A week in the life...and Merry Christmas from julie :)

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas today! :)

I know you're probably hip deep in gifts and crumpled up wrapping paper.  Maybe your'e sacked out on the couch in the throes of a food coma...that's all good!

I want to quick share my A Week in the Life pages with you.  I did the week of Thanksgiving.

I used divided 8.5x11 page protectors.  The top part is about 4.5x8...and the bottom holds two 4x6's.

I just wrote about some things that happened each day (big or small)...like my ice cube maker working again...yay!  

Monday:

I used LOTS of different Teresa Collins lines in my week.  How many lines can you find? :)  (And duck tape...that's always good.)  

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Thursday was Thanksgiving. :)  

Friday:

Black Friday!  (We opened up several Black Friday goodies this morning.)

Saturday:

There you have it.  My week. :)  I really enjoyed breaking down each day into three little sections.  

Have a wonderful Christmas Day!

my blog :)

A week in a life project life style with Sesil Cratin

Sesil here to show my project with a week in the life.  I have to admit, when I got the assignment I told myself this will give me a chance to see if I like the whole Project Life.  So I thought I would give it a try.

 This is what I came up with:

I didn't have any of the Project Life page protectors but I did have the We R Memory Keepers divided page protectors.  So I was using what I had.  I grabbed some of my Christmas Cottage scraps and started layering the papers with my pictures.  This is what I was able to do.

As you see mostly pictures and not much journaling.  My next page will be in a 8.5 x 11 page with all the boring details of my week. I will write out the stories for the kids and all the activities they do during the week.  This will give me an opportunity to write down what the kids say everyday when I ask them. "What was your favorite part of the day?"  I have asked them this question every night at the dinner table since they were able to talk. So I said it here. I will jump on the project life movement.  I will use my Teresa Collins Designs for my inserts and embellishments.  I will make it work to my style.

Hope you have a Merry Christmas and a Great New Year!!!

***WINNER ANNOUNCEMENT*** 

The winner of the Kaboo bag is :

Paper Sewn VisionsDecember 19, 2012 11:31 PM

Happy Holidays Kaboo Style

Congratulations!! Please email me at sesil@teresacollinsdeisngs.com with your address.

Thank you to everyone that participated!

www.sesilcratin.com

Woohoo! It's...........

Wow!  Is it just me, or did July totally fly by?  

Eeks, before you know it, the first day of school will be here!  I do confess to having bought school supplies already.  I just can't resist that stuff...

It is my absolute pleasure to introduce you to this Friday's Featured Fan.....

Krystle Thomas! 

I love this layout she did using TC Fabrications Linen:

Great photos...and I SOOOO love what she did with the brads & bling...making that super cool heart on the left page.  Beautiful!!

Amazing job Krystle!  Thank you for sharing...

You can see more of her work on her blog...High Times in the High Desert.

We will be featuring another fabulous fan next month...watch for the post to link your project to!

iphone 4 case by Dedra Long

You have been waiting and waiting, you have purchased it and you're holding it in your hands, that perfect piece of patterned paper! That favorite piece of paper that you could carry around with you all day. Well, that has been me on many occasions and I have found the perfect way to carry around the patterned papers I love and switch them out when I want to, because let's face it, more often than not there are many patterned papers we love. Typically, I'll speak for myself, I end up buying multiple sheets of that favorite paper.
I have started making and switching out my iphone case covers. My current iphone case cover simply had a photo in it. Here is what it looked like before I swtiched it out:

Here is the base paper I chose to switch too and what it looks like measured and cut to fit my iphone:

Here is my iphone complete with the new case cover:

After I chose the base patterned paper, I used one of my favorite Teresa Collins stamps, a die cut cardstock piece from the Sweet Afternoon Collection and stitched it onto the paper. I can't wait for my new favorite papers to come in, so I can switch my case cover out again! Until then, I'm going to enjoy my current favorite.

Supplies used:
Sweet Afternoon Going Downtown Paper
Fabrications Acrylic Stamps
Sweet Afternoon Die Cut Cardstock Sheet
Sewing Machine

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!

Anniversary Shadow Box by Dedra Long

I love shadowboxes and I have had this one for about a year. I always seem to have special things laying around and I'm always waiting for "just the right" paper, embellishments, etc. I have heard others talk about having this same problem.

So, I decided there was no time like the present and being that I love shadowboxes this is not my first and it sure won't be the last one I create to hang in the house. That reminds me, I need to tell Jon to add some more of these to his list of things he can always bring home to me.

I have always loved making these rolled flowers. I first creating flowers like these with old book pages. To create these I used pages from two 6" x 6" paper pads. After cutting each one, rolling them and gluing them together, I finished each flower off with brads and blingage. To balance the shadowbox I added the "cherish" stamped image. Super fun!

Supplies used:
6x6 Carolina Breeze Paper Pad
6x6 Sweet Afternoon Paper Pad
Sweet Afternoon Brads
Blingage
Fabrications Acrylic Stamps

Thanks so much for stopping by and taking a look! I hope you have a great weekend.

With CHA around the corner and the new releases coming out you will want to be sure to follow the Teresa Collins Designs Facebook Page, be sure to spread the word and like us on Facebook to see all the fun coming up!!

Fabrications Linen - enlarged photo layout by Amanda Jones

Hi TCD fans! Amanda here to share with you how I made this layout with the focus on a large photo.

