It's a Mocha Morning!

Good morning my lovely blogging friends, I hope you're having a good week.  Today's card combines the delicious colours of Crumb Cake and Early Espresso from Dynamic Duos and the sketch from Simply Stampin'... mmm... it's making me hungry already... and that's before I add Mocha Morning paper into the mix...

The image is from the lovely Tea Shoppe set and it looks great stamped in Early Espresso - it really picks out the detail of the cup.  I wanted to die cut the tea cup in a circle shape so I did some clever jiggery pokery to work part of the cup handle out of the die.  It's the first time I've done this and I was surprised at how easy it is.  Mocha Morning, a lovely set of papers in neutral tones, was made for these challenges so I was keen to wangle it in there.

Supplies

Stamps: Tea Shoppe

Ink: Early Espresso

Card: textured Crumb Cake, Early Espresso, Whisper White

Paper: Mocha Morning Speciality Designer Series Paper

Other: Victoria crochet trim, border punch (non-SU), circle die and BigShot

The lovely thing (ok, one of the lovely things) about cats is that they know they are superior to us lowly humans, and they never miss an opportunity to prove it:

 Thanks so much for visiting my blog today - have a lovely day!

Feeling Blue?

Well, you should play along with Make My Monday this week as Mynnette's final colour wheel challenge is to use three analogous colours, or light blue, turquoise and dark blue to be more precise.  I decided this would be the perfect chance to try and make a rosette with my scoring board.

I made the rosette in the cheat's way: scoring across the diameter of a die cut scalloped circle, snipping to the centre and then concertina folding before sticking to another folded in exactly the same way.  I layered up circles using the greeting from Happiest Birthday Wishes.  Now, has anyone noticed the problem?  Yes, Eagle Eyes.... two shades of blue and not a hint of turquoise to be seen.  Grr...

So then I made this rather quickly before dinner:

It uses one of the three small teacups from Tea Shoppe, twinned with some (turquoise) baker's twine and polka dots embossing.

Hope today's cat makes you smile as much as it did me:

Thanks for stopping by! An especially big wave to my new followers... where have you all come from?  I'm suddenly all popular!

Addicted to Stamps First Challenge!

Today is exciting!  It sees the launch of a brand new challenge blog called Addicted to Stamps, and in a nutshell, it is all the challenges I like best!  I'm delighted to be on the Design Team and we're kicking off with 'make your mark'.  Quite simply, all you have to do is create a project in which you use your markers, be they SU, Copics, ProMarkers, whatever.  You might be colouring in an image or colouring in stamps directly.  We would love to see your work!

Here's the card that I have made for our first challenge:

I decided to do a spot of colouring, mainly because I don't do a lot of it, so I picked out the colours that are on the Twitterpated Designer Series Paper I used.  I love that SU takes so much time to make sure that their products coordinate perfectly!  The base is made from Baja Breeze, while the stamped images are on Whisper White.  I coloured them in partly by picking up the ink with my blender pen and partly by direct-to-page colouring.  As always, I used my stamp-a-ma-jig to position the sentiment where I wanted it before stamping.  I have no idea how I used to manage without this little tool.  There were certainly a few more binned card efforts!  Some pearls finish off the card.

Supplies
Stamps: Bordering on Romance, Tea Shoppe (sentiment)
Ink: Basic Black, marker pens in Baja Breeze, Certainly Celery, Old Olive, Blushing Bride, Regal Rose
Card: Baja Breeze, Whisper White
Paper: Twitterpated Designer Series Patterned Paper
Other: blender pen, stamp-a-ma-jig, pearls, Simply Scored board


As always, if any of these supplies have caught your eye, please do not hesitate to get in touch by phone on 07977 141605 or email.  I will be delighted to assist you with your crafty makes and place a SU order for you.


What's even more exciting about this is that we're also going to have a monthly challenge purely for scrapbooking layouts, which will run alongside our weekly card challenges.  So in a few minutes, another scheduled post will pop up from me with this month's layout.  Do come and have a look even if you are not a scrapbooker - most of the DT aren't avid scrapbookers but we thought it would be a brilliant opportunity to share our journey with you (and on a personal note, it's going to encourage me to scrapbook more regularly!)


Thanks so much for visiting and can't wait to see your entry!  See you in a minute!

Monochrome Tea Shoppe

I was just about to tidy my desk and get on with some chores after yesterday's dotty card, when the phone rang and a friend asked me to make a birthday card somewhat urgently.  So I dutifully stayed at my desk and crafted rather than go and clean... aren't I a good friend?!

The card is a monochrome creation making it perfect for the 'One colour, you say?' challenge at Card Crafter's Circle and the lovely sentiment makes it work well for Tuesday Throwdown's 'Friendship' challenge too.

Unusually, I have gone all blue (if you're a regular here, you'll know I'm a hot colours kind of gal)... but *whispers* I actually rather like it.  So here we go:

We can't have a card made with Tea Shoppe stamps without sending a teabag too, can we?  The little teabag envelope was made by printing off a free template from the internet and decorating simply.  Easy.  Here's the card by itself:

Tea Shoppe means doilies in my mind so I used this gorgeous square doily sent to me by the lovely Clare.   What a kind friend!  The little tea cups (without saucers.... shocking!) have been cut out individually, mounted onto Island Indigo card and made into a square.  I added the odd pearl as well, just because.

I finished off the card with a bow in Whisper White satin ribbon and an antique brad.  I was positively squealing with excitement when these babies arrived.  Just look at the gorgeousness!  And only £5.50 for 20 (4 each of 5 designs)... bargain!

Supplies

Stamps: Tea Shoppe

Ink: Island Indigo

Card: Whisper White, Island Indigo

Other: square doily (non SU), antique brad, Whisper White 5/8" satin ribbon, pearls, dimensionals

And just in case you're really worried about me posting at 6am on a Saturday morning, this post is scheduled!

Thanks ever so much for stopping by and a big wave to my new followers Di from Pixie's Crafty Workshop (where they are most impish!) and Annie Anya from Memories to Keep (I think she likes purple!) .  Happy Saturday!