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Tuesday 19 March 2024

Bonjour, hello, hola, hallo, ciao!


Bonjour mes amis!

That's about as much french as I remember from school, a loooong time ago πŸ˜‰ I think it would be wise for me to continue this blog in english, and tell you all about the card I made this week.

I'm really getting in the mood for spring, and have noticed I'm constantly leaning towards bright skies and grassy hills when crafting. I guess the few sunrays we have been catching here in the Netherlands have that effect on me. So I'm opting to dwell in it, and made another spring themed card for you, saying HI to the season to come!
The Hey there critters stamp set are perfect for saying HI, they all have their little paws up in the air, waving at you πŸ’› Ofcourse you could also give them one of the accessories from the stamp set, such as a balloon or a sunflower, to hold - like I did on the bunny.

I started off by stamping all the images, and colored with Copic markers. After that I ran the sheet through my Scan 'n Cut machine to cut them out. Set those aside and then focused on the background.
Using the Simple Nesting Dies - A6 I die cut a panel from white cardstock. Then I took a strip of 1,5 cm masking tape and adhered it onto the panel, approx 1,5 cm from the bottom. This creates the white area for the stamped sentiment.
I started with the pink sky, using Distress Oxides spun sugar and kitsch flamingo. Then I took my 6x6 Scene Builder Stencil out, and used the grass edge together with Distress Oxides mowed lawn and rustic wilderness. Keeping the masking tape and stencil on, I added dark green and white paint splatters to the grass.
After waiting until the ink and paint had dried, I removed the masking tape. Took my stamping tool and layed out the sentiment in the middle of the white area. I like how this black & white in the middle of the card emphasizes the sentiment! Draws your attention straight in. Lastly, I added the stamped and colored images, using foam tape 0,5 mm and 1 mm to create a little depth.

Adhered the completed panel to an A6 white folded card with double sided tape and that finished my card! Now let's all give a warm welcome to spring and hope it's going to give us lots of real bright skies and grassy hills!

Ilona ~





Monday 18 March 2024

HOORAY... Hoppy Easter!

Hi Tea Timers, welcome back to the blog. Easter is next weekend and I am continuing the inspiration with another Easter card. This time I wanted to create a shaker card as I have not made one in a while.


Sets used:
(coordinating die set available here)

I first stamped out my images and fussy cut the two bunnies out. I then used Copic Markers to color them.

Then I started on my shaker frame. I first die cut out the cover plate from white cardstock. With the stencil, I blended it with Worn Lipstick, Scattered Straw, Mowed Lawn and Peacock Feathers Distress Oxides. I moved the stencil a little over to blend the stencil on the entire card.



I then took the 'HOORAY' die and die cut it out of the frame. I trimmed a piece of acetate to fit the and adhered it with tape runner. I then added the center pieces to the Os, R and A with glue.

With a piece of gold cardstock, I trimmed it down to fit the back of the frame and set it to the side to work on assembling my shaker.

With foam strips, I added it to the back of the frame. Using anti-static powder, I brushed it over the edghes of the foam tape. I then poured in my shaker mix. I added the gold back to the frame.



I then heat embossed the sentiments onto pink cardstock using white embossing powder and embossing ink. I trimmed it down to add underneath the HOORAY.

To assemble my card, I added the two sentiments in the middle using foam strips. I then added the two bunnies using foam tape. 

I hope you enjoyed this blog post and are having fun getting ready for Easter. All the products I used are linked above. Don't forget to use the code T4TRANDY10 at checkout for extra savings.

Saturday 16 March 2024

Birthday llama with Kaja

Hi all,

It's Kaja from Kajcyika crafts and today I am showcasing a cute and simple card that features an adorable little llame.

Take a look:


First thing I did when making this card, was to cut out a piece of kraft cardstock and stamp background images of mountains and clouds. I used brown ink to try to blend the images a bit better with the cardstock. 

Next, I stamped out the llama from the same stamp set called Llama tell you, but this time I used white cardstock and black ink. 

I colored the llama in using alcohol markers and since I wanted to have a bit of a contrast, I used orange tones for it.


Next, I cut down a piece of green paper with clouds from the Brighter days paper pad. I trimmed it down to be slightly bigger than the kraft cardstock piece.

I stamped out the sentiment in the same brown ink and this time I decided to go with a simple 'happy birthday'.

I glued everything on the square card base using double sided foam squares and liquid glue.

Hugs,
Kaja

Friday 15 March 2024

X0XO

Hi y’all! Another friday and this beautiful day I created a squared shaped card for my weekly blog. It was a quickie, this tim, which means in less then 30 minutes I made this rainbow card -something that would happen very often-.

