A cup of thanks

Hello

Today's card is a thank you card featuring a tea cup and the colours pink and green.

Materials needed:

• Stamps
• Button (two different sizes)
• A tea cup
• A small doily stamp
• A cup of thanks stamp
• Four shades of pink ink and one of green
• Pink and white card and green paper
• Green string

Directions

1. Create the card base from the pink card.  Cut a piece of green paper to leave a 5mm border of the pink base.  Cut a piece of white card to leave a border of green 2.5mm in size.  Using your stamps as a guide, cut another piece of white card large enough to accommodate the images and another piece of green paper to provide a small border again.
2. On the largest of the white pieces, stamp the doily image three times across the bottom edge in the darkest of the pink inks.  Clean off your stamp and repeat above in the next lightest ink filling up the entire piece.  If you reach the lightest shade and still have space for stamping then continue on with the darkest shade as I have done.  
3. On the smallest piece of white card stamp the tea cup and sentiment in the second lightest of the pink inks.  Adhere this to the smaller green panel and then adhere it to the larger white piece with dimensional foam.
4. Stamp one of the largest buttons and two of the smaller buttons in green ink on to the green paper and cut them out.  Wrap the green string around the bottom section of the card below the sentiment a few times and secure on the back with tape.  Adhere your buttons over the string with dimensional foam.  Finally adhere the white panel to the green paper and then on to the card base.

This card was a lot of fun to make but there is a lot of stamping involved!  I used one stamp set from the Rosie's Studio range for everything but the buttons.  This is a great card if you don't have a large supply of patterned papers and want to make the best out of your stamps.

Till next time

Stacey