Waltzingmouse Sneak Peek Day #2 - Tulips and Tea

Welcome to Day #2 of the Waltzingmouse February Release Sneak Peeks - Did you enjoy all of the Design Team's offerings yesterday as much as me?   And thank you for all the lovely comments you left here!

Today we are using stamps from Nordic Spring (remember the Nordic Winter set?!) and Florentine Frippery.

I used Claire's new Angle Top Label Box (another freebie at the WMS shop!) for my tea bag box  - but I left off the cover - making mine an open container.  I left the back piece on so it extended above the box as a backing for my butterfly.   The Good Morning Sentiment is from yesterday's French Country Set.  I die cut it with a Mega Rectangles Nestabilities and adhered it to one wing of the butterfly with foam tape.

 The butterfly, little heart and row of tulips are from Nordic Spring.

Here's a pic of how I stamped the sides

and a pic of the pieces I cut to line the box.  The blue back piece is 2 5/8 x 3 3/4, the side pieces are 2 5/8 x 2 3/8 (angle cut down to 1 3/8) the bottom piece is 2 5/8 x2 5/8 and the front piece is 2 5/8 x 1 1/2 (each piece had to be trimmed a tad - so, if you do this, place each piece inside to check the fit before adhering!)

 I inked the beautiful butterfly with 3 different shades of blue.  The grass is die cut from green tissue paper.  I die cut a coaster from Labels 16 Nestabilities for the base, covering the top with patterned paper and stamping this handmade stamp from yesterday's sneak peeked set Make Your Mark

 I also made a coordinating card for my tea box using the tulips from Nordic Spring and the Bonjour (hello, good morning, good day) stamp from yesterday's French Country

 Here's what I stamped on the back of my card -  from Make Your Mark

 and here's the set together!

 The 2nd set being sneak peeked today is Florentine Frippery.  I made a thank you card using a label stamp, one of the sentiment stamps and a strip background stamp from this beautifully decorative set.

 I stamped the label which fits the new Spellbinders Labels 25 - but since I don't have these I just cut it out with my trusty scissors!  After stamping the background on white and layering it to a black panel, I tied the wrinkled seam tape around the panels and then adhered the label over the ribbon with foam tape.  All the edges are sponged with Antique Linen ink.  I love the old fashioned formal wording of the sentiments in this set!

That's it from me today!

So off we go to check out the wonderful creations the rest of the WMS Design Team has created for today's Sneak Peeks!  Hope you can come by again tomorrow for Day #3!

Anya Schrier
Becca Feeken
Belinda Chang Langner
Clare Buswell
Julia Aston - you are here!
Jennifer Holmes
Kelly Schirmer
Laurie Schmidlin
Lynn Mercurio
Mona Pendleton
Sandie Dunne
Sarah Martina Parker
Tosha Leyendekker
Claire Brennan (Owner)

Good Morning Tea Box & Card:

Stamps:  (all stamps available on 2/29/12) Waltzingmouse - Nordic Spring, French Country, Make Your Mark

Paper:White, Text Style 2008 & 2009 Bitty Dot Basics - PTI, green tissue paper - from my stash, thin coaster - Eclectic Paperie

Ink:  Memento Bamboo Leaves, Lady Bug, Summer Sky, Danube Blue, Paris Dusk

Accessories:  Lace - from my stash, Labels 16 and Mega Rectangles -Nestabilities, grass die - MFT, Angle Top Label Box template - freebie from Waltzingmouse, ScorTape.

Verily I Thank Thee

Stamps: (all stamps available on 2/29/12) Waltzingmouse - Florentine Frippery

Paper:  White, True Black, Simply Chartreuse - PTI

Ink:  Memento Tuxedo Black & Pear Tart

Accessories:  black pearls - Amuse, wrinkled seam tape - Prairie Bird Boutique Etsy Shop, foam tape.