Mothers Day is coming up pretty quick so what better gift could you give her than an album full of pictures of her children? Unfortunately I can’t give this one to Heather because she made half of it but take a few minutes and make one for the mother you have in your life. We had these pictures that grandma took as they played cowboy (and cowgirl) at their house. These Albums from Want2Scrap are really fun to put together and they have so many different styles to choose from. Sometimes it is nice to get a break from doing page layouts that are not the usual size, it allows you to approach it a little different than you normally do. We also used a lot of different papers but took a lot of them from Teresa Collins He Said She Said pack which includes so many different papers, embellishments, and anything else you might need to jazz up a page. Take a look:

Well mothers I hope you all a Happy mothers Day!

Recipe:

1670- Want2Scrap: Wanted for Stealing Hearts Album

HSS132- Teresa Collins: He Said She Said (He Said)

HSS172- Teresa Collins: He Said She Said (She Said)

LOV010- Authentique: Lovely Collection

MS-003-00108- DCWV:A Guilded Orchard Matstack

MS-003-00107- DCWV: A Type of Art Matstack

4500638- Graphic 45: French Country Collection

ST1030- My Minds Eye: The Sweetest thing

TIM32823-Tim Holtz: Distress Ink Gathered Twigs

Flower Embelishments

Thanks and Happy Scrappin!!

Doug and Heather

It’s time for me to gush out my love! Stationary Noted meets QuicKutz Square Doilies for the cutest layout and most fun you can have in a 2 hour time-frame! It’s nothing new to say that I am totally in LOVE with Teresa Collins. I swear, that woman knows how to speak to my heart through paper, colors, stickers, chipboard, buttons, flowers, you name it! Stationary Noted has such fun colors! They are subtle and bold at the same time and there are countless ways to use them!

Let’s also talk about the QuicKutz Nesting Square Doilies. These are more adorable than I thought they would be! Seriously, they are darling! Come to think of it, you can make the most wonderful and frilly card with just these dies! How fun is that going to be! They are so easy to cut out and just so cute. On my layout, I used them for mattes for pictures and for decoration. So fun!

Products used:

DC 0432 – QuicKutz Nesting Sqaure Doilies

S5-156 – Spellbinders Labels 29

SN1032 – Teresa Collins Stationary Noted 12X12 paper pack

202 – 1/4″ Scor-Tape

Have fun with it! I had the buttons and most embellishments, but I like to use the paper for embellishments too, so cut your heart out!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Stacy

Sometimes I just want to make a,  To Tell Your Story card to brighten someones day and I believe that this card will do just that.  This Card has alot of bright colors and it just makes you feel happy and ready for summer.  It was so fast and easy to make.  I picked Teresa Collins paper packet, Tell Your Story and there is some beautiful bright colors on this paper collection that I used for my card.  I also used QuicKutz die called, Nesting Flowers for.  I love this die and how easy it was to use and the beautiful flower that it cuts out.  I also used Sizzix Big Shot to cut out my die cuts.  and then to finish off my card I used Hero Hues Chalk ink and Want2Scrap pearl bling to pull all the embellishments together. I Love this Card and I hope you do to and I hope it will brighten up your day!

Receipe:

657900 – Sizzix Big Shot

DC0350- QuicKutz Nesting Flower

YS1029- Teresa Collins, Tell Your Story packet

AF184 – Hero Hues Chalk ink

SKU TDU - Want2Scrap pearls

I hope you will enjoy today’s tutorial showing you exactly how I made this card!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin!!

Alexis

I have been so excited to do this Teresa Collins Memories layout! In the Memories Collection Pack you receive 9 sheets of doublesided cardstock paper and a 12×12 accessories sheet. Also available in a 6×6 paper pad. I love the colors in this pack. They are so soft and subtle.

I was able to get some additional embellishments that coordinate with this pack, but most of this layout was done using the paper and accessories sheet. The flowers were an embellishment which I got separately, but you could make your own using any flower dies.

The only other products I used were adhesive and Spellbinders Grand Decorative Oval, which requires the Grand Calibur Machine.

This was extremely easy and fun! I love having coordinating paper and accessories to work with.  It takes out all of the guess work as to coordinating paper and embellishments, which saves a lot of time. So nice!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

When we got the Sizzix Ballroom Slippers I thought right away that these would be perfect for decorating our daughters room. Our two year old is such a diva and has a fascination with shoes (especially high heals). We just sat down yesterday and started to play with the die set and these are what we came up with.

