This week the A Muse blog is featuring some holiday photo card inspiration, and here’s my version- a pocket photo card.

I love sending photo cards for the holidays, but I like to come up with something creative too.  Brown and green is one of my favorite color combinations for this time of year, so I chose the new shimmer couture Grass and Damask Espresso papers which add a bit of elegance.

For this card, I used a photo that was 3 1/2″ square, and cut a flat card of cream colored cardstock measuring 4 3/4″ x 6 3/4″.  For the outside pocket, I cut a piece 10 1/4″ x 6″ and used my Scor-pal and scissors to create a pocket.  I then cut a 2″ x 11″ band out of the damask paper to make a band around the pocket.  The whole thing will fit into a 5×7″ envelope.  Sounds a bit confusing, but easy to mass produce if you do assembly line.

Here’s a close up of the card all put together…. I used some of the chocolate pearls on the holly berry to add some more texture.

Here’s a close up of the inside flat card, which slides into the pocket above.  I used the monogram frames set to make it more personal, and left some white space at the bottom for a signature or note.

Hope that inspires you with some ideas to create your own photo cards this season.  Check out the A Muse blog all week for more inspiration!

Images- Classic alpha set, monogram frames set, tiny holly, season’s greetings RM

Papers- Shimmer couture grass, damask espresso, cream cardstock

Other – Nestabilities labels 4, A Muse chocolate pearls

Ink – Memento bamboo leaves, rich cocoa

Here’s my monthly calendar page for November.  This is another one of my favorite month’s because Thanksgiving is hands down my favorite holiday.  No stress, just family and good food

Gotta love the Tom turkey – he’s just the cutest

Here’s my class schedule for the next couple of months…

Friday November 20th – A Muse Fabulous Fall Greetings 6:30-8:30pm

We’ll make 5 fabulous fall-themed cards using the newest A Muse release – including thank you’s and elegant monograms that you can use for gifts or keep for yourself!

Friday December 4th - A Muse Calendar Class 6:30-8:30pm
Learn how to make a calendar book the A Muse way- Think Simple, Think A Muse! A Muse has once again released a great customizable calendar with proceeds going to charity. We will create a wire-bound 2010 calendar book (including a perpetual calendar for remembering important dates) using the Bind-it-All. The price of the class includes a $4 donation to Water1st.org.  Please bring some extra adhesive.

All classes are at The Paper Tree. Please call Michelle to sign up 603-624-8800. Hope to see you there!

Here is the card I made recently for the A Muse Addicts gathering at The Paper Tree.  We had so much fun chatting and crafting- my favorite thing to do!

It’s hard to tell, but the black background paper is glittered all over- it’s a sugar coated paper from Doodlebug Designs – one I love using for Halloween.   Tonight is my first calendar class at The Paper Tree.  If you missed this one, we’ll have a repeat in November.  See details at the top of my blog.

Have a great weekend!

Here’s a quick Halloween card I made recently.  Would you believe this was a $1 stamp I found at a big box store last year?   This was the first time I used it, and used some A Muse paper to paper piece it for a bit more interest.  I also added some Martha Stewart black glitter and diamond glaze on the eye.

A Making Memories star button from last year finished it off.  Today was SOOO fun- we had the A Muse Addicts gathering at The Paper Tree.  Of course, I forgot my camera, but much fun was had.  Heather even stopped by for a bit to visit -yay!

We finished out the day by going to an outdoor showing of It’s a Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown on a huge inflatable movie screen – so fun!

enjoy

It’s that time again – time for my A Muse Calendar class, where we’ll be making a 2010 calendar.  These make great gifts, and we’ll be using some of the new yummy shimmer papers (as well as a good mix of the other papers) and a couple of the new stamps!  Here’s a sneak for you….

This one uses the new woodgrain block stamp (my favorite!) and the acorn stamp.  It also has the new chocolate shimmer paper which is so much prettier than my photo shows.   Here’s another month using the pink shimmer paper:

Details on the class are at the top of my blog- hope to see you there!

This card has a surprise inside…..

a cute pop up cat that I thought went perfectly with this sentiment

I used some silver fox Smooch on the moon to make it stand out.

Have a great weekend!

Jen

Boris & Bernice are some of my favorite A Muse Halloween images.  I couldn’t resist adding them to this spinner card.  We’ll be making this card in my class tonight!

This is one of the treat bags we’ll be making in this Friday’s class- Slick Tricks & Sweet Treats.  We’ll be making 3 treat containers and 2 interactive cards using some of my favorite A Muse Halloween images.

Details on the class are listed at the top of my blog- hope to see some of you there!

Jen

Here’s two version’s of the October calendar page.  One with Martha Stewart’s Drippy Goo punch, and one without….for those of you who haven’t been lucky enough to find your own drippy goo, I created a version just for you

WITH drippy goo

Without drippy goo

Be sure to get your own calendar here – the proceeds all go to charity, and make great gifts!

Happy October!!

Calendar, Images, Patterned Paper – A Muse Artstamps