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Shabby Tea Room – week #110, Beautiful Roses

It’s been lovely having a day to myself, and I’ve forced myself not to look at my work iphone to check for emails, and I’ve been far more productive than I usually am.  I really mustn’t let myself be so easily distracted!

I got my design team stuff done in time to take part in this weeks Shabby Tea Room challenge. 

The challenge was to use aqua, pink and neutrals, with this photo for inspiration:

Luckily I bought some nice aqua roses yesterday at Ally Pally!  The lovely bird stamp that I’ve embossed with white powder is from Paperchase, there’s a larger version of the same image in the set too.  So pretty.

Shabby Tea Room – Sparkly and Bright

This week’s challenge at the Shabby Tea Room is ‘Sparkly and Bright’.  Using this photo as inspiration, to create a card with white/cream, silver and a splash of pink.

I used a digi stamp from Scrapbook Stamp Society, coloured with Promarkers.  I stamped the background directly onto the card with Sterling Silver embossing powder, then added some Papertrey die cut borders and a chipboard flourish which I coated with some more silver embossing powder for real sparkle.

Shabby Tea Room – Vintage Boudoir

This weeks challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room is Vintage Boudoir, using this photo for inspiration and incorporating a sewing theme.

I love the colours in this inspiration photo and quickly found some background papers that worked.  I used a Pink Petticoat sewing machine digi image, and coloured it in similar shades, then added a bit of glamour dust to the flowers.  I then added a bit of faux stitching, a vintage button and some lovely pale turquoise pearls.  A friend of mine has just had a back operation, so this card is on it’s way to her.

 

Shabby Tea Room - Week #95 Time Flies

One of my New Year resolutions is to take part in more challenges.  I’ve been having a general think over the Christmas break about where I want to go with my crafting.  I’ve learnt so much since I started cardmaking 9 years ago, and have really enjoyed passing on that knowledge through my classes. 

During the last year I’ve been lucky enough to join two Design Teams and I’ve really enjoyed the challenge that brings and that’s definitely something I want to focus more of my energy on.  As I am also now living away from home during the week in order to work in London, I’ve decided to take a break from teaching and concentrate my energy on design team projects and more crafting for myself without the pressure of coming up with class ideas and all the travelling that teaching involves.  I’m really going to miss the girls that come to my classes, but for the time being, I feel I need to go in a different direction.

So, here’s my first challenge card of 2012, and it’s for the ‘Time Flies’ challenge over at The Shabby Tea Room.  Here’s the inspiration photo for this challenge:

And here’s my card: