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Another CHA album....

This little album from Maya Road is a new mini album (classic scroll frame). I covered the entire chipboard album with old sewing patterns using Modge Podge. Lots of MR goodness inside. I even sewed some covers for my binder rings. Metal bobbins were also used on the binder rings to go along with the sewing theme. Fabric was also used to wrap around the MR chipboard flower. Thanks for stopping by!

A CHA album to share....

I am so excited to share this album with you. This was a very technique "heavy" project but I am so happy with how it turned out. I used Maya Road's 5-ring tabbed acrylic album acrylic album. Techniques include fabric strips adhered to acrylic using heat-n-bond, "stitching" on acrylic with fabric strips and DMC floss, adhesive backed photos printed on transparencies and applied on acrylic. The buttons are also stitched onto the acrylic using my handy dandy drill to make the holes! I wanted to keep the transparent feel of the acrylic album so I chose to use transparent photos. I also used some photo transfers onto fabric for some of the other pages! I have never made it to CHA yet but hope to one of these years! I am just excited that my projects got to go!!! If you are going....have a great time and stop by the Maya Road booth to see the DT's incredible projects!

Stitching on acrylic tutorial is up at Maya Road!

Today my tutorial on stitching on acrylic is up here! Be sure to stop by Maya Road and see all the new releases for CHA in the new full catalog!! You can see that here! So much goodness coming your way!! I do so love Maya Road!! :)

Here is a sneak peek of one of my CHA projects using the stitching on acrylic technique! Have a great weekend everyone!

A Scrapbook Trends toot!!

I am so excited to see my Maya Road "Harley album" was featured on page 78 in the newest release of Scrapbook Trends Mini Albums magazine!! My good friend Katie Watson has two incredible albums in this issue as well! What a good way to end a crazy week!!

It is so good to be home....

We had a wonderful time on vacation but it is always good to be home. If I could, however, I would keep on going!!! Here are just a few of my favorite shots. In all I took 1,354 photos, visited 15 states, and drove 4436 miles. Whew!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

day 11 on our vacation...

So much has happened since our visit in Massachusetts and neighboring states! We spent 3 days in Philadelphia and enjoyed visiting Independence Hall, Betsy Ross' house, Ben Franklin's grave, and of course the Liberty Bell! Gettysburg was an incredible park to visit and I highly recommend it to any one visiting Pennsylvania! We have seen the birthplace of the American Revolution at Lexington and Concord and yesterday visited the end of the war at Yorktown. It has been so wonderful having my dad (a retired history teacher), my mom ( also a retired teacher), and my son ( a history buff), along to keep me so informed on the sites we see the and people involved! I wish I had been more interested in this when I was a kid! Good thing the History Channel has a movie for all of the places and battle sites we have visited. That should keep me busy for awhile! Washington DC was incredible but my feet hurt A LOT that day!!! The National Gallery of Art is still in my top ten places to visit! Today we walked the streets of historic Williamsburg and also visited Jamestown (the first permanent settlement here in the US). So much history and such a gorgeous place to visit. Virginia is now one of the most beautiful states I have seen! Tomorrow is our visit to the end of the Civil War, Appomattox, Virgina, and then on to Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson! Our journey home is on it's last leg. We still have quite a few places we plan on seeing before reaching home! I so look forward to going through my photos and and enjoying our vacation over and over again!

Reporting from the road....

The first 5 days have been a realwhirlwind!! We have seen Niagara Falls, the North bridge at Lexington and Concord, toured the Freedom Trail in downtown Boston (LOVE that city!), and enjoyed our visit to Valley Forge! Today we also visited 6 states in one day (MA, RI, CT, NJ, NY, PA)! Tomorrow we are off to Philadelphia to see the sites, Friday we are heading to Gettysburg and Lancaster, PA to see Amish country!! We will be enjoying the 4th in our nation's capital Washington D.C and seeing the sites there! So much to see and do and really appreciating all that our forefathers did to make it possible for us to live as we do in this amazing country of ours!!

The North bridge at Concord.

 

Niagara Falls