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New Acrylic tutorial up at Maya Road DT blog.....

My new short tutorial using acrylic is up at the Maya Road DT blog! Have a great weekend everyone!!

Michaels $1 spot....enough said!!

    I found these little goodies in the dollar bins at Michaels! The cards came in this cute little case (I am thinking mini album here!) and the chipboard contains 3 pages of cute travel icons!! It was the best $4.00 I have spent in a long time!!

I made the Catwalk on Sistv!

I was so excited to see that my heat embossed Maya Road acrylic mini album made the catwalk this week on SIS!!! I am so excited!! See it here! Thanks to Jan Barlow for choosing my album...what an honor!!

Sketch #22.....

Oh this is fun!! Sketch #22 at Pink Sketches!!

I needed some inspiration...

And I found it here at Pink Sketches! Thanks to these girls Megan, Christina,and Penny! I have not made a scrapbook page in so long because I was just in a creative standstill!! I have been enjoying and ooohing and aaahing over the layouts these girls have been sharing. So I went to the site and followed Sketch #21.Thanks girls! I will be checking that sketch site out more often to jump-start my creative juices!!!

 

 Here was the inspiration!!

A Spring Scrapbooking Retreat.....

If you live in Eastern Iowa or Western Illinois you may be interested in a scrapbooking retreat here in Iowa City. It is being put on by my friends Cindy and Shelly from Sweettooth Scrapbooking and Andria of Reminisce. Here are the details:

Spring Fever Retreat
Coral Ridge Mall
Community Room (located behind the Food Court)
Friday, April 3 4pm-Midnight
Saturday, April 4 9am – 7pm

Register at Sweet Tooth beginning Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009 (in the evening).

The cost for the crop is $49.99 and includes:
-Reminisce goodie bag including some of our newest products ($15+)
-Sweet Tooth Special Edition Kit includes products to create a layout and a card ($10+)
-Coral Ridge Mall Discount Book (full of coupons and discounts for a variety of restaurants and stores located in the mall)
- Snacks, soda and water throughout the crop
-Over $100 of Reminisce Door Prizes
-Grand Prize Drawing for a Making Memory Slice

Reminisce will have a limited number of scrapbook kits of our newest products available for purchase at the mall. Crop participants may also email Andria Gibson (reminisceiowa@aol.com) a list of individual Reminisce products you like to purchase no later than March 25, 2009 and she will bring your items to the crop. To view items please visit www.designsbyreminisce.com. You may also place orders for products on our website and those items will be shipped directly to you from our distribution center.

Sweet Tooth Scrapbooking will also have a limited number of scrapbook layout, project, and card-making kits available for purchase. They will also have a limited amount of basic cardstock and adhesive available for purchase.

All purchases made at the crop must be paid by cash or check.

Need a hotel? Holiday Inn Express is extending a special rate of $99.90 to our croppers for the weekend. Each room has a mini refrigerator, and microwave, and hot breakfast is also included in the price of each night’s stay. To receive this rate, call the Holiday Inn Express 319-625-5000, and ask for the Reminisce rate. (The hotel is located near the Mall Entrance in front of Dillard’s).

If you have any questions please feel free to email any of us. Andria Gibson (reminisceiowa@aol.com), Cindy Noesen (scrapper959@hotmail.com) or Shelly Maxwell at (shelly_maxwell@q.com).

Space is extremely limited so register earlier to guarantee your space! We look forward to seeing everyone there! (Please note your registration is not guaranteed until payment is received. Personal checks must be received within 5 days of registration or your registration will be cancelled).

500th commenter.....come on down!!

Elizabeth Smith you were my 500th commenter so I would like to send you some Maya Road goodies!!!! Email me your address girl!!

Fun with felt....

