Love you a Latte!

 Happy Saturday Teatimer’s hope you have had a great week. It’s DT member Natalie here with a sweet Pumpkin Spiced Latte Halloween card. I had so much fun with this one as I’m sure you can tell. I really enjoy playing around with the Take Out Coffee Cup Dies and I’ve done a few different scenes with it including a Black Forest Hot Chocolate winter scene and a Very Berry Summer themed card as well which you can also find on the blog. It’s just so versatile it’s also super easy to turn into a shaker card as well as you can see in my tutorial for the Black Forest Hot Chocolate card. 

 I used the Snow Flurry Die to create my background and ink blended a range of pink and purple distress oxide inks. To which I added some clouds using the Cloud Dies and the Windmill Add on Die Set. For the outline clouds I added some velum behind to add a soft texture. 

I added some black grass using the Slimline Hillside Dies and then began on the coffee cup. I cut out the main body and did some ink smooshing with orange and brown distress oxides. Setting that aside to dry I cut out the rest of the elements. 

For the stamped images I combined the Spooktacular, the little mouse from Hey There Critters and the toadstools from Life's Up's and Down's which is another great Autumn set. I coloured all the images up with Copic markers and die cut them all, except the big pumpkin which I fussy cut. the reason being I didn't want a white edge as I wanted it to look like it was part of the sleeve for the cup.

After adhering everything together I added some stars to the sky using a range of colours of gelly roll pens, they are great for just adding finishing touches to your card. I hope you like my card for this week don't forget to check back for more inspiration and if you want to purchase anything in the Time for Tea Shop you can get 10% off your orders using code T4TNATALIE10. Have a great weekend!

You are Faboolous

 

Hello and Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here today sharing a spooky shaker card using the new Spooky Circle Tags paired with the older Spooktacular Clear Stamp Set that was released last year but is still available in the Time For Tea Designs shop.

To start, I stamped the large background stamp and added colour with my Distress Oxides (Wilted Violet, Carved Pumpkin, Rusty Hinge, Squeezed Lemonade) using my Beautiful Rainbow Blender Brushes.

I added some water droplets as well as some splatter using a white glitter mist and set this aside to dry. I added splatter using the same Distress Oxides to some white card stock. I die cut an A2 panel using a stitched die in my stash and then used the Circle of Love Nesting Dies to pop out an area in the center of the panel.

 

Next, I stamped and coloured all of the cute elements with my Copics. I did have to do some masking so that the ghost could have the sweets in his hands. I cut out the elements and stuck them down to the card. The ghost went on the background panel and the rest were placed on the front panel.

I added some clear acetate to the back of the circle frame and adhered it with double-sided tape. I then added doubled-up foam tape to the panel and acetate,  and secured them down on top of the back of the ghost panel after adding some colourful sequins that I have had in my stash for years!

I stamped the two sentiments and die cut them out using the Be Kind Be You coordinating dies. I just love how so many of the T4T dies can be used for different stamp sets! To finish the card, I added the shaker to a white card base.

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.

Have a Purr-fect Halloween

 

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here. I can't believe October is already here! My Time For Tea Designs project features the new Spooky Circle Tags Clear Stamp Set, which I paired with last years' Spooktacular Clear Stamp Set to create a large slimline Halloween card.

I used the largest die in the Slimline Scallop Nesting Dies to cut out some Distress White Heavystock by Ranger. I blended on some Distress Oxides with my Beautiful Rainbow Blender Brushes in the colours Black Soot, Chipped Sapphire, Seedless Preserves and Spiced Marmalade. I added splatters in Seedless Preserves, water and white glitter mist. I set this aside to dry.

Next, I stamped the sentiment, circles and candies from the Spooky Circle Tags set and the adorable bat from the Spooktacular stamp set. I coloured everything in with my Copics and cut them out.

I used liquid glue to adhere everything down except the cat in the circle and the two green candies; for those, I used some foam tape. This added some dimension to the card.

To finish the card, I added some white gel pen accents. 

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.

Home Sweet Home

                                   

Happy Saturday everyone,  It's been a long week and I'm so ready for the weekend. I'll be staying home and catching up some missed crafting after a our first week of home school. What about you? Are you creating this weekend?

This week I was sad I didn't get to use the Spooktacular Stamp set as much as I wanted to at Halloween so I tried to think of ways to stretch it. I love to stretch my stamps as we know they aren't cheap so I like to get the most out of them.

