Teresa Collins Friendship Line

Hello Everyone! This is my first post as a member of the Design Team here at Right at Home Scrapbooking! I have been so excited about this opportunity to work with all these talented ladies! When Lisa gave me my 'first' bag of goodies to work with I was SO excited to see that it was the latest line from Teresa Collins. I love every single one of her lines. Something about the almost simple lines and use of color has always drawn me right to them. Not only was excited that I got to work with this paper, but it was also about Friendship - something that is so very important to me. My friends play a pivotal role in my life and to be able to put together a book honoring them was great fun. Along with the book I also did a lay-out featuring my sister-in-law, who will always have a huge part in my life, and my new niece. These papers are based around a beautiful light blue color with accents of black, white and cream. My first instinct was to get some black & white photos to work with. This would allow me to work with the papers and bring some sort of accent. I decided that accent should be red. I love red along with an aqua bluish color and black. What I decided to do was go through my stash of Teresa Collins papers and see what else I could use - sure enough her recent papers had red with black and cream or white! You will see those papers and accents integrated into these projects.

First is my lay-out... The minute I saw this actual sheet of paper, I knew that I wanted to use it for this picture I had had printed of my sister-in-law and niece just days after she was born. I really didn't have to add much to it b/c that black border is already on the paper. I accented the side of the photo, double-matted the photo, added some flowers for a feminine touch and just a few extra embellishments. 

Next I got to work on the album. My kit had come with the latest 7 x 13 covers for the Bind-It-All machine. Teresa Collins has designed her last few lines around these covers so it was really fun for me to work with. She includes some beautiful quotes that require just your simple touch - or you can leave them plain and include them in your story. For the cover I picked out one of the papers that I thought defined friendships as see it. I glued that to the cover (I put the front tab at the bottom) and added some of the ribbon that was in my kit. Another item in my kit was a favorite embellishment - the Kaiser gems! These papers have lots of great things to cut out and I chose 3 bigger words to put on my tabs to sort of define my book as a whole. 

These tabbed covers would be great as a little (I guess not so little) book by themselves, or Teresa has also put out page protectors that are designed to fit the 6 x 12 papers. I included a few of these to make different parts of my book. On each tab I used one of the bigger quotes on one side and then on the other side I used some of the smaller elements to include some journaling and to leave room for some more embellishments. As you go through the pages, I told a little story about friends that come from different parts of my life and play a big role. One of the most important parts is my scrapbooking - I have met some of my best friends through this wonderful hobby. I pretty much kept to using the papers, the extra elements in the papers, adding stickles, gems and titles.  
 

I hope you enjoy these projects as much as I enjoyed doing them!  Ashley

Comments

[Aphra]

Great first post, Ashley! Love your album. You did such a fabulous job with those papers, too! Can't wait to see more of your work!