Tea Party

New year, and I seem to have completely lost my mojo!  This was supposed to be a subtle girlie card and it has turned out to be a striking, almost Japanese-style card. Oh well, I suppose they do have tea ceremonies in Japan! 

I have used Lili of The Valley's - Sketch by Lena - Challenge No. 79 (see below for sketch). The gorgeous stamp "Tea Party" is from Lili of The Valley and is new to my stash, hence my entering the "New and Blue" Challenge with Stampin' For the Weekend and "Something New" Challenges from Creative Cottage and Cupcake Craft. Also, as it is a Birthday Card, I am entering it into Charisma Cardz - Birthday Challenge. 


Papers are from Kate Knight pad that I got free with magazine last year. (I love her designs!)  Flowers are from various places; roses from Wild Orchid Crafts, Purple Flower from Handy Hippo as is baby blue glitter card and black ribbon. The tiny flowers are from long, long ago can't remember where .... leaves are done with Beech Leaf X-Cut punch, available from Crafty Devil's Papercraft using some pink backing paper scraps that I had over.

"Tea Party" detail

Colouring:

Promarkers

Face, Skin: Vanilla with Copic R20 (blush) on cheeks

Dress, hat and shoes: Blossom, Cocktail Pink

Flowers on Hat: Pastel Blue, Pastel Pink, Cocktail Pink

Hair: Canary

Table legs: Tan, Shale

Tea Set: Pastel Blue

Spots on Tea Set and Flowers: Sakura glitter pen, clear star

Lili of The Valley - Challenge No. 79 - Sketch by Lena

Challenges entered:

Lili of The Valley - Challenge No. 79 - Sketch by Lena

Stampin' For The Weekend - Challenge No. 1 for 2011 - New and Blue (new stamp)

Creative Cottage - Challenge No. 30 - Something New (new stamp)

Cupcake Craft - Challenge No. 124 - Something New (new stamp)

Charisma Cardz - Challenge No. 1 - Birthdays and Celebrations

Is it just me?

As often happens, this card did not come out as I planned it! 

I had in mind peachy/cream colours and wanted to use a lovely peach backing paper that I  bought last year. It seemed like a good idea but when I tried colouring the stamp's tea-set, dark peach with white dots, it was a dis-aster! (said in Craig Revel-Horwood voice). I started again, and somehow the tea-set got coloured pastel blue. Sometimes I do wonder whether I have any control at all over these things! LOL. 

So then somehow, to stay with pastel theme, the clothes, hat and shoes became pink. Needless to say, it didn't go with my peachy paper. So I went through my stash of backing paper and found this Kate Knight paper that I really love and thought it looked quite good as background. 

As it had black on the pattern, I thought highlights of black card might be nice for mounts, etc, and while searching for my black card, I came across the baby blue glitter paper - and hey, that matches the hat, dress shoes! And so it began …. and that's the, hopefully not too boring, tale of how my card morphed from a subtle peaches and cream girlie card into the one above.  Ah (sighs) my peachy paper will have to wait until another day …..  

Hope 2011 is a good year for you!