What we did was grabbed some of our double sided 6×6 paper pads, ran the dies through our Cuddlebug, and glued everything together; they are so simple and even give you crease lines to fold on. I really liked how the shoe turned out from the Teresa Collins Vintage Finds paper stack. We used double sided paper for most of them because the other side will be seen but they look really nice when you can see the white paper as well.  You can use really anything to finish them off: flowers, gems, or any other accessory to complete these fun filled shoes. We used on some of them Sizzix Summer Florals and Medallions which were really fun to make, Just cut out, fold along the perferations, glue the ends together, and stick something in the middle to hold it in place.

This was a really fun project and we are excited to do more of them to put around our girls room. Hope you have fun with it as well.

Resipe:

658346: Sizzix-Ballroom Slippers

658340: Sizzix-Summer Florals

658339: Sizzix-Medallions

4500628: Graphic 45-Sunflower

4500634: Graphic 45-Deja Vu

6×6201: My Minds Eye-A Mothers Love

VF1010: Teresa Collins-Vintage Finds

13417435: Bo Bunny-Serenade

2170: Want2Scrap-Orange Rhinestones

2294: Want2Scrap-Gun Metal Pearls

2228: Want2Scrap-Amber Rhinestones

2292: Want2Scrap-Coral Pearls

Ribbon

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Heather and Doug

With all thesnow that has melted and the Tulips starting to come out of the ground it makes me think its Tea Time! I am ready to have a party with my little ones and we love Tea Partys so I made a adorable card that I wanted to share with you.  I used Teresa Collins, Tell Your Story, paper collection and Want2Scrap has the cutest little Tea Pot and Cups card board cut outs that I thought was perfect for this project.  I then used Scor Tape and Hero Hues Chalk Ink to highlight my tea pot and tea cup.  Then Sizzix has a great die called Labels, Majestic that I had to use to add some bling and lettering on.  I love this card it is most definatly my favorite card so far and I can not wait to have my tea party with my little ones and celebrate Spring!

Receipe:

202 Scor- Tape

655268- Sizzix Big Shot

658693- Sizzix Labels, Majestic

YS1029- Teresa Collins, Tell Your Story, paper collection

AF184- Hero Hues Chalk Ink, Latte

4360- Tea pot with cups

Follow along in my video tutorial!

Thank and Happy Scrappin!!

Alexis

Wow! that is the word for this “He Said She Said Collection” by Teresa Collins because of all that they include in the set which makes page layouts a breeze. I am really pleased with this spread and most of it is just picking and choosing fun little things that come with the collection to add to it. Yes all the little embellishments came with the collection, we added enamel dots, paper quotes, decorative beads, photo corners, boarder strips, decorative buttons, chipboard embellishments and there were so many more to choose from. The paper patterns are great, we added some solids in as well because we felt that just patterns made it a little busy. We also stamped Brextons name using Hero Arts Stepping Stone Alphabet and Tim Holtz distress ink. There are a total of 9 double sided papers and like I said earlier plenty of extras to make all 9 pages just as cute as these ones.

About the photo’s this is my son Brexton and we just celebrated his first birthday on Saturday so it was a lot of fun to look back one year ago and see how small and cute he was (He is still cute but in a different way). It is amazing what happens in one short year, they start out so helpless and now he is walking and has quite the little personality. He is quite the little boy!

Again I cannot say enough good about these collections by Teresa Collins, you’ve got to try them out for yourself!

Recipe:

HSS132- Teresa Collins: He Said She Said (He Said)

HSS172- Teresa Collins: He Said She Said (She Said)

330055-Hero Arts:Stepping Stone Alphabet

REN009-Authentique: 8X8 Bundle Renew Collection

Hop002-Authentique: Promise Paper

TIM32823-Tim Holtz: Distress Ink (Gathered Twigs)

Brown and blue cardstock

Scor Tape

Thanks and Happy Scrappin!

Doug and Heather

My daughter Stacy , who is also one of our designers, is totally hooked on Teresa Collins paper collections, so sweetie, I am dedicating this Teresa Collins Winter 2013 Booth blog post to you!

We are frantically trying to get all of the new products on our website, so if you don’t see some of the items I am showing you in our blog yet, don’t be discouraged, they will be up soon! Marcie is working long hours getting all of the new product listed! We love you Marcie!

I so enjoy visiting the Teresa Collins’ booth at the show! She is so sweet and gracious, and this time, her daughters  Gentry and Tayor came to help her. They are just as beautiful as their mother and just as sweet! They all have so much fun together. You can tell that they are so close.

Teresa’s products are beautifully designed, quality products that enable users to create beautifully unique projects of their own whether they are scrapbook layouts, cards or altered projects.

