Now THAT'S a butterfly!!

As an avid scrapper, I am always on the lookout for new embellishments when shopping. Occasionally I find something spectacular, that isn't meant for scrapbooking. My latest find is a massive butterfly, found at Kroger's grocery store. This baby is beautiful, and comes on a wooden stake. I imagine it's intended for the garden, but why you would want to put it outside is beyond me. It is felt after all! The moment I saw it, I thought of an acrylic album I had in my stash. I knew it would really rock on the cover, IF it would fit!

Well, I bought it, brought it home, and found it to be just the right size for my album. The album is "Perfect postage", from My Acrylic Album. To get an idea of the size of this butterfly, the album it adorns is 8x8! Now THAT is a butterfly!!!

An alcohol ink kit and amazing photo tutorial to share!!

I was honored when my girl Krissy at Swirlydoos kit club asked me to build a tutorial using her April alcohol ink add-on kit! You know I love working with alcohol inks, and acrylic! If you've been wanting to try alcohol inks, but haven't known where to start, or which products to buy, then you NEED this kit. It has everything you need to work with the inks, and I have worked up an easy to follow photo tutorial to get your creativity flowing! Here's my project, I truly love how it turned out and it is something I will always treasure..





So, WHAT are you waiting for, hmmm? Get over to Swirlydoos to check out the tutorial and pick up a kit! Better hurry, quantities are limited!
http://www.swirlydoos.com/page.php?35

Don't you HATE when this happens??

Life is hectic for all of us, I know, but occasionally I'll get this vision of a project or layout that just takes over. It won't go away, no matter how hard I try to ignore it. It's there, forcing itself upon me, and not letting me create anything else until I listen to it. Well, my most recent layout did this to me, bothering me for days before I finally gave in. I always have a fear, that my visions just won't translate properly to paper and glue. This one, I am around 95% happy with. I call that a success, because now it's out of my head, and I can move on! Have you ever experienced this??

Time flies.....

In the blink of an eye, my baby girl has grown into a beautiful little lady. I have no idea how it happened so quickly, but it did! Rylie will be FOUR next week, and I decided to document her transformation on this layout. I love how this turned out!

A yummy new kit club...

I'm talking about Swirlydoos people! You will just love their kits, crammed with tons of amazing product. They also have a friendly message board to chat with others about the kits, scrappy stuff, or just life in general. Check'em out!
http://www.swirlydoos.com/news.php

Here are the projects I've made so far with their March kit. This first one is the fabulous egg album from My Acrylic Album!

Prima overload!

Oh I LOVE Prima's new stuff, just love, love, love it all! I have been picking up pieces here and there, and everywhere. It is all so beautiful in person, and I always feel like creating when looking at it. I threw a whole lotta new yumminess onto this LO. The background is the Artful cardboard which is just sheer pleasure to work with!

Been holding out on ya!

Well, life gets in the way at times, and I haven't been posting much here. Between my kids and DT work, I've been stretched a little thin lately! I wanted to share some things I've worked on recently. Some personal LO's, and some DT work for My Acrylic Album...

The love word album from My Acrylic Album..






Scrap diva tool holder made with two pages of My Acrylic Album's purse album and an empty can. Yep, trying to scrap green!



A few LO's of my kiddos!