I wanted to use a large photo here as the photo was taken on a recent day trip to "The Eden Project" in Cornwall, UK. It is a photo of a waterfall taken from above the level of the rainforest canopy, so I wanted to give it perspective on the page. I enlarged my photo to measure 8 1/2" wide to fit the page size I wanted to create. The layout is based on a piece of 8 1/2" x 11" cream cardstock. The rest of the supplies are all from the Fabrications Linen collection.

1. Mount your photo onto the reverse of a piece of 'Red Flowers' paper, leaving a 1/4" border at the top.

2. Tuck the circular die cut piece between the photo and the red flowers paper, leaving  semi-circle shape poking out of the top. Add a red fleur-de-lis die-cut on top of the photo and circle die-cut.

3. Stick the scalloped border sticker along the bottom of the photo.

4. Layer the 'Life delights in life' chipboard piece on top of the green label die-cut and adhere to the bottom right of the photo.

5. Add a few label stickers and die-cuts to the bottom right of your page to house your journaling.

Have a great day, everyone! Make sure to follow us on Facebook! Spread the word, we have some exciting things coming up with CHA around the corner!!

Glitter, Glitter, Glitter - 3 DIY glitter projects with Cheri

I love Gentry's glitter from the Blingage collection - I know, I know, I know, you have heard me say this a time or two but I do LOVE it! It's so fine and sparkly!!

PROJECT#1: DIY CHARM NECKLACE

Supplies used: Gentry's Glitter, Sweet afternoon pink paper from 6x6 paper pad. Die Cuts also from Swee Afternoon and one pink bling brad. Other: 1x3 strip of music notes, 1x3 memory frame and glass 1x3 (two pieces), pink ink pad (Tim Holtz distress in spun sugar).

1. Cut a 1x3 strip from the pink paper, lay it pink side down on your glass. This will become the back side so that you have a nice pretty back for your necklace.

2. Lay your music notes on top. (You don't need to glue it because the glass will hold it all together.)

3. Trim your sweet afternoon banner to fit inside the frame and ink around edges.

4. Cut a heart shape from your pink paper.

5. (*Optional - ink first in pink) Cut the "you make my heart sing" into strips.

6. Put you pink heart face down in your Teresa Collins Xyron sticker maker. Then adhere your glitter to the front.

7. Put all the word strips, larger banner and sparkly hart into sticker maker and then start layering.

8. Put your charm into the frame with your glass.

9. Cut the prongs off of the back of your brad and adhere to outside of frame.

10. Add ribbon of choice to top and your finished!

PROJECT #2: DIY GLITTER ACCENT CONE

Supplies used: Gentry's Glitter, Fabrications Linen - Green Fleur de lis side B, flower, die cut. Other: Double sided tape (I used red line for this project), cream ruffle ribbon, cream satin ribbon.

1. Cut out the shape of your cone from the side b of Green Fleu de lis paper.

2. Tape along top edge of cone and add Gentry's glitter to the tape.

3. Tape your ribbon to the inside top and along the side you will be adhering the cone together.

4. Adhere the large black die cut to the front center

5. Adhere your large cream flower.

PROJECT #3: DIY GLITTER KEY

I loved this one, so easy to do and so many ideas!!

Supplies used: Gentry's glitter, Collin's Keys. Other: Glossy accents liquid glue, pink ribbon.

1. Choose your key of choice

2. Squirt some glossy accents onto one half (and I mean the top or bottom half, not top or bottom side. Hope that makes sense.)

3. Sprinkle Gentry's Glitter on the key, then I used a clothes pin to hold it on the top half to try.

4. When the bottom is done drying flip it around, glue and glitter the other side.

5. Add ribbon and your done!

This would also make a great idea at Christmas - we had a home when my daughter was younger that did not have a fireplace and we made a "SANTA" key so that we could hang it on the outside doorknob, that was a "special" way he could get in on Christmas Eve! ;)

PS...Make sure you like us on Facebook, tell your friends... CHA is coming and there is some exciting fun things happening that you will not want to miss out on! Spread the word!! You will LOVE what we have up our sleeves!

a little travel journal by Julie Jacob

It is finally summer...and around here that means summer soccer tournaments!
Belle's soccer team (the Rangers) is traveling to California in August to play in the Carlsbad Cup.  With a little trip to Disneyland & the beach thrown in.
I thought it would be fun for her to have a little travel journal for the trip. ;)

It's nice and compact (4"x6") so she can keep it in her backpack.  (Or more realistically, my purse.)

I used Everyday Moments, Fabrications Canvas, World Traveler & Sweet Afternoon.  How's that for mixing it up?  The stamp is made with the TC Stampmaker.

I should explain that 27 is her jersey number.  I think she is digging her book...

Let's peek inside a little.  

I used a punch for the tabs at the top.  The stamps on these pages are from World Traveler.  Most of the pages are blank for now.  I wanted her to have plenty of space for notes, things to remember, or autographs at Disney.

I made the Go Rangers! stamp with my Stampmaker.  The pocket page on the right is from a map...the bottom is sewed shut, so she can keep tickets, receipts, etc. in there.  I had thought I was being so clever...using a map of southern California.  And then I punched out Carlsbad and San Diego.  Duh.

The envelope on the right is from the World Traveler album kit...I just cut it down to fit my book, and then sewed the right edge shut.  

The stamp on the left is also made with the Stampmaker.  It's kind of like the team philosophy.  I got the image from an email from the coach, and turned it into a stamp.

And one more page...

I also made a bigger travel journal for myself...I have a picture of it on my blog today.  :)

Happy Tuesday...