Skip to main content

Posts

The Magic of Christmas Trees

There is nothing more beautiful or more magical then a tree with its wonderful glorious smell decorated to the hilt and filled with glittery shiny lights at Christmas time! If you start to look around on the web there is so much history that you can find behind the trees that we keep as a tradition today. Some records say that the first decorated trees in houses came from Germany in 1605 from a small farm in Strasburg Germany where a family put a small tree in their home and decorated it with paper roses, apples and candies. Queen Elizabeth loved the idea and took it to England and started the tradition there too. Decorating those beautiful pine trees has evolved through time by adding candles to celebrate the birth of Christ and we added beautiful handblown glass ornaments and those made out of paper and garlands made of popcorn. And we even trimmed the trees with tinsel that was invented in Germany in 1610 and was real silver! But it tarnished really bad from the candles so it ev...

New Design Team Call for 2011

We have had a fun fantastic journey so far this year with our Design Team and are looking to add a few more talented, enthusiastic people that LOVE to craft things out of paper! We have lots of exciting things planned for spring and if you are interested please send the following information to teresa@bestcreation.us * please send full name/ address/ phone and email # * let me know why you would be interested in joining our team and a short bio about you. *List design teams you are on/past teams/and any links to galleries you may have *Attach photos of 3 projects that best represent your style of paper crafting- Best Creation paper is preferred. *Design team will serve 6mo. from Jan 1 to July 31st, 2011. *specific details, responsibilities and compensation of projects will be announced upon being asked to join the team. *finally the applications must be in by midnight PST on Dec 28th. The New Team will be announced on Jan 1st 2011. Dont' forget to check out the winners of...

We have lots of Winners Today

and a New Special Guest Designer too! Our wonderfully talented guest for December is Sarah Mullanix We absolutely loved Sarahs' style and bold use of colors on her layouts with our Christmas Collection and thought today would be a great day to show her off to all of you! You are going to love the way she mixes things up with patterns, colors and layers and layers of different papers to create her pages.... just gorgeous! Here is a little bit about Sarah that she shared with us! Don't you just love how great all these colors go together? Hello, my name is Sarah Mullanix and I am a stay at home mom to my 3 kids, Becca 14, Emily 10, and Carter 2. I have been scrapbooking for 14 years, have taught scrapbooking classes for almost 5 years, and now also consider myself a card maker. Scrapbooking allows me to find acreative outlet for myself, I just love creating with my hands, while also creating memory albums for my children and family. I find inspiration everywhere fr...

Holiday Blog Hop Today!!

Hi Everyone... It's our first blog hop at Best Creation today and all of us are excited to show you lots of fabulous projects for the upcoming Holiday and we are giving 1 lucky person a chance to win $100 worth of Best Creations products and a second person a chance to win our Valentine Collection of papers and stickers! How wonderful is that!! We have 13 stops so leave a comment on each blog as you hop along to collect the letters of our secret word and then leave a comment on our final BC blog. Send your entry with the word to teresa@bestcreation.us . Contest closes midnight Dec 2nd. The Winners will be announced on Friday Dec 3rd so good luck and have fun hopping! And one more thing for every 10 new followers that we get before friday we will pick 1 in 10 to win a paper pack too! So are you ready to get started on our Holiday Hop- your first stop on the hop is at Tracey's Blog and just in case you get off track the links are listed in order at the bottom! so Hav...

So Much to Be Thankful for....

It is nearing the end of Autumn sadly and a special time to look back and remember all the things in life that we are so very Thankful for. Great Families, Good Food, Great Friends and Good Health- to name but a few.... All of us here at Best Creation would like to wish each and every one of you a very, very Happy Thanksgiving Holiday! And today we are sharing some fun cards to make for the next holiday ahead to send good wishes and letters to catch up on your families events for the year.... We all used lots of our Christmas and Winter Collections to create all of these just for you! Guest designer: Debbie Sherman designer: Teresa Horner designer: Rita Barakat designer: Jona Panessa designer: Teresa Horner designer: Kim Holmes designer: Natalie Dever designer: Julie Walton We are having our first blog hop Monday Nov. 29 th so don't forget to check back to see all the great projects from all of our designers and get a chance to wi...

Ornaments for your Tree!

designer: Petra Offrell As the season approaches we all start getting out our decorations, thinking of starting a Christmas list and remembering our favorite things from last year and the traditions that we hold so dear! One of our favorite Traditions is putting up our Christmas trees and filling them with lots of pretty ornaments. So all the B.C. designers got out their best papers, scissors, Helmar glue and lots and lots of stickers and created some fun ideas for you! You can use already purchased snowflakes and die cut glittery ones to layer on it. Just add ribbon and some silver beads and its ready to hang up on the tree.... Using the scenes on our winter paper made it easy to cover this purchased paper mache ornament and just add our stick on words and lots of ribbon and extra snowflakes. designer: Katarina Damm Making folded shaped ornaments is an easy way to create lots of them to put on a tree. Just cut out the shape out of gorgeous paper, glue it together and add ...