Rose Canvas

Hi! Happy Monday! Hope you had a lovely weekend!

I had my BFF visiting with her man for a couple of days and we had so much fun. I feel so refreshed after a few good meals, many laughs and lots of love that I start this new week (which has a CRAZY schedule) with a smile on my face. :) Wish she lived closer!

I have a canvas to share today. I did it for The Rubber Cafe last week.

I had some serious fun with the large Wild Rose stamp. It’s a beauty!!!! I had this idea of making a set of two canvases – the canvas missing was decorated with the rest of the rose and a big beautiful sentiment. It was a good idea until I spilled a cup of tea over the other part. So a solitaire it is.

I used some vintage newspaper, gesso, modeling paste and You’re so fine glitter in layers. I did some splashing too. :)

The sentiment is from Fabulous Phrases and is framed by a Tim Holtz metal frame.

Have a wonderful day and thank you soooo much for stopping by!!!

Tesa

Feature Friday–You’re amazing

Hi! Let me just say T.G.I.F!!!! :)

I’m sharing a card for Skipping Stones Design’s Feature Friday today. I pulled out the ah-mazing Victorian Summer set and stamped away. I simply adore this flower. It’s so full of details and was super fun to work with.

The flower and butterfly are heat embossed and layered. And I added some pearls for some extra flair.

All the papers are from Riddersholm Design, the new line A Christmas Story.  The polka dot paper is one of my favorites!

I used this lovely sketch from Sunday Sketch and Stamp.

Thank you all for the sweet comments on my Heartfelt post from yesterday. It warmed my heart and sure made my day!!! You are the best! ♥♥♥

And thank you for stopping by today! Have a fantastic Friday!!!!!

Tesa

Heartfelt Crations ♥♥♥

Hi all! I’m having such a great day today! :) Wanted to share! :)

But first - If you are here for my Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog hop post, you find it HERE.

I woke up this morning to a wonderful mail from Heartfelt Creations telling me I’m one of the semi finalists for the Heartfelt Creations Design Team. Wohoo! I served one term with this fabulous company in 2011 and back then I was in a situation where I couldn’t reapply  - I’ve missed it every since. So now I’m hoping that I’ll once again be able to work with their products which I looooove!!! :) There is a voting process going on, so I’m sharing the projects I submitted for the call for you to see. And if you like it, I’d love to have your vote. :)

First up is a box and card set using Botanical Floral 1 and Botanical Floral 2 with the coordinated Spellbinders dies Rose Creations Shapeabilities and a sentiment from the Inspire Me Sentiments Pre Cut Set.

Next is a little cute card using the Decorative Basket PreCut Set, Woven Basket PreCut Set, Decorated Layered Basket Die and Posy Patch Die.

I totally adore The Decorative Basket Collection and have every since release day. And this is the card I did for the release blog post over at Heartfelt Creations so I thought it was a good piece to submit for my application.

The third card I submitted is without Heartfelt Products, but it’s a recent favorite and a good representative of my style.

These were my submissions.

If you like what you see you can vote for me – Therése Broman – over at Heartfelt Creations Blog!

Thank you for visiting my blog and letting me share my happy news!

Tesa

Heartfelt Creations Alumni Blog Hop

Hi! It’s the last Tuesday of the month so it’s time for Heartfelt Creations September Alumni Blog Hop! We have seven participating blogs and to win the prize of a $25 Gift Certificate from Heartfelt Creations  you want to visit them all and leave comments. One winner will be drawn from one of the blogs randomly. The hop is open until Friday September 28th and the winner will be announced on Saturday 29th.

Here is the blog hop list

Olga Jewell

Dina Kowal

Lisa Allen

Marsha Sanderlin

Carla Suto

Tesa Broman – you are here!

Linda Payne

Now over to my card. It’s ages since I last did an easel and it was ages since I last used my favorite flower of all times – The Flora Grande 1. I adore this flower, and the sheer size of the biggest one in the set makes it perfect as a 4 x 4 card base.

