TSTR week 25 - Old Meets New

Good morning lovely ladies in blogworld! It's Monday morning and that's a good thing in The Shabbylicious Tea Room! Oh how I LOVE our challenges! This week Nicole is serving up some old meets new! It's so much fun to use vintage finds on cards and projects! There is just something special about using something that is not new or store bought, something that has been around for years!

For my card this week I used the following old and new items:

The buttons along the bottom left of the card are very old. My parents visited my uncle recently in VA and went antique shopping. My mom knows how much I love buttons and when she came across these beauties she bought them for me. Apparently they were from one of the older horse stables and were used to close the feed sacks for the horses. I actually had to give them a mini bath when I got them home because they were still dirty from laying in the stables, gross but kinda cool! They do look like ordinary buttons but I know their history. :-)

Old Buttons from horse stables.

For something new, I have two items to share. First, is the lovely Lacey Blueberry Seam Binding that we were supplied with from lovely Debbie's etsy shop and second, are the two flourishes sticking out above the mini envelope. Those flourishes are from the latest addition to my stamp collection from Papertrey Ink. They are die cuts that have been stamped and heat embossed to give them a shiny textured appearance

New Lacey Blueberry Seam Binding

New Papertrey Ink Flourishes

The rest of the card was made with Papertrey Ink cardstock and The Girl's Paperie polka dot paper.  The small label on the envelope is a Papertrey Ink die and the two sentiments are Papertrey as well!

Thanks so much to Debbie, our fearless leader, for supplying us with some lovely seam binding from her etsy shop, Simple Treasures, this week to use on our projects!

Don't forget to check out what the rest of the Shabby Design Team has made just for you!

You can check them out at their individual blogs here:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog
Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl
Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession
Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations


Have a great week everyone!

{hugs} Lisa

Seeing Vintage Stars

Today I have a project to share with you that I absolutely adore!

Since I am in love with all things vintage and shabby I thought it would be fun to join in on the Simon Says Stamp challenge this week which is dedicated to Tim Holtz and all things vintage.  I also love the challenge over at The City Crafter Challenge Blog this week titled "I See Stars".

Since the glitter reminds me of a little bit of metal, I'm going to add this to the challenge in The Shabby Tea Room for some DT inspiration!

I had fun making this vintage bird ornament.  First I die cut my large star from chipboard and covered it in some delicious Girl's Paperie floral print.  Then I took some Papertrey Ink sweet blush cardstock and made it into a paper medallion.  I then embellished the edges with some sparkly silver glitter.  Next came my sweet little birdie center!  The chipboard bird is from Tattered Angels and I sprayed him with some glimmer mist for an altered and glittery look and I popped him front and center! 

I just love the music background on this little guy!

What a fun project to make and such a cute look!  I could see putting this little cutie on a Vintage style Christmas tree!

Thanks for stopping by today, hope you enjoyed my little ornament!

Have a great day!

{hugs} Lisa

Farewell To Isabella's Challenges

Unfortunately this will be the last weekly challenge for Isabella's Sketchbook.

I've enjoyed being on the design team for Isabella and working with some very talented ladies!  Unfortunately due to personal reasons Isabella could not keep up with the weekly challenges but her store will remain open, so you will be able to continue purchasing her lovely digi images!  Thank you to Isabella for her lovely images and thank you to our loyal followers week after week!

Ok now onto our last challenge.

The theme this week is "Handmade Flowers".  For my card I wanted to make a "criss cross" card.  I recently found an easy tutorial on how to make them and I am enamored by them.  They are so much fun to make and they look great!  I used Isabella's Lighthouse image and I also used some handmade crocheted flowers that my mom makes for me.  Here is a picture of the insert of the card.

This card is dedicated to Isabella and all of my teammates

on the design team.

The sentiment reads.... "you inspire me"... and they certainly have!

I've learned a lot from everyone and I'll be sad to see this challenge go.

Thank you and good luck to Isabella and I'll be seeing the rest of the lovely DT around blogland.

Have a great day everyone!

{hugs} Lisa

TSTR Week #24 - A Little Bit of Metal

Good morning everyone!  Here we are at week #24 in The Shabby Tea Room and this week Melissa is our host and she has inspired us with this gorgeous photo:

And keeping with the theme, she has challenged us to use a little bit of metal in our projects!

