Let's hang!

Hello! 

Ilona here on the T4T blog! I'd like to share a card today which made me smile while making it, because of the cute sloths and the happy colours! I hope it'll make you smile too :)

As usual, I started with stamping and coloring my critters. These are the sloths from the Be Slothy Clear Stamp Set. After coloring, I used my Scan 'n Cut machine to cut them out.

I stenciled a tropical background with Distress Oxide colors Squeezed Lemonade, Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness onto a Simple Nesting Dies - A6 panel. 

I adhered this panel onto a slightly larger panel in pink cardstock, and stuck those onto a scalloped bordered panel in bright orange. 

I made a sentiment with the Anthony Alpha Dies out of pink cardstock, and die cut another set in white. I adhered the pink letters onto the white and made sure a little white edge sticks out. This creates an illusion of shadow and helps to create contrast between the letters and the background.

I adhered the sentiment with plain glue, and added the sloths using 3D foam tape. Last but not least I added orange Time For Tea Designs Designer Enamel Dots from the 'summer haze' collection.

Thanks for hanging out with me at the blog :)

I'm QUACKERS About You!

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. I finally got my hands on the Lucky Ducks set and I had to create a card immediately. I wanted to create a scene where 2 ducks meeting each other at the pond.

Sets used:

Lucky Ducks clear stamp set

Lucky Ducks Coordinating die set

Slimline Hillside Scene dies

Happy Mail Gift Card Holder Add On die set

I first stamped out my images and used the coordinating die set to die cut out the images. I then used Copic markers to color them. Once I completed coloring the images, I set them to the side.

I then took an A2 panel and blended a cloud stencil with Kitsch Flamingo and Scattered Straw Distress Oxides.

I then created my pond and grass parts by cutting out a hill piece and a grass piece with the landscape dies. For the pond, I blended the hill piece with Peacock Feathers and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxides. I splattered this piece with white watercolor.

For the pond piece, I took an x-acto knife and cut a slit in the middle of the piece off to the side. I wanted to fit my duck in this piece.

For the grass piece, I blended it with Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxides. I also splattered this piece with white water color.

For the sentiments, I die cut out the word 'love' from gold cardstock. I then heat embossed the stamp sentiment onto teal cardstock with white embossing powder. I took the coordinating die to cut it out.

To assemble my card, I adhered the grass piece and then the pond piece behind it. I then adhered the stamped grass pieces behind the pond pieces. 

I then added the duck into the little slit that I cut in the pond. With the second duck, I adhered it with foam tape. 

I finished my card by adding my sentiments to the top of the card with liquid adhesive.

All of the items I used today are linked above. Use the code T4TRANDY10 at checkout for extra savings.

Summer birthday with Kaja

Hi all,

It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I am back with an adorable card that was inspired by the heat wave that we had in Slovenia last week. It really felt like it was already summer!

Take a look:

I love summer and I knew that I wanted to create a subtile sea in the background, so I started by inkblending some blues and greens into a piece of white cardstock. Once it was all nicely blended, I took the hearts from the A2 Stitched hearts cover die and die cut 4.

To add the wavy effect, I added some white gel waves with the help of Beach scene builder stencil that I used as a guide.

Next, I stamped out and colored a bunch of images from the Beach buds stamp set. I made sure that I used the colors that I knew would nicely coordinate with the blues in the background.

Then, I cut down a piece of striped paper from the Sweet summer paper pad. I trimmed it down to be the same size as my card base. To create a focal point, I used a slightly smaller rectangle, on which I glued down the hearts.

I stamped out the sentiment from Beach buds stamp set in black ink on a piece opf gray cardstock and this time I decided to go with a simple 'It's your birthday'.

I glued everything on the square card base using double sided foam squares and liquid glue.

Hugs,

Kaja

T4T supplies used: 

• Stitched hearts cover die
• Beach buds stamp set
• Beach scene builder stencil 
• Sweet summer paper pad

Thanks for Everything

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! Today, I share a bright spring thank you card that features the Darling Daffodils and Bold Sentiments stamp sets from Time For Tea Designs.

For the background, I ink-blended black soot, chipped sapphire, picked raspberry, spiced marmalade and squeezed lemonade Distress Oxides with my Beautiful Blender Brushes. I added white splatter with a paintbrush, water and white watercolour paint.

Once the panel was dry, I die-cut it with the Sweet Scalloped Dies. I adhered this panel to a 5 3/4-inch by 4 1/16-inch white card base.

