Hello world!

Hello blog, Hello people!!!

Last week was my first on-line class and I think it went pretty well :) You can see it here. I am going to be having another class tomorrow, Sunday, July 19th, 2010 and you can read all the info about it here! At the end of my video, I show the Cat's Meow Layout that I will be creating tomorrow. Here is another version of that same layout:


Oh! And I do want to mention quickly that if you are interested in the Sprinkle of Whimsy Kit that I used in last week's class I only have 5 kits left.... only ONE Add-On and only ONE Alpha Add-On! You can view all the wonderfullness here :)

And I would like to share a few of my favorite items I have been working on since I last dropped in! I used the Scrap-Tacular Kit to create this card:
I can't remember if I shared this here... I created this one for the Helmar blog hop using Urban Lily Papers!

I used Bella Blvd to create this card... I also used Helmar's V2 Vellum Adhesive to adhere the glitter on the flower paper.

OH! And my recent favorite :) I used lots of Helmar and Prima here ;)

OUT FOR PUBLICATION

I did this one for the "MyStamp Box" blog hop :)

Hope you are all having a MOST wonderful summer :)
Becbeck

Quickie!

Here's a quick sneakie peekie of Scrap-Tastic's July's Kit! I used the Ki and the Add-On kit to create this beautiful Layout!

See ya'll soon :)

Becbeck

What a week!

Wow, what a week... I really should blog more often - lol!

Here's a little sneakie peek at what I created for Cassidy's dance teacher using papers from Scrap-Tastic's June Kit!

And here is the BIG cut! As mentioned in my last post, I was taking Caytlynn to get her hair cut and she donated her beautiful hair to Locks of Love :)

After the BIG cut, I turned to look at her and she had short hair for the first time since she was an infant. My jaw dropped to the floor and I put my hand over my mouth as I gasped loudly! Tear came to my eyes and I told myself I would not cry - OOPS! just couldn't help it! She looks great though, so grown up! FYI - if you live in the southern part of WI, we had this done at Steven Edwards Color Group salon in New Berlin. They cut her hair for free and even sent it in for us! Most places don't cut for free, but this is the only place that I have heard of that actually sends it in for you!

Friday night I attended a Zumba Jam at Preferred Fitness - SO MUCH FUN!!!! Can you tell I was having a great time??? lol

Here's Dina "mopping" the floor, it was hot and sticky, just the way it should be ;)

Sunday was Cassidy's Dance Recital :) Take a good look at that gap between Caytlynn's front teeth... it's bigger than the space where another tooth needs to come in - can you say braces? eeek!

My little Cali Bear! I dressed her up because I wanted her to know she is special too :)

My dear Cassidy! How cute is she?!?!?!

My mini me and me :)

I realized after the fact that I didn't get any pictures of the boys... Cullen and Corey, but they were there along with my MIL and BIL Chad :)

Ok, Now onto my day, today... Cleaned this morning. Also watched LOST while doing laundry.

Corey and I repaired some of his jeans with some Helmar Adhesives... he helped! He is an over adherer - LOL! pics to come, for sure.

My neighbor is moving so we scheduled today to get together and do cappuccinos... she was running late, then my steamer was clogged and wasn't working at first. fixed that, so I feel as though we didn't really get to talk between the espresso maker giving me problems and Cali waking up and kids wanting snacks and such. I had a hair apt, so I kinda had to kick her out. Got my hair done, it has blond highlights again - YEA!!! Corey asked when I was going back to blond and I told him when he pays - lol! So he did - double yea!!!

I picked up a few things from the grocery store for Cassidy's B-day treat for school tomorrow. Gosh, I can't believe she will be 6! Picked up Qudoba for Corey and me. Got home with 5 minutes to eat as much as I could of my yummy burrito before taking Cullen to his pee-school for Mother's Day tea party. They were so cute! I am so proud of Cullen. He has never been much of a singer, but the words that he did know, he belted them out! And inbetween each song I would hold up my hands so he could see and clap for him. And inbetween EVERY song he would say "mom" with a big smile on his face and wave to me. He even turned to his buddy Braden a few times and gave him a big hug too - SO CUTE!

Meanwhile Corey is making the treats for Cassidy at home - OMG!! See the pics below, these are priceless! This first pic is his batch

And this is my batch - LMAO!

Even though it was raing and cold, I had an awesome day! I hope you did too!

Happy hump day!
Becky

Today's the day!

I have been putting this off for long enough! Caytlynn has wanted to donate her hair to locks of love for some time now. I am the one that is having a hard time parting with her beautiful long hair! I told her that we would get it cut after her first communion and, well, that was last weekend. I took a lot for me to make the phone call, but I did it! Now to have the strength to take her in - lol! I will have pictures soon :)

My latetest project - you can read all about the adhesives I used here, on the Helmar Blog!


Check out this! This is a Cricut Expression Machine! Wouldn't you like to get one?? I would! Cricut is giving one of these away on their blog. Check it out here.

Happy Wednesday!
Becky Teichmiller

Introducing.... Decadent Dreams

Here it is in all it's glory, the Decadent Dreams Kit! This is such an amazing kit! It was designed my Glenda Tkalac and she did an excellent job! Click on the image to purchase the kit and click here to see detailed images of the kit as well as the full product list! Add-On alphas available for 30% off with the purchase of the kit too!


Yesterday was quite the day! Caytlynn received her first holy communion :) Doesn't she look like an angel?

Then we had all the relatives over for a party celebrating Caytlynn's 1st communion AND Cullen and Cassidy's birthday! It was beautiful out despite a little wind.

Here's Caytlynn with her Great Grandma. This will be a picture treasured forever!