I love using the pop-top's from soda cans on ribbon so I thought this would be the perfect card to use it on and I had the "precious" metal word strip in my stash for a while now just waiting for the

perfect opportunity to be used.  I also handmade the rose on the bottom of my card using a simple tutorial that Debbie did for KL Stampin N Scrappin for spiral roses.  You can check it out here.

I had a lot of fun with this card thanks to our sponsor this week, "Some Odd Girl" digi stamps!

The design team was supplied with some super adorable images from Some Odd Girl and I chose the

"Fairy Mae" image for my card.  I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS LITTLE GAL! 

Kristy, owner/designer of Some Odd Girl Digital Stamps, is thrilled to be sponsoring The Shabby Tea Room! Kristy has offerd three digital images of the winner's choice from her on-line shop (a $9 value)! Some Odd Girl was launched in January 2010 and they are proudly bringing some fun and quirky images to the paper crafting market! The idea to start Some Odd Girl was inspired by two great friends! They took one of Kristy's pencil drawings, made it into a rubber stamp and that act of generosity spiraled into what you see today! Kristy is ALSO offering The Shabby Tea Room followers a 30% discount on any purchases from her shop during her week of sponsorship here in the Tea Room.

So head on over to Kristy's shop and take advantage of this great offer!  I know you will fall in love with all of her super adorable images like I did!

Make sure you check out what the other girls in the Tea Room have designed for you this week!

You can check them out at their individual blogs here:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Ok so now let's see your metal creations!  Have fun and don't forget to link your project to Mr. Linky!

Have a great day everyone!  I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

Polkadoodles Vintage Challenge

Oh I am in love with the challenge that Fliss has set for us this week over at Polkadoodles!  We are to make a vintage style card and as some of you know, that is my absolute favorite style to design!  I decided to make a wedding card and I used the Love and Cherish CD for the background paper and the "Love and Marriage" strip up the side and also for the main heart focal point.  I embellished with some glittery hearts, vintage seam binding and some lovely Prima flowers.  Oh so yummy!  Make sure to check out what the other girls on the design team have made for you too!

And don't forget the BIG AQUAMARKERS CONTEST AND GIVEAWAY!

Have a great weekend everyone!

{hugs} Lisa

Die Cut Dreams Tag Card

Just dropping in quickly this afternoon with a card for the Die Cut Dreams Challenge this week

For this weeks Challenge you are to use a "TAG" in or as your creation BUT NO stamping at all!

Well here it is, my "tag card".  Love that Girl's Paperie DSP and my Kurio chipboard letters that I've had forever were glad to come out and play!  PTI cardstock and grosgrain ribbon to finish!  Presto, 1 card and no stamping!  Have a great day everyone!  Off to carpool line!

{hugs} Lisa

♥Girly Wonderland♥

Hi!  I'm sitting at this sewing machine wondering how I made it onto this card surrounded by ribbons, lace and roses?  It's like a girly girl wonderland!!!

I had so much fun making this card!!  I haven't done the pile it on thing for a while and it was very therapeutic!  I grabbed lace and butterflies and buttons and ribbon and went crazy!

 

I had the City Crafter Challenge Blog challenge in mind when I started this card.  Their challenge (#18) this week is called Isn't She Lovely and they want us to put a stamp image, picture or clipart image of a girl or a lovely lady, on our project.

I am also entering the card in The Pink Elephant challenge (#80) which is to use ribbon and sparkles.

I'll also post my card in The Shabby Tea Room for inspiration from the DT.

Hope everyone is enjoying their day!  I know I am!

{hugs} Lisa

Isabella's Challenge - Hide Something

Good morning and welcome to another weekly challenge for Isabella's Sketchbook!  This week we have a really fun challenge for you!  It is titled "Hide Something" and the challenge is to make a pocket or a flap, with something hidden behind it.

I used Isabella's gorgeous digi image "Evening Flower".  I must say I am getting better at the coloring and shading with my watercolor markers.  I used Letraset Promarkers and Watercolor markers to color these flowers and I am really happy with the way it turned out.  I made a tag to tuck behind my main panel and when you pull up on the brown ribbon, this is what appears:

Make sure to hop on over to Isabella's digi boutique and shop around!  You can have some fun with us and hide something too!  You could win 2 free images and the I Won badge!

Be sure to check out what the other design team members have "hidden" for you!

That's all for today.  Have a great day everyone!  I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

The Cat's Away and The Mice Will Play!

