I’d Rather Be Gardening

 Hey crafters! It’s Safia here today from the Design Team sharing a fun card I made using the Cacti Critters stamp set and dies. This card was so fun to make! I started off by using some watercolor paint to create a simple background. 

Then I stamped all of my images and colored them in using my COPIC markers 

I had a little bit of leftover twine and so I stuck that to the back of my sentiment for a finishing touch. I wanted to add some embellishments but I thought it looked pretty busy already and so I didn’t add anything extra

I love how this card turned out! Have you made anything with this set yet? Leave me a comment and share what you’ve made. Thanks for visiting!  

A New Vintage Hello

Hi. Design team member Koren Wiskman here. I hope that I can inspire you to create something fun with all of these awesome T4T supplies. Today I am using the Lets Chat Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies to create this project. I had to take another stab at creating a vintage phone card. This time I wanted to bump it up a couple of notches on the difficulty scale. Not hard, just slightly more difficult than the last set of vintage phone cards I created. 

The card size is A2 (4.25in x5.5in.) The front panel is cut to 3.25in x 4.75in. This is my favorite size card to create. I have tried so many others but this size is the one that keeps my heart happy. My card bases are typically made using a neutral gray cardstock. These two details about my cards rarely change. 

Background

I started by ink blending the white card panel using mustard and olive green colored inks. First creating the yellow vignette. Then I took a deco style stencil and added a bit more of that vintage feel with the pattern. Then I lightly went around the outside with the olive green. You may not be able to tell from the photos but the entire background has a piece of plastic wrapped around it. I used the thin acetate from the packaging of these very products I'm using. I simply scored the plastic and taped it to the back of the panel. It is popped up using craft foam and tear tape adhesive. 

Sentiment/Image

I heat embossed both the sentiment and the phone image from the Time for Tea Designs Lets Chat Stamp Set using white embossing powder onto navy cardstock. Each of these pieces are cut using the Coordinating Dies. They are also popped up using foam squares. 

Embellishments

The phone cord is blue and natural striped twine. I coated the twine with liqud adhesive and tightly wrapped it around a small screw driver. Why a screw driver? Because it was the right diameter to give me the size of cord I wanted for the image. After the glue dried, I gently removed the twine from the screw driver keeping it pretty tightly wound. It is attached to the phone using glue dots. 

I hope that I've inspired you to create something today. Check out the Lets Chat Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies in the T4TD shop. 

Koren 

When Life Gets Prickly

 Hello Everyone!

Michelle from the Design Team and today’s inspiration is a sunshine-soaked card for when things feel a little prickly, a sweet little calico cat and its glitter winged friends are there for you and ready to give you hug (or more plants)! 

I used supplies from the new release:

• Cacti Critters
• Rounded Corner Stitched Rectangle Dies
• Sun & Clouds - Rain or Shine Mice

I like my cards to be bright, busy and colourful so it was a slight challenge when it involved cacti and a limited colour palette! Hopefully I have managed to still keep to my usual style. 

To create it, first, I stamped and coloured my images with alcohol markers and highlighted with a white gel pen.

I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto the planter section of the cacti with white embossing powder. I am always nervous with embossing directly on a coloured image or a near finished card (Im a perfectionist and I don’t want to redo it again) but luckily everything turned out ok!

Next, using the second largest rounded corner stitched rectangle die I cut out  3 panels from white cardstock. For 1 of them, I ink blended fluffy clouds with blue ink and added splatters.

For the other 2, these were going to be the grass. I die cut these with a  grass die with one shorter than the other and ink blended with 2 shades of green (a light and dark). I then splattered with water that I blotted dry and then added more with the darker green ink. 

Once I had all the main pieces of the card, I arranged my cute little scene and glued everything down with liquid glue. I then framed the whole thing with a sunny border that I die cut from a a piece of yellow gingham pattered cardstock using the largest rounded corner stitched rectangle die.

As a finishing touch, I added glitter to the butterflies, the clouds and the flowers on the cacti because sometimes you just need that sparkle!

I hope this card has been a great hug and thank you for reading!

Michelle

🚗 Adventure Awaits! 🚙

Hello Tea Timers. DT Emma here and I’m back today with a new card featuring the ‘Adventure Awaits’ stamp and coordinating die set from the NEW release, alongside the ‘6×6 Scene Builder‘ stencil.

Making the Card:

To create this card, I cut out a piece of white card and using the ‘6×6 scene builder’ stencil alongside some Tim Holtz Distress Ink – Tumbled Glass, Mowed Lawn, Peeled Paint, Shabby Shutters, Hickory Smoke and Gathered Twigs, I created my cute little scene.

To colour my images, I stamped them on to Crafters Companion Solar White card stock with Memento Tuxedo Black ink and coloured them with my Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend markers. I cut them out with their coordinating dies and arranged them onto my card. I have also added some red enamel dots from the T4TD ‘Festive Fun’ set.

Thank you for visiting the Time for Tea blog today. For a 10% discount on your order, use my special code - T4TIRELAND10

Hugs, Emma xxx

All Aboard the Friendship

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! I'm excited to share my second card that I created featuring products from the new release from Time For Tea Designs. I used the Boat Buddies stamp set to create this ocean scene; I absolutely love the bunny steering the sailboat!

I first ink-blended Tumbled Glass and Stormy Sky Distress Oxide onto white cardstock through a cloud stencil. After adding white splatter, I adhered this to a card base with double-sided tape.

Next, I used Peacock Feathers Ink on watercolour paper, adding water to achieve a blue ocean background. I then die-cut this with the Ocean Waves Dies. I attached this ocean section to the card base using 1mm double-sided tape.

I die-cut a frame from white cardstock using the Smile Inverted Scallop Frame Dies. I adhered this frame to the card with foam tape and glue.

I stamped several images from the Boat Buddies stamp set, colored them with Copics, and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I added accents with a white gel pen using a Gelly Roll Pen.

Finally, I used double-sided foam tape and glue to attach the images to the card. I also stamped the birds from the Adventure Awaits set directly onto the sky area of the card.

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

Hope to Sea You Soon

Hey Crafters! It’s Safia here today sharing a fun and colorful card using the brand new Boat Buddies stamp set and dies. This set is absolutely adorable and I loved creating with it.

I started off my stamping all of my images with Tuxedo black Memento ink and then coloring all of my images with COPIC Markers. 

I then used a waves stencil from my stash to create some water waves. I did two layers of my waves. Then I used the cloudy stencil to make my sky in the background. I used the Rounded corner rectangle die to cut out my image and then laid out all of die cut pieces exactly where I wanted them to go

I finished my card by adding some highlights using my white jelly roll pen. I hope you guys have enjoyed this card, I can’t wait to see what you create with this set! 

Thinking of You Rain Or Shine

Hey all! Jill here with today's card featuring the amazing new release!

To create this card, I diecut the Thinking of You sentiment in white cardstock and ink blended in ombre blue colors. I colored in mice and Coordinating images from the Rain or Shine stampset and placed them aside. I wanted to create a fun, water inspired background so I took some cardstock that I cut out using the Rounded Rectangle Die  and ink blended in blue. I added splatters of white and blue to resemble rain.

Lastly, I mounted the images with foam tape and arranged them around the die cut sentiment. I love how this card turned out!

Thanks for stopping by!

Jill