The Shabby Tea Room, Cardabilities and Lawnscaping Challenges

Happy Tuesday! It's a great day here in the Pacific Northwest and I hope it is a beautiful day wherever you all are.

After I am done with this post I am headed outside to catch up with the yard work and enjoy the sun. It has been such a glorious summer here so I want to take advantage of it whenever I can and I know winter will be here before we know it. The days are already noticeably shorter and the fireweed is almost done blooming which is a sign that summer is almost over and winter is fast approaching.

 Any way back to the reason of this post which is I have a card to share:

 

I used the inspiration from The Shabby Tea Room , Material Girl for the colors (green and blue) and then they wanted us to use material ( I used canvas for the material) and flowers (flowers are in the pattern paper and I also used teeny green paper flowers)

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Isn't this a gorgeous photo! As I said before I used the colors green and blue and I also used the dress form as my focal image.

For  my cards design I used the sketch from Cardabilities:

 

You really need to stop by their blog and see all the pretty inspiration from their DT. 

I stayed pretty true to the sketch on this one.

After die cutting the dress form out of sticky back canvas I embossed it with a Tim Holtz folder (the die was also a Tim Holtz die). Next I inked the top part with Tumbled Glass distress ink and the bottom portion with Shabby Shutters distress ink.The edges were then inked with Walnut Stain distress ink. To dress the form up a bit more I made a pearl necklace and around the waist I added belt of tiny green paper flowers. To the flower centers I added two green sparkle gemstones and the middle one is blue.
Next I die cut the stand out of pattern paper, inked the edges with distress ink and pieced it together with the dress form and added it to the light green pattern paper with the stitched floral pattern which I thought fit the theme of my card very well. I distressed all the edges of my layers with my distress tool and inked the edges with Walnut Stain distress ink.

On the middle layer I added pen stitching with a black pen. I stamped the round spool top image with a Tim Holtz stamp with black ink on a scrap of white paper that I had swiped with paint and cut it out. The edges were then distressed and inked. I made a lace banner and the other banner is out of white cardstock and edges inked with distress ink. I stamped the Technique Tuesday "Happy Birthday" in black ink.
I love the fact that this card is flat even though it has lots of layers making it so much easier to mail.
And since this card has lots of distress going on I thought I would also play over at Lawnscaping.

 

They have a Distress Maniacs Challenge going on and this card fits the challenge very well don't you think? I used distress ink and paint and distressed the edges of my papers. This is my first time playing over there. You should drop by and take a peek at the inspiring projects of their DT. I'm sure they would love for you to play along too!

Thanks so much for dropping by and have a great day everyone!

Teresa

Romance & Classic

 Hello my Creative Friends!
I have two cards for you today. My first card is a classic black and white.

The sketch is from CAS(E) This Sketch #36  It is such a sweet sketch that I just couldn't pass it up.

I decided on black and white because all of my cards of late have been very colorful so I thought I would change it up. It just so happens that Flourishes has a birthday celebration going on to celebrate their sixth birthday and will have several challenges going on this week and the first challenge is to create a black and white project. Perfect for my color scheme!

On white cardstock I stamped the pretty frame in Tuxedo Black Memento ink. The frame is from Inakadinkado: Expressions. I then embossed the white cardstock with the Swiss Dots Embossing folder. I matted it then with a black  mat and adhered it to the card base with pop up dots. The sentiment is from Hero Arts- Heart Flowers. I stamped it on black cardstock with Watermark Versamark ink  and embossed with white embossing powder,

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The little bird is a pillow sticker and is from Studio 112.

I stamped the frame on the inside of the card and stamped "Make a wish" with a Studio G stamp. I used another pillow sticker bird and the "Happy Birthday" is from The Paper Studio- Cupcakes.

I used a black Glaze pen on the candle so it is shiny. I couldn't get it to show up in photos.

I even stamped the frame on the front of the envelope too.

For my second card I did another classic type card. This time I went with white and gold. 

My inspiration for this card came from the romantic inspirational photo from The Shabby Tea Room Week 175. Isn't that a beautiful photo!

You also have to use flowers, pearls and lace.
I used this sketch from Cardabilities #79

I thought this sketch fit the inspiration photo from The Shabby Tea Room so I went with it.