Her new lines are entitled:

Stationary Noted-From cool blue damask to bright red poppies, these designs will make any project look great. Available in 6×6 paper pad and a 12×12 collection kit.

Memories-The past, present and future can all come together with this calendar themed collection. It comes in a 6×6 paper pad and a 12×12 collection kit.

Far and Away-This travel themed paper comes in two sizes, a 6×6 paper pad and a 12×12 collection kit.

He Said, She Said-Hear both sides of the story and you decide with this coordinating paper! Both designs come in 6×6 paper pads and 12×12 collection kits.

Here are a few of her displays showing projects created from the new lines.

I also took some video so you can see each of the paper lines! You can also get a glimpse of Teresa and her girls. Lots of fun!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

It is official, our house is decorated and these gift decorations made with a couple 2×4′s and some Christmas paper from Teresa Collins and First Edition really brought the spirit of Christmas into our house. I hope that all of you Black Friday shoppers survived this morning, Heather and I stayed home and got all of our decorating all up instead. It is always so much fun to put up new decorations and this year we have quite a few as we do something new each week so that we can blog about it. This one couldn’t be easier, just go out in your garage and cut down some 2×4′s and lightly sand them (or do what Heather did and have your husband do that part). Next, paint each piece whatever color you want and mod podge the paper on. Last, just glue the pieces together and tie a ribbon around them and there you have it, finished.

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! Try some of these crafting ideas to give your home a fresh look this Christmas.

Recipe:

CC1010- Tresa Collins: Christmas Cottage

FEPAD07-First Edition: Christmas Village

Wood

Mod Podge

Craft Paint

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Doug and Heather

It is that time of year for sending out greeting cards, so this Christmas Cottage card is an easy idea using only one 12 x 12 sheet of paper for the whole thing! Oh, and I did use one of the sayings from the accessory sheet.

Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage 12×12 Collection Pack comes in traditional colors of black, red, green and white, this paper is all you need for great Christmas designs. You receive 9 sheets of 12×12 double-sided cardstock paper and two 12×12 sheet of double-sided die-cut accessories. It also comes in the 6×6 size. See this and other Teresa Collins collections HERE.

Products used:

CC1031-Teresa Collins Christmas Cottage 12 x 12 Paper Pack

S5-117- Spellbinders 2012 Snowflake Pendant

S4-380-Spellbinders Decorative Labels Twenty-Seven

2293-Want2Scrap Brown Rhinestones

Adhesive

If you are procrastinating (like I am) about getting your cards mads, something like this whips up quickly and still has the pizazz of a special personalized card. The rhinestones are small enough they should not be a problem sending in a regular envelope, which I want to create a matching one with my new Scor-Envi, but ran out of time when I was working on my projects. It will only take a few minutes to do when I’m ready for the envelope.

Whatever your plans for your cards, remember to enjoy the process and have fun!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

We are all looking for the latest innovations for our scrapbooking/card making addiction, so I want to show you the latest releases for Teresa Collins and My Mind’s Eye paper! I love them both because they are great for layouts and cards a like.

First of all, let’s show you this gorgeous Teresa Collins Now & Then 12×12 Collection Pack designer paper pad.  In this line you will see the classic Teresa Collins’ touch, with pristine, sophisticated designs that are perfect for every crafter’s needs. In colors of red, taupe, green and blue, this paper is all you need for great designs. You receive 9 sheets of 12×12 double-sided cardstock paper and one 12×12 sheet of double-sided die-cut accessories. Now & Then also comes in the 6×6 size. See HERE for both sizes.

Isn’t it fabulous? Teresa’s collections are always classy!

Now let’s check out . They have 3 new designs that will knock your socks off! We’ll start with their Luck in Love 12×12 Paper and Accessories Kit. This kit includes nine sheets of 12 x 12 double sided cardstock paper and a coordinating accessory sheet in a Valentines Day theme in colors of red, aqua and pink. You can also purchase this paper in 6×6 size as well. See HERE for both sizes.

These next two we sell in 6×6 size only.  Oliver, from the Lost & Found 3 Collection, includes 24 sheets of doublesided cardstock paper in 12 different designs of floral, stripes and geometrics in shades of blue, taupe and yellow.

Ruby, from the Lost & Found 3 Collection, includes 24 sheets of doublesided cardstock paper in 12 different designs of floral, paisley and travel themes in shades of red, taupe and pink.

If you are like me,  you have already had ideas flowing faster through your head than you can ever hope to keep up with, but then, that is just the life of a paper junkie! I can ALWAYS think of ideas around beautiful paper! Sometimes though, it’s so pretty that I just don’t want to do anything with it except look at it. I know, that is pathetic, but I do know I am not the only one that does that!

