The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #99 Love is in the Air

Hi and a happy Monday to you sweet blogging friends! It was a whirlwind of a weekend that started on Thursday. It started with going to a concert to see Easton  Corbin. He is the 1st male artist in 17 years to have 2 hit singles. I'm a little more country then that . I have to admit that I don't care for country music, but it was a good concert. At dinner I met this lady and her husband and they won a meet and greet back stage pass with Easton, but later on I saw her and she wasn't feeling good and they gave me and my friend the backstage tickets. So I met him and had my picture taken with him...He's a sweet young kid who doesn't look a day over 24.  Then I drove to Chico and went to my fav scrapbook store. Came home and went to Sacramento  the next day on the spur of the moment and went to Hobby Lobby. I've never been to one before  I was on Brain overload in there!! Cool Store! We just got one in Sacramento back in October. Then on to Greet Tangerines...which is the biggest scrapbook store in Northern California. WOW!!! A great day!! But my pocket book is definitely alot lighter :-)!!


This week at The Shabby tea Room I'm the host and here is the inspiration picture I chose. I just fell in love with this picture when I saw it :-) The sweet mail backpack, the cure heart arrangement in the table, and the cute red boots....it looks so adorable and quaint!

I hope you can play along this week! Here's the challenge:

Using the photo colors make a Valentine's & include one "Mail and/or postage" item

Here's my card. The stamped frame is from our sweet sponsor this week...Just Rite Stamps!!!  I just love this new stamp set ! It's called "Your special day Medallion labels" and you can find it Here

The little ribbon is a new punch from fiskers for Jenni Bowlin and you can find it Here The number card and sweet girl are from Bety's etsy store. I cut the card out with my Silhouette.

This week's Guest Designer is Rima Timm and our monthly Guest Designer is Pattie Goldman, I enjoyed seeing your cards this month Pattie!!

And be sure and check out all the Shabby Girls cards this week :-)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Sheri Holt

Fran Westmoreland

Cindy Holhouser

Melissa Bove

Have a great week! Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge # 98 'Sparkly & Bright'

HI! And a happy Monday to you! This weekend was my sweet daughter's birthday,  and  my sweet Daughter-In-Laws birthday too! I'm so blessed to have a great DIL! She's a great mom to my grandkids:-) .WOW time flies! My daughter turned 30...I can't believe I have a 30 year old!! She was taking it hard but I think she realized we can't stop it....so enjoy lol! She has turned into the most beautiful, sweet, caring adult and her laugh is contagious. She always has a smile on her face for all. I'm so so proud of the person she is :-) I saw the grand kids this weekend and as always they are the cutest!!! Jasmine drew me a Mickey mouse picture..because she know grandma LOVES Mickey! And Liberty and I read a book. It rained here all weekend...I mean poured! But, we needed it so bad...Were far behind this year. I hope you have a great week!

I'm back this week to share this week's challenge at The Shabby Tea Room. This week's photo inspiration comes from Debbie, this week's hostess! I just love this picture it's so pretty!!

And the challenge is to :

create card/project using white, cream, silver, neutrals w/a splash of pink

Here's my card! I kept it simple as I wanted the bride's dress to stand out. The hearts in the background are cut with my Cricut. And the circles are cut with my Silhoutte. I haven't had alot of time to play with it, but what time I have had....I'm loving it! I love this little bride and groom they are so so precious! They are from this week's sponsor Digi Doodle Shop and you can find it Here . This week's winner will receive a $10.00 gift certificate towards some stamps!!!

This week's Guest Designer is Kristi Schurr and our monthly Guest Designer is Pattie Goldman pleas be sure to stop by and see their wonderful creations!

And also be sure to stop by the Shabby Tea Room DT too :-)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Melissa Bove
Sheri Holt
Fran Westmoreland
Cindy Holshouser

Thanks for visiting and I hope you have a wonderful week!!!! Hugs, Char

Hi sweet blogging friends! I hope your having a wonderful day!

I wanted to share this week's challenge going on over at My Time Made Easy Pretty Pallette

The challenge is to use these colors :

I embossed some pink cardstock with a Sizzix embossing folder I picked up at Michael's last year. then I ran some white ink over the top. The doily punch is from EK and I love it! The heart is from MMTE. I cut the circles in the background with my Silhoutte and the flower is Crate Paper.

