The Shabby Tea Room # 256

Happy Monday to you.
 This week in The Shabby Tea Room our challenge is called
Summer Picnic
How pretty is this picture!

I've used beautiful papers from Kaiser 'Secret Garden' collection to make my card. The banner is cut from 'Martha Stewart All Occasions cake art' cricut cartridge.....I love the tiny scallop edge :) How cute is the little ceramic bird sitting on the flower cluster.

Dies R Us are sponsoring this challenge......I have used

 Cheery Lynn - Fanciful Flourish, Lattice 2

 I'm entering this card in Cardabilities sketch challenge.

That it from me today......things to do, places to go!

Enjoy your week everyone

Thanks for popping by

Tracey x

Fiesta

Its time to show you the layout I have created for the latest Die cut challenge at "Stuck on U Sketches"

Blow out the Candles

Use a Die cut that has anything to do with a Party.

I love this photo of my two girls !

I've used 'Ole' cricut cartridge for Fiesta , Sombrero, the Banner and little flowers. Martha Stewart All Occasional Cake Art for the scallop border.

Be sure to stop by SOUS and see  the fabulous inspiration all the Design Team have created.

Happy Creating

Tracey

The Shabby Tea Room #231

Let's Have Tea.....is the challenge this week in The Shabby Tea Room

Add Pink, Black, Flowers and Pearls

Some times I just have to try and re-create the inspiration photo.

I used my cricut to make the Cup Cake - Tea Cup Shape card . I used Dreams Come True cartridge for the Tea Cup and Martha Stewart All Occasions Cake Art for the cup cake. I welded the two images together then added all the layers.

Wish my cupcakes looked this Good!

Hope you are enjoying a wonderful weekend.......time to visit you!

Tracey

U are My Sunshine..............

Hey There.......

The new challenge for Stuck on U Die cuts  is

"Here Comes the Sun"

After a week of rain , I did see the sun briefly today........hopefully by the weekend it will decide to hang around!

This week the Design Team have created projects with the Sun.......sun, sunset, sun rise/anything to do with the sun. Just make sure you Die cut it!

U are My Sunshine........ my husband.

Well, this didn't quite turn out the way I had originally planned...........I decide to hand write my verse, that was my first mistake! I hate my hand writing, then I made a spelling mistake..........that will teach me, I should have written in pencil first! So a few things came about as a cover up. And it was a really rushed job! 

Anyway.........love the verse and the photo's!  That's what it all about anyway.......isn't it!
These are the cartridges I have used.....

Accents Essential for the sun, Stamped for SunShine and Martha Stewart All Occasional cake art for the butterfly and banner.

Hope you have a wonderful weekend.....thank you  sooooooo much for visiting

Happy Crafting

Tracey

Stuck on U Sketches.....Die cuts

Hello.............

One thing I really enjoy doing is making my own flowers!  I was really excited to start creating this layout for the latest "Stuck on U Die cut challenge" We would like to see your Die cut flowers.......I used the cricut to create mine, but you are able to use any die cutting machine! 

This is me and my Mum..........

I used Cricut Mothers Day Bouquet for the flowers and leaves,  Martha Stewart All Occasional Cake art for the banners. The scallop frame around the photos is from Elegant Edges.

 The pattern paper is Kaiser Pickled Pear Collection..................love this one!

I'm entering my layout in 

 the latest sketch challenge at'Sketches with a Twist'..............the twist is 'Mothers Day' - create something mother related. 

I have a busy weekend planned.........so much to do, so little time!
Hope you enjoy yours
Happy Creating

Tracey

Enjoy

Yay........I finally found some time to create a layout!

I am a real  fan of "Page Maps" sketches............. they are celebrating their 7 year anniversary all month long. 

Lots of great prizes to be won just by creating a layout with one of the awesome sketches and the best thing is the contest is open to everyone, where ever you live:))

The papers I have used are from 'October Afternoon'. I cut the banner using MS All Occasional cake art.

A little paint splattering, bling, stitching, some stamping and lots of cute as, Heart buttons.

I still have quite the supply of these cute little heart buttons..........Love!

Loved the sketch..........so I stuck with it!

I appreciate you stopping by..........have a great week!

Tracey

Stuck on U die cuts

This week at Stuck on U Die cuts the challenge is to "Replace a letter in Your Title with a die cut shape and use scraps on your project."
Everything on my layout is from scraps except the background papers!!

I took this photo of Jordyn last year when we were on holidays.......it would have to be one of my favourites!