Well, that post title says it all!  The kids are back to school today and I am playing in my card studio!  It's so nice and quiet, I can actually hear myself think!  Don't get me wrong, I am eager to pick them up and hear about their first day of school!  My son started Kindergarten today and my middle daughter started middle school, how appropriate!  My eldest daughter is a seasoned pro already, she started her Junior year of H.S. today!

WOW  I am getting old!

So while the 3 cats are away, I will play!

Here is what I played with this morning:

I just can't resist this little "Pure Innocence" cutie by Heather Ellis!  She looks good in whatever colors you put on or around her!  I made this card this morning for 3 different challenges. 

The first is for sketch #77 over at Card Patterns and it looks like this:

The second challenge is The Pink Elephant and their challenge (#80) is to use ribbon and sparkles and last but certainly not least is the City Crafter Challenge Blog.  Their challenge (#18) this week is called Isn't She Lovely and they want us to put a stamp image, picture or clipart image of a girl or a lovely lady, on our project.

I decorated my sketch with ribbon and sparkly rhinestones and put my little cutie patootie girl out for show!

My yellow DSP and buttons are from PTI and my lil' cutie is a digital stamp by Heather Ellis that I colored with my Letraset ProMarkers and cut out.

I hope you are all enjoying your day, I certainly am!

{hugs} Lisa

Pure Innocence

I have found some new digi images that I am in love with!  This little girl and others like her are part of a collection called Pure Innocence.  The designer's name who created her is the talented Heather Ellis.  She sells her images on her website, on etsy and at the MFT's website.  I am a little behind the times as many of you have already discovered this little cutie and have been using her for awhile but I'm glad I have finally found her too!  I have purchased a few more images of this pretty little girl in different poses and I can't wait to start coloring and cutting all of them!  My card uses PTI cardstock and sentiment, DSP by The Girl's Paperie and flowers by Prima.  I used my Letraset markers to color her and I am very happy with the way she turned out!  She is just perfect for the challenge this week at The City Crafter Challenge Blog - week 17 ~ I left my HEART in San Francisco...

The challenge is to create a card/layout/project that has a HEART (or hearts) in it and here is the scrumptious inspiration photo:

Wow, so much yummy pink, I'm gonna PLOTZ {yiddish phrase meaning : To burst, to explode, "I can't laugh anymore or I'll "plotz."

Ok that's the new word for the day... plotz!

I'm also going to add my card to the challenge at The Shabby Tea Room - "The Delicate Cottage Rose" for inspiration from the DT.

Have a wonderful night everyone!  I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

TSTR Week #23 - The Delicate Cottage Rose

Welcome to The Shabby Tea Room's week #23 challenge!  My name is Lisa and I'll be your hostess so sit down, grab a cup of tea and feast your eyes on this lovely photograph!

This week's challenge is titled "The Delicate Cottage Rose" and is inspired by this lovely photograph decorated in true rose themed Laura Ashley style!  I came across this photo at Country Living.com and I fell in love!  The challenge this week is to use roses in your project and I did just that.  The dress image on my card is from Squigglefly who is our sponsor this week in The Tea Room. I printed out the darling little prom dress onto a rose patterned paper and cut it out.  I added some Prima flowers to Debbie's vintage seam binding and printed the sentiment out on my computer. 

Thanks to Squigglefly.com for supplying the design team with some adorable images!

 Squigglefly is a digi stamp company selling over 2,000 digi stamps and papers featuring many artistic styles from different artists.

Make sure to check out what all the girls on the design team have created to inspire you!

You can also check out their individual blogs here:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Well, I hope you are all inspired to go out and create your own rose themed projects and come play with us in The Shabby Tea Room this week!

Have a great day everyone!   I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

Polkadoodles - Print Onto Vellum or Acetate

Welcome to week #32 at Polkadoodles!  This week our host is Stacey and her challenge this week is to print onto vellum or acetate for your project.  I used the Sweet "Candy Doodles CD" and I printed the adorable Polly Polkadoodle out onto vellum paper and made her the main attraction of my easel card!  I also embellished the front of the card with two beautiful flowers from the All Around and Everywhere CD.
I recently learned how to make these easel cards and I am in love!  I found an easy video tutorial on You Tube of how to make an easel card, you can find it in one of my earlier posts here.
Don't forget to see what lovely creations the other girls on the design team have dreamed up with their vellum and acetate!