I decided to combine it with the bear and accessories from the Home Sweet Home stamp set and another of the bears from the Bearing Gifts stamp set. I love that the bears all work so well together.

I started by cutting out three squares from the Quilted Square Nesting Dies two will form our card base and the other I used for the front of the card. I stamped out all my images and coloured them up with Copic Markers, the sky I just coloured up really simply with no shading other than with the little moons. 

The bears I chose some soft browns for so that they would stand out against that dark sky. Then for the books I like to not use too many colours so it doesn't distract the eye and keeps the card more uniform. I used the same yellow as the stars and used a darker shade of blue of the sky and mixed in some rich reds, and oranges. Then using the same red for the little cup. 

Once everything was coloured up I Die cut them out for the books though I removed the shelf that was under them afterwards as I wanted it to look like they were stacked up on the floor next to them.

I also needed to cut out the scallop circle die from the Spooktacular Coordinating Die set again out of white card this will just frame the sky like a window but still be quite subtle.

I popped everything on my card and then finished it up with the Home Sweet Home sentiment and that was my card finished up. I hope you like it and don't forget you can get 10% off in the shop using code T4TNATALIE10

Have a lovely weekend and I'll see you again next week!

Beary Sweet Fall Card - Using A Sketch for Inspiration

Hello everyone!!

I hope you're having a great crafty weekend.

Today I am sharing the card I made during our FB Live on Thursday. If you missed the live be sure to watch the edited version below to see how we made this sweet slimline card!

I think this card might be one of my most favourite cards in a while :)

I love all the super cute bears and their sweet treats sat in the patterned paper pumpkin patch.

The inspiration for the card came from a card sketch & colour inspiration from Pinterest.

I was really inspired by the colours, the fall theme and the sweet treats. Our Bearing Gifts Stamp set is perfect for this theme. I teamed it up with the Spooktacular stamp set which has the cool pumpkins and the Woodland Critters which has the piles of autumn leaves.

I could also have used the leaves in the Autumn Scene Cover Die or the Coordinating Dies for the leaves in the Woodland Critters set and just cut a series of leaves from colour cardstock or patterned paper.

I used the Slimline Scalloped Trios Circle Nesting Dies to cut several pieces of patterned paper. I then cut each piece with the Landscape Edge Dies to create a variety of  hills.

I used my Copic Alcohol Markers to colour my cute images and die cut the with the coordinating dies.

I added Glossy Accents to the donuts so they looked scrumptious & glazed.

In the video I talk through how we used the sketch to inspire our card but didn't follow it literally. I love using colour palettes and sketches as a starting point for my projects, especially when I'm struggling with my mojo!

The main elements we took from the sketch were the 3 circles - our 3 bears; the colour inspiration - fall colours; the sweet theme - cookie sweater textures, donuts and coffee; the sentiment at the bottom of our card.

I absolutely loved making this card and love how it turned out. I hope you do too!

Don't forget to join us every Thursday at 8pm BST on Facebook for our weekly Crafting Live with Jo.

A list of the products I used is below.

Happy Crafting 

Jo

XOXO

 

Boo!

Happy Wednesday!

It's DT Shabneez here with a fun Halloween card.  I'm sure you've seen the fabulous offer Time for Tea Designs is currently offering with 25% off the entire Halloween collection.  I've used the stamps from the Spooktacular set on my card today.

I had a lot of fun colouring in the images with my Chameleon pen and punching out holes then adding the googly eyes.  You can't beat a googly eye on Halloween!!!!

I used the Quilted Square Nesting dies to cut out the squares as I love the stitched element they provide.  This card shows off the different elements from the stamp set as well as being bright and colourful. 

As ever 10% off everything in store including the Halloween Bundle with my code T4TSHABNEEZ10.

Happy Crafting!

Products Used:

 

You are Spooktacular!

 

Hi everyone it's DT member Natalie here with another cute Halloween card. Halloween has to be one of of my favourite occasions to craft for purely because they are just so much fun to create. I love to customise regular stamps sets and make them Halloween themed like this one. I used the new Home Sweet Home set to create a sweet, spooky living room scene. The rest of the elements come from the Treat Yourself and Spooktacular Stamp sets. I stamped out, coloured and cut out all my elements. Then created my scene.

