Crafty Secrets Halloween card up today

I had some time this morning before i went off to the castle and whipped up this cute

 Halloween card using some of my favorite papers tags from Crafty Secrets. I really

loved the cute images on the CS Halloween Vintage cuts and all the papers went great!! 

They have so many cute things that you can use to decorate and do all those scrapbook

pages of your holiday afterwards too.  You can find them here so take a peek.....

So-- for the papers you will have to print some from the Halloween CD and the 

Topography CD.  I matted all the layers and popped them up with 3D Foam dots 

so that it would make each layer stand out more.  And i also chalked all the layers

with Gingerbread chalk ink to give it a more rustic feel.  The flowers i had in my

stash of things and i mixed lots of styles and colors to go with the colors in the picture. 

It's definitely not a mailed card but i am sure i can find someone to give it to with

some sweet holiday treats this year.  I found an wonderful recipe for pumpkin 

cheesecakes in a jar so I guess i better get everything and make up a batch.

Thanks so much for stopping over and have a wonderful day!

Halloween Potions from Crafty Secrets

Hi Everyone... it's me again with a fun off the page post that i did to 

make up a few Halloween potion bottles to decorate the house this year.

In the Halloween CD #4 from Crafty Secrets there are some cute labels

that you can print out and i thought how fun to make them

up and put them on bottles.

So i went down to Hobby Lobby and bought a few and set to work.  The labels

i printed on ivory card stock and then fussy cut them out and chalked them.

Then i cut a Spellbinders label die in black and glued on the word labels.  Each

of them has a band going around the bottle so that i could attach them and to 

finish them i added ribbons, black eyelash yarn and some fun spider charms

that i had in my stash.  This was alot of fun and fit in well with the other things

i have to decorate this year.

Thanks so much for stopping over for a little spooky inspiration!

Crafty Secrets Challenge and Blog Hop for October

Welcome to the October Crafty Secrets Linky Challenge and Blog Hop.  Our theme this month
is Give Thanks with a Grateful Heart.  The design team was challenged to create a
Thanksgiving themed project or a project that expresses thankfullness and gratitude.  We
hope that you will join us for the hop, and then visit the Crafty Secrets Blog where you
can find a free download and details for entering the challenge yourself.

I have been doing lots of sorting in my craft room lately and found

this huge jar from IKEA that i had bought and got this great idea to do

a Thankful jar for Thanksgiving and before.  I have had this on my to do list

for a long time and finally got one done... i am so happy.

So for my jar i created a pretty band around the center using leaf papers from

 the Halloween #4 CD and lots of ribbons from Really Reasonable Ribbons.

The little Blessed and Grateful tags are from the CS and i cut them

apart and tucked them in the ribbons on the front.  On the top i used tiny

adhesive block letters and wrote 40 days of Thanks and Praise.  And now

i just have to make 40 slips of paper to write on and fill up my jar.  

Here is the order of the Design Team in case you want to hop along with us....

Crafty Secrets Blog

Kathy Clement

Ginny Nemchak

Teresa Horner

Darlene Pavlick

Sheila Rumney

Shantaie Fowler

Diane Hover

Michele Kovack

It's going to be a really good month... thanks so much for stopping

over and be sure and upload for our challenge this month too.
Teresa

Fun little Halloween Banner from CS

Happy Tuesday and thank you for taking the time to stop over.  I am getting in the mood

here for Halloween and fall since we finally changed seasons and i made up another

cute little banner to decorate the house.  

It's always hard to get a good photo so i did a few closeups too so you can

see all the cute papers and other goodies that i used for it.  I mixed lots of 

Halloween prints and colors to match the little pictures and lots of ribbons

to tie on the tulle that i laced it with.  I wanted to make something bright

and different and i really like the way this came out.

All of it was done with the Halloween CD #4 from Crafty Secrets and i used
a few dies to cut the papers to give it a little more pizazz!!  The cute little images
are from the CS Creative Scraps that i cut apart.  Then i added lots of cute ribbons
from Really Reasonable Ribbons new halloween set and that was it.  I hung it
it up by the door with lots of other fun goodies to be ready for trick or treaters.

