LOTV Bears

I was so excited this week when I opened the mailbox

and got my package from LOTV with my new mermaid

stamps.  They are sooooo cute and I can't wait to make

cards out of them.  But since we are in CHA mode I have

a few more things to finish and then hopefully I can

get some done for a class next week.. Yay!!!

So today I want to share a fun product that LOTV carries

and are colored by my favorite DT member on their team

Bev Rochester!!  How amazing is that!!  

 I made this super quick card with one of their pre-printed

cardstock sheets. See here.  I used a Spellbinders Labels One to

cut and emboss the photo and then matted it in red.  The papers

are from Basic Grey's 6x6 Christmas pad and of course

the beautiful snowflakes are from Spellbinders 

Create a flake 3 and 4.  I added Diamond stickles on them

to make them glisten and put the sentiment inside.

Aren't the characters just so cute!

Here is a close up of the snowflakes so that you

can see how beautiful they are!  

That's it for today but I will have some fun cards

from my Card Club Class I am teaching this weekend.

Thanks so much for stopping in :)

Hugs and Smiles,  Teresa

New File Folder Ideas to share

I finally got around to taking pictures of the 2 files folders

that I designed and taught for class last weekend.  We decided

 to make one for Christmas and one for Disneyland since there are

so many of us with passes in the area.  Both of them had

lots and lots of little mini books and cascading picture

holders to fill up with lots of photos and journaling. 

 It was really, really fun to make!!

My first to share is Christmas and we used the New

Pink Paislee Christmas line and they got lots of stickers

and other goodies to use for the file....

I love how all the papers mixed so nice with 

this set.  It's a little more nostalgic and the tags and

bits of things make it really fun to do!

Our second one is this super fun file made with

Pine Cone Press Disney inspired papers and I love

this because of the bright fun colors and you gotta

love the cute little mouse stickers and Mickey hands.

This line comes with lots and lots of tags and

stickers so I created lots of flaps and pockets to

store all of them in.  This also has an extra page

added in the back for even more photos which

all of us can use for all those character shots we get!

Our next 2 files are going to be Valentines and 

a fun family outing file.... We can't wait to see what 

they have at CHA for the next group of files to do!

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and

don't forget to start those Christmas cards if you

haven't already!  Thanks so much for stopping in!

Hugs and Smiles, Teresa

Fun New stamp from Hawaii

On my holiday in Hawaii i got the chance to stop by

a store in Hilo and see what fun things they had in their

beautiful store and I found these adorable stamps by 

Stamp Sisters.  They are so cute and they had the most

beautiful Asian inspired papers to go with them.  So

of course I had to pick a few things up and today

and am going to share this one that I did with

the red and gold embossed paper that I bought.

For my card I used the new Spellbinders Asian Motifs to cut

the black piece for the back and the pretty red piece of metal.

I colored her with Copic pens and dotted her dress and the

flower in her hair with a little bit of Sparkle and Sprinkle glitter.

My favorite part is her hair and I learned a fun technique to use

a superfine marker to actually draw the tiny hairs over the Copics

and love how it works.  I need a little more practice but I really

like how it came out and you are going to love the quality

of these stamps if you get some! They are amazing!

So that is it for today but I wanted to wish all of you

a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.  I hope you have a

wonderful and yummy fun day with family and friends and

thanks so very much for taking the time to stop by and

see what I have to share in my corner of the planet!  I 

am very Thankful for all of you :)

Lots of Smiles and Hugs,

A little bit of Christmas

So I came back from a fun holiday and the first thing I heard

was 33 days until Christmas.  Eeeeek, has the time really gone by

that fast this year?  It feels like I just put everything away... 

But... I love this season and I can't wait to start again so here

are 2 cards that I made to share today and hopefully I

can post more this week as I get more done!

I did some really fun embossing with this card

using Stampendous aged gold distress powders.  

Did you know that you can sprinkle the powders on

 the front with no ink and emboss on the back?  

Well you can and you get the really pretty effect of 

melted gold dots like you see below around the edges! 

 It is really cool!

Around the outside edges I used a Versamark pen and

then sprinkled the powder on and heated it to match.

