2016 A Muse Consultant Calendar Swap

Wow!! I can't believe half of January is gone already.  I hosted a calendar swap with the fabulous consultants from A Muse.  I was amazed, yet again, with the creative pages by these lovely ladies.

 

 

Claudia

 

 

Seleise

 

 

Barb

 

 

Brenda

 

 

Seleise

 

 

Sadie

 

 

Tobey

 

 

Claudia

 

 

Tobey

 

 

Brenda

 

 

Sadie

 

 

Barb

 

Aren't all the pages terrific????

 

 

 

Here's to a happy and healthy 2016 to everyone!! 

 

 

 

 

 

Blessings,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Better Late Than Never

I truly apologize for being SO tardy in posting about the new A Muse Studio Catalog.  This summer has been crazy busy.

 

 

You can see the new catalog HERE.

 

As always, if you order is $150 or more please contact me at bjlee717"at"comcast"dot"net in order to receive your hostess benefits.  Otherwise, you may order directly through by webstore HERE.

 

A Muse Studio came out with some great samples using some of the new products:

 

Shirt and Tie Candy Packages

 

Keep Calm Candy Bar

 

 

Special Teacher Card

 

 

 

My World is Brighter Card

 

 

ABC Favor Boxes

 

Apple Tag

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please feel free to email me at bjlee717"at"comcast"dot"net if you have any questions. 

 

Have a great rest of the summer....can't believe it's already the end of July!!!!

 

 

Blessings,

 



Valentine Treat and Organizing Embellishments

Happy Friday the 13th!!! :)

 

 

For Valentine's Day treats, I made these adorable mice treat toppers. 

 

 

I used a couple hearts from the Spellbinders Classic Heart Nestabilities to make the body and ears.  The cardstock is A Muse Studio Blush and Stampin' Up Real Red.  I just folded the large heart in half to make the body.

 

 

The eyes and nose are from just a regular hole punch.  I colored the eyes with a Copic marker.  The whiskers were made using the handle part of a Memory Box bucket die.  And the face (where the whiskers would come out of) was stamped using A Muse Artstamps Heart Trio and Cherry Ink.  The sentiment is from Stampin' Up Teeny Tiny Wishes.



 

 

I slipped in the top part of the packaging of the Gilliam Candy Stick into the body and adhered it with glue dots.  You could use Dum Dum lollipops as treats, too.

 

 

 

 

 

I wanted to share how some of my embellishments are stored.  I bought this storage carousel at a garage sale a couple years ago.  It came with all of the containers.  They are exactly the same size as Stampin' Up embellishment containers.  The unit sits on a base that allows it to spin.

 

Unfortunately, when I bought the carousel it didn't come in the original box so I don't know who the maker is and if it's even available for purchase.  I would love to find another one for all of the embellishments that I'm hoarding....LOL!!!  I also have a couple of the Stampin' Up Stack & Store Caddy for my SU brads and buttons.

 

Available HERE

 

 

Have a great weekend and Happy Valentine's Day!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



a|s Creative Consultant Gift Card Swap

It's amazing how busy this time of year can get.  I just can't believe Christmas is less than 2 weeks away!!! YIKES!!!

 

 

 

I wanted to share pictures of the gift cards I received from a swap I participated in.  They were all so cute!!

 

 

These are the ones I submitted, which I posted the tutorials HERE and HERE:

 

 

 

Lyn:

 

 

 

Judy:

 

 

Kim:

 

 

 

Jane:

 

 

 

Barb:

 

 

Sylvia:

 

 

 

Seleise:

 

 

Sherry:

 

 

 

Andrea:

 

 

 

Claudia:

 

 

 

Great job, ladies!!!!

 

 

 

 

 



Another Gift Card Holder and Tutorial

I'm back with another gift card holder and tutorial.  

I used to be a total clean freak.  My work space had to be perfectly clean, but as I got older I learned to deal with the messes. LOL!!!  Here's a picture of my messy work space!!  

For the front of the gift card holder, I used the A Muse Studio Cozy Back and Bottle Brush Forest stamp sets.

      

Starting out with Sugar Cardstock for the base of the card, I layered it with Sky Cardstock.

I hand-cut the snowy hill from a|s Sugar Cardstock.  I stamped a few of the trees from the Bottle Brush Forest stamp set using Sage Ink and cut them out.  The adorable snowman was colored using Copics.  He was then adhered with foam tape.  Finally, added some sequins as snowflakes.

The inside of the card was layered with patterned paper from the Christmas Sweater paper pack.  The sentiment from the Cozy Back set was stamped on Sky Cardstock cut using the Labels 8 Nestabilities.

    

Here's the tutorial on how to make the gift card holder.

Start out with a piece of 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 Sugar Cardstock. Score at every 1 inch mark (the last piece will be 1/2" wide).  Because it's hard to see the score marks on white cardstock, I drew lines where the scores were made.

The places marked with an "x" are where you are going to put the double sided tape.

Next, add layers of the patterned paper to the panels as seen here:

Layer the inside of the card with the patterned paper.

Take the scored piece and adhere the 5th panel to the 4th panel:

Starting with the 1 inch end of the scored piece, adhere it to the bottom part of the top of the inside panel, like so:

Fold over the panels to make the first "box" of the holder.

Adhere the piece that will make the slot for the gift card holder.

Then, fold over the next "box" and adhere to the base of the card.

That's it....super easy, super cute!!

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

If you want to order any of the products used in my card today, you can purchase them HERE. 

Remember, if your order is more than $150, you need to order through me (not on the webstore) to get the hostess benefits.  Contact me at bjlee717"at"comcast"dot"net.

Blessings,