Have a great week! And thanks for visiting me. I so so appreciate it :-) Hugs, Char

STORYTELLER & PRETTY PARTY SNEAK PEEK

Hi friends! I want to start off by saying Thank You for the congrats! It means alot to me! I'm still on cloud 9 :-) When I saw what's comming out at CHA WOW~!!!!!!!! O.K. Do you ever get giddy looking at paper and your stomach gets butterflies? That's how I felt when I saw this new paper from Crate called Pretty Party! Inspired by vintage magazines and sewing patterns, this collection is THE SWEETEST EVER!!! Here's a sneak  peek!

And look at this new line called storyteller. It's positively wonderful for all those events in your life you want to document! Here it is !

And can I say I'm terribly excited to get some into my hands and start playing!! Be sure and stop by Crate Paper's blog for a chance to win this line! Crate Paper

Have a wonderful day! Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #97 Gorgeous Gateaux

Hi sweet blogging friends!! How about another challenge from The Shabby Tea Room? This week's beautiful challenge and picture comes from Fran

The challenge this week is to :

Create a card / project using the colours Grey,Lilac, Peach & Pink plus lace and metal embellishment.

I decided to use a new doily stamp as the background on the Kraft paper as it stands out more. and that little flower bouquet is from this week's sponsor bugaboo stamps and I used their wedding-rose-bouquet. The picture turned out a little brighter then what the card looks like in person, but I promise I used peach in the flowers lol! For the metal embellishment I used a paper clip from Tom Holtz. The pink paper in the background is LYB.

The prize this week from Bugaboo stamps is 7 digi stamps! WOW they have the cutest stamps!!!

This week's Guest Designer is Geri Freeman and I am a big fan of her work and excited to see what she creates!! And our Monthly Guest Designer is Pattie Goldman who I am also a big fan of! So go check out their fabulous work and while your visiting be sure and check out the other Shabby DT"s creations too :-)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Melissa Bove

Cindy Holshouser

Fran Westmoreland

Sheri Holt

Thanks for stopping by. See you soon :-) Hugs, Char

For the shabby Tea Room Challenge go here

I'm a Crate Paper Girl! 

 To say I am beyond thrilled would be an understatement!

I'm giddy - Beyond!!!

I'm so honored!!! Truly!!!

A dream come true - yes !!!!  As you know they are my favorite! :-)

I feel so truly blessed to have been asked. I am feeling like it's going to be a wonderful year!! I can't wait to see what they have in store for us to create with....but I'm absolutely sure it's fantastic!!! If you look closly Christine has added a peek at the new line :-) Thank You Crate!!!

Make sure you head on over to the Crate Paper Blog and welcome all the talented  ladies who will be on  the team with me :-) I have admired these ladies for so long! I cannot wait to work with this talented group! Thank YOU again for your continued support and kind words!  It means the world to me!! :-)

And now,  as promised here's the winner of my blog giveaway! It's funny...when I did this giveaway I had no clue I was going to be on Crate's DT and the date I picked for the winner day coincides with the day I get to post my happy post!

The winner is.......

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Congrats Sandy!!! Your the winner of Crate Papers newest line ...."Paper Hearts" and Papertrey key die cut! Yeah!! Please E-mail me your address so I can get your goodies out to you!Thanks to all that played! I had so much fun reading all your comments and wish I wish I had enough for everyone to win!

Hugs, Char

MTME Pretty Palettes #43

If your here for Tiffany Doodles Blog hop go Here

Hi! I'm glad you popped in for a visit! This week at My Time Made Easy the color palette is :

Here's my take...

I used Ga Ga for gingham paper   and the image is from Bety's shop :-)

I hope you can play along this week! We's love to have you! Hugs, Char

Tiffant Doodles Blog Hop!!!

Hi! And thank you for joining us at Tiffany Doodles for our first blog hop of 2012! We're so glad you're here! It's ALSO the second anniversary of Tiffany Doodles!

You're going to find lots of inspiration along the way, from several talented ladies. Be sure to leave each of them a comment by Sunday the 15th for your chance to win something of your choice! That's 16 chances to win! All winners will be announced on the Tiffany Doodles blog Wednesday January 18th.

