Tea Party

 I went looking in my stash  for something to make a Mother's Day card. I found a sheet of teapot stickers that are ++ years old. I always enjoyed doing tea parties with my granddaughters--before they moved on to the electronic age.

I am playing along with The Paper Players Tic-Tac-Toe challenge. Once I got started, I realized I was ending up with a  "cover all"

The card base is SU Basic Beige. The basket weave is also SU. To add a little texture and satisfy the embossing square I used a linen texture E/F. It is not very noticeable but gives a little texture to the basket weave. Then added a die cut a deckle edge circle from a yellow vellum. The teapot sticker went on top of that. The ribbon is SU Crumb Cake. The sentiment is stamped on the backside of a scrap of the basket weave paper. For the sparkle elements, I winked the flowers and added some gold gel pen highlights in the flowers. To finish off I added more sparkle with some flat gems. I count a total of 5 layers.

Here is The Paper Players grid

Spring is Blooming

Spring has finally come to Southern Indiana. Warm temps, flowers blooming, trees budding out, and sneezing.

The papers are from SU's Lovely and Beautiful. I fussy cut the big flower from one of the papers, then offset it and trimmed the edges. I added 3 light green punched leaves.. The sentiment is also SU, die cut with deckle edge circle and popped up with foam squares, Finishing it off are 3 clear gems. I like clear gems because they reflect the background color. 

THis is for

Cardz 4 Galz  Splash of Green

The Paper Players CAS florals

Let's Craft and Create option of ppurple and green

New Flower Paper

 I have been doing a good job using up some stash papers. But sometimes you just have to break out some new papers. These are from SU. And I am certainly ready for some flowers. Mother Nature seems to be having a hard time losing her grip on winter here. Daffodils were up and blooming but then we had a 16 degree night. They got frostbitten! 

 I bought this in  a paper share. I think it must be an online exclusive but can't find it to tell you the name.  The little squares are from one of the Perfectly Paired pages. The base is Petal Pink and the dark mat is Secret Sea. Sentiment is SU.  The flowers don't exactly match but the colors coordinate.

You know while all the supplies are out why not do a second card.

On this one, I tried a graphic block square.  

Which do you like better?

These are from the sketch at Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge