Bella Blvd Birthday goodies

I finally got my things loaded on so today I can share

a few of the things I did for HNC with the

New Bella Blvd Birthday lines.  I can't say enough

amazing things about this paper!!  It's all wonderful!!!

The perfect tags, papers, little flags and prints to cut

apart are some of my favorite things.  And the colors

are just so pretty for both boys and girls. Just love it :)

So here is some of the girls projects first....

 One of the papers in the collection has these cute

little flowers all over it and I couldn't resist cutting them 

all up and creating a little ledge under the photos...

Aren't the colors just so pretty!  And you see the little 

Birthday girl little pearl pin on the top right too...

 I love these little clear purses that you can

get because they go together so easy and you

can put little gifts inside like jewelry or maybe

even a gift card to their favorite store!

 I love all the fun tags and stickers that you get

with the boys line.  It's really fun to cut them up and 

create fun pages for your books and there is lots

and lots of things to make cards with..

And last but not least my favorite card!  Normally big 

huge dots and me don't go well but I love

this card!  I used part of the border on the top

and the dots for the bottom and then cut out

the tag from the page and added a cute piece

of matching twine to the top!  

I even went back and got more papers for

my scrapbooks too!  So I hope you liked my new projects

and got a little inspired and I hope you all

 have a really wonderful weekend.

Hugs and Smiles....

Little Bits of my garden..

I was thinking that if I had to be a farmer how poor

and how hungry our family would be!!  Yikes.. we seemed

like we did ok this year and then the squirrels and birds 

kind of made everything disappear.  And now that

the heat of summer finally hit everything is way too hot to grow!

Oh well, live and learn and hopefully next year we

can tweek a few things and have a real victory garden! 

 These are our new pumpkin plants and we have a few

on the vines and hopefully will get a few more

so that we can decorate for fall :)  

This is my baby watermelon.. isn't it just so cute!

And I took this picture of my cheery tomatoes after the morning 

watering.  There is some really neat drips on the bottom of them

and they taste really good too!  Yum!!

That's all to share today... my uploader for my chip is not

behaving so I have to get a new one but I have some fun 

things I made from the new Bella Blvd hopefully tomorrow!

It's an awesome collection of papers and you can make some 

wonderful cards with it.. so be sure and mark it on your shopping list!

And ---just wanted to give a Big Shout Out to Kristen for 

making my blog more than just beautiful!! She is amazing too and

I really love the way that it came out... Thanks Kristen :)

Journal Monday 2

Today is my second in 6 posts of Mondays to share

some fun journals that I am creating.  This week I made

a fun tropical journal to take with me on my trip to Hawaii in

the future.  I am trying to use all the scraps and bits

of things I have bought so that I can put them to good

use and not just storage again.  And making these 

journals does exactly that. And.... it's really fun!

This beach themed journal is using papers

from LYB 2012 Summer Collection and lots of

flowers and chipboard pieces.  I basically start

by cutting pieces to cover the journal and glue

that all down well and then I take the chipboard and 

flowers that I made from the set and start laying them

 out like a puzzle on top of it.  When I get them where 

I want them I start gluing them down with glue dots 

and foam dots to make it pop up and look really fun 

and 3 dimensional. It's alot like making a collage.

Just grab lots of things and see what goes together 

that you really love and then the magic happens!

I had some rhinestones that matched with this

so I added them on the flowers and around the page.

On the edge of my book I tied lots of twine and a bit

of fuzzy yarn and added some cute little flowers.

And don't forget to add the year and/or the date so

that you can remember when all the fun happened!

Here is the glues that I like to use.  I thought this would

be good to share because some things stick and some don't

and I have tried them all with all the years I have been doing this.

I love Scor Tape, Scotch Quick Dry, Glue dots and 

Foam dots the best.  Another great product I just found is Xyron

Mega Runner the permanent one.  It's awesome and it's refillable.

So that's it for today, I hope you liked it and

be sure and check back next Monday for a fun 

School journal filled with fun pockets and such!  

Have a very wonderful day,  

Quick simple cards for Wednesday

Hi Everyone.. I hope your summer is going 

great and you all are getting lots of relaxing

time in.  We are all glued to the set every evening

watching all the Olympics at our house and dreaming

of going to London one day.  It is soooo beautiful there!

Not to mention the athlete's are pretty incredible too...

But anyway--- today's cards are super simple because

you use the tags made by MME for their papers.

I already had a 6x6 in my stash for these and I picked

up some of the tags while out shopping last week.

