Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, Mini Album - "Got GUM?"

Team Member Cheri created this remarkable mini album documenting a visit to The Seattle Gum Wall.  I love the way the Posh Paper Collection gives the photos a great color of pop. 

 I created the flap tag by folding a 1/4 inch into the binding so it really is acting as a "mini" page. **See the binding: page two is glued to page one on the center**

 I love that the pages are all different in size and shape.

 I tucked this tag's flap right under the photo. **You can see here the score marks for the binding - this is the center so it has the smallest space between scores.**

Cheri says:
To create the book I createdTemplates made from manilla folders, drawn out in different shapes. For the binding: Score cover/back cover - twice in middle w/half inch between scores, this should give you your cover, your book end & your back cover. Repeat for interior pages, scoring being less then the page before. Before gluing the pages together, create flap tags to go between layers then line up all your center scores & glue all "ends/centers" together. (See photo's with **) Layer photo's, add bling, stamp & add glitter. Place clip on book end & tie ribbon.


Items used:
POSH Papers: Black Lace Paper A & B Cameo Paper A & B Lace stripes paper side B Butterfly script paper side B Flower paper side A & B Gray Flourishes paper Side A & B Pink fishnet paper Side A Posh butterflies paper Side A & B Damask paper side A & B
Blingage used: Gentry's glitter Kayla's gems Taylors clip Zach's book plate Stephanie's gems
Jamie's gems Jesse's jewels Brooke's flower Alphabet stamp set
Misc: Cardstock Black & pink misc stamps - Technique Tuesday misc ribbon. Black Copic Marker, black ink - Ranger.

Thank you Cheri for another great creation.  Thank you everyone for coming to the Teresa Collins Design Team Blog. We hope we are able to keep you inspired and help you live a creative life.  For more inspiration using the Posh line feel free to look at our newsletter. HERE.
 

Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, More layout inspiration

Team member Yvonne created this great layout title "Captured". We love how she cut all the flowers framing the photo of her daughter.

Items used: Posh-Butterflies A & B, Posh-Butterfly script A & B, Posh- Posh flowers A & B,  Timeless-Clocks B, Blingage-Alphabet, Blingage-Jamie's Gems, Blingage-Stephanie's Gems, Other-Bazzill, Thickers, ribbon, Thermoweb


Team member Jamie Harder created this wonderful layout using pieces of each of the new paper lines. She has such a great eye for pulling pieces together and making them all work beautifully together.

Items used: Posh: Posh Damask, Posh: Cameo, Posh: Butterfly Script, Posh: Pink Fishnet, Sports Edition: Black Numbers, Sports Edition: Shields, On the Edge: Tags, On the Edge: Distressed Dots
Timeless: Time Clocks, Blingage: Amy's Gems; Jamie's Gems; Gentry's Glitter; Stephanie's Gems

Team member Laura created this gorgeous layout. We love her great sense of humor and how she incorporates it into her layouts.

Items used: Posh: Posh Damask, Gray Flourishes, Timeless: Time Clocks, Cardstock: Coredinations Black Magic Collection Journal It Girl: Pink Ledger. Stickers: American Crafts & Making Memories Key: JoAnns Jewels: Glitz Design Blingage: Amy's Gems Flowers: Prima

Transparency: Teresa Collins Timeclocks  Glimmer Mist: Tattered Angels Lace: Vintage
Doilies

Such a great variety! Thank you ladies! For more design team inspiration check out the newsletter.

Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, Card inspirataion

Today we are sharing our love of cards.

Team member Sesil says: I love creating quick and easy cards. I used my glitter ribbon by adding glitter to some Packing tape. I used glossy accents to the camo silhouette to give her more dimension, I also added Black stickeles around the cameo to bring out the bling in the black.

Items used to create her card: Posh: Butterfly Script, Pink Fishnet. Blingage: Jamie's  Gems, Gentry's Glitter Other Supplies: Ranger: Glossy Accents, Black Stickles Bazzill: Raven Cardstock 


Team member Amanda created this great 4x6 "love" card:

Items used: Posh – Butterfly Script paper B, Blingage - Jamie’s Gems, Stephanie’s Gems Other: Giving Thanks chipboard piece, pink distress ink, Bazzil cardstock, trim unknown, adhesive by Therm-o-web, glimmer mist.


