The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #86 Homespun Fall

Hi! And Happy Monday AND Happy Halloween!!! This week's challenge At The Shabby Tea Room is to :

 Create a card/project inspired by the photo with a fall scene

Our Shabby Host this week is Debbie and here is her beautiful inspiration photo !

Our sponsor this week is Simple Treasures ETSY and the prize package for this week's lucky winner is 15 yards shabby seam binding!!! WOW!!!

And here's my take on the inspiration photo

 

 The paper I used is from MME and originally I didn't care for this Halloween paper and I ALWAYS adore their paper...But when I saw it up close it is so CUTE!! I don't know what I was thinking :-(...

This week our fabby month long Guest Designer is Melissa Phillips and our wonderful Guest Designer this week is Mariyca Solovieva! Be sure to stop by their blogs and see their beautiful work!!

And also be sure to stop by our terrific Shabby Tea Room DT Blogs too !!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Sheri Holt

Melissa Bove

Fran Westmoreland

Cindy Holshouser

I hope you can play along!!

On another note........

My daughter and I took a little ride up to Ashland Oregon just for the day to see the Beautiful trees. I'm sure I've told you before that Ashland is near and dear to my heart. I wasn't sure if the trees were turning but we went anyway...It's only a two hour drive....But with my daughter driving more like 1 hour 30 minutes lol!! But in her defense she has a new Nissan Altuma and it didn't feel like we were going fast at all :-). Anyway, Fran from Frantic stamper allowed me to place an order at her on line store and pick it up in Medford!! And she gave me a tour to boot!! She has a big online store like 2 peas or scrapbook.com and it was SO much fun to see all that scrapbook goodness in one place! I told her she could leave me in there overnight and I'd be in heaven!! Thanks Fran!!!

Aren't these trees magnificent?? I was in my glory! And driving Thur the park right in the middle of the road was this little guy!! His parents were on the side of the road eating grass :-)

 And this is just 1 of the duck ponds in Lithia Park . This park is spectacular!!!

I can't believe that it's November already...the years keep going faster and faster :-(.. Happy Halloween today! What are your plans?

Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #85 Happy Halloween

Hi Friends!
This week's Shabby Challenge comes from our Shabby Girl Fran and is to :

Create a card or project with a Halloween theme using the colors purple, orange, black & neutrals w/ twine or raffia

Here's the Oh so cute!! Inspiration Picture :-)

And here's my card. I used Bety's cute Haunted Bingo Images  and some Echo Park  and  cut the frame and shape of my card out with my Cricut

This week's sponsor is morepaperthanshoes and for this week's Winner the prize is a $20.00 Gift Certificate!!!

This week's month long Guest Designer is Melissa Phillips and our Guest Designer for the week is Joanna Munster !!! Please stop by their blogs for some beautiful inspiration!

Be sure to visit the other Shabby Girls to see what they have created for your inspiration this week:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Sheri Holt

Cindy Holshouser

Melissa Bove

Fran Westmoreland

Have a great week and thank you sweet friends for stopping by :-) Hugs, Char

Happy Friday!!

 Hi! Just popping in to share a Halloween card. This cute little Halloween kit is from Michelle Coleman. She used to have a web-site called Little Dreamers. The on-line store closed awhile ago and this month she opened it back up. For $5.00 I got the whole digital kit and it continues every month. This kit is only available for the month of October. I'm not usually a digital girl but I'm a big fan of Michelle's. I printed out the elements and cut them out. Very simple. The paper is Echo Park and the circle spider web is from Martha Stewart.

Today was Think Pink and I wanted to share a few pictures of the day :-)

And this picture I found on our web page...probably from last year but soooooo gorgeous!!! Tonight was the lighting of the bridge, but I had other plans, so going tomorrow night.

