It’s freezing cold here in Colorado and a perfect time for a warm cup of tea!
Your followers just left to go get a cuppa!
Maybe I should as well. We had snow yesterday, but today it is just clear and cold.
This card uses a lot of products. The focal point is from ‘Memory Box’. Memory Box is like a wholesale distributor, available to businesses not personal folks like me, so you have to find someone who sells their products. I purchased mine through Teaspoon of Fun.
There are two dies which cut out three images. At first I thought I had to cut out the ‘liquid’ in a separate cut and paper piece it in the cut but the second die cuts out the image to go behind the cup and the base of the teacup can be used as the ‘liquid’. I didn’t use the base in this card.
Ahhhh……. working smarter instead of harder.
For sure, Sal, and with creating numerous Christmas cards we need all the help we can get.
Last year your New Year’s resolution was to make Christmas cards each month. How did that go?
The usual! But maybe this year…….
Let me just list the crafting details in the recipe instead of explaining what I did and then putting in the recipe.
Recipe
- Base: Thick Basic White, 5 1/2 X 8 1/2, Score at 4 1/4
- Layer (X2): Early Espresso, 5 1/8 X 3 7/8
- Top (X2): Basic White, 5 X 3 3/4; emboss with ‘Snowflake Embossing Folder’, lightly sponge yellow around top of where the teacup will be placed
- Teacup:
- Basic White, 2 1/2 X 3, die cut main image
- Early Espresso ‘Liquid’, 3/4 X 2
- Real Red, 1 1/2 X 2, sponge the middle with white ink and cut out a snowflake in Basic White, 1 X 1, from Stampin’ Up! ‘Snowfall Thinlits Dies’ and adhere with a glue dot.
- Greenery:
- Pine Boughs, Garden Green, 3 X 2 1/2, die cut 2 with largest bough in ‘Christmas Staircase Thinlits Dies’; use one full bough on the left and just the two ends on the right. Tip: It is good to work backwards adhering the pieces on the front, starting with the greeting, then the sending and finally the teacup.
- Holly Leaf, Garden Green, 1 1/4 X 1 1/4, use the smallest poinsettia in the ‘Poinsettia Dies’ Stampin’ Up! set and cut off two of the petals to make a leaf. Adhere to the teacup and add a red jewel for a holly berry.
- Sending: Real Red, 1 5/8 X 3 3/4, apply double back adhesive sheet to the cardstock and then die cut with the Stampin’ Up! ‘Sending Dies’. I used the cut out for the ‘e’ in sending to dot the ‘i’ so it was larger.
- Greeting: Early Espresso, 2 1/2 X 3/4, punched with Stampin’ Up! ‘Word Window’ punch and stamped in Versa Mark with greeting from Stampin’ Up! ‘Poinsettia Petals’ and heat embossed with white embossing powder.
- Heart: Glitter Paper, 1 X 1, die cut with teacup die and paper pieced inside heart above the teacup.
- Inside Greetings:
- Verse is from Stampin’ Up! ‘Holly Berry Happiness’ stamped in Garden Green ink
- Merry Christmas is from Stampin’ Up! ‘Poinsettia Petals’ stamped in Real Red ink
- Flourish at the bottom is from Stampin’ Up! ‘Dashing Deer’ and colored with water color markers (NOT alcohol markers) in green, red, and brown to tie in all the colors. Color the back of your stamp, huff, then stamp.
Just in case you are frustrated with my Christmas card posts well past Christmas, think of how you can make this cup a Valentine card. Click on little Sal in the computer to see what Teaspoon of Fun shows on their site-(their site takes a few seconds to load so don’t think it isn’t linked).
SAL, Smile A Little
Karen
What do you call a lazy kangaroo?
