Mother's Day projects

Good morning everyone. As promised here is a closer look at the Mother's Day projects we made on Wednesday. We made a tea caddy and a Mother's Day card.



I used the fantastic Sycamore Street, Sale-A-Bration FREE papers for this class. They have lovely bright colours and for this project I used Tangerine Tango, Summer Starfruit and Island Indigo. Here's a closer look at the tea caddy:



There are a variety of tutorials for the tea caddy on the internet, just do a search and choose one you like. Here's a close up of the lid. We used the Blossom punch and Boho Blossoms punch for the flowers on top:




I used the Wonderful Mother stampset for the sentiments on the Tea Caddy and card. This is a lovely little set and only costs £10.95 for the wood version and £8.95 for the clear set. (Page 26 in the main catalogue) 

Now for the card. It was made using the same products, except we also used the Tea Shoppe stamp set: 

I even decorated the inside of the card, unusual for me, I know:

I hope you like these projects and will have a go yourself. Sale-A-Bration is only till the 22nd March, so if you want some free goodies, don't delay ordering. Remember it's not just the freebies that are on offer. If you buy the starter kit for £99, you actually get to choose £162.50 worth of products during Sale-A-Bration. Who can resist such a great bargain? x

Tea for Two Gift

Our last project from the Tea Shoppe class was a small gift which contains two tea bags - a great present to give to a friend. This is how the outside looks:
 

And this is the inside:
 

The paper is from the Twitterpated Designer papers and I used Blushing Bride for the outside. Here are some close ups of the front panel:

 

 

I used Red Riding Hood ink and a blender pen to colour the flowers and used my Stamp-A-Ma-Jig and the masking technique to stamp several flowers in the cup. A few rhinestones completed the panel. Here's a last look at the inside, with some tea bags in place. 

 

I hope I've shown you how versatile the Tea Shoppe stamp set can be and how it can look both modern and more vintage. This set is in the new 2012-13 catalogue, having previously been in the Summer mini, so let me know if you want your own Tea Shoppe stamps. x 

A Cup of thanks

Hi everyone, this is the second card of  the Tea Shoppe card class. I love this colour combination of  Summer Starfruit, Elegant Eggplant and Baja Breeze. Here is what we made:



I used my Stamp-A-Jig to stack the tea cups and the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack to make some flowers:



We created another tiny 'fork' bow in Baja Breeze seam binding and punched the greeting using the Modern Label punch pack.

 

 The edging was created using the Eyelet Border punch which has unfortunately been discontinued. The background paper is from the Patio Party designer papers. I hope you like this card. The last project is a little gift so check back soon for the details. x 

Stay for Tea

Hi everyone, this is one of the cards we made on Wednesday. It uses the lovely Tea Shoppe stamp set which has now become a real favourite of mine:

 
Each tea cup was stamped in a different colour of pink - Primrose Petals, Raspberry Ripple, and Regal Rose. As you can see these colour all matched beautifully.

 

Each cup square was punched using the 1 3/8" square punch and then mounted on a slightly larger square of the matching colour. We punched some flowers using the Itty Bitty Shapes Punch Pack and made tiny little bows using Rose Red seam binding and a fork. If you want to know how to do this, just google it. It worked like a treat and the bows were sooo cute: 

I hope you like this card. Let me know if you want to buy the stamp set. x