**DON'T FORGET! AQUAMARKER GIVEAWAY CONTEST**

We have a MEGA competition for you and even MEGA-er-er prizes!!Make sure you click here to get all the details for this incredible contest!

For the past few months Nikky has been working very closely with Letraset who are the clever people behind the fabulously lush Promarker brand and have been doing some product testing etc for them. Now, this month, hot off the press, Letraset are relaunching their fabulous AQUAMARKER brand which are basically WATERCOLOURING marker pens unlike any other!

The contest will be going on until Sunday, August 29th so you have plenty of time to play along and if you win you could have yourself a whole new set of markers! There will be runner up prizes as well!

This is a separate contest from our weekly challenges so make sure you check out all the info on the Polkadoodles blog and in my sidebar! Nikky will also be having tutorials on how to get the most out of your markers so check in each week to learn something new!

Ok that's all from Sunny South Florida today!
Enjoy your day!  I already am!
{hugs}Lisa

My First Easel Card For Isabella's "Scrap" Challenge

Welcome to our weekly challenge at Isabella's Sketchbook!

This week our challenge is to use scraps from your stash or use items on hand but try to use nothing new!

I used some scraps of paper from my Dotty paper from PTI and some old stickers that I've had for years from Jolee's Stickers called Rose Vellum.  I'm glad these beautiful stickers finally made it out of my stash and onto a card!  My main butterfly image is from Isabella's digi boutique and it is called Butterfly 1.

For my card I decided to try to make an easel card.  I've never attempted one before but I found a very easy tutorial on You Tube with some basic instructions on how to assemble it.  I've included the video here for any of you who are interested. 

The amazing ladies on Isabella's design team are VERY skilled at making easel cards and it is from them that I first learned about these unique cards.  I've been admiring them for months and when I came across this easy video tutorial, I just new I had to make one! 

Make sure to check out all of the wonderful digi images at Isabella's boutique and join in our fun weekly challenge!  You could win 2 free digi images and the beautiful "I Won" badge!

Also make sure to check out all of the amazing creations by our design team!  You are sure to be inspired, we have some of the best talent around!

That's all for now, thanks for visiting the old blog!

Have a great day!  I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

Card Patterns - Sketch 76 Happy Birthday

Good Morning everyone!  Just a quick post today.  I had to make a birthday card for a friend and when I came across sketch 76 at Card Patterns this week I thought it would be perfect! 

This friend has always loved the color purple so I went to my Pocket of Posies stack by DCWV for my backround paper and the flowered birthday cake is an older SU image but still so lovely!  I finished it off with a small crocheted flower from my etsy shop.  Scalloped border and buttons are from my favorite PTI. 

That's about it from here, hope you have a wonderful day!

{hugs} Lisa

The Shabby Tea Room - Week 22 "Reflections"

Welcome to The Shabby Tea Room's week #22 challenge.

This week Audrey has set the challenge and she has titled it "Reflections".  Here is the peaceful photo that she has chosen to inspire us.

Our wonderful sponsor this week is Isabella from Isabella's Sketchbook

Isabella's Sketchbook is a digi-stamp boutique offering a variety of designs from delicate hummingbirds to vintage aprons. Isabella strives to offer designs that will assist you in creating your own beautiful work or art.

I am very familiar with Isabella's work as I am part of the wonderful design team over at Isabellas.  Her images are beautiful and there are over 250 works of art to choose from!

She is offering a $12 gift certificate to our winner this week in The Shabby Tea Room.

Check out Isabella's boutique, I especially love her vintage aprons!

For my card I went with the color scheme from Audrey's photo and I chose the "Suitcase Stack" image from Isabella's digi boutique.  The DSP's are from my stash and the ticket embellisment is from PTI.  The vintage shabby seam binding is from Debbie's etsy shop.

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Exciting news in The Shabby Tea Room this week!

FOLLOW ME CONTEST!!!

We have some fun and exciting news ... we have double sponsors this week!! Yes, that means two prizes - whooo hoooo!! At the end of the week we'll be giving out a prize from our challenge sponsor to the winner of the challenges and a prize for this 'follow me contest' to ONE OF OUR FOLLOWERS! How to win ... already a follower, you're entered automatically in the contest! Not a follower yet, sign up today and earn a chance to win the prize :) If we hit 600 followers this week, then I'll include 6 yards of Shabby Vintage Seam Binding from my Etsy Shop too!!  Our 'follow me contest' sponsor is: Blackleaf Studios!

