Inspired By... a Vintage Teacup

Happy Friday and Happy Valentine's Day!

For this week's inspirational photo challenge, I browsed Pinterest (one of my favourite places to look for inspiration) and found the perfect photo!

 

IB #35

 

I thought this was something quite unique. I like the vintage feel to this photo and decided to incorporate that into my card design. I also pulled some of the colours from the photo, including Pistachio Pudding, Sahara Sand, Raspberry Ripple and Crisp Cantaloupe.

Deconstructed Sketch had another great sketch this past week and so I decided to play along with their challenge as well.

Here's how it all came together:

 

A card with lots of layers! I love how the colours combined so well together! The swirls on the designer paper really add to the vintage style in this card. The tea cup from Tea Shoppe stamp set is probably one of my favourite stamps. It can be used for so many different occasions! One of the things I love to do with this image is to pop up the flowers on the tea cup to add some dimension. I also added pearls to embellish them. I decided to not put a sentiment on this card, so that it can be used for any occasion.

 

 



Thanks for stopping by! Hope you all enjoy this Valentine's Day. Tonight is date night with my hubby :) I will share the special card I made for him tonight!

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Tea Shoppe
Paper: Pistachio Pudding, Crisp Cantaloupe, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla Raspberry Ripple, Print Poetry DSP
Ink: Raspberry Ripple, Crisp Cantaloupe
Tools: Distress tool, Circles nestabilities, Bird Builder punch
Accessories: Pearls (Michael's)

New KCRR Challenge #22

After a nice long break, we are back with a new KCRR challenge!

We have randomly chosen three items for today's challenge:

Jewelry Tag Punch
Fun-Folded Card

Pretty in Pink

 

This definitely got my creative juices flowing! I wanted to try a new card fold, so after some pinterest browsing, I came across a fun one -- the Double Pocket card. Click here for simple instructions by Patty Bennett. The nice thing about this card fold is that it's a great way to use up designer paper (you can use cardstock for the base as well).

I looked through my stock of DSP for Pretty in Pink and chose a piece from one of my favourite DSP collections - Tea for Two. I then chose the coordinating stamp set - Tea Shoppe and the card came together so nicely!
 

 

As you can see there are two pockets on the front of the card. These can be used to slide tags or gift cards into. In my case I chose one pocket for a tag and slid a tea bag into the other to go with the theme of the card.
 



 

Here you can see the tag. I simply stamped the tea cups in different coloured ink, fussy cut them and stacked them on top of each other. The edges of the tag are sponged with Soft Suede ink.

The large tea cup on the front of the card is stamped in Island Indigo. I have popped up the flowers to give the card some dimension. A tiny tag hangs from the handle of the teacup. Crochet ribbon and pearls embellish the card. 

 



The inside of the card is lined with Pretty in Pink cardstock and I also added a piece of Very Vanilla cardstock cut into a large framelit shape for a space to write a personal message.
 

 

I absolutely love this card fold! It's so easy to make and has a great result! The pockets are so fun! I can't wait to make more of these!

 

Thanks for stopping by! Make sure to hop on over to Karly's Creations to see her take on this challenge.

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Tea Shoppe, Tiny Tags

Paper: Tea for Two, Lucky Limeade, Pretty in Pink, Very Vanilla

Ink: Island Indigo, Soft Suede, Old Olive, Calypso Coral

Tools: Framelits Labels Collection, Scallop Tag Die, Jewelry Tag Punch

Accessories: Island Indigo bakers twine, Victoria Crochet ribbon, Island Indigo satin ribbon, Pearls (Michael's), Tea Bag (Tim Hortons) 



RS#66 {A Cup of Thanks}

It has been a relaxing and very productive weekend! I had a great time chatting with my younger sister on Skype Friday night. I miss her! It was nice to catch up and 'hang out' like old times. Saturday was spent cleaning our 4Runner, doing laundry, and packing for our road trip (we leave this Friday - yay!). Sunday, after an enjoyable walk, I spent most of the day papercrafting.

And to top it off, a couple of my cards were chosen as honorable mentions last week:

 



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For today's card, I'm playing along with a new RetroSketches challenge.

I like the simplicity of this sketch! I rotated it to make it fit my design. The chevron shapes reminded me of the Tea for Two DSP. I cut the chevrons out of the designer paper and chose cardstock to match it. The edges of the Lucky Limeade piece are distressed and a little detail is added to the Very Vanilla cardstock using paper piercing. The tea cups are stamped, cut out, and stacked on top of each other.

 

 

Thanks for visiting! Feel free to leave a comment :)

 

Tomorrow we have a new KCRR challenge! (it has been moved up a couple days this week and it will also be our last one for a few weeks as I leave for our road trip this weekend!)

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Tea Shoppe

Paper: So Saffron, Lucky Limeade, Very Vanilla, Tea for Two DSP

Ink: Basic Gray, Bashful Blue, So Saffron

Tools: Distress Tool, Paper Piercing Tool

Inspired By... A Tea Cozy!

It's Friday! And that much closer to the long weekend! This weekend will be a catch-up weekend for me. First and foremost, I have plans to get caught up on Grey's Anatomy (I can't believe how far behind I am!), then I hope to finalize our trip plans (it's coming up in just 3 weeks!), and possibly start scrapbooking again. Monday we hope to check out Barkerville for the day, depending on the weather. Barkerville was the main town of the Cariboo Gold Rush in British Columbia and is preserved as a historic town. It will be neat to see all the exhibits and learn about the history of the gold rush.

