The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #90 Winter Picnic

Hi! and a Happy Monday to you! I hope you can play along this week at the Shabby Tea Room, this weeks sponsor is the fabulous Just Rite !!!!

O.K. On with the  challenge :-)

Create a card/project using white or cream, silver and glitter.

And here's the fabulous inspiration photo from our Shabby Girl Cindy. Look at those adorable skates!

JustRite expands their rubber stamp assortment to include 4 ½” x 5 ¾” Cling background stamps. Design your own background paper with JustRite Background Stamps.

And this weeks oh so generous prize package that will go to our lucky winner is a JustRite Prize Package – $84.80 Value!! WOW!!

JustRite Custom Dies – Charm Dies

Charming Christmas Cling Stamps

Elegant Charms Cling Stamps

Be Charmed Cling Stamps

And here's my take. This card has everything done to it.....embossing, distressing, ink, glitter. :-)

I used Deck the halls Cling this is such a gorgeous stamp set!!

This week's Guest Designer is Lori Ulrich and Our monthly Gust designer is Audrey Petitt this is her last week as monthly Guest Designer and I have so loved all her beautiful creations :-)

Be sure to stop by the shabby girls blogs and see what shabby goodness they've cooked up!

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Sheri Holt

Fran Westmoreland

Cindy Holshouser

Melissa Bove

Have a wonderful week and I hope you come back and visit again :-) Hugs, Char

MTME PrettyPalettes # 37

Hi! I hope all of you survived Black Friday? I was true to my word and haven't stepped foot in a store....unless you count Michael's :-) those 50% coupons come in handy especially when you accidently cut your craft mat :-) I love that mat and can't live without it :-)

O.K. on to this week's challenge!!! I hope you can play along! The challenge is to use these colors:

And here's my take: I used Fanciful Flourishes Paper and I love the fact with digital paper how I never run out :-) The corrigated tree is from Jilli Bean Soup. I drybrushed vintage white over the top.

The store is having a great sale right now : Sale Begins: Saturday November 26th through Monday November 28th (11:59 pm EST Time)

MTME

Thanks for stopping by and hoope to see you soon! Char

Papertrey Bloghop

Isn't this a gorgeous inspiration picture? WOW gorgeous!! I've always wanted to play along and I finally am :-) Could someone come decorate my house like this? :-) I miss having a 2 story house for the sake of a garland up the stairway...but I don't miss the stairs lol

For my card I used Papertrey's Stocking Prints Stamp set. I started by using the matching die to cut them out, then I stamped them. after stamping them I ran the boots thru my Zyron to add sticky glue to the front for my glitter. It's so much easier and the glitter sticks great ! The paper is Noverber 2011 Accessory sheet

I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving :-) Did you, or are you going shopping today? I'm going to, but I'm not getting up and three in the morning to go this year...that's not for me :-)  Well I think I'll start off my morning with tree decorating and Christmas music :-) Have a wonderful day! Char

Just poppin in with a quick gift bag I made with Echo Park :-)

A a few weeks ago on a trip to Sac...on the way home I stopped in a small little town called Oroville and went into this cute little shoppe called Mary Lake Thompson ...I didn't know it at the time but she was on Oprah and is one of Oprah's top store picks...Anyway I saw this sweet shabby antiqued clock and had to have it for my kitchen :-) So I went back there this last weekend as the factory where they make their products was having a holiday sale and their  tea towels were 2 for $1.00 normally about 13.00 a piece I think ( Which is ...out of my price range :-) . They will make great presents and the best part?? It's every year!!! Here's a sample of a few towels that  I got.

And here's a picture of my clock :-) I have the perfect place for it :-)

 

So

Have a great day! Hugs, Char

The girls...

Hi! And happy Monday!

The girls wanted to go to the ocean for Jasmine's Birthday...so John and Kim took them. They went over to Trinidad. Wanted to share some pics...I haven't in awhile and they are getting so big :-( Jasmine just turned 5 and Liberty turned three in July :-)

 And Frand Kratofil......a friend shot these pictures locally...This one is Mossbrae Falls up in Mt. Shasta

 And this one is Brandy Creek...about 7 miles outside of Redding

It will be a busy week....Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!! Hugs, Char



The Shabby Tea Room Challenge #89

Happy Monday!!! This week's challenge at The Shabby Tea Room is based on the following inspiration picture provided by Sheri :-) WOW isn't this pic gorgeous?

The Challenge : Create a card/project using the colors found in nature

 I can't tell you how much I am loving all the fall color around my town...every street brings new delights ! If I haven't told you lately....I SO LOVE FALL!! :-)

And this week's sponsor is

And this week's winner will receive 5 digital sheets = 20 images WOW!!!!

For this challenge I used an image off sheet #306 found here whoopsiedaisy

This week's weekly Guest Designer is Sarah Bargo and our month long Guest designer is Audrey Pettit :-) be sure to see what Shabby creations they made this week!

And also be sure to stop by the Shabby DT and see there wonderful inspiration :-)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Melissa Bove

Fran Westmoreland

Cindy Holshouser

Sheri Holt

I hope all of you have a wonderful Thanksgiving and remember to be thankful for what we have!Hugs to all of you! Char 

MTME Pretty Pallette's #36

Hi! Happy Sunday! This week's Pretty Palette's challenge is to use these colors :-) I hope you have time to play along :-)

And I have to tell you that I was challenged this week lol :-) Which is a great thing!!

