Goodbye 2024! 👋

The last blogpost in 2024! And also the last post by me, Ilona, unfortunately.

As you might have read in the update on the 12th of december, the GPSR regulations puts T4T in a very unpleasant position, and selling and sending to people within the EU is no longer possible. 

Guess who lives in the EU? 😒

So it is with a heavy heart that I present to you my last T4T DT card! When happy things come to an end I tend to get sad, so I tried turning it around by making a very joyful, sparkly, happy and hopeful card. What else could be more perfect than a happy new year card on the last day of 2024?

I started off by die cutting a rectangle out of white cardstock with the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 and blending distress oxides salvaged patina, peacock feathers and uncharted mariner. With a stencil and Nuvo glitterpaste I added the sparkly fireworks.

Out of black cardstock, I die cut a border with the Slimline Mini Village Die and adhered it onto the background as soon as the glitter paste had dried.

I then took two critters and two balloons out of the Hey There Critters Clear Stamp Set, and replaced the balloons (but keeping the strings) by sparkly fireworks. I colored the critters with alcohol markers and gave each of them a firework to hold. I die cut the sentiment with the Happy New Year Sentiment Die twice. Once in black cardstock and once in metallic gold cardstock. Adhered them together, leaving a slight black 'shadow' visible. 

I adhered the critters and the sentiment onto the background using 3D foamtape.

Last step was to die cut a scalopped edge using the Sweet Scalloped Dies.

That rounds up the making of this card ánd my membership of the T4T design team. I really enjoyed this last year! Please keep following the remaining members of the team and support T4T if you can, they deserve it!

I wish all of you a very very happy, sparkly and creative 2025! Enjoy the festivities tonight and be careful 💜

~Ilona~

 

"Hello.. See You Soon!"

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. We are just days away from a new year and with this being my last card of the year and on the design team, I wanted to create somewhat of a sentimental card. 

I wanted this card to look like the critter was driving off into the sunset. The critter isn't saying goodbye though, more like see you again hopefully soon.

Sets Used:

Car Critters stamp set

Car Critters coordinating die set available here

Mountain Scene Builder dies

Hey, Hello, Hi dies

I first stamped out my images and then fussy cut them out. There are coordinating dies available for this set. I then used Copic Markers to color the images and set them to the side.

I took an A2 panel and blended it with Fossilized Ember, Scattered Straw, Saltwater Taffy and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxides. I then splattered this background with white watercolor. 

I then took another A2 panel and die cut out the mountain pieces. For the large mountain pieces, I blended it with Gathered Twigs and Tea Dye Distress Oxides. I then splattered this piece with white watercolor.

I took a road die that was from a retired set and die cut it out of grey cardstock. I blended it with Black Soot and Weathered Wood Distress Oxides. I then trimmed down a white piece of cardstock to fit behind it.

To assemble my card, I added the mountain piece first onto my background using liquid adhesive. Then I added the ice caps on top.

I added my road to the very bottom of the card panel and trimmed off any excess pieces.

I then die cut out the 'hello' sentiment from green cardstock and adhered it with foam dots after I stamped the "see you soon" sentiment directly onto the panel using black ink.

To complete my card, I adhered the critter behind the car using liquid adhesive. I then added foam tape to the back and adhered the critter in the card to the road.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post today and I hope you have a wonderful new year full of happiness, great health and crafty adventures.

All the products I used are linked above. Don't forget to use the code T4TRANDY10 at checkout for extra savings. Happy crafting and I hope to see you again soon!

Happy Hump Day!

 Happy Sunday everyone!

I created a birthday card featuring the Happy Hump Day clear stamps from Time For Tea Designs. 

First, I colored the stamps with my alcohol markers. I used Copic alcohol markers in the colors E39, E37, E35, E34, E31, and E30 for the camels.

I created the background using a cloud stencil and Distress Oxide inks. For the sky, I used Mermaid Lagoon, and for the sand, I chose Scattered Straw. I splattered white and light yellow ink on the beach to add some texture and highlights.

This time, I went with a pink background to make the card even more cheerful.

This is my final Design Team card for this year. I hope to create even more inspiring cards in the new year!

Wishing you all a wonderful New Year’s celebration and a happy, creative 2025!

Thank you so much for reading my blog post. Don't forget to use my discount code T4TMYRTHE10 when you shop at Time For Tea Designs to receive 10% off your order.

Creative wishes,

Myrthe

🐭 Have a Mice Cheesemas! 🐭

Hello my lovely Tea Timers! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas. Today I’m sharing the last of the Xmas cards with you and I’m using the NEW “Merry Cheesemas” A6 stamp set. I think this set is just sooo adorable!!!

