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