Supplies: Rubber Stamps: Heartfelt Creations HCPC 3375 Flora Grande 1 PreCut Set, HCPC 3374 Flora Grande 2 PreCut Set, HCPC 3392 Bella Rose House PreCut Set and HCPC 3363 Inspire Me Sentiments PreCut Set. Ink: Versa Fine Onyx Black. Cardstock: Bazzill Basics Paper. Paper: Crate Papers. Dies: Heartfelt Creations Decorative Layered Basket Die, Spellbinders Fancy Tags 2. Embellishments: Pearls from Prima.

Here is a close up. The wings are stamped, heat embossed and cut out from vellum.

I’m really happy about how this little card came out. A bit chocked by all the pink maybe, but the flower worked well as a base for the card. I stamped and heat embossed the largest Flora Grande and cut out. I used it as template for the inside piece before gluing it down on black cardstock and cut out. Then I used that piece as template for the card base. Done. :)

And now it’s about time to hop over to Linda to check out her amazing creation. Don’t forget to leave a comment to increase your chance to win!

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

Vintage Wall Hanger

Hi folks!

Happy Monday! I have a special project to share today. Since this is my last post as a Prickley Pear Design Team member I thought I’d dig out my favorite stamps from the past three years and have some serious fun. :)

I ended up using Hibiscus 2 Clear Stamps Set and 50s Lady. (In close competition with Vine Flourish, Oak and Maple Leaf Clear Stamps Set and Mini Birds Clear Stamps Set). :)

I’m entering this in the Movement Challenge in the Moxie Fab World. I have a very clear eye route when looking on it, hope you do to, not finding it to busy! :)

I’m off to work in a bit and I’m super nervous. Me and my co worker are going to present the project we are working on for the University Board this morning. I’ll be happy when it’s over. Wish me good luck!

Thanks for stopping by!!!

Tesa

Christmas Cards

‘Hi! Happy Saturday!!! Hope you are enjoying your weekend!

I will start enjoying mine in a few hours, after I’m done with cleaning the house. I so not like cleaning. It might come as a chock, but I do prefer making cards. :)

Riddersholm Design has released new fabulous winter papers A Christmas Story that comes both in full size and as 6x6 paper pad. I’m so happy about the new paper pads, I like the smaller size patterns when making cards. The colors of this new line is AMAZING! Check it out!

I so love the colors and the soft patterns tone in tone. The flower is a white Ink It Cherry Blosson that I colored with a mix of Aged Mahogany and Vintage Photo and water (and some glitter for the shine!). I experimented until the tone was right to go with the paper. Once happy with it I saved the mist for future use on coming projects with these papers and flowers.

The stamps are from Prickley Pear Rubber Stamps. The sentiment is called Gift of the Season and the hexagon snowflake (which is a favorite of mine!) is from the Clearly Beautiful Ornament Set.

I used this lovely sketch from Try Stampin’ On Tuesday.

Next card is using the same paper pad as the first one. Couldn’t put it down, once I started… :)

The stamp is a new red rubber release from Prickley Pear. They will be up shortly in the web shop.

I played some with stickles and glossy accents to make the light and berries pop.

For this card I used Freshly Made Sketches #53. It’s a great one!

I’m also blogging these cards over at The Prickley Pear Blog. I’m stepping down after three years and it feels a little strange. I’ll have my last blog post with PPRS up on Monday.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa

150 years celebration

 October will be a festive month in our family. My dad turns 70 and my mother in law 80. Soooo, we're going to throw them a 150 years celebration weekend. Where we're going is a surprise and since my mom reads my blog on occasion... Anyway, here are the invitation cards we sent them.

 I used my all time favorite color combo - blue, brown, creme. Perfect for both ladies and gents. I'm also happy to say that I used all scraps!!!

 

The design is based on  Jen's Deconstructed Sketch #69.

I totally LOVE this sketch!!!

Back to work! :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tesa