It's on to Round Three for me!

I got some very happy news today and wanted to share that

I am thrilled beyond words that I am going

 on to Round Three of the Spellbinders Team Tryouts
 for next year... There are so many talented people

and here is the list that made it through this time....

Angela Barkhouse

Beck Beattie

Christina Gualazzi

Christine Emberson

Darsie Bruno

Deb Seyer

Elizabeta Kushner

Janice Whiting

John Creighton Petersen

Lisa Fish

Marielle LeBlanc

Mary Marsh

Rae Barthel

Susie Bentz

Sylvia Blum

Teresa Horner

Theresa Momber

Thespa McLaughlin

Yvonne van de Grijp

Congratulations to everyone and so happy to
see my fellow DT ladies up there!!

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully next

month I will have some more amazing news to share!!

Lots of Hugs and Smiles all- day- long today :)  Yay!!

Card Club for May

It seems like the time is going by so fast again...

It's time again to have fun with all the ladies from

Card Club and this month we are working on fun

ways to use flowers and flower stamps.  Some

are easy and some are a bit more but last time they 

loved coloring so I thought we could do a little bit more 

before we start summer.  

The wedding card is m favorite because

it was really easy to do and I just layered 

the stamps and embossed the flowers

with silver..  just very elegant I think...

Love this one with Karen Foster dad papers.

The stamp is from Technique Tuesday..

This is another favorite because we have so many

hummingbirds outside right now and I thought

the colors on this would be really pretty!

Anyway I hope they have fun in class this weekend

and I will be sure and post some fun photos

next week.  Have a wonderful day,

Teresa

It just says vintage..

I have another card today to share that I did awhile back

and it's one of my favorites.  I used Graphic 45 papers

for it and used my favorite flower die from 

Spellbinders called Bitty Blossoms.. I so love this die!!

For it I also used the Edgeabilites Dies for the bottom

2 layers and a really pretty label die to cut the kraft

cardstock out of.  I used some Want2Scrap bling around

the outside edge and finished it with the pretty

printed flowers that I made.  I really love how the black

makes everything pop more, especially the title. Oh and

I did ink it around the edges and the leaves with

some Chestnut Roan ink.  I think it made it

a little more vintage looking that way..

Thanks for stopping.. I have to go and get

ready for card club this month.  It's going to be a fun one,
(lots of pretty flower cards to post later this week)

 and I love comments 

so don't forget to share what is happening in your

part of the crafty world that you do too!  

Hugs and Smiles always,

Teresa

Pretty window card

I wanted to share one of my favorite cards today that is up
on the Spellbinders blog.. They have some beautiful smaller
dies for those of you who love fancyness on your cards and one
is this beautiful window die called Windows Three
from the Die Delights Collection.

As you can see from the photo you can use it three different
ways and for my card I created the window with pop dots and added
a pretty flower and some foliage to it.

The two dies that I used to create the backround
behind the window are Detailed Scallops and Floral Ovals.

If you click on here you can see more of these
really cute little dies....be sure and check out the Spellbinders
 gallery for more fun ideas to use them too.

Have a really great weekend... Teresa

Cardabilites sketch #75 is up...

Today there is another beautiful sketch to get inspired by

up on the Cardabilites Blog

and I did a really cute card today to put up.  But first let

me share the sketch with all of you....

 I stayed pretty true to the sketch this time

and used a new paper pad I got from LOTV.

I love vintage papers and this one had alot

of patterns and they all went perfect together.

For the backround of my card I used

Spellbinders Labels 29 and for the red

and the dotted pieces I cut and embossed them 

using Labels 30.

 I decided to make my own flower 

to match and layered lots of inked petals from the

Blossom Two die.  And of course I added some

foliage and the flags and a really simple adhesive

 sentiment from Mrs. Grossmans.  

And for the envelope I even went ahead and embossed the flap

with an embossing folder.  I like it and know

exactly who I am going to send it to next month.

Thank you so much for stopping over and 

be sure and join us and make your own version

of the sketch and post it up on the blog :)

 For my second card I used a 6x6 pad with a travel theme.
It has lots of pretty red, whites and blues and some really
cute tags to use.

