Cardabilites sketch #89

Hi Everyone out there in craftyland :)  I hope that you all had

 a wonderful Christmas and are ready to relax and enjoy 

the last days of 2013.  I started to get all my pictures ready 

to be printed today so that I could get caught up with 

some pages and all that and realized I am just a little behind.  

But you have to start somewhere so I am getting it all out

to the printer and then getting busy this month and

next to catch up.  I had a great year and can't wait

to see what 2014 holds for me :)

So today I had a bit of time so I am joining in for the 

Cardabilites sketch for this month although I am a tad late.

   I did my card with a 6x6 paper pad by MME called

"In bloom" with pretty shades of pink, peach, yellow and grey.

I also used a new stamp from Verve stamps.  I have never

used them but boy are they great.  I ordered a whole bunch

with the sale going on now and they have really, really 

cute sentiments and other goodies!!  Can't wait to do more!

For the doily I made my own using one of the Die-D-lites

called Medallion Four.  I love these little beauties and think

I am going to have to get the whole set of them here....

 They are so cute and have the lots of styles and they

are small and fit cards perfectly....I really love using them!

and of course here is the sketch for this month--

I love the tab at the top and I think it would be super

cute to adapt for Valentines and put a pocket for sweets.

Hope all of you have a great day and thanks for

taking the time to stop and i would love to hear from you

if you would like to leave a comment :)

Butterbee Scraps Necklace Set

Happy Saturday to all of you... 

 Today I have something really pretty to share that I made

to wear for New Years.  If you haven't gotten anything yet you

can put this together pretty quick and then you have the whole set
 to match and wear out to celebrate the new year!

Many of the things that I do are inspired from something and

I love the knights of the round table and the intricate chainmail 

that they made and wore.  My butterfly necklace is a quick

inspiration from just that.  I started it with a simple chain,

some 6mm jump rings, tiny bronze metal flowers and this beautiful

metal butterfly to match.  Below is a few of the things
that I used to make it.  The Large Butterfly is # 042-B and the little
bronze flowers are 103-B.  The Antique Bronze toggle clasp is CL071-B.
 And you can also get the jump rings and rhinestones in the store too.

Here is a photo of the finished necklace as it would look on.

To attach each of the flowers on the necklace I used 2 jump rings 

so that they would lay flat when i wore it. I attached the large 

Butterfly in the center and then counted over to attach each of

the flowers with the jump rings.  To finish my necklace I attached
the same clasp that you see on the bracelet below with jump rings
on the ends of my chain.  It's unbelievably lightweight and takes
some time but I think that it is worth it.

To make the bracelet, first measure your wrist with a tape measure
and then layout the flowers so that you have enough of them
to go around.  The jump rings don't add that much extra but
if you want you can lay them out too with a ruler to get an idea.
  Attach 2 jump rings between each of the flowers with your
pliers and then added another jump ring to attach the clasp

at both ends of the bracelet.  I wanted to add a little sparkle so I used

E600 with a toothpick and glued on tiny rhinestones inside each
of the flowers with my pointed tweezers.  I use my tweezers
alot and always come in handy for little things.

After I made it I found out that it would be better to glue on
another set of the flowers on the back of each like I did for the
earrings below.  Having the extra thickness will help make
the rings keep it together better.  Just a hint :)

To make the earrings I glued together 2 of the flowers for each

of them and let them dry like the bracelet.  I added a small jump

ring so that I could attach it to the earring pieces.

I hope you like it and try making something gorgeous
to wear too.  There is always something fun to make
with all the pretty things in the store.

Christmas Snowflakes

It's busy around our house this week... we are shopping and 

wrapping and I am getting those last few projects done

and mailed into Spellbinders and I can't wait to show you

some of the things that they are going to have for 2014!!

It is going to be more than amazing and like me

you are going to love all of it....  :)

But since I can't show you--- I made a Christmas card

to share with some of my favorite dies... snowflakes!

We don't get snow down here in southern California

although i can see it up in the mountains and I love

skiing in it and walking in a new snow in the mountains.

So i love making things with these dies.  Spellbinders

has lots of them that you can mix and match, add rhinestones

 and they are just beautiful and you can see them here...

I used the 2013 Snowflake Pendant die set for the center

of the card and I layered it on the Exquisite Circles Die Set.

To make the dies pop out i layered them with foam

dots and changed patterns of red and green. If you click on

the card you can see it better too.  The papers I used are

from Bo Bunny's Christmas line from last year.

