Let's Shellebrate!

Hello everyone!

Michelle here from the Design Team with a splashy birthday card featuring two adorable otters celebrating in style. These little critters are floating in the cutest pond, surrounded by mountains, trees, and plenty of shells for the ultimate birthday bash!

Supplies used:

Beach Buds

Trees - Seasons Tweetings

Mountain Scene Builder Dies

To create the peaceful outdoor scene, the sky in the background was ink blended with Shaded Lilac Distress Oxide. For the mountains, I die cut them using the Mountain Scene Builder Dies from grey and white cardstock. 

The grassy area was ink blended with Twisted Citron and Lucky Clover Distress Oxides. The water was die cut a couple of times from a wave die and ink blended with Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean Distress Oxide before being splattered blue metallic watercolours. I added glittery accents to the water to make it shimmer like the sun’s shining down. 

The otters were coloured with warm tones and tucked in the water, looking so content as they enjoy their big day. I hand drew the rocks and boulders to help fill out the scene as it was looking a bit empty.

The punny sentiment says it all: let’s shellebrate! I think it’s a perfect way to send some birthday joy to a friend who loves the outdoors or sea life.

Thanks so much for stopping by! May your day be as fun and relaxing as these otters!

Michelle

Unicorn Happy Birthday Card

 Hello DT Vic here today and I have a fun shaped unicorn for you today. I wanted to make something fun and colourful so I used the Unicorn In Training Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies.

I love how cute these unicorns are. I made my card base using the silhouette machine but feel free to use a standard size card as this will still work. Once my base was cut out I then used a piece of white card to make a card panel. I then used the Scene It Stencil and a Beautiful Blending Brush along with some Distress Ink Worn Lipstick. I made some pretty clouds and then using the Mountain Scene Builder Dies I die cut some pink and blue card. I added the blue card to the top of the mountains as were in unicorn land the colours are going to be pretty right? I adhered the tops of the mountains to the pink card and then added some Stickles. I then adhered these onto my bottom panel of card and trimmed around the bottom edges as my card is a shaped card.I then adhered my panel onto my card base.

Next I stamped my images onto a piece of copic friendly card and coloured them in with my copic markers. I then used the dies and run them through my die cutting machine. Once the images are cut out I then adhered them onto my card using foam pads.

For my sentiment I used the Happy Birthday greeting from the Butterflies Clear Stamp Set and I used a bright pink ink to stamp my sentiment. I then added some more glitter to the unicorns and rainbow. I hope this I inspires you to create a cute colourful card. 

Don't forget you can save 10% off your Time For Tea Designs Purchases using the code:T4TVICKI10 at the checkout. 

You can also catch Jo tonight at 8pm on our Facebook page where she will be crafting some gorgeous cards. Pop over and say hello and craft along with us or just enjoy watching Jo craft. 

Thanks for stopping by today,

Vic

GDT Lisa Tilson is playing in the mountains

Hello everyone, my name is Lisa Tilson (find my blog HERE). This is the second of my projects as a GDT for Time For Tea Designs. I have used the same stamp set – Life’sUps and Downs aswell as the Mountain Scene dies. Love those mountains, so cute!  Again, I began by creating my background. I masked off a section around my white panel and ink blended a sky and grass area. I went from dark to light for the sky from the top, and from dark to light from the ground for the grass area. There is actually a white area between the sky and grass but it isn’t visible behind the mountains. I die cut the mountains from two different grey cardstocks, and their peaks from white and adhered them together. I also decided at this point to cut two white clouds from the Autumn Scene cover plate set. I set all these to one side and started on the colouring!

The images were stamped onto white cardstock and coloured with Copics before cutting them out with the coordinating dies. The fun bit is arranging them all into a little scene. So I did that and took a photo so that I knew where to position all the images once I started the assembling. Some were adhered flat and some popped up with foam tape. To finish I stamped a sentiment from Life’s Ups and Downs onto white cardstock, trimmed it and added some foam tape to that too. The whole panel was then added to my horizontal top folding card base.

 Time for Tea Designs products used:

 

 

Stop Beavering Away!

                                     

                                  

Happy Weekend everyone it's Design Team member Natalie sharing my cute Beavering Away card. The new beavers are absolutely adorable and a great addition to the shop. 

I combined the stamp set with the new A2 Nesting Frame Dies and Mountain Scene Builder Dies to create a fun scene card.I started by cutting out the A2 Nesting Frame Dies out of some white cardstock I only used the largest one but popped the others to he side to keep for any future projects. I used this as a guide to cut out my base for my scene to go on. I stencilled some blue clouds in the background and drew some birds in the corner for a little added interest. For the rest of the scene I cut out the mountains the grass from the Landscape Edge Dies and one of the clouds from the Windmill add on Die set I think the other one was a random die cut I had lying around on my desk. I added some colour to these using distress oxides. 

The critters and tree are both coloured with copic markers I used the same browns from the beavers as for the tree this makes it quick to colour and keeps it uniform. I popped everything on my card base and added my sentiment in the corner and then popped the frame on top I coloured this with the same brown markers I used for the beavers. Then just added it to my card base and my card was finished. Have a great weekend and don't forget you can still get 10% off in the Time for Tea shop using code T4TNATALIE10

A2 Nesting Frame Dies

Landscape Edge Standalone Die

Windmill Add on die set

Beavering Away Coordinating Die Set

Mountain Scene Builder Dies

Beavering Away Clear Stamp Set

 

Sweet Beaver Video Tutorial

 Hello Vic here this morning and I’m very excited to share a fun video tutorial today.

I used the gorgeous Beavering Away Stamp Set And Coordinating Dies. Aren’t the images on this stamp so adorable!

To start with I stamped out the images and water coloured them in with my Zig Brush markers. 

Using the Coordinating Dies I adhered the dies over my images using washi tape then I run them through my die cutting machine.

Next I used the Birch Forest Stencil and I started to add some inks over the top of the stencil using my Beautiful Blender Brush. 

I then used my washi tape to secure the stencil down as I will be stamping over the top. The stencil once removed shows the trees in white where there is no ink but as I wanted the stencil to look like logs I used brown ink over the stencil.

After the ink blending is complete I used the Mountain Scene Builder Dies and using some light brown card and cream card I adhered the pieces together. I then die cut some grass and hills using the Landscape Edge Die

After I adhered the pieces down I stamped out two sentiments from the stamp set and heat embossed them with white embossing powder.

I had so much fun making this card and it’s great for man cards too!

Don’t forget you can check out the brand new release Here and you can also save 10% off your order using the code: T4TVICKI10 at the checkout.

Have a lovely day!

Vic