Here is a little kit I put together this afternoon using patterned paper by Rhonna Farrer, Butterflies by Maya Road and a frame I picked up while shopping. The kit includes everything needed to recreate this project. Optional supplies are Diamond Stickles and Chestnut Roan Fluid Chalk Ink. It includes step by step instructions with color photos for you to download after purchase. Sorry for the glare. I guess I should have taken the glass off when I was photographing the piece.

This kit is priced at $15.00
Shipping is flat rate at $8.95

I really need to be working on some mini albums right now for an assignment but I saw this frame, then found this bird, then remembered about this vintage sheet music and well… you can see what happened. Before I knew it… there was paint and glitter flying all over my scraproom. I plan on putting a monogram on the tag as soon as I figure out who is gonna get this little pretty. This piece can sit on an easel or hang. I love all the sparkly glitter. Glitter makes me so happy as well as creating ribbon flowers. I just can’t seem to make enough of these. They add such a soft feel to projects.

I have had several stores contact me to teach. It makes me so happy to know people like my work well enough to want me to visit. So I might be visiting a store near you soon. I must say teaching makes me so happy. Watching people have fun, learn new techniques (my classes are very technique based classes) and see the light bulb go off when they realize they can stretch their creative process and enjoy it. I even like kitting. I know you are wondering what is up with that but seeing all the products put together knowing people are excited to create the project gets me excited.

Hope you all have a great day. It is gorgeous here today. It wasn’t so great last night though. Grapefruit sized hail is not fun. Thankfully we missed that but poor Fort Worth was blasted with every sized ball shaped hail you can imagine.

A few weeks ago I went with Caroline to The Crafty Scrapper in Waxahachie. Well Carolyn gave us a little demonstration using some Ten Seconds Studio products. My project was very simple compared to Caroline’s as I created a simple little altered heart. I wanted to use mine as a base for a project and well here is what I came up with. I think Ten Seconds Studio and Maya Road are a perfect combination. The base of the wall hanging is a page from a Maya Road 2-Ring Heart Chipboard Book, the scroll is from their new Scrolls II Chipboard Sets (LOVE THESE) the smaller heart is a page from their Heart Coaster Album and the flowers are their new Trinkets Velvet Pleat Blossoms and you know I love these!

As much as I am trying to fight not needing another medium to jump into well I cannot fight off this one anymore. I am so hooked. This craft is fun and easy… as long as you have the right tools that is… so any of you who are thinking about trying some metal work jump in and give it a go.

Here are a few more Easter decorations I created. These “Egg Gift Boxes” are perfect for altering. I painted mine using Ranger Acrylic Paint Dabbers in Juniper and Shell Pink then covered the tops and bottoms using Coarse Glitter in Crystal. Once dry I lined the outer edge of each box with Maya Road Cream Velvet Ric Rac, created a ribbon flower out of crepe paper using a vintage rhinestone button for the center and finished it off with two felt leaves accented with a back stitch. These will look so nice sitting on my table with the baskets I created over the weekend. It is finally starting to look like Spring in our house.

Sorry for the not so great photo… it is raining really bad here so the lighting is terrible. And that front crepe paper is not that big, the angle is just not too great for it.

I love the day before leaving for CHA…. all the stress of checking lists, washing clothes, packing, checking lists again trying to make sure you don’t forget anything etc… just love it! Actually I feed off of it, kinda strange but I do. I hope I get to meet some of my new online friends and look forward to seeing those that I have chatted with for several years. It is so nice getting to see everyone twice a year.

I will be helping with make-n-takes so please come by Maya Road’s booth #1987. We will be using products from our Chipboard Crown Album, Heart Coaster Album, ATC’s, Blossoms, Postcard Stamp, Crushed Velvet Ribbons and Scallop Ric Rac. Our make-n-takes have been sponsored by some very nice companies… Luxe, Ranger, Art Glitter and Beacon.

Here is the design team canvas I created for the designers wall that will be in Maya Road’s booth. I cannot wait to see what all the designers created. It is so fun seeing all the different styles using many of the same products.

On my canvas I used some of Maya Road’s new Jewel Ribbon Flowers, Scrolls, Buttons and Stamps from a previous release. The quote reads: Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. Pablo Picasso