Today my dear friend Caroline Lau is celebrating her birthday. I would love it if you would help make her day a special one by leaving her a birthday greeting on the MR Design Team Blog. You will find lots of inspiring ways to use Maya Road products as all the design team members created Caroline a special birthday tag. My tag includes Maya Road Velvet Ric Rac, Rubons and Blossoms that I glittered and flocked.

Eat lots of cake C… enjoy your day.
I love ya!

If you are wanting to get some of the new Maya Road products head on over to ScrapGal. Carly stocked her store with lots of the new Maya Road goodies. She has the best online customer service out there. I don’t know how Carly manages to get my orders out and to my front door so fast. She is amazing. I love ordering from this online store. The forum is a wonderful place to hang out and you will find their design team and idea gallery so inspiring. I hope to see you there.

I am presently working on some projects but I cannot share. They are for some Creative Cafe recipe cards. I will post them once Danelle gives me the okay.

Lots of people email me asking about the glitter I use and how I use it. Well today, I posted some info about this on the MMM Blog. Check it out if you want to know more about the glitters I use and how.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Another project down and who knows how many more are in store. Right now I seem to be on a creative roll and am churning out projects like crazy. Here is part of a Foofy project I finished yesterday. I plan on hanging it in my scraproom. I love tulle and vintage glass glitter. To me this combination is the best. I hope to teach this at local scrapbook stores. Once I finish creating I will be hitting the roads showing all my projects to local scrapbook stores in hopes some will want me to teach a few classes. I will keep you posted. If you are not local and would like me to teach at your local scrapbook store please e-mail me.

Right now I am working on a Christmas Sampler using an 11 x 14 canvas, some Heidi Grace papers and embellishments and of course LOTS of Maya Road. I can’t wait to share this one… it is pretty darn cute.

I love taking photos of kids especailly BABIES! Isabella Kate was perfect! Here are a few of my favorites.

After Isabella Kate it was Madelyn Grace’s turn. She was a bit wiggly. Far more than Isabella Kate but I think it has something to do with being a newborn with a full tummy and a 3 year old that is always ready to play. But, we did get a few really cute ones. Here are my favorites.


I’m really ready to get home and back to scrapping. I have so many ideas running in my head. Lots of layouts and mini albums. Tomorrow I am going to take photos of Isabella Kate’s toes and fingers.

 

Here is a layout I did last night for the FFAF challenge on ScrapGal hosted by Marci Lambert. The theme is “Family Smiles.” I love the Cosmo Cricket “Dutch Girl’ line. The colors and patterns are really nice. The chipboard letters and numbers are by Maya Road. I used the numbers as a pattern and traced them onto my layout. Then painted (MM Manila), chalked (ColorBox Creamy Brown) and glittered (MM Glitter Glaze) them up. I also have lots of zig zag stitching on the photos and pattern papers. I love zig zag and straight stitching!

My “so much love the roof is coming off” layout sure is getting a lot of exposure. It seems to be popping up all over the place. Here it is on the Making Memories Blog and in the Creating Keepsakes Tips & Tricks section.

Oh if you can make sure and stop by ScrapGal today and tomorrow. They are having an online crop with lots of great give aways. You don’t want to miss out. I will be off and on the message board all weekend. I have so many projects and layouts to get done I most likely will be sleeping in my scraproom all weekend.