New Year's Snowman Tag

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, and I’m excited to share a mixed-media New Year’s tag featuring stamps, dies, and a stencil from Time For Tea Designs.

To start, I spread Wendy Vecchi's translucent embossing paste over the Movie Star 6 x6" Stencil onto a Tim Holtz mixed-media heavy stock tag using a palette knife. Once the paste dried, I picked up pigment from the tips of my Distress Watercolour pencils with a wet brush and applied it to the tag’s surface. I layered the colours, adding more pigment and water to create a soft, blended effect. For an extra touch, I spritzed the tag with my Distress Sprayer to add droplets of water, then set it aside to air dry. I used the following Distress Watercolour colours: Saltwater Taffy, Festive Berries, Carved Pumpkin, and Scattered Straw.

Next, I die-cut the Happy New Year Sentiment Die using both navy blue and silver cardstock. I glued the two pieces together with liquid glue, offsetting them slightly to create a shadow effect, then adhered the sentiment to the tag.

I stamped images from the Snow Much Fun and Happy New Year Critters stamp sets, then colored them with my Copic markers. After cutting them out with the coordinating dies, I added accents with a white gel pen for extra detail.

To finish, I added sparkles to the edges of some of the images using a Quickie Glue Pen and Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter. I adhered the stamped images to the tag with either liquid glue or 1mm double-sided foam tape for added dimension.

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Tis the Season to Decorate!

Hello everyone!

Michelle from the Design Team here and this week’s card is all about festive fun and teamwork! Just look at these two little cuties decorating their Christmas tree. The kitty and squirrel are working together to string up lights and hang ornaments, and it couldn’t be more adorable. 

Supplies used:

Sweet Cart Critters

Snow Much Fun

Jumping With Joy

A5 Woodgrain Stamp

To create the background panel, I used a stencil and ink blended with Weathered Wood Distress Oxide for a soft brick look. Next, I shopped my stash for the arched window where I die cut it from white card stocked and lightly ink blended the edges again with Weathered Wood Distress Oxide to match.

The window background is a blend of Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean Distress Oxides with a silver and white paint splatters. I love how window gives a glimpse of a snowy winter sky, making it feel extra cosy indoors.

The wooden floor grounds the whole scene and this was made from my favourite technique of stamping the A5 Woodgrain stamp on Kraft card stock using Vintage Photo Distress Oxide. 

Each of the critters, decorations, and the gifts were stamped and coloured with alcohol markers. A tip - a white gel pen and some strategic fussy cutting were used to separate out some of the images! They were then arranged and in some places scraps of card were used for layering and dimension.

 

The sentiment is a nice and simple 'Merry Christmas' heat embossed onto red card stock cut into a fish tail banner to match the red ribbons on garland framing the window.

It’s a joyful little moment captured in card form and I hope it gives you all the warm, festive fuzzies too!

Michelle

A Snowy Globe of Cheer!

Hello Tea Timers!

Design team member Michelle here and for today’s inspiration, it is a classic Christmas look with this sweet snow globe card. Inside the globe is an adorable snowman all bundled up in a red scarf and top hat, surrounded by snowy fir trees. 

Supplies used:

Snow Much Fun

Trees - Happy Trails 

Foliage - Season’s Tweetings

Simple Circle Dies

A5 Woodgrain Stamp

Joyful Winter Paper Pad

As usual, all the images were stamped and coloured in with alcohol markers. I used a black fine liner to create the snow on the trees and added highlights to all the images with a white gel pen.

To make the snow globe, I nested 2 of the Simple Circle dies together and die cut them out 4 times from white card stock. I then layered and glued them together to it give dimension. 

The background of the snow globe is a blend of Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers and Salty Ocean Distress Oxides making white acrylic paint snow splatters really pop! 

I used the extra inner part of the circles leftover from the snow globe to die cut some hillsides to ground the snowman and trees.

The base of the snow globe has a warm woodgrain feel and this was created with my favour texture stamp at the moment - the A5 Woodgrain stamp on Kraft card stock using Vintage Photo Distress Oxide. It is finished with festive foliage and a bright red “Merry Christmas” sentiment banner. 

