Week 211 - Time for Tea

Hello Everyone,

Thankyou for popping by again.  

It is my turn to host the Allsorts Challenge for this week and I have chosen 

Time for Tea!

As crafters we love a lovely cup of tea so I thought that it was really fitting as a Challenge.

This is my take on the Challenge - 

This was such a quick card and it is such a great card to use for so many occasions.

The stamp is a Kanban stamp and it is a single tea cup and I have masked it and stamped it again.

It is very simply stamped in Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink and the ribbon is Cosmic Shimmer.

I really love this stamp and have used it on a few cards.

I would like to say a massive thankyou to all the ladies at Dandie Crafts in Wales where Mark and I visited last weekend.  We had a fabulous time and were made soooooooo welcome.  I have been asked back in November so looking forward to that.  Thankyou to Anna for the fabulous cakes, move over Mary Berry Anna is here!! 

Painting on Parchment with Maria Maidment today so really looking forward to this.

I hope that you all have a fabulous weekend and you can join in the Challenge so that there are lots of entries for me to choose from on Friday.

Please pop over to the Allsorts Blog ( allsortschallenge.blogspot.com) to check out my fellow DT members and their gorgeous designs.

Thankyou so much for taking the time to pop in,

take care and hope to see you soon.

Bye for now

Jo xxx

Allsorts Challenge - Blue and Brown

Good Morning Everyone

Apparently it has been on the radio today that it is called panic shopping Saturday!  and that people will spend a billion pound over the weekend on Christmas shopping - are you one of these people!!  I hope that the answer is no and that you are all sorted and ready for the big day.  Before then though you need to check out the Allsorts Challenge for this week and the sample here is my little offering, I hope that you like my take on the Blue and Brown Challenge.

It is a very easy and simple design but refreshing after all the gold, silver, red and greens that we have all been playing with since goodness nows when!  I chose not to stamp the image today as this gorgeous Sarah Kay decoupage was shouting out from the cupboard and was perfect to start off my challenge card as the colours were perfect.  I have also used a blank card and edged it with the classic bracket edgeability and inked it with Tumbled Glass distress ink.  The other Spellbinder that I used is the eyelet circle, I love to use this one as you can thread ribbon, twine, raffia through to enhance it further.  The papers (I think) are Basic Grey - they were bits I had (BTW this is going to be a New Years Resolution - use up bits of paper!!!)  The other cardstock that I used was Kanban's sherbert pips.

I hope that you like the design pop a quick comment in if you are not one of the millions going shopping today!  Also pop over to the Allsorts Challenge blog to check out the other DT creations for lots of inspiration before you crack on with yours!

Enjoy a lovely weekend and take care,
bye for now
Jo x