Blog Candy from Norway!!

Beautiful cards, gorgeous color schemes and 400 followers!! Come celebrate with Amy and enter for to win her Blog Candy! click here!!

Be blessed,

Tereza

PS check out some of my new creations!

Prima Products Picks Giveaway!!! Take 2

My favorite color in the whole world is YELLOW. I love the warm tones of yellow and orange. So when I saw THIS I was in heaven. Prima is giving away some gorgeous flowers and you will want to hop over there and try to win some.

I hope I win!! Good luck to you!!! (No you are not seeing double this is the same post as in my other blog. I am trying to increase my chances of winning. :)

tereza

Making your own cut outs or die cuts.

If you are like me, you are always looking for shortcuts to make your scrapbooking easier and more fun.

One of the things I have been using are digital images. If you do a search you can find all kinds of vintage images available at very low cost. Once I purchase them, I can then print and use them as many times as I need to. I can use them as cut outs or print them on transparencies and use them as 3D embellishments.

Here are a few examples.






You can then add glossy accents to them, glitter, or doodle on them. You can mat them on cardstock and cut them out as stamps. OR you can mat them on chipboard and make thicker die cuts out of them. Pop them up with pop adhesives. The sky is the limit and they are always available at the press of your mouse and the availability of your printer.

To see my latest custom work where I used butterflies printed off my printer look HERE.

Enjoy!!!

Tereza

Another Giveaway at Crop Spot!!!

I have been busy and have some wonderful news. You can see them on my other blog HERE and HERE!!

Now for the other news...Crop Spot is doing another Give Away! I just purchased some awesome Webster Pages Christmas papers and I am looking forward to creating my own Christmas album. although it was a struggle to decide between Webster Pages and Graphic 45 papers, so I am glad that Crop Spot is giving away the Graphic 45 Christmas papers. I want to win!!! :)

make sure you go check it out too.

have a great day!!!

Tereza

Awesome Giveaway at Crop Spot!

Have you been wondering what happened to me? Well, you can read about it HERE.

I am still trying to scrapbook. I have managed to clean out my scraproom. I will try to post photos and a card I made some time soon. In the meantime, I am hoping this awesome Give Away will get me inspired!!

I am looking forward to finding out the baby's sex. Maybe this week or the next. :) I will keep you posted.

Blessings,
Tereza

My New Scraproom or should I say Studio?

I have been for a long time waiting on my husband to allow me to transform the dining room that we don't use, into my official Scrap room or Studio. Well, he finally gave in, and not only that, he is building from scratch the room I wanted. :)

Here are some BEFORE pictures for you to see where I have spent my time Creating Treasures.



This is my dining room table. Behind it, against the wall there was a china cabinet that is already gone. As you turn left and left you see the other photos and the place where I stock my tools, embellishments, flowers and ready items.





Below you will see my husband at work: building my new table from scratch and the finished result. No, he does not have a wood shop. He used our drive way to build my table.





I had no clue that my husband had such awesome carpentry skills. I am so happy and so thankful. After he finished the table I convinced him of putting a shelf on the wall for me and I am hoping that one shelf will turn into 2. Little by little I am taking ground. :)

Next week I will share the final results with the table and shelves in the room!! Can't wait!

Thanks for looking

Tereza

Cards for Heroes Blog Hop

****Memorial Day Update - some people on the comments asked how did I know that the RED CARD in the soldier's hands was mine. Earlier on there was a bigger photo on CFH blog and I was really able to see it closely and it is mine. Below is a bigger picture of one of the cards I sent. And like I describe below on my original post I cut up pieces of a Christmas fabric and machine stitched to a red cardstock and hand stamped Merry Christmas on the inside. there were many different images on the fabric: Snow man, Christmas tree, bells, angels and with them the Christmas wishes for Joy, Peace, Love etc. I was so happy to see the fruits of my labor and it really motivated me to keep making more cards to send to them. It really takes very little to make someone's day.***********



If you follow my blog or have been here before you might have noticed my little banner on the sidebar of my blog for Cards for Heroes. Cards for Heroes is an organization that donates cards to our soldiers abroad so they can send hand written notes to their loved ones here back home. They also provide encouraging cards to our wounded heroes helping out another organization that provides quilts and other needed personal items to the soldiers that are wounded and have to be transported to a hospital.

I have become involved with this organization and have sent some cards to them a couple of times. My daughter and I got busy and made a bunch of them, as well as Christmas cards last year. If you would like to see some of them and the tips I shared please click HERE.

so I am participating on a Blog Hop to help promote this organization and get more people involved. Please check out their website for more information.

You don't need to be an expert card maker to join, or send dozens of cards. Just do a little or as much as you can. There are so many creative ways you can help. If you don't want to make cards, you can donate supplies, send a few dollars to help out with shipping, sign AnyHero cards...there is so much to do.

I have recently started collecting the cards that don't sell in my shop and I am sending them over. You see that red card in the hands of that hero on the first photo on this post? It's my card!! That is a Christmas card that I made using some donated red cardstock. I cut up some Christmas fabric that had cute pictures on them with sayings like Peace, Joy, etc and I machine stitched them to the cardstock. Them my daughter and I hand stamped MErry Christmas on the inside of them and they were ready. We sent over 50 cards. They were simple, cute and it was a great opportunity to do some bonding with my little one.

Have I convinced you yet? :)

I hope so...now if you would like to see who else helps out please check out Bonnie Rose's blog. She is an avid scrapbooker and makes awesome little albums as well as gorgeous cards.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to celebrate the heroes that have given their lives for this country! :)

Tereza