Tea for Three for Paper Players #702
11 August 2024
Happy Sunday.
It's the fabulous Jan's turn to host our Paper Players challenge this week and she has a fabulous color combo for us. Her color choices really made me ink up way outside of my normal and I so enjoyed playing with this sherbet'y colors.
It gave me the perfect excuse to use some dies I bought a while ago from Alexandra Renke called... and it's so original - but descriptive.... Teacup 1 and Teacup 2! I paired that with my old standby stencil Knitwit from The Greetery.
Here's a sneak peek:
I just love those little teabags! They are from another die-set from Alexandra Renke called Tea for 2.
Oh... and here's Jan's challenge:
I began by using some paste on my Knit Wits stencil to create the background. I then die-cut the teacups and smooshed them into some watercolor paints. I let them dry and then stacked them up and added the teabags and sentiment. Easy peasy.
Here's my full card:
As we generally allow neutrals on our color challenges I used a pale brown for the teabags and a mid brown for the sentiment. For the tag, I used the three colors to add a little more color using the same knitwit stencil.
I hope you will join us and play along this week. We would love to see what you create with these fun colors. As always the design team have some fabulous inspiration for you:
On a personal note:
We closed on our new home yesterday and it was wonderful sitting on the deck listening to the chickadees and the goldfinches whilst we ate our Starbucks breakfast. I'm going to miss being up in the clouds and the incredible view that we have, but being so close to the ground and smelling the damp earth whilst listening to the birds really calmed my soul.
This week I have spent time trying to find replacements for some of the light fittings that are in the house. It's amazing how personal light fitting choices can be.
For instance.... these lights in the loft area remind me of eyes out on stalks in an animated movie aka Tom and Jerry. Here's a look at what I mean. Once I sat down and saw these fairly innoculous lights as eyeballs.... I just got obsessed with changing them out. They don't look that bad until you see them from below in the living room!
Yep.... you can imagine what they look like from below! So, those definitely have to go. The house is fabulous and they did a really amazing job of renovating, but some things are personal choice - and lighting is definitely one of those things. I finally found replacements and those are on order! We are also replacing the major appliances and we had incredible fun finding new ones.
Even though I am definitely not looking forward to packing, I am looking forward to being in the new house and I think the cats will love the sun room and being so close to nature.
I will be back on Friday with my Festive Friday card. If I can, I will stop in with another post. In the meantime, warm hugs and prayers for those of you who need a little lift tonight.
Hugs
Jaydee
Card recipe:
- Dies: Teacup 1, Teacup 2, Tea for 2 - Alexandra Renke