New things to share

 This is my photo from day 7 of my class and since

everyone was doing these serene photos of snow-

I thought I would take this picture of the "quiet beauty"

of my snow scene in my house.  Since we don't have

much snow in sunny California besides up in the mountains,

 I thought I would snap this photo to remember my snow.

The lighting made the colors look old fashioned

and I really like it :)  I decided I am going to redo

an old recipe box I have and keep all my photos 

that I take each day and some journaling. I thought

my moma razi paper would be great but now I just

have to find it.... hmmmm ...could take awhile..... 

Anyway, taking this class has

really inspired me to think different about what i 

see in my world and should make for some pretty

fun pages and projects this year.... 

This is a page i just did with the New Crate Paper 

Valentines.  I have a cousin that shared some

photos of her recent wedding and thought it was

so awesome and had to scrap some pages of it.

The chipboard pieces are great for this line, there

is so much variety and great flowers.

I am going to put them all to good use in lots

of cards and pages for this year...

These Valentine papers are from TPC Studio and are 

super cute for more simple and monochromatic

pages.  I am creating some wall art to decorate the

house and thought this was perfect to do of my DH and I. 

I went out and got a few new things from Echo Park

and My Minds Eye today to work on so I will share those 

later this week.  Love all this Valentines paper----

and I am definitely going to lose some sleep creating

with the new things I got.

Glad you stopped by..

Hugs, 

Teresa

  

Fabulous News today!!!

Yep, I made it through one more round of the Spellbinders DT

Call and my name is here with some very, very, very talented

ladies. I am so very happy and doing my Petra Happy Dance

right now and probably for the next 2 weeks!!!!  Yay!!!

You can go to the link here to see the rest of the names...

Our next assignment is due soon the first
part of Feb..... Wish me luck everyone!!

It's the Season for Love :)

I think my favorite time of year is probably Valentines.

You can never have enough hearts, or tell people that you 

love and adore them enough and it has the best colors

of any season out there... I love it :)  

We are getting in lots of products so I am madly creating

lots of fun cards and books and momentos to give to

people. I think my favorite so far this season is Crate Papers
 New Valentine Collection.  I made some cards to show today 

along with a few favorites from Doodlebug.

Sometimes the colors work so great together it is easy

to put together lots of things pretty quick.

And... it helps if you love what you do....

So first I want to share 4 cards with Crate Paper Valentines. 

Of course I had to use some of my Spellbinders Dies

on a few( love them too) and I am quit happy with the results...

(This sketch from this card is from Mojo Monday)

I have so much fun creating with the 6x6 pads because
it is quick and easy and you have lots and lots of
prints to chose from and they don't have to all be
super elaborate.  I used lots of stickers and rub-ons
for the Sentiments to save time so that is another option
for you to try too. 

Next I made lots of cards and tags with the cutest

Valentine collection from Doodlebug.  There is the

cutest cupcakes, strawberries, layer cakes and dots

to work with and the tags and stickers made it

super fun to just keep creating until I ran out of paper.

By the end of the pad I had lots of tiny pieces so
I created this card with lots of ribbon looking pieces
hanging from an edged cut piece of paper.  This is
my favorite and yep it has lots of things going on
but I really like it and I am going to have to find
someone special to send it to this year!!

Doodle bug has packages of bakers twine with
lots of coordinating shades so if you find some be
sure and load up on this product because it is fun
and really inexpensive to use on things...

All the Doodlebug cards are something that you can
create quick with just the pad and tags and bits of ribbons
that you have in your stash.  In an afternoon you can
have a dozen cards or more to send out or keep in
your box to send at a later date... and the cards don't
always have to be Valentine themed either. You
can do them for friends or thinking of you or maybe
even a Special Thank you to someone.

I hope you LOVE these as much as I do and inspired
you to create a few for you this weekend!

Have a wonderful day,

Teresa

Basic Grey Sketch for January

I was out looking at all the fun things on the web and

came across another fun sketch from Basic Grey this

month and got a few sheets out of my BG stash and

made up this fun page to put in a frame for my

daughter to give her best friend for a going away 

gift this weekend.  I really love the border on it!!

The papers are from the Lemonade and Bittersweet collections

and I used my Spellbinders dies to create the heart border,

frame and heart circle for the backround.  I used the 

Daisy Heads Shapeabilities, Classic Scalloped Hearts,

Carnation Creations, Labels Eight and my Heart Circles dies...

I love to mix and match the dies and love the way

you can use them on pages too. Very fun :)

The brads in the middle of the flowers are actually

push pins from Office Max that I cut off the back of and glued
them down onto the middle of the flowers.  For the outside edge

I used a distress tool and then inked it with chalk ink

in chestnut roan just to make it look a little more vintage.

Hope you like my new page and thanks

for stopping by today.  I also have some Great knews
to share... I got a card published in Scrapstreet Magazine
and am I ever excited! I used my Spellbinders dies and
lots of MME papers and it's probably my favorite card
that I have done so I was really glad they liked it too!
I have lots of Doodlebug and Crate paper cards and tags
 to share on Sat.. so be

sure and stop by for some fun ideas!

Lots of Hugs,

Teresa

New Photo for my class

 For this photo we were asked to take

a picture of something soul searching or

touching with the thought that anything

is possible.. So what came to mind is

this simple cross that I got in an abbey in

Bologna Italy.  The church below is over

700 years old and it like the cross is

not fancy or ornate but simply stands

for a belief in God and a simple place to

worship with others who believe.

I took the photo of the cross on a simple piece
 of wood by the light of the window in the 

mid afternoon sun with no flash. I 

like the shadows and the simple way

the metal stands out but not in a 

glistening kind of way.

This old church was a place that totally took

my breath away.  Sometimes unexpected

things you find in your walk through life

leave with you with the deepest impression.

This is one of mine :)

Thanks for stopping by,

Teresa

New Photo Class

As the New Year begins- I  have decided to try and step out

of my comfort zone a little more and try some new things ..

like new classes, yoga, trying new recipes, 

getting more into the messy kind of art again and taking

lots of trips to see our world...

My first this year is starting a photo class on Big Picture.

Everyday we are given an assignment to go out and

see the world with our camera's in a different way. 

I hope that at the end I will take pictures a little better

and in a more interesting way and see not just the big

picture of life but all the tiny little things inside it too...

For this assignment we were supposed to go outside 

and see something that made us think of a breath of fresh air....

and my camelia bush is blooming and the sun was just setting for the day

 so i moved in close and tried to capture

 the delicate beauty of all the petals of this flower and all

the tiny veins of the leaves.  Nature is amazing isn't it :)

Lots of hugs,

Teresa