Thanksgiving Already?

class card for Thursday...still openings, might have a slight variation for class!

How did I miss two weeks on this blog! Snowing at camp, hunting, hiking, crafting, reading...



Happy belated Thanksgiving, we had a wonderful meal at our camp and enjoyed a successful hunt for my nephew this morning, celebration of a 4 point buck.



I'll be posting again soon, forgot my camera cord to share images with you, duh, that should have been a very important item in the bag, but......seems I'm always forgetting something these days!

A really great Student

of mine Named : Amy has just started a blog and I want to congratulate her on having the courage to do so....I of course was not as courageous and more like conned into it. Have a look at her blog here.

I have a feeling I'll be seeing a lot of this new addict!

Happy to know you Amy! You make classes fun! Thanks for coming!

Thanksgiving is coming quick and then my next class at Sweethearts Stamps & Stitches in Rome NY. December 3rd: Snow fun (and a little sneaky of a card we will make) class is at 1:00 and 6:00, I'd love to see you there!

Photo Card Newsletter

I love to get newsletters from my "extended" family during the holidays, get caught up on their lives and goings on. Kids activities and all the events of the year. This card was designed so you can print the newsletter and then decorate the outside with images of your family or things that you write about in your letter.

A muse

gingham red paper

shimmer green paper

kitchen red

Swiss Red

white pearls

christmas wishes

santa silhouette

simple celebrations (gift)

Martha Stewart double scallop, scallop punch

I hope this inspires you to send some joy to your family's this year.

More Photo Cards

This beautiful picture is of my Good Friend Cari's - kids! They crack me up everytime I see them, they certainly have their mom's sense of humor!

The thing I love most about cards like these are the simplicity, they go together so quickly and end up becoming a great gift! The wallet size photo pulls out for easy refridgerator art. Usually the recepient is so excited to get a picture they have never seen before!

A muse

green gingham

shimmer damask

shimmer green

kitchen green

snowflake stamp

merry christmas

white pearls

Enjoy and have fun searching through your photos from this year for all your gift giving!

Check the A muse Blog for Photo Card Inspiration

I hope you all have a chance to go to the a muse blog this week for some inspiring photo cards, here's one that I submitted. I was thinking that it might be fun to send animals pictures instead of kids, cuz as you guessed it sometimes they are more fun! And for those of you that take care of animals for friends, or have a picture in your photo bank of their animal, wouldn't it be fun to send them a photo, it would be like receiving a gift in the mail. :)


Maeve Czarnecki

All A muse products:

White 4 bar card
Swiss Red Notes
Slate Notes

A muse Stamps:

Madiera Background 7-5062E
Have a beautiful christmas 9-8276C
elegant ornaments 2-2163J
R29 copic marker
A muse black twinkle
A muse white pearls
Swiss Red Grosgrain stitch ribbon

Martha stewart snowflake punch

A Muse Blog this week

Guest Designer , Karen Watson, this week so be sure to check it out! Lots of give aways too.

Also if you missed it on Sunday, I gave a great tip on how to use your little snips of ribbon. Here's a close up of the cards and the ribbon placement.

Little glue dots hold this in place.

A tight knot for a bookmark

3 snippets all tied up.

Thursday I had a fabulous class Sweethearts Stamps and Stitiches in Rome. We used the Elegant winter set, it is so fabulous, verstile and you can quickly make tons of cards for the holidays, here's one we made that I think you can change the size on, mix and match all your scraps and make bag tags with this idea.

Teaching at Paperdolls of Saratoga tomorrow, I can't wait, they are just starting out with A muse stamps and have a fabulous store, if you haven't visited before, make it a "to do" this fall. Here's a card we are making in one of the classes, just makes me think about all there is to do to prepare for the Holidays and my favorite is fetching the tree!:)

And last but not least I had a fabulous time in Seattle with all the A muse instructors, but there was a time that I really needed to be off the clock, brain in overload and feeling a little like I needed to walk 100 mph to get my heart rate down, and once I did, I really needed a margarita, this is also a face that you might see in classes that says, Amazing Card!

Last year, This year

Still excited and Love A muse!