This is a picture of the front of the building where I work. The news cameras are there and alot of the employees are dressed in pink and lined up along the street passing out bags with a carnation and breast cancer awareness info to cars that pull up along the curb. Every year we pass out 40,000 or so bags to the community. I'm not sure how many bags were passed out this year. I'm very proud to work at a facility that cares so much about the community and Breast Cancer.

Have a wonderful day, and thanks for stopping by :-) Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #82 Pumpkin Garden

Hi!  And Happy Monday!!

This week's challenge at The Shabby Tea Room is to Create a card/project using the colors in the inspiration photo and one dry embossed element.

For the embossing on my card I used these Leaves from Classy Cards And Such, this week's wonderful sponsor! :-).  And for the winner this week Beverly is giving away a $15.00 gift certificate in her shop!!!

 I ran the embossing folder thru my Cuttlebug and inked up my sponge and lightly hit the top of the design with the ink. I used some yellow and then came back around with Orange. The papers are a mix of Crate and  MME.

This week our Guest Designer is  Magda (i) Klementowicz!!!!! http://galeriasubiektywna.blogspot.com/ and our Month long Fabby Guest Designer is Melissa Phillips!!!!

Be sure to visit the other Shabby Girls to see what they have created for your inspiration this week:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Cindy Holshouser - Sweet P Paperie

Fran Westmoreland - Purple Peanut's Crafty Blog

Melissa Bove - Creating From the Heart

Sheri Holt - My Sheri Cards

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week!! :-) Hugs! Char

The Shabby Tea Room #83

Hi Friends! And here's to a wonderful week!! This week's challenge host at The Shabby Tea Room is Sheri and here's the inspiration photo she picked :-)

And the challenge is to :

Create a card/project making your own flowers using the colors in the inspiration photo.

I colored in the frame with copics and stamped the polka dots. I paper pieced the dress with Bety's digital paper and the pearls are from Zva Creative that I won on my friend Ingrid's blog I was so excited to win!! Thanks Zva and Ingrid!!

This week's sponsor is digimyworld and the prize this week is a $10.00 gift certificate to the winner!!

This weeks Guest Designer is Inger Harding and our month long Guest Designer is Melissa !! Both are amazing designer's!!

And be sure to stop by our talented Dt team and see their awesome creations

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Sheri Holt

Melissa Bove

Cindy Holshouser

Fran Westmoreland

I hope you have a wonderful week and thank you for stopping by! Char

Birthday Grinch

A little history......My ringtone on my phone for my boss is "Your a mean one Mr. Grinch" a joke between us :-) Well, his 50 birthday is next Monday and I've been teasing him horribly lol!!He isn't taking turning 50 very well and when I saw these on pinterest I HAD TO MAKE ONE for him...I just changed the picture to what's approprite for me and off you go! I am going to put these on this desk this morning before he gets in :-) Hee Hee!!!! I think the idea is so funny :-) If your interested in the template go to my Pinterest and it's under DIY..

Sorry the pictures are bad...it was still dark when I took them....I really need to learn my manual controls on my camera!

HAPPY FRIDAY!!! Char

The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #82

Happy Monday!

This week's challenge at the shabby Tea Room is to :

Create a card/project with an Autumn/Fall theme and here's the beautiful inspiration picture

This week's generous sponsor is  robynsfetish and the stamp I used is called "Basket of Apples"

Our month long Guest Designer is the ever so talented Melissa and our talented Guest Designer this week is Wanda Guess :-)

And your talented Shabby Girls are:

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Sheri Holt

Fran Westmoreland

Melissa Bove

Cindy Holshouser

Have a wonderfully creative week sweet friends :-) Char

HAPPY WORLD CARD MAKING DAY!!

So what are you going to be doing today? They are so many wonderful blogs having contests and challenges today!!! I have been so busy at work this week but had to find time to make a card for today :-) And it's all made with Crate paper (Peppermint line). After jasmine's soccer game I'm going to try and do some challenges out in blogland today! Whatever you do , have fun!!!! I love having a world card making day for us card maker's!!

See you soon! Thanks for stopping by! Char