 

On my card I used a bit of Crate paper and  Ga GA for Gingham I love gingham and this collection is fantastic!! And you can find the tree this tree I used here Happy Hallows . I colored it in with my woodless pencils and copics combined. The frame is from the Crate paper "Random" collection

You should see what the Pretty Palette design team did with these colors! Amazingly beautiful! Stop by the MTME blog to see for yourself. Thanks for stopping in , and Happy Sunday!! Hugs, Char

The Shabby Tea Room #88 A Shabby Pastel Christmas!

Hi! A happy Monday to you! I hope you had a wonderful weekend! Have you started your Christmas shopping yet? Or started making Christmas cards yet? How many of you make your own Christmas cards? I have to confess that I just don't have the time....I send a few out and that's about it :-( Seeing this beautiful inspiration picture this week has me in the Christmas spirit! Isn't it gorgeous?? I hope you can play along this week as the lucky winner will receive 2 templates from Creations by AR and I love these gorgeous templates!

This week's challenge is to :

Create a card and/or project with a holiday theme and using the colors from inspiration photo.

The template I chose is called Bag It and it's really a great size bag for your gift giving and went together very quick and simple! I will be making more of these :-)

I used my favorite Crate paper peppermint collection and  a digital image from Bety's shop. The tinsel ribbon is from my fav scrapbook store (Paradise Scrapbook Boutique)

Our month long Guest Designer is the talented Audrey Pettit and you are in for a treat with her adorable card! and this week's Guest designer is Lenot Mos who's work is fabulous as well!

And be sure and take a peek at our talented Shabby Girls blogs :-)

Debbie Marcinkiewicz

Melissa Bove

Cindy Holshouser

Fran Westmoreland

Sheri Holt

have a wonderful week! Hugs, Char

Pretty Palette #35

It's time for another Pretty Palette color challenge from My Time Made Easy. 

I just love this week's color challenge! And the adorable penguin :-) I used Perky Lil Penguin and Mrs Candy Claus. The paper is this is so cute!! And the candy canes are so versatile! I layered glittered netting over the card and used my copics to color this little guy in :-)

You should see what the Pretty Palette design team did with these colors! Amazingly beautiful! Stop by the MTME blog to see for yourself. Thanks for stopping in , and Happy Sunday!! Hugs, Char

Hi!!! And a happy Thursday to you! I was just thinking what a gorgeous day it's going to be today....no rain in sight...just sun. The nights are so cold but I can tolerate that!

Just popping in to share a quick card that I made just for fun :-). I hope you have a fantastic day!! Char

The Shabby Tea Room # Shabby Thanksgiving!

Hi Friends! It's time for a new Shabby Tea Room Challenge! This week I'm the shabby Hostess and I choose this inspiration picture for this week's challenge

For this card I used Tom Turkey! from Robynsfetish I paper pieced him, and also colored him in with some woodless pencils. The paper is a little Prima and some Bella Blvd Trim,, and a bit of MME. I love mixing papers!  I cut the white trim with my Cricut and used hooray-clear-stamps for the banner.

And the ink I used is Jenni Bowlin...LOVE this ink!!! I added a bit of paint around the outer edge of cardstock.

Our sponsor this week is robynsfetish !! And for the lucky winner 5 digital images!! WOW!!

And this week's talented Guest Designer is evgeniapetzer !! Also, I'm excited to have the talented audreypettit as our monthly Guest Designer !!!! :-) 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

Fran Westmoreland

Cindy Holshouser

Melissa Bove

have a wonderful week, and thanks for stopping by!! Hugs, Char

 Hi there! I was so excited when I got a fun E-mail a few weeks ago inviting me to join My Time Made Easy Pretty Palette DT!!! I have always loved MTME Templates and now I get to play with their papers and digital stamps Yeah!!!! This is my 1st challenge :-)

and here are the colors

 Pretty Palette Challenge! Here's my card...

I used Beautiful Baubles for my card. I LOVE this set as it has so many adorable ornament stamps on it and I LOVE the sentments!! I paper pierced the ornament with some Crate paper and Glittered it up. And added some stickle dots. The card has some MME paper and some Authentique paper also.

Stop by the MTME Pretty Palette Challenge #33 to see what the rest of the Design Team has to share with you! I hope you'll join us for this fun color challenge! Hugs, Char

Just Rite Christmas blog hop!!!

Hi Friends!! And welcome to the Just Rite Christmas Blog Hop!!! I have some super fun JustRite Stamps news to share with you today ... they are hosting a Christmas Linky Party and everyone is invited to the party! That's right ... their looking for enthusiastic paper crafters who own some JustRite Christmas stamps to create a bit of magic and link your project up at the JustRite Inspiration Blog!

For my card I used Greetings from Paris stamp set. And you can find it Here  I love this set! I now it's not a specific Christmas stamp but  thought it would be fun to use for my Christmas project :-)

Hop on over to the Christmas Linky Party Blog to read about all the details on the Christmas Linky Party that will run from November 2nd through the 8th. I hope you'll have time to join in on the fun!

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day! Char