At the bottom of my card I also cut the edge with another

of my favorite dies called Curved Borders Two.  You get 

6 dies in this set with lots of intricate edges and they

are really fun to mix and match to make your cards that

much more special to give out to friends and family.

Yesterday we got to spend a fun afternoon at Disneyland

and I have some wonderful photos to share.  It was so

fun watching all the kids and the characters get to excited

and all the decorations they have are just so beautiful.

It was really, really fun.

Thanks for stopping over and i hope you do something

fun and festive today too....

First Butterbee Scraps Post up

Hi Everyone, today is my first post up for Butterbee Scraps 

and I have a couple of fun quick and easy things to share with all of you.  

My first project is an ornament that i made with one of 

the larger bronze Filigree Embellishments #941. We are decorating

everywhere in our house and after decorating my daughters tree

I had the perfect inspiration to create my own ornaments for it.

The big bronze filigree shape was the perfect size piece to use 

as the base and I started by gluing two of the pieces together with E600. 

That way if the ornament turned both sides would be pretty.

 Then I glued on the bronze cabochon filigree #F805-B  on the front

of the ornament and let it all dry.  

My next step was to add some really light pink fine glitter 

with some wet adhesive into the circle in the center of the ornament 

and let that dry. Then I glued on the acrylic dome over it.

To make the dangle, I used a bronze flathead pin and added

a clear bead, then a teardrop pink bead, another clear bead and a then

a matching pink bead and created a loop to attach it to the base with

my needle nose pliers and my nylon jaw pliers.  For the top of the ornament

I added 2 jump rings and then bent a piece of 20 gauge bronze 

wire to form a matching metal loop to hang up my ornament.  Lastly

 i finished it by gluing on a pink bow to give it a really feminine feel.  Wouldn't 

this be so pretty on a tree filled with clear glass and pink ornaments?

My next project is a paper box that I created with snowflake paper I 

had in my stash and I used a few Spellbinders dies and finished it 

with a beautiful Butterbee Scraps Filigree embellishment and the 

same circle filigree embellishment I used for the center of my ornament.

To create my box I cut 2 pieces of 6x6 paper and scored them 1" 

all around the four sides and then cut four slits and folded the sides

 in and glued them together.  To make my box sturdier

I also put a small 1/2" paper strip around the top to reinforce it.

Then I cut 2 pieces of the Spellbinders Labels Twenty Two and

layered them on the top with adhesive and foam dots.  My next 

step was to cut/emboss the Venetian Motifs die in both yellow

and aqua and layer that on the top with more foam squares.  

To finish it I glued two pieces of Bronze filigree 068-B in opposite 

directions and then glued on the beautiful Cabachon # F805-B.  This

time instead of filling it with glitter I traced the clear dome and cut

out a matching piece of paper to put under it and then glue both of them

down.  I added a few clear rhinestones on the top to make it a little 

more fancier and that was all it needed.  The filigree pieces are so

pretty and ornate and they finish everything so beautifully.

I hope you liked the projects I made

with all the wonderful products you can get from Butterbee Scraps!

Have a wonderful day,  Teresa

Exciting News to share today..

Today I have some great news to share....

There is a wonderful online shop that sells the most amazing 

products to create jewelry and lots of other fun things with

called Butterbeescraps (zibbet) and I get the
privilege of designing for them for the next 6 months. 

I am a huge jewelry junkie so this is right up my alley...
 I am so happy and so honored and can't wait to share
 lots of fun projects to make with all of you.

Be sure and check out the website and get ready to order..

their prices are the best and there is so much to chose from!!

http://www.zibbet.com/butterbeescraps

Have a great day,

Teresa

Doodlebug Christmas

I think if there was ever a paper line that I loved to use it

would have to be Doodlebug.  The Christmas line just came in

at my local scrapbook store so I bought a bunch and made some

fun cards to send out and a few other goodies to give for the holiday.

I love the refrigerator magnet on the top left the best.  I used the

cute little snowman and one of the adhesive tags for the title

and I am going to put a cute photo of my kids in it.  

And the notepad for all my Christmas to do's was also a great

thing for me.  Now I have a really cute holiday pad to remind

of what I still have to do.... hopefully the list will be short :)

My third project is a gift card holder and I used one of the tags

to decorate and the cute little red bird and a poinsettia.  I tied 

some of the twine to make a bow and added one of the tags

at the bottom to finish it.  It's very cute... and I love the colors.

