Shabby Garden Birthday Card

Hello~

I hope you all are doing well. Not feeling a 100%, but sharing a card I made but have not posted yet.  The weather has not been very sunny, so my pics are not great. I have tried a couple of times to reshoot. I guess I am just gonna role with it. 

I used a variety of pretty things to create this card. I had a die-cut from K & Company in my stash with some pretty flowers and a sweet scripted saying that I thought was the perfect look for this card.

Lots of doilies, pearls, buttons and lace Oh my. Oh yes, and Roses too!

The Happy Birthday sentiment is from Inspired By Stamping All Year Wishes II.

I hope you enjoyed this shabby birthday card. I was inspired by The Shabby Tea Room - Garden Party.

City Crafter Challenge blog - A Rose is a Rose.

Papercraft Star - Birthday Card

Moxie Fab - Doilies and Lace

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday - Flower

Our Creative Corner - Shabby Chic Theme

Crafty Creations Challenge - Pastels, Pearls, and Lace

Thank you for stopping by! 

~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps: Inspired by Stamping: All Year Wishes II

Paper: CS: PTI, PP: My Minds Eye, and DCWV

Ink: Palette - Charcoal 
Other: Buttons: PTI, Twine: Joanne's, Crochet Trim: Hobby Lobby, Pearls: Michael's, Dies: PTI, Spellbinders, Flowers: Stash

XOXO For My Valentine!

Hi-ya!

So, I have been working on some projects for the upcoming Wilson Designs release and decided to work on some Valentine cards too. So much for a hiatus! I am learning to craft without all my inks and tools.

I used only one stamp on this little number (I know Gasp) and it is from DeNami Designs, but I am learning to allow myself to embellish more since I don't have my diecuts, embossing folders, copics, and my handy dandy die cutting machines right now! 

I distressed the edges of the library card with none other than my FINGERNAIL! (Who needs a Zutter Distrezz It All?) I then inked the edges with tea stain ink. I stamped the xoxo sentiment from DeNami Designs and created a tea stained distressed tag and adhered it to the wrinkled ribbon from MemrieMare with twine. 

Who knows, you may be seeing more of my vintage Valentine's. I have plenty to make that is for sure.

I thought it would be fun to play along in these challenges!

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday: FTTC103 Valentines

Simon Says Stamp: LOVE is in the Air

City Crafter Challenge: CCCB42 All You Need is Love 

Stamptacular Sunday: Whateva!

Paper Sundaes: Valentines

Have a fabulous Saturday! I hope you are staying warm in your part of the world!

~Tammy~

Jay Gee's Nook Challenge #2

Hey there!

Can you believe that November has come and gone? I feel like 2010 was such a blur for me with a husband deployed for more than half of it. The second half I lost someone very special to me, focusing on selling a house, and trying to gear up to leave a place we have lived for 9 years. I feel like I have just bounced around and got through some how.

I played along in Jay Gee's Nook first challenge, and while I still have my crafty items available, I wanted to play along in her 2nd challenge. I love the inspiration photographs that she finds. It makes me want to run right to my crafting area and play along.

I started with Kraft cardstock from Stampin' UP! and added designer paper from The Angel Company (TAC) and distressed the edges with Vintage Tea Stain ink. I added a strip of red card stock I had in my stash and I stamped various images in VersaMark Ink from my Stampin' UP! Winter Post set and also adding the snowflake from Wilson Designs Snowy Wishes. It's the perfect little snowflake to add in between images. (**Wilson Designs has a new release next week so stay tuned!!**) I tied a red gingham ribbon knot around my red card stock to tie in with the inspiration photograph below.

I circle punched my designer paper and stamped in Soft Suede the post mark stamp and adhered it to my doily. I then stamped my Do Not Open til Dec 25 sentiment and added that to my card. Lastly, I embellished with two snowflakes adding gold dew drops to the centers.

I just couldn't resist the homespun feel of this photograph! There is something comforting about it don't you think?

I am also playing along with Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge(FTTC95) - Have a doily look.

That's it for me today! Thanks for visiting!
~Tammy~

{Recipe}

Stamps:  Stampin' UP!: Winter Post, Wilson Designs: Snowy Wishes

Paper: CS: Stampin' UP!: Kraft, Real Red, DP: The Angel Company: More Mimi

Ink: Stampin UP!: Soft Suede, Real Red, VersaMark,Tim Holtz Distress Inks
Other: Martha Stewart Doily, Punches: Martha Stewart, Stampin' UP!, Marvy, Ribbon: Offray, Dew Drops

Noel~

Hello!

I just have a quick post today! I was trying to knock out 

a few things on my to-do list and I wanted to 

get a few more Christmas cards done.

Well, I only got one because it seems 

I got pulled to do other things. Oh well.

My local wholesale club had these 

cute buttons on sale, so I snatched 

those right up because I love to 

embellish my cards 

and projects with buttons!

I have had this adorable

Sizzix tree die waiting for 

me to actually use for a couple 

of years now, so I thought the two

would be a perfect match!

I was going for simple and easy to reproduce!!!

I distressed the edges of my pattern paper with

Tim Holtz  Tea Dye. I added  a little Stampin'

UP! Craft White ink to my tree before I

adorned with buttons. 

The sentiment is from MPS stamps. 

I thought I would play along with

Pixie Dust Paperie where their

challenge is to use trees. I am

also playing along with

Stamp and Create - Tis the Season

Flourishes Timeless Tuesday Challenge 93-

Just Do It - get those Christmas Cards Done 

Our Daily Bread - Holiday

Diecuts Dreams Christmas - Anything Goes

Freshly Brewed Challenges - Winter/Christmas Theme

Well, I hope to get more cards made! (fingers crossed)

~Tammy~