Shabby Tea Room and Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

The days are zooming by! Only one week left of my summer holiday! This weekend, I will be heading into work on my classroom to be ready for my class on Wednesday. So happy!! With the arrival of school and Fall comes my need to craft!! I am so excited to get back into routine and work...call me crazy but I crave Fall weather, clothing and cooking!

The Shabby Tea Room has a fun inspiration photo...one that we must use the colours and the "tea" theme from! Well, I do not have many "tea" themed sets but I did remember I had a brand new set from Fresh Squeezed Stamps! So I went to work!

   

Then I found a quick and easy sketch that I LOVED and thought it would work perfectly for my card and teacup image! Score! The sketch comes from the Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge. 

Here is my clean card with a bright, pink flower!!! I am not sure if I love it but I had fun making it and it is another card for my stash!!! 

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Fresh Squeezed Stamps-Hot, Hot, Hot

Inks: Copics, Black Memento

Papers: My Mind's Eye, Vanilla, Pink, Kraft

Extras: Flower Punch, Pearls, Corner rounder, Square Punch, Honeycomb Embossing folder

Before I go, I wanted to share a photo of my sweet "Penney". She has been with us for one week already and I am absolutely in love with this sweet girl!!! She actually helped me to make this card! She is my new "crafting buddy". 

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge & Splitcoast Stampers Colour Challenge {Shelter}

Last night I had the chance to get inky with the current SCS Colour Challenge to use: Marina Mist, Midnight Muse and Baja Breeze. I added some Kraft Paper from Michael's for my umbrella. The raindrops are inked in each colour of blue and stamped. The umbrella is paper pieced.

I took a close up of the embossing folder, I just love this folder and use it often! I also love the way the sentiment stamped from the new Sunnier Days Set from Simon Says Stamp. I used the sketch from the Sweet Sunday Challenge blog.

{Supplies Used}

Stamps: Sunnier Days (Simon Says Stamps)

Inks: Baja Breeze, Midnight Muse, Marina Mist

Papers: Baja Breeze, Midnight Muse, Marina Mist, Whisper White and Kraft

Extras: Couture Creations Embossing Folder, Gems, MFT Dienamics

Last Post for 2012 {Cleary Besotted with the Sweet Sunday Sketch}

One last post before the holidays! I will be away from my craft room for a whole TWO WEEKS! EEK! Hopefully I won't go into withdrawal! I am excited to get away with my hubby. I am looking forward to shopping and relaxing. And yes...I will be hitting every stamp and scrapbooking store I can find!

I have wanted to play with Karen's Sweet Sunday Sketch for a long time! Tonight I inked up another "Clearly Besotted" stamp that I won a couple of weeks ago! It was such an awesome surprise! I used some designer paper from my stash and some brand new "Simple Stories" pattern paper called Snap Colour Vibe (I lurve this paper)! I have seen a lot of designers use the sentiment cut up in a cute way and I decided to give that a whirl when I saw the tab on the side of Karen's sketch. This sweet little girl is coloured with Copics and then I fussy cut her out, so I could make her stick out of the sketch. I turned Karen's awesome sketch on the side...thank you for the inspiration Karen!

One of my personal challenges this year is to use ribbon more often on my projects! Is it too much here? I also created my card for the following challenges.

Pile It On - Embellishments 

Great Impressions--anything goes

Love to Create--anything goes

Make It Monday--anything goes

To all my blogging pals, have a very Merry Christmas and I wish you all the best for the coming year!

Sweet Sunday Sketch Challenge

I was so inspired by the design team samples over at the Sweet Sunday Sketch Blog that I had to play! I decided to keep my card simple using the Fifth Avenue Florals set and the DSP from the Good Neighbours and Sweet Pea Packs. I actually used all scraps on this card. I cut out the circle with my Circle Scissors Plus and then used the Circle Scallops #2 Die in my Big Shot. I also completed the inside of the card using my Curvy Verse set. I used Melon Mambo and Old Olive as my colours. I smudged the top righthand side of the inside of the card with my thumb! Don't you hate that when that happens!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Smiles,

Lesley :)