Blog Hop Day 3 - Boston Tea Party

Welcome to Day 3 of the Scrappy-Go-Lucky "Round the World with CRI-Kits" Blog Hop. It is Wednesday already in Australia, so it is my turn to show you something to do with "my part of the world" and a part of the world that is special to me.

I live just outside of Boston, Massachusetts now, however, we spent five years living in England and I have very fond memories of our time there.  So, I thought about the both the Boston Tea Party and my time in England where I enjoyed the rituals of tea drinking and came up with this fancy tea party card.

Here are all of the elements that I used to create this card.  I am partial to blue and white so I used that color scheme for my card.  It reminds me of many sets of dishes and a special teapot that I got in Germany when we lived there.

For the background of my card, I adapted a design on the Mother's Day cartridge using "hide selected contour" to embed the lacy cut in a medallion shape.

I used the CRI-Kits blue glitter pens to draw another adapted version of the design on a piece of beige and white patterned paper.

Then I drew the tea set from the Heritage cartridge with the pens.  I changed to the blade and cut the design.

I hope you can see the amazing sparkle on the design - the glitter pens are fabulous!

To give more definition and another layer of sturdiness to the tea set cut I cut a shadow in dark blue Core'dinations cardstock.

Here are the assembled layers ready for the card.

I welded the word "tea" from the base font on the Lyrical Letters cartridge.  The word was cut at about one inch and the letters are very thin but they did cut nicely.

When I placed the word on the lace background, I tried to line up the letters along lines of the lace design.

I used foam squares from Creative Memories to lift the teapot from the lace background.

If you push down on the back of the square with a tool (in this photo the Cricut hook tool) the backing will pop right off.

Here is a close view of the tea set on the card.  These foam squares are fairly low and give a lovely subtle dimension to the tea set.

I think this is one of my favorite cards that I have made lately - I hope you like it!  I'll share more technical details about the design and the file in another post soon.

Here is the exciting part of the blog hop!!!!

Mandy has some fabulous prizes that you could win.  The Grand Prize is a set of four of the newest Cricut Cartridges - Cindy Loo, Freshly Picked, Mini Monsters and Wall Decor & More.

You also will have a chance to win a set of CRI-Kits pens (and a holder if you need one) on each blog.

To be eligible to win on my blog, simply leave a comment on this post.  If you are not already a follower or subscriber or a fan on the Capadia Designs Facebook page, I'd love to have you join, but it is not required to enter.  Comments can be left even if you don't have a google account - just check anonymous.  To be fair, one comment only please.  Be sure to leave a way for me to contact you if your comment is chosen by random.org on June 18th.

To be eligible for the Grand Prize you will need to visit each blog in the hop and collect the letter clue in the blog hop post.  Combine these letters with the clues on the Scrappy-Go-Lucky blog and solve the anagram, then email the answer to Mandy at comp@scrappy-go-lucky.com.au
by Friday, June 18th (remember - that's in Australia!) when a winner will be drawn from all of the correct answer using random.org.


Here is my clue

Here is the full list of the Design Team blogs and the schedule

Monday, June 7th - Mandy - Scrappy-Go-Lucky

Tuesday, June 8th - Jane - Scossie Jane

Wednesday, June 9th - that's me! - Diane - Capadia Designs

Thursday, June 10th -  Tracey, Trace Elementz

Friday, June 11th - Tereesa - Up Late 2 Create

Saturday, June 12th - Enfys - Going Buggy

Sunday, June 13th - Mandy - Scrappy-Go-Lucky

I hope you have fun seeing all of the projects this week and I wish you Good Luck for a chance to win one of these great prizes sponsored by Scrappy-Go-Lucky!



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