Just Us Girls 35 wild card + TESC114 + Shabby Tea Room + City Crafters {Tea Party}

Hey blog friends!  TIme for some more challenge fun with Just Us Girls.  This week is wild card and that means it's hostess choice.  Our amazing Alicia has chosen dry embossing as the challenge this week.  So fire up those embossing folders, light boxes, stylus pens and get embossing with us!

I also took inspiration from the Taylored Expression sketch, the Shabby Tea Room polka dot tea party, and the City Crafters recipe challenge (one ribbon, 3 flowers and 2 papers).  Check out the inspo pictures:

I came up with this:

Tea Party indeed!  I used two new delicious papers; one from October Afternoon's thrift shop line and one from Webster's Pages Life Portraits line.  I picked them up in the coolest papercraft store I know in my area....a veritable wearhouse full o paper and other goodies.  If you are ever in Berkeley, CA you simply must check out Scrapbook Territory!  I'm telling you, it's a papercrafters DREAM!  Your first step inside the doorway will tell you that you have arrived...you will SMELL all the newly minted papers...oh yum and your eyes will behold the shelves and shelves of all things stamp and scrap.

Now Alicia has challenged us to dry emboss this week over at Just Us Girls.  I used a cuttlebug folder (damask) on the ivory circle printed with the teacup from the Graphics Fairy and, I don't know if this counts as embossing but what it does count as in my book is COOL!  I am referring to the decorative ornate corner in the upper right of the card.  I made it with sculpy clay and I am SOOOOO excited because I have been envying the Melissa Frances elements that pop up all over and now I can make something similar myself with a little clay and not *hoard* them because I only have one! ;)  you know what I mean right?  LOL!  Please tell me I'm not the only one who finds it hard to use your favorites?

Ready for more from the JUGs girls?  Check them out!  Also, we bid a fond farewell to our two guest designers this month, Teresa and LeAnne.  They have been an amazing addition to our team for the month of May.  Thank you, ladies!

Teresa Kline

LeAnne Pugliese

Pam Imholz

Maria Levine

Lisa Kind

Mona Pendleton

Alicia Weiman

Thanks so much for stopping by here.  It always makes my day to read your sweet comments and your words of encouragement.  Have a great day!

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey Ink, Webster's Pages, October Afternoon

Stamps: My Cute Stamps

Ink: Colorbox and Distress ink by ranger

Flowers: Prima

Embossing folder: cuttlebug

Button: Dress it Up

Pearls: Want 2 Scrap

Craft supplies: tea stained trim, vintage dictionary print, sculpey clay, acrylic paint

Have a cuppa {SPCC and moxie fab around the house}

Hello blog friends! A simple cuppa jo card for you! Inspired by the fabulous SPCC color challenge 16 and the Moxie Fab around the house challenge, I brewed up a clean and simple card (I know, *gasp*!)

Dare I say this even qualifies as graphic? Who knew? I stamped and masked the coffee cups from Papertrey Ink and layered over a strip of satin turquoise ribbon. The bottom section has been dotted with metallic teal fabric paint. It's fun and shimmery!

Thanks for coming by. Hope you get to enjoy your favorite cuppa something today :)

Supplies:

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU!

Paper: Georgia Pacific

Ribbon: Michaels $1

Craft supply: button, fabric paint (Scribbles)

CPS #127 and Scrapmaster's Paradise Color Combo#9...Tea for Two

and two for tea! If it's not coffee, folks, it's tea for me in the hot beverage category. I think it was the unseasonably cool weather today in northern Cali that had me thinking fall...that means hot beverage, good book and a cozy fire. Heavens no I don't get that but in my make believe world, I can wish for anything right? LOL! I LIKE make believe :)

Today's card has been inspired by TWO fabulous challenges this week: CPS #127 and a new one to me, the Scrapmaster's Paradise challenge color combo #9.

the challenges:

my project:

Will you get a load of that darling cup stamp with heart shaped steam??! OK, it's adorable I know but, are you ready, here it is, it's a $1 Studio G stamp! GET OUT! I let out an audible gasp when I saw it buried in a basket at Joanns! I snatched her out of the basket and I may have even looked around to see if anyone was waiting in the wings to steal her away...and yes, this stamp is a "her" :). Today was the day for her maiden inking and I decided a session of paper piecing would do her justice nicely. The paper cups were embellished with some Sharpie poster paint white pen doodles as were the Papertrey vintage buttons in lemon tart. I also cut a "doily" for the cups to rest on and embossed it with swiss dots. The "doily" led to the lace and purple trims and check out the hunk of painted and distressed cardboard for the backdrop. Danger! Warning! Could see more of this cardboard in my future :) Hmmm, what else? Oh! Faux ribbon from papertrey serves as my stamped background wallpaper and I misted my pink cardstock with tattered angels vintage pink glimmer mist. The sentiment was created with stamp from Provo craft.

I'm so glad you could stop by and share a cup of tea with me. Sit down, stay awhile, let's chat, I just love hearing from you :) Have a great one!

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey and SU!