Chic and crafty steal and a fabulous assortment of commercial and personal use graphics, clipart, scrapbooking elements and digital stamps. Blackleaf Studios also creates a unique range of digital papers, stationary sets, svg die cutting templates, embellishments and more..

Visit the shop at http://www.shopblackleaf.com/

One lucky follower will receive this gorgeous VINTAGE digi set ...

Make sure to check out what the rest of the design team has created to inspire you!

You can check them out at their individual blogs here:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Well that's all for now, thanks for visiting my blog and have a wonderful week everyone!

{hugs} Lisa

Crazy for Yo-Yo's!!

In my last post I blogged about a new designer I came across by the name of Heather Bailey.  Her website and blog are so colorful and inspirational that you can't help but come away from it with some new ideas!  She has a simple picture tutorial on her blog about how to make yo-yo's.  Now, yo-yo's are certainly not new to the crafting world, but they are to me.  My shabby bloggy friend Debbie sells some cute yo-yo's in her etsy shop and I've been admiring them since she sent me some in the mail.  When I came across the tutorial on Heather's blog I knew I just had to give it a try and WOW are they simple and cute!  I went yo-yo crazy and I can't stop making them!  I went to Jo-Ann Fabrics and bought the most colorful fabrics and off I went!  I even got my mom and daughter making them!  Here are some of the examples of the yo-yo's we've been making:

My daughter is very crafty and she decided to make 3 yo-yo's and stack them on each other and add a flower to the top. She then attached the beautiful stack to a headband.

Isn't this just GARDEN FRESH and LOVELY!!

As you can see we have been having lots of fun around my house making yo-yo's! 

Oh if my grandmother were still alive she would be so proud!  She used to make them according to my mom and she even made a quilt out of them.  {sigh} Wish I had that quilt today!

I decided to put one of the yo-yo's on a card and see how it would look and I just love it!  I backed it with a small Martha Stewart Doiley and it is just lovely! 

I used PTI cardstock, DSP, ribbon and button. The leaf and sentiment stamp are from PTI's set "Delightful Dahlia".

  

I can't wait to order some of Heather's fabrics and make some yo-yo's with them!

Here is a link to Heather's Bailey's blog and the yo-yo tutorial.  Just click on enter gallery and it will take you to a picture tutorial on how to make yo-yo"s. 

Try one and you'll be hooked!

I've decided to enter my card in the following challenges:

Flourishes 'Beautiful' Challenge - Beauty with Color

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 124 - Whateva!

2s4y - Kazan's Sketch 58

Card Patterns - Sketch 75

The Pink Elephant - Sketch 77

EBTKS - Buttons

Thanks for stopping by today and have a great day!

I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

♥SMITTEN♥

I think when you lose your mojo and you go looking for it, often times you open your eyes to new things that you might not have seen before!  Now,  to some of you this will be old news, but to me,

WOW, I have found

INSPIRATION CENTRAL

and her name is

HEATHER BAILEY

OK so as I said, this may not be news to some of you but WOW, I think I am in love.  Heather is a designer and she designs the most beautiful, colorful fabrics in the brightest colors and the most beautiful patterns!  I have been browsing her website, blog and shop for the past few days and there is so much to see and do.  She has free tutorials and so many great ideas for crafting.  She does sewing, quilting, papercrafting and a host of other projects!  If you haven't checked Heather out yet, I highly recommend doing so!

I am dying to purchase some of her gorgeous fabrics so that is next on my wish list but while I was browsing her store, I found these adorable word stamps by Autumn Leaves and some really

bright ink pads that I just had to have!

So this card uses the SMILE sentiment and the pink ink pad that I just bought.

I am entering this card in the following challenges:

Flourishes 'Beautiful' Challenge - Beauty with Color

Cute Card Thursday - Challenge 124 - Whateva!

2s4y - Kazan's Sketch 58

Card Patterns - Sketch 75

The Pink Elephant - Sketch 77

I really enjoyed making this card and I'm very pleased with the way it came out.  My mojo peaked it's head into my studio for a little while and it was a very welcome site!  I took advantage and went shabby chic crazy which is my favorite style!!!  {I forgot how much I loved it!}

Here is the recipe:

Cardstock - PTI

DSP - PTI and The Girl's Paperie

Butterfly Punch - Martha Stewart

Shabby Seam Binding - Deb's Simple Treasures Etsy Shop

Flowers - Prima (of course)

Stamp and Ink - Heather Bailey for Autumn Leaves

Doiley - Michaels (the place my paycheck goes to every week!)

