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

Behold the Lamb

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  Today I am sharing with you my DT creation using the digi Behold the Lamb by Katerina Koukiotis

I am still on my family Christmas card mission and this one is for my Mum :)

I started off by colouring the digi in my Mum's favourite colours, blues and mauves.  Once coloured I fussy cut her (the digi that is, not my Mum hahaha)

 Promarkers used to colour the image

Next I cut some blue stiff paper to form the cascades in my Tri-Fold Cascade card.  I plan to use just blue and gold for the background folds so on one section on each side I used my rolling pin and a snowflake embossing folder.  By doing it this way I can control where the embossing is.

Next I dapped over the top with gold stamping in.

On another section I used gold embossing powder - it look a bit messy here but the end result on the card is what I was after.

I covered the base of the card with the same blue stiff paper that I used for the cascades and then, using adhesive spray overlaid with some semi transparent and gold swirl wrapping a friend gave me which was the wrapping on some flowers she was given.  Yep, my friends are pretty good a passing all their bits of wrapping etc. onto me :)

 I have been playing around using think metal sheets and dies, I love the effect of the metal.  Here I have used gold metal sheet and the Crafty Ann Flourish-5 die.

 Final bit to do before finishing off was the bow.  Using ribbon to match the blues and mauves in the digi colouring and metal wire to hold the bow tight I did not want to waste the ends so wrapped the wire bits around a toothpick to make spirals.

 And here we have the finished card.  I have used gold line stickers around the front edge and a peel off sentiments.  Three gold flowers were also added, they came from another friend who found them attached to a box of chocolates that somebody had brought into work.  A fair bit of recycling going on in this card :) :) :)
Side view

 Front view

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi Behold the Lamb by Katerina Koukiotis available from Sweet Pea Stamps
• Dies - Crafty Ann Flourish-5 die
• Promarkers
• Ribbon, flowers, peel off stickers, material and embossing powder from my stash

Challenges entered

• Sparkles Forum Christmas - M,P1, Christmas  #41 Favourite Colour Combo 
• Hobbybook Designer Challenge - 2W, E3, SIO-  at least 3 flowers
• I love Promarkers - Must use Promarkers - #221  Flowers
• Nutcrafters - 2W, SIR for 1st prize, any image for 2nd Prize, 1E -  #69 Animals/insects
• Crimbo Crackers 2W, Must be Christmas -(W2 of 2) No Designer Paper
• Aud Sentiments Challenge - 2W, E5 (W2 of 2) #107 BINGO See below - 2 WORD SENTIMENT, FLOWERS, BLING OR GLITTER
• A Vintage Journey - 2W (Vintage)- No.7 -  (W1 of 2) - Get Some Texture
• Chocolate, Coffee & Cards - 2W, 3E -  No. 66 - (W1 of 2) - Embossing
• Christmas Stampin' All Year Long - W, E1, Must be Christmas-  No.13 - Anything Goes
• Jingle Belles - 2W - must be Christmas - (W2 of 2) - Peace on Earth
• Winter Wonderland - W, 3E, must be Christmas – No Red or Green
• My Time to Craft - W - #250 No Design Paper
• Come and Get It - W, Unlimited - 2 or More Folds
• Lacy Sunshine - 2W, 3E, SIO, digi available - #34 Dies / Punches (week 2)
• That Craft Place - 2W, 1E - Ribbon / Lace (week 2)
• Craft-Dee BowZ - M, E3, project must have bow - (June) Anything Goes with a Handmade Bow 
• Digi Sketch Challenge - 2W - (Week 2) Sketch* and/or Theme: Use a Stamp

SPS Variation Week - Easter Blessing by Katerina Koukiotis

Sweet Pea Stamps

Hello folks, here I am again with another creation for  Sweet Pea Stamps.  This week is Variation Week and the team are working with the digi Easter Blessing by Katerina Koukiotis.  This image shouted vintage to me and I fancied going with a monochromatic theme too, trying to capture and aged appearance.  Not sure I managed what I was trying to do lol.

I started by printing the digi and colouring with Promarkers,  I then used a brown stamping pad around the edges after I had die cut the digi with Spellbinders Grand Labels 1.

 After spending ages trying to find the right backing paper and not winning I decided to make my own.  First I stamped with the same brown ink I edged the digi cut out with.

 Next I de-bossed the paper with an Embossilicious folder and air brushed with Promarker Walnut to tone the yellow cream paper I had used and bring it more in line with the colours I had used to colour the digi.

The brown base mount was a bit plain so I covered it with copper/bronze angle hair then it was time to hunt out some lace and then ready to assemble.

 The card needed something else and after thinking about flowers etc. I settled for a Marianne die - Branch 2.  I stuck the same copper/bronze angel hair I had used for the base mount and the same card together then cut.  And here we have the finished card.

Thank you for stopping by :)

Ingredients

• Digi Easter Blessing by Katerina KoukiotisChallenges available from Sweet Pea Stamps
• rose rubber stamp but I can't remember the company - it was part of a collection on a large sheet.
• Die - Marianne Design Craftables - Branch2 and Spellbinders Grand Nestabilities Grand Labels 1
• Promarkers
• Clear embossing  powder
• Brown stamping ink

Challenges Entered:-

• The Squirrel & The Fox - 2W, 2E - #67 All Creatures Great and Small (week 2)
• Fairytale Stampers - 3W, E1, must use stamp / digi stamp - #37 BINGO (week 1) ** LACE, DIE, FLOWERS
• A Gem of a Challenge - 2W - #117 (W 1of 2) Spring is in the air
• Crafty Calendar - M, 1E -  Things with Wings
• Crafty Catz - W, 1E – No.226 - Animals
• Digi Haven – 2W, 3E, must use a digi – (W2 of 2) - Easter with colour Brown
• It's All About the Vintage - 2W, 3E, must be vintage (W1 of 2) Shabby Chic
• Miriam's Crafting Blog Monthly Challenge - M, 1st Wed., E4 - Texture
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