Bath with Champagne... Sunken Bench Fold Card!!

Can't believe I didn't share this card with you ages ago....  This is the alternative card I came up with for Karen's 50th birthday as another of our friends, Andrea had already made the Red Aga (Kitchen Range!) card for her.... click here for that card and the back story...

So I have more to tell you about Karen today.... not only is she a master baker... but she is rather partial to a glass of Champagne (or Prosecco when needs must!)

Hence the add of the champagne flute to both the Aga and the Bath card....

And yes this card does "sink down" so you get the bottom of the bath at the bottom of the card.... fun!

And then I had so much fun.... and went a bit mad... care of images I came upon on the Internet... a true one off in decoration!

As Karen likes a spot of Limoncello with her Prosecco...

But her first love from the bar is actually Bacardi and Coke!!

And she loves here Jo Malone... so on it all went... too much fun on my part....

Needless to say Karen loved her bespoke card... and the Bath Card and the Red Aga Card took pride of place at Karen's 50th Birthday party... though I am not sure all the other party goers understood the excitement over them!! But they did all learn a bit more about Karen!!! LOL...

I haven't completed the tutorial for the details of this version yet... but the tutorial for the Bench Fold Card Series ONE set of Aga, BBQ and Tool Bench can be yours by clicking here... it is the same card/fold...

Stamps used are Mixed Drinks for the glasses and Milestone Moments... Tap & shower spray care of the Adirondack Chair in the Seasonal Layers dies... unfortunately no close up photo taken at the time...

And yes it does all fold flat to fit in an envelope...

Mixed Drinks In the Bar... Cheers! Bench Fold Card #4

A simpler dressing of the Tool Bench card that I shared here

Click HERE to go and order the tutorial (s)... !

Back to today's card.... suitable for the man in your life that is "drinki-dextrous" and likes a pint (or two) of beer and is rather partial to Champagne (or Prosecco) too... or for a couple of friends that you just like a drink with!

This was a quick make with a re-made Tool Bench card for the Tutorial photos.... I am sure you will see an alternative (prettier and more dressed) version at some point....

Things to spot....

(1) Reversed pint of beer to the left...

I just grabbed a larger-than-the-glass photopolymer stamp... and placed it upside down in front of me (so looking at the flat back of the stamp)...

I inked up the glass stamp using Memento Black (Archival Black didn't work interestingly! and don't use Staz On...) and stamped on the reverse of the larger upside-down stamp and then quickly stamped the "flat back stamp" onto my white card...Eureka!

I did however then have to re-stamp my right hand beer glass in Basic Grey... as there was too much difference compared to the originally stamped Memento Black version....

(2) The previous workbench top has become a table.... just sticking my panels in a different order... front sides then top in this case...

(3) Bubbles coming out of the Champagne flutes... again care of the Playful Backgrounds stamp set that I didn't know what to do with originally... I have to thank the very talented Shannon Lane in Canada for this clever idea... pop over to see her gorgeous card using this concept and the Mixed Drinks set...

(4) Champagne is stamped with Gold Wink of Stella (sadly not available in Europe anymore!).... I brushed the Gold WOS onto the stamp and stamped....

(5) The Gold WOS was also used over the beer to make it all shimmer... and then the Clear Wink of Stella over the glass areas of the 4 glasses...

So Cheers! And remember that the step by step Tutorial(s) are now available here for these Bench Fold Cards... with the full lowdown on how to make the Kitchen Range (AGA), BBQ and Tool Bench designs...

Stampin Up! Products Used

Stamps - Mixed Drinks, Hardwood, Big on Birthdays, Playful Backgrounds

Papers - Urban Underground (not available)

Card - Crumb Cake, Thin Whisper White

Inks - Memento Black, Delightful Dijon 

Other - Gold Wink of Stella (not available), Clear Wink of Stella

Cheers ... and a bottle of Gin!

At our last Quarterly Training we were given a Make & Share the Tag Business Challenge! 

We had been asked to bring our favourite New Annual Catalogue stamp set... so I had my brand New Mixed Drinks on hand... 

So though I didn't think they were quite appropriate for the challenge... ie to make and then give out to people to showcase/introduce what we do... I made these 10 tags anyways...  and thought I would share them in any case!

I couldn't even find a bottle of champagne or prosecco for photographic display purposes either... but hey a lovely bottle of Martin Miller's English Icelandic gin does the job for me!!! Definitely a great gin to try!! And reduced in Morrisons yesterday!!! Just sayin!

And now I need to make some more appropriate tags!

Want to see some more makes using the Mixed Drinks set... here you go... these 2 lovely creations being from the Stampin' Up ! web site.... 

Though these do remind me of my recent holiday!!! We were very lucky to have the Parasol cocktail bar about 10 minutes walk away that was reportedly one of the Top 10 in Europe!! 

Photo Courtesy of Parasol Beach Bar

Though subsequently I believe this to be (more accurately) one of the 10 Coolest Bars in Lesbos! Either way... they made a great cocktail, quirky and fun place to be -  and the sunset view was fabulous...