Monday, January 5, 2009

Time for Tea

This is for today's Technique Challenge at Splitcoast Stampers. We were challenged to design with red sticky tape and glitter! I chose to make glittery butterflies rather than a background.

I began with a new image from Impression Obsession-- Simple Pleasures. The teacup image comes with a beautiful verse, which I stamped inside the card reading, "May you enjoy the Simple Pleasures of life." I stamped the verse and image with Memento Tuxedo Black. I then colored the teacup with Copic markers Y21, Y000, B00, BG45, and YG11. I cut out the cup, then mounted it with dimensional tape onto a panel that I had stamped with retired SU's Victorian Lace. That panel was then adhered to SU's Cool Caribbean cardstock, and then dimensionally taped to a SU Certainly Celery cardbase.

My butterflies were made by adhering wide red sticky tape (double sided stick) to paper, then glittering the tape. I then punched out the butterflies with a Martha Stewart punch. I used glue dots to adhere them to the image panel.

I finished off this teacup with a Prima flower with brad (with glue dot) dipped in the glitter.

I really debated as to adding the word tea in the upper right hand corner, but settled without it. I often make cards with no sentiment or words on the front--I have gone to add a sentiment or word to finalize the design, and have goofed up! Even with clear, see through stamps! I should stamp the word at the begin, I know, I know... oh well!

Oh, I'm home stamping today because of a snow day! I'm certainly getting spoiled! It will be difficult to go back to school tomorrow...hehe!!!

13 comments:

Jennifer said...

LOVE the glittery butterflies! I need to try that technique sometime.

Helena (Gvendalen) said...

very pretty and graceful card!

Stef H said...

This is gorgeous!

Stef H

Anonymous said...

You did have a snow day, I was hoping you would!! Beautiful card, I love your idea of glittering the sticky tape. What a great blog of ideas! TFS

Joan Ervin said...

This is just lovely, Deb....such pretty, soft colors and I just love the little butterflies!!! Beautifully done!!!

Joan Fricker said...

Oh Deb I love this. Great job. Love those colors. It looks so vintage- my favorite!

Joan

Sharon (notimetostamp) said...

Deb, this is gorgeous - I had no clue you had this stamp! I have it as well and have it on my to do real soon list -- LOL!!! Now I have this wonderful inspiration from you -- do you have a lot of IO stamps?

Anonymous said...

Oh my, Deb, this is gorgeous! I love that stamp. I have so many from this company that I haven't used, I really need to pull them out and do a few, well maybe right after CHA, LOL!

Pat (mspfd) said...

This is so lovely!

Kelly Lunceford said...

You did such a great job on this challenge! I ran away scared and didn't even attempt it! LOL! Love the images and details! Love it!

Janine said...

Very pretty Deb!!

Darlene said...

This is absolutely gorgeous!!!

Anonymous said...

This is gorgeous! Love that teacup and background.