Tea Party and Poppies

 

This is a combined post for my DT work at Stamping Sensations challenge and We Love Chocolate Baroque challenge. Just a little reminder of our themes for this month. Please scroll down to see the second make.

At Stamping Sensations challenge the theme is "For a lady". I'm using an old favourite stamp from Crafty Individuals (who are also our sponsor this month) this time, it's  CI-269. It was the inspiration to gather together tea and tea time treats stamps and dies to create this card. I decided the stamp needed no more than some pink colour on the Tea Party text. I cut it out using a TL die. I finished it off with a banner die from TL.

Our theme at We Love Chocolate Baroque challenge this month is Beautiful Blooms and I've used Chocolate Baroque Poppy ledger stamp on my card. I have had this printed acetate panel for years and thought it added an extra dimension to overlay it on my card front. I disguised the join with the several strands of ribbon.

I coloured the image with watercolours and blended Distress oxides over the edges and then splattered with water and sponged off with paper towel to achieve some faux bleaching. The sentiments are from my go to set Amazing Mackintosh words.