For a tea-riffic Mum

Hello lovely people,

After working at the weekend, I had yesterday off and spent most of it ignoring the cleaning and pottering about in my craft room instead :-)

It's back to work today but of course I then have my usual Wednesday off and I'm excited that I will be spending it with my awesome buddies Sue and Debs!

I thought today I would share the card I sent to my Mum for Mothers' Day.

I have to admit to using the tea theme on more than one occasion for her but she really does love tea so I'm hoping she will also love this card!

The dies and stamps are by Stampin' Up but no longer available.

I hope you all have a good week :-)

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Edna takes a nap

Hello lovely people,

I intend to spend some quality time with Dr. Hubby on my day off today, so am just quickly popping in with my Dies to Die For DT card.

My last few DtDF cards have been pretty CAS but I felt that Edna deserved something a little fancier!

These papers are truly gorgeous; it's a real treat when you find a pad where you can see yourself using every single design :-)

That's actually why this card didn't end up properly fancy with flowers etc. because I couldn't bear to cover the gorgeous papers - lol!

I loved using my Inktense pencils for this card but am also quite excited to colour Edna with Copics too, just for comparison.

I planned for the teacup to be white, but wanted to keep it really vintage looking, so tried out a very pale shade of brown rather than grey and I think it really worked :-)

You wouldn't believe how long I faffed around trying to find the perfect sentiment for this card...and then I ended up using one of my most-used sentiment sets...ho hum, I am so predictable!

I also made some tiny fishtail banners because I wanted to make use of the even the tiny scraps of pretty papers and they added a cute detail since I wasn't using any other embellishments.

If I've tempted you with any of the lovely supplies I've used then you can go straight to the individual products via the thumbnails at the end of my post or just pop over to Dies to Die For and have a little browse around!

Thanks for visiting and I really appreciate any comments that you leave,

Inktense colours;
Skin: Baked earth, Madder brown, Saddle brown
Hair: Tan, Willow, Oak
Feather boa / flowers: Crimson
Leaves: Leaf green
Wings / tag: Mallard green
Teacup: Sepia ink
Ground: Ink black

Lovely things I've used;

Edna's cup of tea - Stamping Bella

Flourish - Authentique

Mini messages by Mama Elephant

Mini tags by Mama Elephant

InLinkz.com

Other card ingredients;
Filigree corner - La La Land