Cup of Tea Cards and Projects

Last week I took out a stamp set called Cup of Tea.  It has cute images in it and the papers that came with it are really colorful and fun to use.  First I made this wooden block decor piece and love how it turned out.  

Here is the card that I made to go along with it.  I got the idea for this from Elizabeth Price on Pinterest.  I love the color combo on this, the purples mixed with the lime green and teals.

Then I made two smaller blocks that coordinated.  I added a Scripture and a saying to them.  You can set them on a shelf or desktop.  I love making them.

To compliment the first card, I made a card with just the tea cup cut outs.  It's such an easy and fun card to make.  

I got the idea for this third card from the Paper Daisy Crafting site.  This cup set is just so cute!  I want to make more cards and projects using it.  Cutting out the flower dies takes a bit of time and the larger flower is easier to just cut out by hand than to try to match up the die for it.  I think each card that I made had less and less flowers on it!

For an additional card, I made the same card as the tea cup card, only I put different designer papers on it.  I had a great time working with this set and making these cards and blocks.  

Have you ever used this set?  Which card do you like the best?  I like taking out older sets and breathing new life into them.  :)

 

Cup of Tea

Last week I finally had the chance to play around with the Cup of Tea set from last year's catalog.  I bought the set of cards and envelopes to match it as well as the Tea Boutique papers.  I made all 5 colored cards and matched the front of them to the envelopes.

I designed all of the cards myself and had so much fun playing around with this set!  I wish that I had used it sooner because now all of the pieces are retired.

For the first card, I used a the circle cut out for the background from Encircled in Beauty die set.  The sprig is one of my favorites and is one of the dies from Forever Flourishing.  

The red card has some stamped leaves that I cut out and added to the card.  I tried using the dies to cut the little flower but had better luck just using my scissors.  By the time I made all 5 cards and then 8 of each design, I was pretty much "done" with cutting out all of those flowers!  

My third card uses a diagonal piece of the designer papers with a Stitched Shapes circle for the focal point.  For this card, I stamped the greenery right onto the circle and then added the tea cup with dimensionals.

For the purple card base I added a strip of the designer paper to the top and a rectangle from Stitched So Sweetly dies.  I added a small piece of string to the tea bag and tucked it into the tea cup.  

The purple card is the only horizontal card of the set.  

Lastly, the green base features 3 cut-out tea cups from the pretty papers.  I added a banner in Petal Pink and embossed it to give it some texture.  

It took me a couple of days to finish all of the cards, but I loved playing around with this set.  I've made lots of cards to give out to my friends and family to be mailed out in the next couple of weeks for some different occasions.

Here is a pic of the entire set with their matching envelopes.  I enjoyed making these cards as much as I love a good cup of tea!