I cut out a black frame using the new A2 Nesting Frame Dies then used the size to cut out a rectangular piece of card to fit behind it. I drew a line for the floor and used my copics to create a woodgrain effect then used the Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide to create a warm glow behind the fire. 

Once this was done I popped on my frame and added my scene and sentiment I love how well the sets just work together but then Time for Tea stamps sets always do which is what I love about them. It really helps stretch your stamps to get the most out of them. 

I hope you have enjoyed my card for today don't forget you can get 10% off in the shop using code T4TNATALI10 

Home Sweet Home Clear Stamp Set

Home Sweet Home Coordinating Dies

Spooktacular Stamp Set

Treat Yourself Coordinating Dies

Spooktacular Coordinating Dies

A2 Nesting Frame Dies

Treat Yourself Clear Stamp Set

Emboss Resist Halloween Card featuring Spooktacular Stamps and Dies

 Hello crafters!  DT Elaine here today to share this spooky Halloween card using the new Spooktacular stamp set along with lots of other Time for Tea goodies in the range.

To start with I took a piece of white cardstock and treated it with an antistatic powder bag.  I placed the card in my stamp positioner along with the Plaid Background stamp and inked it with an orange dye ink.  Before removing the stamp and the card I repeated the stamping with Versamark Ink.  Next I took the singular line stamp in the set and inked it with Versafine Onyx Black Ink, another sticky ink which is great for heat embossing.  Once everything was stamped I coated the panel with clear embossing powder and heat set with a heat gun until melted and glossy.

 To add interest to the panel I applied Black Soot Distress Ink all around the edges concentrating the colour on the edge to create a gradient effect.  The areas coated in the embossing powder resist think and the orange colour shows through.  I cut this panel down to size using one of the square dies from Quilted Square Nesting Dies.

The ghosts and bats were stamped using Memento Tuxedo Black Ink, coloured with copic markers (C3, C1, C00, YR01, W6, W4, W1) and cut out using the co-ordinating dies.

For the cardbase I cut a piece of black card stock to 10" x 5" and scored at 5" on the longest side and burnished with a bone folder to create a 5" x 5" card base.  Using another of the dies in the Quilted Square Nesting Die set I cut a white square of card stock for a layering panel.

To frame the ghosts I used two dies from the Quilted Square Nesting Dies to cut a small frame from black card stock. All the layers were adhered to the cardbase and the images were adhered using foam tape to help add some dimension.

The sentiment was created using white embossing powder on black cardstock and trimmed down into a thin strip.  Foam tape was adhered to the back and secured under the ghosts.

To add a little extra sparkle, glitter was applied to the ghosts and jewels dotted around here and there.

I hope you enjoyed this card and check out the video! 

xx Elaine xx

 

You are Spooktacular!

 

Happy Friday everyone, today is another awesome release day for Time For Tea Designs! DT Annalisa here sharing a spooky card featuring two brand new stamp sets - Spooktacular Clear Stamp Set and Life's Ups & Downs Clear Stamp Set both of which are available today just in time for Halloween.

To start I stamped the stars, moons and clouds large circle stamp in black ink. I used my Beautiful Blender Brushes to apply Distress Inks in the colours Squeezed Lemonade, Carved Pumpkin, Rusty Hinge and Pumice Stone to white card stock. For the upper panel, I used Scattered Straw, Dried Marigold, Seedless Preserves and Chipped Sapphire Distress Oxides on some white card stock. I added water droplets as well as splatters in the various Distress colours for interest. 

I then used two dies on the upper panel, one from the Hello Rectangle Stitched Nesting Dies and the other from the Circle of Love Nesting Dies to create the opening. The third-smallest circle die fits the stars, moon and cloud stamp perfectly!

I stamped, coloured the critters and elements and cut them out with a nice white border. To cut out the sentiment I used one of the slider dies from the Hooray Hamsters coordinating die set. It was a bit too big but I did some partial die-cutting and made it smaller and it did the trick! The branch is from the Windmill Add On die which I coloured with Walnut Stain Distress Ink.

I added some foam tape to the outer panel and stuck it down on top of the inner panel. Next, I used foam tape to attach the ghost with the hat, sentiment and upper left bat, while the rest were stuck down with liquid glue.

To finish the card I stuck the two panels to some black card stock.

Don't forget I have a 10% discount code for the T4T store which can be used on anything, anytime and has no time limit - T4TANNALISA10