Lady Antebellum Concert

I got to have a mom and daughter night out to see

one of my favorite bands Lady Antebellum and it was

a blast!!!  They had Darius Rucker headline before

them and also added Thompson Square too!  Yay!!

This was the coolest picture because they asked that

everyone shine their cellphones while they sang..

couldn't help myself but i wish that I could have 

had my telephoto lense so that I could have 

taken better pictures!!  A-mazing.....

They are such an awesome band and even had the

other 2 acts come back and sing with them... It was

so fun and just a wonderful night with my DD.

My seats were great this time and I think I spoiled 

my daughter.... No balcony seats for her anymore :)

Darius Rucker even sang a few songs from

his time with Hootie and the Blowfish!! Very nice :) 

sooooo........

After so much fun I need to settle down and start 

creating a few things so I better go but have a great 

day and happy creating to all of you!

Hugs,  Teresa

Home from Arizona

Words cannot express the fun and exciting time i had in 

Arizona with all the other ladies from the Spellbinders 2012 Team.

Everyone was just giddy with excitement and the time just

flew by and we all meshed so great together!  A-mazing is

what I always seem to say these days but this was 

with a Capital A.  I am working on lots of new things and will 

post soon with all my new dies (yippeeeee)  but until then

 thanks for dropping by and seeing what's new!

Can't wait for card club this week... we should be having a fabulous

time in the coming months ahead :)

Hugs, Teresa

Doodlebug Baby

I am heading out today to sunny Arizona

for a weekend of creating with some

very talented ladies which I will share 

with you next week but before I go I wanted

to post a few new things I did....

We just got in the new Doodlebug baby papers

 and I made up a few samples to get 

everyone inspired like it did for me.  I love

these cute little characters on this paper and they

have lots of tiny prints to mix in with it.  It was

so pretty and cute I am going to have to get a bunch

for me to make as future gifts....so love this line :)

 Love this little monkey girl!

Thanks so much for stopping by and don't forget to

leave a comment.  I love to hear what you think :)

Hugs,  Teresa

New Spring Cards...

I always feel so inspired when I get a few new sheets

of paper and a stamp or 2 so today I want to share

a few cards that I did with a new Hero Arts 

stamp, a Prima stamp, a Technique Tuesday stamp

and a few Spellbinders dies from my stash. 

 I kind of never know how they

are going to evolve but each one turned out pretty

different and it was really fun making them :)

I buy alot of the 6x6 pads because the prints are so 

tiny and you get lots of pieces for just a little bit of money!

I layered 3 different Spellbinders dies for this card.

Grommet Tags S4-322, Scalloped Circles S4-124

and Holly Motifs S5-057 and embossed all of them.

The butterflies I cut out from one of the papers and 

stacked them in a line and added tiny black rhinestones

to their centers to make them pop!  It's busy but 

in person it is really pretty with all the colors in it :)

 This is another card I did with a Spellbinders 

Label 16 die (S4-301) And also Fancy Tags 2...

 I used one of the Cardabilities sketches this week

to try it out and it worked really great with my

dies. I really like the colors in this line from 

Bo Bunny and of course the butterflies too!

 This is a stamp that caught my eye from Prima

and it was harder than I thought to get a good print.

You have to be really careful and not push to hard 

or ink too much otherwise it turns out really black.

But after a page of trys I got one I liked and used

some pale pink and green Copic markers to color

the flowers in her hair and the ones she is holding.

I used my Spellbinders Fleurs De Lis Rectangles

S4-317 in 2 sizes.  One for the stamp to frame it

and another one in light pink too.  It came out really

old fashioned and I haven't put a saying in it yet 

but will when it's time to send it to someone..

My last card for today is one from Technique Tuesday.

They have these really cute eye chart stamps and i thought

this would be fun to make up in the New Teresa Collins

papers out.  I embossed this in black too so that it would

be really black like the papers and added a big bow

on the side out of bias ribbon..
  So that is all for today and I hope you have

a great day and create something fun for someone 

special that you love!!

