Holey Moley Gardening Scene

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, and today I’m sharing a spring gardening scene featuring the adorable moles from Time For Tea Designs. These happy little moles are excited to be back in the garden, and honestly, so am I!

I started by using a frame die from my stash to cut white cardstock. I then used the same die on Distress Watercolour Cardstock. Using a grass-border die, I cut the inner negative pieces from the frame and coloured them with Distress Watercolour Pencils.

For the grass, I used Twisted Citron, Mowed Lawn, and Rustic Wilderness for splatter. For the sky, I used Tumbled Glass, Salty Ocean, and Uncharted Mariner for splatter.

Next, I adhered the white frame along with the grass and sky sections to an A2 card base using liquid glue.

Finally, I die-cut the images and sentiment from the I Really Dig You A4 Printed Cardstock using the coordinating dies. I adhered all the elements to the card base with liquid glue.

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Hoppy Easter

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, sharing a pretty Easter card I created using stamps, dies, and stencils from Time For Tea Designs. I love the soft, watercolour look and feel of the background.

To create the background, I first soaked the Evergreen Bough, Chipped Sapphire, and Seedless Preserves Distress Watercolour Pencils in water to soften them. Then, I scribbled the colours onto the back of the Eggstra Special Layering Stencil and spritzed it with water. After pressing it onto Distress Watercolour Cardstock by Ranger, I let the stencil sit for a few moments before removing it and heat-setting the panel.

Next, I used the second part of the layering stencil, along with mini ink-blending tools, to apply the same Distress Ink colours to the eggs. I lightly spritzed the background with water to help disperse the colours, then heat-set it again. To finish the background, I added splatter using all three colours, along with Picket Fence Distress Spray Stain. Once everything was dry, I trimmed the panel to 4 x 5 1/4 inches using a die.

The large eggs were die-cut from Distress Watercolour Cardstock using the Eggstra Special Slimline Add On Horizontal Die. I coloured one egg with Carved Pumpkin, Spiced Marmalade, and Mustard Seed Distress Watercolour Pencils, and the other with Salvaged Patina, Peacock Feathers, and Picked Raspberry. After they dried, I added white paint details using a Posca pen.

The bunny and chick are from the Eggstra Special Birthday stamp set. I stamped them using Fadout No Line Colouring Detail Ink from Ink on 3 and coloured them with Copic markers.

I trimmed a piece of vellum to wrap around the inked panel, then adhered it to an A2 card base covered with silver-patterned paper.

Finally, I used liquid glue to adhere the stamped images and added the “Hoppy Easter” sentiment to complete the card.

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Colourful Party

Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here, and today I’m sharing a colourful birthday card I created using Distress Watercolour Pencils along with stamps and dies from Time For Tea Designs.

I started by die-cutting a piece of Distress Watercolour Paper with a stitched rectangle die to create an A2-sized panel. For the background, I used Distress Watercolour Pencils in Saltwater Taffy, Fossilized Amber, Seedless Preserves, Walnut Stain, and Wild Honey. This beautiful patterned technique is inspired by Jenn Shurkus’ Mixed Media in Season class. I learned so much from this course and highly recommend it to anyone interested in exploring mixed media techniques.

Once the background was complete, I heat-set the panel and added white splatter for extra interest and texture. I then adhered the finished watercolour panel to an A2 card base using liquid glue.

The bear is from the Birthday Bear set, and the mouse is from the Sweet On You set (the coordinating dies are still available). I stamped the images, coloured them with Copic markers, and added highlights using a white Gelly Roll pen. To give the images dimension, I adhered them to the card with 1 mm double-sided foam tape.

For the sentiment, I used the Let’s Party Large Sentiment Die to cut silver cardstock. I die-cut two additional layers from cardstock and adhered all three pieces together with liquid glue to create extra dimension before attaching the sentiment to the card.

To finish the design, I added tiny pink and white embellishments from the Lots of Love Shaker Embellishment Mix for a final touch of sparkle.

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Valentine's Watercolour Plaid

Happy Friday, DT Annalisa here! Since tomorrow is Valentine’s Day, I’m sharing a love-themed card featuring stamps and dies from Time For Tea Designs shop to get 10% off your order. I love how the watercolour plaid background turned out!

For the background, I began with a soft red watercolor wash (I used Gansai Tambi No. 32) as the base. Once it was dry, I painted evenly spaced horizontal and vertical black stripes (No. 20) to form a plaid pattern. At each intersection where the black lines crossed, I filled in the overlapping squares with a darker, more concentrated black to create bold, solid blocks.

After the watercolour panel was completely dry, I used a white Posca pen to draw additional vertical and horizontal lines to complete the plaid pattern. I then trimmed the panel and adhered it to an A2 card base using liquid glue.

Next, I stamped images from You Got Mail and Seasons Tweetings, colored them with Copic markers, and added white gel pen accents. I used the coordinating You Got Mail dies to cut out the images and sentiment, and my Brother ScanNCut SDX125e to cut out the bird image.

The “love” sentiment is from an older die in my stash, which I die-cut from navy blue shimmer cardstock. I also die-cut the word three times from white cardstock and layered them together to create dimension.

To assemble the card, I adhered the images with double-sided foam tape. To finish it off, I added sparkly accents to the edges of some images using a Quickie Glue Pen and Lawn Fawn Prisma Glitter.

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Pamper Yourself

Happy Friday, DT  Annalisa here! Today’s card features the Queen For The Day Printed Cardstock and coordinating dies. The printed cardstock sheets from Time For Tea Designs are absolutely stunning in person, and I always enjoy creating with them!

For the background, I used watercolour paper along with the X Marks the Spot Stencil. I pressed Salvaged Patina, Cracked Pistachio, and Twisted Citron Distress Inks onto the stencil, then spritzed it lightly with water. Placing the stencil ink-side down onto the watercolour paper, I pressed gently for a few moments before lifting it away and heat-setting the ink.

Next, I added some splatter using the same colours with Distress Watercolour Pencils. Once the panel was dry, I die-cut it with a stitched square die from my stash.

For the card base, I created a 5-inch square card and blended Kitsch Flamingo Distress Oxide across the top panel using a blender brush. I then adhered the stenciled panel to the pink base with liquid glue.

I die-cut the images and sentiments from the Queen For The Day Printed Cardstock using the coordinating dies. Some elements were attached with liquid glue, while others were popped up with double-sided foam tape for dimension. The small shelf is from the Baked With Love Kitchen Add-On Clear Stamp Set, which I coloured with Copics and cut out using the coordinating dies.

To finish the card, I added Summer Haze Designer Enamel Dots.

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