Hope you have fun making something for your house too and thanks
so much for stopping by... have a wonderful day :)

Fun Crafty Secrets Halloween Set

I love the fall season with all the gorgeous colors and everything else that goes

along with it.  And since Halloween is just around the corner i decided to make

up a few of the fun little treat boxes and a wall hanging from the CS

Halloween CD #4 that you can print out yourself for family and friends.

So my first project to share is the cute little pumpkin girl door hanger

that i created.  It's just layered paper and ribbons but it's a fun little festive

piece of art i can add to my house to make it more festive.  All the papers

and the image was printed from the CD i added a little bit of orange and

green stickles to make it shine more.  

And this cute little house is already printed with all those cute little

images on it and all you have to do is scor it and cut it out.  It's super cute!

And this little treat box is the same... and it was so easy to do.  The best

part is you can print lots of them so that you can pass them out to everyone.

Crafty Secrets Halloween ideas

Hi Everyone and I am so happy that you dropped by today.  This month

for Crafty Secrets we get to start using some of the adorable images and

papers for Halloween and today i have a few things that i made with the

Creating with Vintage Halloween CD#4 and 

To start my projects i printed lots of the printed papers from the Halloween

CD in orange, greens and purples.  For the Fortune telling bookmark i used

one of the images from the "Halloween Images and Journal notes". It was super

easy to make just by matting the image and adding pretty ribbons to it.  

And for my card i used the papers and added the Halloween Greetings image

 from the Creative Scraps Halloween page.  "Vintage Cuts Halloween" is also

a fun one to use for cards and things... there is lots of cute images on both. I also

used Tsukineko Chalk ink in black to make the edges stand out more.  This is

a quick and easy idea so that you don't have to mat them.

And lastly this cute little treat box is a printable that you just print out

as many as you want, score them and fill them with goodies to give.

It was super easy and i even cut a few scraps to line the inside with.

Thanks so much for stopping over and hope you have an

amazing weekend.  It's off to the castle for me today to meet princess

so it should be a really fun day!!  Take care... Teresa

Crafty Secrets Blog Hop for September

Hi Everyone and thanks so much for stopping over today to see what

is new with Crafty Secrets this month.  Our theme is "Too Cute to Spook" and

we have lots of fun projects to decorate and celebrate Halloween to inspire you.

For my pocket card today i used a really fun paper doll image from the
Creating with Vintage CD #4.  It has so many cute papers and tags and
other fun goodies in it to print out. I used 4 of the printed papers for the outside
and to create the inside pocket.  And i printed up a page of the Halloween
bingo cards so i could use this cute one for my sentiment.  The die i cut
out of printed orange dot paper from the Cd and layered them on the front.
And i finished it with the cutest little paper doll witch i have ever seen.

The cute little image has 2 other outfits on the page that you can print
 and i cut both of them out and put them in the pocket with a gift card
 for ice cream.  The ribbons area both from Really Reasonable Ribbon.com.

Be sure and check out the website for more photos and ideas with this
fun CD and if you are just starting the hop be sure and go to all the
other girls to see what they created for you too.

Have a really wonderful holiday... Teresa


Kathy Clement, DT Leader : http://www.kathybydesign.com 

Darlene Pavlick: http://darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/ 

Diane Hover: http://www.nelliesnest.blogspot.com

Ginny Nemchak: https://pollyspaper. wordpress.com/ 

Melody Clement: http://papermelodys.wordpress.com/ 

Michele Kovack: http://chelemom.blogspot.com/ 

Sheila Rumney: http://www.sheilarumney.com/
Teresa Horner: http://victorianpaperqueen.blogspot.com/

A Sewers tribute to Grandma

Grandmas are always special to the members of their families and when we lose them

so many pictures and stories come out and are shared with family and we remember

all the good times with them.  My husbands grandmother was a gem.  She was so sweet

in everything she did in her life and i am so very sad that she is in heaven now
 but she lived 100 amazing years and had so much to give and share
with us so i am sharing one of many pages that i did of her through the years.

