Colours of Nature

Greetings everyone! It's new challenge day in The Shabby Tearoom and Sheri is our host this week. She has chosen the theme 'Colours of Nature' and this very lovely and Autumnal wreath.

Yes it's another Christmas project from me as I am fully in the swing of festive crafting (better get used to it dear readers!)

This week the prize for our winner is 5 sheets of digital stamps from Whoopsi Daisy

I've made this little tube bag by rolling a piece of card into a tube and sticking down the longer ends then folding the short ends down at opposite angles and securing with eyelets along the bottom. I've used  pretty seam binding as the bow fastener,then decorated the 'bag' with coco fibre, twine, berry sprigs, gorgeous Prima leaves and a pinecone. The little tag is an image from Whoopsi Daisy (sheet #199) which I've coloured with Pro Markers and die cut out with Nestibilities.

Please pay a visit to the Shabby Girls blogs this week to see what they have been creating!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Deb's Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expressions Of Me!

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Melissa Bove - Creating From The Heart

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Shabby Pastel Christmas

Hello and a new challenge greets us over in The Shabby Tearoom! This week it's Melissa's challenge, who has picked out the beautiful image above! She asks we create a card or project with a Holiday theme using the colours from the inspiration photo.

I have used this Card & Gift Box Combo template, from our sponsors this week Creations by AR. Our Winner this week will recieve 2 fabulous templates! 

 

I've decorated my box with these beautiful colours (light blue and pink, divine!) die cut reindeer, which I added some festive bells around his neck. Glitter, flowers, snowflakes and gorgeous lace add the festive magic!

Challenges:

The City Crafter - Thanks: Thankgiving, Gift or Thank You

Hopee over to the Shabby Girls blogs to see what wonderful projects they have created this week!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Deb's Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expressions Of Me!

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Melissa Bove - Creating From The Heart

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Bright Butterflies

 

The Ribbon Reel's new challenge has been set by Zuzana, who has chosen this lovely image to work with - use the COLOURS from the PHOTO plus BUTTERFLIES. Hop along to the blog to play along and ben in with a chance of winning a £10 voucher to spend in the The Ribbon Reel shop!

For my card I've used kraft and graph paper together as I think it looks great together! The circle frame is amde from corrugated kraft card torn into a circle, which I ran some paint over (Jenni Bowlin paint dabber in Malted Milk) and then die cut a circle inside. I've backed with this pretty yellow paper and pretty butterfly on top, embellished with pins and a rose.

The large rose has been die cut out of felt and rolled, then bunched up with some Tea Roses and crinkled seam binding.

White Twill, Yellow Grosgrain, Tile Blue Seam Binding, Orange Mesh ribbon, Tea Roses all from The Ribbon Reel
Alpha rub ons, Doodlebug
Text paper, October Afternoon
Yellow Lace paper, Crate Paper
Marianne Rose die

Bejewelled

It's Sharon's turn as challenge - setter  over at Daring Cardmakers and this week she'd set the theme:  cards inspired by Jewellery - you can be inspired by the colour, the stone, or the design. 

I've picked out the colours and pearls/gems from this bracelet from Moxie Fab World :

I've used this gorgeous Basic Grey 'Glacier' paper for the base and punched a border from graph card. The are doilies coloured with Pro Markers and layered a circle cut from another one of my favourite Christmas papers (October Afternoon 'Sugar Cookies').

I made a sort of wreath from paper roses and die cut snowflakes covered in glass glitz glitter, while the large snowflake is chipboard painted in Crackle Paint and sprinkled with the aforementioned glitter.

The 'Joy' greeting is with stitching details on the letters. Finished off with a tea stained seam binding bow and this wonderful diamond like (I wish!) gem that was recycled from an old notebook.

Thanks for looking!

Challenges:
Moxie Fab World  - Beads & Baubles
Card Patterns - Sketch 140
Papertake Weekly - Christmas
Simon Says Stamp and Show - Recycle

A Shabby Thanksgiving

This week it's Char's turn to play host in  The Shabby Tearoom and she has chosen this wonderful inspiration pic for you to work with. Create a card / project using Brown, Yellow, Neturals and Blue.

I've coloured this 'Basket of Apples' digi image with Pro Markers, from Robyns Fetish Digital Stamps who are giving away 5 digital images to the Winner of the Tearoom this week.

The bucket has been printed onto wood effect card and mounted onto an embossed and sanded piece of White Wash Coredinations topped with a little greeting banner. I've layered pretty Pink Paislee papers and finished with seam binding, twine, wood button and some Corn husks which I tied into a bow along with some seam binding.

Challenges
Simon Says Stamp  - Buttons
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes



Please hop over to the wonderful Shabby Girls blogs for some great projects!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - Deb's Simple Treasures

Charlene Cundy - Expressions Of Me!

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Melissa Bove - Creating From The Heart

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

A November Flower

It's Flower of the Month time on the Daring Cardmakers blog and this month it is the Chrysanthemum. I've used this lovely little resin Chrysanthemum. The embellishment is made with a chipboard scallop filled with glass glitter and chipboardheart and buttons that have been Crackle Painted and inked with a gold (heart) and blue (buttons) ink for a subtle sheen. Pearls, seam binding and Cosmo Cricket greeting (currently loving these!) finish this little baby off.

Challenges:
Cr84fn Colour challenge  - Grey, Steel Blue, Yellow

Card Patterns - Sketch 138
Papertake Weekly - Anything Goes
Simon Says Stamp - Buttons

A JustRite Party!

Hello and Happy mid-week!

The fantastic JustRite Stamps are hosting a Christmas Linky Party over on their blog and everyone is invited to join in the festivities!  To join in, simply create a Christmas project / card with some JustRite stamps and link your project to the JustRite Inspiration Blog 

For my little project, I decided to make a pretty Christmas tag using the 'Greetings from Paris' stamp set. I've used the beautiful flourish and Fleur de Lys stamps on a kraft tag and added some chipboard labels and decorated with these cute Cosmo Cricket month / number stickers. I've added ruffled ribbon and pearl string along the edge of  the tag.

The tag is completed with a seam binding bow, clothes peg (which I painted with acrylic paint and stamped a Post Mark onto from the same JustRite stamp set as before) and paper rose accented with paint and glitter. Now it's all ready to clip onto a pressent!