You can find all of these beautiful paper pads and others from My Mind’s Eye HERE on our site!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

Heather created this page to celebrate my grandfathers 90th birthday using Teresa Collins Vintage Finds Designer Packs. I know what you are saying, “WOW! 90 years” but actually like I said, we are a little behind on scrapbooking our photos and we will be celebrating 95 come this April. When we got this vintage paper pack Heather thought of this page right off the bat. Sometimes it is easy to make a page more important than the pictures especially when the are lacking vibrant colors or in this case color all together. This was a great choice with the blacks and whites of the paper tying in the photos nicely. The paper packs also come with a whole sheet of embellishments made to look like old clip art that you can jazz up little dead areas on the page. It is fun to use the paper packs and the 6X6 pads with one another, it gives you a lot of great options.

Recipe:

VF1026: Teresa Collins Vintage Finds Collection Pack

VF1010: Teresa Collins Vintage Finds 6×6

Card stock

Foam Stamps

Ink

201 Scor-Tape 1/8

I agree with Stacy that these paper packs really make nice pages very quickly and include practically everything you need for a nice layout. As you can see with this layout Heather only used one collection.

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Doug and Heather

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

It is always sad to see something we love disappear, but it is important in this industry to keep things fresh and Graphic 45 knows this all to well, so they are “cleaning house” to make room for exciting new products and have given us the list of Graphic 45 Collections being retired! Get them quick WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. If you wait, you may miss out! Paper Pads, stamps, die cuts and stickers, it will all disappear!

On The Boardwalk

Le Cirque

Curtain Call

Once Upon A Springtime

Steampunk Debutante (we are sold out)

The Magic Of Oz

Christmas Emporium

If you are not worried about stocking up on these products, but would like the more current releases, you can always find them in our Graphic 45 category HERE! There are still lots of other choices to choose from!

If G-45 is not your style, we also carry beautiful paper lines from the following manufacturers:

Basic Grey

Bo Bunny

DCWV

First Edition

Heartfelt Creations (New this season)

My Mind’s Eye

Teresa Collins

Tim Holtz

There is something for every style- scrapbookers and card makers alike! Time to go shopping? Let’s go! No need to get dressed up and no closing time online!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Carrie

Here I am, announcing my new Spellbinders layout! I wanted to really show the products on this layout, so I took the liberty of not adding pictures quite yet. I used so many different Spellbinders on this layout and it just comes to show that they all work so perfectly together. Flowers, circles, rectangles, squares. You name it. It works!!! I started out very, very simple with this layout and the more I got into it, the more product I started using and the more fun it became.

The one thing that I loved about this layout is the detail. It is just not the same without it! Those gorgeous Foliage Two leaves and those added Want2Scrap jewels really do make the layout shine (thanks to Carrie for showing me how much adding bling really helps a layout)! I always put a page together before I adhere it and I ended up adding something each time I laid it out.

I did use some of the new QuicKutz on my layout as well! The Flourish Borders  are the perfect addition to framing my “Family” at the bottom and the Botanical looks lovely next to the picture slot! Oh….and I just can’t forget to give a little shout out to my favorite Blossom Five who really lit up the pages!

On this second page of the layout, I wanted to really frame and draw attention to my quote at the bottom. I used the Decorative Labels One to frame the quote and I love that it doesn’t get swallowed into the realm of saying’s-that-never-get-read. All because it has a gorgeous frame to highlight it!

Products used:

Cardstock

Teresa Collins Sweet Afternoon 6X6 Paper Pad

DC0318- QuicKutz Botanical

S5-133-Spellbinders A2 Polka Dots

S5-123- Spellbinders Asian Accents

S4-370 Spellbinders Blossom Five

DC 0317- QuicKutz Flourish Borders

S5-129 Spellbinders Foliage Two

S4-385- Spellbinders Little Leaf Sets

S5-147 Spellbinders Resplendent Rectangles

S4-379 Spellbinders Decorative Labels One

MC-1- Multicolored Bling

4039- Sleek Strips pearls-white

4040- Sleek Strips Pearls- Le Creme

BH-1 Bling Hearts

Jasmine Cricut Cartridge

Find Joy Stamp

Paper Doilie

Black Ink Pad

I am really excited how these pages turned out and I can’t wait to get some pictures on them and add my journaling. So, go crazy! Add those extra leaves and extra pearls/rhinestones to pretty up your pages! It’s so much more fun!

Thanks and Happy Scrappin’!

Stacy