I am going to have to play with the colors on the photos more, these are the ones

that they had up on display but i wanted to share the cute papers that they had to use.

I was lucky enough to get her button box, thimble and measuring tape and for 

that i am so thankful because like all of us she was a crafter and i love what she

made for us all through the years.  She was the best and had such a good heart.

And since there were so many cute things to print i did alot of

the patterns and prints in the "Sew Decorative CD"  The colors were

so pretty and bright and cheerful and they all came out great when i

printed them up.  I used the printed ruler paper for the card above and

mixed it with one of the digital images and aqua paper that matched.

And just for a bit of nostalgia i cut them with a few of my favorite

Victorian dies that they just released this year from Spellbinders.

And for the bag above i have a friend who sews alot like me and we

actually met working at Leah's fabric gallery.  So i thought this would

be fun to make up so i can give her a fun gift card for the quilt store

and maybe some candies.  I really love the colors on this one.....

And this card is a little mixture of alot of things.  I tend to keep all the

bits and pieces of papers so i can use them again and this cute little 

postcard that i printed out went great with papers printed off of the 

"Topography CD".  And i didn't want to lose that pretty rose so i

punched a couple of holes across the card and tied the ribbon on the

side so that i can keep all that gorgeous postcard showing.  All the 

ribbons i used are from "Really Reasonable Ribbon.com".

And lastly .... i know i have lots to share from "Crafty Secrets" today, I 

have a cute little card that i made from the same postcard sheet above 

but i thought i would fussy cut the design out instead and mat it with

a pretty die cut and add some ribbons.  The pink printed paper is also 

the same as the sewing card but a different color and it works so good

on this card.  For the sentiment i used some letters from my stash and

you could also use a clear adhesive sentiment in there too if you want.

Just a few fun ideas for you today.  But head on over to the Crafty Secrets 

website and see what's new for downloads this month and have fun

creating your own cards and gifts to give too.

Have a wonderful and crafty day....Teresa

Crafty Secrets Mom Card

It's been a busy week trying to catch up with projects and i think i

am doing pretty good this month.  So today i made a quick card with one

of the Creative Scraps by Crafty Secrets called "Birds and Blossoms".

This set has 2 sides filled with cute photos of little birds,

flowers, little girls and sentiments.  And i thought with the colors

of paper that i printed from my "Creating Vintage Patterns CD" 

it would go perfect.  I layered two of the patterns with cardstock

and cut a few layers of ivory to match the image with a Spellbinders

die.  Then i just added some seam binding ribbon from RRR in

ivory and this pretty green to match and a flower and it was all done.

There is so many pretty images in the set i will have to make

up a couple more of them.  Here is a photo of the set below.

Thanks so much for stopping over and be sure and go check

out some of the great sale items on the website this week.

Have a wonderful weekend... Teresa

Crafty Secrets Garden Journal to share

I had alot of fun making up this journal purse for my upcoming gardening

projects this fall.  I decided to really have a planned idea for it and wanted

to make something to put cards in for planting ideas and notes and also

for maybe putting in a few seeds and other stuff that i needed to save.

So to start my journal i picked lots of papers from the Vintage Patterns CD and lots of flower
and seed pictures from the CS Summertime Images and Journal Notes.  I also
used the Creative Scraps sheet DP-05 814 and some Heartwarming Vintage Stickers
for it.  And lots of other things i had in my stash like ribbon from RRR, envelopes
and cardstock to back the flower pictures with.  And of course good white paper
to print all the papers on.

The purse chipboard book is one from Pinecone Press.  They have lots
of fun base books so this accordian style was purfect for my pocket book
idea with all the envelopes to put fun gardening ideas in.

For the front i added lots of flowers from my RRR Stash and ribbons
too and even a few leaf cuts from a Spellbinders die i have.

On each of the pages I used those pretty floral cards and matted them.  I added
ribbons and doilies that i cut from kraft paper to match. And of course i inked
up the edges with a bit of brown ink.  I added strips of the papers that i printed
on each of them and cut them with a fancy border punch.

The flower cards are all just so pretty... i had to use them all.

Each page has a pocket for other goodies, flower tags and places to write ideas
of new flowers that i might need to get to the next season to fill in.  I have
lots to get in it since i found a new place for seeds online so maybe with lots
of rain and good weather this year my garden will really be nice.

Thanks so much for stopping over and hope you have a wonderful day!

Teresa

Crafty Secrets Blog Hop

It's a beautiful Monday and time for another fun Blog Hop with all of us on
the Crafty Secrets Team.  Today we are all stepping out and doing some fun 

Mixed Media projects so you will have to stop on over to all the girls 

blogs and see all the magical things that they did today.

I really had alot of fun making this beach bag for my money and small items
that i haven when i go to the beach.  I used the "Cotton Scraps Summer Homespun" 
and then found this cute little zipper bag made from Canvas from my local craft
store and it was super cheap.  So i cut out a few things and got some Fabri-Tac and
set to work.  For this project you are going to need a stencil, some paints to match,
glitter, cotton lace and maybe a sewing machine to zig zag around the pieces too.

So as you can see below the first thing i did was to stencil on my circles
with the aqua and green paints using a stipple brush.  This brush is a flat
kind of stiffer brush and makes it so much easier to keep the paint inside
of the lines.  Be sure you get some of the paint off so that it's a bit dryer
on a paper towel before you stencil and most important.... try it on a scrap
piece of fabric first to see how you like it before you work on your good one.

And after i got all the paint on where i wanted it i sprinkled a little glitter into the
paint to make it glisten like the sand does when the sun sets on a sunny day at
the beach where i live.  And then i went ahead and put Fabri-tac on the back of the
pieces and glued them where i wanted them to go.  I think i will go back and do
a quick stitch around all of them just in case but this glue really works good.

And that is all there is too it.  The Cotton Scraps come in all kinds of styles
that you can see here.... and they are so quick and easy to use.

Be sure and follow all the other links to see what everyone else is sharing
today and hope you get some and try this for yourself...

Kathy Clement, Team Leader:   http://www.kathybydesign.com

Darlene Pavlick: http://darscraftycreations.blogspot.com/

Diane Hover: http://nelliesnest.blogspot.com/

Elizabeth Lincoln: http://paperpasstimes.blogspot.com/

Ginny Nemchak:  https://pollyspaper.wordpress.com/

Melody Clement:  https://papermelodys.wordpress.com/

Michele Kovack:  http://chelemom.blogspot.com/search/label/crafty%20secrets

Shantaie Fowler: http://www.inkingpink.com/

Sheila Rumney:  http://www.sheilarumney.com/search/label/Crafty%20Secrets

Teresa Horner: http:// victorianpaperqueen.blogspot.com/

Happy Monday...Teresa

Lovin the RV Life...

I think its so fun to make something special for someone and when you find

that perfect paper or picture to do it, the whole thing turns out wonderful.  I 

found a really cute RV photo in the Summertime Vintage Booklet.  I loved that

adorable couple with the vintage RV and i new i had to make a cute

decoration for a friends remodel project. 

For my project i just used the top photos in the journal booklet

of the Guide to paridise and the RV photo.  I mixed them with some

papers that i printed from the Vintage Patterns CD and cut the edges

with a border punch i had in my stash.  The doilies are from Spellbinders

and the flowers and ribbon are from Really Reasonable Ribbon.com.

And the chipboard heart you can see here with lots of other fun things

that you can use to make pretty home decor for your house too.  I traced the

heart on kraft paper and cut that out and then sanded the edges of the heart

and then inked all around it.  I think it makes the photos pop really nice!