I really love the colors of this card

and to make it I just glued a few layers of paper

to a white A2 card and added this smile tag with
foam dots. The ribbon is some new Bias Ribbons that

I ordered from the Stamp Simply Ribbon 

Store online.  They have an amazing selection

and lots and lots of variety too.  Be sure and

check it out, you will be hooked and 

the owner Sharon Johnson is so very sweet!!  

My second card is parts of lots of papers.

I cut out the tag on one that had all these cute

little mini tags and then layered other papers

under it.  The ribbons are pieces of yarn, bias and

ribbon I had in my stash so no extra cost there! 

And I get a fun card to send someone special :)

Last card for the day today is using one of MME tags

that says Thanks.  I used my favorite Spellbinders

Labels Eighteen S4-310 to create a backround for the 

letters.  I added some old Jessica McClintock lace

from my stash and it's all done.  So easy and quick

and I had them all done in an evening..  

Thanks for stopping over today!!

Hugs and Smiles,

Teresa

Journal Mondays

Wow its Monday already and I thought that I would

post something new that I did yesterday with some

fun papers I got from Kaisercraft Check in Collection.

Since my kids are older and I finally get to travel more I 

thought I would create a bunch of different journals so that

I had a place to record my memories and put bits of tickets

and things I collect along the way.  You see I am so guilty

of not scrapping them right away so having these journals

helps me to get all the info right when I am behind. And

it's a great thing for kids and then you get their version of

the story when they do things and go places too!!

So here is my first one for this Monday....

For all my journals I used an inexpensive Composition

book and I will be doing lots of fun things to change

up the insides of them each Monday.  But today --I 

am sharing this one I did by cutting the different pieces 

of the Travel papers and using a little bit of MME On

the Bright Side to mix in with it. Quick Tip: Cutting the 

papers on their edges will give it more interest instead of

just flat rectangles and to age it a little-- i used a

Making Memories distress tool around all of them.

With all the amazing dies from Spellbinders released

 I always seem to find something fun to add to my projects

 and for this I used Donna Salazar's New Snapshot Photo dies 

and made a cute little camera and a photo edge for the side.

Since Spellbinders dies emboss you can sand the

edges and the designs pop out like on the camera!

It's a really cool thing and is great for vintage projects.

My favorite adhesive for these books is Scor Tape,

Scotch Quick Dry Adhesive, Scrapbook Adhesives

EZ Runner and some sticky glue dots for the flowers.

These work really good and will hold up nicely with wear

and tear on your books through time.  And if you want to 

seal it you can use Beacon's Fast Finish Decoupage.  It's 

thinner and doesn't bubble so bad. You gotta love that!

So that's it for today and hope you go out and grab

a stack of these composition books and join me on 

Mondays to make some fun Journals for yourself and

maybe a friend or two :)

I will have dimensions available on the next ones but

this was one of those creative things that I decided to

do at the last minute so I apologize!  Have a fantastic

day and lots of smiles and hugs to you!

Teresa

Oh how I love Paris

I went to my favorite scrapbook store yesterday

and picked up a few new things to play with

and one of them was the new Paris papers

by Carte Bella..  And are they ever adorable!!  

My excitement is because it goes with the 

Spellbinders New French Frills dies that were

just released at CHA. There is an Eiffel tower

and lots and lots of other cute little lacy bits to use.

I have lots of ideas for this but today I am just 

going to share a few cards I did last night.

 So... my first card is using the Spellbinders

New Decorative Labels Eight that was

just released.  I used it for a frame behind the 

sticker and added a flag behind it and then

popped it up on a pink printed Lacey Ovals die.

Don't you just love the yummy pink colors and
 how cute those little Parisian poodles are!  Me too!!

I added some tiny seed pearls around the saying

and wha la.... it's all done!  

My next card is using the Eiffel Tower die in the

 die set and a couple of the stickers from the Paris set.

I used a Spellbinders Edgeabilities to cut the

borders on the top and bottom and then used

a little piece of the border print in the 6x6 pad

to create the center.  It's easy to make by layering lots

of the cute pieces in the set and I finished it with a

cute bow and some rhinestones to match.

Love, Love, Love these papers and WTG

Samantha for creating all these gorgeous products

for us to create with!! It's beautiful and really fun!

That's all for today but be sure and check back

to see a few more fun things I am doing with

my New Spellbinders dies and lots of New

products from CHA!  Have a great weekend!

Hugs and Smiles,

Teresa