I found some large pieces of stiffened felt at Hobby Lobby and decided to make a 12x12 felt layout. I hand stitched my photos to my 12x12 piece, cut and hand stitched my felt flowers, and hand stitched around the perimeter of my 12x12 page. For stitching I used mailing string. I also used this string on my pink flower. I simply wound the string around the petal of my flower and glued it to the back. The only items NOT felt are my photos and the Thicker letters. I also used some velvet Maya Road flowers.

 

 

This one's for my "Peeps"!

Just had some of these over the Valentine's Day weekend!! Oh my goodness...so bad for you but sooooo delicious! I didn't even know that Peeps came in strawberry creme let alone hearts!!

 

But then I hit the mother lode!!!! Orange creme Peeps eggs!!!

 

I am in so much trouble! Now I will be on the elliptical for hours trying to burn off my Peeps! Grrrrrrrrrrr!

Goodwill boardgame = new mini album!

 

I found this cool board game at Goodwill and decided to make it into an album using my Bind-it-all! I simply cut the boardgame into four pieces (it was already scored in order to fold it) embellished the cover and bound it with the BIA! I used some of the game pieces (knights) as embellishments on the side of the album and some of the card pieces on the inside. Not bad for $1.38!! I loved the knight/castle theme and thought it would be great for some Renaissance Festival photos I had! I am always on the look-out for things to use my Bind-it-all on and Goodwill always comes through!!!!

Why do I live here?????? :(

 

Why do I live where it is cold and snowy? Why did I NOT go on a Mexico vacation this year? I guess I will have to endure another snow shower, cold winds, and shoveling! So in memory of happier, WARMER times, here are a few shots from Mexico from previous years! :)

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Special Olympics.....special indeed!!!

 

Here is my Special Olympian warming up!

 

And here is my first place winner!! Jordan will continue on to the Iowa State Special Olympic competition at the Field House at the University of Iowa in March! Everytime I attend these events it just warms my heart. These kids are such wonderful supporters of each other, so loving, so excited to be participating. I am so proud and thankful to be the mother of a Special Olympian. He makes my life "extra" special!

Maya Road Acrylic Butterfly Album (CHA-W 2009)

  This is a little clear album I did for Maya Road for CHA-W 2009. To make this colorful acrylic album coversI used the clear butterfly album, colored tissue paper, and Modge Podge! I will be posting a tutorial later this month on the Maya Road DT blog! What I love most about Maya Road (besides their wonderful and supportive owners, DT, and incredible products!) is that they also provide you with free templates for many of their albums. I used the butterfly template to create felt pages for this album as well as trimming down the templates to fit on the chipboard pages!

        

Other items used were Maya Road chipboard butterflies, felt blossoms, and chipboard flowers! To make the black butterflies I simply stamped my butterfly image onto a sheet of transparency, cut it out, then stapled two together and folded the wings of the top butterfly up to give it dimension. I used stiffened felt for the butterfly pages and placed some felt behind the chipboard butterflies, then filled with Stickles!

  This page was created using a clear album page, Versamark,heat embossing powder (clear with glitter) and Scribbles paint. Go here for instructions on how to heat emboss acrylic!

This came today!

  I had my collage layout accepted and published in the recent issue of Scrapbooks Etc! You will find it on page 13. I really do just love those collage templates! I used the #201 rectangle one for this layout and used one of the new 4x6 ones for my Christmas card! So many possibilities and it makes getting a bunch of photos on a page so much easier! Best of all.....they are totally free to download from Scrapbook Etc. site. Go here to get some for yourself! Instructions are included!! :)

A CHA-W 2009 album (Maya Road small gear album)

 

Here is an album I did for CHA using Maya Road's new mini gear album. I loved the size of this album and I love circles so this was perfect for me! I also stopped at the hardware store and grabbed some metal washers that look like the gear album! I also used the new Maya Road mini alphabets...aren't they yummy! The album also includes some Accucut clear plastic circles cut with my circle cutter. I just painted the edges with Making Memory paint. I kept this album pretty simple since I am going to give it to the mom of the young man in the photos!