New Samples from our Design Team

Hi Everyone

This week we are tooting lots of horns for our

New Design Team!!!

You are going to be amazed at the things these talented

ladies made and are going to make in the coming

months ahead.

Please enjoy and be inspired to create

beautiful things out of paper with us!!!

Debbie Fitzgerald

Alicia Barry

Jing-Jing Nickel

Julie Walton

Stop back tomorrow for 5 more designers.....

and

Thanks for stopping by!

Congratulations New Design Team!!

We couldn't wait till Friday

We had to announce our

New Design Team today!!

But first...

We want to give a HUGE Thank you

for all of you who submitted projects

for our Design Team Call.

We had so many wonderful and very talented

people send us amazing pages and projects

so it was very, very, very hard to chose

But we made our decision

And..

Without any more hesitation..

We have 14 New Designers!!!

WOW!!

There are 6 from the US.

and 8 from around the world...

CONGRATULATIONS!!

to all of you in no particular order

U.S. Team

Rita Barakat- Colorado

Kim Holmes- Washington State

Debbie Fitzgerald- Connecticut

Julie Walton- California

Jing-Jing Nickel- Minnesota

Natalie Dever- Wisconsin

International Team

Alicia Barry- Brisbane Australia

Tracey Taylor- Canada

Karen Thind- British Columbia

Jona Saavedra- Phillipines

Tina Guigui- Canada

Katarina Damm-Blomberg- Finland

Ann-Katrin Toresen- Norway

Petra Offrell- Sweden

New Samples for Fall

Fall is a Wonderful season of changing colors
and the smell of freshly picked baked apples, raspberries,
fresh roasted corn on the cob
and
the chance to go find the biggest pumpkins
at the pumpkin patch to decorate.

It's a time for falling leaves,
cool breezes and
long walks in the Autumn Sun.

Let us inspire you with our projects today
to capture that wonderful feeling of fall
and create something fun!

Don't forget to grab your camera and get a
picture of your kids when all the leaves
are piled up high and ready for jumping in!

Supplies:
GP 409, 410, 407, 414
Autumn Splendor chipboard and
element stickers

This is a quick project to keep memories
of a fun trip to the pumpkin patch or an amazing
family outing or hiking trip!

To make it we cut a piece of chipboard up
tied it together with jute and covered it with cardstock.
We sanded it and inked it and
we added strips of our fall paper. We also added jute,
buttons, ribbons and stickers and a calendar.
The handle is made from sticks tied on with
wire to hang on the wall.

It's fun to make something old new again
just by adding a little paper, ribbons,
leaves and stickers.
I found this old basket and thought it would
be a great gift container to fill with maybe
freshly baked apple muffins, apple butter and
some pretty candles.
You could also put strips of paper to go
around the candles to make it match
and everyone will think your amazing!!

and last for today.....

Traditionally Fall is a time to reflect back on the
year and remind ourselves of all the good things
we have done and things we have received.

This simple paper journal can be a place
to hold all those special memories,
thankful thoughts and maybe
even a few pictures of those you love
or the special places that you traveled to.

supplies:
BG 410, BGP223, GCS030
paper pad, flowers, yarn & stickles

Hope you like our new fall ideas and
be sure and check back Thursday for more !!!

AND...

We couldn't wait till Friday so we
are announcing the new Design Team
tomorrow morning on Wed.

It's going to be an Amazing Team!!!

More New Card Ideas

Todays cards are made with Lili of the Valley Stamps

and design cut sheets from the UK.

Don't you just love all the sparkles and glitter dots!

We sure do!!

This card was made with our glitter dot papers

and GP 242 and BGP 216 & 205.

We used a Spellbinder die for the backround

and just a little chalk ink to antique it a bit.

Stamp is colored with Copic markers and colored pencils.

We love this card with the most adorable

little girl getting all dressed up with her

moms accessories! We used purchased roses,

and punched out the flowers and leaves and added

just a little bit more glitter on them

to go with the glittery backround paper!!

We love lots of glitter can you tell...

supplies:

GP 128, BGP 218, GCS 045

This card was made with one of LOTV's design cut sheets.

They are already colored and ready to put on a card.

We love that!!

We used a Spellbinders die to mat the picture, added flowers

and ribbons, chalk ink, pearls and a cute stick pin.

Isn't it just so cute!

Our supplies:

GP 412 and BGP 216

And last but not least..

We just had to throw this in because it came out

so cute we couldn't wait! We love making

gift card holders and this is a folded card with a little pocket

in the inside to hold a cute tag and gift card.

We used our New Winter Wonderful papers

and made a pretty snowflake on the cricut

to put under the cute little snowflake metal tag.

Didn't this medallion come out gorgeous!!

Our supplies:

GP 434, 438 and MSS 026

We hoped you loved our new samples

and hope you have fun making a few of them!

Check back next week

for some great ideas using our

New Autumn Splendor Collections

Thanks for stopping by....

New Cards for Fall, Halloween & Christmas

It's our 2nd day of fun cards using the new

Stampendous Stamps and our beautiful

glittery and embossed papers!

For this card we stamped on a matted spellbinders

scallop shape, popped it on an embossed flower print and

glued that on a piece of our princess paper.

We added a little extra glitter and ribbon

for a cute Thank you card for just about anyone.

This is just an easy double matted

stamp on our fall paper that is already

full of lots of leaves, glitter and embossing.

Just add a piece of ribbon and

glitter dots.

There are lots of fun colors in our New Fall Collection

to match perfect with a cute cat

jumping in the leaves. We added one of our stick on borders,

some buttons and jute and just a bit

of pretend sewing to make it pop.

