My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge &Cardstock Rose Tutorial

I did this page for the My Mind's Eye Blog Challenge #17. The challenge had to focus on "Lessons Learned" and I wanted to use the Holly Jolly collection and I had these cute pics of Speckles from last Christmas, so I chose to journal about learning a lesson from our dog!

Also, I had these little tiny rosebud blooms, we get them in the MCS kits and they are so cute, but sometimes I wanted a bigger bloom, so I made my own and used the bud for the center. I love making handmade blooms, mine aren't the best looking ones around by any means, but they are fun. So I thought I'd show how I made them.

It only takes a few basic supplies:

First cut 3 circles using any template.

Then divide into 4 sections and cut into petals. Cut a little more from one so that it's a little smaller than the other two.

Using a toothpick, piercing tool or any thing pointed curl the petal tips downward.
Then take each bloom and using a pencil with the eraser end just bend aroud the end of the pencil.
They will look something like this:
Then, just play with the petals, layer each one and place the little bud in the center!!!

Teresa Collins Memories

Teresa Collins Designs just had a design team call that ended yesterday. I thought I would share some pages that I've done over the last couple of years with her fabulous products! Good Luck to everyone who applied!

November kits from MyCreativeScrapbook! Basic Grey & Fancy Pants

WOW.....this months' kits from MyCreativeScrapbook are awesome!!! Brimming with all kinds of goodies, paper, trim, sparkly things....all kinds of treasures! I got to play with the Main kit that features Fancy Pants and the LE kit featuring Basic Grey's new Curio. Both kits were so much fun!

Starting off with the Main kit, featuring Fancy Pants "Happy Together". This first page is a picture of my 3 favorite things, my kids!!!!!

This one is our dd and one of her Senior pictures. The background paper is Pink Paislee's Parasian Anthology, and I just used chalks for the look that I wanted. The rest is FP. The little green roses are the buds, I used green cardstock to make them full blooms.

This is our oldest ds, he hates having his picture taken, so I don't have near enough layouts with him in them!!! LOL!

This is our youngest ds with some friends, just being their usual "goofy" selfs. The color just would not show up right in this page, I guess because of the little dots?!?!?!

This is me, when I was little, so you can see how versatile this kit is, girl pages, boy pages, heritage pages......anything!!!

This is another one of our dds Senior pictures. They were taken back in 2004, I took the photos on our front porch!

Now, this is the LE kit and lots of Basic Grey Curio goodness!!! This first one is our dd and her then fiance and one of their engagement pics. I used a larger picture for this layout and I really liked the look.

This one is a picture of Jenna, she is doing "PinUpsforSoldiers", it's a non-profit for our Troops. They do calendars and it's retro looking like the old 50's pinups. You can check it out at www.pinupsforsoldiers.org

This is a beautiful Fall picture, showing the beautiful colors of North Georgia!!!

This is another pic of our dd, I used black cardstock to make the little roses and trimmed them with Ranger stickles.

This is Jenna & Sam again, this is a huge old "carving" tree, it is really beautiful!!!

This is me with Jenna, I love pictures of me with the kids, but I take terrible pics!!!!

Both kits were full of all kinds of things, and the other kits are just as gorgeous. Please go check them out at www. mycreativescrapbook.com and please check out some of the DT blogs and see what they did with the kits too!!!!

Basic Grey "Curio" mini for EMI

Some New Samples for EMI **PP Parisian Anthology and BG Curio**

I haven't gotten to go to the store at all lately and I'm having withdrawals, but I have been working on samples. Susan has so many new lines coming to the store all the time!!! These samples were done with the new Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology from the House of Three and from Basic Grey's Curio collection.

The first two pages are done with Parisian Anthology. These papers are embossed so that you can ink them, or chalk them or distress them however you like. I did these 2 just with chalk! I love the soft look!

The next 2 pages are done with Curio. I think this is my favorite BG collection in a long time. I just love the colors and the patterns and the little accents too. This first page is a picture of me, I never scrap myself, I did this for Gabrielle's challenge over at MCS, and the second is some gorgeous pictures from a friend in Montana!!!! I so want to go there!!!

Yipee!!! Reveal Day at MCS!!!!! Websters and Crate Paper

It's reveal time again at MyCreativeScrapbook and this month is super fantabulous!!! I got to play with the Main and LE kits this month! The Main kit features Crate Paper's "Restoration" collection, and the LE kit features one of my all time favs, Websters Pages' "WonderFall" collection!!!

Please go to the website www.mycreativescrapbook.com and check out the rest of the kits and the Design Team's work with these gorgeous kits!!!

These first pages were done with the LE kit:

And these were done with Crate Paper!

Websters Pages Guest Designer for October!!!!!

WOW!!!! I still can't believe it! I was asked to be Webster's Guest Designer for the month of October. Anyone who knows me will tell you that I'm a total Websters junkie. Websters and Prima are my two favorites of all time. So to be asked was HUGE for me! I got a box of goodies crammed full of WONDERFALL and HOLLYWOOD VOGUE with all the trimmings!!!!

I posted them over at InspireMe today. I had so much fun, it's one of the first times that I've actually had all the extras to play with too! I got the sparklers, whimsies, trim and berry bouquet and a wire bouquet!!! I'm so excited when Pam (MCS) puts Websters in our kits too! (Sssssssh, don't tell, but look for more Websters here on the 5th!)

These first 3 layouts and the little boxes were made with the WONDERFALL collection.

These 3 pages were done with the beautiful HOLLYWOOD VOGUE collection.