I cut the snow flakes and title from a cereal box. Joys of the Season was used for the snowflakes and Plantin School Book for Snow. I created the snow flake background using 'Art Philosophy .....love the white on white.  My go to cartridge for banners is...'Martha Stewart All Occasional Cake Art'. The pattern paper under the photo is all scraps. Don't you just love the cross stitched look of the hearts. This is a papermania stamp.

Come join us for this fun challenge........use up some of your scraps!

Last week I knocked my foot on a rock at the beach , after limping around all week I finally went and had an Xray. I have a fractured toe.......no wonder it hurt so much! Great excuse not to clean and just craft!

Enjoy your week.....Happy Crafting
Tracey

Shabby Autumn...TSTR #139

Hello everyone, 

Its Monday........time to show you what I have created for "The Shabby Tea Room" this week. 

Debbie has chosen this wonderful Shabby Autumn scene ..........she asks that you be inspired by the colours, add a PUMPKIN and make it Shabby.

Sometimes I just love creating the scene I see in the photo........

Lots of glitter for my shabby pumpkins:)

The pretty dresser is from Sentimental's cartridge, the stool and bucket are from Country Life and the pumpkins are from Martha Stewart All Occasional cake art.

The sentiment is from Paper Sweeties - "Grateful For You" set and the Frame is a digi stamp from "Robyn's Fetish digi's".

These are our two sponsors this week in the Tea Room. I hope you can join us for your chance to win some fabulous prizes!

For lots of wonderful inspiration please visit the design team Blogs

Debbie - Simple Treasures

Lenet - To Scrap or not to Scrap, that's the Question.

 Starr - The Paper Chase

Rebekah - Midnight Lullabies

Rebecca - Paper Primrose

Happy Crafting

Tracey

Autumn

Its time for another die cut challenge at "Stuck on U Sketches"

We would like to see   Die cuts of the words Autumn or Fall ........and add them to your creation.

A few weeks ago I showed you a layout where the theme was Autumn or Fall - With this weeks challenge I decided to use more photos that were taken on the same day and make my layout a double. I die cut the word Autumn on the banner using the cartridge Martha Stewart All Occasional Cake Art.

Other cartridges I used are ...... The tree - serenade, Leaves - Flower Shoppe, Bird - Winter Wonderland

Here's the double pager.

Hope you can join us for this fun challenge....pop over to Stuck on U Sketches and see the fabulous creations the design team have to show You.
I'd also like to enter this layout in the latest challenge at "Pause Dream Enjoy" - Use the colours Orange and Brown.

Thanks for stopping by........and thankyou for all the lovely comments you have left me

Enjoy your weekend

Tracey

B*DAY

Hi everyone,

Flag.....................is the theme this week for "Stuck on U Sketches Die cut challenge.

These photos were taken on Jordyn's 4th Birthday. It only seems like yesterday , how time flies, she is now 21!

The cup cake was cut using 'Sweet Treats' cartridge and the FLAG was cut using 'Martha Stewart All Occasion cake art'. 'Mini Monograms' was used to cut the scallop circle inside the flower. 

The papers are from the DCWV Celebration stack.

This is a fun challenge, I hope you can join us..............The other Design Team members have created some fabulous inspiration for you, head over to 'Stuck on U Sketches' and have a peek.

Its nearly the weekend .....yay.......I hope the weather fines up, I'm over the rain..........specially when the kids are on school holidays!

Thank you 4 Visiting

Tracey

"Life is a Beach"

Hello..............

Today is the first day of Winter here in Australia.

On the other side of the world it is Summer!

  I Love

  SUMMER

is the theme for this weeks "Die cut challenge" at

"Stuck on U Sketches"

These photos were taken on the perfect Summers day, not a cloud in the sky.

Look at this Beautiful Beach!

I know..........another Banner:) This one is made in the 'Surf Life Saving' colours. 

The flowers, sandals, pelican and seagulls are from 'Life's a Beach' cartridge. The font is from 'Art Philosophy', the scallop frame is from 'Elegant Edges'. My go to Banner cartridge is Martha Stewart 'All Occasions cake art'. The paper is Kaiser.

Head over to 'SOUS' ........the design team have some fabulous creations to show You.

Thank you so much 4 stopping by

Tracey

Special day

Today I thought I'd show you a layout I did a few weeks ago for "Scrappy-Go-Lucky". (Some of you have probably already seen it over there.)

Look at those beautiful dresses in the photo’s, they added all the colour I really needed for this layout. I just created simple embellishments to highlight the pictures.