And lastly the clear box was perfect to wrap a belly band

around and fill it with good things for hot chocolate.  I saw these

chocolate dipped peppermint sticks I thought would work good

too so I will have to go search again this week. 

Be sure and head up to Scrap N Yap and get some of this

cute paper to create with... the fun is starting so you better

hurry before it's all gone.  Happy Holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving to you...

I love this time of year and I can see why our nation took

the time after the harvest was done to celebrate and be Thankful

for everything that we have.  I am so Thankful for my family

and friends and all the new friends I have made on the

Spellbinders Team and Quietfire Design Team.  It truly is amazing

the doors that have opened for me these past few years..

This page seemed appropriate to share of my beautiful niece

when she was away at college.  The papers are from Simple Stories

and it had the perfect colors and perfect tags that I needed.

Thanks for stopping and I hope your holiday is fun and relaxing

and filled with many wonderful blessings!  

Hugs and Smiles,  Teresa

Spellbinders Platinum Preferred Partners

Hi Everyone and I hope you are having a great week!

Over on the Spellbinders Blog we are having a special

Blog Hop with some amazing projects being featured 

using lots of our Platinum Preferred Product Partners.

There is lots of prizes and lots of inspiration so be sure

and hop on over today to see what they are sharing!!

Today I am sharing a quick Christmas card I made

using some of my favorite Spellbinders Dies and lots

of products given to us by these wonderful companies to use:

Quietfire Design, May Arts, KaiserCraft, Imagine/Tsukineko

SCRAPBOOK ADHESIVES BY 3L, Scor-Pal and Want2Scrap....

They are so generous and today we want to give them a special

thank you for giving us such amazing things to use! (Feeling lucky)

The Spellbinders Dies I used are:

S5-026 Labels Twenty 

S5-148 Decorative Labels Eight

Thanks for stopping over and don't forget to check out the hop :)

Sisterly Love

I love getting old photos from family members and this photo

was such a treasure for me to see my mom and my uncle

together when they were growing up.  I did a page using 

both new and old Spellbinders dies and mixing them up to

create a wonderful keepsake for me and for my kids forever.

To make this page I used some brand new papers from Fancy Pants 

that really went well with the greys in the photo.  I love the texture that

the new dies give to the paper and you get so much versatility when you

combine them with all the other dies that Spellbinders carries.

You can get the complete list of dies and papers that i 

used if you check the Spellbinders gallery page here....

and many more....

I love birthdays and they are very special in my family.

It is very important that you are on this earth and

we think it's the best way to celebrate that!

So today i am sharing a quick card to give someone you love.  

I love the browns and pinks and green on this.  It's 

not something I would normally put together but I

really like the colors.  The papers are by Authentique.
The dies are of course by Spellbinders and the stamp
is from Hero Arts and I stamped it with dark brown ink
and embossed it with clear.  I finished it with some pretty

pink rhinestones from Want2Scrap and wha laa!

That is our new favorite saying in card club when

you do something you love and it comes out good :)

So have a great day and thanks for stopping...

My 2014 Daily Book

Hi Everyone and I hope that you are having a wonderful

weekend.  I have a fun thing to share and I know that it's early

but the way my life is these days I think that it is probably best

I get this ready to use.  I love journaling all the time and it's fun

to keep a note of funny and wonderful things that happen in

our daily lives.  It's the stuff that movies are made of right?

I did this book using a journal from Fancy Pants and they

are amazing.  There is lot of pages for photos and journaling

and you can add lots of scrapbooking goodies to the inside

as well as the outside.  The papers and other fun goodies

I used for this project are from Prima.  One of the papers

at the top and bottom with the filmstrip is from Bo Bunny

and the Moma Razi line.  Love those papers, they are so cute.

 I wanted to use lots of flowers for the front

so I did a huge cluster and added some wooden

flowers with rhinestones and butterflies.

The letters I used are from LYB and Thickers.

The memories word is in the paper and I cut it

so that it would be on the front like this.  I also

used some of the rhinestone arrows they came out

with just cause I love glitter things... Must be

that I was born in Hollywood.... 

I hope you like it and will make up a beautiful one

for yourself before the year starts... Have a great

week and thanks for stopping over :)

Hugs and Smiles...