The background panel is a pattern from the Joyful Winter Paper Pad cut slightly smaller than a standard card base giving a thin white border. Snowflakes die cut from glitter card stock were scattered throughout for a magical finishing touch.

This card just makes me smile and I hope it brings a little joy to your day too!

Michelle

Critter Christmas Wreath!

Hello everyone!

Design Team member Michelle here and this week’s card is bursting with Christmas spirit! A wreath full of festive details frames a sweet little group of friends, each one decked out in their Santa hats and ready to celebrate.

Supplies used:

Jumping With Joy

Hey There Critters

Snow Much Fun

A5 Woodgrain Stamp

To make the card, I created the woodgrain background by stamping the A5 Woodgrain stamp onto Kraft card stock with Vintage Photo Distress Oxide. I had to do this a couple of time to get the crisp lines! I then lightly ink blended the edges using some more Vintage Photo Distress Oxide to give it some dimension. 

For the focal part of card, I stamped all of the images onto white card stock and coloured them with alcohol markers. I added highlights using a white gel pen. 

To create the wreath, this was 4 of the leaf piles from the Jumping With Joy stamp set that I coloured in three shades of green and arranged in a circle. Most of the ornaments on the wreath were all bits and pieces from other stamp sets I mentioned. The only exceptions are the hats, bow and ribbon that I shopped my stash for. 

I love how the bold red ribbons and ornaments pop against the dark woodgrain background.

I felt that the critters were getting lost in the woodgrain background and to make them stand out a bit more, I took some white card stock and Iightly ink blended some Crack Pistashio Distress Oxide onto it and then backed it onto the wreath.

The sentiment is simple and a classic “Merry Christmas” in bright red to match all the joyful touches scattered around the scene.

This was a really fun card to make and I hope this brings a smile to your face and a little extra cheer to your crafting this week!

Michelle

Merry Christmas, Croc Style!

Hello Everyone!

Michelle here from the Design Team and today, I bring you another adventure with the crocs! 

These two crocodiles are spreading festive cheer in the most delightful way - by picking out the perfect Christmas tree! They've had a jolly time at the tree farm and are now carefully loading their prize onto the roof of their bright yellow car. 

Supplies used:

Snappy Before Coffee

Car - Just Married

Trees - Snow Much Fun

Fence - Ewe Are Moovellous

I created a snowy background filled with falling flakes by ink blending Salty Ocean, Peacock Feathers and Salvaged Patina Distress Oxides. The snowflakes are white acrylic paint splatters and die cuts from white glitter cardstock.

For the ground, this was two hillsides layered on top of each other to look like a snow-covered driveway - one from Kraft cardstock that I ink blended with Ground Espresso Distress Oxide and splattered with Black Soot Distress Oxide to give it texture. The second was die cut from white cardstock with the edges lightly ink blended with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide with the middle section cut out.

All the images were either stamped or printed, coloured with alcohol markers and highlighted with a white gel pen. The only exception was the rope around the tree - this I hand drew as there wasn’t a stamp for this specific purpose!

For the sentiment, I must confess that I ran out of room! It all worked out in the end though as the crisp sentiment tucked inside a speech bubble keeps it simple and sweet - a cheerful “Merry Christmas”. 

To complete the card, mounted it onto a slimline card base that I had ink blended a candy cane stripes using Festive Berries Distress Oxide.

Wishing you a croc-full of Christmas joy and crafty inspiration!

Michelle

Snow Much Joy!

Hello Team Timers!

Michelle here from the Design Team with another festive card, full of fun and snowy smiles. These two snow friends are ready to decorate the tree and dance under the falling snowflakes, all wrapped up in pastel winter magic.

Supplies used:

Snow Much Fun

Snowflakes - Falalala Slimline Dies

To start, all the images were stamped and coloured with alcohol markers and highlights were added with a white gel pen.

The background was ink blended in a soft mix of purple, blues, greens and touch of pink (Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, Salty Ocean, Shaded Lilac and Saltwater Taffy Distress Oxides), then topped with splattered snow and layered snowflake die cuts (cut from white glitter cardstock) for extra texture. 

