Teresa Collins Tell Your Story pumpkin tutorial

I am so excited to be able to participate in the Xyron Blog hop this week! I just LOVE my sticker maker, it is one of my favorite "GO TO" tools!

I made this great little pumpkin home decor piece for one of my shelves in my home office. I love to change things up with the seasons. I started with a 4x5 piece of canvas and painted it a Pearl White (I just love a little shine!) Then I added 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 piece of Pennants paper (back) and outlined it with Black ink. 

I used the large oval frame from the Tell Your Story Stamp set to make the pumpkin, I stamped the frame onto the following papers: Damask (back), Frames (back) & Cards (back). Then I tore them all at the same time so my pieces would line up when I put them back together. I tried to tear them with a rounded shape to create a Pumpkin "feel". For the stem and the leaf I cut two of the shapes from the Pennant paper and trimmed the leaf until it had the shape I wanted. I then ran them through the sticker maker!

I really wanted to create more "texture" to the pumpkin so I added some crackle glaze and it created some bubbles and a little crackle in spots, just the look I was after! I used last months free download for the stamp maker and made the Autumn Splendor stamp for the bottom. I added the blue scalloped chipboard piece to the right and trimmed to size. Then I added the orange dots scallop borders to the top and left sides. 

 Make sure to head over to XYRON's BLOG HERE to see what they have done with Tell Your Story.  And there is a give-a-way!!!  A Teresa Collins X sticker maker and a goodies bag with Teresa Collins Designs product.  For Details on the Give-a-way and ways to enter go to the Teresa Collins Designs Blog.

Journal book using Teresa Collins Tell Your Story

As you all know, I'm a huge fan of mini books, but JOURNALS make me so HAPPY!! I love a good book to write in, to reflect upon... When I saw this paper line, it WOWED me, it's so pretty and fun! I LOVE the colors, I knew I would make something really special just for me with it! 

There are so many details here on the cover... The hinges cut from a die using the orange side of the damask paper. The binding on this may require a little video in the future! The large quote brad used as a closure, the ribbon wraps around it and holds everything inside. The medallion with the pearl center, glitter scallop border strip... It all makes me so very happy.

 The pages don't really have a specific measurement as they are a little different on their widths. I covered old file folders with the papers. There are tons of tags in all different sizes created from the TWO different journaling cards in the collection, one small and one large sheet. I painted all of the page edges and embellishments with white paint! There is a ton of texture, from glitter accents, paint, ribbon, the textured thick paper...

 I love the little butterfly tabs for the pages, I cut them from the border strip then layered the layered butterfly stickers over the tops... layers layers layers! I love that thin orange border strip!

 In this picture (above) you are looking at two pages! The orange dots & photo are from the large journaling cards and again the butterfly tab... The upper part of the page has the new paper flowers which I just layered and layered through-out the book.

 You can see how I used the new Washi tape to adhere the tickets and ledger card to the page. 

 I love all of the quotes.

 I took a large brad and added it to the center of the chipboard frame. I love the shade of the orange ribbon...

There you go! I have to say this is my most favorite journal album to date! I hope you are inspired to create something wonderful!

Busy week! Lots of fun!!

Well, if you follow me on my facebook page you would have seen me helping out The Hens Den last weekend at The Scrapbook Expo - what a fun time!! But boy oh boy by the time Saturday night hit my feet were killing me, lol!!

Did you see I a few of my favorite things on the Teresa Collins Design Team blog? It's a little sneak peak of my new FAVORITE journal book to date using the new Tell Your Story collection!! I can't wait to show you the whole book!!

I also had my monthly cup of the month project on The Hens Den team blog this week too!

I'm getting ready to create a new mini book using the new Fancy Pants Country Boutique collection that I will be teaching at The Scrappy Stamper in September! Details soon!!