Afternoon Tea Together Time & Last Week of Sale A Bration

A simple Tea Together card for you today featuring the free Sale A Bration Tea Time dies  and the co-ordinating stamp set.... But before I start on the card... 

I can't believe that it is "that time" already ... the time for the call for the last 7 days week of Sale A Bration... You know the one... 

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And so back to the card...

Tea Together Teapot stamped on Watercolor Paper... die cut... and then coloured/striped with Mossy Meadow ink picked up from the ink pad lid with an Aquapainter brush and "swooshed" across

And a bonus tip for you... something that was making people laugh at me at Team Training when I made this! But I still don't think it's daft!!!

I found it impossible to even start to attempt to get those water-coloured stripes straight without assistance... So I lined the stamped & die cut teapot up on my grid paper... got my trusty ruler out and lined it up at the top of the teapot... across the top of the spout/pot and handle... just under the lid... 

I then "swooshed" my first stripe across underneath the ruler (taking care not to touch the ruler as that would have made a real mess!!)... and then I freestyled the rest... suddenly easy that way!

Country Floral embossed Soft Sea Foam panel... on a Mossy Meadow mat... 

Grapefruit Grove Gingham Gala paper strip stamped with Tea Together greeting

Finished off with a Tea Together stamped & die cut flower on Watercolor Paper... Aqua Painter coloured with Grapefruit Grove with a Cajun Craze centre... with Mossy Meadow for the leaves... 

And to finish off the post here are a few product images for you... just click on the product name or image to go straight to the product for more details

The Tea Together stamps...

The Tea Time dies... exclusively available for free during March... with a £90+ order

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Signs of Mrs Santa...

I particularly like Mrs Santa for some reason... so here is a card featuring simply... just the Mrs... 

Dazzling Diamonds glittery snow base to the die cut Stitched Shapes circle... 

Stamped & die cut Mrs Santa coloured in with Stampin Blends... 

Santa Workshop polka dot papers and finished off with the new 1/2" Textured Weave Poppy Parade ribbon

Cute!

Wednesday WOW! Santa Workshop Concertina Card

Always a favourite card format amongst my ladies... the Tag Topper Concertina Card... of which you will find 10 or so variants if you click here (or pop "Tag Topper Concertina" in the search box down the right hand side)... For just about every occasion!

And you will find the step by step tutorial here... as well as a link to Julie Kettlewell's video tutorial too...

A card that has caused a few Ooohs & Aaahs whilst on display... even amongst the non-Santa Workshop-believers! Though as always it is difficult to photo and share on line to the same effect...

It does show off the Santa Workshop papers rather well... and... not a Signs of Santa stamp was harmed in the making of this card!!! 

Though the Santa's Signpost dies came in rather useful... as they are the perfect size to die cut the images on the papers as well as the stamps!! Albeit I would be happy to fussy cut of an evening myself! As is my way!!

And of course our trusty Large Letter dies were invaluable (as always!)

Thank you Julie...again... for such a great card...

Simple for Sunday - Rooted in Nature Gatefold Card

 

Love this large and bold greeting in the Rooted in Nature stamp set... not only does it say what we need to say... but it is big and bold enough that everything around it can be left simple...

So an A6 Gatefold Card... Copper embossed greeting... Crumb Cake stamped tree trunk "slice"on the stamped circle... Grapefruit Grove and Soft Suede leaves on the Nature's Poem papers and around the stamped circle... Soft Suede scalloped circle... finished off with doubled Crumb Cake Natures Twine

Circles all care of the Layering Circles dies... where would we be without these! 

This is a card we made at last month's Monthly Training... so thank you Julie... and click here to see a few other variants using other Nature's Poem  paper patterns on Julie's blog... and the inside (as I forgot to open it up and take a photo of the inside!)

Build A Bike Ride #2

Thought I might as well keep this little card pair together...

