The Shabby Tea Room

This pretty little card was inspired by the following teapot image at The Shabby Tea Room.  The Shabby Tea Room is a newer challenge blog with some great ideas and inspiration. The owner also sells some really beautful vinatage ribbon on Etsy that I plan on ordering sometime in the near future. I used an older SU! set, I think it's called Toile Flowers or something thereabouts, for the image. The image was embossed and colored with Copic Markers and though it's hard to see from the picture, the two flowers were stamed a second time, colored, cut out, and mounted using dimesionals for some "pop"! The patterned paper comes form SEI's Juliette and Chocolate Collections. Both lines are gorgeous!

Isn't this a lovely teapot? One of my nightly rituals af ter the kids go to sleep, is a cup of tea in one of my three favorite tea cups. My grandmother collected them and now I'm following in her footsteps... Miss you grandma...

Mojo Monday 142

Look at me! I am actually posting 2 days in a row...Lets see if I can keep it up!

This is my entry for Mojo Monday #142. I found that I haven't been usong very many of my Stampin' Up! sets lately; I've been hooked on my C.C. Design stamps and TGF stamps. So I decided to try to use at least one today, since I have soooo many SU! sets. This is one of my favorite sets, Happy Harmony, because it have several of the most beautifully inspirational sayings and quotes.  The background paper is another one of those thats been tucked away in my paper stash and hasn't seen light in awhile and I'm pretty sure that I got it from Island scrapbooking. The butterflies are from one of SU!'s Sizzix dies and of course I had to find away to incorporate some pretty Prima flowers. Its kind of hard to see but this card is covered in glitter and shimmer!

Aloha!

A Birthday Wish Scrapbook Layout

Here is a layout that I put together called "Birthday Wish". I just love creating girlie L/O's; I get to use tons of flowers from my flower stash and all kinds of pretties! I had such a hard time not adding more and more flowers. Everytime I stepped back to look at it I found a blank spot begging to be covered with flowers...LOL. There are three photo mats available for special photos and although each mat is accented with ribbon or flowers, I have left enough room to slide a photo underneath the embellishments. Here is a look at the left page:


I printed out a birthday poem, cut it with my Nestabilities and stippled the edges to give a touch of softness. The cake and balloon poodle were hand-drawn and hand-cut. Peeking out from behind the cake is one of my own tear bears. I left this one gender neutral.

The second page features my little girl tear bear, another balloon animal and paper-pieced presents. It's hard to see from this pic but the large present out front is dimensional and opens like a book for journaling or more pictures. There is also a pull out tag for more journaling under the right-hand photo mat. Can you see the stitching on the photo mats and along the borders? I can't possibly have a scrapbook page without any sewing!

I love how adorable my little tear bear looks. I had such a great time creating her outfit and coordinating it with this L/O.

Here is a close up of the birthday cake. And below is a close up of the birthday tear bear!


Don't know what a tear bear is? It's a bear that has been torn out of extra thick mulberry paper, and pieced together with or with out any special patterns. I have created my own patterns for my bears and each outfit is one of kind, just like my L/O. I rarerly if ever create two similar L/O's and no two are ever exactly alike...each spread is a OOAK (one of a kind) creation!

Tomorrow I will be putting this L/O up for auction on ebay. Its been a while since I had my L/O's posted on ebay so wish me luck! I hope you enjoyed my scrapbook creation and post. I'm still trying to get used to blogging, but I hope to have another card creation posted, so come on back soon, OK? {smile}

Aloha!

Tinkerbell Birthday Wishes

I made this card this morning for a friends' daughter who celebrated her 4th birthday today. Since my gifts to her were all Tink themed I had no choice but to try to make my own coordinating card, right? The closest image I had to Tink was this stamp from The Greeting Farm, Fleur Anya, but I think it worked out pretty well. I also found some Disney Tinkerbell paper in my stash that I probably got over a year ago and forgot all about. The card measures 5.5 x 5.5 and has a base made out of SU! Orchid Opulence. I layered it with the Tinkerbell Flowe Paper and cut a strip of purple from one of the Best Creations Once Upon A Time papers. The image was heat embossed, colored with Copic Markers and cut using Nestabilities. The card is finished off with Prima flowers, a punched sentiment and lots of stickles.

This was definitely one of my more simpler cards; my sewing machine broke its last needle this morning and I didn't have time to run to Wally-World to pick up more. I do find that sewing makes my projects feel more complete and finished, but that 's only my opinion. On the way home I picked up more needles so I won't feel so incomplete...LOL!

Aloha!