The Spellbinders dies I used are Lacey Circles,

Standard Circles and Fancy Tags Two.. They all

mix so beautifully together and I really love the old

world effect on the paper that it gives my card.  

This was really fun to make!

My second card today is a wallet card that you

can use for a photo or gift card or anything else

you might want to tuck inside to give as a gift.

The papers for this are from Basic Grey Christmas 2011

and I just adore the beautiful pointsettia's so I hand

cut lots of them out and made a pretty cluster on

the front to decorate it.  For the flap I rounded the

underneath piece of cream paper and then put

a matching piece of Beaded Circles that I cut and

embossed from Spellbinders. And to give it

even more texture I ran the front piece of paper in an

"Elegance"embossing folder and inked that up a little too..  

The brad is from My Minds Eye :)

For the inside I used a Spellbinders Edgeabilites die

Classic Decorative Inserts Five and made the pockets.

I cut a few more flowers and added them on the

side and a little bit of gold stickles on the flowers.

This just says Christmas don't you think?  

I hope you like my cards for today and I hope 

you all have a wonderful day and get inspired to

start a few fun projects for yourself.  I am off to

teach 2 more file folders (Christmas and Disney)

this morning and will share those too....  

Happy Card Making :)

Fall Bracelet with Shrink plastic

I have another fun project that I made up on the Spellbinders

website this week made from the New Fall Leaves dies, inks,

wire and some clear shrink plastic.  I really had fun doing this one

because i made the whole thing including the wire bracelet.

For this project I bent enough pieces of 20 gauge Beadalon 

wire to go around my wrist and attached them together with

jump rings that I made.  Then I cut out lots and lots of

leaves with the Fall Foliage die S5-120 and used my

embossing gun to shrink the plastic.  (Be sure and punch

a small hole in them before you shrink it because the 

plastic gets really hard after)  Then you can use lots

of inks to color both sides and rub it it good with a towel

and let them dry.  Then all you have to do is attach

them with jump rings and add a few rhinestones if you wish

and a fun closure of some kind to match.  And you could even

make earrings and a necklace to match, wouldn't that be fun!

These are so fun and easy to make and since the holidays
are coming up could you just picture them in cute holiday
shapes with lots of beads or maybe snowflakes?

Thanks so much for stopping in and sorry I haven't had
a post... we just got back from Hawaii and had a
wonderful time so I will share a few pictures in
a couple of days when I get all caught up!

Happy crafting to you!

Fun with Snowflakes

I just love making things with snowflakes and adding lots

of glitteryness to them!  Last year I did my whole diningroom

with a snowflake theme and it was so fun to have our meals

in the glittery white snowy decorations... so this year I am starting

early with some projects and I made an easy vase using a

piece of white vinyl and a fun card with a beautiful stamp

from Penny Black Christmas Release and of course lots

and lots of fun Spellbinders dies too!

I used lots of the New Spellbinders Snowflake dies that you can 

see here.  They are Create a Flake 3 & 4 and the

Snowflake Pendant dies.  Gorgeous aren't they?

The Oracal vinyl cuts really easy in the Grand Caliber

and then you can just gently pull each of the snowflakes

off and arrange and stick them where you want.  I added

a little bit of extra diamond stickles and I think I am going to 

make a really pretty white pointsettia arrangement with

icy sticks and put in it to decorate this year. The vinyl cuts

from the Spellbinders dies also work great on walls and mirrors too!!

So my next project to share with you today is

a card I made using a Penny Black stamp "Crystal Drops"

and embossed it with Watermark ink and Ranger

Seafoam white embossing powder.  I also used 

a fun new die called Scalloped Labels One S4-375 to

make the borders and popped them up with foam dots.

For the bottom edge I cut and embossed a few little

snowflakes and glued them down to make a border

and then tied a pretty swirly white ribbon from 

Creative Impressions. I also added super tiny rhinestones to

decorate my tree and a bit of stickles too.

 Another amazing die that you

are going to love to have is the Matting Basics S5-132.

This makes card making so easy and the back blue

piece is beautifully finished and embossed now. 

Hope you like my fun little projects today and hope

you try a few for yourself.  I am sure as the season goes

on I will have lots more things to share with this :)

Have a blessed day!