First Snow

The first snow of the season! I used Core'dinations Coreimpressions-Cosmo Cricket, Creative Imaginations- Beloved by IOD, The Robins Nest silver dew drops, Magistical Memories- Nesting Circles chipboard, Sew Easy- Misty Morn, Elle's Studio- Vintage Winter Flashcard, Jenni Bowlin- Vintage Style buttons, Helmar Adhesive Runner, 450 Adhesive and Zapdots.

Thanks for looking!

~Amy

Free Valentine's Day Card

Here's a free 5x7 card for personal or professional use. Card is PNG and has two openings for photos! Made with my new With Love Kit!

Welcome to St Louis Teets'!

Our good friends got married on Friday and instead of Jason driving his truck home that night we left it in front of their apt. down town and he rode home with me and the boys after dinner. This is what we found when we went to pick it up the next day. Funny thing is this happened within yards of where a security officer sits and we had a generic police report waiting for us when we got there. Nothing was dusted or even taken as evidence, see that nice screw driver on the floor board ;) I know the city of St Louis is over ran with crime, I mean they're ranked #1 in the country I believe and for good reason ;) I think what bothers me the most, is Jason bought himself a navigation unit, subs you name it for his truck when he got his bonus a couple years ago. That's the one thing he did with it, which he completely deserved. And some people completely took that away. I'm hoping that our insurance (Geico) covers this. I made sure to add extra coverage onto his truck after we added all this to it. So I guess we'll find out Tuesday what the verdict is.

Baby Boy Album

I made this album for my sister in law. Hopefully she's having a boy this month :D I used Helmar's Craft Glue to put the pages onto this 5 Tabbed Maya Road Album and their tape runner for everything else. I used Creative Imaginations Lullaby Boy Collection by IOD. The Robins Nest Dew Drops. Magistical Mememories chipboard painted with Tim Holtz crackle paint. Core'dinations White wash cardstock for the inner pages and tabs. Pea Lovey Dovey Font. WeRMemory Keepers Sew Easy, Jenni Bowlin Vintage Brown Stickers Alpha. I also glimmer misted the back cover instead of covering it with paper.

Layout Inspiration

One of the great things about ACOT, is when you're shopping you can also get inspiration from the products. This is where I found these lovelies :D

Using Pieces of Me

Milmomma

keling

mommybruno

glitterqueen99

New Vintage Papers

I have put some new papers in my ACOT shoppe. These are OK for personal or commercial use. If used commercially they need to be altered. You cannot sell them as is.

Set One

Set Two

New Commercial Use Products

Hey everyone! Please make sure to follow me so you can learn about new products and freebies! I post on twitter and facebook, or you can just subscribe to my blog. All the links are on the left hand side >>>>>

These products are OK for commercial use. You need to alter them and can not resell them as is.

You can purchase them here

Free Vintage Image

Happy New Year! Terms included!

Download Link- Please don't share the link, just send everyone to my blog ;)

Altered Vintage Frame

We've had this huge frame sitting around the house for a while with no picture in it. So I decided that I was tired of looking at it ;) For this project I used the following

Helmar V2 Spray, Acid Free Glue and 450 Adhesive

Canvas Home Basics Twine and Canvas Shape

Liquitex Glossies Silver and Acrylic Black from Michaels

Bazzill Piglet from Tattered Angels

Shimmerz Sunset Strip

Unity Stamps- for the life of me I can't find the set I used on their site

Maya Road mini clothesline pins

Nicole Lombardo bling

Basically you need an old frame, some adhesive, stamps and your imagination :D

I started with spraying some V2 Adhesive onto the back of the frame piece. This didn't get as sticky as I wanted though. I think it had to do with the age of the frame. I then spread Helmar's acid free glue every where and spread it around. You can use a little water to get it a little thinner if you want. I then placed my papers on the backing. Feel free to put them on how ever you like. I got my vintage papers from collagestuff. After the paper is on how you like, make a mixture of Helmar's acid free glue and water. I also added the silver paint in this as well. Use a foam brush to brush on top of your paper. Let dry. Next, you can add your own stamps, paints journaling whatever you want to do. I opened up the bottle of Tattered Angles mist and painted a heart on the left had corner. I then sprayed the inside of the heart as well. For my canvas rectangle, I again used the paint/water/glue mixture on top then stamped images and sprayed with my mists. I then went over the whole thing with another misting of colors. When finished I used my twine and printed of some pics from my iPhone and used Maya Roads mini clips to attach them.

New Products and a freebie!