New Arrivals – Time For Tea Designs

Merry Cheesemas Stamp Set – Merry Cheesemas A6 Stamps – Time For Tea Designs

To create this card I have masked off a round section and I’ve done some ink blending using the Scattered Straw, Fossilized Amber, Dried Marigold and a little Vintage Photo Distress ink from Tim Holtz and my blender brushes. I then used a wet paintbush to add some large water splashes and some white ink splats.

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 Arteza Everblend Markers.

I have added some of the Festive Fun enamel dots for some cute interest and because I’m addicted to them hehe!

Thank you for visiting the T4T blog today. For a 10% discount on your order, use T4TIRELAND10

Warm hugs, Emma x

Penguin Christmas Shaker

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here sharing my last Christmas card of the year, a colourful shaker featuring the It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas stamp set from Time For Tea Designs.

I started with watercolour paper and die-cut using the Stars Stitched Cover Die. Then, I sprayed the die-cut panel with Mermaid Lagoon and Uncharted Mariner Distress Spray Stain and used my Heat It craft tool by Ranger to dry it. After that, I added some shimmer by spraying the panel with Cocktail Party Mica and Merry Mint Mica.

I used White Silver Neenah cardstock to cover the entire surface of the card base. Next, using double-sided tape, I adhered acetate to the back of the inked star panel. I placed 3mm double-sided tape on the back of the panel and attached it to the card base. Before securing the star panel, I sprinkled Candy Christmas sequins mix from Pawsome Stamps in the appropriate areas.

I stamped and coloured several images from the It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas set using Copics, then cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen. The Christmas tree and candies are from Gingerbread Family - Our House to Yours.

To add some sparkle, I applied small dots of glue to select areas on the stamped images using my Quickie Glue Pen by Sakura and dipped them into Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter. I then secured all the stamped elements to the card using liquid glue.

For the sentiment, I stamped "Happy Christmas" from the Simple Sentiments set onto black cardstock with VersaMark ink. I sprinkled Alabaster ultra-fine embossing powder by Brutus Monroe (in white) over the stamped sentiment and heat-set it. I used a small rectangle die to cut it out.

To finish the card, I added some clear dots from Pretty Pink Posh for an extra touch.

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.

Glazed snowy confetti❄️

Hello everyone! 

I thought I'd try a new technique with one of the T4T stencils and show you the result! So this time I started with the background, as it takes a lot of time for the paste to dry. I used the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 and die cut a panel out of white cardstock and a slightly bigger one out of light grey cardstock. I colored the white panel using distress oxides cracked pistacchio, peacock feathers and blueprint sketch. After I finished blending, I took the Confetti 6 x6" Stencil and used Nuvo glacier paste 'winter white'. Set it aside to dry. 

Meanwhile I used the Takeout Coffee Cup Dies to make a cup in christmas colors and a wintery teabag label. I used white glitter cardstock for the top and some bakers twine to have the label dangling from underneath the top. The snowflake has some Stickles cool mint on it for some extra glitter!

I used the Let it snow sentiment die and blended uncharted mariner, peacock feathers and salvaged patina on the inner piece. With a white jellyroll pen I added some accents.

When the glacier paste had dried, I adhered the panel onto the slightly larger grey panel and that was adhered onto a white double folded card.

I used 3D foam tape to stick the teacup and the sentiment onto the card and love how even though we have two large centerpieces, the glazed snowy confetti still catches attention!

Want to add a couple of new stencils you can use with glacier paste to your stash? Use T4TILONA10 in the store for a 10% discount!

"Have a Mice CHEESEMAS..."

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. We are just a couple days away from Christmas and I have one last card to share before the big day.

I wanted to use the recently released 'Merry Cheesemas' stamp set in my last holiday card for 2024.

Sets used:

Merry Cheesemas stamp set

Tiled Wall stencil

I first stamped out my images and the fussy cut them out. The latest release does not have coordinating dies. Once I cut them out, I used Copic Markers to color all of the images.

To create my background, I took an A2 panel and masked off the bottom portion. I wanted it to look like the mice were celebrating "cheesemas" on top of a counter.

Using the Tiled Wall stencil, I blended it onto the top portion of the panel using Saltwater Taffy and Worn Lipstick Distress Oxides.

For the sentiments, I stamped them out onto white cardstock and then trimmed them down into separate strips.

To assemble my card, I first adhered the cheese tree in the middle of the card using liquid adhesive.

On one side of the tree, I added the sleeping mouse and the one eating the cheese along with the plate of milk and cheese. I wanted it to look like one mouse was waiting for Santa but fell asleep while the other was eating the cheese from the plate meant for Santa.

