New Sketchabilites

Today there is a new post up with a really fun

twist on using a die cut and i really loved playing

along with this idea!  There is lots of flowers and places

to put embellishments so I picked some of my favorite

papers and stickers from Basic Grey and had fun...

Here is the sketch this time...

and here is my take on it...

Title: Good Company on a journey
makes the way seem shorter....

My inspiration started with the word sticker and I picked 

this fun photo of some of the talented and amazing 

girls that I met on our Spellbinders retreat this spring..
 Just let me say they are even more amazing in person... 
so sweet, so nice and sooo fun too!!!


but on to the page of the day...

I cut my own die cut shaped pieces and overlapped them
to get the shadow behind the smaller one and added 
lots of the stickers from the large sticker sheet and used

lots of foam dots to pop it up and give it dimension.

It was just really fun and I love that some things that really 

mean alot to you seem to go together pretty quick.

If you haven't tried Karan's sketches be sure and 

pop on over to her blog (Sketchabilites) and try a few and 

get caught up on some of those pages you have been 

meaning to do!  And don't forget to post what you did...

We would love to see and brag about you :)

Have a great day and lots of hugs,

Teresa

Card Club for June

It's time again for our Card Club and this

month we are talking about lots of ideas

for framing. It should be fun and they get to do some

coloring and a little Tim Holtz distressing....

there is still another card I need to finish with

a framed envelope but I still need to do a little coloring

so I will share that a little later....

I used lots of different stamps and lots of bright

colors for summer and tried to use lots of the new

backround stamps that are out now.... and

It seems I am always doing a commercial for

Spellbinders but it's what I love using and all

of the cards have labels and tags on them this time.  

And if you cut the pieces before--- you can run all of

them on your Grand Caliber at one time because

the platform is so big.  It's wonderful!!  It saves so much time

and that way you can create more :) --- I will be sure and take 

some photos of the girls in class and post them next week...

But until then thanks so much for checking in

and a special Thank you for all of you that

left such wonderful comments on the Blog Frenzy post!

They were very much appreciated and I love hearing what

you like and don't like and it gives me ideas on

new things to do... Happy Creating today,

Teresa

Sneak Peek-Spellbinders Summer Spectacular Day 5

Welcome everyone to your first stop on day 5 of our Spellbinders™ 
Summer BlogFrenzy 2012. I hope you are as excited as I am 
about all the new dies coming out for Summer CHA 2012!!  
There are so many new and amazing styles of dies and 

embossing folders that you will be able to choose from and-- 
we still have 3 more days of fantastic projects and videos to go.....
so let's get started!!

All my projects today are featuring our 
New Puzzle Effect Cut Fold Tuck Die.  

These fun and unique dies can be used in lots of different
ways and you can use one or all the parts to create beautiful
works of art for your friends and family.

S5-139 Puzzle Effect

MSRP US$29.99

Approximate Die Templates Sizes:

Weaving Strip: 1 7/8 x 1/8”

1: 1 ¼ x 1 ½”

2: 1 7/8”

3: 3 7/8” (emboss area)

4: 4”

Supply List:

*Spellbinders Grand Caliber® GC-001

*Spellbinders Cut Fold Tuck Puzzle Effect S5-139 

*Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms S5-086

*Spellbinders Foliage S4-328

*Spellbinders Lacey Circles S4-293

Cross Promotional Partners

*Bo Bunny/ Liberty and Dot

*Scrapbook Adhesives/ Foam Squares and EZ Runner

*Elmers Glue Spots

*Bazzill Basics Cardstock/ Red, White, Light Pink and Lavender 

* Sparkle and Sprinkle/ Dimensional Glue and Gold Glitter

Other Products

Ribbons, Pebbles and Authentique papers, Fresh Scents potpourri, 

featherweight iron on pellon, wooden skewers and straight pins.

