National Tea Day Blog Hop

Uncategorized | April 21, 2019

Hello and welcome to the National Tea Day Blog Hop!! Happy Easter to those of you who celebrate!! Honey Bee and the Coffee Loving Papercrafters have joined forces in a collaboration blog hop!!

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You should have arrived here from Amy Tsuruta’s Blog. There is also a complete list at the bottom of this post…

I’m not really much of a tea drinker (gasp!), but I do have friends who enjoy it!! Tea Time from Honey Bee is the perfect stamp set for today!! I paired it with a sentiment from Shake It Off for this tea themed card…

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I began by stamping the images from Tea Time onto white cardstock with Momento Tuxedo Black Ink. The mug that I used only has the handle on the right side, but the 80 lb. cardstock that I used allowed me to see the stamping on the backside. So, I just traced the image on the back with a Copic friendly black marker. After coloring all of the images with Copics, I fussy cut them. The Coordinating Honey Cuts are available, but I didn’t use them since I didn’t have a die for the one that I traced onto the back and I wanted them all to look the same. The sentiment, from Shake It Off, was white heat embossed onto a strip of black cardstock. For the background, I used a brown Copic refill and isopropyl alcohol on Yupo paper. I cut the frame from aqua cardstock using the two largest of the Deckle Edge A2 Honey Cuts. I added a little bow with black and white twine through the top of the tea bag and then adhered all of the die-cut images and sentiment strip with foam adhesive. A couple of red Kiss Me Candy Hearts were added for a pop of color!

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Your next stop on the hop is the lovely Carol Hintermeier!!!

Here is a complete list:

Be sure to comment along the way for a chance to win one of two $30 gift certificates to the Honey Bee Store!!

Thanks so much for stopping by today!! Happy hopping!! (Pun intended…LOL!)

51 Comments

  7. Oh my gorgeous! The alcohol ink background with that beautiful teal is the perfect mix! It’s time to start playing with my alcohol inks! Your card is beautiful!

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  9. Wow! I love the background on your card paired with the aqua paper, so lovely together! Very clever way to have cups with handles on either side! Happy Tea Day and Happy Easter!!

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  12. The pretty tea stained background is gorgeous with the vivid teal mugs! So striking and pretty!

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  16. Awesome colors and details! Love your pretty card! Happy National Tea Day and Happy Easter to everyone!

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  20. That background is absolutely perfect! Looks yummy and truly looks like spilled tea. Beautiful card!

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  34. Love your card…..very pretty the way you did the background. Super cute card. Thank you so much for sharing…have a great spring week.

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  42. Wow! This really caught my attention! That background is to die for! The way it makes the other colors come out! I see tea but I smell coffee brewing in the background! I think you should win this hop blog! Thanks!

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  44. Brenda- as usual your cards are amazing! I love the whole design and especially the background- I thought you had used alcohol ink & yupo, but it was so interesting to read that you used a copic & yupo!! Thanks for always being so inspiring!

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  47. An amazing card, Brenda! That background is super and so perfect for a tea card and allows the bright images to really ‘pop’! Thank so much for sharing and the inspiration.

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  48. Wow Brenda! I love the rich brown in the background…that’s amazing! Steam….hot tea…what a visual connection! Thanks for the inspiration 🙂

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