Candy Cane Christmas

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa! Today I’m sharing my first Christmas card of the season, featuring the adorable Sweet Christmas stamp set from Time For Tea Designs.

To create the background, I started with watercolour paper and Distress Watercolour Pencils in Prize Ribbon, Peacock Feathers, Evergreen Bough, Uncharted Mariner, Mermaid Lagoon, and Iced Spruce. I layered the colours one at a time, heat-setting between sprays to build depth and texture. For a final touch of interest, I added splatters of Picket Fence Distress Spray Stain.

I die-cut a frame from white cardstock using the Stitched Window Cover Die and adhered it to the blue panel with liquid glue. I then used liquid glue to adhere them both to a white card base. 

Next, I stamped several images from the Sweet Christmas stamp set, coloured them with Copics, and cut them out using my Brother ScanNCut SDX125e. I added highlights with a white Gelly Roll pen.

The “Happy Christmas” sentiment is from the Simple Sentiments set. I stamped it with VersaMark ink, sprinkled on Ultra Fine Embossing Powder, and heat-set it until smooth and melted. I then used a die from the A6 Simple Nesting Dies to cut it out.

I adhered the images to the card base with liquid glue and foam tape to add dimension.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post! Don’t forget to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you shop at Time For Tea Designs to receive 10% off your order.

Penguin Christmas Shaker

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here sharing my last Christmas card of the year, a colourful shaker featuring the It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas stamp set from Time For Tea Designs.

I started with watercolour paper and die-cut using the Stars Stitched Cover Die. Then, I sprayed the die-cut panel with Mermaid Lagoon and Uncharted Mariner Distress Spray Stain and used my Heat It craft tool by Ranger to dry it. After that, I added some shimmer by spraying the panel with Cocktail Party Mica and Merry Mint Mica.

I used White Silver Neenah cardstock to cover the entire surface of the card base. Next, using double-sided tape, I adhered acetate to the back of the inked star panel. I placed 3mm double-sided tape on the back of the panel and attached it to the card base. Before securing the star panel, I sprinkled Candy Christmas sequins mix from Pawsome Stamps in the appropriate areas.

I stamped and coloured several images from the It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas set using Copics, then cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen. The Christmas tree and candies are from Gingerbread Family - Our House to Yours.

To add some sparkle, I applied small dots of glue to select areas on the stamped images using my Quickie Glue Pen by Sakura and dipped them into Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter. I then secured all the stamped elements to the card using liquid glue.

For the sentiment, I stamped "Happy Christmas" from the Simple Sentiments set onto black cardstock with VersaMark ink. I sprinkled Alabaster ultra-fine embossing powder by Brutus Monroe (in white) over the stamped sentiment and heat-set it. I used a small rectangle die to cut it out.

To finish the card, I added some clear dots from Pretty Pink Posh for an extra touch.

Thank you so much for reading my blog post! Don’t forget to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you shop at Time For Tea Designs to receive 10% off your order.

Hi, hello

Hello Tea-timers...

DT Ashlee here with you today sharing some new Time for Tea designs inspiration to get your crafty mojo rolling! 

This card uses one die set along with one sentiment stamp. An easy but nice CAS card. The die I used is the Hey, Hello, Hi set and the sentiment is from the Simple sentiments clear stamp set.

I started by cutting a pink card base for my card which I then placed and die cut the shadows to both of the hi, hello sentiment. I then backed this with a black piece of card where I went on to die cutting the wording 4 times per word. These were all glued together to create a raised sentiment effect on the card!

Using the sentiment stamp I stamped that directly onto the card base with black ink before completing the card with a touchy of pretty sequins adhered with micro glue dots. An easy but sweet card to send to someone with a little note inside.

That's my card for today, I hope you like it. Until next post happy crafting, hugs Ashlee.

I wish I could make it better....

 Hey there tea-timer friends...

DT Ashlee here with a clean and simple card design for this week which is perfect when you only have a small amount of time to get a card made!

I used these Time for Tea designs products for this card....

- Hey, Hello, Hi dies

- Simple sentiments clear stamp set

To create this card I started with a peach coloured card stock cut to my card base size. I then used the shadow of the hello die to die cut the space for the sentiment. Once the sentiment shadow was die cut I adhered a white card base in place with liquid glue. 

I stamped the sentiment "I wish I could make it better" directly onto the card with Memento tuxedo black ink beneath the shadow cut. 

Using black card I die cut the hello word piece four times so I could glue them all together making the sentiment pop up from the card base giving it some dimension. To complete the card a tiny touch of sequins and it was all done!

I'm really happy with how this easy design turned out, I think I will definitely be re-creating it with different sentiment. 

Until next post happy crafting, hugs Ashlee. 

Happy Birthday!

Hey there Tea-timer friends...