For the background I rolled a piece of with cardstock with a squared shaped die trough my Bigshot. I picked out the XOXO stencil, from the latest release and blend some distress oxides in rainbow into the paper. For the colors I used:Barn door, Carved pumpkin, fossilized amber, mowed lawn, mermaid lagoon and seedless preserves. 

While I letting our background dry, I colored one of the moles from the I really dig you stampset and gave it some highlights. I also put some glossy accents into the glasses. 

I cut the Hi twice in orange and in a black glittery foam scheet (spellbinders). I glued these two together leaving a bit of orange visible. After I was sure everything was dried very well I put everything together and cut an red piece of paper in a slightly bigger square and placed it as background.

Hoppy Easter Shaker


Happy Friday! DT Annalisa here to share an Easter shaker card I created using the Eggstra Special Birthday stamp set and their coordinating dies from Time For Tea Designs.  

I die-cut Distress Watercolor Cardstock by Ranger with the Slimline Scalloped Trio Circle Nesting Dies and the Eggstra Special Slimline Add-On Horizontal Die. I pressed peacock feathers, picked raspberry Distress Ink onto my glass matt, and sprayed water onto the inks. I pressed the die-cut watercolour panel into the ink several times and heat-set it.


I trimmed purple cardstock to go behind the watercoloured panel and glued it down to a slimline card base. I used liquid glue to adhere a trimmed piece of acetate over the egg panel holes.

Next, I added two layers of double-sided tape on the back of the egg panel and added pink, purple, blue and clear sequins. I then pressed the card base onto the double-sided tape to seal in the sequins.


I stamped and coloured (with Copics) several images from Eggstra Special Birthday and cut them out with their coordinating dies. I added white gel pen accents with a Gelly Roll Pen

I used liquid glue to adhere the stamped elements to the card. 


Thank you so much for reading my blog post. Remember to use my discount code T4TANNALISA10 when you visit the Time For Tea Designs shop to get 10% off your order.

Wednesday 13 March 2024

Hi, hello

Hello Tea-timers...

DT Ashlee here with you today sharing some new Time for Tea designs inspiration to get your crafty mojo rolling! 

This card uses one die set along with one sentiment stamp. An easy but nice CAS card. The die I used is the Hey, Hello, Hi set and the sentiment is from the Simple sentiments clear stamp set.


I started by cutting a pink card base for my card which I then placed and die cut the shadows to both of the hi, hello sentiment. I then backed this with a black piece of card where I went on to die cutting the wording 4 times per word. These were all glued together to create a raised sentiment effect on the card!


Using the sentiment stamp I stamped that directly onto the card base with black ink before completing the card with a touchy of pretty sequins adhered with micro glue dots. An easy but sweet card to send to someone with a little note inside.


That's my card for today, I hope you like it. Until next post happy crafting, hugs Ashlee.

Tuesday 12 March 2024

You've got mail!


Hello! Ilona coming your way with some Snailmail 🐌 

The sun was actually shining over here in the Netherlands last weekend, birds were chirping and it felt like spring was in the air. I just had to make a card this week that would capture the feeling! So I took out my You got mail stampset and decided I'd make a little garden scene. After stamping the cute critters and mailbox, I colored them using my Copic alcohol markers and cut them out with the help of the coordinating die set.

The 6x6 Scene Builder Stencil has the perfect edges to create a garden scene. Using the Simple nesting dies A6 I die-cut a panel from white cardstock as a background. I took the grass edge of the stencil and 2 colors of Distress oxide (twisted citron and mowed lawn) and stenciled 2 layers of grass at the bottom of the panel. After that I used the sky edge of the stencil and made several cloud lines to form a sky with Distress oxide (tumbled glass). 


I splattered some paint onto this background and waited until it dried. Again, using the simple nesting dies I die-cut another panel, one size up, from teal cardstock. Adhered the garden background onto the teal panel with tape, and adhered the teal panel on top of an A6 white folded card. 

Time to add my colored stamped images! I like to use foam tape to adhere images, to create a little depth. The mailbox in the back was adhered with 0,5mm tape and the snails with 1mm tape.


I stamped on the sentiment from the same clear stamp set with my stamping tool (Misti) and black stamping ink. Then I decided to add highlights to the stamped images with a white gel pen Γ‘nd add a couple of glitters to the shells with my biggest glittery friend: Stickles (star burst). All to insinuate the sun is shining in this garden! 


Ofcourse it's raining cats and dogs while writing this blog, but at least I have this card to look at and remind me spring is on it's way!! 

Wishing you all a sunny day ☀️

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