If you've arrived from Michelle Houghton  you're in the right place! If this is your first stop, please go back to Jessica's blog so you don't miss anything!

Here's a few Gift card holder's I made with Tiffany's digital and you can find it  here Gift card and envelope Template  . I LOVE the versatility of this set and I can see myself using it over and over!! I used Lilly Bee's new line Head Over Heels. I love the colors! I made the white heart banner by just punching out some white hearts and gluing them to twine.Easy Peesy! The white heart on the left gift holder is a die from Cheery Lynn there are very intricate and I LOVE them!  And on the bottom holder I punched out a heart and added some lace paper from behind. All three holders we so quick and easy!!

Here are some close ups :-)

Click on the link above to go directly to this digital

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I hope you're feeling inspired! Before you hop over to Collette Landwer blog,  remember to leave a comment for your chance to win! Tiffany is giving away the entire January release and all you have to do is create a card or project using a Tiffany Doodles image, blog about it, and add your name to in linkz tool which can be found on Tiffany's blog. On January 18th the DT will pick one person to win the entire January release!

Here' sthe list of all the blogs on this weekends tour!

Jessica Griffin

Melanie Holtz

Laurel Seabrook

Keely Yowler

Mary Johnson

Smitha Katti

Rudy McGuire

Dani Beckman

JoAnn Valderama

Michelle Houghton

Charlene Cundy (me)

Collette Landwer

Karen Baker

Donna Mikasa

Sally Sherfield

Annette Hierpaasen

Tiffany Doodles

Thanks for hopping along with us, we look forward to seeing your creations!

Hugs, Char

Hi !

Hi! And I hope your having a great day my sweet blogging friends! ! I just stopped in for a quick post to share this

Papertrey Ink and Echo Park card I made for Birthday sundaes- challenge #38.

Have a wonderful creative day!! And thanks for stopping by! Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #96 Vintage Boudoir

Hi!!! and a Happy Monday to you! I hope you had a great weeend? I did :-) But they always go to fast. I ran a bunch of errands on Saturday and Sunday I cleaned house and finished up some errands...I didn't sit at my crafting table once ...and that felt very weird....lol!!! The weather is unseasonably warm...Sunday was 70! Now we are8 inchs below average this year in rain and I feel sorry for the ski resort...I don't think it's even opened yet :-(  But I do LOVE the sun conbined with the cooler weather. !

Well, let's get on with this week's challenge :-)

The challenge is to:

Creat a card/project using the colors in the inspiration photo and one item related to sewing.

This week's Inspiration picture comes from Cindy!

 And here's my take:

This week's sponsor to The ShabbyTea Room is  Tiffany Doodles and I used Labels 3 for my card this week! Tiffany designs all her digital stamps and they are wonderful!! Tiffant is giving away 4 prizes this week! Grand prize - 10 digis, 1st place - 6 digis, 2nd place - 4 digis, 3rd place - 2 digis.!! WOW

I stamped the bottom of my card with a banner stamp from MME and the cardstock is embossed, painted and sanded. The patterned paper is from Bety's shop . I just love to make Valentine cards! My favorite is Halloween...but Valentines runs a close second.

This week's Guest designer is Joanna Munster and our monthly Guest Designer is Pattie Goldman !

Be sure and stop by the other Shabby Gorls blog and see what they have created this week!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz
Melissa Bove
Cindy Holhouser
Fran Westmoreland
Sheri Holt

Thanks so much for stopping by today. Wishing you all a wonderful week!

I will keep the link for the blog giveaway at the top until it's over :-) BLOG GIVEAWAY!!

MTME Pretty Palette's #

Hi Friends! I'm popping in today to share a card for the challenge over at  My Time made Easy Pretty Palette Color Challenge .

And here's my card. I used Island Love on this card. The pretty scallop at the top is from Papertrey Ink and at the bottom I just used what was left from the cut of the scallop.

I hope you can play along this week! Here is the link My Time made easy

Thanks so much for stopping by! Have a great day! Char

hang In There....

Hi! I'm back to share more Crate Paper :-) Are you tired of it yet? No you say :-) Good because I'm absolutely sure I'm not done creating with it yet :-) The stamps and hearts are from a Company called Wplus9 I really love their products. The ink is papertrey and that's about it!