Hugs,  Teresa

Don't forget to leave a comment, I love
to know how you think :)

Exciting News

I have some very exciting news to share that I made it

on the Sketchabilities Design Team for the next term!!  Yay!!

They have some really fun and amazing sketches 

for all of you to try and you can click here to see

the rest of the New Design Team who made it!

Life is very, very happy for me these days!!

and

I have some new cards to share and will post those

later today but I had to share my good news!

Lots of Hugs,  Teresa

Disney Day

There is another cute sketch up at Sketchabilites this week

and I did this cute page of the girls day out at Disneyland.

My niece took them all out for the day at the happiest

place on earth and they had a blast and 

I got lots of pictures to scrap with my Disney stash.

I mixed lots of flowers and stickers for this and 

painted the white flowers to match.  The big mickey

head in the circle is from a piece of paper and the 

say cheese is an old EK sticker that I added white behind

so that it would pop out more.  The white flowers with

the rhinestones are from Petaloo.

Oh and great news from Sketchabilites... 

I got the sketch of the week last time and I won

the prize for the random pick #16..  I was sooo

very excited because I never win things... and

i had the most amazing day ever :)

Hope you all have a fun week filled with lots

of smiles like Mickey!  

Hugs,  Teresa

Graphic 45 ideas

There are 3 new releases from Graphic 45 this month and
we got 2 of them so I have a new page and a few cards to
share with you today.. ..

One of their new ones is called Old Curiosity Shoppe

so I took the opportunity to scrap an old family photo

of our family store in Minn.  My great uncles started it

 in the 1800's and I have heard lots of stories of the goings on in it

so I needed to get this in my book to remember!  I just love

when I get one of these Victorian photos and it's even better

when my family is in it too...

This is my favorite card of the set because I love the

butterflies and the beautiful colors of this paper

and because of the Spellbinders dies too! 

For this I used the Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents S5-070

and Fleur de Lis Rectangles to make it a little more antique 

looking I added Chestnut roan ink around all the edges.

This is actually the last card from the scraps but I really

like the way that the papers went together just layering

squares on top of each other.  I just finished it with a bow

and a few clear and black rhinestones and ta da!!

An anytime, anyone kind of card.. Yay!

Love this card too.  It was super easy with

just bits and pieces of papers and to do 

something a little different I tied the ribbons

across 3 times to the left.  Love the butterflies!

And last today is a really easy card made with using 

the tags.  I didn't want to run the ribbon over the tag

so I punched holes in the card and ran it underneath.

Last i inked the edges and added 3 tiny black rhinestones 

and it was all done...  

Lots of Hugs and hope you have an amazing week!

Teresa

How I love flowers

It has been a busy week at the store and we are

getting swamped with lots of boxes filled with

fun product but of course that means I have

to find a place to put it too.  So there is

lots of moving and pricing and making fun

samples up.  Yay, my favorite part....

Today i am showing 2 things

I did quick since I have so many more things

to get out in the next couple of weeks.

We got in lots of canvas to create things to 

decorate with so I made this little gifty canvas

to put on an easel that you can give to a friend or

 put up in your own house.  I used the Prima mini

pad for the back round papers and added flowers

and layered some Spellbinders die shapes under

the sentiment.  If you click on the picture you can

probably see it better.  I have been messing around 

with taking pictures in natural light and it doesn't

always want to cooperate with my artsy vision - big smile :)

Sometimes I like to use the intricate papers as a back round

to save time and money.  I love doing intricate pages

like the sunflower one I did on my last post- so 

don't get me wrong- but sometimes you just need to get 

the pictures scrapped and in the book right?   So for

this page I cut a circle and made my own doily for the

back round with a corner punch and put the matted 

photo on a ledge with flowers and added the glistening

bit of pearls to the bottom.  These papers are pretty

neutral so I added some extra pink and green inks

to the back round with a blending sponge from Tim Holtz.

Total time was only about 20 mins.  Yay!!

Thanks for stopping by and I have lots to make for

this scrappy happy weekend and maybe a possible 

trip to San Diego Wild animal park.  It's almost time

for the butterflies and I am sure there is lots of new

animal babies everywhere to take pictures of.  

Lots of hugs,

Teresa