Oh my gosh! Our new ad is on the backside of the front cover of Somerset Magazine! Here is the picture of it! I have been unofficially published! There is my little Biancas mug on the picture.. Very exciting! Also we are getting a lot of buzz about my Acrylic Book and kit, I know we have orders for a ton, so if anyone wants one, please email me and we can set one aside for you!

Oooh here are all the goodies for my class in August. Its going to be called "What Inspires Me" and will be filled with all the things that inspire me/you to be creative and want to scrapbook. We'll use felt, transperencies, paint, hand sewing (don't let that scare you in any way!), and ink. I am pretty sure its going to be on August 25th in the afternoon. As soon as I am done with the sample I'll get word out to everyone. Nighty Night!

Good Morning people! Whew its super early here.. I couldn't sleep anymore. My mind started going on this new project that has been dying to get out of me for a few weeks. I had a pow wow with Sheri (MDW) and its coming to life.. and I am so inspired and can't wait to get started on the sample. Its going to be called "What Inspires Me" and will have tons of really fun thing to play with. Fabric, Embroidery Thread, Felt, buttons, all wrapped up in a 7Gypsy album. I'll take a pic of the items I picked (tons of Turquoise, Black and White) and post here hopefully later today.
I taught my 5x5 Acrylic class yesterday to the best group of ladies. We all had so much fun. I can't tell you how rewarding it is to see other people having fun and really enjoying making something you created. The best feeling EVER! If I can inspire just one person to "go outside" the box, or be creative on their own, I am such a happy girl! We'll be doing the same class again next Saturday, so if you missed it this weekend, be sure to come join us on July 28th, call the store for details 925-952-4437.
I am also going to be offering a Wall Hanging Acrylic piece that will have different shapes and beatiful ribbon, paint and more alcohol inks.. look for that one in August as well. I am going to be teaching alot of fun classes this fall so make sure you check here and are on the MDW email list.
We are having Tonys 2nd Birthday party here today.. not a great day to have only slept a few hours, but I'll sleep tonight.. I can't believe my little guy is growing up.. he is half my size now.. big big boy..
I leave you with an older project of mine, but I never posted it. Its my HOME cigar box. It has a mini fold out album of our house. This was a fun project enjoy!

Antoher quick post today.. this week is very hectic as I have a few dt deadlines, class on Saturday and Tony's 2nd Birthday party on Sunday, so quick posts, but fun creative stuff I have been working on.
This is a layout using the Scrap For A Cure Kit of the month for July, Premiere! Loving the things in this kit! Its of course of my sweetie Bianca.. love those eyes! The Stars are hand sewn, my favorite thing to do on most of my layouts.
Enjoy

Just a quick post with a new Picture of the sneak peak of Your Pictured Memories paper Angelic and an altered FrameEase Frame. This is beautiful paper! I had so much fun altering this frame, they are great for your layouts and are held together at the top with magnets.. so easy!
Have a great night!

Here is the final product! Wanna learn how to make an amazing acrylic album? We'll be decorating this 5x5 square acrylic album. You'll learn all the techniques you can use on this wonderful medium. No two albums are alike! This class will be held at My Daughters Wish, July 21st at 1:30. Cost is $36. Come join us in this fun filled class! 925-952-4437.

My first OFFICIAL layout for the Scrap For A Cure Design Team! Isn't the paper just yummy? I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the Rouge de Garance paper. Its a limited edition set and you can get at Scrap For A Cure website and kit club. I can't wait to do more. Everything used in this layout is in the kit!
I'll be posting something new everyday now for about a week! I have been busy with design team stuff and I can finally show it to everyone. The Your Pictured Memories line is being debuted this weekend, but you can see some of it here tomorrow.

Good Monday Morning! I meant to blog more last week, but wow how busy can I get? Your Pictured Memories came out with a bunch of new paper lines and I needed to make all the projects for CHA which is next week. I had so much fun working with the new papers. I really enjoy the challenge of being under pressure to get it done quick and being creative with what I am given. I think I met the challenge and hopefully everyone will enjoy what they see. I can't show them here until next week, but I am really pleased with what I did.

On another note, I received the best phone call last week from Diana at Scrap For A Cure. She asked me to design for them! I was so excited and just floored that they would choose little ol me! The first kits and add ons are FANTASTIC! If you haven't checked them out, please do, the project is just beautiful and they have a great eye for coordinating paper lines and embellishments. I can't wait to get started! This kit club is run by the most giving wonderful ladies. They are always looking for ways to help the community and do a ton of charity work! Please please please support this club!

One more thing, don't forget I am teaching a really fun 5 x 5 Acrylic Book at My Daughters Wish on July 21st. It is going to be a ton of fun, come join us!
This is just a pic I took at Lake Merrit where we went to feed the geese/ducks. Tony was literally running away from the flock that was chasing after him. HILARIOUS!