Stamps: Papertrey, Provo Craft and Studio G

Ink: SU! and Papertrey

Glimmer mist: tattered angels

embosser: cuttlebug

Other: paint pen, buttons, trims, acrylic paint, embroidery floss

Coffee and Friends, Friends and Coffee...what a fabulous combo!

Hey friends! Coming to you with a completely gratuitous card...no challenge attached! Can you believe it!? I just had a need to pay homage to two things in my life that make me smile. Fine friends and fine coffee (!)...two things I am very grateful for, for sure!

I love this coffee set from Papertrey Ink called Warm Happiness. It has such fun accessory stamps like the lines on the cups, the shadow under the cups, the dotted cup which I stamped in pink behind the cups out front and center, the sweet sentiment and the individual "coffee" stamp which fills in the sentiment and, also, flexible enough to curve on my acrylic block so it could be added to the cups as well! Fun! The dotted oval border stamp is also Papertrey Ink...Borders and Corners {Oval} set. Oh! And one precious vintage button from my stash to top off the satin dot ribbon from Papertrey as well.

OK, gotta run, all this coffee talk is making me hungry and perhaps in need of a second cup today? LOL Have a wonderful day everyone and thank you for stopping by. It means so much! Hug a friend, or your coffee (!), today! :)

Supplies:

Paper: Papertrey Ink

Stamps: Papertrey Ink

Ink: SU! and Papertrey Ink

Dies: Spellbinders

Ribbon: Papertrey

Punch: Martha Stewert and EK

Other: vintage button, embroidery floss and sewing machine

Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #8....many thanks {a latte} and a GIVEAWAY!

Hey friends! Happy Thursday and happy Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #8! First off, I owe Dawn McVey a THANK YOU....I was so excited and honored to be in the spotlight for Raspberry Suite Color Challenge #7! Wooohoooo! There were amazing projects all around and I have no doubt they will be even more amazing this time around with such a fun color combo. Keep reading for more....this week I thought I would try a gift box template for the challenge.

the challenge:

my project:

This extremely cute triangle box is a template from Kelleigh Ratzlaff at The Digichick Boutique! The box measures 2 1/4 inches tall and 6 3/4 inches long. Is is just high enough to fit a coffee gift card along with a few odds and ends desk supplies for a treasured teacher at my daughter's school. LOOOOOVE this cute box that opens at one end (note the pull ribbon on the right)

The *perfect* coffee cup comes from My Cute Stamps by Holly Brooke Jones as do the jelly beans turned coffee beans from her Easter stamp set. The sentiment, circle stamps and papers are all Papertrey Ink. Some other fun details are the swiss dot embossed raspberry fizz paper that has been swiped with a PTI vintage cream ink pad, the iridescent glitter on the whipped cream topping and a tiny dab of crystal effects on the paper pieced raspberry fizz heart on the cup.

I'm so glad you stopped by today....I have some news to share:) Kelleigh has asked me to join her creative team and I am SO excited! So you will definitely be seeing more digital hybrid projects from me with Kelleigh's fabulous designs! Kelleigh and I have arranged to give away three $5 gift certificates to her store at the Digichick Boutique to the three randomly drawn people who:

1. Leave a comment here on this post, and if you don't already, please sign up to follow my blog with the followers button on my right side bar.

AND

2. Visit Kelleigh's brand spankin new website at http://kelleighratzlaff.com/ and register to receive her newsletter...there is a button on the header bar on her main page that says "newsletter" for you to click. And then you just enter an email address and you are all linked up.

I hope you are excited...I sure am! Don't worry if you don't consider yourself a digi papercrafter....I don't think I am either! LOL Kelleigh's files are saved in several formats (including the free Adobe Acrobat) so they can work for everyone.

The winners will be announced one week from today, Thursday June 11. Good luck! and thanks for participating and spending your time here :)

Supplies:
Template: Triangle box by Kelleigh Ratzlaff
Paper: Papertrey Ink
Stamps: My Cute Stamps (Sweet Chocolate and Jelly Beans) and Papertrey Ink (Polka Dot Basics and Faux Ribbon)
Embossing: Cuttlebug swiss dots
Punch: Martha Stewert border punch
Circle cutter: colluzzle
Scallop circle: Cricut Mini Monograms
Ribbon: American Crafts
Other: bead, eyelets and foam tape

Sprinkle the Sparkle challenge

With a challenge name like that, who can resist playing along?? See Spike's challenge details and a tutorial for burnished glitter here. I decided to use a cuttlebug a2 embossing folder to dry emboss the circle pattern on the kraft colored cardstock. The brown micro glitter is from Martha Stewart and it looks rich and decadent in person. MMMMMmmm this makes me want coffee :)

I chose to fill only random areas of the circle pattern and I like the way it turned out. I don't do random very well so it was nice to have the embossing plate as a guide. I just glittered all of the skinny circles and small dot areas. Thanks for looking!

Supplies:

stamps: Papertrey Ink

cardstock: bazzill

glitter: Martha Stewart

embossing plate: cuttlebug

ink: Su! tempting turquiose and colorbox chalk ink in chestnut roan and alabaster

Other: paper twistel, ribbon scrap, button, striped paper scrap