"Old Meets New" in The Shabby Tea Room

Welcome to the last few days of August - where did the summer go?  Before we know it, Thanksgiving will be here, then Halloween, and then ... CHRISTMAS!  ACK!  Are you one of those people that have started shopping already?  I haven't even THOUGHT about it yet... (and I'm not gonna either)  :)

This week's challenge in The Shabby Tea Room is "Old Meets New" ~ use something old and something new.  Easy, right?  Our sponsor this week is none other than our fearless leader, Debbie, with her Shabby Vintage Seam Binding and one lucky participant will win 12 yards of this lovely embellishment. 

Okie dokie - so for my "old" I used some Basic Grey paper that hasn't seen enough lovin' and my "new" is the wonderful buttons die I got from the Cat's Pajamas a few weeks ago.  I also used my NEW cork sheets for the buttons... yummy.

I used this week's sketch from the Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge:

Recipe - Stamps: Flower Girl (Pure Innocence, MFT), Vintage Labels (SU!)  Paper: Various textured cardstock, Daffodil Delight, Basic Grey Origins paper, Whisper White  Accessories: Paper piercer, Copics, cork sheets, Buttons die, buttons, hemp twine, vintage seam binding

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

Thanks again for stopping!  Enjoy the last few days of August!

Curtain Call - Act #37...

Hey everyone!

I hope you are enjoying your summer holidays as much as I am. . . the weather has been VERY cooperative lately and we have been able to get a fair bit of work done in the yard that has been, shall I say, neglected the last few weeks.

Between working and playing outside, running errands to town, looking for a new vehicle, my crafting time has been little to none BUT I managed to sit down on Friday night and get my card for Stacey's Curtain Call - Act 37 and what a great color combo she gave us this week:

Don't the cupcakes look YUMMY?  I always love the sketches over at Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge and this week's sketch is no exception:

I quickly stopped in at the Paper Makeup Stamps challenge to see hat they had for us this week and discovered a fun one: they want us to make a window card, and I must admit, I have NEVER done one of these so I thought I'd give it a try.

I still had some turquoise and melon mambo out in my desk from my STR card last week so it wasn't hard to put this beauty together - actually it *was* kind of hard but only because I forgot the you can't cut through lots of layers with Nestabilities so I was almost done and then had to start from scratch in order to cut one layer at a time!  Oh well, live and learn, right? 

Recipe - Stamps: Proverbs 3:5 Plain Jane (Verve)  Ink: Chocolate Chip  Paper: Whisper White, Tempting Turquoise, Barely Banana, Melon Mambo, SU DSP, unknown DSP  Accessories: Velvet flowers, buttons, twine, Nestabilities, pop-up glue dots

Here are a couple more views of the card:

And the inside:

I used my new Embossed Curve border punch (EK Success) for the inside sentiment layer but made a bit of a boo-boo with one of the scallops so I stuck on a couple of adhesive pearls to cover it up.  :)

The rest of the Curtain Call Crew has samples to show you today, too, so make sure you stop by to see:

Amy White at Devlinwhite Designs
Andrea Roose at Andrea's Scrap- und Stampel Blog
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa) at Random Acts of Creativity
Julie Smith at Paper and Such
Lea Lawson at Lea's Cupcakes & Sunshine
Marisa Ritzen at Rosemary Reflections
Shelley Germann at Stampin' Garden
Sue Kohler at My Inner Reflection 

 ...then play along with us and post your Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 37 creation using Mr. Linky at Stacey's Stamping Stage.


Thanks for stopping by.  I hope you have fun with these colors - I know I did!  See you tomorrow!

Totally Stampalicious Monday!

Hey everyone!

This will be short and sweet - I thought I had scheduled a post for this card but I *obviously* forgot!  DUH - blonde moment...

So anyways, this week's challenge over at Totally Stampalicious is to use fabric somewhere on your creation.  I think I took the easy way out and fell victim to my felt ribbon.  I was going to use my Cuttlebug and Nesties to cut some fabric flowers but just couldn't find any fabric in colors I was excited about. 

I used this yummilicious photo inspiration from {Cupcake Inspirations} to give me my color scheme - Taken With Teal, Regal Rose and Chocolate Chip:

Paired it with a fabulous sketch from Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge:

Flipped the sketch 90* and voila:

I think she turned out super-duper cut, don't you?  I hope you'll take sometime to join us over at Totally Stampalicious - as usual, there is a prize up for grabs!!!  :)  Have fun!

Summer Fun the Shabby Tea Room!

Are you ready to play with us again in The Shabby Tea Room?  I am the hostess for this week's Theme Challenge: "Summer Fun."  We want to see YOUR interpretation of this theme... will the colors of summer inspire you or will the summer activities you and your family enjoy be your inspiration?  I can't wait to see what you all create.  :)

Here in Alberta, we've been "enjoying" rain, rain and more rain so summer fun has been the last thing on my mind lately!  But, not one to let a bit of rain get in my way of creating a fun summer card, I sat down to create this adorable card with (yet) another new Pure Innocence girlie...isn't she the CUTEST?? 

Debbie very graciously sent us all some of her fabulous vintage seam binding to play with  - what great stuff it is - I used Oatmeal Cream.  If you are interested in purchasing some of this beautiful embellishment, please visit her Etsy store: Simple Treasures.  This week's winner will WIN some of this fabulousness so make sure to play with us!

I also used this week's sketch from the OCC Sketch Blog:

Make sure you stop by and see what the rest of the design team created:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hilliard - Jill's Card Creations

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

See you in a bit for another Picture Perfect Creations color challenge! 

