Road Tripping slimline card

 

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, my card today features elements from the new Sweet Summer Ephemera Pack from Time For Tea Designs. There are so many adorable pieces in this set that I knew that I had to create a cute card using some of them. The car, butterfly, houses and road trip sign are all from the ephemera pack which contains more than 50 pre-cut images, with a variety of images and sentiments.

To create the card, I cut down some Distress White Heavy cardstock by Ranger to 8 1/4 by 3 1/4 and used Distress Oxide Ink and my Beautiful Rainbow Blender Brushes to colour the sky (Faded Jeans, Peacock Feathers and Salvaged Patina) and soil under the road (Antique Linen). For the hills, I used a die in my stash (you could use the  Mountain Scene Builder Dies from T4T) and Speckled Egg Distress Oxide.

I created the road using the Slimline Hillside Scene Dies and coloured the pieces with Black Soot and Squeezed Lemonade. For the grass, I used some green paper that I had on hand. To assemble the card, I started by adhering down the mountains with liquid glue onto my panel, near the top on the left-hand side. I then added the grass, clouds, road and little houses. The clouds were die cut from the Hillside Village coordinating dies.

I added foam tape to the back of the butterfly and car to add dimension to the card. I then added the 'road trip' bumper to complete the card.

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.

My Summer Memory Book

Hello, DT Kitty here! Today I am sharing my summer memory book that I made using lots of the new products from the Memory Keeping Collection. I was going to share just a page of my book, but I thought I would just share the whole thing so there are quite a few pictures! I had so much fun creating this one...

I used a book chipboard book as my base layer for my book and creating each page directly onto each piece. I used papers from both the Sweet Summer Paper Pad and Brighter Days Paper Pad. I used quite a big mix of the embellishments! I used the Sweet Summer Journaling Cards, Sweet Summer Die Cut Ephemera, Enamel Dots, Washi Tapes, Noted Tab & Mood Stickers, Label & Banner Stickers. I used the new Tall Alpha Stamp Set to spell out the word 'Family'. I used the 'Memories' word & 'Location Symbol' from the Creating Memories Stamp Set. I used the Memory Keeping Essential Dies to create the 'Lol' word & heart shapes. You can view all the products from the latest collection here.


I do hope you have enjoyed viewing my book. Don't forget you can get 10% off your next order using the code T4TKITTY10.

Kitty xx

Fall Memories

 

Happy Friday! I am sharing another memory-keeping style using the new Time For Tea Designs October collection. I used the Foiled Mini Travellers Notebook to create a layout to remember a fun outing to a local farm that my husband and I went to. It was so much fun, especially since my friend Alison was there. We went on a tractor, through a VERY muddy maze, and picked pumpkins.

I edited my favourite photos from Fruition Berry Farm with the Snapseed app. I then printed them onto photo paper with my Xerox printer and cut them out with my paper trimmer. For the collages, I used the Adobe Spark app, I really like being able to add images of different sizes to my memory spreads so this app really helps.

I used the tab die from the Memory Keeping Essential Dies to mark where the start of this fall spread was in the notebook. I used a combination of photos, patterned paper, stickers, stamps and die cuts to create this eight-page spread. I used tape runner, double-sided tape and some liquid glue to adhere the various elements to my layout. 

The previously released stamps I used were: Squiggly Giggly, Workout Pigs, and the All Occasion Critters. For the dies, I used Anthony's Alpha's, Box Clever Die Set, Windmill Add On dies, Spring Blooms and the Zig Zag Frame & Tag Dies. For the papers, I used the Brighter Days 6x6' Paper Pad, Rainbow Brights Essentials 6x6 paper pad and the Sweet Summer 6x6' Paper Pad.

From the October memory keeping release, I used these products: Tall Alpha Clear Stamp Set, Sweet Summer Ephemera Pack, Memory Keeping Essential Dies, Noted Tabs and Mood Stickers, This & That Clear Stamp Set and the Creating Memories Clear Stamp Set.

I just LOVE the camera in the Sweet Summer Ephemera Pack, I thought it worked really well on this page as it has a photo collage on it. I matched the camera colours by using Kitsch Flamingo and Salvaged Patina Oxides to colour the heart that I die cut out from the Memory Keeping Essential Dies.