For the snowy ground, these were two hillsides die cut from white cardstock - the edges were lightly ink blended with Salvaged Patina Distress Oxide and then layered on top of each other. 

Next, I added a bright tree in the centre, the two snow friends and surrounding them with baubles and candy canes to finish the scene.

For the sentiment, I shopped my stash and found this perfect scripty style ‘Wishing You Joy!’. I heat embossed this onto bright pink cardstock (to match with the earmuffs on one of the snow people) using white embossing powder and the fussy cut around it.

I hope your season is merry, bright and full of sparkle!

Michelle

Holiday Market Cheer!

Hello everyone!

Michelle here from the Design Team with a Christmas card that’s full of festive cheer. These sweet robins have bundled up and gathered at a holiday market stall for warm drinks, twinkly snow and lots of smiles.

Supplies used:

Seasons Tweetings

Snappy Before Coffee

A5 Woodgrain Stamp

Trees - Snow Much Fun

Bunting - Trick Or Treaters

The snowy night sky is ink blended in deep blues (Salty Ocean and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxides) with plenty of white splatters and snowflakes die cut from white glitter cardstock for a flurry effect. I added trees and a woodgrain hut to bring the scene to life. 

The hut was made from stamping the A5 Woodgrain stamp in Ground Espresso Distress Oxide onto Kraft cardstock. Once the ink was dry, I traced out the outline of a hut (measuring roughly 3.5 inches x 3.5 inches) in the pencil and then cut it out. I ink blended some more Ground Espresso Distress Oxide around the edges of the hut to give it more dimension before cutting out strips of dark brown cardstock to make the roof and the window ledge.

The characters are all stamped and coloured with alcohol markers, dressed in winter hats and scarves. The string of bright bunting adds the perfect pop of colour above.

I found the perfect simple Merry Christmas sentiment in my stash. I heat embossed this onto red cardstock with white heat embossing powder. 

This card would be lovely to send warm wishes to someone special this holiday season.

Wishing you hot drinks, happy crafting and all the holiday sparkle!

Michelle

Interactive Christmas Card

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here today sharing a festive interactive card as we are just days away from Christmas! It features the Open The Door Die and some adorable Time For Tea Designs critters. 

I created the background with the Tiled Wall 6 x 6" Stencil by spraying on lumberjack plaid Distress Spray Stain and water on some high-quality watercolour cardstock. I used the left-over ink that remained on the stencil after using it for another background. I placed watercolour cardstock on the inky stencil and pressed it down firmly. I carefully lifted the cardstock and sprayed it liberally with water to create this beautiful effect. 

I adhered this 5-by-5-inch panel to a white card base and added a snowy hill using the Landscape Edge Standalone Die. I ink-blended lost shadow Distress Oxide ink onto the stairs area of the Open The Door Die and stuck it on top of the snowy hill on the bottom center of the card.

I ink-blended prize ribbon Distress Oxide ink onto the woodgrain cardstock and then splattered it with water. I die-cut the inked woodgrain cardstock and a silver metallic paper with the door die. I glued a piece of white paper to the back of the door so that I could stick it in the silver sections of the door. 

Next, I trimmed white cardstock to fit behind the door frame. I used the Tiled Wall 6 x 6" Stencil and lost shadow Distress Oxide ink to create the inside wall of the house. Antique linen Distress Oxide ink was ink-blended for the floor. 

I stamped and coloured (with Copics) images from Snow Much Fun, It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas, Baked With More Love and Let’s Party and cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen. I glued these to the inked background 'wall' cardstock. I then glued this scene in behind the door frame so that it would peak out when you open the door. 

I used liquid glue to stick the door panel and it's' inside to the front of the card. I didn't own the Open The Door Holiday Add-On Die Set (I do now! as I grabbed it in the awesome Black Friday sale!), so I decorated it with mistletoe from It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas and holly from Gingerbread Family - Our House to Yours.

The elements on the front are from Let’s Party (the small red present), Lucky Ducks and It's Penguin-ing to Look A Lot Like Christmas. I coloured these elements with Copics and stuck them down with liquid glue.

Finally, I added the 'HO HO HO' from the Sentiment Cards – Winter Wonderland White to complete this card.

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