I'm entering this card  at Simon Says Stamp and the challenge is:

NEW SOMETHING ,,,,It can be for any occasion that is NEW - new baby, new house, new car, new year, USE something NEW... and I thought it would be a great card to give someone who needs a "Fresh start " :-)

Thanks for stopping by and Have a great day!!! Char

Crate paper Valentines Banner!

Hi Friends!!!  I've been busy using my Valentine paper from Crate. I've had it since before Christmas and have been in the LOVE mode ever since!

Have a happy day !!! Hugs, Char

MTME Pretty Palette #41

Hi !!! And happy New Year!!! Did you have somewhere fun to go? I went out of town Friday night and stayed home for New Years....I know....party pooper right? :-) Well , I like staying at home now a days! I always have cards to made :-)

This week at My Time Made Easy the color palette is :

and I thought to myself......yikes! But it wasn't so hard after all! Isn't that little popcorn container so cute? And popcorn....my favorite desser of all time! Since being diagnosed a diabetic I gave up everything but not my popcorn....I still have it once in awhile :-)  And the popcorn container stamp is the perfect size for those Movie Gift cards!

The inside...I left plain 

I used this digital stamp About to Pop  ! It's an adorable stamp set.  !!

I hope you have a great New Years Day!!! Hugs, Char

Tiffany Doodles New Release!

Hi ! I'm back to share a new digital stamp from Tiffany Doodles! This sweet little girl is one of Tiffany's newest digital stamps and she's the sweetest! For ths card I used my cricut to cut out the big heart and the postcard and backround paper is from bety's store. The love sign shes holding is from my Mind's eye.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by! Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room #94 "A Colorful and Shabby New Year!"

Hi ! And happy Monday! I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas! This week we  are truly blessed to have Crafty Secrets   as our sponsor at The Shabby Tea Room!!! Sandy was so generous to give us her new Creating with Vintage patterns CD#1 and Creating with Vintage Illistrations CD #2 and I can tell you these CD'S have sooooooooo many beautiful vintage images and beautiful patterns...I mean WOW I will be making alot from these CD'S!!!! Thanks Sandy!!!

And you are not going to want to miss this week's challenge!!!! The winner will receive there very own Creating With Vintage Patterns CD #2 and gift certificate !!!

This week's Inspiration comes from Melissa and the challenge this week is to :

Create a card/project using the inspiration photo's 4 colors. (Blue, Pink (or Red), Yellow and Green)

 I hope you had a very Merry Christmas? My kids donated to my scrapbooking cause and bought me a Silhoutte Cameo !!!! I am so so excited! I'm sure I will have a big learning curve lol! What did you get under the tree? I was thinking that I really need to do something about my organizating issues for the New year. I'm growing out of house and home with my scrap supplies....maybe I should quit my job and open my house as a scrapbooking store? What do you think? Lol

Here's my creation for this week's challenge. It's a Tussy Mussie and you can find it on the above CD'S. There are so many other adorable templates, images and paper :-) . And the nice thing is that you can use them over and over again and never run out! When I 1st started doing digital I wasn't sure if i would like them but I LOVE them!

This weeks Guest designer is Amber Goble and our monthly Guest Designer is Lea lawson !!

Be sure to stop by and give them so love! And please stop by the Shabby Girls Too!! :-)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Melissa Bove

Sheri Holt

Cindy Holshouser

Fran Westmoreland

Have a great week! Hugs, Char

Blog Giveaway!

Hi!!!! How are you today? I hope you have  a fantastic holiday! And I realize it's not even Christmas yet but I was so excited over this new line of Crate paper I had to do a giveaway!

I usually have a giveaway on my blogversary but didn't made it this year so now's a great time right? :-)

I know it's not even close to Valentine's yet, but when I saw this new Crate paper line I couldn't control myself lol! I LOVE IT!!!! And I love it so much I want to share some with one lucky winner! I have a new collection of Crate Paper to one lucky winner. And I am also adding a die cut from Papertrey Ink.

Just leave a comment and tell me : What was your best Valentine's Day?

Here's a card I made from this set. I am going to have so much fun creating with it! Yipee!!!! Have you ever seen a line that made you all giddy inside? Well Crate paper does that all the time to me lol!

 

I will draw a Random name on January 14 so you will have plenty of time to get the kit in time for Valentine's Day! Have a wonderful day!!! Hugs, Char