Critter Christmas Wreath!

Hello everyone!

Design Team member Michelle here and this week’s card is bursting with Christmas spirit! A wreath full of festive details frames a sweet little group of friends, each one decked out in their Santa hats and ready to celebrate.

Supplies used:

Jumping With Joy

Hey There Critters

Snow Much Fun

A5 Woodgrain Stamp

To make the card, I created the woodgrain background by stamping the A5 Woodgrain stamp onto Kraft card stock with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide. I had to do this a couple of time to get the crisp lines! I then lightly ink blended the edges using some more Vintage Photo Distress Oxide to give it some dimension. 

For the focal part of card, I stamped all of the images onto white card stock and coloured them with alcohol markers. I added highlights using a white gel pen. 

To create the wreath, this was 4 of the leaf piles from the Jumping With Joy stamp set that I coloured in three shades of green and arranged in a circle. Most of the ornaments on the wreath were all bits and pieces from other stamp sets I mentioned. The only exceptions are the hats, bow and ribbon that I shopped my stash for. 

I love how the bold red ribbons and ornaments pop against the dark woodgrain background.

I felt that the critters were getting lost in the woodgrain background and to make them stand out a bit more, I took some white card stock and Iightly ink blended some Crack Pistashio Distress Oxide onto it and then backed it onto the wreath.

The sentiment is simple and a classic “Merry Christmas” in bright red to match all the joyful touches scattered around the scene.

This was a really fun card to make and I hope this brings a smile to your face and a little extra cheer to your crafting this week!

Michelle

Cheesy Christmas

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! Today I’m sharing a cheesy Christmas card featuring the Merry Cheesemas stamp set and the Say Cheese Cover Plate Die. I love that I was able to use a non-traditional Christmas colour for the background of this project!

I began with watercolour paper and a mix of Squeezed Lemonade, Scattered Straw, and Rusty Hinge Distress Inks, along with Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide. I pressed the inks onto my glass mat, spritzed them with water, and then swiped and pressed the paper into the colour. I heat-set the panel between layers to build depth and texture.

Once the panel was dry, I die-cut it with the Say Cheese Cover Plate Die. I adhered the panel to a card base with double-sided foam tape and used liquid glue to secure the small cheese-hole pieces in place.

Next, I stamped several images from the Merry Cheesemas stamp set, coloured them with Copics, and cut them out using my Brother ScanNCut SDX125e. I added highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen. The mistletoe image is from It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas, the heart is from Seasons Tweetings, and the red stocking is from Santa’s Nice List.

I added sparkle to some of the images using a Quickie Glue Pen and Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter, then adhered everything to the card with liquid glue.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post! Don’t forget to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you shop at Time For Tea Designs to receive 10% off your order.

Merry Cheesemas

Happy Tuesday!! 

I’m playing with the adorable “Merry Cheesemas” set from @timeforteadesigns for today’s holiday card. I colored in the cheese tree and mouse stamp with alcohol markers. I used foam tape to mount the images on a piece of jungle green cardstock. 

This one is sure to give a cheesy smile to whoever receives it!

Thank you for stopping by!

Merry Christmas, Croc Style!

Hello Everyone!

Michelle here from the Design Team and today, I bring you another adventure with the crocs! 

These two crocodiles are spreading festive cheer in the most delightful way - by picking out the perfect Christmas tree! They've had a jolly time at the tree farm and are now carefully loading their prize onto the roof of their bright yellow car. 

Supplies used:

Snappy Before Coffee

Car - Just Married

Trees - Snow Much Fun

Fence - Ewe Are Moovellous

I created a snowy background filled with falling flakes by ink blending Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxides. The snowflakes are white acrylic paint splatters and die cuts from white glitter cardstock.

For the ground, this was two hillsides layered on top of each other to look like a snow-covered driveway - one from Kraft cardstock that I ink blended with Ground Espresso Distress Oxide and splattered with Black Soot Distress Oxide to give it texture. The second was die cut from white cardstock with the edges lightly ink blended with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide with the middle section cut out.

All the images were either stamped or printed, coloured with alcohol markers and highlighted with a white gel pen. The only exception was the rope around the tree - this I hand drew as there wasn’t a stamp for this specific purpose!