Happy Monday! I hope everyone enjoyed the beautiful weekend we had here in the bay area. I did some cropping on Saturday night with my girlfriends at MDW and got a few projects done. Mallory was rocking her layouts. She is going to enter a big scrapbook contest this month and I am mentoring her to do it! She is so talented and young, she has a great career ahead of her. She did a layout of her and Bianca, and it was B E A U T I F U L! I wish I could post it here for her or link you to it, but it can't be published cause she is submitting it! It made me cry! She said such wonderful things about Bianca. I never knew that getting compliments about your daughter like that from someone you love would affect me like that. It makes me feel so proud of her.
On another note, some girlfriends of mine have started a fantastic kit club Scrap for a Cure. They are donating a portion of the proceeds to a needy cause each month. Take a look and sign up! Great job ladies!
So today I am heading out to YoungPlay Memories to turn in some projects and I am hoping to get a sneak peak of the Your Pictured Memories new products! They are so excited about all the new paper and embellishment lines they are releasing at Memory Trends. I can't wait to get to play with the new stuff! Keep on the lookout for this great upcoming product line!
I know everyone is probably tired of seeing this picture of Tony on all my projects lately, but I just can't get enough of it. Its so darn cute! Anyway, this is a Making Memories Clock kit and I didn't use any of the papers that came with it, I just made it my own and I LOVED the turn out! The other project is "Laugh" which is a Bare Elements wood word. This is the kind of projects I am loving. Doing something which I thought was cute, but just didn't think I had the time or resources to do it. Being creative with what you have in front of you is a fantastic way to work, I love it!
Enjoy!

Are you ready for a class? I am so excited! I will be teaching the first in a series of acrylic classes at My Daughters Wish The first class is called "Paper or Plastic" and will be a 5x5 Acrylic Book. We'll use transparencies, stamps, pens and paint. It will be a variation of this book I did of Tony. The class will be held on July 21st and will be $36. Just contact the store to sign up. Look for more acrylic classes including circle books, 12x12 layouts, a clipboard and a wall hanging. Its going to be a fun end of summer schedule for the store!

Wow, yesterday was my daughters 14th Birthday. Time has passed so swiftly. I can't believe my little girl is going to high school, becoming a young woman. We had a wonderful family/friends party and she and 6 friends went "Disco Bowling". If you haven't seen this or done it, you must try it. I so wanted to hang with the teenagers and bowl, but alas, moms aren't welcome anymore. I'd love to go do it with friends. Disco lights, dance music.. how much more fun could you want? I didn't get any sleep last night since everyone stayed the night. I had to finally go tell them to get to sleep at 3:30am...
I woke up all bleary eyed and a little dizzy from lack of sleep and came to the computer to check on a design team announcement that was coming up. I didn't want to get too excited... a girl has gotten her share of "no's".. so to my surprise, I was chosen! I am the newest member of the Creative Hearts Studio Kit Club design team! I look at a lot of the design team calls and visit the websites and read the conversations going on. I really loved this website, it was inviting, not too intimidating and I had heard fantastic things about the owners. I am really excited to start creating and getting to know the people there. Please come visit the website and join the club!
Here are the photos of the gifts I made for Bianca for her birthday. The first is an acrylic 12x12 layout which will be on a picture shelf in her room, the second is an altered comp book for high school. Not too fancy, but Elsie.. she rocks the product.. lastly a 12x12 sketch book. Bianca is taking her first "official" high school art class next year and I think she has it in her.. her dad is a fantastic artist with a degree from the Academy of Art.. and geez, I like to dabble in a little paper/ink/photography medium.. so who knows? Enjoy your day..

Happy Fathers Day! I hope everyone out there is celebrating with their loved ones. We are going to my parents in laws for brunch pretty soon. I am so blessed with the most fabulous family. My father in law, Dan is the most generous caring and giving person. He would drop everything to help out someone in need. I am so grateful to have him in my life. I hope everyone has someone like him that they can depend on from being the plumber to computer genius..
Here are my projects for fathers day. The card is for both Dan and Aaron, totally cute. You can make the tree up for any occasion, so its a perfect stamp. The frame is obviously for Dan. Its a pic of Cole and Tony eating their barbeque chicken legs. They sat there for easily a half an hour, just chowing away on Mothers Day. The mini envelope book is for Aaron and has a bunch of pics and coupons from things like I'll do garbage for a week, to Bianca walking the dog every day and washing both cars for a month.
Even though my real father is not with us any longer, I hope he knows I think of him often and wish he were here to see our wonderful family. I love and miss him so much. Give your dad or someone in your life that is a father figure a huge hug and tell him how much he means to you on this special day.. hey what the heck you should do this every day and cherish the time we all have together.
Hugs to everyone,
Daniela

What a fun week its been for me! I finished another acrylic book. This is the square version and it is 4x4. I made it for Tony, and outlined his many faces. This was too much fun to make. I have a bunch of other sizes and I can't wait to get started on them, look for them soon.

OH WOW! I am so excited for this project. I got the idea off of 2Peas, and I ran with it. My husband was a huge help in making the "pages" for me! These are acrylic pages! It was so much fun, and I think it turned out beautiful! I have an 8x8 ready for me to complete as well. You can use all your transperancies and rub ons on these. I am going to see if I can teach this at My Daughters Wish so look out for it!
Have a great Friday everyone!