I love love the way this kit turned out! I think it would look amazing in paper as well! The freebie is for personal or commercial use. Please change it up. Do not sell it as is ;)

Shop HERE

Free Christmas Photo Mask

This is a large PNG 8x10 file for use in your photo editing program!  OK to use for commercial use.  Not OK to include in a download AS IS.

Download Here.  Please read terms included.  More masks here

Simple Address Book

My mom wanted me to make her an address book for Christmas. I thought about one for her purse, but she tends to lose things in there ;) For her the best one that I could come up with is something to hang on the wall, this way it won't get lost anywhere.

Papers are from my 8x8 paper pad from fortheluvofart.com , Chipboard designed by me for Magistical Memories covered in Tim Holtz crackle paint,The Robins Nest- Dew Drops- Turquise bling, Mist is Silver Foil Smooch from Clear Snap, Tiny Type Alpha- Jenni Bowlin, Thickers Alpha for "addresses", Jute rope is from Canvas Corp., Helmar Tape Runner and Zapdots.  I believe I got this in a holiday pack from Michaels a couple years ago.   

Welcome Helmar Holiday Hoppers!

Welcome! I hope you're having a great time hoping around and are full of ideas for the Holidays! I got my idea from a class that the girls of IOD did for their mops class! They found the instructions on this great site called Howdoesshe.com
Here's a list of supplies that you'll need to complete this project:

Downloadable Box Template (You can also use wooden cubes if you have them) Under "Google Docs" Click on File to Download original or to print.
Helmar Tape Runner
Helmar Liquid ScrapDots
Creative Imaginations- Night Divine Collection by IOD


~ Download the box template and cut out. If you have blocks you'll need to cut squares to put them on your blocks. If you're using wood I recommend Helmars 450 Adhesive or the V2 Spray.
~ After you have cut out your box template, choose four of the Night Diving papers and trace the template onto the paper. Cut out and fold where the lines and tabs are.
~ Use your Helmar tape runner to apply adhesive onto the tabs.
~ Fold squares upwards towards the tabs and press to adhere. I found it easier to put three sides together then to put the top on before adhering my last box side. Press all sides together to make sure your boxes are all together
~ Decide which two boxes your going to use for the numbers and ink the sides and set those aside.
~ Ink the next two blocks and set those aside
~ Grab your number boxes when they're dry and add numbers accordingly: *Block 1 - 0,1,2,3,4,5 and *Block 2 - 0,1,2,6,7,8 (Please make sure your number 6 is a font that can be flipped to look like a 9)
~ On the bottom two blocks *Block 1 add "Days To" and *Block 2 Either put Christmas or a cute Christmas square tag.
~ Put the four blocks together and use a long piece of ribbon to hold them into the shape of a square.

With the extra's create a cute and simple card if you're going to give this as a gift!


If you decide to do this project, please share it on the Helmar Facebook page! We would love to see it! Also, a little elf told me we're doing some giveaways on our page as well ;)

You can click on the images below to make them larger!

Helmar Holiday Hop

The holiday season is upon us and we are all working to get those gifts, cards and home decor items ready. We had so much fun with the last Halloween Hop, that we are doing it again!!!

On December 5th, the new Helmar Design team will be having a HUGE Holiday Helmar Hop. Filled with classes from our educators, projects from both our Aussie team and our USA team, as well as 3 amazing preferred vendors and 2 exceptionally talented guest blog hoppers.We know it says surprise, but we just can't keep these wonderful surprises to ourselves, so read on. It's going to be bigger than santa's toy bag!!!

We are going to get those sleigh bell ringing, those snowflakes flying and that Holiday Mojo revving. So mark your calendars and play along with us on the 5th of December. We will be having a bunch of giveaways on our facebook fan page, so make sure you hop on over and "Like" Helmar.

We'll also be featuring a few of our educators with classes during the day, so keep your eyes open for times and places. Tips and Tricks on how to use your Helmar products that you'll just have to see

Unity Stamp Co, Nikki Sivils Scrapbooker and Elle's Studio will all be playing along with us and giving away prizes along with Free Class giveaways from Big Pictures Classes! Did we mention the fabulous Guest Designers; Marion Smith AND Tammy Tutterow! These fabulous companies and artists are our Santa wish come true.

So grab the blinkie below and post it proudly on your blogs, facebook pages, anywhere you can. Spread some Holiday Helmar Cheer and let everyone you know, know about the event. You won't want to miss it!!!(psssst, some lucky Helmar fans that have this blinkie on their blogs, might just win some Holiday Helmar goodies...just sayin')

I have to say that I LOVE my project that I have to share with you guys!  Make sure to stop by on the 5th to see it :D