Interactive Spring Card

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, and I’m sharing a fun interactive spring card featuring the Rain or Shine Mice A4 Printed Cardstock and coordinating dies from Time For Tea Designs.

For the background, I used patterned paper from my stash. I’m not sure why, but I’m always hesitant to use patterned paper that I really love! I die-cut the patterned paper using the Peekaboo Pop-Up interactive die from Lawn Fawn.

For the foreground, I blended Hickory Smoke Distress Oxide onto white cardstock through a cobblestone stencil. I added a bit of splatter with water and white paint for extra texture and interest. I used the middle tab for the interactive element and adhered it inside the card in the appropriate position. If you’re new to this die, Lawn Fawn has several helpful video tutorials on YouTube that walk through the process.

The images are from the Rain or Shine Mice A4 Printed Cardstock, which I die-cut using the coordinating dies. I adhered them to the interactive panel with liquid glue to bring the scene to life. To finish the card, I added stamped flowers, grass, and a butterfly from Cacti Critters, coloured them with Copic markers and accented with a white gel pen.

Thank you so much for stopping by and reading my blog post! Don’t forget to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 at Time For Tea Designs to save 10% on your order.

Make A Splash

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, today I’m sharing a spring scene featuring a Distress Oxide watercoloured background and the Rain or Shine Mice A4 Printed Cardstock from Time For Tea Designs. I love how this rainy-day card turned out.

To create the background, I used Stormy Sky and Peeled Paint Distress Oxides on watercolour paper. I smooshed each ink onto acetate, spritzed it with water, then pressed the acetate onto the paper. I added another light spritz of water and repeated the process, heat-setting between layers. To finish, I added white splatter for extra interest.

Next, I adhered the inked panel to a card base using liquid glue. I die-cut grey cardstock with the Stitched Window Cover Die and attached the frame to the card base.

I then die-cut the mice and coordinating elements from the Rain or Shine Mice A4 Printed Cardstock using the coordinating dies. The small flowers are from the Just Married stamp set, which I also die-cut with coordinating dies. I used a combination of liquid glue and 1mm double-sided foam tape to adhere all the elements to the card.

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.

Simply The Zest

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! I am sharing a bright, fruit-themed card featuring Fruitful Friends and Squeeze the Day from Time For Tea Designs. Summer is the perfect time to enjoy delicious, fresh fruit! 🍓🍋🍉

I grabbed the Sweet Scalloped Dies to cut out some patterned paper from the Sweet Summer 6x6' Paper Pad, then used double-sided tape to attach it to my card base.

Next, I cut a panel from red and green patterned paper with the Rounded Corner Stitched Rectangle Dies. I ink-blended Abandoned Coral and Twisted Citron Distress Ink with my Beautiful Blender Brushes. I used a watercolour brush and some water to add Festive Berries and Mowed Lawn Distress Watercolour Pencil splatter. I added white splatter with a paintbrush and Picket Fence Distress Spray Stain. Once this was dry, I used double-sided tape to attach it to my card base.

I stamped several images from the Fruitful Friends and Squeeze the Day stamp sets, coloured them with Copics, and cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen. The worm with glasses is from Book Buddies, the sun and clouds are from Rain Or Shine Mice, and the flowers are from Ewe Are The Best.

I stuck the images to the card base using liquid glue or double-sided foam tape for dimension and added several Sweet Summer Designer Enamel Dots to complete the card.

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.

Rain or Shine Slimline

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! Unfortunately, we are currently experiencing a drought and haven't seen rain in weeks. I hope my card today inspires Mother Nature to shower my garden with rain soon! It features the Rain Or Shine Mice and Skies The Limit Slimline Die.

I started by die-cutting Distress White Heavy cardstock from Ranger using the Skies The Limit Slimline Die. I then ink-blended the rainbow and sky sections with Kitsch Flamingo, Wild Honey, Twisted Citron, Salvaged Patina, and Tumbled Glass Distress Oxides using my Beautiful Blender Brushes.

After gluing the frame of the Skies The Limit Slimline Die onto a slimline card base, I added the individual pieces with liquid glue. Next, I ink-blended Hickory Smoke and Lost Shadow onto Distress White Heavy cardstock using the Tiled Wall 6 x6" Stencil. I adhered this layer to the card base and added white splatter across the entire scene using a paintbrush, water, and acrylic paint.

I stamped several images from the Rain Or Shine Mice stamp set, colored them with Copics, and cut them out with the coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents using a Gelly Roll Pen. Additionally, I used stamps from the Ewe Are The Best (for flowers), Seasons Tweetings (for green branches), and Cacti Critters (for butterflies and a plant pot). Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere all the images and sentiments to complete the card.

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.

More Rain or Shine Mice

Hi. Design team member Koren Wiskman here. I hope that I can inspire you to create something fun with all of these awesome T4TD supplies. Today I am using the Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies to create this project. 

The card size is A2 (4.25in x5.5in.) The front panel is cut to 3.25in x 4.75in. This is my favorite size card to create. I have tried so many others but this size is the one that keeps my heart happy. My card bases are typically made using a neutral gray cardstock. These two details about my cards rarely change. 

Background

This card doesn't have much of a background. One of my mice is stamped and colored directly onto the background. I've also added a few "water" patches with blue watercolor paint to create the scene. The line for the ground is just a thick line made by a Copic Multiliner and a ruler. 

Focal Images

My images are from the Time for Tea Designs Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies. All stamped using waterproof black ink onto watercolor paper. I used my collection of watercolors to paint my mice on this card. I loved doing it a few weeks ago and wanted to go back for more. 

Sentiment

The "splash" sentiment was heat embossed onto coordinating cardstock using white embossing powder. It was cut out using it's coordinating die. The "make a" portion of the sentiment was stamped directly onto the watercolor paper with the same black ink.

I hope that I've inspired you to create something today. Check out the Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies in the T4TD shop. 

Koren

Space Adventures Together

Hi! Michelle from the design team here and for this week’s post, we have two little space explorers off on an adventure using a stamp set that you wouldn’t normally think of.

Supplies used:

Rain or Shine Mice

Planets & Cheese Moon - Simple Circle Dies, Home Is Where The Heart Is

Sentiment - Adventure Awaits

I am always thinking of ways to get the most out of my stamp sets and it was actually the cute little boots the mice are wearing that gave me this idea - why not turn them into space boots?

To make the card, I stamped out the mice and added the space helmets around their heads by drawing a circle with a black finer liner. I coloured with alcohol markers and added highlights with a white gel pen.

The galaxy background was ink blended with a mix of blues and a touch of pink, and then splattered with white acrylic paint to create stars. The planets and the delicious cheese moon were made by die cutting circles out of the 'Simple Circle Dies' and then tracing the inner part of the circle die with a black finer liner before adding details and coloured.

To help build the scene, I added some soft ink blended pink clouds to ground the mice and some stars to give it the fun, whimsy feel. I kept the sentiment simple by using white heat embossing powder on black cardstock.

For finishing touches, I adhered the mice on with foam pads to give extra dimension of them floating on the clouds as well as adding glitter for the extra shimmer.

This was a really fun card to make and I hope it has inspired you to look at your stamp sets differently.

Thanks for reading,

Michelle 

Thinking of You

Happy Friday from DT Annalisa! I'm excited to share a mini card featuring the adorable Rain or Shine Mice along with the Thinking of You Sentiment Die.

To create the back panel for this card, I die-cut patterned paper from the Pretty Pastels 6x6 Paper Pad using the Rounded Corner Stitched Rectangle Dies. I adhered this to a card base using liquid glue.

Next, I die-cut watercolour paper with the Rounded Corner Stitched Rectangle Dies and created a watery-looking background using Peacock Feathers Distress Ink and water. I then attached this piece to the card base with liquid glue.

For the sentiment, I die-cut paper from the Gorgeous Gingham 6x6' Paper Pad using the Thinking Of You Sentiment Die. I used vellum for the outlined portion of the sentiment and adhered the two pieces together with liquid glue before attaching them to the card base.

I stamped images from the Rain Or Shine Mice stamp set, coloured them with Copics, and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I added accents with a white gel pen using a Gelly Roll Pen. The bee is from the Fruitful Friends set, the flowers are from Ewe Are The Best, and the small bird is from Ewe Are Moovellous.

To assemble the card, I used liquid glue and double-sided foam tape to adhere the stamped elements to the card base. I finished the card with three Sweet Summer Designer Enamel Dots.

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.

Rain or Shine Card

Hi, design team member Koren Wiskman here!

I hope I can inspire you to create something fun with all of these awesome T4TD supplies. Today, I’m using the Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies to create this project.

Card Details

The card size is A2 (4.25" x 5.5"). The front panel is cut to 3.25" x 4.75"—my favorite size card to create. I’ve tried many others, but this size is the one that keeps my heart happy. My card bases are typically made using a neutral gray cardstock. These two details about my cards rarely change.

Background

For this background, I took inspiration from one of my favorite Disney artists, David Buckley (@dbuckleyart) on Instagram. He inspired the card I’m making today.

The card panel is cut from watercolor paper. I drew the black lines for the ground with a Copic 0.5 black pen. I used watercolors to drip patches of color for the ground and sky. These same colors were used to color the images as well

Focal Images

I stamped the images from the Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set by Time for Tea Designs onto watercolor paper using waterproof black ink. Because watercolor paper has a lot of texture, I used a stamp positioner for accuracy.

The images were then painted using watercolors and very small brushes. The aqua shade has a bit of iridescence, and when you move the card, it glimmers in the light. I used the Rain or Shine Mice Coordinating Dies to cut them out. Everything is popped up using foam squares

Sentiment

I stamped the first part of the sentiment—also from the Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set—directly onto the watercolor paper. The second part was stamped onto a coordinating aqua shade of heavyweight cardstock and heat embossed with white embossing powder. It was also cut out using the coordinating dies.

I hope I’ve inspired you to create something today.

Check out the Rain or Shine Mice Stamp Set and Coordinating Dies in the T4TD shop!

— Koren

The One Where You're Awesome!

 Hello Everyone!

Michelle from the Design Team and this week I am super excited to share a fun and heartwarming pop-up box card with the sweetest little friends gathered together for a cosy catch-up. Any guesses to what inspired this?!

Supplies used:

Hey There Critters

Sofa & Lamp - Home Is Where the Heart Is

Fountain - Birthday Cake

Umbrellas - Rain or Shine Mice

I started with a pop-up box card base using a rich purple cardstock which adds a lovely depth to the scene. I then ink blended a grass panel and gave it a light splatter to add texture and interest.

For the background, I created a magical night sky using ink blending in blues and purples. I added some gold and white splatters for a touch of starlight sparkle, and tucked in a layered city skyline to set the scene. 

Right in the centre is of course the fountain that was created from some strategic frankensteining from the top of the wine bottle and partial stamping of the cake stand from the Birthday Cake stamp set. I hand drew the water coming out of at top and added some glitter to give it the extra shimmer. I did think about not including the fountain but I love how it brings the whole design together and gives it that extra special touch!

The real stars of the show are the adorable critters all coloured in with alcohol markers, all snuggled up on the comfiest yellow couch (I forgot what the original colour was!) I couldn’t forget about adding some of the extra details like the lamp and the colourful umbrellas in this iconic scene. I’ll let you decided which critter is which famous character!

For the sentiment, I made a custom one based on the naming convention of each of the episodes using a white gel pen on a banner cut from black cardstock.

I absolutely loved making this Friends inspired card! Could it BE any cuter and I hope it brought a smile to your face!

Thanks for reading,

Michelle

Make a Splash

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, and I’m excited to share another card featuring products from the new release. I created this vibrant card using the Rain Or Shine Mice and the coordinating dies!

To make the background panel, I used a raindrop stencil from my stash, watercolour paper, and Distress watercolour pencils. I began by adding water to the tip of my Stormy Sky Distress watercolour pencil, then I scribbled it onto the back of the stencil. After spritzing the stencil with water, I pressed it firmly onto the watercolour paper. Next, I colored inside the raindrop areas with the Salvaged Patina Distress watercolour pencil. To finish the background, I added splatters using the Stormy Sky watercolour pencil over the entire panel.

I adhered the completed background to a card base with double-sided tape and added a frame using the Smile Inverted Scallop Frame Dies, attaching it with liquid glue.

Next, I stamped several images from the Rain Or Shine Mice stamp set, colored them with Copics, and cut them out using the coordinating dies. I also added accents with a white gel pen using a Gelly Roll Pen. For additional elements, I stamped clouds from the Adventure Awaits and cut them out with the coordinating dies.

Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere the stamped images to the card and spelled out the word "splash" with Pineapple Daiquiri Puffy Alpha Stickers to complete the design.

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.

When Life Gets Prickly

 Hello Everyone!

Michelle from the Design Team and today’s inspiration is a sunshine-soaked card for when things feel a little prickly, a sweet little calico cat and its glitter winged friends are there for you and ready to give you hug (or more plants)! 

I used supplies from the new release:

• Cacti Critters
• Rounded Corner Stitched Rectangle Dies
• Sun & Clouds - Rain or Shine Mice

I like my cards to be bright, busy and colourful so it was a slight challenge when it involved cacti and a limited colour palette! Hopefully I have managed to still keep to my usual style. 

To create it, first, I stamped and coloured my images with alcohol markers and highlighted with a white gel pen.

I then stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto the planter section of the cacti with white embossing powder. I am always nervous with embossing directly on a coloured image or a near finished card (Im a perfectionist and I don’t want to redo it again) but luckily everything turned out ok!

Next, using the second largest rounded corner stitched rectangle die I cut out  3 panels from white cardstock. For 1 of them, I ink blended fluffy clouds with blue ink and added splatters.

For the other 2, these were going to be the grass. I die cut these with a  grass die with one shorter than the other and ink blended with 2 shades of green (a light and dark). I then splattered with water that I blotted dry and then added more with the darker green ink. 

Once I had all the main pieces of the card, I arranged my cute little scene and glued everything down with liquid glue. I then framed the whole thing with a sunny border that I die cut from a a piece of yellow gingham pattered cardstock using the largest rounded corner stitched rectangle die.

As a finishing touch, I added glitter to the butterflies, the clouds and the flowers on the cacti because sometimes you just need that sparkle!

I hope this card has been a great hug and thank you for reading!

Michelle