The Shabby Tea Room - week #35 - Lavender and Lace

Here's the inspiration photo for this week's Shabby Tea Room challenge:

I've been dying to use my Webster's Pages Hollywood Vogue papers and these seemed to fit the bill for this challenge. I stamped the Unity "Just Be You" stamp straight on to the Webster's paper before sewing around the edge. I used 2 different cotton laces for the card - a black and a cream. The lavender large flower was made using organza fabric and I added a vintage glass button in the centre. The bird embellishment is a Unity stamp that was stamped on to shrink plastic.

Materials used: Papermill cardstock, Versafine black ink, Webster's Pages papers, Unity stamps, Jusikins shrink plastic, black Stazon ink, Wild Orchid Crafts paper roses, Crafty Notions Rainbow Drop.

Also used: cotton laces, organza fabric, vintage glass button, beaded stamen, silk leaf.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #23 The Delicate Cottage Rose

Here's the inspiration photo for this week's challenge at The Shabby Tea Room:

and here's my card. I stamped and paper pieced the Unity dressmaker's dummy stamp (from the April 09 kit of the month)

Materials used: Papermill cardstock, Papermania Rose Garden papers and sentiment die-cut, The Girls Paperie die-cuts, Unity stamp, Memento brown ink, Colorbox chalk ink.

Also used: cotton lace, organza ribbon and various pins.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #19 and W.O.C Week 1

I don't usually combine challenges in my cards but I'll make an exception today LOL! This card is for this week's challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room - From the Garden which is to use this photo as colour inspiration:

and also for the Week 1 challenge at Wild Orchid Challenge. I only came across the blog today but it looks like it's going to be fab and Wild Orchid sell the most gorgeous flowers. All the roses on my card came from Wild Orchid Crafts.

I'm also entering it in this week's challenge at Papertake Weekly - In The Garden!!

Materials used: Bazzill cardstock, Melody Ross Artsy Urban papers, transparent photo corners and journalling sticker, vintage image from Lisa's Altered Art, paper roses from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Also used: cotton lace and pompom trim.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #18 - Christmas in July

The challenge over at the Shabby Tea Room this week is to create a card or project on a holiday theme.

Having finally managed to lay my hands on the Webster's Pages 6 x 6 paper pack I decided to use it for this card:

Materials used: Papermill cardstock, Webster's Pages paper, Ranger Distress inks, Glimmer Mist.

Also used: cotton lace, satin ribbon, pins.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #13 - Just for Dad

The challenge at The Shabby Tea Room this week is to make a Father's Day or masculine card...here's mine:

Materials used: corrugated card, DCWV paper, Artistic Outpost stamp, Versafine sepia ink, Ranger Distress inks, MM clip.

Also used: leather thong, raffia, buttons and hemp thread.

Shabby Tea Room (DT call)

Over at The Shabby Tea Room there's a DT call going on with the challenge being to use this photo as inspiration:

I decided to make a card based on these colours and I also thought the stamp used resembles the main part of the ornate pattern on the teapot.

The quote was cut from a DCWV pad. The organza flowers were made by me using 2 different shades of red and I used some of my favourite vintage glass buttons...I've built up quite a hoard of these from Ebay LOL!

Materials used: Papermill cardstock, DCWV paper, Papermania paper, DCWV quote transparency, Prima stamp, Memento ink, Ranger Distress inks, Kaiser pearls, Distress Stickles, CraftWork rhinestone flourishes, paper roses from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Also used: vintage cotton lace, vintage glass buttons, pearl spray, lucite leaves.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #6 - Sketch This

After a busy week with Jess's birthday and MIL visiting I can join in with a few challenges again! The challenge at The Shabby Tea Room this week was to use the layout of the photo as inspiration. Here's the photo provided:

Here's my card:

Materials used: DCWV cardstock, Webster's Pages papers and journalling block, Papermania vinyl sticker, Pink Paislee Artisan tape, MAMBI threads fabric sticker, Prima crystals.

Also used: tissue paper, ribbon, pins, pearl string and vintage button.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #4 - Embrace the White

Another great challenge at The Shabby Tea Room this week:

"Using this gorgeous photo for inspiration, create a card or project using mainly white or cream and one other subtle colour."

Here's my card and it's back to the vintage images for this one!

Materials used: Bazzill cardstock, Papermania paper, Webster's Pages paper, Colorbox chalk ink, Autumn Leaves border stamp, BrilliancePearlescent Beige ink, Prima trellis rose.

Also used: Vintage image from Ebay CD, vintage lace and glass button, paper roses, silk leaf, stamen.

The Shabby Tea Room - week #3 - Let's Get Scrappy

Here's my card for The Shabby Tea Room - week #3. The challenge this week was to create a card or project using "scraps" of any kind...I chose to try and make a very small dent in my paper scraps but I think I'd need to make at least 3000 more of these to clear it LOL!

Materials used: Dovecraft card, K & Co die-cuts, Prima pearls.

Paper scraps, lace and pins from stash.

I started by placing the paper on card and lightly gluing it:

I then cut off all the excess paper before sewing along the edges and then sewing randomly across all the scraps:

The Shabby Tea Room - week #2 - Spring Inspired

Another blog I came across while blog-hopping this week is The Shabby Tea Room which has only been running a couple of weeks and this week the challenge is to create a spring-inspired project or card which must include stitching.

I made a card using a frame cut on my Craft Robo from a fabulous free GSD file designed by Mary at Mamawslegacy.com: Materials used: Papermill card, DCWV Mariposa paper, Papermania paper, vintage image from Ebay, frame cut on Craft Robo, distress inks, Diamond Dust glitter, Prima flowers and lace.

Vintage lace dragonfly and butterfly, vintage buttons, paper roses and pearls all from stash.