You're my cup of tea

We interrupt our normal programming (please drop in and see my other posts this week celebrating my 1000th blog post - there are giveaways and everything! Click HERE and then scroll down) to bring you a cute little card to play along with a few challenges.

I used the Avery Elle set, "Tea Time", plus the "Ring Cluster" stencil from Simon Says Stamp. Some Distress Ink sponging, some Copic Colouring, a doily and some enamel dots, and a little bow of twine on the left as a finishing touch. 

 I'll be sharing this at CAS(E) this sketch #135, Virginia's View "All things embellished", and at Simon Says Stamp's Wednesday challenge "tie it up".

Thanks for visiting :)

CASE study DT search

The fabulous challenge blog, CASE study, run by the awesome Iwona Palamountain, is having a design team call.  The idea is to pick a papercrafter who inspires you and CASE one of their cards.

I have chosen Joy Taylor as my muse for this card - I just adore her clean and simple style.  I also got to spend a little bit of time with her at a recent crafty retreat, and she is just the best. 

Anyway, here's my card - I took some of the ideas from Joy's card (which I've added below, with her permission), but also added some other touches that Joy uses sometimes in her designs (like embossing paste, and twine).

 Here's Joy's card - you can check out her original post HERE:

I love the white on white on this card, and the single colour used.  On my card, I used embossing paste over the Hero Arts "Large Lotus Pattern" stencil, as well as a white doily, to provide white on white texture.  I decided to colour my vellum "Clustered Leaves" die cut (from Simon Says Stamp) to add a pop of colour - I coloured it with a Faber Castell gelato (Margarita Mix) mixed with lots of water, then painted the colour on - this coloured the vellum, and also made it curl up, which means the leaves provide a bit more texture to the card.  I originally thought of punching the sentiment panel out of coloured cardstock, but, after trying a couple of different colours, I preferred the simplicity of the white.

Thanks, Joy - mmmwaah!!

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