July Pagemaps from Becky Fleck!

I can't believe it's July already and it's time for

new Pagemaps from Becky Fleck!  And the good

news is I got to do a page this month!!  It was

such an honor and I was doing my happy dance

the whole day when I got the email.  Very happy news!

So here is my map for July...

and here is what I did with it...

There are some brand new papers out from 

Little Yellow Bicycle for summer that are just

beautiful and I did another page of Nicole's

day at Sea World.  The title is "Smile little fish"

and seemed just perfect for the two of them. I 

changed the direction of the photo on the map

and did a circle picture instead but that is the

idea for the maps too.  You can customize them

to work for what you have and they give you great

inspiration and help in getting lots of pages done!

The line comes with lots of acetate stickers so I used

lots of them for water splashes and the sun in the 

back of the photo... and like everything I do I used 

a few Spellbinders on the page!!  Becky has lots of

dies with Spellbinders that are super cute to use on 

both cards and layouts and if you click here you can

see some of them.  I also used a Spellbinders circle die to 

cut the photo out.  Since they are open in the centers you can 

line them up perfectly and you can emboss them.

I hate circle cutters but these work just perfect!

Thanks so much for stopping by and be sure and

stop over and see the new maps up and get

caught up with some pages this summer! There is

some amazing papers out right now :)

Hugs and Smiles,  Teresa

Pagemaps and a card

I got a few of the New Spellbinders Dies from Becky Fleck

to use and just thought I would do a few things to catch

up on my own pictures and join in the sketch this month

on the Pagemaps Blog.  Becky has designed some awesome

little dies that you are going to love to get for all the 

tiny little details on your pages and cards. 

They are super cute and very fun to use!! 

so....Here is her sketch this time

Here is my take using Authentique papers...

I used her Tags and Flags S5-095, Whimsy S4-361 and

her Tags and Labels S5-094 to make the tag, buttons, 

scalloped borders and the cute little butterfly on the page.

I love, love, love to make my own flowers-- so for these I 

layered the Spellbinders Blossom Two S4-232 in different

colors and prints and crunched them up a little. For 

the centers I added paper buttons and a Basic Grey brad.

Normally i ink everything but I wanted to keep 

this page clean and crisp and put the attention on the flowers

and the beautiful embossing on them.

The circle border at the top was made by cutting out

the circles on the paper and sliding them under the 

sticker border from the paper line and then I added the leftover

piece of Becky's scalloped border die.  I liked that it

was embossed and gives the page a little more dimension.  

and I always try to use the leftovers to make a card and

i was playing with one of my Edgeabilities Die Sets 

Spellbinders Classic Decorative Inserts Two E8-010 

and Spellbinders Classic Edges One E8-007 and when

I cut 2 pieces at one time in this thick paper the top cut and

embossed and the bottom only embossed.  Since the paper

is really thick-- I got this neat effect for the border.

I didn't put a sentiment on this yet because sometimes you want 

a quick card and I can have this to save for my card box and

have it ready to give and put a sentiment in when I find

the perfect person to give it to!!

Thanks for stopping by and be sure and stop

back in again, there is always something fun in the works!

Hugs,  Teresa

Page Maps for March

I have gotten lots done in the past couple of days
and first thing today I want to share my layout
for the Pagemaps Challenge this month.  The
layout was so cute and easy to do and I love
all the little flags on the bottom and of course the butterfly!

I used the New Teresa Collins papers for it since
I need some Blue, Gold and White to do her
graduation picture.  I used a tag for the design behind
the title and changed the picture to one single 4x6 instead.
The 3 labels in the bottom left were made with the
Spellbinders Ornate Artisan Tags and Accents S5-070.
I also added a little bit more golden yellow ink to the papers
to make it more golden in color to match the word tags.
Part of my flower was also made with the Spellbinders
Rose Creation die and I added a rose on top of it and
a tiny little sparkly butterfly.

And I also have 2 cards that I did with some of the
little scraps I had left over.  The first one is a
square 5x5 black card layered with the white and blue
prints from the Everyday Moments collection.  I love
all the prints on this and as much as I don't like
using yellow, I really liked these papers alot.
(The yellow and black projects are coming on Friday)
For this card I used the Spellbinders Fleurs de lis Rectangle S4-317
   and embossed it and used a SRM sticker for the sentiment.
 I crisscrossed the ribbon and tied a double bow and added a
 little heart stick pin to fancy it up a little.  Hope you like it :)

For my next card I made a white A-2 and rounded
all 4 corners.  I used the tiny 6x6 prints of the pad for
the layered pieces and used my Spellbinders Eyelet Squares
S4-305 to make a frame to stamp the sentiment in.  For the
bottom layer I made a border with Spellbinders Classic Petal
Edgeabilites and finished it with a pretty bow
of seam binding in blue.

I really love all the blues of the new collections
that are coming out  this spring and they are really fun to
create things.  So...my next projects are
from her yellow, white and black Carolina Breeze
collection and it was really different but I really liked
what I made.  Thanks so much for stopping by and seeing
what's new in my corner of the world...

Lots of hugs,  Teresa