Tea Party

 International Art & Soul, a challenge which has been put together to incorporate any type of craft, paper, wood, flowers, recycling, glass - the world is your oyster :).  Come on over an join us with you artwork :)

Challenge #89
Tea Party

This fortnights challenge 'Tea Party' has been chosen by Hazel. Oh Hazel, you certainly got my brain cell working with this one ROFL.

I used a die cutting file by My Scrap Chick called Stacked Teacups for this card.  It is a file I have had for such a long time and never used but fitted this challenge perfectly.  Now I normally plan my cards before hand but for this one I went ahead and sorted the die cutting, had great fun using Distress Inks and gold stamping to make the tea cups and assembling it but then - brain freeze, I had no idea where to go next.  In the end it was more Distress inking and stencilling for the background, stamping some lace and creating the tag sentiment and once again everything fell to bits, it looked like rubbish :(.  More playing around and at the back of my mind knowing it would be at this point I would not know when to stop adding things, what I was trying was not working, but give up is not in my vocab so a cup of tea instead and walk away for a while.  Finally I raked out some gold trim I had lying around, added a bit more gold pen and a white doily.  The card seemed more balanced so no more to be done, quick take a picture so I would stop playing with it and hope when I next looked at it I would not be throwing it in the bin ROFL.  All that being said, I did have lots of fun and got nice and inky which always makes me happy.

I am entering this card in the following challenges : =

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Oh Seriously!!!!!!

IKEsWORLD

Challenge 89
Anything Goes with an optional TWIST .... Happy 
(make someone smile)

Welcome back to the IKEsWORLD challenges :)  do pop on over to IKEsWORLD to join in the challenge, it is always so much fun and  Ike produces the most amazing stamps, everything from off the wall to cute and fluffy :) :) :)

What a surprise one day when I found Ike had messaged me with a cracking new image - 'Oh Seriously'.  Ike knows I am reliving my childhood at the moment and a dream of owning my own horse, his name is Jay.  I am also teaching wee kids to ride at our local stables so early mornings, smell of horse muck, hay etc. are all part of my daily life along with my quiet time of crafting.  The expression on the Oh Seriously horse totally cracked me up lol.  We have one lovely big 16.2 hand horse called Storm, he is a clever boy, quick to learn and so very obliging.  One day, when we were getting all the horses ready for the stables to open after the Summer break (I am in Saudi and during the Summer when temperatures are in the mid to high 40 degrees we close as it is unsafe to ride the horses in high heat). we put a lead rein on Storm to see how he would react if we used him with adult new learner riders.  His face was exactly like the Oh Seriously horse, he was so peeved and would not do anything, take the lead rein off and he behaved like the perfect gentleman he really is again.  Thank you Ike for this truly awesome image.

I finished off my card with a border I made using another of Ike's images, Laughing Horse, both this and and background of the main image were coloured with Pan Pastels to match in with the backing paper.

Ingredients:-

• image - Oh Really and Laughing Horse by IKEsART
• colouring medium - Polychromos and Pan Pastels
• bow

I am entering this project into the following challenges:-

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