Do you care for tea?

Hello all!
Back with my 2nd post for the day - yep, I have been busy!  If you are looking for my Outlawz Copics DT posting, you can find it here . 
           This time it is to tell you about the latest fun challenge over at The Octopode Factory  which is 'Mad Hatters Tea Party'.  Now Lily has plenty of fabulous digis to choose from for this theme over at her shop but you don't need to use an Octopode image to enter the challenge - you do get the chance to win some if you enter though so why not come and join us?

      For my card I decided to use this Mad Hatter digi and I wanted him on a teacup.  I used my Cameo to cut and merge the teacup shapes at the bottom and also cut a thin strip of matching cardstock with little folded tabs so I could connect the teacups along their sides.  This made a sort of pocket effect so I could put some real teabags inside the cup!  I hope the picture makes it a bit clearer than my explanation - I could never be a teacher as I just don't know how to put into words what I've done!

  

      The image was coloured with Copics and I added some Diamond Glaze to his funky specs!  I love how this turned out and it would make a great card with a gift inside for any keen tea drinker :)

A view from above!

I would like to enter this into the challenges at  - 

The Altered Alice

Smudgy Antics

Paper crafting journey

Fabulous!!!

I'm starting this post off with a very small gripe but it won't last long so bear with me!  I'm one of those people who are a bit picky about spelling and being from England but currently living in the USA, I come across a lot of discrepancies.  I understand that using the USA Silhouette site means that I get the US version of spellings but why can't they offer you the option of the English spelling as well???
Anyway, I spell 'Fabulous' this way but the Silhouette spelling is without the second "u" so I'm just going to have to live with it!

That said, the digi from Saturated Canary is completely fabulous, whichever way you choose to spell it!  I went to town with the flowers on this one as I felt she deserved them.

The current challenge over at the  Saturated Canary blog is birthdays and I made this with a purple-loving friend in mind!

I would also like to enter it into the following challenges -

http://incywincydesigns.blogspot.com/ - girlie/Mother's Day

http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com/ - drop dead gorgeous

http://cutedaisymay.blogspot.com/ - pile on the flowers

http://blog.oozak.com/ - anything goes

Thanks for stopping by today!

Vintage racer

Hello all!
My card today was done in response to the challenge over at simon says stamp and show which is to use a Tim Holtz technique.  I had seen a few videos on different ways to use the Distress stains so I decided to use mine with the resist heat-embossed technique.  I stamped my background stamps onto medium weight watercolour paper with an embossing stamp pad and then added some white Martha Stewart embossing powder from my stash - I have to admit that I rarely use these but now there'll be no stopping me!!  Once the powder had been heated, I swiped over the paper with the 'broken china' and 'bundled sage' Distress stains and blotted up the excess.  I then stamped a few words and some more pattern over the background with black Memento ink and it was ready for my image.
        The digi is one that my clever hubby drew and is available in my etsy shop here.  We're both huge racing fans - cars and bikes, so this was an ideal choice!  I used the Copics warm and cool greys to colour the digi and then just kept it simple by adding a couple of tickets.

I would also like to enter this into the following -

http://smudgyantics.blogspot.com/ - anything goes

http://mimchallegeblog.blogspot.com/ - vintage

http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.com/ - masculine

http://cardsformen.blogspot.com/ - spring colours

Thanks so much for popping in!

Not perfect......

Hello - back again with a quick post of a card that came together really quickly once the idea popped into my head!!  Don't you love it when it all works out?  As I said in a previous post, I was lucky enough to win 3 digis from the Dilly Beans challenge and I wanted to use one of them straight away for the current challenge (green & black).
    Now I know he won't be everyone's cup of tea but sometimes I need a break from all the cuteness!!  I do try and control the snarky side of me (my hubby would be ROFLHAO at that statement!) but sometimes the cards just express exactly what people want to say!

I would also like to enter him into the Smudgy Antics challenge which is 'anything goes' and the Anything Goes challenge which is 'boyz to men'.

Thanks for popping in and I'd love it if you left me a comment :)