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Head on over to A Muse Palooza. They have a fun game of secret squares going on!

Hollywood Squares – A Muse Style!   We’ve chosen one of our Crew to hold a secret prize.  Who do you think has the prize?  If you guess the correct A Muse Crew member, you move on to the next round of the game.  For round two, we’ll mix things up, add a new prize, and you’ll get to guess again.  We’ll keep going until we have one winner who will then receive all the prizes revealed in each round of the game!!

You must be registered at www.amuseapalooza.com to play.  To enter, leave a comment on this post with your guess (one entry per person) before this round of the game ends at midnight Pacific time Monday June 4th.  Then check back on Tuesday to see if you move on to round two!

I have been asked several times how I get such an even scallop with decorative scissors. My answer would have to be, I cut REAL slow. Here is a a quick tutorial for it.

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Today’s tutorial on Splitcoast is for a technique you probably all know already. But since we didn’t have it yet in the splitcoast resource section, I decided to write a tutorial on Poppin’ Pastels.

I started by stamping the flower heads from You Make Me Happy with VersaMark on my whisper white cardstock circle. I used sponge dauber to apply Pixie Pink and So Saffron Chalks over them. Then I stamped the stamps and flower centers with VersaMark and added Chocolate Chip Chalk in the flower center and Certainly Celery on the stems.

To show off the VersaMarker for the tutorial, I used it on the rest of the cardstock circle and added Bashful Blue Chalk all around it.

Last I outlined the flower heads and the cardstock circle itself with doodles I made with the chocolate chip marker.

The rest of the card is easy and fast. I wanted to keep the main focus on the Chalked flowers. The card base is Certainly Celery cardstock. I stamped the top half with the background stamp from You Make me Happy In Certainly Celery classic ink.  I added Au Chocolat Designer paper on the bottom half. The bottom corners are punched with the ticket corner punch. I love to do that. I think it justs adds a nice touch to the simple layout.

The ribbon is Stampin’ Up!’s Rose grosgrain.

The saying is from You Make me Happy as well. It’s stamped on Whisper white in Chocolate chip. I punched it out with large oval punch and cut around it with scallop decorative scissors.

Julie Buhler and Kendra Giles tagged me with this new tag game. You can only type one word, no explanations. 
Yourself: blessed   
Your Partner: wonderful
Your Hair:   brown
Your Mother:  rock
Your Father:  missed
Your Favorite Item: stamps 
Your Dream Last Night: non
Your Favorite Drink:  dietcoke
Your Dream Car: Yukon XL
Dream Home: Texan
The Room You Are In: stamp room
Your Fear: bugs
Where You Want to be in Ten Years: Texas
Who You Hung Out With Last Night:  self 
You’re Not: American 
One of Your Wish List Items: big home
The Last Thing You Did: stamp
you Are Wearing:  pants
Your Favorite Weather: hot
Last Thing You Ate: fresh roll
Your Life: slow
Your Mood: happy
Your Best Friend: Jenn
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: stamping
Your Car: Yukon XL
What Are You Doing At The Moment: sitting
Relationship Status:  married 
What Is On Your TV: nothing
What Is The Weather Like: cloudy
When Is The Last Time You Laughed: today!
It was not easy coming up with only one word answers. But it was a fun tag!

Rita Ryer send me this gorgeous card to congratulate me on my 200,000 blog hits. I think that I might use this layout for a sketch challenge one day. I love it.

I love everything about this card. It’s wonderful different layout, the paper piercing, the use of Mini Mates and the big Hi five in the center. Thank you so much Rita. You spoil me! Big cyber hug!