DT Ashlee here to inspire you with some awesome Time for Tea goodies! 

For this card I used these T4T products :

- Eggstra special birthday stamp & co-ordinating die set

- Fishtail banner dies

- Simple sentiments stamp

- Slimline porthole dies

To create this card I started with a blue card stock base and gave it a splatter with black paint. I then die cut the porthole out of the top middle and made it into a shaker frame with the co-ordinating frame die. I filled the shaker with a bunch of pretty sequins/embellishments and backed it with pink card stock 

I stamped, coloured and die cut a bunch of images from the Eggstra special birthday set and adhered them to create a happy little birthday scene. These were all coloured with Ohuhu markers. To complete the card I die cut a banner and stamped a sentiment "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" along with a touch of sequins!

I hope you enjoyed today's card, I'll be back next week with more T4T goodness!

Happy crafting, hugs Ashlee. 

I'm here for you

 Hey there Tea-timer friends...

It's DT Ashlee here and today I've got some simple easy to re create inspiration for you that would be perfect if you need to mass produce some cards!

I used these Time for Tea designs products :

- Pawsome dies

 - Hey, Hello, Hi dies

- Simple sentiments stamp set

- T4T Enamel dots clear bubbles

To create this card I started with a teal blue card stock base that I die cut the largest pawsome die paw from and then in laid the pieces back in. (The in lay pieces were die cut from a light grey card stock). 

I stamped a sentiment directly onto the card stock base from the simple sentiments set. This was a sub sentiment for the large hi die cut that I added just above the stamped sentiment and then completed it all with two clear bubble enamel dots!

A simple but sweet card that's easy to re-create. May be you might want to case this one and create a batch of cards too...

Thanks for stopping by T4T today, I hope you feel inspired by my card. Happy crafting, hugs Ashlee.

Happy anniversary Hammy's

 Hey there Tea timer friends...

Who's ready for some new T4T inspiration? This one is Pink and full of cute little Hammy's that are ready to celebrate!....

I used these Time for Tea designs products :

- Hooray hamster stamps

- Hooray hamster co-ordinating dies

- Flirty flowers cover die

- Fishtail banner die

- Simple sentiments stamps

To create this card I started by inking a light pink cardstock base with Pucker up ink from Catherine Pooler ink. I then die cut this panel from the flirty flowers cover die. I added a shiny pink paper underneath to fill the flower design (unfortunately the shine doesn't show in the photo but its pretty cool IRL). 

A couple of banners were then die cut from black cardstock that I heat embossed sentiments on using WOW! Opaque bright white embossing powder. I adhered both those using foam tape for dimension. 

Four hammy's were stamped, coloured and die cut (I used Spectrum noir tri-blend markers to colour them) before adhering to the card base also with foam tape. 

The card was completed by adding a touch of pretty sequins!!

I hope you enjoyed todays card, thanks for stopping by and happy crafting. Hugs Ashlee. 

Happy times village

 Hey there Tea-timer friends...

DT Ashlee here with some new T4T inspiration for you!!

For this card I used these Time for tea designs products :

- Sweet village stamp/die collection

- Hey there critters stamp/die collection

- Simple sentiments

- Mini slimline scallop dies

To create this card I started by die cutting all my base pieces from the Mini scallop slimline die set from different colours of cardstock. Once I had those all adhered to make my card base I started to bring my scene together by stamping, colouring and die cutting images from both the Sweet village and Hey there critters sets.  

I coloured up all the images with Spectrum noir tri-blend markers.... 

I love dimension on my cards so I used different levels of foam tape to adhere the scene.

A small sentiment "Happy times" from the Simple sentiments set was stamped on white cardstock using black ink and then mounted in green cardstock and then the whole card was completed by adding a touch of sequins!!

Do you like this mini happy times village card? I'm so happy with how cute it turned out...

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, I hope you feel inspired to get creative!!

Happy crafting, Hugs Ashlee.

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Rainbow waves

 Hey there Tea-timers...

I hope you are all having fun getting crafty.

I've got some new T4T inspiration for you and this one is complete with rainbow goodness!!

I love a good rainbow so for this one I've done a blended rainbow Distress oxide ink background using the awesome Waves cover die....

I layered the waves pieces with different levels of foam so that it wasn't just one flat piece and I love the way it turned out!!

I then die cut three of the Fishtail banners and added sentiments to each one...

The sentiments were from the set Simple sentiments. To stamp them I placed the stamp and the die cut piece into my Misti so that I could slightly bend the stamp so that it went along the curves of the banners!!

The banners were all folded along their fold lines and then adhered to the card base. 

It was all completed with a touch of sequins for a bit of bling of course.... 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today and checking out my latest creation for the new release products.  If you would like to see this card some more pop on over to the YouTube and you will spot it in one of Jo's latest lives!!

Happy crafting, hugs Ashlee

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