Spread your wings

Hi friends, its Sunday night- that means a Shabby Tea Room post (I know, i've been bad bad and those are the only sort of posts you've been seeing here lately... I've been pretty busy lately with home improvements and life...i'll tell you about it sometime.)

Anyway, this week we are using the colors PINK, GREEN, and YELLOW! 

AND Since this week's sponsor is Just Rite stamps, I was able to play with one of their new stamp sets-"Spread your wings". Its a gorgeous set with the oh-so-popular birdcage images. I love how my card turned out. 

Well I hope you play along for a chance to win an awesome prize from Just Rite stamps!

Now be sure to check out the Shabby Girls' blogs for more inspiration, they have some amazing creations this week!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expressions of Me!

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

A Father's Day card

Hi friends, its a Shabby Tea Room Sunday night! (Or Monday morning...)

This week Charlene ask us to use 2 patterned papers, 4 buttons, and 6 layers. What a fun challenge! 

And this week's sponsor is Just Rite Stamps- their prize packages are always so great, you definitely don't want to miss a chance winning it!

I really tried to make this card masculine, so I left out the ribbon and used twine instead and kept it pretty simple...I think maybe I should have made it grungier? Either way... 

My favorite part is the award ribbon. I love that image from Just Rite's 'You're the best' cling stamp set. This stamp set is so fun, and I can see myself using it a lot. (I'm thinking I'll have to make all my brother in laws' Father's Day cards soon!)

The Shabby Girls have some beautiful things to show you, so make sure to stop by their blogs too!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expressions of Me!

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Pink and shabby

Thats how I like it, but you already knew that, huh ;o)...

So here's my card for this week's Shabby Tea Room challenge.

This week's challenge was pretty easy for me...Use lace or doilies on your card or project...easy peasy! Cupcake Card Craft is this weeks' sponsor and is giving away a great prize, so check out the other inspiration from the Shabby Girls, and then come play along with us! 

Charlene - Expresstions of Me!

Debbie - Simple Treasures

Melissa - Creating From the Heart

Pattie - The Pampered Paper Patch

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

You mean the world to me.

Its time for another challenge at The Shabby Tea Room! This one is actually hosted by me! The challenge is to use the colors from the inspiration photo AND use flowers somewhere in your project or card. I used a flower that I got on clearance at Michaels as the focal point. You'll also find another one of  those vintage molded button I made on the shabby bow...

I used Just Rite's Kindness, Fancy Labels, and Friendship Blooms cling stamp sets to create this card...
The background pattern was created using the decorative circle frame from Friendship blooms along with the smaller medallion.

I then stacked the Spellbinders label 18 coordinating stamps from Friendship Blooms and Fancy Labels. I don't have the Spellbinders die yet, so I just cut it out by hand.

Finally I stamped the smallest label from Fancy Labels in light pink and over it the sentiment from Kindness.

I used ink and water to distress the background for a softer, shabbier feel.

Thanks for visiting...I hope you decide to play along with this week's challenge. Here's some more inspiration for you from the other Shabby Girls...

Charlene - Expresstions of Me!

Kristin - Lilsweetpea's Place

Melissa - Creating From the Heart

Pattie - The Pampered Paper Patch

Debbie - Simple Treasures

I also entered this card in Just Rite's 'Kindness' challenge. The prize is pretty amazing and includes the Vintage   Oval Labels cling stamp sets I've had my eye on... this set is absolutely scrumptious!

P.S. Sorry about the yucky pictures lately...I need to play around and find a better spot to photograph my cards. I don't really feel like my photos are a good representation of what my cards are really like in real life. They seem so flat and the colors are slightly off...boohooo.... you know me- I'm a whiner....;o)  I'm also going to blame Windows 7 for removing the 'fix' option on their photo viewer (that was the easiest way to edit photos for me! I feel lost when doing it on paint.net) If you have any pointers for me and my sorry skills I'd love to hear them...Thanks friends.

On your special day

So I promised that I would be working on some wedding card. I think this counts as one right? Technically 'special day' could be ANY special day but this one is elegant, and wedding like. So... its a wedding card. 

I was inspired by this week's color combo challenge at CR84FN... the pictures they choose are always very inspiring and lovely! 

The flower and vintage inspired label are from K&Company's Flora and Fauna line. They're been living here for a little bit, but this time I actually took them out and used them. I love how K&Company has the die cut packs to match their lines, they're my favorite product! 

I used a Just Rite sentiment on the label... (I won my first sets of Just Rite stamps at the Shabby Tea Room a few weeks ago- yippee!) I really like the elegant fonts they use for their sentiments. 

The seam binding is from a batch that I dyed with shimmer mist.

Thanks for stopping by, enjoy your Tuesday evening.... (Its Glee night!)