Fairy Tea Pary

Morning folks, hope you are having a good day :) :)

Today I am sharing an easel card using the image Fairy Tea Party by Helena Reis.
A bit of experimenting going on and a true effort in trying to create a card in keeping with the image. Not sure if I succeeded or not but I did have lots of fun and several cups of tea to rejuvenate the brain cell hahaha.

To begin with, after having coloured the image I then printed an enlarged copy of the digi.  This I then laid on a piece of purple card and traced over the outside edge to make just the tea cup for my easel card.  The image was then coloured with Pan Pastels and cut out.  Then I was stuck, do I add texture, do I add orange dots or what?  With no decision being reached I ended up leaving the cup just coloured in the purples to match the base colour I had coloured the digi image.

Next I printed my sentiment and decided on what die cuts to use and from there it was a case of assembling the sections.  Saying as I am in Saudi I also decided to add an Arabic Yellow Label tea bag for a bit of fun to the inside of the card and create the holding mechanism so the easel card stands correctly lol.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Fairy Tea Party by Helena Reis
• Colouring Mediums - Spectrum Noir Blendable Crayons and Pan Pastels
• Dies - Spellbinders Scalloped and regular Circles,  Tattered Lace Rose Corner, and the background circle die but I can't remember it's name.
• From my stash - Stickles, button, brads

Challenges entered :-

• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W,(W1) - use a sentiment 
• Di's Digis Designs 3E,2W,SIO (W1)include a sentiment 
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, JFF - (W2 of 2) - N is for No Design Papers
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E -  No. 98 - (W2 of 2) - Use a Sentiment
• Crafting-With-Friends - 2W, 3E - (W1 of 2) Anything Goes
• Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 12 (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Sister Act Card Challenge - W, Cards - No. 121  - Always Anything Goes (Cards only)
• Crafty Gals Corner -  W, E2 - #34  Lots of Layers
• Wonderful Wednesdays -  W, SIO -  Always Anything Goes
• Bunny Zoe's Crafts - M, 2nd Monday, 1E - (August) Shaped Cards
• Colouring in Scrapland - M, 1st Monday, E2, No digital colouring - (August) Things with Wings
• Crafty Cardmakers - 2W, C15 - (Week 1) No Patterned Paper + DT Call
• Get Creative Challenges - 2W, 3E - (Week 1) No Printed Papers
• Love to Scrap - 2W, 3E, F, digi or real stamping - (Week 2) Anything Goes
• Melonheadz Friends Challenge - 2W, 2E, SIO - (Week 2) Hand-colored image
• Whoopsi Daisy - M, SIO - (August) Make it Girly

Fairy Tea Party

Sweet Pea Stamps

Today is my day to showcase and image from Sweet Pea Stamps and I have chosen to work with the beautiful image Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

Time to make another of my tea bag holders which I so love giving as gifts :)   I started by cutting all my sections for the tea box holder from a pattern I made.  I then covered the box with some awesome hand made paper a friend brought me back from her holidays, the colours were just perfect for the digi I had coloured earlier.  Before attaching the hand made paper I embossed it with a Spellbinders embossing folder, not a deep embossing as the paper is very soft and did not want to hold the embossing well.

Next I went to town with lots of die cuts.  The image was mounted on turqouise card, the same card the box was made from and also some matt gold card.  I added one of the a Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4pk - Borders to one side and a Spellbinders Les Papillions 2 butterfly. Another of these butterflies was added to the back of the box, and in the centre of each butterfly I add a small turquoise butterfly gem.  For the label I used Spellbinder Ornamental Tag 1 and added another butterfly gem.  For the swirls I added around the box I used Spellbinders Floral Flourishes.  All the die cuts were cut using the same turquoise card I used for the box and the matt gold paper which I glued on one side, this gave me die cuts which matched the box both from the front and the back sides.  A little gold bronzing powder was added to the top rim of the box and there we go, all done.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Fairy Tea Party by Katerina Koukiotis
• Colouring Medium - Faber Castell Polychromos 
• Dies - Sizzix Thinlits Die Set 4pk - Borders, Spellbinders Les Papillions 2, Spellbinder Ornamental Tag 1 and Spellbinders Floral Flourishes
• From my Stash - gems, hand made paper and bronzing powder

I am entering into the following challenges:-

• 2 Creative Chicks (M,P1,JFF)  # 28 Anything Goes (no cards)
• Craft and Smash (M,P1) Say it with a Sentiment
• Crafts Galore Encore (M,P1,E3) Stamp or Digi Anywhere
• Crafty Time  (M, P1, E3) Punches or Dies
• Creatalicious Challenges (M,P15) #77 More than one fold
• Anything But A Card - 3W, no cards - #49 Anything Goes (W3 of 3) 
• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - Fairies
• Glitter n Sparkle - W - #147 Something that starts with a B (BOX, BLUE, BUTTERFLY)
• The Corrosive Challenges - 2W, 3E - #229 To "Die" For (W2 of  2) 
• A Gem of a Challenge 2W (W2)birthday wishes 
• Allsorts W,3E  add a Butterfly
• Hiding in my Craft Room W,1E  Any Holiday
• Brown Sugar – W, E2 - No. 156 - Anything Goes
• Fussy and Fancy - 2W - No.144 - (W1 of 2) - Things with Wings
• Just Add Ink – W, - No.272 - Butterflies
• Mod Squad Challenge - W, F - The Wings the Thing

Thank you for stopping by today and hope you have a happy crafting time ahead of you :) xx