I ink-blended twisted citron and rustic wilderness onto white cardstock. I die-cut this panel with the largest Sweet Scalloped die and the Slimline Hillside Scene Dies. I added white splatter with a paintbrush, water and white watercolour paint. I used liquid glue to stick down the grass border to the card base. 

I stamped and coloured (with Copics) several images from Darling Daffodils and cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen. 

I stamped 'thanks for everything' from the Bold Sentiments stamp set and die-cut it with the coordinating die set.

I used liquid glue to stick the images and sentiments to the card base to complete the card. 

Thank you so much for reading my blog post. Remember to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you visit the Time For Tea Designs shop to get 10% off your order.

Snapoy for coffee!

Hey there Tea-timer friends...

DT Ashlee here with some SNAPPY inspiration for today's Time for Tea designs card!

I used these T4T products :

- Snappy before coffee stamps /co-ordinating dies

- Coffee beans stencil

- Coffee sentiment die

To create this card I started with a green card stock base. I then added stencilling to it using the coffee bean stencil and green ink from Catherine Pooler. I die cut the coffee sentiment from brown card stock pieces before adhering to the card base with foam tape. Once that was in place I added the sub sentiment stamped directly onto the card base with black ink.

I stamped the coffee cart and croc for my card images. These were coloured using Spectrum noir tri-blend markers before die cutting with the co-ordinating dies!

To complete the card I finished it off with a touch of sequins.

What do you think of this snappy coffee card? I think it turned out a bit cute if I do say so hehe. Love that little croc waiting for coffee!

Thanks for checking out my card, happy crafting. Hugs Ashlee. 

 

Happy engagement!

 Hello everybody!

There's has been a proposal!👰 Not to me, I married quite some time ago, but a co-worker of mine was proposed to by her boyfriend during a romantic getaway. Ofcourse I had to make a card to congratulate them. 

Time for Tea has got a clear stamp set especially for engagements, but I do not have this particular set in my stash, so I had to be creative on this theme. I scowered through my supplies and found the Stinkin' Cute Clear Stamp Set has got critters in there which, with a little bit of imagination, can be seen as a couple getting engaged 😃

So I stamped those and colored them with Copic alcohol markers. (And yes, brown skunks DO exist! I thought it would make the look somewhat 'softer' as I was going for a romantic warm sunset vibe). This time I fussy cut them out with my Cutter bee scissors. 

My next step was to cut a panel with the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 from white cardstock. I chose warm Distress oxide colours for my sunset sky background: dusty concord, abandoned coral and scattered straw. The ground has been made with tea dye and aged mahogany. 

For the sentiment I used Anthony's Alpha Dies on smooth white cardstock combined with the Simple Sentiments Clear Stamp Set. The word 'engagement' was heat embossed onto a strip of black cardstock.

I adhered the colored critters and the sentiment onto the panel with foam tape and adhered the entire panel onto a white card base with double sided tape.

Lastly I added some die cut hearts in black and gave the 'boyfriend' skunk a ring to offer to his 'girlfriend' skunk. The ring used to be a sweet from the Bearing Gifts Clear Stamp Set, which I trimmed down to a circle. 

Now isn't this a nice romantic scene? 😍

Hope the receivers like it as much as I do!

~Ilona~

I'm A Sucker For You

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. DT Randy here with a card featuring a card with one of my favorite sentiments. Mainly because it's a lyric to one of my favorite songs. 

I wanted to create a background specifically for the sentiment and decided to use the lollipops from two sets.

Sets used:

Gummy Bears clear stamp set

(coordinating dies available here)

Sweet on You clear stamp set

(coordinating dies available here)

To create my background, I took Ann A2 card and stamped the images around the card. Once I had my background filled out, I set it to the side to decide on my color scheme.

I decided to go with a rainbow color scheme. Instead of hopping around the card with the different colors, I wanted to create a rainbow with lines of colors.

I used the following Copic Marker Combos for each line:

V01, V04, V05

RV11, RV13, RV14

R21, R22, R24

YR12, YR14, YR16

Y11, Y13, Y15, Y19

YG21, YG23, YG45

BG11, BG13, BG15, BG18

Once I had my background completed, I set it to the side to work on the sentiments.

I stamped and heat embossed the sentiments onto purple cardstock with white embossing powder.

I then die cut out the sentiments using the coordinating dies for them. I completed the card by adhering the sentiments onto the background, near the top with foam tape.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial today. All of the items I used are linked above. Don't forget to use the code T4TRANDY10 at checkout for extra savings.