My first set of projects is my 4th of July party decorations. My favorite 

part of Spellbinders dies is their unique styles and their versatility. Just by 

changing the parts of the dies, the papers and how you mix them-- you can 

create completely different designs as you will see in my first project 

compared to my second.  I had so much fun thinking of different things I

could make to decorate for a party and you could even make a banner to 

go with all of this for your party too!

The project I will be highlighting is my gift card/ invitation for the party. 

For this you will need white and red card stock, blue star print, red double 

dot from Bo Bunny, and a tiny dark blue print. You will also need ribbons, 

double sided adhesive and gold glitter and Dimensional Glue from 

Sparkle and Sprinkle.

Are you ready?

First you are going to cut the white card stock 4" x 11" and score
in the center and fold in half. Cut the top right and left sides 
to look like a tag and add a silver eyelet with a small circle 
in the center on the front about ½" from the top.

Now you are going to cut and emboss the large die
with the Cut Fold Tuck pieces in Red and one of the outside 
star in just the solid form in white cardstock using your Spellbinders™
 Grand Calibur®. You will also need to cut and emboss

the small Cut Fold Tuck Puzzle Effect piece in both the white
 cardstock and the blue star print.  If you find it hard to get your dies 
out you might use a bit of wax paper between the die and the paper 
and cut and emboss like always. This will make it so easy 
for the pieces to pop out from the die with little or no effort. 

After you have cut all your pieces of the dies in the solids 
and patterns you can start assembling them. Gently fold all the 
cut pieces in the opposite direction and tuck them under the open sides.

All of the tiny pieces in the dies can be folded over and
 slipped under the opposite open space or you can leave them flat 
or push them up if you like… You can also use a bone folder 
on the back to make sure that your project is flat and smooth. 
Glue the pieces on top of one another and add tiny foam

dots between the large and small layers to make the colors stand out.

For the front of the card you will cut a piece of red dot 4x 3 ⅜", 
blue starprint 4 x 2 ⅞",  and white print 4 x 2". Layer these on each 
other ½" from the bottom of the front of the card. Now you can add 
your star firework from the Puzzle Effect Cut Fold Tuck Die 
you made and add glitter as desired.  Tie a ribbon and glue to the top
 or put through the eyelet and tie.  Add the invitation words inside 
and you are all done....

I also created a napkin ring holder, cupcake pick and a cute 
little table decoration that you can put on your table to make 
your celebration that much more festive! You can add Spellbinders Stars, 
and other dies to make the pieces more elaborate and maybe printed pieces
from the papers like this Bo Bunny print shown below.
I also added glitter to make it more shiny.

The Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular! Begins on

 June 21st and will end on June 28th, 2012. It consists of 24 
individual prizes and one grand prize drawing. Enter the 
Sneak Peek: Spellbinders™ Summer Spectacular 
by visiting the participating blogs each day.

At the end of each blog post, click on the "Enter HERE" to open the 

entry form. You may only enter once from each blog each day.

Spellbinders™ will randomly draw one winner from each participating

 blog to receive that blog’s newly revealed dies. The Grand Prize Winner 

will be randomly drawn from the pool of entrants who sent entry forms 

from each and every participating blog during the 48 hours each

blog was open. For the full list of official rules please click RULES.

“This contest is now closed.”

ContestQuestions@Spellbinders.us

I hope you loved the projects I created to inspire you
 with the New Spellbinders™ Cut Fold Tuck Puzzle Effect die
and hope that you are filled with amazing ideas 
from the other talented designers on the hop so far…. 

You have 2 more designers today for lots more sneak peeks and

lots more inspiration so be sure and hop on over to their blogs 
and be sure and register to win lots of wonderful prizes!!

Your next stop is…

Latisha Yoast's Blog

and then on to Donna Salazar's Blog

If you just started today be sure and go back on the blog
for the original list and see what all the other amazing 
designers created out of their beautiful dies...

