Pool Party and Pear Pizzazz! I Like it!

I needed a birthday and thank you card today, so I challenged myself to use something that I wouldn't normally. For me, I thought, Pool Party & Pear Pizzazz did NOT coordinate. See the dsp in both cards, they both use this color combo. That still didn't sell me..... until I made these two cards. Thanks to Mary Brown for the cute little bow. She has a great tutorial.

The first card is kind of a case from myself. I changed a few things, well a lot of things. First I cut the scallop using our new Edgelit die, and coordinating embossing folder. LOVE IT! I cut a small piece of the Everyday Enchantment dsp (SAB) for the inside. Then I colored in the tea cup, from Tea Shoppe with my markers using Pool Party and Pear Pizzazz, cut it out. I used a hobby blade for the handle, it wasn't too hard. Especially for me, since I seem to be "hobby blade" challenged. Once the tea cup was cut out I layered it on one of the Label Collections dies, ran that through the Big Shot with the Polka Dot embossing folder and glued that down to my card. Then the tea cup was put on with dimensionals. I love how it looks there really is a tea bag in my cup. Thanks to Jackie Topa, I saw it on her blog first. And the bow just finishes it nicely!

This next card, same stamp set. I wanted to use the 3 tea cups separately. So I had to stamp it twice, as I could punch out the 1st and 3rd ones fine, but that left the middle cup a bit short. So I punched those using the 1 1/4" circle punch and layered it on a 1 3/8" circle punch in Pool Party. I embellished each cup differently, Pearls, Bakers Twine & a little flower punched out with a Pearl inside. The Thank You is from Curly Cute, that is a must have stamp.....I punched that out with the Modern Label punch. Now that I have all my embellishments done I used the scallop Edgelit embossing folder on the side and added the same dsp (Everyday Enchantment, SAB) for the rest of the front. Don't you love how the new Pleated ribbon looks on this card? Totally makes the card. Then I added the Pearls inside every other one of the scallops.