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Amusing Challenge winners

Posted on May 20, 2013 | 2 Comments

card supplies:

First in my Book rubber stamp set, Seattle Chevron cardstock, Onyx cardstock, Papaya ink, Versafine Onyx ink – all supplies A Muse Studio

Here’s a fun, CAS card I made for my Open House and haven’t shared yet. It features First In My Book which is one of the new stamp sets from the A Muse Studio 2013 catalog. Have you checked it out? There are so many fun new sets with matching dies, we’re featuring party supplies (perfect for graduation and summer parties!) and lots of other fun things…plus, this month you can get the FREE stamp set, EAT CAKE, when you hostess a party. I’m closing out three parties this week for folks who really wanted to earn this set! It was easier than they thought! Let me know if you want to try – you’ve got until May 31 and the neat part is that all orders for $35 and more get a free set of onyx notecards as well! wowser!!

And now for some other great news. Congratulations to my Amusing Challenge winners!!

4. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee

1.Allisa

2. Dorothy S

3. Melissa SunshineHoneyBee

I love what you three ladies did with the sketch! Thanks so much for playing along with my Amusing Challenge this past week – I hope you’ll join in for the paper flower challenge going on now!

~ Chris

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Amusing Challenge – Paper Flowers

Posted on May 19, 2013 | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Amusing Challenges – today we’re playing with Paper Flowers. A Muse Studio carries a variety of flowers, both big and little, but you can use any you happen to have on hand (if you “need” some though, give me a holler!). Throughout the month I’ll have different sorts of challenges…”use it”, themes, sketch, etc. I will have a Weekly Winner and at the end of the month, those 4-5 winners will go into a prize drawing for one lucky Grand Prize winner. The May prize is a package of twinkle stickers (gems) your color/size choice from the A Muse Studio catalog from me.

For my card I grabbed an assortment of the smaller sized A Muse Studio paper flowers and colored them with a copic marker. I used a ton of different supplies from A Muse Studio! You can’t see some of the finer details stamped on the label in Sky: the swallows from Clever Girls and the dotted outline from the Vintage Labels matching stamp set.

card supplies:

You’re Too Kind, Clever Girls, Vintage Labels rubber stamp set, paper flowers, Sky buttons, Sky dot gems, French Roast baker’s twine, Vintage Label die, Toffee/Slate/Sky ink, and kraft cardstock – A Muse Studio

My design team is on a break this week – life sure gets hectic sometimes, eh? So, I dug out a card of mine where I sprayed my paper flowers with Splash!

and here is a fun papercrafting idea for packaging from the A Muse Studio designers:

PS. Don’t forget, you have until midnight Sunday to play along with the “sketch” Amusing Challenge found here. There are already some great entries but we’d love for some more players to join in!

It’s super easy to play along with Amusing Challenges, and just as a reminder: 2 entry limit and no digis please!

■Link your creation to your paper crafts blog, gallery (SCS, twopeas or Flickr, to name a few) before midnight of the following Sunday.

■Use any product but please follow the challenge criteria.

■Double your chances to win by using A Muse Studio products (just leave me a reminder in the comments please)

~ Chris

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Amusing Challenge – Sketch

Posted on May 12, 2013 | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Amusing Challenges – we’re back with a really neat sketch! I hope this one inspires you to play along! Throughout the month I’ll have different sorts of challenges…”use it”, themes, sketch, etc. I will have a Weekly Winner and at the end of the month, those 4-5 winners will go into a prize drawing for one lucky Grand Prize winner. The May prize is a package of twinkle stickers (gems) your color/size choice from the A Muse Studio catalog from me.

Sketch 11

Wow, Juliet was really inspired this week! She wrote me…”I decided to make some paper today by smashing the wilting azalea blooms I could gather between two sheets of cardstock in my Big Shot.” What a wonderful result of homemade designer paper! I love it. Juliet used the set, All For Love, from A Muse Studio.

Cyndi had some great colors and texture going on her card…wow! I wouldn’t have thought of the pink and orange and they look great together. Cyndi used Make A Difference from A Muse Studio…it’s a set I don’t have yet.