And after all the presents were opened, food and cake was eaten and a tiny nap, I headed over to Dana's house warming party! Thinking I was only going to stay for a drink or two, how foolish of me. This picture was taken at 2am - lol!

What a fun, but exhausting day! And I have so many things in the works.... lots of practical AND fun stuff :)

Be sure to check out my baby wall hanging at the Helmar blog!

Happy Sunday!
Becky Teichmiller

Weathered & Still Holding Strong!

No, not me ;) Although that's the way I feel most days - lol! Last summer I noticed that my bird house had a few pieces of glass that fell off, so I adhered them on with Helmar's 450. Forgot about it until yesterday when I noticed there were more pieces missing.... different ones, not the ones I fixed last year. Unfortunately, 2 pieces are no where to be found.... I'll have to go break a mirror ;) I think it's called 450 because there's 450 MILLION uses for this glue! Try it for yourself, you'll love it! You can buy it at Scrap-Tastic here for 10% off!

Here's a sneak peek of a layout using Scrap-Tastic's May kit, Decadent Dreams - so yummy!! Lots of Prima goodies!

And a few other items in the kit. You will have to wait another week to see it all - hee hee :)

Rock On and I hope you all have a fabulous weekend!

Becky

Win BIG!!!

Let's get Chatty Contest at Scrap-Tastic - you could win up to $125 in scrapbooking product!

In other news.... I am scheduled for jury duty next Tuesday! Yes, really!!! I wouldn't mind the "vacation" if I didn't have SO much to do ;) I feel sorry for my mom who will be taking over my duties for the day!

Here's a wall hanging I made for a friend :) Made with the FABULOUS Helmar Adhesives, of course!!!

The Zapdots add awesome dimension!

Another update coming soon!!!

Becky

Hello Spring!

Ok, so it's not THAT warm yet here in Wisconsin, but the colors in the Hello Spring Kit just scream SPRING!
And here is what I created with some of the items from the Hello Spring kit:

Do you see the blue background? That is adhered to the back side of the Build-A-Book acrylic page! And can you guess what I used to adhere it??? Helmar's V2 Vellum Adhesive! I sprayed the V2 on the blue paper, let it sit for 5 minutes and then placed the Build-A-Book acrylic page to it. It does NOT make the paper look cloudy or even show the adhesive at all! The rest of the elements were placed on top side of the acrylic. I like doing this to add depth to my projects :) That, along with Helmar's Zapdots, really makes this project dimensional. I used the Zapdots on the cloud and the owl. The Alphas are Add-Ons for the Hello Spring Kit. When you purchase the kit you will receive 30% off the alphas!

And for those of you that don't like double-sided paper.... the blue (background) is the back side of the green (grass) that I used!!!! Check out the paper here :)

I hope you all have a MOST wonderful week!!!

Becky

THANK YOU!!!

Thank you ALL for the wonderful comments about my Welcome sign :) I'll be selling these on etsy, so if you are interested, please let me know! I'll be selling the flowers too ;)

And for the REALLY important news....... Drum Roll Please..........

The person receiving a bottle of Textured Effects is.......

Brenda!

Brenda said... Wow, the textured effects really makes that butterfly stand out. Such a gorgeous project!

Congrats Brenda! Enjoy texturing up EVERYTHING!!! lol

Now, for a little sneak peek of April's Kit:

Some of the papers

A door hanging I made for my mom

And a few peeks of Nat's LOs!!

I am so proud of my girls... they BOTH took 1st place in the most creative fun float!!! I gave them a few rhinestones and then the only other thing I helped with was cutting a flower for Cassidy. They both came up with their own ideas and did their own thing! Here they are with their fun floats, certificates and 1st place ribbons :)

And my gorgeous Caytlynn :) Once and a while I capture her essence and here it is!

Scrap On!

Becky

Welcome Sign

Welcome Blog Hoppers!!!!!!

I choose to do a Welcome sign created with Urban Swank products along with lots of different Helmar products.

I am featuring the Textured Effects today, just one of my Helmar favorites! There's so many cool things that you can do with this. Pretty much anything you want to make shiny or add dimension to you can slap this one - lol!

For this project I choose to make "epoxy type" butterflies.

I started with cutting out butterflies and then Glimmer Misting them. After they dry, I used Helmar's repositional runner to stick it down so it would not move. Then I applied the Textured Effects and created some lines in them to add some more dimension, see below :)

As you can see below it dries clear with a glossy coating and you can see the ripples I made with the lines, cool, hey?

I also used lots of Helmar's Zap Dots :)

And, of course, I used the 450 Quick Dry to adhere the lace to the bottom :) I used just a small line of it on the bottom and that lace is not going anywhere!!!

I used Embossing powder here to get this awesome look!

Thanks for checking out my Helmar project!

For your chance to win a 8.45 fl. oz. bottle of Helmar Textured Effects please leave a comment attached to this post. We will randomly select a winner to win a free bottle. Good luck!

And then go to Shelly Hein-Simmons blog to visit the next Helmar Blog Hop Blog!!!!

Becky

Hello Again!

I think I have hit an all time low.... it is March and I noticed I haven't updated my blog since LAST YEAR! EEEK! Here's what I have you have been missing, besides me ;)

THe Holiday Hangover Kit - Snow much fun - hehe, sorry I just couldn't resist!

And the Chocolate Cherry Cordial Kit! YUMMY!!! One of LOs using the Chocolate Cherry Cordial Kit:

I just posted to the Helmar blog, 2 love themed cards - http://helmarusa.typepad.com/blog/2010/02/love-is-still-in-the-air.html

I don't want to overload anyone including myself - LOL! so, that's it for now, but I should have the Lucky Me Kit up in the next day or so and will come here to post!

Have a great week!!!