The Shabby Tea Room - week #190 Pumpkin Spice

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This is my last week as guest designer for The Shabby Tea Room and I have to say it has been a very pleasant experience. A big thanks to Debbie for having me.

This is the inspiration for this week and your project is to contain pumkins and glitter.

So glitter I can do, pumkins not so easy. Tried all I could to find something suitable to no avail.  I decided to try and paper piece some together.  I used my oval spellbinders die and cut 5 of the same size and placed them behind each other (inking the edges first).  Begs the question "why buy something when you can make your own".  I think sometimes its the easy option.  Anyhow here is my card using the above photos as inspiration.

The Shabby Tea Room #189 Fall Florals

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This week on The Shabby Tea Room the theme is Fall Florals.  Well at the moment you would be forgiven for believing that we were in autumn and not spring.  There is a real "nip" in the air and last night it got down to 4 degress (celcius), not your typical spring temperature.

Anyway this is the lovely photo for inspiration at the Tea room this week and your project is to include flowers.  Make sure you take a look at the DT projects this week as there are some very lovely lanterns the talented ladies have made.

I took the whites and greys from the picture and used the splash of autumn flowers to create a pop on this card.  The papers are some I had in my stash and I think they are from Kaisercraft. I die cut some swirls thinking of the vines the pumpkins are attached to and added a little seam binding ribbon tied with a piece of hessian string with a little stamped tag.  This is how I interpreted the photo.

The Shabby Tea Room Week #188 - Fall

Hi and thanks for popping by, this week at The Shabby Tea Room its a celebration of Fall or Autumn to others of us. This is my second week as guest designer and I had this spectacular image as inspiration.

Now this posed a slight problem as I needed to include pumpkins in the design.  I do not have a pumpkin stamp in my collection and could not find any paper, charms, brads etc etc with pumpkins.  So I decided short of downloading an image I would have to make some kind of pumpkin to fit the theme.  Out came the fimo and do you know how easy little pumpkins are to create? I have no idea why I was worried as they are pretty cute and as nice as anything I was ever going to buy. I think possibly I could have added a little bit of inking to them.  Next time!!

I'm going to pop this into

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Shabby Tea Room October Challenge #187

I have to say I was very pleasantly surprised when the lovely Debbie from the Shabby Tea Room asked if I would be their guest designer for the month of October. What an incredible honour.  My feelings went from those of surprise to excitement to being very nervous.  Oh my goodness "these girls at the tea room are really good".  But I had said yes (duh! like I would have said no....) so I had a committment to fullfill, all those feelings had to be pushed to one side......I have some projects to create.

The inspiration for this week is the following sketch.

This is the card I came up with using a lovely Melissa Francis cutout that I had been saving for something special.  I really love the hues of aqua, they can be so peaceful and pretty. The background paper is from the Prima Devine collection.  I added some ribbon, lace a little rose and some cutout butterflies.  Behind is a paper doily and a little bit of bling.

Thanks for stopping by and if you feel inclined please join us at The Shabby Tea Room for another fun challenge.

Happy Hippo.....

Thanks for stopping by.  This is my last week as guest designer for Gerda at Gerda Steiner Designs.  I feel a bit sad actually as I have really enjoyed colouring and creating with Gerdas lovely digi stamps. Surely September can't be nearly gone already???  Gerda is a very lovely and talented lady.  Thank you Gerda for having me.

This stamp is called "just here to say Hi".  I have made this as a gift card holder as it is a friend of my daughters birthday and she just so happens to love hippos. This cute little character is coloured in pencils.  (still struggling with markers)  The patterned  paper is from Bazzill Basics Love Story collection.  I punched some hearts and added some bling to finish it off.

The outside of the card, isn't this little hippo just so cute!!

when the card is opened this gift card pops up.  Cool huh! 

 I am popping this into Make it Monday challenge #159 always anything goes and 613 avenue create also anything goes.

The white challenge

Today is a very grey ole day, nothing very white about it at all.  The wind is blowing everything about like crazy.  Its days like these at school that turn the children into these mad little versions of themselves.  It invigorates them beyond belief and turns them somewhat wild. Thankfully its saturday so no school today.

The challenge this week at The Shabby Tea Room is white or variations there of and twine.  This is the inspiration photo which I have to say is rather lovely, these look to me like knitted pumpkins.

 

Now pumpkins of the crafting type are not so readily available here, I suspect its because halloween is not really celebrated and it would seem that pumpkins are synonymous with halloween and also fall.  So I used handmade flowers instead. I found this pearl twine ( I think its twine, its cotton not plastic)  in my stash so added some loops of that also.

The girls at Southern Girls Challenge are hosting a monochromatic challenge so I am going to enter this there also.
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Wish Upon a Star.....

This week as guest designer for Gerda at Gerda Steiner Designs I used her super cute digi stamp "Goodnight Moon".  I coloured the image and decided that I would decorate a little paper maiche (spelling not sure)  box.  I inked the edges and then covered the sides and lid with an October Afternnon paper.  The added some die cut stars and swirls. finished it off with some pearls and glitter which doesn't show up in the photo.  Wouldn't this make a cute little box for babies first curl or teeth that the tooth fairy collects.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out Gerda's website.

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