Curtain Call - Act #33

Welcome to another Curtain Call, everyone!  Stacey has given us a very calm, soothing combination to work with this week:

Don'tcha love it?  I spent last weekend relaxing and crafting in the mountains of Jasper with my PIC, Lori and four other WONDERFUL ladies - our friend Diana, Joycelyn and Becky from Totally Stampalicious, and their other friend, Rhonda.  The four of them have known each other for years and this is their "annual" weekend away.  This year, Lori and I were lucky enough to get ourselves invited along and boy, oh, boy...was it ever a hoot!  I was able to complete six cards in addition to shopping and eating and laughing...and did we EVER laugh.  :)

Anyhow, this was the first card I churned out - the colors were either going to be used for a sympathy card or a get better card and since I had another new PI girlie that needed to see ink, I went with the "feel better" theme.  Our Creative Corner's sketch from a couple weeks ago worked perfectly for my image:

The Curtain Call Crew has samples to show you today, too, so make sure you stop by to see:

Amy White at Devlinwhite Designs
Andrea Roose at Andrea's Scrap- und Stampel Blog
Iwona Palamountain (Chupa) at Random Acts of Creativity
Julie Smith at Paper and Such
Lea Lawson at Lea's Cupcakes & Sunshine
Marisa Ritzen at Rosemary Reflections
Shelley Germann at Stampin' Garden
Sue Kohler at My Inner Reflection and 
our fabulous Guest Designer for June...Christina Maclaren at Seaglass & Sentiments

 ...then play along with us and post your Curtain Call Color Challenge: Act 33 creation using Mr. Linky at Stacey's Stamping Stage.

Thanks for stopping by.  I'll be back tomorrow ~ see you then!

Oh Happy Day at Totally Stampalicious & Picture Perfect Creations

Welcome back!  I only have one more card for you today since I was able to combine my Picture Perfect Creation Challenge with the Totally Stampalicious challenge... lucky me!

So, over at Picture Perfect Creations Megan has come up with a rather *tame* combination...

I thought this combination would be pretty easy to put together since three of the colors are neutrals and the other one is a *fun* color!  I couldn't find any Green Galore so I used Gable Green instead...

The challenge over at Totally Stampalicious this week is the challenge to use photo corners somewhere on your card... sounds easy, right?

Then I made it a three-'fer and let the OCC Sketch guide me. . .

. . . to this fun card:

Isn't this little guy super-duper cute??  He's the Fat Mice Balloon Bugaboo from Totally Stampalicious and there's another one with him and a flower... I still haven't used that one but I'm thinking I may just have to so that sooner than later... :)

Thanks for taking the time to stop by - make sure to stop over at the PPC Blog and the Totally Stampalicious blog to see what the rest of the girls created - they are all so freakin' talented.  :)  Enjoy your Monday - see you later!

Got Chipboard?

Welcome back for another challenge from The Shabby Tea Room!  It is my turn to host this week's challenge and I wanted to "step out of my box" and try something I haven't done for awhile.  I have TONS of chipboard and very rarely use it so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity to use it... I'm sure I'm not the only chipboard hoarder out there, right? 

So I found a chipboard flower and a little buckle thing and got to work.  I traced the flower onto a piece of Origins DP, cut it out and attached it to the chipboard with Mod Podge.  Once it was dry, I used a file to sand the edges and then inked them with black ink.  I used a technique on the buckle part I had seen on Jen's blog awhile ago and it worked perfectly to contain the glitter that inevitably goes all over the place - I adhered the glitter with Mod Podge and then spread Crystal Effects all over and let it dry...

And then used OCC's sketch:

And...TA-DAAA!

Recipe - Stamps: Psalm 51:10 Plain Jane (Verve)  Paper: Whisper White, Basic Black, Crushed Curry, Origins DP (Basic Grey)  Ink: Versafine Onyx Black  Accessories: Chipboard, polka dot satin ribbon, paper piercer, Scallop Edge punch, Crystal Effects, glitter (Martha Stewart), clear embossing powder, black satin ribbon, Mod Podge, foam brush

Thanks for stopping by!  The rest of the Special Friend Blend Gourmet Designers will have some super creations too so make sure you click over to see:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Jill Hillard - Jill's Card Creations

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations 

Enjoy the day!

Thursday Afternoon Fun??

Welcome back for another installment of my Thursday crafting craziness.  I told you I was going to tackle the Play Date Cafe's  *scary* (for me) color challenge.  I can assure you I have nothing against lemons or the color yellow but *only* yellow and white?  Wow.

Next thing I did was to go in search of a sketch - maybe that would help me figure out what I was going to do.  I found Our Creative Corner Sketch Challenge and as soon as I saw it, I knew what I was going to do.  My regular readers probably know EXACTLY where I went with this sketch *smile*...  (Hint: Notice the BIG circle in the middle....*wink*)

So... have you guessed?  Of course you figured it out if you looked at the top header picture.  Don't hate me ~ I *had* to ... yellow ... circle... sunny ... sunshine ...

 

Recipe - Stamps:  Thankful Accents and Accent Notes (Verve)  Ink: Barely Banana  Paper: Summer Sun, Barely Banana, Whisper White, SU! DP  Accessories: Swiss Dots EF, adhesive pearls, paper piercer, Nestabilities

So, there it is - done deal.  :)  I've still got LOTS of time this afternoon to create so we'll see what I can come up with.  Enjoy your Thursday - don't forget "Survivor" tonight! 

Later gators!