Too cute to spook 👻

Goodday all!

Last week I mentioned my favorite season is fall. In my case, this also means I'm fond of Halloween 🧡💚💜 I especially enjoy the aesthetics of the holiday on cards. Time for tea has got the perfect digital stampset for that! You can find it HERE, it's called 'Trick or Treaters' and it's packed with cute critters dressed up for Halloween!

So I started off by printing the set on smooth white cardstock, suitable for alcohol markers. I colored them with my Copic markers and used my Scan 'n Cut machine to cut them out.

Next up was creating a background and sentiment. I used the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 to cut out a panel for blending. Blended using dried marigold, kitsch flamingo, seedless preserves, blueprint sketch and black soot. After it dried, I splattered water and white acrylic paint on top of it. I used the same combination on another smaller piece of cardstock and used this to cut out the Too Cute To Spook Sentiment. 

I adhered the background to a panel which I made using the largest of rectangles from the Sweet Scalloped Dies. I added the sentiment and the critters using 3D foam tape and some enamel dots in corresponding colors which finished my card!

Do you enjoy creating Halloween cards as much as I do? Let me know!

Spooky greetings,

~Ilona~

"You are the PUMPKIN SPICE in my latte"

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. As we are getting into the fall season, I wanted to start off the new season with a card featuring one of my favorite ingredients: Pumpkin Spice!

I am combining older and newer sets for my scene and background. I wanted to show two friends enjoying their drinks together.

Sets used:

Warm Hugs stamp set

Warm Hugs Coordinating die set

Pumpkin Spice stamp set

Pumpkin Spice Coordinating die set

I first stamped out my images and used the coordinating dies to die cut them out. I then used Copic Markers to color the images.

I took an A2 panel and masked off the bottom 1/3 of the panel with low tack tape. I then blended the top portion with Rusty Hinge, Ripe Persimmon, Carved Pumpkin and Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxides.

I then let the ink blending dry for a bit. I took the anti-static powder and dabbed it over the blended part. Using the pumpkin stamp and embossing ink, I stamped it over the blended background several times.

I poured white embossing powder over the stamped images and then set it with a a heat gun.

For my sentiments, I first stamped out "you are the" onto the bottom portion of the card panel with black ink. 

Once I got to the "pumpkin spice" portion of the sentiment, I thought it would be nice to tie the color back to one of the inks that I used to blend the background. So I stamped "pumpkin spice" with the Rusty Hinge Distress Oxide.

I then completed the sentiment by stamping "in my latte" with black ink.

To complete my card, I added the two critters above the sentiment using foam tape, overlapping them just a bit.

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

Thinking of You Every Daisy

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here sharing a sweet Thinking of You card featuring the Oops a Daisy stamp set and the Scattered Hearts Stencil. This is my most used stencil from Time For Tea Designs!

I ink-blended kitsch flamingo, dried marigold, scattered stray and cracked pistachio Distress Oxides onto an A2 card through the Scattered Hearts Stencil with my Beautiful Blender Brushes. After I removed the stencil, I filled in the white areas left on the card with the remaining ink on the brushes.

I used a stitched rectangle die to trim a white card panel to 4 inches by 5 1/4 inches. I then used one of the Heart Nesting Dies to cut out a heart from the upper center section of his panel. I used 1mm double-sided foam tape to stick this to the card base over the ink-blended area.  

I stamped and coloured (with Copics) several images from the Oops a Daisy stamp set and cut them out with the coordinating die set. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen.

I used the Fenced In Dies to die-cut white woodgrain card stock and stuck this to the card with liquid glue. I attached the images to the card base using a combination of liquid glue and double-sided foam tape for dimension.

I stamped and die-cut the sentiment with its' coordinating die and used liquid glue to attach it to the card.

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

Fall is a real treat!

I love all things fall! The colors, the smell, the food, even the weather! And since our summer holiday has ended, I long for fall. No wonder my cardmaking is going in that direction as well 🍂 So here's my fall themed card for this week!

I started off by stamping and coloring the cute critters from the Enjoy the Little Things Clear Stamp Set, and cutting them using the coordinating dies.

Next up, I used 3 rectangles from the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 set. The two smallest sizes in white cardstock and the bigger one in color (Lawn fawn canned pumpkin).   

With the help of the 6x6 Scene Builder Stencil and Mustard seed distress oxide, I added clouds to the smallest rectangle. I blended vintage photo and walnut stain oxides on another strip of cardstock en cut it out to fit the bottom of the clouded rectangle. I added paint splatters on both pieces and glued them together once the paint had dried. 

Next thing to do was BIG fun for me: scower through all of my fall themed paper packs to find that one perfect design paper! I used the largest rectangle from the Sweet Scalloped Dies to cut it out and adhered all the rectangles together using thin double sided tape. I used a nice ochre color cardstock for the sentiment. Stamped on the sentiments with versamark watermark ink and used white embossing powder with my heating tool. I love how the white pops off the ochre background! 

I added the critters, the sentiments and additionally some enamel dots to the card using foam tape (1mm and 0.5mm) which finished up this project. It's on my card display right at this moment and I am so in love with the colors! I hope you like it too and would enjoy seeing lots of your fall themed cards it the nearby future as well!

All the best,

~Ilona~

"A Toast to You!"

 Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. Today I have another card where I create a background with just one stamp image. This time I wanted to focus on the toast image that is in the 'We Got Together' stamp set.

I wanted to pair this background with a "punny" sentiment that I created using dies and words in other sets. 

Sets used:

We Got Together stamp set

We Got Together coordinating die set available here

Anthony's Alpha dies

I first took an A2 panel and stamped the toast image around it. I made sure to stamp at different angles to fill the background.

I then stamped out several more images of the toast on a separate piece of cardstock and fussy cut them out.

To color my different toast, I used the following Copic Marker color combos:

Avocado Toast: YG21, YG23, YG45

Butter Toast: Y32, Y35, Y38

Nutella Toast: E23, E25, E27

Grape Jam on Toast: BV11, BV13, BV17

Strawberry Jam on Toast: R22, R24, R27

I made sure to alternate colors when I was coloring each toast. 

I then die cut out the word 'toast' twice from teal and pink cardstock. I decided to die cut it out of teal cardstock to create the shadow.

Using the various sentiments, I masked off certain words to isolate the phrases "a" and "to you" to complete my sentiment. I heat embossed them onto teal cardstock using white embossing powder and embossing ink. 

I then trimmed down these sentiments and worked on adhering them onto my card with the word 'toast' first.

I adhered the teal letters first using liquid adhesive and then the pink letters slightly over them.

I then took the two sentiment strips and using liquid adhesive. With the toast images that I stamped separately, I added them on top of the background using foam tape to complete my card. 

All items I used are linked above. Don't forget to use the code T4TRANDY10 at checkout for extra savings. Happy Crafting!

One More Chapter Bookmark

Hello everyone, DT Annalisa here with a colourful bookmark to share with you today that combines both new and older sets from Time For Tea Designs. It is always great to get more use out of older sets with new dies and stamps!

Sets used:

Book Buddies stamp set

Book Buddies coordinating dies

Squeeze the Day

Squeeze the Day coordinating dies

Sweet Cart Critters

Sweet Cart Critters coordinating dies

Oops a Daisy

Oops a Daisy coordinating dies

Scattered Hearts Stencil

Bookmark Dies

I die-cut the large bookmark die from Distress White Heavy cardstock by Ranger. I ink blended abandoned coral, spiced marmalade, squeezed lemonade, twisted citron and peacock feathers Distress Oxide through the Scattered Hearts Stencil with my Beautiful Blender Brushes.

After using the stencil, I used what was left on my blender brushes to fill in the white areas left on the bookmark.

I die-cut the smaller inner piece of the bookmark from vellum. I stamped the 'one more chapter' sentiment using VersaFine Onyx Black ink, sprinkled on Icicle ultra-fine embossing powder by Brutus Monroe (clear), and heat-set it with an embossing gun. I then used a double-sided vellum adhesive to adhere it to the bookmark.

I stamped out my images and used the coordinating dies to die-cut them. I then used Copic Markers to colour the images and added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen.

I used liquid glue to stick the stamps to the bookmark and added Designer Enamel Dots from the Sweet Summer collection.

Finally, I tied teal twine to the slot at the top of the bookmark to make it easier to pull out of a book.

Thank you so much for checking out 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.

Precious Pastel

Goodmorning / afternoon / evening all!

Once again, I have taken out the Book Buddies A6 Stamps and their coordinating dies to create a card this week. I do have a lot of 'bookish' friends, but I also have to admit that this particular stampset is becoming one of my favorites.

Just look at that cute cat peeping over his book! 💚

If you look back on this blog, it might be visible that I mostly tend to use bold and bright colors, so for this card I deliberately dared myself to only use pastels.

I started off by coloring the stamped images and left out the darkest color of my Copics combinations, creating less contrast and sticking to the soft look pastels have.

   

The background was made by die cutting a piece of smooth white paper with the largest Sweet Scalloped Die. I used masking tape to create a rectangle in the middle, leaving the scallops and stitched lines white. I blended Distress oxides salvaged patina and tattered rose and splattered with rose gold paint thinned with water.

After I gave it some time to dry, I stamped on the sentiment with watermark ink, and heat embossed with white powder. Using 3D foam tape, I adhered the stack of books and the critters on top of the background and added a few clear enamel dots around the scene. And ofcourse, last thing I did, was adding Ranger glossy accents to the glasses!

I'm quite happy how soft the card looks and that I managed to tone it down a bit for once. I might do this more often, it's a great way of using the same stamp set differently! 😀

Enoy your day!

~Ilona~