 The oval frame is cut using Happily Ever After.  Now that I can cut my own Doilies, you will probably see them on a lot of my creations…..I just love them! This one is French Pastry.

 Mothers day bouquet was used to cut the flowers.  The butterflies are cut using Martha Stewart all Occasion Cake.

The paper is Kaiser "Airy Fairy".

Cutting all your own embellishment is so much fun………..add some glitter , pearls etc. , so easy!

At the moment "Scappy-Go-Lucky" is having a stock take sale.......all the Doily dies are 10% off. Check them out HERE.

See you again soon

Tracey

Butterflies........

Even though this week has been so busy.......I found a few minutes to create a card for the

Shabby Tea Room .

So I rushed to get it finished, and guess what.......I forgot to link it! Oh well that happens some time!
Anyway

The challenge this week is to use butterflies...............I embossed the background with Butterflies and the large Butterfly is cut using a Martha Stewart cartridge.

I'm really hoping to get better at doing Shabby chic!

So here is my card...........hope you like it.

Head over to the Shabby Tea Room, look at all the beautiful creations and be inspired.

I really appreciate you stopping by and thankyou so much for all your kind words!

See you soon

Tracey

Birthday Sundaes................

Hello, and welcome to another "Birthday Sundaes"

No Birthday cards this week!
Our challenge was create something for a Birthday party.......

 Birthday gift , banner, cupcake wrappers/toppers , treat boxes etc.

On Tuesday its Tori's Birthday so I decided to make this Mini Cake Banner to put on her cake.

To give you an idea of what it will look like, for the photo I put it on this giant paper cupcake! Its from Kaiser - Candy Lane collection.

My cake won't look as pretty as this one!
The banner is tied to skewers  so it can stand in the cake.

I have a card to match but since there is a very good chance she will peak at my blog, I will show you that next week.

"Martha Stewart All Ocasional Cake" was used for the banner and scallop circle. The flower was cut with "Mothers Day Bouquet" and the little cupcake in the centre is a rub on.

Its your Day is from "George".

Hope you are enjoying your Easter holidays

Thankyou so much for stopping by.......

Tracey

"Mountain of Cupcakes"...........

My description of these photos would be.............."A Mountain of Cupcakes in the middle of a mud slide" LOL!
Not my best cake creation but as you can tell from my last post they tasted pretty good!

This layout is based on a sketch challenge at "Sassy Lil' Sketches" - january 7th reveal.
 I have so many photos so I decided to use quite a few on this page. In my album this page will sit on the opposite page to the last layout I showed you.

I'm loving the Banner feature on Martha Stewart - All Occasion cake cartridge.......this one has a tiny scallop edge. The white lace border is a Martha Stewart punch. The paper is Kaiser "Sugar Sugar " collection.

Enjoy your weekend

Tracey

Wanna Rock

Guess what?.................I also have two boys! You would never know it because all you mainly see is pictures of the girls......specially Jordyn.
Well there is a reason for that......I am making albums for each of my children , which I plan on presenting to them when they turn 21. Thats this year for Jordyn in September. OMG I've got years of photos to still scrap, I really don't think I'll get it done but I'm going to give it a go!

With that said, I have a layout to show you that I completed today........no lace, no doily's etc, etc. Only really cool colors and a little stitching.

What I've used -

Wanna Rock - Base camp

Banner - MS, all occasions

Star - George

Kaiser paper - work bench collection

I know you have already seen this page but this one is slightly different so I thought I'd post it - One for Jordyn's album and one for Tori's.

I only had one piece of each paper for the back ground and I ran out of chip board letter.....but I kinda like them different sizes.

See You again Soon

Tracey

Sisters

 This photo was taken  yesterday of my two girls. They had bought the same top and happen to be wearing it on the same day..........I thought it was a perfect photo opportunity, this will make it easy for me to co-ordinate my paper with the picture!  And how well does the doily match their tops! LOL
The paper I have used is Kaiser "Flutterby" .

I'm entering this page in a challenge at "Show us your stuff" blog. This week we have to follow a recipe..... Stitching - around the heart, Buttons, 4 different pattern papers, Misting - on the large flower and something handmade - large flower.

Passionately Artistic is  having a "linky party" head over there to check out all the fabulous creations.

My cricut  was also used to cut a few things..........

Heart - Love struck

Frame behind photo - Sweet Hearts

Scallop border - Martha Stewart all occasions

George - large flower

Have a great week .......see you again soon

Tracey