Class Length: 4 Hours    Skill: All Levels

“Time Flies” is about my youngest daughter Ansley preparing for high school. You can alter the theme of your album to showcase your family, summer highlights or special moments; it is all up to you. I designed it with many themes in mind. This kit includes a complete alphabet package so there are more then enough letters for you to create your own title. I want this to be an album that incorporates your style and theme so please feel free to change around the paper designs provided. I’m here to give you some helpful hints, tips and ideas. Don’t get me wrong I have included step-by-step instructions along with color photos in each kit, just don’t want you to feel as though you are locked into my design. Let your creativity fly. To me there is nothing better than getting a little creative jump start.

For those who do not care to use glitter or rhinestones, please feel free to opt out as I understand not everyone loves bling. Your finished album will be perfect either way as I created this album with non-blingers in mind. But please keep the supplies provided to possibly try at a later date. You never know… you just might end up liking a little bling here and there.

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.

Man… I have been about to bust holding in all these Maya Road new release secrets. Finally, we get to start sharing!! It has been torture I tell ya flat out torture! So here is my first sneak peek…. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the new Velvet Sparkle Blossoms… oh my gosh the quality of these hand stitched VELVET flowers is incredible. The rhinestones in the center sparkle like diamonds…pure bliss!!! The new Scrolls are another of my absolute favorites. Covering these beauties in Antique Silver Fine Glass Glitter by Art Glitter Institute makes my heart skip beats. The album shown is about my great grandparents.

To see an additional project I created using the Jan. Kit by Cocoa Daisy and some more new release Maya Road products go check out the MMM Blog.

Oh I wonder which project I will show tomorrow… it is so hard to pick just one.

Here is a sign I created using lots of Maya Road goodies. I used their Philadelphia Uppercase Chipboard Alphabet, Midnight Black Velvet Ric Rac, a star from their Motifs Chipboard Set and a page from one of their Star Coaster Albums. This sign only took me two hours to make. I think it is going to look so cute greeting my trick-or-treats Halloween night.

The patterned paper is Spooky Dot by Daisy D’s. Of course I had to use some stickles by Ranger. I covered each orange dot and orange square around the border using their Orange Peel. The letters and smaller star are covered in fine Florentine Gold glitter by Martha Stewart. The larger star is covered in Black Glitter from a Making Memories Shimmer Glitter Kit.

Nothing much going on here… just cleaning the house. Actually, getting rid of all the germs. It feels like our house is crawling with them. So far, Alan has managed to not get what Ansley and I had. I hope he stays that lucky. Once I get the house cleaned I’m locking myself in my scraproom. I have some assignments due for Maya Road and want to get a head start so when my Jan. kit for Cocoa Daisy comes next week I will be ready to play.

As I was surfing the web this morning I stumbled on this great idea by Marah Johnson. I have some of these flower brads by Allison Connors and am going to certainly try this technique. I love the one with all the glitter. I’m all about glitter.
Oh and I’m baby sitting my granddog today too. Zeus is just the cutest little puppy. Terri is so in love with him as is the entire family. He keeps her lots of company. Gosh, I’m not sure I will get much cleaning done… at the moment, he is a huge distraction. I must stay focused!

Have a great weekend.