Have a wonderful day and don't forget to
leave me a comment too!  Love to hear from all of you :)

New Graphic 45

There are 2 New Collections that we just got in at

the store. One is called Ladies Diary and the other is

Happy Haunting. I have lots of ideas to make with these lines 

 to share but up today is a page I made using a friends photo

from their wedding.  It went perfect for this!

There were lots of pretty papers to mix so for

this page I cut lots of rectangles and layered them

over each other and added one of the pretty tags

to add journaling later. I had some prima flowers in my

stash that went well and added a pink pearl swirl

to fancy it up a bit.  This gives you a different idea

that wedding things don't have to be on the black

and white papers they have out there.  And who

couldn't resist using Graphic 45 on anything right?

Thanks so much for stopping in and be sure and 

stop by Spellbinders Summer Spectacular blog hop

to see all the New dies they have coming out this summer!!'

They are amazing and there are lots of fantastic ideas

to share with all of you .....

so have a great day and thanks for stopping in..

Hugs and Smiles,

Teresa

Spellbinders Blog Hop starts tomorrow

It's time again for lots of sneak peaks from our Spellbinders

world of amazing dies starting tomorrow!!  Whoo hooo!!

You can check it all out here..

We have 8 days of designers and New Dies to share with

all of you from June 21st through June 28

 so be sure and stop by the blog and see some

of the Amazing dies that are coming out this summer!!

Get your checkbooks ready ladies it's going to be great!!

Today I just want to share a quick and easy card

that I made creating my own flower with

Donna Salazar's Carnation Creation die.

I could make these all day long in lots of colors to

decorate everything and hopefully I can put up some

tutorials soon now that we have our CHA projects in!

I used some Teresa Collins papers for this

card and an old piece of vintage lace from

my collection.  The color was perfect and I think

it added just the right amount of texture to it.

Dies used for this are:

Carnation Creations

Foliage

Labels Twenty Two

Thanks so much for dropping by and my day

is on Monday the 25th so hope to see you then...

Hugs and Smiles,

Teresa

CSI Case File #23

I loved the colors of the New Case File CSI #23

  and I just finished my page before the last 

day... Yay!!  It was a really fun case to work on and
 for this case file I needed to use

these things on my layout....

Since it's always about the photos...
 I found the perfect photo of my friends husband and her daughter

 on a very special date they had together to do my page.
And it was just in time for father's day too.
The journaling is on a tag I slipped under the photo telling
about the fun they had... and I am going to get a cute frame 

and give this to them for a gift... they are just so very cute :)

the page is titled
"Cinderella date with my dad"

The colors on these Best Creation Princess papers went perfect

and I added lots of evidence and as much of the 

testimony that I could squeeze in and I really love

the way it came out !!!  And for all you Sketchabilites fans

this is the sketch from this week too.  Looks different

in the pinks instead of the Sea World papers doesn't it.

Sooooo fun... i love it!!

Hope you are all having a fantastic scrappy and

creative weekend and don't forget to do something

amazing for all the dads in your lives!!

Lots of Hugs,

Teresa

New Sketchabilites post up today....

We have a new post up again at the Sketchabilites

blog and it's super cute and you can do lots of different

kinds of pages with it.  I used the sketch to create this

page of my DD's recent trip to Sea World with some of

my favorite papers by Bo Bunny.  Love these colors!

Here is the sketch this time:

And here is my take on it:

I tried to keep to Karan's sketch but only used

one photo for my page.  All the blues and greens 

in this paper were just perfect for this picture. 

 There is lots of waves and tags and chipboard too.

Wish I would have gotten more of this one.....

I used circle letters from Authentique and chipboard

letters American crafts.  The chipboard was fun to

create a little bubbly sea plant scene with fishes

in the corner and I used the waves to continue on

with the pool at the bottom.  

It was a really fun page to do and it's going on the 

wall now to share with everyone who comes over!

Thanks so much for stopping in and seeing my 

new page today and I hope you all have the 

chance to stop in all the other DT's blogs and see

what great pages they have to share!

