A Fun Invitation...

I'm happy and honored to have been invited to be a Guest Designer at The Shabby Tea Room for the month of October.  I love the challenges at Debbie's site, and especially love the inspiration that the talented design team provides every week, so it was a special pleasure to receive this invitation!

This week, Rebekah is the challenge host, and has given us both an inspiration photo for the colors and theme ...

AND a sketch, for design, to work with ...

And guess what? You can actually see the elements of the sketch in my card...I'm getting better at this! :)  Here's my card for this challenge...the largest piece of "background paper" on the front is a piece of white burlap - one of my favorite autumn textures...

The base of the floral cluster is a bright orange shabby fabric rose, topped with a twine loop trim glued into a circle, some punched branches, a paper rose, and a few loops of pearl "ribbon" ...

I often cut apart my sentiment stamps so I can rearrange the spacing of the words to use them on different shapes, tags, etc.  That's what I did with this Paper Sweeties sentiment stamp to fit the part I wanted to use onto the oval tag...

Supplies:

Patterned papers: Basic Grey Basics White; Basic Grey Max & Whiskers (gold dot)       Sentiment: Paper Sweeties

White burlap & scalloped white lace: TheFunkieJunkie.com      Fabric flower & burlap trim: Frogfeathers on Etsy

Loose pearls: Queen & Co.      Paper rose: Prima      Martha Stewart Medium Branch punch

Miscellaneous craft store supplies: glittered fabric leaf, seed stem, pearl trim, eyelash fiber, black lace, gold ric-rac

Thanks for visiting today...I hope your week is starting with a smile!