So here is the second monthly training card featuring the Bike Ride stamps and co-ordinating Build A Bike dies... along with a Happy Birthday Gorgeous greeting... punched out using the Classic Label Punch...

With a lovely colour combination using 2 new colours from our new colour palette! Balmy Blue & Grapefruit Grove meets Pear Pizzazz ... with a little Basic Black and Crumb Cake...

Along with Grapefruit Grove polka dot paper from the 2018-20 In Color Paper Pack and Pear Pizzazz 3/8" Shimmer Ribbon to finish...

Flowers stamped in Memento Black, coloured in using the Balmy Blue , Pear Pizzazz & Grapefruit Grove marker pens and then die cut...

Lovely little duo Julie... thanks again...

PS Other card with the multicoloured polka dot ribbon shared here yesterday...

Tuesday Tip - Multicoloured Polka Dot Ribbon...

So this is a card we made at our last Monthly Training event... featuring the Bike Ride stamps and co-ordinating Build A Bike dies... along with a Happy Birthday Gorgeous greeting...

Along with a lovely colour combination using 2 new colours from our new colour palette! Balmy Blue & Grapefruit Grove meets Pear Pizzazz ... with a little Basic Black and Crumb Cake...

But I had to wait to get my card home...as I just wanted to try something before I put it all together...

So out came the Balmy Blue & Grapefruit Grove marker pens and the Light Old Olive Stampin Blend marker pen... and 5 minutes later... multi-coloured Polka Dot Tulle ribbon to match!!

And a bonus tip for you... the white would need colouring on both sides if you can see the ribbon from both sides...

Love it when a test works out positive!! And great card design too Julie...

Varied Vases Round Up... and card trio!

First of all apologies to those of you that had Deja Vu on my blog yesterday morning!!! For the first 3 hours I had reposted a card from Wednesday!!! Talk about a distracted moment!!! But by chance - luckily I realised and changed the card at about 10am!!! So you will have 2 posts to view today!!

As I said before... we were very busy at Quarterly Training creating lots of cards with the Varied Vases bundle...so I thought I would wrap up the series today with the last three cards... 

And finally post the Group shot...that I know so many of you love to pin on Pinterest!

So these are the final three... 

Mint Macaron polka dot papers... white polka dot tulle ribbon... Pool Party ink aquapainted in the vases... centre vase and flowers 3D'd... and stamped/filled in flowers in Highland Heather... Card & papers recipe as in this post...

Highland Heather stripy papers... Mint Macaron, Petal Pink & Highland Heather stamped/filled in flowers and stamped & punched vases... Card & papers recipe details as in this post...

Pool Party striped papers & punched vases... stamped/filled in Petal Pink flowers and Soft Sea Foam leaves. Card & papers recipe as in this post...

Varied Vases #5 & colouring ribbon...

Another of the Varied Vases suite of cards... very easy and quick to get creative and makes lots of variants of these...

Spot the coloured Mint Macaron ribbon on this one... easily and quickly done by dragging my White Tulle Polka Dot ribbon between a sponge and ink pad...

Rest of the card details as per this card... though this time we used the Layering Squares scalloped frame as well as the Stitched Shapes stitches square... 

Varied Vases #4 -TWO-lips...

Another day... another clean & simple Varied Vases cards in Subtles for you...

But please come back later for my Fancy Fold Friday Simple Swing Easel card tutorial as promised... which has missed this morning run (long story!!) ... so I had to do a quick switch... so 2 posts for you today...

So back to this card... Standard A6 Tent Fold Card Blank (US A2)... with a 14.3cm x 10.5cm (US 5 1/4" x 4") dotty Petal Pink paper panel... 

Die cut Stitched circle having stamped co-ordinating Petal Pink tulips either side of Highland Heather spray of flowers... 

Water & levels achieved by partially inking up the solid vase filler stamp in Pool Party...

Finished off with the lovely Whisper White Polka Dot Tulle Ribbon...

Click here for the full background and details of what was used...

Speak later...