Cuppas

As much as I love hand-crafting, I also enjoy designing on my computer. For this card, I used digital paper-piecing; basically, it's cutting & pasting using layers in PhotoShop (I used InDesign for the final card layout). I learned this technique via trial-and error over the years, but Arielle of Snappy Stampin' has a great Digital Paper Piecing tutorial. The Cuppa Tea & sentiment images are Meljen's Designs freebies, and were so perfect for this. For the "papers", I used a CD-ROM from Crafter's Companion, which gave me lots of coordinating papers to play with. 

The polka-dots are heat-embossed onto the ribbon; so easy and fun! The key is to tape the ribbon down onto your stamping surface. I heat-embossed an entire teacup brad in blue, but stamped onto the purple & green brads. The pattern is green embossed on the green brad. Both Dot stamps (silicon and rubber) are from Studio G.

I added some twine that I bought at Can You Digi It? for good measure!

Inspiration/Challenges:

• Cooking It Up #89: A Spooled Metal Sentiment (anything that comes on a Spool + something Metal + Sentiment)
•  spooled, silk ribbon from May Arts; Vintage Tea Cups brads from Hot Off the Press; digi stamp sentiment by Meljen's Designs
• Crafter's Companion February Challenge: Anything Goes 
• Digi Papers from their Beatrix Potter - The Tale of Peter Rabbit CD-ROM
• Critter Sketch Challenge #102: Sketch (right)
• Meljen's Designs Challenge #97: Anything Goes
• When I started making this card, I was following last week's Pastels challenge, but I finished it up for this week's...Thanks for the double inspiration!
• Party Time Tuesdays Challenge #55: Get Well Wishes