September Challenge - Guest Designer Trina P

 I'm absolutely delighted to welcome a special guest designer to the challenge today - Trina P.

Trina has used Life's Ups And Downs and because she loved the images so much has created not one, but two amazing cards.

Trina's colouring and ink blending is just perfection!

How much fun are the critters having in both her scenes! I know you must be feeling just as awestruck and inspired by her cards as I am.

So with that in mind I meekly share a card I've created using the beautiful colours from the Challenge palette.

I started my card by cutting the tree in four colours using the Tree of Love Cover Plate. I then placed the negative cuts back into the base tree.

I too am smitten by the cute critters from Life's Ups & Downs and chose the elephant all wrapped up in his snuggly scarf - I added in the woolly hat too, just to be sure that he kept cosy.

And what would a tree be without some birds? They're from Brighter Days and I've yet to see a colour that doesn't suit them.

Have you joined in with the September Autumn Colours Challenge yet? 

Remember there's the chance to win a £25 spend in the T4TD shop!

Thanks for looking today.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane

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September Challenge - Autumn Colours

  Hello everyone! 

It's time for the September challenge at Time For Tea Designs!

Thank you to everyone who joined in with the August Challenge. The winners will be announced on 15th September.

This will be the last T4TD challenge for 2021. We are going to take a break from challenges as we explore other ways for you to win T4TD goodies. So for this challenge and the previous August challenge there will be just the one randomly drawn winner for a £25 spend in the T4TD shop. 

Keep your eyes open for news about October's chance to win in the facebook friends group and be sure to follow T4TD on Instagram.

Autumn gives us such a beautiful colour palette to play with and we'd love you to use it on your cards this month.

Just remember to include a T4TD product as your focal point.

We're delighted to welcome July's DT pick JordyC as a guest for this new challenge.

JordyC has used lots of T4TD goodies on her amazing 3D scene. the images are from the Happy Mail Critters, Bears Picnic and Moovellous stamp sets (plus Lucky Ducks for the friend part of the sentiment) and she has used the Dienamic Display Card Dies to create the 3D element.

And of course I've joined in with a card too.

I started by creating the background using the Hillside Village stamp set and coloured it up using autumnal shades. The grass was cut using the Landscape Edge die. 

Next I cut a frame using the Smile Inverted Scallop Frame die and then I moved on to the characters. The fox, mouse and pile of leaves are from Woodland Critters and the wheelbarrow is from Blooming Bunnies.

The greeting is from Be Kind Be You and I thought it was appropriate to my little scene as they are obviously making preparations for that long winter nap. 

So now I'm saying for the last time for a while - it's over to you! Please link up your entries via the Challenge Blog Post. 

Enjoy!

Jane

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August Challenge - Guest Designer Hannelie

 I'm absolutely delighted to welcome a special guest designer to the challenge today - Hannelie.

 Hannelie has used the new Birthday Bear stamp set and created the most wonderfully crisp and clean card using the colours and patterns from the mood board.

Isn't that just amazing?

I've also got another card to share today.

I used one of the super cute Bee Happy bees and a couple of papers from the Sweet Summer pad.

The white card is the left over piece from the Smile Inverted Scallop Frame die and the heart is cut from the Slimline Postage Stamp Frame die. 

Have you joined in with the August Mood Board Challenge yet? 

Remember there are two chances to win! 

Check it out on the challenge blog - HERE.

Thanks for looking today.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane

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August Challenge - Mood Board

   Hello everyone! 

It's time for the August challenge at Time For Tea Designs!

Thank you to everyone who joined in with the July Challenge. The winners will be announced on 15th August.

We've a wonderful Summer mood board to inspire you this month. It may be the colours, the patterns, the textures, the images or just the whole summer vibe that talks to you. We're so looking forward to finding out!

Just remember to include a T4TD product as your focal point.

We're delighted to welcome June's DT pick Krealotte as a guest for this new challenge.

Krealotte is an amazing colourist and has created the most gorgeous scene for the Lucky Ducks to play in.  

Even her gingham card mat reflects the mood board!

Thank you so much Krealotte for agreeing to guest with the T4TD August Challenge.

And of course I've joined in with a card too.

It was the colours that reached out to me first and especially the grass. So I started by using some of the Brighter Days papers and the Landscape Edges and Inverted Scallop Frame dies.

I created a summer sky using the Slimline Scene Builder stencil and then added in the main images from Bears Picnic and some smaller elements and a sentiment from Blooming Bunnies.

I really hope the ant doesn't steal too much of the picnic!

So now it's over to you. Check out our How to Play page as a reminder of how to play along. And here's a little reminder about the prizes.

We're so looking forward to seeing you link your entries on the challenge blog - HERE. 

Enjoy!

