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Make and Take -- Sunday, May 2, 2010

Please join us on Sunday, May 2nd from 11:30-1:30pm and make one of the cute cupcake holders!  this is a great idea for bridal showers, any party and any fun occasion!  hope to see you this sunday!

Make and Take Tuesday, May 3rd

Please join us on Tuesday, May 3rd for another fun make and take geared just for the teachers!  It's teacher appreciation week and we hope that you will thank your teacher!  Teachers are the most underpaid profession!  They spend more time with our kids than we do!  They educate them and get them ready for the real world.  I must say, Miles' teachers are a gem and i will spoil them during this week and have a week long list of fun things and presents for his 4 pre k teachers! 

This is a fun notepad you can make and it just doesn't have to be for a teacher, you can put something else on it for a list pad or a note pad for your purse or desk.

hope to see you on tuesday!

Thank You Linda!

Last weekend we had a special guest come to our store to teach classes!  A Muse art stamps owner and designer Linda Carnell came for a fun weekend of classes.  The most popular class was the Copic marker class that she taught.  Everyone learned a lot of new tricks with these wonderful pens!

Linda's classes were so big that we had to hold them in the old toy store next to my boutique.

We had a fun time as well.. Linda and i went ribbon shopping and shopping for fun pkg'g supplies for our stores.

Plus we stayed up until pass midnight talking and giggling like high school teenagers.

We all had a great time with linda and hopes she will return this September for the paper garden's 4th year anniversary sale!  By the way.. Happy 9th year anniversary to A Muse and her wonderful products and card designs!  Thanks again linda for everything!  Can't wait until your next visit!

Free A Muse Make and Take -- April 23rd 6pm-8pm

We have a special make and take just for you this Friday evening from 6pm-8pm

Please join Linda Carnell, owner and lead designer of A Muse art stamps for a free birthday calendar make and take.  You can meet and greet linda before her weekend of classes here at the paper garden.  We will also have sign ups available for her classes as well.  Here is the free make and take.

Using the new cloud cardstock by A Muse and the big merchandise tag punch from marvy, this would be a great fit in your purse or desk or by the phone.

when you open it up, it's a beautiful calendar.   Linda will show you how to embellish her fun calendars and you can make them for your friends!  also.. be the first to see the new 
floral collection of new stamps by a muse.  you will want them all!  hope to see you this friday!   

Waterfall card class -- Friday, April 23rd 10am-12pm and 6pm-8pm

we have a waterfall card class on Friday, April 23rd from 10am-12pm and 6pm-8pm

please join us for this fabulous way to create a cool card!

you will make 4 different cards!

The first is a fun bee card.  as you pull on the ribbon..

different bee sayings and images come out and finally.

it's a bee-lated birthday card!  all stamps by a muse, savvy and leavenworth jackson.

for this next card
I made some of my favorite neopolitan ice cream colors come alive.

desserts...

swirly cones...

and it's all fat free!  such a fun girly card.

 For this card.. i thought of the beach!

hawaii...

santa cruz...

the monterey aquarium.  All images by a muse.

This last card was made using the 4 seasons.. spring...

summer..

fall...

and winter.  if you saw the new moon movie.. this one reminds me of bella sitting in her room waiting for edward during the song.. there's a possibility.....

can't wait until the next movie comes out!!!!!  Hope you can join us for our class.

please call the store at 916 487 2737  costL:  $45    

Miles' birthday bars

In June, Miles, my 4 year old will be 5!  we're planning a birthday party with a candy buffet.. so far.. i made his own chocolate bar blend!  i bought the chocolate bars at trader joe's.  if you unwrap the bars.. it has it's own foil.. so i just wrapped on top this beautiful a muse shimmer couture cardstock and punched out his name with the new ek success scalloped rectangle punch.  don't you love the punch?  anyway.. more to come on the candy bar. i am waiting for my retro old fashioned candy to arrive and will show you the pennant banner and apothecary jars.. etc.  for now.. miles' chocolate!

Devine Twine Correction!

I need glasses!!!  for my last blog entry below.. i said our devine twines have 100-yards!  oopsssss... there's 240 yards!!!   yippeee!!!  i need coffee... glasses... sleep.... cupcakes.... redbull....

Fun new twines!

We have fun new twines in our boutique!  Come get them before they are gone.  These spools have a 100-yards of twine made right here in the USA!  I love these twines, they are thicker and heartier than other twines, plus these are fun colors and i love the packaging!  for 17-bucks, you can get 100-yards!  Twine is the "it" thing right now for packaging, sewing and using it on cards!  So inexpensive, so hip.. again!

We have all of the colors available, chocolate, lime green, yellow lemon, lime and aqua.  i already hoarded a spool of each color!

Make and Take - Friday, April 30th

Plese join us for an end of the month make and take.  Friday, April 30th 11:30am-1:30pm and you can give this to your special teacher!

Wouldn't this be fun to give a basket of these to your teacher with different sentiments or to put them on a tray for the teacher's lounge.  Teacher appreciation weeks is always celebrate the first week of may and this will really make them feel special.  I read that giving apples to teachers has always been symbolic from the early days when students would give their teachers apples as presents because they couldn't afford to give money or a gift.  instead they would pick an apple from their tree and hand it to the teacher as a way of rewarding them for the fruits of their labor.  It was a healthy inexpenive treat that teachers would then tell the giving student.  thank you!  remember.. "a" is for "apple". 

Saturday and Sunday -- Bridal make and take

Please join us on Saturday and Sunday for a fun bridal make and take between 11:30am-1:30pm.

Here's what we will be making.  using our fun accucut machine.. you can make this with our beautiful stardream cardstocks. 

I embossed the flowers with pastel embossing powder and punched out a thank you.  the boxes are easy to assemble because the machine even puts the score lines in the paper for you! hassle free and you can make these for free when you buy your paper at our boutique!  hope to see you this saturday!