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

Hot Chocolate Fairy

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 Hot Chocolate Fairy  by Janna Prosvirina which is available from the Sweet Pea Store in both rubber and digi.

 I think this is a bit of a quick post, for some reason I forgot to take pics as I was going along, oh well, guess it happens every now and again lol.  I have made another of my tea bag boxes but this time given it a coffee theme and added sachets of coffee, these boxes are so handy as gifts so I always try to keep one or two handy :) :)

To begin with I used a box template I designed and cut on my Black Cat. Next I coloured the image with Faber Castell Polychromos and mounted both the image and sentiment on dies cut from Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals and regular ovals, lace was added behind the image layer.  Next it was out with the lace, a stash of lace my Mum gave me ages ago after she stopped sewing, how cool to have lace just the perfect colour, navy and milky coffee lol.  I then added some blue and gold ribbon round the top edge.  The image was cut using Spellbinders Ovals and the mount behind is is Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals.  Lace was attached behind the digi mount.  The same theme was used for the sentiment, the only difference was using circles instead of oval.  Both the digi and sentiments mounts have chalked backgrounds to link into the coffee theme.  A few weeks ago I made a daisy card and had designed an cut out mount for it, seeming such a shame to throw the daisy bits that were left I tucked them away for a rainy day.  Yep today is raining so time to use them up lol. The were originally cut using white card so I coloured them with Promarkers and then sprayed them with Glitter Mist for a bit of sparkle.  I finished off the daisy flourishes with some Bisque Liquid Pearls.

Ingredients:-

• Image - Hot Chocolate Fairy  by Janna Prosvirina
• Colouring Medium - Faber Castell Polychromos 
• Dies - box and flowers by me, Spellbinders Scalloped Ovals and Regular Ovals
• From my Stash - lace, Liquid Pearls, ribbon and Shimmer Mist.

I am entering into the following challenges:-

• Catch The Bug w,3E,SIO  Anything Goes
• Crafty Friends Challenge 2W,(W1) - Anything Goes
• Alphabet Challenge - 2W, 1E, JFF - (W2 of 2) - J is for Jewels
• Artbymiran Challenge - 2W , SIO, 3E, no digital projects - No.35 - (W2 of 2) - Anything Goes
• Crafty Catz - W, 3E – #286 - Anything Goes
• Digitally Sweet - M, Digital images/projects - (Does not have to be 100% digital.) - No. 140 - July - Anything Goes
• Jo's Scrap Shack - W, 3E  - No.95 -  Anything Goes
• Just Add Ink – W, - No.269 - Color Challenge*

• Simply Papercraft - 2W, E3 - No. 8 (W1 of 2) - Anything Goes
• The Sisters of Craft (M,P1) Anything Goes
• Crafting with an Attitude - M, 1st Thurs, E3 - #5 Anything Goes 
• Crafty Ribbons - 2W, Include Ribbon (W2 of 2)  #122 Anything Goes
• Penny's Paper-Crafty - W,3E -  #234 Anything Goes
• Whimsy Inspiration -Monthly 3rd Wed posting, 3E, SIO  - #84 Use Ribbon, Lace or Twine
• Die Cuttin' Divas W, must include a Die-cut - #222 Anything Goes
• Doodle Pantry  M,First Tuesday,1E,SIO - must use digital image -  Anything Digital Goes
• Through The Craft Room Door W, 2E - Always Anything Goes

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