Jane T

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T4TD New Challenge Blog

 Hey!

I have really exciting news to share!

We've now got our very own separate T4TD Challenge blog. Check it out HERE.

So from now on you'll be able to link up your challenge entries using the linky tool provided there. 

Here's a reminder of the current challenge:

Already entered this challenge through our facebook group? Well don't worry you will still be included in the prize draws for the May challenge.

We're so buzzing about this new blog and hope to see you link up your entries there.

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane

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Challenge #2 - Use Dies

 Hello everyone!

So our first challenge is all complete and we'll be announcing the winners on 15th May here on the blog and also in our fb groups.

But now it's time for the second challenge!

Now we understand that some of you may not have T4TD dies in your craft stash yet, so just for this challenge we're relaxing the rules a bit. Although we'd love for you to use T4TD dies, as long as you use T4TD stamps and stencils for your entry it will be OK to use any dies you already have.

And remember you can use our free digital images for your entry too. Grab yourself one HERE.

How about a little DT inspiration from Lien to get you in the mood?

Lien has used the awesome Box Clever Card Die to create her awesome card.

The super cute images are from the Happy Mail Critters and Treat Yourself stamp and die sets. 

Don't you just love the shades of pink and her amazing colouring of the animal images?

I'd really love a pink mail box like this one, wouldn't you?

How about a little reminder about the prizes? Check this out!

And how about a little DT inspiration from me? Here's my card using T4TD dies:

I've used the Stripes Cover Plate as the foundation for my card. I inked up a piece of card with distress oxides in happy Spring colours before die cutting it and adhering it to a toning aqua card base.

I then used some of the cut out pieces to die cut the leaves from the Spring Blooms set. I also inked up some smaller pieces of card in pinks and oranges and die cut some flowers. I popped a few up on foam pads for extra dimension.

I finished off my card using the Happy Birthday Sentiment die.

I'm hoping you're now raring to go, so all I need to do is remind you how to play along.

The key things are that you should use T4TD stamps and stencils along with any dies you have in your stash - yes any dies, remember we've relaxed the rules just for this challenge.

I'm so looking forward to seeing your entries pop up in the Challenge #2 album in our friends facebook group.

Enjoy!

Jane T

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Challenge #1 Reminder

 Hi!

I'm here today to remind you all about the challenge that is going on in the T4TD Friends Facebook group.

Have you joined in yet?

Well just in case you haven't here's a little inspiration to get your creativity kickstarted.

I've used the puddle jumping umbrella holding oh so cute piggy from Hogs & Kisses for my card. 

I started by creating a background using the Landscape Edge dies and then framed it with the large Scalloped Frame.

I then stamped, coloured and die cut the piggy and popped him up on foam pads just overlapping the frame a little.

The sentiment, toadstools and raindrops were stamped straight onto the background pieces.

I'm joined today by DT Natalia with even more inspiration. She has created this super cute card using Happy Mail Critters and the Autumn Scene Cover Plate die.

How beautiful is her background inking and attention to detail!

Here's a reminder about how to play and the prizes on offer:

We're all looking forward to seeing your cards pop up in the Challenge #1 album in the facebook friends group. 

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane x

Challenge #1 - Cute Critters

 Hey!

I'm so excited to be here today with the first of the T4TD monthly challenges!

And it's a fabulous theme too!

You will need to use your T4TD stamps, dies and stencils to enter the challenges, but then with a theme like Cute Critters that's so easy! If you don't have any T4TD stamps yet head on over to the freebie digital section of the shop and grab yourself one - HERE.

So I hear you asking how do I join in? Well you need to create your card and then pop over to the Time For Tea Designs Friends Page on facebook and upload it to the Challenge #1 album. Easy!

You can enter the challenge up to three times and we would love it if you also popped your card into other challenges too.

There will be prizes! More about that in a minute, but for now let's have a little DT inspiration to get you into the creative mood.

I've used three of the delightfully cute little piggies from Hogs & Kisses and created a landscape slimline card. I die cut some background layers using the Slimline Trio Circle set and popped a piggie in each of the windows.

The sentiments are also from Hogs & Kisses and I used the matching dies to cut the piggies and the speech bubble.

How adorable are these piggies!

Now for the prizes! 

There will be two chances to win:

1. a random pick from all the entries for a whopping £25.00 to spend in the T4TD shop. How awesome is that?

2. the opportunity to guest for a future challenge, winner picked by one of the T4TD DT.

So now you'll be itching to get started and join in the fun! But wait a while and check out another card by DT Lyndsey. Sure to inspire you and get you even more revved up and ready to go.

Oh how adorable are those sloths just chilling on the branches!

OK I'll keep you no longer! Ready, start, goooooo!

Stay safe and keep crafting!

Jane T

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