Shabby Tea Room Week #123 Sew Crafty

Hello Friends!!

Welcome to another fun week in the Shabby Tea Room.  It is week #123 "Sew Crafty" and we ask that you use the photo below for color inspiration, and add buttons, twine/ribbon and stitching.

I stopped by my Best Friend Ginny's Scrapbook store in Downtown Dexter Michigan and picked up some of my favorite Cosmo Cricket paper, and a Picture frame chipboard book.  I used the blues, greens, yellow, magenta, pink ...lets just say a lot of colors from the inspiration photo.  Here is my creation below.  I will have to say that I LOVE it!!

I specifically chose this paper for the colors, and the fact that it looks like stitching (even though it is an old school paper pad pattern).  I used some of my antique buttons, and created them into flowers.  I did some hand stitching to the right and the left of the front cover.  The ivory mulberry roses, may arts ivory leaf trim, ivory ruffle ribbon, pink heart  and Ivory drop pearl trim and the pink flatback pearls all are from Pro 31 Designs.

The tiny pink roses are from my stash.  I distressed all my edges with a craft knife, then inked with Ranger's Peeled paint.  I made the slit in the front, and curled back the edges so that when I added the tag, it could have embellishments to fill the space.  Yummy!!  I have not done any hand stitching, but this button hole stitch is one of my favorites!

I put the ivory drop bead trim on first.  Then I glued on the ruffle trim, and topped with the pink heart pearl trim.  I then glued down each heart, otherwise they were tending to stick straight out, instead of laying flat.

Awww....Look at these gorgeous little girls!!  These beauties are from this month's set of Gecko Galz Ephemera called "Monday's Child".  They can slide out the top, so they can be replaced with real photos.  I used Ranger's distress stains in white, to cover all the edges and parts of the chipboard that would show.  I got this from my Best Friend's store: Polly's Paper Studio.  The lovely pink and cream vintage seam binding came from Debbie's (she runs the tea room) Etsy store.  

The base of these tags are ones I made back in my silhouette sd days.  I made them as journal tags on one side, and the other can hold a photo.  You will notice the embellishments are slightly different, because I put them on there to fit the front and cover specifically.  YUMMY!!  I colored the edges with my copics and a pink color a LONG time ago...LOL.  Here is the reverse side below.  I pulled the raspberry color from the ribbon wheels in the photo.

I of course embellished both the front and the back of my tags :0)  Last but not least, here is the back of my little photo frame album.  I used a one of my nestabilities dies.  I stitched on the back as well.  I think it turned out just darling! 

 Thank you Ginny for the paper and the photo frame book!!

I can't wait to see what you create for our Tea Room Challenge!! 

I will be sharing this with

Make it Monday

I will be playing along with these challenges

Simon says stamp and show:  Anything goes

Thank you for visiting!!

Hugs!!
Heather


Feel free to see my video of this on Youtube!