A Teresa Collins & Papetrey Ink Bridal Shower Card

How is the weather in your neck of the woods?  As someone from the Pacific Northwest we get a ton of rain so Papertrey Ink's Scattered Showers stamp set was sort of a must have for me.  I love that it can serve so many purposes pulling double duty for bridal and baby showers!

Today's card is somewhat similar to the ones I shared last week with the paper strips going the opposite direction.  I admit that when I find something that works, I milk it for all it's worth.  ;)  I paper-pieced my umbrella using Teresa Collin's Everyday Moments 6x6 pad.  Blue and yellow is another one of those color schemes that I also fall for.  How about you?  What are some of your favorite color combinations?

Day 15- A Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Card

Another day, another card.  :)

Today I used some more of my Teresa Collin Christmas Cottage scraps to create a tradtional themed Christmas card.  For this one I wanted to play with my Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia die that I picked up last year and never got around to using.  What I love most about my Sizzix dies is that they can cut through so many materials.  I decided to pull out some thick craft felt to lend a little texture to my card.

This design would be so easy to mass produce.  You just might want to rethink the felt and bulky pearl in favor of materials with a lower profile to fit through the mail.  ;)

My Supply List

• Cardstock- Craft Supply
• Patterned Paper- Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage (tiny flowers, sentiments)
• Borders Strips- Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage
• Pearl- Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage
• Washi Tape- MT Masking Tape (Shippou Beni)
• Die- Sizzix Tim Holtz Tattered Poinsettia
• Stamps- Hero Arts Joy To All
• Ink- Versafine Onyx Black
• Felt- Kunin Rainbow Classic Felt (ruby)

Thanks for hanging with me today.  :)

Day 13- 5 Teresa Collins Christmas cards for under $5

Welcome  to Day 13 of my Holiday Inspiration series!  

Today I have another card set that I created for Paper Crafts Magazine's challenge to create 5 cards for under $5 (more cards with this idea can be found in their November/December 2013).  For those that missed my Doodlebug cards with the same challenge, the idea was that they wanted us to create 5 cards for under $5 and the only extra "freebies" we were allowed was ink, our computers and a paper trimmer.  

This time I used Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Collection which I also found on an awesome clearance sale after the holidays.  My papers were actually "only" 30% off, but I picked up the cutouts and matching bling at a later date for a whopping 70% off and my mini spool of American Crafts ribbon was 95% off!  Seriously, you can beat 5 cents for 4 feet of ribbon!  ;)

Once again I planned cards that used all straight lines and wouldn't need any special punches or diecuts.  I also tried to find sketches that used my cardstock cutouts to their fullest.

For my banner card, I typed the word "enjoy" on a piece of printer paper with lots of space between each letter.  I then used temporary adhesive to adhere my pennants over the top of each letter and ran it through the printer a second time. It took only a little bit of time and sure beat spending a fortune on a alphabet stamp set.  

I like how the design with the criss-crossed ribbon looks like a wrapped holiday present with gift tags for the sentiment.  Many of the sketches I used to inspire today's cards are by Viva La Verge.

For my last card, I really wanted to have a large poinsettia to mimic the little poinsettias in the patterned paper.  Since I couldn't use any dies or punches to acheive the look I wanted, I just fussy cut my own creating a template from construction paper and tracing it onto the back of the red patterned paper.  It totally brought me back to my days of an early scrapbooker when I had limited tools on hand and I gotta say it felt really good.  ;)

Here's a breakdown on how I used my $5 budget:

• (3) 8.5x11 Sheets of Bazzill Basics Swiss Dot Cardstock- $0.25 each x 3= $0.75
• (3) Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Patterned Papers (Red Snowflakes, Sentiments, Tiny Flowers)- $.60 x 3= $1.80
• (1) Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Cardstock Cutouts- $0.60
• (1) Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Gems & Pearls- $1.20
• (1) American Crafts Mini Ribbon Roll- $.05
• Fonts: Imprint MT Shadow & Arial Narrow- FREE

Subtotal= $4.40 + $.37 Sales Tax (WA 8.4%)= $4.77 Grand Total

Once again, I definitely had enough leftover embellishments and patterned papers to create an extra card or two, but this time I ran out of cardstock for my card bases.  