For the sentiment, I must confess that I ran out of room! It all worked out in the end though as the crisp sentiment tucked inside a speech bubble keeps it simple and sweet - a cheerful “Merry Christmas”. 

To complete the card, mounted it onto a slimline card base that I had ink blended a candy cane stripes using Festive Berries Distress Oxide.

Wishing you a croc-full of Christmas joy and crafty inspiration!

Michelle

Candy Cane Christmas

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa! Today I’m sharing my first Christmas card of the season, featuring the adorable Sweet Christmas stamp set from Time For Tea Designs.

To create the background, I started with watercolour paper and Distress Watercolour Pencils in Prize Ribbon, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, Uncharted Mariner, Mermaid Lagoon, and Iced Spruce. I layered the colours one at a time, heat-setting between sprays to build depth and texture. For a final touch of interest, I added splatters of Picket Fence Distress Spray Stain.

I die-cut a frame from white cardstock using the Stitched Window Cover Die and adhered it to the blue panel with liquid glue. I then used liquid glue to adhere them both to a white card base. 

Next, I stamped several images from the Sweet Christmas stamp set, coloured them with Copics, and cut them out using my Brother ScanNCut SDX125e. I added highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen.

The “Happy Christmas” sentiment is from the Simple Sentiments set. I stamped it with VersaMark ink, sprinkled on Ultra Fine Embossing Powder, and heat-set it until smooth and melted. I then used a die from the A6 Simple Nesting Dies to cut it out.

I adhered the images to the card base with liquid glue and foam tape to add dimension.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post! Don’t forget to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you shop at Time For Tea Designs to receive 10% off your order.

Snow Much Joy!

Hello Team Timers!

Michelle here from the Design Team with another festive card, full of fun and snowy smiles. These two snow friends are ready to decorate the tree and dance under the falling snowflakes, all wrapped up in pastel winter magic.

Supplies used:

Snow Much Fun

Snowflakes - Falalala Slimline Dies

To start, all the images were stamped and coloured with alcohol markers and highlights were added with a white gel pen.

The background was ink blended in a soft mix of purple, blues, greens and touch of pink (Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac and Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxides), then topped with splattered snow and layered snowflake die cuts (cut from white glitter cardstock) for extra texture. 

For the snowy ground, these were two hillsides die cut from white cardstock - the edges were lightly ink blended with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide and then layered on top of each other. 

Next, I added a bright tree in the centre, the two snow friends and surrounding them with baubles and candy canes to finish the scene.

For the sentiment, I shopped my stash and found this perfect scripty style ‘Wishing You Joy!’. I heat embossed this onto bright pink cardstock (to match with the earmuffs on one of the snow people) using white embossing powder and the fussy cut around it.

I hope your season is merry, bright and full of sparkle!

Michelle

Thinking of You Moles

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! Today I’m sharing a gardening-themed card created for someone going through a hard time. It features the Thinking Of You Sentiment Die and the I Really Dig You A4 Printed Cardstock from Time For Tea Designs.

I began by using low-tack tape to mask off a floor section on white cardstock. In the sky area, I ink-blended Salvaged Patina and Speckled Egg Distress Oxide, then added a splatter of Tumbled Glass Distress Ink.

Next, I masked the sky with scrap paper and used a blender brush to ink-blend Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide through the I Really Dig You background stencil to create the ground. With the remaining ink on the brush, I lightly filled in any white areas left after removing the stencil.

I added white splatter across the entire panel using Picket Fence Spray Stain. Once the panel was dry, I die-cut it with the Stitched Quilted Cover Die and adhered it to an A2 card base using liquid glue.

Using the coordinating dies, I cut out the images from the I Really Dig You A4 Printed Cardstock and adhered them to the card base with liquid glue. I added Glossy Accents for dimension and shine.

For the sentiment, I used the Thinking Of You Sentiment Die to cut purple striped patterned paper from my stash, then die-cut the shadow layer from vellum. I adhered both pieces to the card base to finish the design.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post! Don’t forget to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you shop at Time For Tea Designs to receive 10% off your order.