Hello?

Mojo? Is that you?.... I hope you're here to stay! At least for a little while...

I actually made all these cards on Monday. Josh had the day off so I sat at my 'craft closet' all day long! I was on a roll and wasn't about to stop that! 

These are going in my Etsy shop that i've been neglecting for the last month or so....

Happy Saturday! Don't forget to check back tomorrow night for the Shabby Tea Room post.

Blues

I was so tickled with the color combo challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room, that I couldn't resist creating a couple of extra blue cards. 

I can't stop using those adorably Tiny Tags from Papertrey Ink....I will love that set forever and ever. As soon as I got the die, I cut a bunch of 'em out of rustic cream cardstock (my fav!) and now I have a little bag full ready for use. They are just perfect on a big shabby bow.

I used a bunch of papers out of my scrap drawer, and a sweet little baby from Crafty Secret's Altered Fairies scraps. 

This Mother's Day card also follows that lovely color scheme, and of course I included another shabby bow with those tiny tags. Its hard to tell but above 'Mom' i stamped 'love you' in a light blue ink. 

I stamped a heart-filled sentiment from Crafty Secrets' Mother stamp set. 

And then used the bird and nest image from the same Crafty Secrets set and embossed it in white. I love white embossing soo much...I need to do it more often I think! 

I hope this inspires you to come and play in this week's Shabby Tea Room challenge if you haven't already!

Lady silhouette

 Hi there! This week at The Shabby Tea Room we are having a color challenge! Use blue, white, and another neutral for your card/project. I used a digi stamp (I heart U) from Robyn's Fetish (this week's sponsor) for the shape of my project. 

I printed the heart shape onto card stock and patterned paper, paper pieced the heart and glued the bottom part of the two cardstock hearts together, leaving the top open. This formed a little pocket in the heart to put a note, a small RAK, candy, ect... I think this would work well for Mother's Day! 

I embellished my heart pocket with some fun products from the Girls Paperie, Tattered Angels, and a vintage image from The Graphics Fairy. 

I finished it off with some glitter and a couple of vintage millinery flowers.

I stuffed the pocket with some crochet lace for the photo below.

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

Its been a while

Since i've posted eh?

Well I haven't been crafting much lately, but I do have some cards to show you. I made them a couple of weeks ago and just got some time to take pictures of them. I used up some more K&Company scraps, and also sneaked in some Crate Paper paper... fun huh? 

I've been busy busy, and lazy lazy. And feeling the blahs... It seems like lately all I have the energy (motivation) to do is take care of my kiddos and my house(barely).... I did get to sit down today and make a fun little project for the Shabby Tea Room (Check my blog tomorrow night for that one!) and it felt good to sit down and create. I DID want to make more, and I had all these ideas running through my head but before I knew it, my kids had woken up from their nap. Maybe if i'm not too pooped(where's the propriety?! I know..!) i'll get to cut, glue, and embellish. Anyway, I know you're here to see the cards sooooo....... ;o)

Oh yes, don't forget to check back tomorrow night for The Shabby Tea Room post, its a good one ;o) 

A couple of tags

Hi friends, sorry I've been a little MIA here on the blog....been busy with life, you know how it goes...spring cleaning, kids, kids, kids, cleaning... ;o)

I do have a few more cards to show you but today its time for The Shabby Tea Room challenge! 

This week's challenge is to use butterflies on your card or project! Fun! 

For the tag above, I used a digi stamp (Lilly and Leo) from this week's sponsor, Stamp Fairy. I wanted to stay with the style of the drawing so I kept everything pretty clean and fresh...which I think turned out pretty well! ;o)

 I colored the little girl with Copic markers, and gave her dress some little polka dots. The patterned paper you see at the bottom of the tag is from Crate Paper's Emma's Shoppe. Love LOVE that collection! 

I thought I would try something different this week, since I usually only make cards.

So I dressed up this little kraft pocket and manila tag! It was fun to have a different 'canvas' to work with, and you'll be seeing more things like this from me in the future! 

Anyway, for this tag I used stamps from Maya Road (doilies), PTI (sentiment), and Prima (butterfly), I also used some Emma's Shoppe Crate Paper scrap, velvet ribbon, and Martha Stewart doily. 

The tag inside the pocket was stamped with more doilies, I left it just like that so I can write a message on it. I'm really in love with the color combo I used this week...dark pink, aqua, turquoise... its so fresh! 

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 - Expresstions of Me!

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Pattie Goldman - The Pampered Paper Patch

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Easter Stripes

Hi friends! Its time for the weekly challenge at the Shabby Tea Room. This week's challenge is hosted by Charlene, and she thought it would be fun if we all used pastels and stripes on your card or project. 

Since this week's sponsor is The Ribbon Reel, I thought it would be fun to use a lot of yummy ribbon on my card. I didn't want to overwhelm my card with too much ribbon, so I just used a pretty Spellbinders shape to cut the ribbon panel. I kept the rest of the card simple so the fun ribbon stripes could be the star of the show.

I couldn't resist stamping that little bunny, from Papertrey Ink's Place Please stamp set, inside the card again. 

The Shabby Girls created some amazing projects this week, so be sure to visit their blogs too.

Debbie Marcinkiewicz -  Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expresstions 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

Overflow

 Here are some cards I made in this past week...

I've been trying to use up my supplies, as they are taking over my house! I'm thinking of selling some of my stuff...if you've sold extra supplies online, where did you do it? Did you have a problem selling 12x12paper because of shipping? 

Thanks in advance!

Just for you

As promised, here's one of the cards I made the other day... I made this one for the CR84FN color challenge. This week's colors are brown green and kraft. 

I used a bird embellishment from K&Company and stamps by Papertrey Ink. The papers are PTI, Prima, and Melissa Frances. The flower is from a vintage necklace I found a few years ago. 

I've really been experimenting with my photos, I think i'm getting closer... what do you think?

Thanks for visiting!

Little Lamb

Hi there! Here's my card for this week's Shabby Tea Room challenge. I used a digital stamp from this week's sponsor Robyn's Fetish. The stamp I used is called Lily Lamb. 

I used a photoshopping (I know..I make up words..) program to lighten the stamp for a softer look. I then did some textured shading with a couple of gray Copic markers...after that was done I used some distressing ink to age the and distress the little lamb image for a more vintage look.

Be sure to check out all the inspiration from the Shabby Girls-

Charlene - Expresstions of Me!

Debbie - Simple Treasures

Kristin - Lilsweetpea's Place

Melissa - Creating From the Heart

Pattie - The Pampered Paper Patch

and stay tuned because I crafted up a storm this weekend trying to chase down the ol' mojo... so I have lots of cards to show! 

Sweet Baby

Not feeling too wordy, and I should be cleaning so its just pictures today! (you lucked out eh?)

I entered these cards into Wee Memories' anything goes challenge and Get Sketchy's sketch challenge for this week.

Happy Thursday.