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so are you all signed up for the maya road consumer newsletter yet? if not make sure you sign up! this week we have some fabulous ideas from the maya road design team! make sure you are signing up for the consumer newsletter (not the retailer one). lots of eye candy and tips from our DT members on how to use maya road products! the newsletter will go out the middle of this coming week so make sure you sign up and don't miss out!

and you still have time to post about our stamps for a chance to win!

friday creating (and a giveaway!)

goingso i thought i would share with you a creation i made today! i am so excited about this little house i made!

check this out - this is a tiny house made from our house and home chipboard. i crackled it with some ranger one step crackle paint and did the same for the heart.

then i added some dimension with inking and i stamped the front with journaling lines from our journaling stamp (cool huh?).

finally i added a tiny contact photo and a metal flower as you see here!

and you know what the cool thing is? this house is free standing!

i was inspired by our DT member wendy to do a free standing house. i know then one i saw of hers at CHA-S she used a ruler and some wooden blocks but i didn't have that.

so i ended up using some ribbon slides from our very very first release ever and i glued those to the back of the house like this.

pretty cool huh? i just used some really good adhesive and i glued the ribbon slides to the back of the house. you could also use the large ribbon slides to do this!

i have to admit i haven't had a chance to use our heart and home chipboard up til now but i can now do a WHOLE VILLAGE of our family! i think that would be very very cool!

and the beauty of it is that this is like a 45 min project if you don't count drying time! how cool is that?

ok for the giveaway, i am giving away 2 of our maya road singleton stamps! here is the twist! of all of our singleton stamps released - tell me the answer to these questions.

1. which one is your favorite?

2. which one do you think outsold the other ones?

you have til next wed to post to both of the questions and i will give you 2 chances of getting in this drawing - one for posting your favorite and one if you guessed right the stamp - haha!

so enjoy and have a very creative weekend!

some of my favorite layouts

you know it has been a while since i have done some layouts. i was just looking at my gallery on 2 peas and i think that i need to do some to just have some done of noah now that he is a bit older!

here are a couple of my favorites from the last 4 years

this one is one of me during a surfing lesson from a couple of years ago. the greenery was inspired by a starbucks napkin i had found one day. i love how it goes well with the design and the photo.

the colors are very striking too! i think i did this one like 3 years ago - man that seems like forever! i guess it was b/c it was before noah and man, some times i forget the life we had before him!

this one is a sweet one - i love the cut out swirl i did - i haven't done free hand cutting in a while. very simple but totally my style.

the colors are bold. and you can see my signature inking of the chipboard - LOL - i admit it i am lazy at times and inking is fast and easy and you get cool shading on the chipboard.

noah looks so hesitant here trying to climb out of his crib - haha - those days are LONG LONG gone as from my prior post yesterday. i love how small he looks here! my sweet baby...

eeekkk here i am about 8 months preggo! wow, i don't miss the waddling! anyhow, i love to free hand cut hearts like i did here.

did you know that if you have good rubons, you can apply them to twill like i did? yeah they will go on easily.

it is funny because after about 2 years, i have sorta forgotten how hard pregnancy was/is . and there are moments that i think hey i am ready for another one. but then there are moments i remember that i am not. but i am not a spring chicken so i don't want to wait a long long time.

wow, this one is one of baby noah too. i love how in the photo my lips are the color of the background. but i think really i just got lucky with the scan job _ LOL. again i love the free hand heart stuff. and did you see i cut a shipping tag to make a bracket?

i need to do more scrapbooking soon. i miss it. i love looking back at these to see how my style has/hasn't changed.

and i wanted to remind you all that we are running a contest with 2 peas for a mini album we will take with us to CHA-S - you have a couple more days to enter! read all the details here!

and thanks for all the brainstorming feedback - keep it coming!

a brain storm idea!

before i get to my brainstorm idea, let me show you what i saw today in my living room. so noah has gotten pretty brave - he now takes the cushions off my sofa and does like running dives on it.

seriously so this is how boys are huh? it is crazy, he will get a running start from the family room and then try to get some speed before leaping into the air onto all the pillows. it is crazy. but he is such a hoot; how can i not allow such silliness in my house?

anyhow so deb and i were chatting tonight and we wanted to run something by all of our maya road lovers! we were considering hosting a quarterly online ning class for an exclusive maya road project hosted by us. this would be a private forum. we would share photos, how tos , you can ask questions, etc.

would you be interested?

here is the twist - we believe in giving back to the small businesses entreprenuers out there - so we would ask for a small donation made to kiva.org that gives microloans to people in need.  if you haven't heard about this organization, i encourage you to take a look. the money donated would not go to us or maya road but to finance small businesses out there so they can have a chance for something better.

we were thinking of having the donation of $7 for the class; with this you will have access to a forum, instructions for a project and you can ask us questions for a period of 2 weeks. after that time, the forum would be closed and we would host another one the next quarter if we feel that we can reach enough people.

again, we are only in the inital planning stages of this but we wanted to see if you would be interested. we would email those that are participating a supply list to gather supplies for the class and be around during the 2 weeks to answer questions on the projects. we will try to keep it fun too and have challenges for everyone.

so if you are interested in a program let this, let me hear from you!

we wouldn't start this til after CHA as there is a lot to do but again, we would love to see if there are those who are interested.

ETA

i just wanted to say the winner of the NSD rak is posted - it is the comment in brown - so no we are not buying a townhouse but the winner apparently is. LOL!