Yesterday, I found out that I am a 'Mashup Glamette' at the The Friday Mashup! To see my original post, click here.

Now onto today's challenge:

It was my pick this week and I chose a photo of a knitted tea cozy. What a neat idea! I'm a tea drinker and i think this would be a handy thing to have! It was made by a Canadian crafter from Alberta. Check out her shop on Etsy!

The colours in this photo caught my eye. I decided to use Gumball Green and Summer Starfruit for my colour combo (with some added neutrals). I used the Mojo Monday sketch this week as a guide.

The layers in this sketch are great!  I used the appropriate stamp set, Tea Shoppe, snipping out the stamped tea cup and popping it up to give the card some dimension. I stamped the tea cup a second time on a separate piece of Whisper White cardstock, snipped out the flowers and popped them up on the tea cup. I love the 3-dimensional look!

 

 

The flagged banners on the one side of the card are created using a 1" square punch. I saw this idea on another blog as I was browsing one day (unfortunatley, I can no longer remember where I found it...), and I thought it was brilliant! Simply punch out a 1" square from cardstock or designer paper, cut the square piece in half and flag the ends. How clever is that? To embellish the card I added small pearls to the flowers and underneath the sentiment, as well as a large brass button with bakers twine.

Thanks for stopping by!

Card Ingredients:
Stamps: Tea Shoppe, Petite Pairs
Paper: Soft Suede, Whisper White, Crumb Cake, Print Poetry DSP
Ink: Gumball Green, Soft Suede
Tools: 1" Square punch, Circles nestabilities
Accessories: Pearls (Michael's), Brass Button, Bakers Twine (CTMH)

KCRR #4 {Faux Patina Technique}

Happy Friday!

One more work day and it's the long weekend for all of us in BC! We get our first ever Family Day on Monday, Feb 11th. For some reason, our Family Day is different than the rest of Canada... But, all the same, I am ecstatic to have an extra stat holiday!

It's time for another card challenge brought to you by:

Here are the two items we randomly chose from our long list of card ingredients:

Faux Patina Technique

Pool Party

 

I was quite excited when these two items were chosen! I love incorporating different techniques in my cardmaking. I have only done the Faux Patina technique once in a card class and haven't tried it since. I just love this technique and hope to try it more often! Here is my card:

 

KCRR #4

 

Faux Patina makes a card look so elegant! I decided to use the Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder for the background. I used Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Always Artichoke and Early Espresso to sponge the embossed cardstock. The lighter inks are sponged first and the darker inks accentuate the embossed pattern. I sprayed champagne mist over the whole background to give it a velvety shimmer.

 

 

Tea Shoppe is one of those stamp sets that I love but don't use enough! It fits so well with the elegance of this card. I popped it up on a framelit label and added pearls to embellish it.

 

Hop on over to Karly's Creations to see what she has created for today's KCRR challenge!

 

Card Ingredients:

Stamps: Tea Shoppe
Paper: Early Espresso, Whisper White, Pool Party DSP

Ink: Crumb Cake, Pool Party, Always Artichoke, Early Espresso, Champagne Mist Paint

Tools: Labels Collection Framelits die, Word Window Punch, Vintage Wallpaper embossing folder

Accessories: Pearls (Michael's)

 

Thanks for visiting! Come back tomorrow for a new "Inspired By..." challenge!









Mojo279: {Tea for Two: Me & You}

A couple days ago was Groundhog Day and Punxsutawny Phil and he made his prediction. He expects an early spring! While the legend of the groundhog may be somewhat hoaky, it gives me hope that spring is on it's way!  It's been quite mild in Prince George lately. Snow is melting, it's raining instead of snowing, and signs of spring are in the air. I know I am probably speaking way too soon, but part of me is getting really excited for a new season. As you can probably tell, I'm not a huge fan of winter. Even though the snow can be quite pretty, by the end of February I'm ready for it to melt and for the spring flowers to bloom:)

The card I created for Mojo Monday this week has a little touch of spring in it. This sketch has a great layout. At first I wasn't too sure what to do with it... what stamp set to use, what type of occasion, what colours... But, after a lot of brainstorming and sketching my ideas out on paper, I knew exactly how I was going to design my card. Here is the sketch:

I love the layers in this layout. It gives lots of opportunity to use coordinating designer paper. I pulled out a designer paper collection that I haven't had a chance to use much: Tea for Two. And the stamp set that I thought of right away was Tea Shoppe. Both have the "tea" theme - perfect! With lots of playing around with paper and embellishments to see what coordinates best together, this is what I came up with:

I love how it turned out! This has easily become one of my favourite cards! After layering the designer paper, I embossed and cut out the oval frame and layered it on the apothecary accent stamped image. The sentiment is stamped in Early Espresso, the edges are sponged and the oval is popped up within the embossed frame. I added small roses and leaves to embellish the sentiment. Small pearls are placed in the right corner to complete the card.

 

 

 

Card Ingredients:

 

Stamps: Tea Shoppe, Everything Eleanor

Paper: Old Olive, Very Vanilla, Lucky Limeade, Tea for Two DSP, Early Espresso DSP

Ink: Early Espresso

Tools: Extra-Large Oval punch, Little Leaves sizzlit, Oval Frame Embossing Folder

Accessories: Rose ribbon, pearls (Michael's)

 

Thanks for visiting!