Have a great day,  Teresa

A few Quick Cards today

I hope that you all had a nice Mother's Day for those of you

who celebrated someone special in your life.  I had a wonderful

day and love both my kids so much... they are amazing!!

So having some extra relaxing time before "Once upon a Time"

came on -I took a few of my paper pads and some stickers and whipped

up a few cards to share.  They are just quick and easy and no 

stamping so not very much mess either... that is my favorite kind.

This card uses one of Spellbinders embossing folders

called Dotted Flowers and I used Labels 28.

 The Spellbinders Die that I used on this card

for the pink is called Distressed Edges,

I love that one and Labels 29.  They both give you

some really cute and unique edges to change up

the styles of your cards... cute, cute!

I used papers by My Minds Eye and Dear Lizzy's

new 5th Avenue line .  It was over 102 degrees 

yesterday so I was in the mood for something bright

and these prints were really pretty. Popsicle paper

would have been good too!!   I have a few more

to share but I have some other things to get made 

first today.  Thanks for coming over to see and

I hope you have a great day :)

Teresa

One very Awesome Friday!!

Just happy to share I am moving on to the second round

of the Spellbinders team tryouts for next year!!  

Whoop, Whoop,

I am one very happy girl this morning... 

Now I am off to get to work for the next project.....  

Hugs,  Teresa

Keepin up with dates

It has been a busy week this week with lots of things

going on around the house and working on 

samples.  I found some things that I did a while back

to share of some calendars that I did for a class.  It was

really fun and once you start making them you can't stop

and they are perfect for gifts.  You can download free

calendars online to put on them or some SVG files

have some great ones to print out for projects too.

I did one of these that was similar

at CHA once and loved having it on my desk

for a quick date reference so I came up

with the bunch of them using chipboard

and some of my Spellbinders Dies.

This one was the favorite.. I love red

gingham too and of course butterflies.

 This one is just 2- 6x6 pieces of chipboard

decorated with a little bit of recipe paper

and a cute little red dotted bow for the top.

The one above is 6 pieces of 6x6 folded in

half and then you glue them together and

you can put a photo on the top and the calendars

all around at the bottom for the year.

The neat thing is you can flatten it and mail

it to someone special for a gift.. Really cute right?

And my last one I want to share is a chipboard

triangle to put on a desk.  The papers are from

Bo Bunny and on the sides you can't see are places

for 2 pictures.  I thought this would be really nice

because you could change it around every once

in a while to change it up.  

Thats all for today and hopefully I will have

some good news to share on friday!! Thanks

so much for stopping by and have a really 

wonderful day....  Teresa 

Pretty little sachets

   I have been wanting to share one of my favorite projects that

I did for a long time.  I created these little sachets for Paper

Creations magazine and they came out so pretty and smelled 

so good.  To make them you can use any of the Spellbinders

Cut Fold Tuck Dies.  These dies are so pretty and have these unique

cut outs on them that make it perfect for the potpourri that you put

in these to ooze out and make everything smell wonderful!!

First I am going to show you one of the dies that I used for

my first sachet.  It is called the Puzzle Effect 

and you can see all of the other styles they have here...

 This was my first one and as you can see

the inspiration to create others just kind of

took off.  It was really fun to make and they

would be great for gifts too.  The roses on this

one are Spellbinders Bitty Blossoms.  It's a 

must have die so you can make all your own flowers

to match your projects that you make :)

I love the Spellbinders butterfly on this one..

These papers are from G45 and I just love the

pretty soft peaches and creams of this paper line.

Since I love making things with snowflakes I 

had to make one to hang for winter too!

My last one i want to show is using Bo Bunny papers.

 I had alot of fun creating these pretty little flowers

with the Spellbinders Rose Creation die.  I just pinched them

and inked them up a bit and layered them.  The centers

are a pretty embellishment from Prima.  They were so 

pretty I had to buy them in every color.  All the ribbons

are from Stamp Simply Online store and they have so much

to chose from and it's all delivered right to you.. Yay!

The tutorial for this is in the Spring Paper Creations 

magazine so be sure and pick up a copy and make a

few for gifts sometime... you will love them!

Have a wonderful day... Teresa