That's all for today and thanks for stopping over.  If you ever have

a question about something be sure and leave me a comment and i 

would be happy to try and answer it for you... Have a great day!

It's the little things...

Hi everyone and happy Monday to all of you.  It's been a fun weekend for me both

at Disneyland celebrating the 60th Anniversary with everyone and enjoying all the

rain we have had the last 2 days.  We still need more but all the plants are happy again

so that is good.  Lots of veggies getting ripe on the vines!!  Yay for that :)

And it's time again to share another card i did with new papers that i printed from

Crafty Secrets.  This time i used the Creating with Vintage Patterns CD and one of

the bingo cards.  I wanted to use brighter colors for this one to match the

image that i printed and i really like the way it came out.

I made this card for a special neighbor that lives by my father in law

back in Indiana.  She is the sweetest lady and so thoughtful and kind.

And she has the most amazing garden you have ever seen so I think

she will like it.  I used Aqua, salmon and pink card stock for the base

and die cut the fence, lattice and circle from Spellbinders dies.  

The bingo card is also printed from the CD from Crafty Secrets.

Here is a closeup so that you can see the image better.

The colors and the print are so pretty and if you have ever grown hollyhocks

in your garden-you will know why i like it so much.  They are just so pretty.

Well that's all for today and thank you for stopping by...

Teresa

It's time for the Really Reasonable Ribbon Blog Hop....

Hi all you ribbon lovers out there...it's time for another fun hop for July with

all of our designers on the RRR Crew.  Today we have lots of fun ideas to share

and i hope that all of you will get a little inspired and make something fun.

So if you started at the beginning on RRR Blog hop--- you should

be arriving from Karen's blog here....

And my project that i am sharing is a piano notebook that you can use

as a journal or whatever else you might need to jot down to keep.

I love this months ribbons because they pretty much go with everything.

I used them to tie on the side for bookmarks.. super easy...

And i had enough paper to make a quick card too.  I use the sheer black
ribbon to make up a bow and added a pretty rhinestone in the center.
The paper comes with the border on it and i trimmed the bottom to give
it a little more pizazz.  For the sentiment i stamped it in black and
cut it out with a Spellbinders oval.  It was super easy and quick!

Thanks so much for stopping over and it's time to hop on over to
Jenn's Blog and see what she has to share this month....

Happy Crafting everyone :)

Our New Crafty Secrets Challenge is up today

Today we have a fun challenge on our blog for you with a Summer Theme to it.
Getting the chance to take a quick vacation or travel to one of my bucket list
destinations is always top priority with me.  And having my book ready to fill
with lots of photos, tags and all the goodies i pick up on the way is the best.  Today
 i have a pocket book that i started with a cute cover of these two adorable
images on the beach. There are lots more on the 4 pages that come with it so i
will use lots of those for the inside pages to share later.

For the images i used the C/S Travel page and cut them out and distressed them
with a little gingerbread ink from Tsukineko.  The papers i printed off of the
 Creating with Vintage Patterns CD  in blue and orange and that pretty brown
printed paper.  And i added a pocket and tags, flowers and some twine for fun.
 It was lots of bits of things that i had in my stash but since i get to print my
 own papers it was fun to see it all come together so well.  The inside pages
i will share with you next week... i just have a few more things i want to add to them...

Thanks so much for stopping over and be sure and check out the Crafty Secrets
website for more fun digital images to print for all your projects too.  And don't
forget to join the challenge with us... we would love to see what you make too.

Have a great day... Teresa

Crafty Secrets Weekly to do list

Hi Everyone and happy Monday to all of you.  It's that time again to post up

another fun project that i made from Craft Secrets Digital Designs.

  Today i used a cute polka dotted clipboard that i found at Home Goods for $5 

and i added some super cute backround papers and printed these adorable cards to 

add photos or found items that i couldn't live with out.  I have alot of ideas for it

 but couldn't decide.  But i really love the papers for it.  The ribbons are from RRR online.

