The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #212

Hello everyone and welcome to another fun week over at The Shabby Tea Room! This week we have a brand new to us sponsor - DRS Designs. They specialize in wood mounted stamps. They have some really great images...check them out :)

I chose a DARLING little flower border stamp and decided on a fun summer theme...wishful thinking for warmer weather on my part, lol!! I don't sew on cards, but if I did, I would certainly have added it to this card. The green gingham paper is screaming for some cute uneven sewing around its border isn't it? maybe I'll get me one of those little handheld sewing machine thingies...wonder if they actually work?

I stamped the border 2 times and fussy cut them out to make the long border strip. Then I stamped it again and cut out a little portion of it for the little accent on the corner of the postcard. Speaking of postcards, I made that one from scratch! I started out with a piece of cream colored cardstock and used the Vintage Holiday Postcard set from Paper Sweeties to make a plain basic postcard then added a Paper Sweeties sentiment. I finished it all off with some fun Paper Sweeties flower and flat sequins that I added rhinestones to.

items used:
vintage holiday postcard by Paper Sweeties
bubblegum sequins by Paper Sweeties
best wishes by Paper Sweeties
flower border by DRS Designs

That's it for me. Be sure to check this weeks challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room and join us for a chance to win a great prize!!

Happy Birthday chalkboard card

Happy Friday everyone!!! I hope this weekend goes a little slower and gives me time to rest unlike last weekend!! Last Saturday I spent the day running errands and cleaning house then on Sunday my BFF and I taught a glass fusion class (she owns an art studio). This weekend I hope to just veg out a little ;)

Today I have another chalkboard card for you....

It's no secret that I have a little fondness huge addiction to 6 X 6 paper pads....SWOON! The main reason I love them is because they are so easy to use.  I would have never pulled these patterned papers off a shelf and mixed them together but since they were in a little 6 X 6 pad I can be assured that they go together well. I added a little solid color for contrast and well-ah, a fun little card! I wanted the sentiment to take center stage as I did with my last chalkboard card but I also wanted to use some cute little stamps to go with it. I pulled out a couple of favorite DeNami stamps...happy birthday & garden accents stamp set.





That's it for me today, I'll see you back here on Monday with another fun challenge for The Shabby Tea Room!! Have a great weekend!!!

Interactive cards....

Hi everyone...how's spring coming along in your neck of the woods? Here in Missouri it's not! :/  Monday was in the 40's and we had snow & drizzley rain then overnight it dipped below freezing so Tuesday we woke up to cold and a little ice and reached a high of 40. Today we have strong spring winds but we're only going to reach mid fifties for our high...what happened to "warm" Spring weather?? 

I'm really enjoying teaching card making classes at the little shop in Kimswick, MO called The Stamp Pad. All the gals are just so nice and we have a great time during the classes. I thought today I'd show you what we did for my last class a couple of weeks ago. Each month when I teach a class I try to have a common theme for the four cards we make, this month it was "interactive". 

 baby themed shaker card

I LOVE that The Stamp Pad carries a nice selection of different shaker pieces (clear plastic cups) and colored overlays to match, it makes making shaker cards easy peasy!! No cutting or punching and using foam tape to make the "shaker"!

 manly themed belted card

I've always liked this little card layout and it lends itself to gals and guys. You can dress it up for a girl by making different paper choice of course but you can also make the inside panel a little wider and scallop the length with a border punch so that it peeks out when the card is closed.

 flowerpot card 

This is such a fun little card. It can be a tad tedious if you use pieced flowers like I did here but totally worth it. To open it you simply pull up on the flowers and they along with your sentiment panel slides up out of the flowerpot. I've made this card quite a while back using the DeNami daisy stamps - small daisy blossom & large daisy blossom. That was a lot of fussy cutting but OHHHHHH so worth it!!

waterfall card

I just love fun little waterfall cards and believe it or not, they are EASY to put together!! I have a soft spot for Paper Smooches and couldn't resist using this cute little kitty set. Each panel shows a kitty related item as they flip up. I would have LOVED to use a DeNami kitty and the kitty related Petit Four but I can only use products that are sold in the shop. 

If you'd like instructions or measurements on any of these cards just send me an email!

