Creative scraps

Once again over at the new challenge blog The Shabby Tea Room they issued a challenge to use scraps from your scrap pile to create a card.  Well, if you remember a few posts ago I shared my worktable and under much of the mess, ah creative chaos, is a box where I keep extra die cuts, embellishments that I made but haven't found the right project for, etc.  This card was a chance to assemble something using treasures from my box.  *Spoiler Alert* Mom, don't go any farther, this is probably your birthday card:-) 

The colors remind me of her.  Anyway, sometime in the fall I began to have a compulsion to make handmade paper flowers which has now escalated into making flowers of all types, more on that at another time.  So, I made this little flower and loved it but, had to wait for just the right project.  The corner of the extra olive die cut just seemed to call for a touch of floral.  Then, I had a piece of crepe paper ruffle left over from the card yesterday so I added it to the back and touched off the edges with straw Stickles.  A scrap of olive gingham patterned paper and some sorbet card stock run through my Cuttlebug dotted embossing folder and roughed up a bit and the card just came together with a little ribbon and a cute little clothespin.  Visit The Shabby Tea Room to see all the other awesome creations.  Thanks for stopping by, I'll talk to you again soon.

Picking back up with Birthdays

I needed more birthday cards this week. I tried a new technique on this one. I'd seen these beautiful crepe paper roses on Danielle Flanders blog, I haven't quite mastered those but I thought I could use my crepe paper and make a ruffle. So I did a quick running stitch along the folded edge of a strip of plain ol' streamer crepe paper then gathered it like I would a regular fabric ruffle. I touched up the edge with a bit of pink Stickle and layered it under a strip of desert sand card stock. Doesn't it look cute peeking out from under that scalloped edge. Just like and old fashioned petticoat. Thanks for stopping by and I'll talk to you again soon.

Fun with Felt

Ok, so I got one of my subscriptions in the mail and it had the cutest felt flowers on the card so I got inspired and spent part of the evening diecutting flowers to put together. Pinks and purples are my favorite. Now I just need to make some cards. So fun! Have a great day and I'll talk to you again soon.

Natural disaster?

No, it's just my worktable after a creative session. I know it's time to put a few things away when everything starts sliding into the middle of the desk and I can't push it to the side or stack one more thing on top! I don't completely clean it up because some how all of this sort of inspires me. Creative chaos with just a touch of organization, not enough to mess me up with "clean". Looking a these pictures makes me want to stamp so I'll talk to you again soon.

Play Date Cafe Challenge

Hi All!  I had such a fun experience this week with some very nice visitors to my blog.  They left sweet comments and Julie invited me to join in the challenge at The Play Date Cafe.  It included this color challenge...

For some reason this combination was really hard for me, it pushed/shoved me right out of my box!  Here is my card...

It was even hard to photograph!  It's an easel card so here is a picture of it open...

and a couple of detail shots....

There you have it.  No matter what light I photographed it in it just did not look right.  Oh well, the person who received it really liked it so that's what matters. *smile* I certainly hope you had an awesome start to your week.  Thanks for stopping by and I'll talk to you again soon.

More babies

Seven babies! That is how many new babies we've added on our staff this school year. These cards are for the last two before school is out. There will be one more during the summer. Whew... lots of baby gifts and cards. How fun are these?
These images are from the Love you forever set (C1398). Colored with colored pencils then layer and popped up with 3-D foam tape.

The sentiments are from a variety of other sets and I used several background stamps to add texture, the clouds are sponged on with a little Dutch blue and scalloped circle mask. Ribbons, lace and bling are from my stash, see I'm not a hoarder... I know how to share *smile*. Have a great week and I'll talk to you again soon.

Just add prayer

A friend lost her dad this past week so I was able to put together a card to send off to let her know I was thinking and praying for her family. No words can offer as much comfort than to know someone is talking to our Lord on your behalf. His is the only peace and comfort that can console a grieving heart.
Whatever you do today, be sure to add prayer.

All images, inks and papers are from Close to my Heart. I also entered this in a challenge at The Shabby Tea Room, hop on over there to see some of the great work.  Have a great weekend and I'll talk to you again soon.