Shabby tea room challenge week #154

Hi! Thank you for stopping by my blog today. So the challenge this week at the tea room is called 'A silver lining'. Here are all the details if you fancy taking part:

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Starr is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'A Silver Lining' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Starr asks that you create a card or project inspired by the photo incorporating the colors of AQUA AND BROWN AND INCLUDE A SILVER ELEMENT!

 So for my card I actually had a completely different design in mind, but as we sometimes know things don't go to plan :) I am pleased with how the card turned out, and as usual I have added my handmade flowers as I am still obsessed with them. I was going to use a ribbon buckle for the silver element but decided on the clip instead. I used my promarkers to colour in the dog and the flowers.

I would also like to enter this card for word art Wednesday challenge #68 'anything goes'. Please come along and join the challenge they are a lovely bunch of ladies.
http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.co.uk/

Thank you for taking the time to visit my blog today and if you have any questions please ask and I would be happy to get back to you,

thanks,

Vic

Pink owls & flowers: Shabby tea room challenge week #152

Hello again, I hope you are having a good week. I can't believe how fast the last month has gone!

I have been busy making cards this week, looking after my little girl and trying to avoid the bugs and colds.

I have made a card this week for the shabby tea room challenge week 152. Head on over if you would like to take part.

This week at the tea room the challenge was to create a card using this lovely photo and to use the colours pink & blue. You also had to make a birthday card.

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week Lenet is our creative host and she has chosen the theme of 'Happy Birthday in Pink and Blue' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and Lenet asks that you create a BIRTHDAY card or project using the COLORS FROM THE PICTURE !

So here is my card for the challenge. I handsitched the card front using pink thread, and I also added a cute cloud paper. I thought these two owls were super cute ( unity stamps ) and I stamped them onto pink text paper. I made the pin using a pink button and I also went around the edges of my handmade flowers with a blue marker.
The 'hello my love' journal card from echo park was perfect to stamp my birthday greeting on, and I used my paper smooches greeting stamps.
After adding some twine and  a punched border edge the card is finished.

I would also like to enter this card at http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.co.uk/ challenge # 66. They are really lovely ladies over there so if you want to have a go at the challenge be sure to stop by.

Thank you for stopping by my blog, if you have any questions please ask.

see you soon!

Vic

Monster birthday-shabby tea room challenge week #151: cute as a button

Hello! I'm back after having the flu and have missed making cards! I hope you managed to avoid the nasty bug. Roll on summer!

Anyway on to brighter things I now have somewhere to craft woohoo! My boyfriend has sorted out the loft for me, so I'm very grateful that I now have a place to get creative!

I Have made this card for this weeks shabby tea room challenge "cute as a button". You had to use the colours green, blue, white and red and of course some buttons. I thought I would do a boys card this week as its a bit different and I fancied a change from pretty flowers.

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week I am our creative host and I have chosen the theme of 'Cute as a Button' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the COLORS IN THE PHOTO AND INCLUDE BUTTONS!

If you want to take part at the tea room or just look at beautiful cards from the design team head over: here

To make this card I used:

White card blank
White card front
Green thread
Speech bubble die
Red ink
Monster from designs by dani
Buttons
Bracket die
Glossy accents
Green bakers twine
Paper smooches greetings stamps
Red marker pen
Green marker pen

I first cut my card front and hand stitched around the edges with green thread, I then cut a speech bubble and bracket shape using my cameo.

I coloured in the bracket shape with red marker and placed this onto my card front.

I stamped the happy birthday greeting and placed the monster and buttons on my card front.

I think this monster is really cute :)

I hope you like my card and if there are any questions please ask.

Thank you all for stopping by and taking a peek at my blog,

Vic

Happy new year!

Hello :) Just a quick post to wish you a happy new year, I am so sorry this a late post but I have caught the flu so I will be back in a week or so.

See you soon .

vic

A penguin christmas card

Hello, wow I really can't believe Christmas is only a few days away! So I have still not done all my shopping........I am planning to get the rest done tomorrow, what a scary thought!

Anyway I have made time to finish off another Christmas card so I am slowly getting there.

This Christmas card was made pretty quickly, so I am pleased with the end result.