On the other side of the tree, I added the mouse with the present. The second mouse was holding a piece of holly but I trimmed off the holly and adhered a piece of cheese to show a gift exchange. 

I completed my card by adding the sentiments on either side of tree using liquid adhesive.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post today. All the products that I used are linked above. Don't forget to use the code T4TRANDY10 at checkout for extra savings. 

Happy Holidays!

Let's Party

 Let's Party

Happy Sunday from DT Myrthe

I created a birthday card featuring the adorable unicorns from the "Rainbows and Unicorns" stamp set by Time For Tea Designs.

First, I colored the stamps with my alcohol markers, choosing soft pastel shades that I thought would match the playful theme of the unicorns.

Then, I decided to make a shaker card. To do this, I used square dies to create the frame. For the background, I blended three Distress Oxide ink colors: picked raspberry, squeezed lemonade, and peacock feathers.

I also colored the "Let’s Party" sentiment with these inks and adhered it to the background. I made the frame using two different sizes of square dies, which I inked in pink. Next, I added clouds along the frame before securing acetate to the back. By using foam tape strips, I created depth, allowing the shaker elements to move freely.

Lastly, I splattered some colorful ink on the card to add an extra fun touch. I’m really happy with how the card turned out — it definitely feels like a celebration!

Thank you so much for visiting the blog!

Remember to use my discount code T4TMYRTHE when you visit the Time For Tea Designs shop to get 10% of your order.

Creative wishes,

Myrthe

Holly Jolly Christmas

 Hi Friends!
I’m Patricia and today I share you a new Christmas card with new release Santa's Nice list stamp set

For the background I've used Distress Oxide ink (Wilted Violet & Worn Lipstick colors)

I've cutting two circles from Stitched Circle dies for use under the two santas and highlight them from the background

And I've given both of them a few touches with Distress ink so that they were not completely white.

For the sentiment I used one of sentiment of the set and White Velvet Alpha Stickers. To finish I used a few Festive Fun & Clear enamel dots.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post. Remember to use my discount code T4TPATRICIA10 when you visit the Time For Tea Designs shop to get 10% off your order. Happy Crafting!  

🎄 Smile! It’s the most wonderful time of year! 🎄

Hello my lovlies! Can you believe Christmas is only 4 days away!? Have you recieved one of these free little gifts with your recent T4T orders? For todays card i’m using it as a card topper. It’s just sooo cute!!!

New Arrivals – Time For Tea Designs

In case you missed the new release from Time for Tea Designs, there are 4 NEW sets to get your hands on this Christmas –

1. Seasons Tweetings – Seasons Tweetings A6 Stamps – Time For Tea Designs
2. Sweet Christmas – Sweet Christmas A6 Stamps – Time For Tea Designs
3. Merry Cheesemas – Merry Cheesemas A6 Stamps – Time For Tea Designs
4. Santa’s Nice List – Santa’s Nice List A6 Stamps – Time For Tea Designs

To create this card I’ve cut out a piece of white card using the T4T A2 Layers Die Set. I’ve done some ink blending using the Picked Rasperry, Festive Berries, Candied Apple, Worn Lipstick and Spun Sugar Distress inks from Tim Holtz and my blender brushes. I have then used my Tim Holtz Distress water mister to create some interest.

For the patterned paper I have used a sheet from the Joyful Winter 6×6 Paper Pad and used the Scalloped Circle Dies to cut it out. I then used the Simple Stiched Circle Dies to cut a plain white circle which I attached my image too. I have fussy cut out the free gift image and popped him up on some foam tape for dimention. I added a few enamel dots from the Festive Fun Enamel Dots set. I absolutely LOVE these! I use them on EVERYTHING! 

Thank you for visiting my blog today. For a 10% discount on your order, use T4TIRELAND10

❤️ Treat yourself to some Christmas goodies! ❤️

Visit the Time For Tea Designs blog for more information and inspiration on my card plus others from the amazing team.

Warm hugs, Emma x

Christmas Tweetings

Happy last Friday before Christmas! DT Annalisa here and I want to share my favourite Christmas card of the year featuring two adorable birds from the Seasons Tweetings stamp set visiting a lovely Christmas market.

I applied Evergreen Bough and Peacock Feathers Distress Paint to my glass mat and sprayed it with water to create the background panel. I then smooshed a piece of Distress Watercolor cardstock into the paint and heat-set it with my heat tool. I repeated this process a few times for added texture.

Next, I applied Weathered Wood Distress Oxide Spray to the panel, followed by white splatters made with acrylic paint, water, and a paintbrush. Once the panel was dry, I used double-sided tape to adhere it to a card base.

