Chocolate and Coffee - A Match Made in Heaven for TSTR

Hello everyone!

Are you ready for another inspiring week in The Shabby Tea Room?  This week's theme is "Reflections" and we are to use the colors and/or theme from this photo:

Our sponsor this week in the Tea Room is Isabella's Sketchbook and this week's winner will receive a gift certificate to go shopping for some fabulous, new digi images!  I used the awesome "Chocolate and Coffee" stamp for my card this week.

I've been so incredibly busy the last little while that my crafting time has been close to non-existent.  I needed a quick and easy sketch to get me going and I found this one over at the CCEE Stampers Challenge Blog that fit the bill:

I went with the colors in the photo - Basic Black, Very Vanilla, and Basic Grey - rotated the sketch 90* and voila!

Stamp: Chocolate and Coffee (digi stamp from Isabella's Sketchbook)  Paper: Very Vanilla, Basic Black, SU! DSP,  Accessories: Basic Grey satin ribbon, 1/2" Scor-tape, paper piercer, Nesatbilities (Curved Rectangles), Textile embossing folder, Copics, Copic Spica atyou glitter pens, dimensionals

Make sure you stop by and see what the rest of the Shabby Girls created for this week's challenge...

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark - Papier Girl

Lisa Golzbein - Oh So Cute By Lisa

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

See you in a bit with the new PPC challenge and the Totally Stampalicous challenge!

FINALLY - Some *Free* Crafting Time! :)

Happy Thursday everyone!

Anyone want some white stuff?  I know I shouldn't be complaining because we desperately need some moisture but I just HATE the mud and yuck that goes along with the melting snow...  I'll get over it but I cannot WAIT for the sun to come back out.  :)

I haven't had much crafting "free" time lately - between DT cards and work and trying to keep everyone fed and clothed and my trip, this is the first time in a LONG time I have had time to to a CURRENT challenge!  And, OH, how I've missed them...  :) 

I found the Play Date Cafe's new color combo and LOVED the soft, soothing, BOY colors and KNEW what stamp I was going to use - another one of Totally Stampalicious's new releases!  I paired it with a new-to-me challenge, a sketch from CCEE Stampers, and got to work!

Recipe - Stamps: Sean Bugaboo Brat, Stella Birthday (Totally Stampalicious)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black, Baja Breeze, Bashful Blue  Paper: Bashful Blue, Baja Breeze, SU! DP, Very Vanilla  Accessories: Curved Rectangles Nestabilities, hodgepodge hardware, paper piercer, grosgrain ribbon, Copics, sponge dauber, clear embossing powder

I'm going to try and knock another one out before I have to head off to work - the kids have requested meatloaf for supper so I need to get that ready for them to put in the oven later.  :)  Enjoy your Thursday - thanks for stopping in!