Shabby Fall

Here's another shabby card for ya'll. I'm really likeing this style, and it works so well with the autumn/fall season that is upon us. It so fun trying out new styles and techniques. The flower I created for my card is a bigger version of the flower you can find at my post here. I really love that it was made from a paperbag and that it was so easy to make. The paper took the glimmer mist so well too. I use Tattered Angels Golden Terracotta and Tiger Lily (you can find many colors at Your Memories Here). I only wish the pictures could do the glimmer justice. The paper used came from YMH as well, and I really like how it lends itself to not only autumn/fall season but the shabby chic style too. The lace ribbon I used for the leaves and the edge of the DP strip and the three half perals is from YMH and can be found under Prima (and who doesn't love them some Prima right, lol). For the center of my flowers I used a clear epoxy circle thingy that I stuck on top of a 1/2" circle I punched out of some DP. Just a little something extra to a already cute flower.
As for the state of my craftroom...well, it still looks like a tornado has hit it. In fact, it might even be worse off as my DS played in there this week. Oh well, maybe this will be the week I start cleaning it...


Challenges used:
Lord Have Mercy: sketch
Stampin' Sisters in Christ - use stiching somewhere (real or not)
A Spoon Full of Sugar - use autumn colors
Creative Card Crew - Autumn/fall inspired
Paper Sundaes - min 3 embellies (lace/ribbon, half pearls, brad, and the flower I made
Saturday Crafter - anything goes

Fresh Brewed Challenges - DARE (distress, autumn, ribbon, embellies)

Papertrey August Blog Hop Challenge

I can't believe that I finally get to play along with a Papertrey Ink Blog Hop. I really do love this company and had a little bit of time to put this card together.

Here's the challenge: In honor of school going back into session everywhere, we thought it would be fun to issue a Brown Bag Challenge. We want to see what you can do to dress up, alter, change an ordinary brown lunch bag into a paper crafting work of art. You could modify it to become a gift bag with handles, create a card base by folding it in half (complete with a slide out tag), add a window to it or whatever else you can dream up. After the hop is though, we should all have plenty of inspiration to help us create amazing projects with inexpensive brown bags! We look forward to seeing your creations!

While working on this card I was reminded that I shouldn't worry about things just as the butterfly doesn't worry because my Lord is with me, and He will help and take care of me. The new school year started off a little rocky for as I was very unprepared for this first time since I started teaching ten years ago (I still can't believe that I've been teaching that long either). I got to work late on the first day and didn't have time to get my supplies ready for the day before I had to go and pass out schedules to students. As I was worrying about how to get everythign day without getting in trouble I ran into three different co-workers who saw that I was stressing and offered to help. God is good and I believe He put them there at that time for me to ask for help. Today was better and less stressful for me :) Also, my DS #1 started Pre-K and he is just loving it and is so proud of the fact that he gets to go to a school that his little brother doesn't get to go and he even gets to ride the small yellow school bus. I love him so much and just smile when I think back to him telling me about his first day.

I was inspired by the paperbag to create a fall type of card. Since I don't really do small scrapbooks/bragbooks, I had to come up with something a little different. I've been really into making my own flowers lately and found a great tutorial on how to create your own layered flower with paper and scissors instead of a die cut. The only thing I did differently was use a paperbag instead of cardstock. After I got the flowers cut out of a paperbag I crinkled them and sprayed them with some beautiful Golden Terracotta Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels. The leaves were created with some lace ribbon I had gotten from Your Memories Here. I used PTI's Flutterby Friend and Background Basics Text Style stamps to create my background for the flower. On the kraft strip I clear embossed the text stamp before I distress the edges. To add to the vintage, autumn feel of the card I distressed the vanilla cardstock pieces as well and then added three little half pearls to the side to bring some balance. Every piece of cardstock was sponged along the edges as follows: kraft c/s with PTI's Fresh Snow, SU!'s Really Rust with matching ink, vanilla c/s with PTI's Tea Dye Duo Chamomile and Chai. I am really pleased how this turned out since I don't do this style often enough.

Challenges used:

Stampin' for the weekend - anything goes
Stampin' sisters in Christ - Psalm 56:3; create something that reminds you of a life verse
A Spoon full of sugar - choice is yours
creatalicious challenges - vintage
Lord Have Mercy - sketch

there was another challenge this was for about flowers and lace but now I can't find it. Oh well :) If I do I'll post it here too.