I would like to enter this to word art Wednesday challenge #59. If you would like to join in please head over and visit their blog at:
 http://wordartwednesday.blogspot.co.uk/

They are all very friendly and there is lots of lovely cards to look at too.

Products used:

Papermania stamp from the boofle christmas collection

Backing paper pink paislee hometown summer paper

Lori whitlock greeting cut with cameo silhouette's online store

Red heart from designs by dani just stay little kit

Martha Stewart border edge punch

red button

glossy accents

twine

promarkers

white seam binding

Thank you for stopping by today, I hope you are all having a lovely weekend.

Vic

A christmas birthday card/ shabby tea room challenge week#145

Hi, thank you for visiting my blog today. I hope you are all looking forward to Christmas. I am so behind this year, but there is still time to try and get sorted.....

I love this time of year, and I love looking at all the pretty lights and decorations.



I have made this card for the shabby tea room challenge week #145 'shabby chic holiday'.

Monday, December 17, 2012

Week #145 - 'Shabby Chic Holiday'

Hello shabby friends and welcome to another fun week of inspiration and creativity here in the Tea Room!  This week I am our host and I have chosen the theme of 'Shabby Chic Holiday' along with this beautiful photo for inspiration and I ask that you create a card or project inspired by the photo using PINK, AQUA, WHITE/CREAM and GLITTER!

 

 I loved the idea of this challenge and I thought I would make a Christmas/birthday card, as I know some people who have birthdays in December and I would get told off if i gave them something very christmassy as a birthday card.

So this is my card that I made using the above picture to inspire me. I hand sewed the card front as I wanted to use a lovely soft pink, to fit in with the theme. I found this really sweet teddy from me to you, which my friend is crazy on so I knew I had to use this on her card.

I then added the tags, looping twine thorough them and added a button.

The flowers have a very fine glitter centre which I thought they would be perfect for both the card and the challenge.

I am pleased with the end result as I know she will love her birthday card, and I had such a fun time playing along for this week challenge.
Please take a look at the shabby tea room, the cards are absolutely stunning and you are bound to find so much inspiration over there.

http://theshabbytearoom.blogspot.co.uk/


Thank you for taking time to visit me and looking at my cards, if there are any questions please ask. I hope you all have an amazing Christmas!


Vic x

Products used:

white card blank

Digital pink ink backing paper

Me to you bear

Echo park tag (black)

American crafts tag (pink)

pink thread

twine

pink buttons

flowers

Pink paisley tab

Glitter

Jillybean soup greeting



Seasons greetings

Hello thank you for popping by and having a look at my blog today. I have to be honest, I have been really behind with making my Christmas cards this year. In fact, I am so far behind that I have not sent one card yet, which is pretty terrible!
I sometimes think that as a cardmaker we feel that we have to make every single card that we send which is sometimes not possible, and as much as I would love to do this the reality is slim, so I have finally got round to making a few cards tonight which I will give to close friends and family. Does anyone else feel a little pressure to make most of your cards?

A lot of my elements on my card was made using my cameo and digital pink ink designs , I just adore their pretty patterned papers.

To make this card I used:

White card blank
Digital pink ink background paper
Digital pink ink Christmas tag
Echo park tag
Designs by dani star
Christmas postmarks by Sarah Hurley
Cosmo cricket paper (for the Christmas tree)
Brown thread
Small peg
Red & white twine
Glossy accents

I first cut down my backing paper to fit my card front and I then hand stitched the edges with brown thread. After adhering this down onto my card front I cut out the black and white echo park tag and looped through the twine. I placed the tag at the top left of my card, and then added the Christmas tags and star.
The Christmas tree was then placed at the bottom left of my card and I added the greeting and Christmas postmark.

To add more dimension to my card I went over the star and greeting with glossy accents, and then added clear balls onto the Christmas tree.

I hope you like the end result, and if there is a question about the card or products used please ask.

I would like to enter this card to word art Wednesday challenge 59, this is my first entry to the challenge. The ladies over their seem so friendly and kind, also there is so many beautiful cards to look at and be inspired by, it's definitely worth visiting at:
Wordartwednesday.blogspot.com/

Thank you so much for having a peek at my blog and cards today.

Vic x