You can check out all the CD's available here and there is so many fun 

things on each of them to print...even digi stamps.  Thanks for dropping by and

hope to see you again soon.... Hugs and Smiles--Teresa

Crafty Secrets Baby Plaque

Hi Crafty peeps it's another gorgeous Monday here in California and it's time 

to share another fun project this week using the Crafty Secrets Digital CD's.

If you didn't know already Crafty Secrets also carries chipboard products

to buy too and lots of things that are already to cut and out and create with.

Today i used one of the chipboard shapes along with papers from the

Typography CD #3.  The sentiment is from the Words from the Heart- 

Celebrations of Joy Quotes and Expressions book.  All i had to do was

fussy cut it out and add some matching ink to the center and sides of it.

The flowers are a mixture of things that i had in my box of goodies

and luckily i found enough that looked good to really make it fun.  And then

i punched 2 holes in the sides and added a pretty piece of seam binding

ribbon to hang it up with.  I hope you like it and be sure and check out

all the other amazing and fun products on the website here......

Crafty Secrets Spring Cards

I have been busy again printing up some gorgeous papers and tags with the Crafty 

Secrets Digital Topography CD #3 and wanted to share them with you all today.
As always it was so much fun picking all the papers and images that i wanted
and printing how many sheets that i need for each and not going to a store.  I really
love the freedom of this and as you can see the papers are really pretty.

First i started with a fun digital print that had lots of angels and flowers

on it from the Creative Scraps Little Blessings.  And the mini vintage

DPCS 818 and 814.  I also printed out the light blue birds papers, the tan

print and the light pink print in the CD to match the images.  And then

i had lots of fun mixing and matching dies and ribbons to create my cards.

I really love the pretty patterns on this one.. it's super sweet and would be

great to send to anyone just to let them know you are thinking of them.

and for this one i used the border print and cut it so that it fit's

on both the front and the back.  It's a smaller card but utilizing the border

made it super quick and i only had to add a simple die to give it more

pizazz.  The brown ribbon and charm were from my stash.

And this one is my favorite.  I love how amazing all these papers print

up and the colors are just so pretty.  You are going to love them.  I have

a really old HP printer which shows you don't have to be so high tech.

This card is made with the same CD files and i used 3 Spellbinders

dies for it.  The Floral Ribbon Threader Card Creator for the blue, 

Les Papillions Two for the ivory and Stately Circles for the ivory 

one behind the Angels.  And just to mix it up a bit i just tied 

the bottom with twill to give it a light and airy look.

All the ribbons you can get on Really Reasonable Ribbon so that 

makes it really easy to do too.  

Thank you for stopping over today and hope you stop by again soon.

Teresa

Pretty spring flowers

It's finally Friday and the end of a long and busy week for me.  I had

lots of fun at work this week and met alot of amazing people as always

and it put me in great spirits so my crafty mojo was really good too.

Today i have one of many projects to share this month from Crafty

Secrets and i am really having lots of fun printing my own things with

their digital files.  It is so nice to be able to print another if you mess

up or if you just need a bit more for a brilliant idea that you come

up with in the middle of the night.

I made this pretty lilac flower card to send to my mother in law

because she really loves these pretty flowers and so do I.  I printed

the papers from both the Vintage patterns CD and the Vintage Topography 

CD #3.  Each of the layers is a subtle print that is from the layer

on the very bottom of the card.  The die is from Spellbinders

and is called Grate Effect.  I cut and embosssed it in ivory so that it looked

like a pretty trellis with the flowers in the front.  And to finish it

i added pretty satin ribbons in pink and lavender to match it.

And i also did a second card with one of the other flowers on

the sheet that i printed out.  This one is a pretty sunflower and i 

went a totally different way by using aqua's and tans to go with it.

I love these colors together and it really sets off the adorable little bird
and the flower in the picture.  And the pretty bias ribbons from RRR
are perfect with it too.  I think this one will go over to my grandma this
week with a long letter to say hi and catch up with things.

Have a wonderful day and thanks for stopping by!!