My card is the marriage of two different inspirations…one card I saw onPinterest this week that had 3 tags which were mini collages. The other card I saw online from fellow A Muse Studio consultant, Lyn Bernatovich, where she created a mini collage on the “stub” from our ticket punch die. I used a lot of different supplies from A Muse Studio and I think the new color Mermaid goes beautifully with Toffee and Vanilla. Yum!

card supplies:

You’re Too Kind, Friend to Friend, Sunny Side of Life, Just Because rubber stamp sets, ticket die, Bermuda/Toffee ink and cardstock – A Muse Studio

PS. Don’t forget, you have until midnight Sunday to play along with the “Mother’s Day” Amusing Challenge found here.

It’s super easy to play along with Amusing Challenges, and just as a reminder: 2 entry limit and no digis please!

■Link your creation to your paper crafts blog, gallery (SCS, twopeas or Flickr, to name a few) before midnight of the following Sunday.

■Use any product but please follow the challenge criteria.

■Double your chances to win by using A Muse Studio products (just leave me a reminder in the comments please)

~ Chris

a muse studio Shop a•muse studio anytime!

Order your 2013 a•muse studio catalog

Interested in building your Copic marker inventory? Join my Copic Marker Hostess Club & get 4 markers for free!

Free set during May only! Ask me how to get it!

May only: Pick out a free stamp set!

Join my team! Email me to get the conversation started!

Now that Google Reader is going away, what reader will you use? I’m debating between bloglovin’ and feedly!

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Beautiful Botanicals in squash

CAS Thursday

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Amusing Challenges – Anything Goes

Posted on April 28, 2013 | Leave a comment

Welcome to this week’s Amusing Challenges – it’s an easy one: Anything Goes (because I never got my sketch done for the design team!). Throughout the month I’ll have different sorts of challenges…”use it”, themes, sketch, etc. I will have a Weekly Winner and at the end of the month, those 4-5 winners will go into a prize drawing for one lucky Grand Prize winner. April’s prize is your color choice of one bottle of Splash! from the A Muse Studio catalog from me!

Juliet said she was determined to get the umbrella from the set, All for Love into the rabbit’s paws from Springtime Day! I love how she thought outside of the box and just cut off the curved handle – it gives the umbrella a whole new look! And, I love that background that I just know Juliet created.

My card is super CAS…it’s a mode I seem to be stuck in these days. I hope you don’t mind! I used some Splash in different colors since that’s this month’s giveaway prize. I love how you can achieve so many different looks with this product…incredible. The bird is from the A Muse Studio set, All for Love and it’s on sale this month (with 4 other great stamp sets!) for 10% off – but just until May 30! I also used You’re Too Kind (sentiment) and Script Background – in fact, all supplies are from A Muse Studio.

PS. Don’t forget, you have until midnight to play along with the “monochromatic” Amusing Challenge found here.

It’s super easy to play along with Amusing Challenges, and just as a reminder: 2 entry limit and no digis please!

■Link your creation to your paper crafts blog, gallery (SCS, twopeas or Flickr, to name a few) before midnight of the following Sunday.

■Use any product but please follow the challenge criteria.

■Double your chances to win by using A Muse Studio products (just leave me a reminder in the comments please)

~ Chris

a muse studio Shop a•muse studio anytime!

Order your 2013 a•muse studio catalog

Interested in building your Copic marker inventory? Join my Copic Marker Hostess Club & get 4 markers for free!

Join my team! Email me to get the conversation started!

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Amusing Challenge winners

Posted on April 22, 2013 | Leave a comment

April showers bring April flowers! We are in full bloom here in the Northern VA area – I think we may miss the Cherry Blossoms this year, it seems the weekends have been packed with teenager events and demands!

On to our winner roll call!

4. Dreja

2. Mel X

5. Stephanie

8. SOMA

Congratulations to the winners – and a big thanks to everyone who played along! Please feel free to grab your badges for your blog!

~ Chris

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Category Archives: Amusing Challenges

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