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Supplies:

GP 328, 334, 027

buttons, glitter, white cardstock

supplies:

GP095, 444

black & white cardstock, ribbon & sparkle dots

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to stop back tomorrow

for some new cards with Lily of the Valley Stamps!

Hi Everyone,

Today we are sharing some fun cards for all you

card makers out there. Stampendous was very gracious

to let us use their new Summer CHA Release for

our cards and we think it turned out great!

It was the perfect match!

Our glitter & embossed papers made it super easy

to create these adorable cards for

the upcoming holidays.

You only have to add a little ultra fine glitter

and some sparkle dots and it's matches perfectly.

It is so, so cute!

supplies:

GP 332, 334, 328

It is so much fun baking cookies for the holidays

and this would be the perfect card to tuck in

a basket of homemade goodies for someone.

supplies:

GP 437, 441

ribbon, glitter and white cardstock

This penguin is so, so cute!!

It looks perfect on our snow flurry and snowflake

papers with a little ribbon, glitter and punched snowflakes

from some plain white cardstock.

Maybe even add your own glitter to make

it shine even more!

supplies:

GP 438, 439

Adding pop or foam dots makes the card

have lots more dimension

and don't forget the chalking too!

Check back tomorrow for more from Stampendous

and a few from Lili of the Valley

on Thursday.

See you tomorrow....

It's our 1st Best Creation Blog Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Our 1st Challenge is today and we are asking

that you create your very own Designer Cardbag.

We had lots of fun with all the ladies at CHA

and now it is your turn to try one!

Here are the rules:

*You can make your purse any size you want

with whatever hardware you can find

but please use a majority of

any Best Creation products.

(You can get products from our online stores

listed on our blog if you would like)

*Please leave a comment with a link to

your blog and the posting

or if you don't have one you can email a picture

to teresa@bestcreation.us by August 26th.

The winner will recieve

a big box of Best Creation Goodies!!

And your design will be posted on our Blog.

We can't wait to see what you come up with!!

Spread the word and have fun :)

http://bestcreationinc.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-take-purses.html

It's the second day of our

Back 2 School projects
and we wanted to make something fun
to keep all your child's report cards in!
(this idea was given to me along time ago)
but it took me until now to make a
really cute one!

For this project we just used a purchased

file folder and covered the outside

and the separate files inside.

We punched out cute tags with the grades

on them & added some cute black letters too.

Now it's ready to fill with lots of

amazing treasures from each school year!
supplies:
The outside was GP 374 and then we
used scraps from each of the papers for
the inside pieces.

This would be a great gift idea for

a special teacher made from

little wooden frames.
Each one is covered in all the

different school papers,
fastened together with ribbon
and sanded for a weathered look.
Isn't it so cute!!

Keeping the memory of your child's

first day of school is a must

so here is an idea using one of

Becky Fleck's Page Maps from her blog.

It's simple and quick and you could easily

add a 2nd page with lots of pictures of friends

and their new school and teacher.
supplies:
BGP 213, Chipboard stickers, GP 379, 382, 384
red ric-rac and white cardstock

Teachers are very special and

this is a quick idea
to give them a card telling how special
you think they really are!
supplies:
GP 381, BGP 215 ,white card stock
ribbon, spellbinder die, heart paper clip

If you haven't made boxes yet

you are going to have to give it a try. This cute teacher gift is made from

1 piece of paper and our very own clear transparencies

(TBW 010) You can even make dividers inside the box

to add home baked cookies and treats.

Finish it off with a cute ribbon

and a special tag and it's something really special!

I think all kids have to get these

boring composition books each year

but adding a bit of gorgeous glittery papers
and some stickers makes it really, really cute!

Supplies:
GP 383, BGP 205, 215
Chipboard school stickers &

chipboard letters GCBA 002

We hope these projects will inspire you

to create some fun things with your kids

or as a surprise for them
to start their new school year! Have fun!

And...
Check back tomorrow for our

1st Blog Challenge it should be really fun!

Back 2 School project ideas:

For some of us parents the new school year is right

around the corner and it's time again for lunches,

being a taxi mom

and helping with homework...

So make it fun for your kids and

customize their usual supplies

as something unique

and extra special just for them!!

Decorate their usual vocab. cards with cute

papers and ribbons...

supplies:

BGP 213, 205 & GP 383

small file cards

And maybe even a cute teacher gift

so that he/she can reward the kids with

a little something special...

Supplies:

GP374, 379 & BGP 212

EC001 and GS 002 red glitter star

purchased plastic box

This is a fun teacher project out of a bit of cardboard

and some school papers and stickers

so that a teacher can post

their special student of the week

or just someone who did something

really special!

Supplies:

GP 373, 383, 377, 374, 379, and

BGP 211, 213, 215, 205 & ESG 001

Add a small calendar that can be torn

or changed for each month

And...

Cute cards can be made and stored in the pocket

on the back to put pictures of the kids

that deserve a big ya-hoo!

A simple plastic pencil box

can be turned into something really special :)

with buttons, papers, sequins, and stickers

or anything else you can find.

Hope you like the ideas and check back

for more Back 2 School

ideas in a couple of days....

Make & Take Purses

The week has slipped by but we wanted to post the purses

from the show and promise to get the directions

and patterns for the ones we did loaded by next week!

I think that the black and pink swirl bag was the favorite at the show

but my favorite was the peach bag with the tiny

flowers and rhinestones.

Actually it is the same paper used on both- only 2 different styles

and it would be great for a bridal shower hostess

gift for each gal too!

AND...

This was so much fun we are going

to do a challenge with it next week so watch

for it on the blog....

Next Week-

We will also be giving you some ideas for back

to school pages and other fun things

with our Back 2 School line just in time to personalize all of their

school stuff and maybe even a teacher gift.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to leave a comment :)