Nuts About You!

A Mojo Monday Post on Sunday. Well at least it is in before the end of the week! This was the sketch but I just had to rotate the card base because I really, really wanted to use the Squirrels from the set Forest Friends by The Greeting Farm.
This is my take on this sketch, rotated 90 degrees:

Friday was craft night at my LSS Island Scrapbooking, a monthly free night of make 'n takes or demos. Each person who attends is asked to bring one handmade card for a card drawing. I love it! The first time I went, I drew Michelles' card, the owner of Island Scrapbooking. It was drop dead gorgeous and last night I drew Robins' beautiful card. She is a Stampin' Up! demo here in Hilo and I can't wait to attend one of here classes! I'll get her card posted here later. Since it so close to Valentines' Day, I, of course had to make a Valentine card for the drawing.

The paper is Bo Bunnys' A Gift of Love line, picked up at Island Scrapbooking. I love this paper so much that while I was at IS, I had to pick up more of it before they ran out or got discountinued. The Squirrels were stamped three times and colored with copics. I cut out the acorn twice, the squirrels at each end once, and layered with pop dots to give my image some dimension! Here is a side view of the squirrels: I hope you enjoy this one. I really had a great time creating it!

Aloha!

Crop For A Cause Hawaii!!!

For the past couple of weeks I have been busying organizing a Scrapbook Crop here in Hilo. See, on the mainland especially, there are lots of crops happening all over. In Las Vegas it seemed there was one every week and in Georgia I could easily find one at least once a month. Even on Oahu I could find a crop somewhere every few months...but in Hilo, not so much.


So what is a Crop?


It is a group (small or large) of avid scrapbookers who enjoy getting together, sharing their pages, getting ideas from each other and working on their own pages for a few hours without the kids or hubby interrupting and asking for this or that. some crops include demo's, goodie bags, snacks, or door prizes. And most only last a few hours. We have taken it to the next level with Crop For A Cause.


And what makes Crop For A Cause different?


Well....the event will be held for 12 HOURS! and you get GOODIE BAGS! and MEALS! and SNACKS! and chances to win DOOR PRIZES! Don't forget all the tools that will be available, and the samples and demonstrations and make & takes to get your creative juices flowing! Not to mention that it is for a good cause!


What Cause?


Our local Hawaii Island Food Basket where the proceeds and donations from this event go to help our community.


How do you register?


You can visit our blog: http://cropforacause-hawaii.blogspot.com and download the forms or stop by Island Scrapbooking in Hilo to pick up the registration and information packet.


How much does it cost to register?


The Crop fee is $40 if you register by June 12th or $50 after that. The fee reserves a table for you and your layouts and includes everything that I mentioned above! All you need to bring are your projects, a covered drinking container to prevent spills, and your scrap-happy self! Also, bring in at least 5 non perishable food items to donate to our Food Basket and get a second door prize ticket for more chances to win our fun prizes!


I am really looking forward to this event and hope that we have a fantastic turn out. It promises to be fun and inspiring and if all goes well, another crop can be planned before the end of the year!


Happy Scrapping!

Michele

A Boy at the Beach

Aloha!
Summer is here and although we have beautiful weather here in Hawaii year-round, I still think of hanging out at the beach during summer vacation. Now that my oldest son is in school, I can appreciate the summer vacation again, when all we had to think about was which beach were going to check out that day.

This card was supposed to be for a challenge two weeks ago that I really love. One of the best color challenges around comes from Kristina Werner and her blog. Like I mentioned, this was her latest color inspiration challenge and I kept telling myself "Post it & be done already!" But sometimes I can be quite a procrastinator (OK, most of the time. Hee hee) Better late than never right?


Supplies (all supplies used are Stampin’ Up! Unless noted otherwise)
Stamps Set – Summer by the Sea
Cardstock – Pacific Point, Real Red, Basic Black, Whisper White, Pacific Point DSP
Ink pads –Cool Carribean, Ballet Blue, Pacific Point, Going Grey, So Saffron, Creamy Caramel
Accessories – Natural Twine, Dew Drops, Sea Shell Charm, Clear Embossing Powder, Black Thread
Tools – Brayer, Sponge, Heat Gun, Sewing Machine, Big Shot, Nestabilities, Prismamarkers, Teextures Plate Kit #1, Versamark, Versamarker


It is hard to see but the little boy and sand castle are heat embossed and the little boys was stamped once on the original image and once on a scrap piece of paper, colored, embossed, then cut out and layered on top of the original for some dimension!


Happy Stamping!!!
Michele