Tea in the Garden - Sizzix Chapter 3 Release

 Hello crafty friends! If you watched Tim's Sizzix Chapter Three YouTube live to the end, you will have seen that this chapter inspired me to create a Garden Tea Party theme for all my makes. I don't think that has ever happened, but it just grew out of my one idea for the tag and I just had to go with it. There are several makes for table decor and favors so I made a Youtube video where I discuss each make. I hope you find it helpful.

If there are any you would like a tutorial for, just let me know in the comments or send me an email in the contact section at the right. Otherwise I will just post a blog on each with more photos, and explanation, and some details.

The tag that inspired it all...I will do more detailed posts on most of these makes or combinations of them, but I thought I would just post this general post and you can let me know which ones you want to get more details on. For this tag I used an Etetera tag, Potted 2, Leafy Twigs, Decorative Trims, Large Stems 2, Wildflower Stems 1, Bold Alphanumeric and Colorize Cafe.

These potted makes can be nameplates, or just place setting decor, or names of food items on a buffet if you have one. I love that the Potted 2 dies can cut chipboard or several layers of heavy stock. I paired the Potted 2 dies with the Large Stems 2 release from Chapter 2 of this year.

 

These are not only a favor, but also a little rim decor for the place setting. How fun would it be to change the Impresslit 3D Butterfly with colors to coordinate with your various tea cups? For the favor I tied a couple of tea bags with tulle and then added the Seal Impresslit with the Colorize Cafe teacup on the front.

 

This place setting is not china, it's stuff I got at the Dollar Tree because it was all about the place setting decor, not the dishes.  This is really, really very easy to put together, so it can be replicated multiple times without taking too much time. You just cut the Perspective Dragonfly, then adhere it to a Seal Switchlit, and back them with the leaf stem from the Large Stems released last year.

  

Lastly, I want to make sure my guests go home with some fun favors to remember our tea time in the garden. For this I turned to the new Matchbox dies and added some of the Tiny Tattered Florals under the domes so that they were like little take-home terrariums.

The last little favors that I made use the Mini 3D Botanical and Roses texture fade embossing folders. They were vary easy to make by just sewing a back onto them to make a pocket and punching a half circle out at the top.

Let me know if there are any of these you would like a tutorial on. Otherwise I will just do a quick little  how-to post on the details for each.

 Tami

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