Elegance and Lace

Today I had to play with the Shabby Tea Room's inspiration.

Look at how pretty it is...

I would love to live in that room!

Here is the card I made...

I don't usually work with these colors,

I'm not a pink girl,

 but when I do a project like this I absolutely love the look!

The pink center piece is core'dinations.

I sanded it and distressed the edges.

 I LOVE the shabby chic look!

I used tea dye distress ink on the all the edges.

The large pearl in the corners as well as the pearl swirl & the rosy die cut, in the center, were from my stash.

The flower under my rosy die cut was a piece of trim I found at Walmart.

The lace behind everything is from Creating is fun.

The rose bud's are from Wild Orchid Crafts.

The pearl spray is from Pro31 Design.

A close up...

Here you can see the rock candy distress crackle paint that I put on the rosy die cut.

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The Shabby Tea Room - Elegance and Lace

12 tags of 2012 - July

Here is my version of Tim Holtz July tag...

I used Slate, Denim & Currant alcohol inks.

Where Tim used picket fence distress stain on the edges of the tag, 

I used weathered wood distress stain.

Not having the metal piece for the bottom I used a couple pieces of the same core'dinations papers as I used for the tags, 

distressed them, 

layered them 

and rubbed a small bit of the picket fence distress stain across the top 

and stamped it with the word "play".

Added a couple of brads for the "metal" effect and pop dotted it on top, across the stamped image.

I used a piece of colored & crinkled seam binding that I got at Shabby Beautiful 

and added a metal embellishment.

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12 tags of 2012 - July

Summer time...

Happy Summertime everyone!

I made this card yesterday...

I started with the Gecko Galz Seaside Beauties 

and 

Gimp (free digital photo editing software).

I cleaned the girls up, removing them from their original background.

Then I grabbed a photo that I took when we were living down in Florida, a couple of summers ago,

and put the beauties on the beach.

Just off of the Beauty's (in green) elbow is 

my daughter (a wee little dot) 

and

 just to the right of her

 is my husband (with the black t-shirt on). 

Since the plan was a summertime beachy card

(for the Gecko Galz Dt challenge)

 I went to my Silhouette Cameo and cut a couple of seashell die cuts. 

I glued the layered die cuts on to a cardstock card and fussy cut around them.

I wanted the shell to have some texture so I dug into my stash of stuff I don't use too often

 and got out some dimensional paint and a stippling brush

and using the negative part of the die cut

I pounced my shell with the dimensional paint giving me the texture I wanted.

I added the photo to the top of the shell with pop dots and framed it with a strand of pearls from my stash.

Then with a stroke of luck, 

while strolling through Goodwill yesterday, 

I found a bag of little seashells so I was able to embellish with them. 

I don't know if you can see it but I used my finger to spread a little bit of gold glitter glue in the sand to give it that sandy sparkle.

Here's a peek at the inside...

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Sugar Creek Hollow - Summer Days