic and motivated. I bought a new blank journal and actually plan to do art in it instead of writing down shopping lists. Haha!

I booked three more classes. It's a local store near me. I have a good feeling for the other stores. I just have to call them.

My wonderful boyfriend gave me a digital camera for Christmas so there will be a return of card pictures soon.

I gave myself four different packs of twinkling H2Os so I'll play with those soon. I need to delve into my many packages of stamps though. I have new stuff from Claudia Rose, Sideshow Stamps, Savvy, Memory Box, The Cat's Pajamas and A Muse I need to play with! I'm trying to resist the big sales at Fontwerks, Rubber Baby and Ma Vinci but I don't know how that'll go.

Resolutions? Use the rubber I have! Hmm, this might be the time to figure out what I'm doing hoarding all those Above the Mark stamps. I love 'em but they're way too big for my purposes sometimes. And use up all the paper I have. Um, we'll see. The last paper I bought was the Christina Cole slab and I've been working steadily through it. But what about all the other things of patterned paper, wrapping paper, cardstock and patterned cardstock I'm hoarding? Not to mention all the art paper I bought at Paper Source and Hiromi? Aiya. Too much paper.

I finally broke down and bought the silent setter. Oh yeah, the older eyelets I have DO NOT work with it (like my Making Memories eyelets). But surprisingly, the SU eyelets I have do. Hmm, well, now I know I will finally use those funky triangular eyelets.

I had a week off and made about 15 cards in one day. I'm still a long way of finishing my portfolio though. I need more time to stamp. Oh dear, how am I going to do that when I have resolved to go to bed early, wake up early and generally get more sleep. Stamping in the middle of the night is the only time I have. Oh well, I'll sleep when I'm dead, right? :)