As with every Scrapbook Expo, I’m completely overwhelmed by hundreds and thousands of paper stock, stickers, ink, tape, glue dots, scissors and card-making machines that jump out at you at every direction as you enter the expo. My eyes dart back and forth from one scrapbook vendor to another and I find myself at the mercy of my wallet. If I come to Scrapbook Expo without a project in mind, I’m in trouble. I’ve gone from buying jewelry-making kits to acrylic albums to card stock to those fancy Copic markers. In fact my storage bins are spilling out with all these newfound hobbies that I should actually get moving on the handfuls of projects that I have already started. We all know that completing projects are a lot easier when you have a date appended to them and this time, I do!

Speaking of ‘I do,’ Kari and Richard’s wedding is just months away, I’m on the hook for a bachelorette present, something a little different from all the others. I’ve been intrigued by many of the scrapbook albums I’ve come across. Button Farm and Clear Scraps are a few of my favorites, and recently, Maya Road grabbed my attention.

As I came across Maya Road’s booth, I flipped through their album and was drawn to their mesh flower and needle work ‘make and take’. After a hearty ten minutes with the hot glue gun, I walked away with a solid embellishment to pop into my album. Combining a mesh flower with cardboard cut-out pink letters, needles and a spool of thread gave me a few ideas to stretch my scrapbooking creativity and skills. I was very happy with the embellishment and decided to pick up this Maya Road album kit for Kari’s bachelorette gift. It took quite a few hours to put together and I learned how to combine different textures and layer patterned paper on top of each other. Each page of instruction was a new adventure and a new technique.

The best part of this project was not just putting together the page, but it was inserting photos of the happy couple. I can’t wait to give this to Kari. I hope she likes it!!