July A Muse Studio Spotlight

You're going to love this month's super summer colors and stamp sets on sale.  Check out the A Muse Studio Spotlight (when you get there, click on the picture you see above for details about which colors and stamps are on sale) and start your wish list now!  If we get a stamp club together by the end of the month, we can submit our order and get some of these great sets on sale.  Let me know if you're interested in being part of a stamp club...I've got 3 interested so far and need at least 2 more!

Um, HOW cute is THIS???  I don't have an event where I need one of these, but I think I need to create one!

Check Out the Studio Stampers Challenge!

My A Muse Studio team, the Studio Stampers, is doing a monthly stamping challenge starting this month.  Check out Ronnie's incredible card here at our Studio Stamper's blog.  Her challenge is to use this image to inspire your card making mojo!

Post a comment and link your creation to our blog and earn a chance to win a fabulous prize from Ronnie!  Enjoy the challenge and let me know if you join the fun.

  

July Blog Hop

Welcome to my A Muse team's July Blog Hop! You should have arrived here from Lama Tales Don't you just love what Lianna did with her shell card?

My card this time around is a baby girl card - I realized that I had all these baby boy cards ready for the next baby boy born in my circle, but no girl cards! Maybe it's the fact that I have two boys myself, I don't know, but it was fun to put together something super girlie and feminine (um, totally me!).

All products used in this card are from A Muse Studio...even the ribbon this time around. (: I chose a mod color combination, with the pink and orange, and kept it simple with the sweet pink crib and sentiment, "welcome, little one."

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My blog is last on the hop, but feel free to start again at the beginning at Kathy's blog: Bits and Pieces...the soft, subtle colors she used for her coastal themed card are just gorgeous!

Let Freedom Ring!

Last weekend, my neighbor introduced me to her son, who is in the service and is home from Iraq for a couple of weeks.  The proud look on her face, and his upright stance and confident smile made me reflect on the freedoms that are mine that I sometimes take for granted.  I often pray for the men and women that are serving in our armed forces, but meeting someone face to face who has made a conscious decision to fight for my freedom is inspiring.  


Have you heard of the butterfly effect?  The theory that the flapping of a single butterfly's wings can set in motion a series of events that could lead to a meteorological event as large as a hurricane?  There have been movies, especially those involving time travel, that reference this theory.  And I've heard this term used to cite how a single person can effect huge, mind-boggling change in his own life, the lives of others, the eventuality of a cause.  


I was thinking how living in the country that I do, with the freedoms that I have, allows me to set in motion changes that many do not have the opportunity to make.  I can be that butterfly because of the freedom I have here in the United States.  And that freedom survives and thrives because of people, like my neighbor's son, who make their lives about protecting it.  

An appropriate day to post this, I was inspired to make this card for him, and wondered if any of you out there would be inspired to make cards to thank our service men and women who are currently serving our country and protecting our freedom.  If you are, I'd love to hear from you - comment, post your card, and link it here so we can see!  Thank you...