Special Day

I was creating some fun cards the last couple

of days and made this card to share today with lots and lots

of Spellbinders dies and a M-bossing folder.

  It was really fun to do all the textured layers and

I used one of my favorite My Minds Eye 6x6 pads- So Sophie.

The color isn't so great but if you click on the
closeup it is alot more of what the card really looks like.

So for this card I used the Venetian Motifs die,

Scalloped Labels One, Standard Circles Lg,

M-Bossabilites Flower Fun, and last but 

not least Classic Edges Decorative Inserts E-8010.

The stamp is from a new set of sentiments that 

i just got from Penny Black called "Gratitude" and 

it's filled with wonderful things to stamp on cards. 

Here is a closeup of the embossing on this card.  

There is so much texture on the papers and the flowers too.

Thanks to all the fun things at Spellbinders it is

getting harder and harder to make flat cards!  LOL!

And besides it's just way too much fun....

Around the sentiment I used Platinum Brillance ink and 

rubbed a little with a dauber around the edges.

It made the Venetian die pop more and gave it a more

 old world effect and it's always fun to

try something new whether it is a new paint or ink

or whatever is fun and new out there on the market.

  

Thanks so very much for stopping today

and hope you all have a wonderful creative weekend!

Back to Scrapping

Yesterday we were all commenting on how far behind

we were with our normal pages so I thought I would take

a break these next couple of days from designing and do

a few of my own pages to get caught up.

I recently found a wonderful sketch site (creative scrappers)

 done by Kristen Davidson who by the way also redid my blog

and made it beautiful!!  So I am doing some of her sketches

to get caught up a little.  My page today is our trip to Disneyland

with my daughter and her best friend.  We all had such a great

time and so did she.  They give her a cute little button and all

the employees told her Happy Birthday and it made it really

special and a very Magical day.  How many people can say

they had a parade, a fireworks show and a watershow on their 

birthday right.  It was really, really fun....

 I used sketch # 213 for this and changed up the sizes

and parts but basically its close.  I love using the 

sketches because they give me quick ideas to do

something different on each of my layouts!

 and I dug out lots of my old things and used them

so I only bought card stock for this....

And we just got a new shipment of Viva Decor Pearl pens

 that have glitter in them and it was the perfect little

bit of sparkle that I wanted for my page.  

So that's it for today but will have more to share.

So sorry about not having my new book ready for Monday

but I got a really amazing phone call over the weekend and

had to create a few things to get in right away.. I will 

share more when I find out hopefully some good news!

Have a great day and remember to get out all those

things in your stash and make something fun today!

Hugs.....

August Card Club already?

It's time again for Card Club at the store and this month

I promised all the girls that we would start early with 

Holiday Cards and since I love Fall and all the 

fun things to do during it, it was great to start them so soon!!

This month we are working with lots and lots of New 

Penny Black Stamps!  They are gorgeous and there is lots

of fun script for sentiments and lots of variety in styles.

I love the masked cat with the pumpkin and one of my 

favorite Whipper Snapper stamps with the ghost wagon..

Truthfully they are all cute and I can't wait to dig in 

and make some really fun cards with the other styles out too!

I will take some photos and post of the card creating fun

in the next 2 days but until then have a super great day

and Happy Cardmaking to you!

Journal Monday #3

It's another Monday already and I am a little late in

posting but I am doing lots of things for Spellbinders and 

 the store I have to finish and my I photo was being a little 

crazy to load pictures today but I have a few to share and a 

fun idea for pockets on my School Journal today.

I wish that I had made these for my kids each year

so that I could have them write about their friends and all

the things that happened in school from their point of views.

 I met a teacher too that said that writing in journals for 

kids helps them in so many ways so I guess that by itself

is a good enough reason to help your kids create them!

So today I didn't put so much on the front and created 

lots and lots of pockets on the front page and inside to put extra 

goodies from the school year.  I didn't want it too busy so i used

the stickers and borders that came in the set from

Creative Imaginations that I used from Samantha Walker.

I do think I have found a good use for all the twine that

i bought though.  It's skinny and works really good for

tying things on and pages in the books too..

 This is the opening page and just like the front

has a pocket for goodies so do all the other pages.

I wish I had more paper to do more but I will have

to go out and get a few more sheets to add on later.

 I used lots of the sticky borders to create the pockets

and lots of tags to decorate with.

This was a really fun and easy journal to do and I 

can't wait to find someone to give it to or maybe i will

just do it for a combined journal for both of

my kids so I can keep it as a quick memory for me!

Hope you got inspired and stop back next Monday

for a fun Gratitude Journal for Fall.
Thanks for stopping over today!

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