What a week its been for me! My little girl has now graduated from elementary school and is moving on to High School! I can't believe how grown up she is. She is moving from a private catholic school with 30 kids in her 8th grade class to a public High School with 2200 students. I am so thankful that she already knows a lot of people that are there. She is going to do fantastic in High School and she is ready, but wow what a shocker for me. She isn't my little baby anymore, she is becoming a little woman. She'll be 14 next month. She amazes me every day. Every day I look at her and I burst with pride that she is my daughter. She does fantastic in school, she is sweet, she is fun, and she is a wonderful person. I see a little bit of me inside there somewhere.. even though she is much cuter than I at this age.. She has a great core group of friends, which I love so much. I spent the last two nights making them each a graduation mini book. I wanted them to have something to take with them. They were a ton of fun to make and the girls loved them. I am tired, I am happy, but a little sad that it all ended today and that I won't be seeing her everyday in her uniform.

Oh my GOSH! I just finished my first LOVE Elsie Layout! I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it! It is inspiring me just as much if not more than I thought it would. It is soo my style! This is using the Roxie Line and this is a picture of Bianca on her 13th Birthday! Almost 1 year ago. I have about 10 pictures I have been "saving" for the perfect paper and wow THIS IS IT. So much more to come from this paper line. I can't wait until I have more time to play again.
Thanks ELSIE for coming out with this fantastic line!

Hello Friends! What a busy week I've had! I went out to Young Play Memories to drop off some design team work, and came home with a list of new projects! Wow, I am so excited to get started! I turned in two of the Your Pictured Memories Frames and ChipPic. The picture is above. Its of my mom (the little one) and my aunt. This is around 1948. Look at their car behind them. These are the pictures I treasure! This was so much fun to make and I think the papers coordinated perfectly together. I also finished a new box and mini album I made with the Chip Pic product. Wow this stuff ROCKS! For the mini album, I just cut two 12x12 ChipPic sheets into 6x6 pieces, used the coordinating gaffer tape and whalla, you have a album ready to embellish. It takes so much of the work away, and you can focus on the creativity and pictures! I was told that they are coming out with 108 new papers for the July CHA show, and I can't wait to see them in a few weeks.
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On a sad/happy note, today was the last day Renee is working at My Daughters Wish. She is such an integral part of the store. Its going to be very hard to come in on Saturday without here there. Renee is one of the most talented artists I have ever known. She has made me so much more creative and she is truly an inspiration to everyone she touches! I will miss her enthusiam, her creativty and most of all her friendship every day in the store. She makes working so much fun! It was sad today to have all our clients come in with gifts and hugs. It really made her day. To always hope that you can touch others lives, and to realize you have is a life altering experience and she is having it today at the store. She is going to do fantastic things with her life, and I will be so happy to say that she is truly a friend and I love her very much. Look out for this girl, she is going to take over the world one day, and then she'll scrapbook it! Love you girl!

Quick post, cause I am still laughing.. THIS is what happens when you leave your distress ink out and walk away for 5 minutes! I can't wait to SCRAP this!

Happy Friday! I have been frantically working on my Your Pictured Memories Design Team projects. I only have until June 1st to complete at least 4 projects. Its so different when you HAVE to come up with things.. don't get me wrong I LOVE IT! But its a little pressure. I am so proud to say, that I have had no problems coming up with ideas with all the paper lines and things I have been given to work with. My style is more loud and bright, so the first two projects I have completed are totally my colors. Above is a ChipPic frame, which is really cool that I have altered and completed a layout of Bianca and her girlfriends at the beach. The second is a layout of Bianca and Mallory on NSD. I think Bianca is the splitting image of Mallory and they are so alike! They even had their hair styled the same way on that day, I love it! They are both so darn cute and the sweetest things in the world! I am working on a vintage heritage piece right now, and should have it done today. Young Play Memories and Your Pictured Memories has added galleries to their webpages and you can see my worth there as well. I am excited to go crop with my girlfriends on Saturday night. We are going to My Daughters Wish for a night of fun and creativity!

Happy Mothers Day everyone! What a wonderful day to celebrate all the blessings we all have. Whether your a mother, soon to be mother or a daughter, we all can celebrate the reasons we are who we are. I feel so fortunate that I am a mother to two beautiful children, a daughter to a fantastic mom, and to have a mother in law that I love like my own. I know I won't know how well I have done with my own children until they are adults, but looking at Bianca I am so proud she is my daughter. My children are the lights of my life and I can't believe I was so lucky to have them. I am still learning how to be a mom and will always be looking to learn more. I might not always do it right but I hope they will both know that I love them to the ends of the earth and just wants whats best for them. So, tomorrow really celebrate the women in your life and let them know how much you appreciate them for how they have helped you in your life!
I am posting two clocks I have made for my mom and mother in law. These are the Heidi Swapp clocks that were so much fun to make. I was so intimidated by them, but once I got started it was pretty easy. Don't ever be afraid to try something new, it will turn out great. I hope they like them!