Team member Colette created this cute cupcake card. She says: I traced the cupcake parts on Posh and lined the edge with glitter on the top part of the cupcake. I also glittered the U and R. Love the glitter-- it turns everything so pretty! I tied a pink Ribbon around the cupcake bottom and then glued the cupcake on to the card. 

Items used: Posh papers: Butterflies: both sides, Cameo. Blingage:  Ty's Stars, Gentry's glitter. Letters U and R Chic Bebe girl alphabet. Core'dinations Black/White cardstock. Cupcake chipboard -- Michaels Chip Chatter.  Pink Ribbon - Michaels.  Black Stazon Ink


Team member Cheri Created this flower card She says: To make the flower petals I cut around the flowers of the Damask paper in a rounded diamond shape for the first layer (six petals) and then slightly smaller for the second layer (five petals). I then rolled each petal around a pencil then unrolled them so they had a nice shape. I hot glued the center of the Gray flourishes paper and started layering my petals. Then I hot glued a Jesse's Gem in the center.

Items used: Items used: POSH PAPERS -Gray Flourishes, Damask. Blingage: Jesse's Gem. Misc. Hot Glue Pink card stock White 5.5 x 5.5 Square card.


For more great card inspiration take a look at this months Newsletter.

Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, Mini Album - "I love my dad coupon book"

Team member Julie Jacobs made this adorable little mini book from the POSH line.

I sewed a pocket page for the interior pages of this book...and then each page has a coupon in it, from the child featured on that page.

Each of the kids wrote a little note to their dad...it's on the back of their page (photo on the front).

I also used the Stampmaker to make two stamps (the cover one) and the one on each coupon tag.

the without complaining part is what makes it really valuable. ;)

Products Used:
Posh Gray flourishes - both, Butterfly script - both, Posh flower - both, Posh butterflies - both, Cameo - both, Pink fishnet - both, Black lace - front.

Blingage:  
Taylor's clips, Jamie's gems, Jesse's jewels, Zach's bookplates, Ty's stars, Gentry's glitter, Maxson's crowns, Stephanie's gems, Maddie's jewels.

Stamps:
TC Blingage Alphabet, TC Stampmaker.

Other:
Cardstock - Bazzill, 1 3/4" circle punch - Paper Shapers, corner rounder, border punch - EK Success, letter stickers - American Crafts, hole punch, heart punch - Fiskars, small alpha stamps - unknown, satin fabric, ribbon, sewing machine & chipboard.

Julie, thank you for such an amazing book!!


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Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, Design Team layout Inspiration

Design team member Jamie Harper is a professional photographer and has a very creative eye. Her layout "Natural Beauty" is stunning. She started with the Pink Fishnet paper as her base and layered Lace Stripes, rounding the corners, then layered the Butterfly paper as a matt to her photo's. Then she cut to width the back side of the Cameo paper using it as journaling for the date on the top of the photo and journaling for under it. She then hand cut a butterfly and added one of Taylor's Clips from the Blingage line.

Design team member Stacey says: I think Valentine's Day should be about celebrating all the people we love, including extended family members.  I wanted to document the relationship between my nieces, who are both teenagers.  

To create the layout, I simply cut different shaped blocks from five different sheets of patterned papers.  Then I popped some yellow and blue with it!  Don't be afraid to mix Teresa Collin's lines...the Photo Tag and chipboard piece are from the Celebrate and Noel lines!  I love that she makes black and white elements because they are so interchangeable, allowing you to stretch your stash!

Blingage:  Stephanie's Gems, Jamie's Gems, Jesse's Jewels

Posh:  Butterfly, Gray Flourishes, Pink Fishnet, Posh Damask A & B

Design team member Jamie Harder created this wonderful layout of her daughters titled "Sisters". Her base is the back side of the Damask paper. She then cut strips from the Butterflies, Pink Fishnet, and Butterfly paper (one strip from each side). She layered them onto a white cardstock. 

 We love how she cut an additional butterfly and layered the body using Gentry's Glitter from the Blingage line. She also added a strip along the bottom of her photo from the stars side of the ON THE EDGE tags page. Then she added Stephanies Gems from the Blingage line.

