Gift Ideas

Betty, of the design team made some games from Maya Road Items. At the front of the store is a table full of ideas for gifts &/or home decor items that the design team has prepared for our customers. The hope is that it will give some inspiration for great gifts on a low budget. Most can be made in a small amount of time as well.

This first game is travel tic-tac-toe. She used an empty Maya Road Tin, placed ribbon inside for the grid. She then made two shapes to play with and put them in other smaller Maya Road Tins. The game shapes are magnetized so that they don't slide around even in travel. Clever idea made from left over items.

The second game is one she came up with on her own. Designed to be played by smaller children, it is a matching game. The instructions are pretty clear in the pictures. She used Maya Road Coaster book in a box along with the Maya Road Stamps for the animals.
As you can see, there is an animal stamped on the coaster from the box and in the bag is the same animal stamped on the animal shaped key chain by Maya Road. Again, an easy to make game for children and great for travel or home play.

The design team has been thinking about and preparing items for a month or so to provide inspiration to shoppers. I hope you will take time and visit the table at the front for more clever and inexpensive ideas for your holidays.

Hi I am Betty

Scrapbooking was Love At First Sight! My first Daughter-In-Love was showing me her albums on our visit to Albuquerque, New Mexico. I sat up ALL night long, doing what Scrappers do with glazed eyes frantically trying to absorb it all. For years it was the only location of a Scrap booking store, it was small, but it was always the first and last place on our trips out to see them. My mission since then, trying all the new stuff and loving it all. The toys invented for us really keeps my creative juices flowing even after 12 years. I love the crops as I always learn something new from others. Being a Mother of Five, Grandmother of 14 and now a new Great Grandmother, I never run out of pictures. My previous history is teaching Oil Painting and Crafting.

I inherited my crafty side from my Mother and Grand Mother, now to pass it on to others is a delight for me. My love of pictures was instilled early in my life by my dear Mother. She told us to take pictures of everyday stuff not just special occasions. You think you will remember things, or looks, but time and age will dim those precious memories. Sometimes tragedies will happen and you may lose the chance to get that cherished picture. They had 2 house fires when she was growing up and lost most pictures that they had. Our children and grandchildren are living in a special time when they can actually see earlier descendants that have passed on. My husband and I have discussed how exciting it would be to see yourself as a small child or to be able to see your great grand parents on a video or CD. You could get more of a vision of their personality by actually seeing them. Kudos to modern technology. The wide scope of Scrap booking is truly fantastic……have a blast!

Here are some things I just completed.......

The Canvas Album was just a real treat to make. This is my youngest Grandchild…not hard at all to decide what I wanted to do. The tag on the front holds one of the smallest pictures you wonder how to use them. The Stretched Canvas is the front and back for your Album with card stock folded for you inner pages. Embellish with “out of the box” imagination. As you see I love sewing, metal, ribbons, brads, stamping and chalking. The Sticker Borders are really great on this type of Scrap booking.




The Cousins is on an 8 X 10 Canvas Panel, use any size to fit your need of space or pictures. I mounted magnets on the back to make it an Ice Box note holder. When I printed the pictures of the girls, I just had to make this. How cute would it be to make one for each child as their own personal message center? Possibilities would be chores to do, items they need to get, just an I Love You note, more pictures or game schedule for the pocket across the bottom. Another idea would be to purchase a metal pan, tray etc and hang it in their room. So easy and quick to make. Good Birthday and Christmas gifts for their friends too.

Here We Are

Yes, here we are. The design team for the Crafty Scrapper. This is a blog that the team will use to post ideas, techniques, challenges, swaps and anything else they can think of to excite the imagination. We plan to have FUN!

We hope that this will serve as a place to come when you are out of ideas, feeling less than creative, not sure what to do with a certain paper you got, etc. We also hope it will be a place you come when you are excited, have a gazillion ideas and want to see what others are doing. Please leave comments so we know what helps and what doesn't. With the changes in the team and now an individual blog just for the team---who knows what they'll come up with! The blog link will stay the same, but other details may change by the next time you visit.

Over the next week or so, each person on the team will introduce themselves and show a picture of a recent piece of work that they have completed. Once each has given a glimpse into themselves, we will start posting other ideas, projects, layouts and techniques!