A Brewtiful Day

Hello and happy Monday to you... anyone fancy a brew??
Well you're in luck as I have a card for a 'tea lovin' friend today and just to change it up a bit, I've used the Neat and Tangled Maze die to add an interactive element....

The Avery Elle Tea Time stamp set has a nice sized tea bag stamp that can be guided through the maze into the cup at the bottom. I used the matching die to cut it out and then used a small circle die to cut three discs to stack and adhere to the back of the teabag and a larger circle on top of those to hold it in the maze pathway...

I die cut the maze into a square of white card and stamped the tea cup at the base of the maze ensuring the channel went into the cup. I also had to stamp the same image onto the base card so the image looked complete on the finished card...

The tea bag sits down nicely in the cup and then all you need to do is stamp, colour and cut out another cup body to layer over the teabag.... remember to give it enough dimension so the teabag fits inside and keep the adhesive around the edge too :)

The sentiment is stamped using Mama Elephants Bella Letters and a Lil inkers set.

It actually works quite well and you can decide on the start position for the teabag depending on how challenging you want the puzzle to be 😉

            

Thanks for stopping by :)
Jenny x

Stacking Cups!

Hello there :)

Yep... it's a total coincidence that I'm following Tara's cute panda stack yesterday with another one...... mine are colourful cups though, I suppose you could say the tenuous link is China *groan* ;)

I'm back using a DL card base and I've used Avery Elle's Tea Time stamp set and Tea Time Elle-ments dies along with lots of pretty coloured patterned paper to make my cup stack. I've stamped and die cut the two styles of cup on white card and then stamped the cups again on patterned papers before trimming them out, great technique for using those small scraps up.

I varied the areas I trimmed in patterned paper... I had plans to colour the handles with pencils but decided against it in the end. To stack them, I cut a slit in each cup and just tucked them into each other and secured with glue. 

To make the long narrow aperture I used an inside and out stitched rectangle die and partially cut the first rectangle before sliding the die along and passing through the bigshot again to make the longer aperture... I love the way the cups sit in front of the frame :)

                        

I loved picking out patterned papers to use for these, you can be as creative as you want but if paper piecing isn't your thing you could always use the decorative elements in the set to stamp your own patterns and colour the cups yourself :)

Thanks for stopping by

Jenny x