New papers from Echo Park

Today I have a new card to share with a new 6x6 pad

that I got from Echo Park called Reflections.  It has

really yummy colors and prints in it and I came up with

this shaped card which is one of my favorites and used

another of my favorite Spellbinders dies for the center

sun and the sentiment.

I really love blues and yellows together.  It reminds

me so much of the Dutch blues and whites and I love

Daffodils so this is just perfect.  It was really easy to

make cutting just strips for the sides and then doing a

layered medallion for the center with the Persian Motifs

die set and stamping it in royal blue ink to match. 

The ribbon is silk and you can get it at the Stamp Simply Ribbon 

store online.  They have amazing ribbons and

they ship to you right away.  They are a super great source

for ribbons, papers and lots of other goodies....

and the prices are really good!!

I hope you like and thanks again for stopping over..

Using Neutrals for my Cards

I love creative challenges and I have said before that

working in a scrapbook store for 12 years had me using

alot of patterned paper all the time but since I have

been using all the new beautiful dies that Spellbinders has

been creating I have started to switch to more simple papers.

Today I am just using 2 neutral paper colors: tan and cream.

I used Decorative Labels Eight for my card and just cut out

pieces of each and layered them with foam dots. The embossing

stands out so much better on it and all I needed was to add

a pretty ribbon, a flower and I added some wooden leaves

from Prima that I inked ever so slightly with brown chalk ink.  

The pearls are from Want2Scrap and they are the best and 

come in a jillion colors it seems like.  You can order online too

if you can't find them in your local store here....

I have been really busy this week creating lots of fun

things to share so be sure and check back for

more fun inspiration using my favorite SB dies!

Have a really wonderful day....

Spellbinders Christmas Class at the Yap

Hi Everyone it's Saturday already and today I am teaching

a really fun class all with Spellbinders dies at my LSS

called Scrap N Yap.  You can imagine how happy I am just

using all the fun dies they have for the holidays to create

some fun projects to get us all in the spirit of the season. Yahoo!!

We are using most of the new release dies so that the ladies 

can see how they look used for something and i think it is going

to be a really fun event for all of us.  I will post some photos

of all of them tomorrow so share and maybe some better photos

of the projects too.  Here is the list of dies we used just in

case you feel like you need to get a few right :)  

S5-055 Poinsettia

S5-166 Ornate Squares

S4-310 Labels Eighteen

EL-013 Winter Wonders Embossing Folder

EL-034 Decorative Fancy Tags Two

S4-403 Mr and Mrs Snowman

S4-404 Create a Flake Four

S5-185 Snowflake Pendant

S5-186 Dimensional Snowflake

S4-401 2013 Heirloom Ornaments

And I almost forgot I have some other projects I am bringing

in just to share for inspiration with other dies we didn't have time

to use in the class... Be sure and check the On the Road Blog

for more info on stores we visit and teaches classes at.

Have a wonderful weekend... Teresa

Just for a birthday

Hello everyone and thanks for coming over

today.  I had such a good time last week going to my

favorite stamp store up in Elk Grove California I had

a pile of things to make this week it seems.  One of 

them I just finished was a simple card from a 6x6 pad

that had the designs on it already.  All I needed to do

was add a few flowers and I created the envelope at

the top by using part of a Spellbinders label die and cut

just a piece for the top.  I love the colors of this and think

I am going to make up a few more to send out.

The stamp is from Hero Arts and the set has lots

of great sentiments on it.  The flowers are from

Prima and the ink I used is from Tsukineko.

Thanks so much for stopping over... gotta run

and work on Card Club and my Spellbinders Class 

coming up this weekend and next. 

Hugs and Smiles... Teresa

A Special Birthday card..

Hi Everyone and thanks so much for coming to see

what's new on my blog this week.  If you are just stopping

over I have been sharing some fun cards that I did with

the New Die D-lites released from Spellbinders this week.

Today I have another one using another of the Medallions

and this one is called Medallion Seven .  This is a really pretty 

lacey die with beautiful embossing and I decided to use it as a 

border and I cut and embossed it 3X in white card stock

and ran 2 small pieces of pink silk ribbon through them and

tied them in the center.  I also used the Bitty Blossoms die

and made a pretty white flower and leaves to put in the middle.

For the outside border on the grey dotted paper I embossed the

Matting Basics dies into the paper but didn't cut it.  It's a really

pretty way to create a border and it's really, really easy to do.

That's all for today and hope you are as inspired to try some

of these fun little dies like me!  Have a wonderful day :)

Another fun Die D-lite today...

I have another pretty card to share today with all of you 

that I did with one of the New Flower Die D-lites out this 

month for Spellbinders.  You can also see it in the gallery here.... 

and I have another view to show you today. 

 For the flower on my card I used the new Blooms Four die 

and made it in a bright pretty pink card stock from Bazzill.

The embossing on it is quite striking and using the Media Mixage

Keys plate and white paper made it really easy.  The back round

die is Label Thirty-Two.  Don't you just love the embossing

on the flower too?  It's beautiful I think and really adds the

perfect touch to the card.  And the papers are from Bo Bunny.

Thanks for stopping and don't forget to check out all the other

wonderful projects in the gallery for more SB inspiration.
We are headed out this morning to a fun local car show
and of course i have to pick up some kettlecorn popcorn.

Hugs and Smiles and Happy Saturday to you all

Cardabilites #85

Today I decided to play along again with Cardabilites

new sketch and use a few of the New Die D-lites

to make a card.  I kept pretty true to the sketch to

make it fast and easy so it was really fun and I am happy

with the way it came out.  For this card I used the

New Medallions Four and also the Corner Sprigs die set

which I am using alot these days for all my flowery cards.

I also used the heart piece of the Spellbinders On the Edge

die set to make an edge border across the center
 on my card. The flowers are from Prima and the Thank you is a sticker.

Here is the new sketch up on Cardabilites

just in case you want to play along too.

Thanks for stopping by and hope your day

is wonderful and crafty :)

New Die D-lites coming out with Spellbinders

I have had lots of fun making some quick and easy cards

with the new Die D-lites that just were released by Spellbinders

this week and I am trying some new ways to shoot my pictures too.

This is a card I did with the New Medallion Two die.

I used mostly white cardstock for the back that I

embossed with a really pretty embossing folder

also from Spellbinders called Lovely Lattice.  For
the medallion I cut it once for the back in pink and
then cut just the edge in white and then again with
the edge and the medallion and popped it up with foam
dots so that the layers show up really pretty.
At the bottom I layered a pretty piece of lace
and tied a pretty satin ribbon over it.

Some of the pearls I used from Want2Scrap and the 

others I made with a pearl pen but they didn't seem to

photograph so well.  And finally the stamp I used is from 

one of my favorite sets from Lily of the Valley.

You can also see the other medallions in the set here..
There are so many to chose from and so many neat
projects that you can make with them too.

Thanks for stopping over to visit and I will be sharing
more of the dies so be sure and check back soon.

Adventure Mini Envelope Album

So a long time back I made a really neat mini book with envelopes

and a new die from Spellbinders called Celtic Accents.  Well the

Irish part of me took over and I made this really beautiful book

that Spellbinders used for a few ads.  And finally I get to share it

with all of you.  Oh and it even got to go over to Ireland when they

were doing a show there last year... how cool is that?

All the pieces of this die set made it easy to create
lots of beautiful pieces for the outside and the inside.

I made my book with a purchased leather outside and used
kraft envelopes and cards for the inside.  For the outside I cut
and embossed pieces of card stock in rich burgundy and green
and then inked them up with brown chalk inks.  Then I layered
them and added the word adventure with black adhesive letters.
I love to travel and this was another fun idea to create a place
to store the bits of things i find and photos along the way in
my journeys. Someday i hope to go to Ireland to see where my
Grandmother came from and I'll be ready but I think that I
 I will need a much bigger book with all the things I find.

I also bound the book and added my own wires
and those are from American Craft. Super easy to do.
That's it for today but be sure and visit the Spellbinders
page for more information on this project and lots more!

Happy Wednesday and hope you are crafting something
really fun today....

Beautiful People Card

It has been a busy, busy week with so many projects going

and classes but I made to the other side yesterday and happily

everything went really well and I even got some happy mail!!

Today I am sharing a simple card from some of my favorite

papers by Teresa Collins.  I have been lucky enough to meet

her in person and I am so inspired by her and so love what

she creates to share with all of us. 

and...I am so blessed to have so many people like this in my life

and had the opportunity to share a fun day of making 

cards with some of them Sat at the Prima warehouse and Friday

at Scrap N Yap.  They truly are amazing ladies :)

and last but not least today 

I followed the Cardabilites sketch this week a little and

wanted to share what Karan created for us to try...

Thanks for dropping over and hope your week

is filled with wonderful crafty things too....

Hugs and Smiles,  Teresa