 

I actually started my card with the cluster of elements I know that's kinda working backwards but I just started collecting what I thought I needed or could use.  The white paper flowers I've had forever and never used them because they were a little smashed from being in the package and just weren't that pretty. But After I inked the edges with gold ink and worked with them a bit they really turned out very pretty. Glad I kept them now. I used a big gold button. It had a shank so I had to raid my husbands tool box to find something to cut off the shank so the button would lie flat. I attached the button to a white  lace bow. The butterfly is stamped on vellum paper with gold ink and I embossed it with gold embossing powder then die cut it out. I added some peals for the body. The butterfly stamp and die are from Hero Arts and Sizzix.

I also used vellum for the pine boughs that are from a Martha Stewart punch and the gold leaf was stamped on vellum too and I used gold ink and then embossed using gold embossing powder. I just love how it all turned out.

 The banner I stamped the "Mr. & Mrs." in gold ink on white cardstock and embossed it too with gold embossing powder. The white cardstock was embossed with an embossing folder and then inked lightly with gold ink and then matted on gold shimmer paper. I rounded all the corners too.

Thanks so  much for the visit and I hope you come back again!

Teresa

Verve Sketch and Shabby Tea Room Challenge

Hello Friends! This card today is sort of an artsy card. (well for me anyway) I used paint instead of ink and I am really pleased with the results. It isn't a new technique just new to me. I have always loved the look of a sentiment stamped over a swipe of paint and yesterday I finally took the plunge and tried it.

I used the sketch for Week 2 of July from Viva La Verve Sketch

 For the color inspiration I used the pretty photo from The Shabby Tea Room, Cherry Pie

 The white kitchen with red accents is so fresh. I also took green from the plant and pretty blue from the glass jars.

 The chipboard flower was painted in Barn Door Distress ink the center of the flower is Broken China. I covered both in Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel. (UTEE) This stuff is awesome! I have had this jar of UTEE for several years and this is the first time I have used it. I used about three layers of the UTEE. After it had dried I decided to use some light blue seed beads in the center of the flower so I added Glossy Accent to the center and added the beads then let it dry. I cut a short piece of green  ribbon from Papertrey Ink cut the ends and folded it and adhered it behind the flower.

I took Pool Acrylic Paint Dabber from Adirondack, another product I've had for several years and never used. I poured a very small amount on my craft sheet and used a foam brush to paint white cardstock. I then stamped my Sentiment from Verve with Versamark Watermark ink and embossed it with white embossing powder. Then cut it out using  a Spellbinder's die. I adhered it to the card with pop up dots .

I love the pretty floral print from DCWV Matstack, Citrus. It had all the colors from the inspirational photo. I then matted it with blue and red cardstock so it would stand out more.

I couldn't resist using the foam paint brush and Pool acrylic paint to paint the edges of the white card base. The red cardstock background was embossed with a Cuttlebug embossing folder.

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Teresa

For My Friend

Good morning my blog friends!
I have a card to share with you this morning that was inspired by a sketch from Viva La Verve Sketch Challenge and The Shabby Tea Room.
Here is the card I created:

 This is the sketch:

I thought this sketch was so unique. (sorry the picture turned out so small)
Then when I saw the inspiration photo at The Shabby Tea Room I instantly knew the two would go together.

Isn't this a beautiful photo! The challenge is to be inspired by the colors, use ribbon and text in your project. I immediately thought of some flowers I had made using pages from a dictionary and distress inks which I thought would also go well with the sketch.

I have had a small piece of leftover ribbon sitting on my desk for like a month not wanting to throw it out but not knowing what to do with such a small piece. I ended up stapling  the ends together to make a loop and cut another piece the same size so I could use them as leaves for my flower. For the cardstock I pulled colors from the photo and used the white base of the card for my background. It was too plain for my liking so I embossed it with an Anna Griffin embossing folder and inked it lightly with Walnut Stain distress ink. I then embossed the three other pieces of cardstock using a different folder for each piece. (I know I went a bit crazy with my Cuttlebug. ;) I felt like the colors were a bit too bright so I used a Walnut Stain ink on them too.

 I ran across some pretty crochet trim and just had to add it. So under the flower it went and I made a tiny tag with the sentiment stamped in Timber Brown Memento ink and inked the tag with Antique Linen Distress ink and Walnut Stain.
And there you have it! This was such a fun sketch to use.
I hope you join in on the challenges and let me know if you do. I would love to see your creations too!
Teresa