Cup of Tea – Christmas Cheer

Welcome back!  A treat today.  I have the pleasure of being a Guest Designer with the Caffeinated Christmas Card Challenge team for March.

My design choices were influenced by the Double Trouble (#210) 3-2-1 Recipe and selecting the Try a Sketch on Tuesday (#689) Layout.

Here is the result:

Steps:

• Card Base: (8½” x 5½” scored at 4¼”) Poppy Parade (Red) cardstock.
• Split Patterned Paper Background Panel: (4” x 5¼”).
  • From the retired Garden Walk Designer Series Paper pack: (1” x 5¼”) Pretty Peacock Dots (Green); (1¾” x 5¼”) Poinsettia Floral; and (1⅛” x 5¼”) Wild Wheat Stripes (Yellow/Gold).
• Embossed Paper Ribbon: (½” x 5¼”) Mossy Meadow (Green) cardstock dry-embossed with the Gathering Leaves Embossing Folder, still available but now on the Last Chance List.
• Accent Mat: (2¼” x 2¾”) Poppy Parade cardstock.
• Sentiment Panel: (2” x 2½”) Basic White cardstock.
  • The greeting, Christmas Cheer, from the retired Itty Bitty Christmas stamp set was stamped with Pretty Peacock ink and a few Flower images from the retired Softly Sophisticated stamp set were stamped with Poppy Parade ink and the centers were colored with the Light Wild Wheat Stampin’ Blends Marker.
• Decoration – Tea Cups: (5½” x 1¾”) Basic White cardstock.
  • The Leaf Tea Cup image from the retired Cup of Tea stamp set was stamped twice with Memento Tuxedo Black ink.
  • Using a Blending Brush, Wild Wheat ink was added to the Cups and then the Leaves were colored with the Dark Pretty Peacock Stampin’ Blends Marker.
  • Using Paper Snips, the Cups were fussy-cut, and then additional shading was added with more Wild Wheat ink applied with a Sponge Dauber.

All elements were adhered to the card base to resemble the sketch, and the top Tea Cup was popped up Dimensionals.

My idea of a great snack…sweet, sweet honeyed hot tea.  Better yet shared with a friend.  A perfect holiday shopping pick-me-up break!

Happy Holidays.

Thanks for spending some of your time with me today.  Cheers,  Jolanda!

Need a card? Ask me and I can create one for you.  Want the supplies to create your own, let me know and I can help you with that too!

Like this card? Want to make one similar?
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