I just love the Tall Alpha stamps as you can customize any word, name or phrase. I just had to use the little piggy for this spread since we got so much MUDD on our boots in the maze! I thought the squiggles looked a little like mud so I stamped it and then added some very lightly blended Weathered Wood Distress Oxide, before adhering down the photo.

I really enjoyed creating this spread and look forward to flipping through it during the cold winter months. I hope my project gets you inspired to give memory keeping a try. I used to do this a lot but got out of the habit, I hope to continue to keep this up, if only for special days and memories like this one.

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.

  

 

 

Sunday Fun

Hello crafty friends, Kitty here. Are you enjoying the new Memory Keep release? It's been such a refreshing change to create some memory book/journaling pages and books and I can't wait to share more with you. Here is my first page...

I started out by creating my background. I used lots of different cardstockk to create a bright backing along with a touch of patterned paper. The yellow & blue panels are from the Sweet Summer Paper Pad which were mounted onto white card. I mounted all three photos onto glitter card. I added the Popcorn Die Cut from the Sweet Summer Ephemera Pack. The Sunday word I cut from the Days of The Week Washi Tape and placed it onto white card to make it stand out a bit more. I printed out the middle wording and die cut it using a Label Die from the Memory Keeping Essentials Dies. The Fun & Love It are from the Noted Tab & Mood Stickers. To finish I added some White Enamel Dots from the Sweet Summer Enamel Dots Set.

Don't forget you can use my discount code T4TKITTY10 at the Time For Tea Website to get 10% off your order.

Kitty xx

Memory Keeping Happy Planner Style

 

Annalisa here, sharing something a little different from my usual card creation. I have made a couple of memory pages in my Happy Planner using elements of the brand new release. My husband and I discovered a love of hiking last year and we have enjoyed so many hikes. I decided to create a spread dedicated to a hike we did this October at Rock Dunder, located in Eastern Ontario. We absolutely LOVE hiking in the fall, as it is cooler and you get to enjoy the beautiful colours of fall.

On all of our hikes, I stop and take A LOT of photos so I needed a two-page spread to showcase the beauty of this location. To start, I went through my photos and added several to my favourites folder on my iPhone. From there, I imported them into one of the most used apps on my phone – Snapseed. I just love editing my photos in this app, mind you with my new iPhone Pro 13 the photos are pretty incredible as is!  

Once the images are edited I import them into Photoshop and I have templates to fit the boxes in the Happy Planner layout. I have ones for one box, two, etc. depending on the photo I want to add. I then print them onto photo paper with my Xerox printer and cut them out with my paper trimmer.

The best part is starting to create my layout and figuring out how I want to show the ‘story’ or memory. For this spread, I used two pages for one day rather than the traditional weekly spread that is in the Happy Planner. I used photos, paper, stickers, etc. to cover up the dates and the calendar and notes sections. I started on the right and finished that page before starting on the left page, I do however layout the images on both pages before starting to adhere anything down.

I use double-sided tape to adhere everything for the most part, as the paper isn’t very thick so I didn’t want it to warp. I used several of the NEW and awesome products including, Memory Keeping Essentials Dies, This & That Stamps, Creating Memories Stamps, Tall Alpha Stamps, Sweet Summer Ephemera Pack, and the two new sticker packages - Noted Tabs and Mood Circle Stickers & A5 Label and Banner Sticker Sheet.

I also paired the new release with some goodies from previous releases: Paper Plane Pals (Panda), You’ve Got Mail (mushrooms), Woodland Critters (acorn, leaf), Butterflies  (mushroom)  Spring Blooms Dies (leaves) and the Sweet Summer 6x6' Paper Pad.

For the journaling, I use my Micron 05 black pen, I am particular with the pens I use as I like a nice thick line. I stamped with various inks including oxides - please note that most inks will show on the other side of the page on this particular paper. I also used Distress Oxides to colour the edges of the pages.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope that this helps inspire you to give memory keeping a try! Don't forget you can get 10% off at the T4T store using my discount code – T4TANNALISA10.