Happy 2023

 

Happy first Friday of 2023! To celebrate the beginning of a new year, I created this fun NYE party using stamps and digis from Time For Tea Designs. 

For the background, I ink blended Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, Chipped Sapphire, Prize Ribbon and Black Soot Distress Oxides using my Beautiful Rainbow Blender Brushes onto white cardstock. I added gold and silver metallic watercolour splatter with a paintbrush.

I stamped, coloured (with Copics) and die-cut images (with the coordinating dies) from the Happy New Year Critters Clear Stamp Set. 

Next, I used the cat and balloon number three in the Happy New Year Critters Balloon Numbers Add On Digital Stamp Collection. I am so happy and grateful that Jo from T4T created these and made them available for download for free! I horizontally flipped the cat in Photoshop to have one facing right. I love the ability to do this with digital stamps. 

I adhered the images with either liquid glue or foam tape for added dimension. I love using foam tape on my cards for added interest. The frame around the outside of the scene is from Waves Cover Die, this does a great job of framing the scene. 

I used the smallest die in the Simple Slimline Nesting Dies to die-cut the 'Happy New Year' sentiment. You have to do a partial die-cut and run it through your machine twice but this die is great for cutting around smaller emotions. I used liquid glue to adhere the text to the card and complete it. 

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

Facebook Live - Feline Spooky Halloween Special!!

Hi there!

Jo here just to let you know that the latest FB Live is now available to view at your leisure on YouTube!

Be sure to watch the video below as it shows how this card was made. There's also a supply list at the end of this post for the T4tD products I used.

I should just mention that the Digi Collection featured here is still available for free with any purchase in the T4TD shop. You'll have to be quick though as the offer expires at Midnight tonight!!

I have edited it a bit so it's not so long :) If you do want to see the full length version it is still available on our Facebook page.

In this weeks FB Live video I demonstrated how to make this shadow box card using the Box Clever Die set. 

 

 My images were printed onto super smooth cardstock and then adhered to some cheap cardstock to give them a bit of stability once they were used on my card. I coloured them with my Copic Markers and fussy cut them all out. The shapes were quite simple so cutting them out was relatively easy.

 I used the Box Clever Die to cut out the pieces for my Box card.
I assembled part of my card & suspended my cat & dog images onto acetate to make it look like they were flying or floating.

My background was the haunted house image from the set and I show in video how I coloured the spooky sky.

I added the Feline Spooky sentiment and some of the treat images as embellishments to the front and side panels of my card. I used Stardust Stickles to make them glittery.

Finally I suspended my cute spider from the top centre of my card window with some acetate.

Links to all the products I used are listed below.

PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR FB LIVE EVENTS WILL BE ON A THURSDAY at 8PM GMT FROM NOW ON! I'd be thrilled if you could join me. :) 

If you have any ideas for what you'd like me to demonstrate using T4TD products then please do let me know either via our FB or IG pages! 

Take care & Yappy Howlloween!