I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Teresa Collins steals my heart every time and the Tell Your Story Collection Pack is no exception. It is adorable, beautiful, sweet, comfortable, playful, and fun! If you’re thinking, “Hmm….that’s a little what love sounds like,” then your absolutely right! It’s wonderful and fun to be in love and that’s exactly what using this paper felt like: wonderful and fun! Normally I spend countless minutes (even hours) matching paper, looking at ideas, trying to form a layout from an endless stupor of a scrapbookers “writer’s block”. This was not so. I gathered some dies, sat down, and the next thing I knew I had a double sided layout and a smile on my face. It was easy. It was effortless. It was fun!

For my first page, I chose my paper, chose two dies to work with, snipped a little here and there and was done! What? Yes! It’s that easy! I used the Quickutz Cookie Cutter Clouds die to give a little more aestheticism to the layering. I then used the A2 Matting Basics to place my pictures and add more pop of color. I didn’t think these matting tools would really ever come in handy, but one use and I’m converted! After cutting a few butterflies and adding raffia, I was done.

My second page was just as easy. This collection pack has so many things that I love about it, but one of the most useful things about it, is that some of the pages are matts or journaling embellishments. Can we all say, “LOVELY” together! Sigh. I used the Quickutz Braid and Knots on this page to “tie” the family theme together and I like how it turned out.

Products Used:

YS1029 – Teresa Collins Tell Your Story Collection Pack

DC0284 – QuicKutz Butterflies

S5-132 – A2 Matting Basics B

DC0338 – Quickutz Sun & Clouds

Dc0328 – Braid

DR0326 – Knots

Raffia

Adhesive

Seriously, when you have a good product, you don’t have to do that much to make something beautiful! I can’t scream loud enough that collection packs are a dream. They give you the paper and the embellishments which make a layout come out of thin air in no time. Go get that little thing called love (in paper form)!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Stacy

About Stacy Anderson

I just came on the team as a designer in May 2012, so I get the fun part of working! Having my sweet and wonderful mother as the other designer is too much fun and we love bouncing ideas off of each other for card making and scrapbooking. I am also the other blogger showing you the fun new products! I love the customer's input on the blog and love to hear what is being made by all the readers.

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