You Are Tea-riffic

Hello Scrapping Cottage friends! Thanks for taking the time to stop and visit with us today. It's Mary Marsh here bringing you the Friday edition of the Blog.

We have a brand new release of dies in the online store. It's our Spring Release with 22 new designs. Everything you need to create Spring, Easter, Birthday, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Thinking of you cards and so much more.

The Design Team has been showing samples using these new dies. So if you haven't seen them check back on the blog for lots of great ideas. The dies are currently on sale at 25% off so check all the new designs in the online store for some great selections. The Safari & Circus releases are still available at 25% off as well.

Now onto my card for today. I am featuring the new Spring Tea Party die and I created a Mother's day  card for a tea loving friend. She also collects teacups so I think she will like this one. Let's get started with some details on how I created my card.

Design Steps:

Since I knew what die I wanted to use I just needed the layout that would work with it. I found this one online. I liked the multiple layers and it gives me a chance to use designer paper. 

I looked through my papers to see what would work best. I decided to go with different shades of purple. 

Purple Posy card base: 4 1/4" x 5 1/2"

Designer Paper layer: 4 1/8" x 5 3/8"

Heather Highland rectangle layer: 1 7/8" x 4 1/8"

Gingham Designer Paper Layer: 1 3/4" x 4"

Purple Posy sentiment Layer: 2 1/4" x 3/4"

Grape embossed panel: 4" x 1 1/4"

White Circle Image Panel:  I used the 3rd largest Circle die.

Highland Heather Circle Layering Panel: I used the 3rd largest Stitched Circle die.

 

Now I am ready to cut my images. I used just the fox image from this set. I decided to cut the fox in light and dark gray cardstocks. This color worked better with my designer papers. Forgot to take a photo of the images before I attached them to Circle panel (LOL)!!!

Next, I stamped my sentiment in black ink with the help of my MISTI tool. Just in case I needed to double stamp. Sometimes the clear stamps don't make a good impression on the first stamping. And, for this one I did need to triple stamp to get a good image. 

Now that all my elements are prepared I am ready to start card assembly. I attached all the layers with double sided tape. 

For the image panel, I used dimensional adhesive on the fox. I usually like images lifted off the background slightly for added interest. 

To finish off my card I scattered a few grape rhinestones. And, that's it for me for this week. I hope you all have a blessed Easter celebration. See you next Saturday. 

dies I used to create card: