Shabby at Last

I love the look of shabby chic, and I am trying to copy some fabulous cardmakers for whom that is their primary style. Here is my first try:


Flowers and pearls are sort of essentials for shabby chic. I picked up as many as I could while in the States, but I am sure I will run out of flowers long before I get back. I've never seen any here, although I will continue to keep my eyes open.

My card was inspired by this week's sketch at Our Creative Corner.

~La

Not Too Shabby Baby Boy

I've just begun looking at "The Shabby Tea Room" for inspiration. This week their challenge is to use polka dots, which I happen to love. I especially love them for baby cards and, since I needed to make a baby card, I decided this would be a great week to play along with the Shabby designers.

For color inspiration, I turned again to The Play Date Cafe. This is my second card this week using their colors. I didn't want anything too soft and fluffy, since the baby is a boy, so I thought teal and brown would work great.

I must confess, as I was making this card I forgot that one of the inspiration blogs was The Shabby Tea Room, and so my card isn't "shabby" at all. (And I happen to love shabby.) Oh well... Here it is:

I hope you like it! More importantly, I hope the recipient likes it!

~La

Evolution of a Card

Using colors from The Play Date Cafe and a sketch from Mojo Monday (as usual, on both counts) I made this card and thought it was okay:

After I scanned it I thought it was too plain. So I attached a ribbon around the circular opening using glue dots.

But that, I decided, looked really tacky. So I carefully took the ribbon off. All was well until the very last glue dot. I saw the damage happening but could not stop it.

So I covered it with a couple of flowers.

I don't love it, but it's okay. Still, just okay.

~La

Viva la Verve August 2011 - 1

I am (only slightly) bummed. The inspiration for this card was, once again, Play Date Cafe. Except this is last weeks color challenge. I loved it (as usual) and went straight to work. But after I completed the card we left for a short vacation. I didn't get the card scanned into my computer and so couldn't put it here or enter it into Play Date's weekly contest. Darn it. On the other hand, for the layout I went to Viva la Verve's weekly layout and I have a month to enter cards into that challenge so I will put it there.

I love this card. I will be keeping it for myself. I made one with this same image and a different Bible verse a couple of years ago when I was going through a tough time. The Bible verse jumped out at me at that time and so I made it for myself. Now I think I will have a sort of series of these cards reminding me of how God cares for me through the years.


~La