Tea Cup Cards

Welcome, and thank you for visiting again.  

I have not had much time to paper craft recently as I have been sewing a very special project, so looked up these two older projects to share tonight.

The main image is from the Layers of Color stamp set Tea Cup Blessings. It was stamped in black ink and coloured with chalks, and the sentiments added as I wanted them - there are several variations available.

The image was fussy cut and mounted over a half doily cut using The French Pastry doily die by Cheery Lynn.

This was mounted over the background, which was part of a sheet of dp from the Prima 6x6 stack Fairy Flora, over the green card stock, run through the textile texture embossing folder by Provo Craft.

The  final touches were the pink bow and two strips of pink ribbon across the base of the card.

The second card uses the same stamp set and doily die, and is mounted over some dp from 'way back' and some wallpaper that I have rubbed a pink ink pad over.

This time the image was embossed before colouring, and the card finished with some stitched pink ribbon and Kaiser craft pearls in Plum and hot pink.

I am linking this to:

Sweet Stampin' - Anything Goes( Card 1)

Wee Memories Challenge #74 - Brads, buttons or bows (card 1)
Birthday Sundaes Challenge #33 - Happy Birthday - Card 1
Come and Get it Challenge - Anything Goes (card 2)

Dream Valley Challenges Challenge #19 - Anything Goes( Card 2)
Pile it On Challenge #44 - Keep Warm - tea warms you :-) Card 2
The Crafty Pad Challenge #145 - Friendship Card 2
The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge #4 - Hats or Flowers Card 2

Thanks for calling by - may your day be blessed.

Black and Silver

Greetings again - it is always great to know you have visited.

I needed to make a quick card the other day to go with a gift that was very late in being posted!!  The gift was packaged in a wee black box, which I had tied a silver/white ribbon around, which is what inspired the colour choice for the card.

The base is black - from my stash of card-stock that I bought from a local printer. I found I had only a sliver of silver shim left, so halved it to create a border for the white pearlised card, which I embossed with the Textile Texture folder by Cuttlebug.

This photo gives some idea of the sheen on the card.

The Dragonfly is a digi stamp from Priscillastyles Store - I love it, and enjoy just how versatile digi's can be.  It was printed it twice and just the wings  layered to give added dimension after painting it with iridescent blue Twinkling H2O paint

Don't you just love the detail on these wings!!

The card was finished with the sentiment silver embossed and the clear rhinestones added.  I must confess that after all the photographs were taken, I added three tiny rhinestones to the body of the dragonfly.

I am very happy with this result - I never thought even a couple of years ago that I would ever make a black card, but things change!!

I have used this layout on several cards recently and love how versatile it is.

I am linking this too :

Frosted Designs - Fabulous Friday Challenge - Use Bling

Fairy Knoll Challenge #44 - Whatever

Simply Create Challenge #40 - Do it yourself

Pixie Dust Studio Challenge #68 - Fluttering Wings

Digis with Attitude Challenge #20 - Anything Goes

Polka Doodles Week 13 - No printed backing papers

Stamp Something - Use something digital - the image

Tellens Place - Embossing

Thanks for calling.  May your day be blessed!!