Well that's it for me today. I'll be back here on Friday with yet another little chalkboard card. I used a bold DeNami sentiment along with a cute little Petit Four and a fun mix of pattern papers & cardstocks!

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #211

Hi everyone, are you ready for a new challenge at The Shabby Tea Room? Last weeks "anything goes" theme was a blast wasn't it? Well, this week it's my turn once again to pick a them. I fell in love with this inspiration picture...

We are to include: Flowers, Buttons and Print or a Sentiment

This week our sponsor is a wonderful little Etsy store called Digital paper by Janet on Etsy. She has a ton of the most AMAZING printables!!

Quite a while back I bought a full little matching collage called Super Cupcake Set from Janet's little store. It comes with papers to use as backgrounds, focal point images and even some borders. It's a perfect little set :)

Here's what I made...

I printed these right off my home computer on a normal home printer. The images and colors come out great don't they? I added a little sentiment from DeNami and the darling little flower sequins are from Paper Sweeties!

Out Comes The Sun...

Hi everyone and HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Officially spring arrived yesterday afternoon (someone forgot to tell the state of Missouri) so I hope you're day is full of sunshine and sweet flowers :)

I FINALLY had a little "me" time so I thought I'd enter the monthly challenge over at Paper Sweeties. Here's the inspiration picture....

Isn't it cute?? I picked a few things out of the picture and color palette (I looked at the picture on my phone and the teal looked light blue and the girly pink more rosish pink, hence my use of light blue and rosish pink...sigh) and came up with this....

As soon as I saw the little rain boots I knew exactly what stamp I wanted to use. It's a set from Stampin' Up! called Bootiful Occasions. I paired up my little rain boot with a few Paper Sweeties stamps - the rain drops and sentiment are from the Live Love Grow set and the cloud was a free gift ages and ages ago that I received with a purchase but it comes from the Rainbows and Roses set. 

That's it for me today, I hope you have a WONDERFUL and warm weekend!! ;)

I'll see you here on Monday with a new challenge for The Shabby Tea Room!

Hope Blooms chalk board card

Hi everyone! Did you survive St. Patrick's Day? I was a stick in the mud and didn't wear green this year. Honestly I don't own anything green at the moment that fits me properly. Last week I bagged up 2 sacks of clothing that's too big for me (woo-hoo for loosing weight!) and I had plenty of green in there, go figure. To bad I didn't save something, lol! Anyway, today I have a pretty little card that I want to share with you AND add to the gallery of hopefuls for DeNami's new blog segment "Inspired by". 

Last year the whole chalk board style really took off and hasn't shown signs of slowing down just yet. I've made several chalk board themed cards but I cheated by using regular black cardstock and heat embossed with white embossing powder then swiped on a little white ink. Recently my local stamping store that I teach classes at started carrying a large supply of chalkboard goodies and I thought I'd play with the actual chalkboard papers and make up a class on the whole technique. I'm rather happy with how this turned out and bonus...no dreaded/hated heat embossing!!

I'm so smitten with this little DeNami sentiment; Hope Blooms Where Flowers Grow. I think it's pretty versatile, you can use it for sympathy, friendship, feel better or as an everyday just because card. Well that's it for me today. I'll see y'all back here on Friday!

The Shabby Tea Room #210 - Anything Goes!!!!!

Ohh my goodness do we have a surprise for you this week at The Shabby Tea Room!! This weeks them isn't a beautiful picture or even a sketch....well, that is it could be if YOU wanted it to be....

This weeks theme: ANYTHING GOES!!!

This week we have no rules as far as what you make or include on your project...woo-hoo for free play, right?!?!? So what are you waiting for...go create!!!

Ohh wait, you wanna see what I made and of course find out who our sponsor is this week to see what prize is up for grabs don't you, lol?

Well, our sponsor is the one and only Bugaboo Stamps! They have the most ADORABLE images and I always enjoy working with them :)

With this weeks theme there's no excuse not to play along at The Shabby Tea Room!! And who knows, you may be one of the winners and score a few Bugaboo images!!

I found this little image, Birdhouse - Beehive, that reminded me of my hubby since he's a beekeeper. Because it's kind of a tall image I decided to pull out a tried and true layout that's a favorite of mine. I made a little polka dot background with one of my top 5 favorite DeNami stamps and added a fun sentiment from DeNami's Heartfelt Greetings set.