I die-cut several shapes from Distress Watercolor cardstock using the Open The Door Holiday Add-On Die Set. For colouring, I used Distress Watercolor Pencils, water, and a paintbrush to colour the trees (Evergreen Bough, Mowed Lawn), wreaths (Rustic Wilderness, Mowed Lawn), bows, lights, and pots (Picked Raspberry). I added white splatters to the trees and wreaths for additional detail.

I used silver and silver glitter cardstock for the stars, circles, and Christmas ornaments. I assembled the trees, wreaths, and lights, securing them to the card with liquid glue and double-sided tape. To enhance the design, I added a thin strip of patterned paper from the Winter Wonderland Paper Pad 6x6" to the top and bottom of the pots.

I stamped the two birds from Seasons Tweetings, cut them out with my Brother Scan N Cut SDX125e, coloured them with Copic markers, and added highlights with a white gel pen.

Finally, I stamped two sentiments, fussy cut the word "tweetings," and used the smallest rectangle from the Simple Slimline Nesting Dies to cut out "Christmas." I attached these to the card base using double-sided foam tape. To complete the card, I added a white frame that I die-cut with the Smile Inverted Scallop Frame Dies.

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.

Merry cheesemas

Have a Merry Cheesemas!

    Today the last card I share with you on the blog before Christmas. For this inspiration card I used the cute mice from the Merry cheesemas stamp set.

    I colored the stamped images with Copic markers. The color combinations used are shown below.

For this card design I used the stitched circle dies & the scallop circle dies.

    The design paper comes from the Joyful winter paper pad.

    I liked adding some yellow ink to the text bars on one side.

    Want to shop after reading this blog post? Use the code T4TDAISY10 for 10% discount in the webshop. 

I want to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. Enjoy the little things and the people you love❤️

Creative greetings Dais🌸

 

All I want for christmas is...

snow AND crafting goodies ofcourse! 😜

Been having a blast with the new christmas designs, but did not forget about the 'oldie' Snow Much Fun Clear Stamp Set. Because, come on, aren't these fellas the most cutest snowmen you've ever seen?? 

I stamped them and colored them with Copic alcohol markers. I ran them through my die cut machine and set them aside to start working on the background.

I used the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 and die cut a panel out of pink cardstock and one panel out of white cardstock. With the help of a stencil, I made a landscape using distress oxides tattered rose, salvaged patina and peacock feathers. I splattered white acrylic paint for snow. After it dried, I adhered the panels together onto a white card base.

I added my little snowmen with 3D foam tape. For the sentiment I used the Sentiment Cards - Winter Wonderland | Black and combined it with Anthony's Alpha Dies. Made from white glitter cardstock and another set in black just to create a little shadow and make them pop. Adhered those with 3D foam tape as well and that finished my card!

What would you like for christmas? Is it anything available in the T4T webshop? You can use T4TILONA for a 10% discount if you'd like! 
 

Fa La La La La

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. Today, I am back to working with the new release and continuing the Christmas inspiration. 

I have been seeing all the fun holiday family photos on social media and thought it would be cute to have the critters in the 'Sweet Christmas' stamp set in polaroids/snapshots.

Sets used:

Sweet Christmas stamp set

Falalala Scalloped Slimline die set

Memory Keeping Essential die set

Pawsome Prints stencil

Sunburst Stencil

Joyful Winter Paper Pad

I firs stamped out my images and then fussy cut them out. The latest release does not have coordinating dies. I then used Copic Markers to color the images. Once completed, I set them to the side to work on the polaroids.

I took the Polaroid die set and die cut it out of white cardstock twice. I then took more cardstock and trimmed it down to fit behind each polaroid.

To create the different backgrounds for each polaroid, I decided to use different stencils.

For the first background, I blended Abandoned Coral Distress Oxide over the background. Then blended Lumberjack Plaid Distress Oxide over the Sunburst stencil over the blended background.

For my second background, I blended Twisted Citron Distress Oxide over it. I then took the Pawsome Prints stencil and blended Mowed Lawn and Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxides over it.

I adhered the backgrounds behind each polaroid using liquid adhesive. I then added two critters to each polaroid using foam tape.

I took one of the papers from Joyful Winter paper pad and die cut a panel using an A2 die from my stash.

With the Falalala die, I die cut it out of gold cardstock to use as my sentiment.

To assemble my card, I first adhered the polaroids using liquid adhesive and overlapping them onto the panel.

I then completed my card by adding the sentiment onto the bottom of both polaroids using liquid adhesive.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial today. All of the products I used are linked above. Don't forget to use the code T4TRANDY10 at check out for extra savings. Happy Crafting!