Thanks Card

Happy Friday the 13th everyone!! I hope you are having a safe day ;) This week just flew by! I hope you have fun plans for the weekend!! 

I have a card to enter into a few challenges today! I cut the shape and its shadow from Elegant Edges. I stamped the Tim Holtz tree onto white cardstock with Distress Embossing Ink. I heat embossed it with Enamel Distress Embossing powder. I then used Tumbled Glass and Broken China Distress inks to cover the paper in the pretty blue. The butterflies are from Picturesque and I ran them through the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug folder. I attached two together with foam tape for dimension and added pearls for their bodies. The circle is a Spellbinders Nestabilities die and I ran it through the Snowflake embossing folder and inked the edges in Tumbled Glass. The scalloped circle is also a Spellbinders die, and I inked it with both Broken China and Tumbled Glass and added crystals around the edges. The stickpin is handmade from beads I have in my stash from my jewelry crafting phase ;) "Thanks" is from K Andrew Designs Winter Wishes stamp set:

Click HERE to  purchase your own set or to see all of the K Andrew Design stamps available, including the fabulous new Valentine stamps!!

The inspiration for this card was the Cooking With Cricut  photo inspiration challenge. You are supposed to use the above photo for the inspiration of your project! Isn't it beautiful?!

Challenges:

1.  Cooking With Cricut Challenge #68 Photo Inspiration
2.  DL.ART Thankful Thursday - a thank you card using your favorite color (blue)
3. Made Especially For You Weekly Challenge - use machine embossing

Mark your calendars for January 22 - my dear friend Jessica of Jessica's Craft Shaque will be celebrating her one year blogaversary with a blog hop!! We will be using Jessica's past projects for inspiration so there will be some amazing projects and fabulous prizes along the way! Check out Jessica's blog HERE for more details on the hop!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Our Friendship is Tea-riffic!

Happy Saturday, everyone! I hope you are having a great weekend!! We are having unseasonably warm temps here...in the 40's-50's! I know that's not super-warm, but in it seems like it in the middle of winter :)

I have been dying to use the Savory cartridge I won from my sweet friend Susan of Cricut and Grasshopper!! This is such a cool cartridge filled with lots of fun cuts!! Thank you again, Susan!! I've been doing mostly grunge/shabby projects lately, so I decided to do something a bit more classic.

The paper is from the Prima Madeline Collection...I thought it kinda looked like fine China :) I cut the teapot at 4" from Savory and I attached each layer with foam tape for dimension.

I cut the word "Tea" on black paper and then inked it with Ranger Distress Embossing Ink and heat embossed it with copper powder. Doesn't it look like hammered copper?! I attached it with foam tape for more dimension. I plucked the button from an old shirt for the lid and added some pearls. The sentiment "Our Friendship is Tea-riffic" is from the K Andrew Designs Coffee & Tea For You & Me mix and match stamp set:

To purchase your own set, or to see her entire line, including her newest releases available for pre-order, click HERE!

I am entering the card in the following challenges:

• Paper Playtime Challenge #64 - Cricut Cut and Something Recycled (button)
• Cooking With Cricut Challenge #67 - Something New (Savory cartridge!)
• A Muse Studio Challenge Blog - Embossing Magic
• Crafty Creations Challenges #151 Let's Heat It Up With Heat Embossing

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Have a wonderful weekend :)