Interactive Saying Hello Card

 

Happy Friday. DT Annalis is here sharing a fun interactive shutter card featuring elements from several adorable stamp sets from Time For Tea Designs. The animal friends are having a great time in the warm sunny weather. 

 The following stamp sets were used to create this card: 

Lucky Ducks

Treat Yourself ('flying' mouse)

I Really Dig You (bee and butterfly)

Good Luck Critters (four-leaf clovers)

Hey There Critters (mouse)

Beavering Away (wood stump)

Jumping With Joy (porcupine)

Paper Plane Pals (clouds)

Darling Daffodils (sentiments)

To create this interactive card, I used the 'Shutter Card' die and 'Shutter Card Add-On' die from Lawn Fawn and followed several of their instructional videos on YouTube.

I used one of the Slimline Hillside Scene Dies to cut into stencilling material to create a stencil for the grass and sky. I love using my dies with this material to create stencils and get more use out of them.

For the sky, I ink-blended Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxide Ink using my Beautiful Rainbow Blender Brushes. I added Uncharted Mariner Distress Ink splatter with a paintbrush and water. I ink-blended Twisted Citron and Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide for the grass and added Rustic Wilderness Distress Oxide splatter. 

I stamped and coloured (with Copics) several images from the above stamp sets and cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen. I used liquid glue to stick all of the images and the sentiments (from Darling Daffodils) to the card.

For the front of the card, the sections were ink-blended with Mermaid Lagoon; the panels are green cardstock that was ink-blended Mowed Lawn Distress Oxide with Lucky Clover Distress Oxide splatter; the outer band is orange cardstock ink-blended with Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide. I die-cut patterned paper from the Sweet Summer 6x6' Paper Pad for the circle area and ink-blended it with Wild Honey Distress Oxide.  I used liquid glue to stick the duck to this circle.

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.

3D Ice Cream Card Video Tutorial

 Hello Vic here today and I am sharing a fun video tutorial  with you all today. I thought it would be a fun idea to use a SVG cutting file for my card today as I know some of you have electronic die cutting machines. Plus I thought this card will go great with the Sundae Sweeties stamp set.

You can see the video tutorial here:

In the video I show you how I put the card together, once my card was made I stamped out the images I wanted to use. I stamped my images using the Sundae Sweeties Clear Stamp Set & Coordinating Dies. I love these critters they look ready to tuck into lots of ice cream! I used my copic markers to colour the images in and then I used the coordinating dies to cut them out. 

I then added them onto my card using some foam tape. I popped the mice with the cherry at the top of the ice cream as I thought he would look super cute sat there. 

For my sentiment I stamped out a greeting from the Treat Yourself Clear Stamp Set. This is one of my favourite stamp sets and I thought the greeting would go perfectlly with the card. I heat embossed my greeting using some White Embossing Powder. I heat set my sentiment with my heat gun then trimmed the sentiment down. I adhered my sentiment onto some acetate and popped this behind the front part of my card. This will make the sentiment look like it is floating. I love doing this tecnique on my cards. 

 This card also folds flat to fit in an envelope. There is also a piece of white card at the back of the second ice cream to write your sentiment. 

I hope you enjoy the video tutorial today and it will inspire you to get your electronic cutting machines out. Thank you so much for watching the tutorial.

You can also save 10% off your Time For Tea Designs Purchases using the code: T4TVICKI10 at the checkout. This includes all new release items too. 

Have a lovely day!

Vic 

Sending Paper Hugs

 

Hello everyone, Annalisa here sharing the INSIDE of a card rather than the outside, (shocking I know!) because the inside is the show stopper on this card. I love how this pop-up card turned out using the Happy Mail Critters from Time For Tea Designs.

I used my Brother Scan N Cut SDX125e to cut a card base and inside the pop-up area for the card base. I purchased the design from Lori Whitlock's SVG Shop (Mailbox Pop-Up Card) and adapted it to create my card. The sky was ink blended using Salty Ocean Distress Oxide Ink and the grass was from some green patterned paper I had. I coloured the tree and leaves with Copic markers.

The mailbox, bird and heart envelope are from the Happy Mail Critters, the planters, bush and small leaves and flowers are from the Windmill Add On die, the mouse is from Treat Yourself, the cat is from the Smitten Kitten and the flower and butterfly are from Be Slothy.

I stamped, coloured (with Copics) all of the elements and die cut them out. The Windmill Add On die elements were coloured using Distress Oxides (Mowed Lawn, Lucky Clover, Picked Raspberry, Vintage Photo, Peacock Feathers, Squeezed Lemonade, Faded Jeans.) I added a green splatter to the greenery and some white gel pen highlights to some of the elements.

I used liquid glue to adhere the critters and other items to the inside of the card. I finished up the inside by stamping the sentiment 'hello, sending paper hugs."