Thank you ladies for some wonderful designs and inspiration.  For more design team inspiration please check out our newsletter.

Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, Heart Wall hanging

Creative team member 

Laura McCollough created this amazing wall art in the shape of a heart.

We love how she added McKay's Gems from the blingage line to the top to hang it.

Laura started with her base which is a 12" paper mâché  heart that she had purchased at her local craft store. She hand cut the flowers from three pages of the POSH Flowers Paper cutting them in different sizes. She then glued them with white glue and started layering all her different sized flowers on top of each other to give depth and dimension. She added a stamped message framed in Zach's Book Plate and glued that on top of the hand cut flowers. She used Morgans Tear Drop on the bottom.


This is such a great project Laura thank you so much for such a unique and fun project!


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 http://www.teresacollinsdesigns.com/newsletter/feb2011.pdf

Teresa Collins Designs POSH Jewelery And Newsletter

A girl can never have too much bling. This is why we love jewelry so much. We have two amazing designers who like to mix things up with Teresa Collins Posh line and jewelry. These are the beautiful creations they have created:

Maridette Cachola altered this great ring using the Black Lace and Gray Flourishes paper from the POSH paper line.

Cheri Piles created a reversible necklace with Posh and Blingage:

Cheri was kind enough to share how to create this necklace. Here are the directions below:

Posh Necklace
Designed by Cheri Piles


Supplies:
BLINGAGE: Chain from Ashley's Necklace Morgans Teardrop Small Black round from Seth's Fleur De Lis Gentry's Glitter
Posh paper used: Cameo paper Pink Fishnet paper Gray flourishes paper side B
Misc. Jump rings, silver foil tape


1.cut two CAMEO"S from the cameo paper, glue the cameo's onto chipboard and then together. 
2.Glue Gentry's Glitter to the scallop edges of the cameo's and set aside to dry.  
3.Cut small circle from the pink fishnet paper, glue it to the back of tear drop round gem, cutting off any access paper. I find it's easier to do this way vs. trying to size it or to  create a pattern.
4.Cut a tear drop shape out of side B of the Gray flourishes paper glue to back of tear drop and cut off access.  Line each piece with silver foil tape. 
5. Then I went back to the cameo and filled with Glossy Accents, punched holes in cameo for jump rings 
6. Finally I attached all the pieces. I also added the center piece of Seth's fleur de Lis to the chain.

The best part of this necklace is that It's reversible! I love that so much! I hope you enjoy your necklace as much as I do. 



It is amazing what Maridette and Cheri created using the Posh line, for more projects check out, our newsletter.  February Newsletter is chalked packed full of inspiration please take a look: http://www.teresacollinsdesigns.com/newsletter/feb2011.pdf

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Teresa Collins Designs - POSH, Altered Valentine's Bottle Tutorial by Stacey Michaud

We wanted to welcome you to the Teresa Collins Design Team Blog. We hope we are able to inspire and help spark your creativity. Each week we will feature a project or two with each of our Design Team Members.

 To start off this week of LOVE is Stacey Michaud with an Altered Valentine's Bottle Tutorial. We are so lucky to have Stacey on our team. Hope you enjoy the tutorial as much as we love having her on the team.

Stacey  says...I created this fun and simple Valentine's Day Set that could be used as a gift!  Simply alter a small glass bottle by adding a decorative sleeve and filling it with gum-balls!  The card was made with two sheets of paper and a doily from the craft section of my local hobby store!


Start the bottle by adding a rectangular piece of the Butterfly paper, making a sleeve.

Step Three!  Finish off by tieing the ribbon around the bottle.  I tucked my ends under the hearts!  Add some Blingage and you are done!

Supplies:
Posh:  Posh Butterflies, Butterfly, Pink Fishnet, Gray Flourish

Blingage:  Jesse's Jewels, Stephanie's Gems, Jamie's Gems
Other:  Twine, Doily, Alphabet letters 

Stacey's blog is:
http://staceymichaud.blogspot.com/

Thank you Stacey for such a great Valentine's Tutorial! Make sure you stop by for more inspiration during the week. HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!