Thanks for stopping by my lil' old blog today, I hope you enjoy the card!

Have a wonderful day, I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

Polkadoodles Sketch Challenge

Good morning and welcome to another Polkadoodles challenge!  This week our challenge is being hosted by Jenny and she has offered up a sketch for us to follow.  I really love following sketches because sometimes I just need a little guidance {smile}.  Here is the great sketch we had to work with:

I decided to use the All Around and Everywhere CD for this card and I love how those beautiful flowers look layered on each other.  I had to photograph this card outside because every picture I took indoors came out so muted so that explains the foliage around the card. 

Don't forget to check out the Polkadoodles blog to see what the girls on the design team have created to give you some inspiration for your sketch.

**DON'T FORGET! AQUAMARKER GIVEAWAY CONTEST**

We have a MEGA competition for you and even MEGA-er-er prizes!!Make sure you click here to get all the details for this incredible contest!

For the past few months Nikky has been working very closely with Letraset who are the clever people behind the fabulously lush Promarker brand and have been doing some product testing etc for them. Now, this month, hot off the press, Letraset are relaunching their fabulous AQUAMARKER brand which are basically WATERCOLOURING marker pens unlike any other!

The contest will be going on until Sunday, August 29th so you have plenty of time to play along and if you win you could have yourself a whole new set of markers! There will be runner up prizes as well!

This is a separate contest from our weekly challenges so make sure you check out all the info on the Polkadoodles blog and in my sidebar! Nikky will also be having tutorials on how to get the most out of your markers so check in each week to learn something new!

That's all for today!

Have a great day everyone!  I already am!

{hugs} Lisa

Isabella's Sketchbook Challenge - Buttons and Bows

Good morning everyone, this week at Isabella's Sketchbook the new challenge is to use buttons and bows on your card or project.  Who doesn't love buttons and bows?  I chose to use the Suitcase Stack image on my card with a coordinating bow and a few buttons to embellish.  Make sure you head on over to Isabella's and browse through her digi images!  There are over 250 great images to choose from, you're sure to find one or more that you love!  Pile some buttons and bows on your card and play along with us in the challenge this week!  We'd love to have you and you could win 2 free digi images and the "I Won" badge!

Make sure to check out what the other girls on the design team have made just for you to inspire you this week!  Thanks for stopping by today and have a great day!

I already am!

{hugs} Lisa 

The Shabby Tea Room - House and Home

Back on May 17th I was the winner in The Shabby Tea Room for the week titled Stars and Stripes. 

My post was titled Patriotic Meets Shabby Chic.  I was so excited about the win that week I was walking on air!  As is the tradtion in the Tea Room Debbie asked me to be the guest designer for week # 21 titled House and Home.  Shown above  is the card that I designed for that week.  Of course I could have never known at the time that I would not be the guest designer for that week, but in actuality I would be on the Design Team.  I was walking on air when I found out and I am still tickled pink to be designing for

The Shabby Tea Room!  

Our challenge this week is being hosted by our own Tea Room leader Debbie and

as I mentioned the theme in the is titled House and Home and the photo inspired project should use soft blue, cream and brown.  Here is the lovely photo for your inspiration this week:

 

Isn't it beautiful with all of it's rustic charm and soft yellow and blue hues. 

Make sure to check out what my talented teammates have created to inspire you!

You can check them out at their individual blogs here:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz - {TSTR Creator} - Simple Treasures

Audrey Pettit - Audrey Pettit's Weblog

Cathy Clark-Santie - Papier Girl  

Melissa Hubert - My Paper Obsession

Nicole Segnere - My Craft Room Creations

Ok so now that you know the details about the challenge, let me tell you about our

awesome sponsor for this week.

Jet Pens

They are offering a $25.00 gift certificate to our winner!!

JetPens is a Japanese pen and stationery store where you can find unique and hard to find Scrapbooking items such as white gel pens, craft pens, adhesives, calligraphy brushes, art and office products. Jet Pens has been featured in Martha Stewart Blueprint, Wired magazine, Fortune Small Business and more. Free shipping for orders over $25!

Whew!!  I think that's it for now! 

Have a great day everyone!  I already am!

{hugs} Lisa