Time for tea

Hello and welcome to a brand new STAMPlorations theme and sketch challenge. The theme for March is stamps and tea/coffee. This is a fun one for me as I really am a tea addict.
There is nothing I enjoy more that a proper cup of tea, in a cup and saucer in my garden and if the sun is shining it's even better!

I love sitting and enjoying my little garden whilst sipping my tea.

My family laugh that they have never heard me turn down the offer of a cuppa! I do sometimes drink cappuccino but I don't drink instant/filter type coffee at all. I went "off" coffee when I was pregnant with my son (now aged 30!) and never got a liking for it back!

There is also a sketch lovely sketch you can use too.

The rules in brief are that you need to use stamping on your projects. You don't have to use STAMPlorations stamps to enter but of course we love it if you do! You can link up 6 times with new blog posts and you need to add our logo to your post. You can go with the theme, the sketch or both, the choice is yours. There are some fab prizes to be won too! 

This is the link to the challenge with all the info you need.

As always I used the theme and sketch and this is what I got up to.

I used the lovely 

Cup of roses

and Always tea time stamp sets.

Remember that if you use my unique code STAMPGIRLJANE at the checkout you can save an additional 20% to any other offers currently running. 

First I stamped and water coloured the cup of roses.

I used some alcohol inks on Yupo paper to make my background.

I also paper pieced one of the cups from the always tea time stamp set.

I also used one of the sentiments.

Here is my finished card.

with some close ups showing the glittery roses.

and one last shot

I would like to enter my card into the following challenges;

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes
Time Out unique I love that alcohol ink backgrounds are so unique
Emerald Creek dares 1/3 Ordinary day
Creative artiste 1/3 anything mixed media
Happy Little stampers watercolour challenge 1/3 anything goes
 Craft stamper Take it make it 1/3 anything goes
CRAFT 1/3 Mother's day/female

Thanks so much for stopping by today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. They are so appreciated.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x