Hugs and Smiles,

Teresa

A fun trip to Durango Colorado

We got to take an amazing trip last week.  It was

fast and each day was filled with lots to see and

I have so many photos and fun memories from all

the places we got to stop. I am just going to share a

few with all of you today just to see all the amazing 

things we have in the US to see....

 This was my first view of Mesa Verde National Park

 and I was just speechless when I stuck my head over

the canyon walls.  800 years ago a tribe of indians made

their home in the side of this canyon 100s of feet from

the canyon floor and it was just incredible.  Our

guide was a native Navajo man and it was so

wonderful to hear the stories he had to tell us.

 There are quite a few of these villages in the side

of the rocks in Mesa Verde but this was my favorite.

 There was an artist in Four Corners who made

hand carved plates and pottery and used native dies

to color them.  They were gorgeous and each carving

was a symbol of something special.  I would have loved

to get one of each from her!!  She was also from a 

Navajo tribe and her father was the medicine man. 

I so traveling and meeting people from around the 

globe.  It is amazing how different each of us is :)

It's great that I got to be in 4 states in a matter

of just minutes!  Great things to buy there too!

 This was just a neat bunch of rocks on the Navajo

reservation.  Not much there but it sure is pretty.

 When we got to Durango Colorado we took the

train up to Silverton.  It was the most beautiful

trip and we saw so many pretty places along the way.

 This is one of the streets up in Silverton.  It gets

pretty cold in the winter and they said there is only

about 200 people there then.  Lots of people

came up on the trains and there was lots of shops

and things to eat, but I was mostly interested in

all the old buildings and museums.  It was awesome!

This is a part of the town that looked like when 

all the miners were there in the late 1800's.  Must

have been one rowdy town then....

 The engines they use are the original steam

locomotives and they still use coal and water

to power them.  We went 50 miles up and used

half the coal in the back of the engine and 2 

stops for water.  Soooo fun!!

When we got back to town we found they had

a museum that had lots and lots of the old train

things on display.. I love the old model T cars

and everyone was really nice there.

 This is one of the Old Hotels in Durango.  Inside

was just beautiful and all the furnishings and lights

and things were still there.  The town is lined up

on Main street with lots of old buildings and lots

of places to eat and things to do.  This town has 

so many outdoors things to do and I would love

to live here someday... 

 Our last stop and our favorite on our trip 

is to Zion National Park.  We went a different

way in coming from Colorado and went by

an old town that they used to film alot of

the old Westerns in.  It was really pretty and 

there were lots of people there this time

out hiking in the beautiful weather.

So that's it for today and thanks so much for

stopping in and seeing some of the wonderful

places we got to go...  

Teresa

Our Day at Sea World

  I am working on lots of projects that I can't show yet 

so I thought that I would share some of our recent trip

to Sea World in San Diego.  It was really fun and we hadn't

been in a while so they have changed alot of things and 

it is really, really nice!!

 They have an amazing polar bear enclosure where

they can walk right by you behind plexiglass.  They

are huge and yet they are really playful!  

  This was my favorite because it was like when

we go to Hawaii and swim out in the ocean.  There

were so many Sea turtles and it's such a cool thing

that they take such good care of them for all of us to see.

Here is Nicole in her Sea World Wet Suit.

I hope someday she will get to work there 

and train the animals and help with the

ones that get hurt.  She was so happy to

hang out with them!!  

 I am sharing this because Dolphins can splash really

really big too!  They were soaked!

 How awesome is this?

 This is the part that I love about scrapping.

It's the stories.  These cute seals are so loud

and so funny when it comes to eating.  They

barked and barked until someone threw them

a fish and then they were quiet for a minute and

then got really loud again!!  It was so funny!!

And this is just amazing because if

you think of how huge these animals are

and seeing that it can jump up and do flips?

And they did all kinds of other tricks for

the trainers and that was really cool too!

So that is it today but I have lots of ideas

to share and maybe lots of tutorials in 

the future...  just thinking ahead :)

Have a great day,

Teresa