If you decide try this challenge I would totally love to see your take on it.  I imagine if you made 50 cards for $50 you could even add a few tools to the mix.  ;)  Thanks so much for stopping by.

A Teresa Collins Wedding Themed Layout

How's it going?  I thought I would finally share a layout I made for one of the Craft Warehouse Scrapbook challenges about 6 months back. 

For this one we were given a Teresa Collins chipboard embellishment (mine was the flower button) and a half sheet of the doubled sided Teresa Collins music note paper to use. I paired them with some other Teresa Collins 6x6 papers and some coordinating My Mind's Eye and Authentique scraps I had in the same colors.

I used sketch #39 designed by Susan Stringfellow found HERE.  I loved the simple, graphic feel of the sketch and how it looked paired with wedding photos.  Even more, I love how it utilized so many small scraps of paper! 

Pretty simple, but I gotta say it was so nice finally getting some of these photos scrapbooked after sitting in my photo box since 2008!  ;) 

Thanks so much for swing by. 

A Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage Layout

Today I have a post-holiday layout to share that I made using this year's family photo in front of the tree (hopefully you aren't completely sick of Christmas projects at this point).  ;)  

I recently finished it for a challenge at my local Craft Warehouse scrapbook club where we were asked to use the green cardstock (which I used to cut out my vines), the Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage numbers patterned paper (which I used to isolate the number 24) and the red wood star.  It had actually been a very long time since I hadn't used my Silhouette in some fashion for a project and I found it sort of refreshing to rely on pre-made embellishments. 

For the title I mixed American Crafts red Thickers with various stamps.  The word "for" was taken from a phrase found in one of Ali's stamp sets made by Technique Tuesday and the word "Christmas" was created using the awesome Stepping Stones set created by Hero Arts/Studio Calico.  It was my first time using it and it is seriously cool!  Then, last but not least, the line stamped below the title came from Technique Tuesday's December Daily set created by Ali Edwards as well.  Love mixing it up with the different fonts!

The banner and glittered borders were created with coordinating cutouts from the Christmas Cottage line.  The layered felt poinsettia was cut using a new Sizzix die that I picked up this year by Tim Holtz called Tattered Poinsettia.  The Brads are from Echo Park's This and That Christmas collection and the vine diecuts were cut using the Die-namics Leafy Flourish die by My Favorite Things.

So there ya have it.  Thanks for stopping by and peeking!  :)

A Teresa Collins Double Page Layout

Happy Friday!!!

If you are here for the Papertrey Ink Make-it-Monday challenge please scroll down or click here.  :)

I was originally going to continue my blast from the past and share a couple more older layouts today, but I finally got around to taking pictures of some of my newer layouts yesterday and I can't resist the urge to share newer pages instead.  Continuing with my double page layout theme this week, this is one I created for yet another Craft Warehouse Scrapbook Club challenge... :)











For this challenge we were given a sheet of the yellow cardstock, a half sheet of the double-sided striped paper, the navy brad and a brighter blue diecut circle (it was too light for my layout so I inked it up and layered it under the yellow brad for my flower).  The only requirements are that we asked to use a little bit of everything they give us and then when we come back the following month we share them with the group and get a mini prize for participating.  :)

I have sort of been hoarding these favorite pictures of my daughter for a couple years now waiting for the right product to come by that would inspire me to finally dig in and scrapbook them.  Well it turns out Teresa Collins Everyday Moments (mixed with a bit of the yellow prints her Carlina Breeze 6x6 pad) was just was I was looking for!

I cut the title, scalloped circle and damask print out on my Silhouette.  The damask design by Lori Whitlock was a single "section" and using the duplicate feature, I made three and lined them up so that they were touching.  I then used the weld function to make them cut out as one connected piece.  I had never cut this shape before and I really like how it turned out!  :)

Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper- Teresa Collins
Cardstock- Bazzill Basics (Navy, White), DCWAV (yellow)
Brads- Making Memories (Yellow Epoxy), American Crafts (Glitter), Teresa Collins (navy epoxy)
Flowers- Bazzill Basics
Tab Die- My Favorite Things Die-namics
Ribbon- Pebbles
Border Punches- EK Success
Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink

Hope you all have a great weekend and thanks so much for stopping by!  :)