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Take the Scenic Route

 

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here. The heat and humidity where I am have been brutal lately, so for this week's Time For Tea Designs card, I decided that these two critters should go for a drive with the top down to cool off.

To create this card I used the Hillside Village, Car Critters, Be Kind Be You and Treat Yourself stamp sets.

I stamped the houses onto some white card stock, which I cut to be 8 1/4 by 3 1/4. While the ink was still wet, I stamped the image onto some masking paper and then fussy cut it out. I masked the houses and then stamped the trees on top of them. I stamped the birds, sun and cloud onto the slimline background. Next, I stamped the sentiment from the Be Kind Be You sentiment stamp set. Once the background stamping was complete, I coloured the scene in with my Copic markers.

Next, I stamped the mouse, masked him out and stamped the car and bunny on top. I coloured the trio with my Copics and then fussy cut them out. To cut out my slider, I used the coordinating die set from the Hooray Hamsters stamp set.

I assembled the interactive element and then placed it down onto some blue card stock, cut to 8 1/2 by 3 1/2. There is a great video by Jo over on YouTube showing how to make the interactive element with a hamster. This car doesn't spin around (thankfully!), but the principle is the same.

I hope you like this card and would love it if you could use T4TANNALISA10 for 10% off your order the next time you purchase anything from Time For Tea Designs.

 

Paper Hugs Enclosed

 

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here sharing a shadowbox card featuring some older Time For Tea Designs products, as well as the new Brighter Days 6x6' Paper Pad. This is such a beautiful paper pad with so many terrific patterns.

To start, I used my Brother Scan N Cut SDX125e to cut a card base design from Lori Whitlock's SVG Shop (shadowbox card front flap hedgehog), which I adapted to create my card. I used several Time For Tea products for the inside of the card, including Up, Up & Away, Treat Yourself, Windmill Add On die, Happy Mail Critters, Mum & Dad Coordinating Die set.

I stamped, coloured (with Copics) and die cut the critters and other elements. For the fence and pots, I used some grey paper (fence), patterned paper (from the new release) and Distress Oxide in Mowed Lawn (green bush top). I assembled the inside of the card first, starting with adding the fence, grass (which I stamped the sentiment on) and pot, which I adhered to the card using liquid glue. Next, I added the hot air balloon bunnies, followed by the mouse, worm, flowers and die-cut heart. To finish off the inside, I added the clouds, the bee and the butterflies.

 

I cut out the beautiful pink bee patterned paper with the A2 Nesting dies and placed it on top of the blue card base for the front of my project. I stamped and coloured the bunny in the hot air balloon (with some masking to remove the second bunny) from the Up, Up & Away Clear Stamp Set. I cut it out and glued it to the patterned paper as well as some white puffy clouds. I also used the other bee from the All Occasion Critters Clear Stamp Set. 

I die cut the Paper Hugs Sentiment Die from some white card stock and used liquid glue to adhere the 'paper' sentiment to the patterned paper. To complete the front of the card, I stamped and die cut the 'Hugs enclosed' sentiment using the Be Kind Be You Clear Stamp Set and the coordinating dies.

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Springtime Friends

 

Happy Friday everyone, DT Annalisa here today. Spring is one of my favourite seasons; I love the longer days, plants peeking out of the ground and the budding trees. For today's project, I used several Time For Tea Designs goodies to create this adorable interactive spring scene.

To create the card, I used the following stamp sets: Happy Mail Critters, Be Slothy, Treat Yourself, Up, Up & Away, All Occasion Critters, Life's Ups & Downs, Skating By Penguins, Be Kind Be You and Happy Mail Critters Digi Stamp Add On Collection. I stamped (or printed), coloured (with my Copics), and cut out the images, and set them aside to add to the card later.

I created the background using Tumbled Glass and Moved Lawn Distress Inks, my Beautiful Rainbow Blender Brushes and the Scene It 6x6” Stencil. I added some water droplets as well as some glitter mist that I had in my stash. Once the panel was dry, I die cut it using the Lift The Flap Slimline Add On Die and the Slimline Scalloped Trio Circle Nesting Dies.

For the inside, where the flap opens up, I created a second panel with the same Distress Inks and stencil. I added some foam tape to the lift the flap panel and adhered it down to this inside panel. I then added them both to a slimline base which I die cut with the Slimline Scalloped Trio Circle Nesting Dies.

Then it was time to get to work on gluing down all of the adorable elements to the card. I stamped the 'hello' sentiment, inside the middle flap. I have to say, I just love the little bees that are in the All Occasion Critters stamp set, I get so much use out of them as cute little additions to my scenes.

I hope you like this card and would love it if you could use T4TANNALISA10 for 10% off your order the next time you purchase anything from Time For Tea Designs.