Hide and seek

Good morning all and happy Sunday, hope you are all well.

Today's card is made using another of my Time For Tea Design images. This one is called Hide and Seek.

I coloured her with Spectrum Noirs, and then cut her out by hand. 

The papers are from a Vintage paper pack and the grey card is Coredinations. 

I stamped the sentiment in black Archival ink and again cut it out by hand. 

The sentiment stamp is a Creative Expressions stamp from the Classic Sentiments set.

I finished the card off with three little pearl decorations.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Time for tea

Hello peeps.  Hope you have a fabulously crafty weekend planned.

As Jen and Alan are away I have been home alone the last two evenings.  You would think that means undisturbed time to make a mess in the craft room, but NO!!  My mojo is definitely still on holiday and I've had to drag myself in there to make today's card.

As I couldn't think of what to do I fell back on a favourite layout style and a digi stamp I coloured a few weeks ago.

This is Mad March Hatter from Time for Tea Designs.  I used papers from American Crafts called My Girl and layered them with blue cardstock.

I added a ribbon and some pink bling then was stuck for what to do in the top left corner.

In the end I went with a bunting die from La La Land Crafts and gave it a bit more sparkle.

I'm pleased with this but I hope Mr Mojo returns before it's my turn to share again lol.

Hope you like it.  TTFN Jude xx

Pretty red dress

Good morning everyone and happy Sunday.

Jen showed you some of our holiday snaps yesterday so I won't bore you with any more lol.  Instead you get to see a simple card I made yesterday.

The image is from Time for Tea and was coloured before we went away.  Luckily I just had to think of a design to put her in.

I took papers from my scrap box and layered them on a red card blank and a black matt.

I then die cut two hearts layered with double sided sticky and added red glitter.

The sentiment was cut with a free die from a craft magazine.

So there she is.  A sweet little image and a simple card.

Enjoy the rest of your day.  TTFN Jude xx

Lily May

This is the last of the cards for Lily's birthday last weekend.

The image is a Time for Tea design and I'm really pleased with the shading on this one.  I can see improvement in my colouring, but still a ways to go yet.

This is a die we received as a freebie a while ago.  It is quite versatile and it certainly gets put to use a lot. 

So there she is.  A pretty card for a pretty girl.

TTFN Jude xx

Happy Birthday Cat

Good morning. Today is my niece's 22nd birthday, so this is the card I have made from Alan and I. 

Hope you have a brilliant day Cat, happy birthday love. 

It's a Time for Tea Designs digi image. Coloured with Promarkers and then stitched on to some Coredinations card. 

I teamed it with purple paper and some grey embossed card from the stash, and then made a flower from grey fabric and card. This is cut with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die, all held together with a big brad.

I added some more ready made flowers and a couple of curly vines cut from the same grey card.

The little rope flower is one that I received as a gift all the way from Thailand.

I added a ready made sentiment and then used a Tim Holtz on the edge die to cut the butterflies for the top. I cut these in a double strip so that it goes all the way inside the card. Then I inked it all up with Dusty Concord and Seedless Preserve Distress Inks. 

I inked all of the rest of edges with Dusty Concord and then finished the card with a couple of little stick on butterflies.

Hope you like it, I know Cat does.

See you soon.

xxx

Ice cream Friday

Good morning all hope you are having a good week. 

Today's post is a card that I made last weekend. I started colouring the Time for Tea Designs image with Distress Markers but the skin went far too dark! So I switched over to Promarkers to try and rescue it. 

It didn't end up too badly, she just has a really good tan lol. But it's the best I could do.

I cut her out by hand and then used some of the Jennifer Ellory paper pad that Jude had used to make the layers. All matted with Centura Pearl blue card. I included a couple of pieces of patterned ribbon and a bow.

I added some card letters to the right side to spell lovely. Then stamped the birthday greeting at the bottom with pink ink and embossed with clear embossing powder.

Hope you like it. See you soon, take care. 

xxx

First Love

Good morning all, hope you are well today.

Today's card is using another of the marvelous digi stamps that I got from Time for Tea Designs. This one is called First Love. Isn't she sweet?

I coloured her with Promarkers and then cut her out by hand.

The papers are from the new Dovecraft range, Curiosity Corner, they are gorgeous. Everything is inked with Frayed Burlap Distress Ink.

I found the burlap panel hiding in one of the drawers and now I'm in love and really neeeeed to get some more. The flowers are Tattered Florals from Sizzix, shaped with my pokey tool, inked edges with DI and then held together with little brads. I haven't used brads for absolutely ages (cause I forget what we have lol) and I do love them.

I finished the card with a Kraft tag with a die cut sentiment, tied on with twine and then a little bird charm added.

Hope you like it, take care and I'll see you soon.

xxx

Pedal Power

Good morning and welcome to the start of another week. I am starting back at work today after a 4 week break, so nervous but looking forward to it too. Luckily I am going back to the same place I was at before just in a different job.

Anyway my card for today is made using one of the gorgeous new stamps that I won from Time for Tea Designs. This one is called Pedal Power.

This is my first attempt at water colouring with distress markers. She didn't turn out too badly but she's far from perfect lol. 

When I coloured her I cut her out by hand and then inked around the edge with Old Paper Distress Ink.

The paper is from the new Curiosity Corner pad and I just thought it went so well with her. 

The doily and frame are also from that range, and I stamped on to Centura Pearl card with a Lili of the Valley stamp to go inside the frame. 

I finished it off with a few flowers from the stash. 

Hope you like it, see you soon. Take care.

xxx



New Digi Stamps

Good morning all, it's Jen back again today, hope you are all well.

Today I thought I would share my good news with you ;o). I recently entered a little competition on Facebook to win some digi stamps and guess what? I won lol.

The images are from the super talented Jo Davies AKA Time For Tea Designs. 

 

I was lucky enough to win all of the new March Release and then 5 other images of my choice. Well it took me a while to choose as they are all brilliant lol, but I did eventually decide ;o). You can see the T4T shop here on Etsy. 

Jo also has a blog at: http://timeforteadesigns.blogspot.co.uk/ where you can see some of the lovely cards that have been made using her images. 

                

Now I just need to find some time to have a little play with them myself lol. 

   

That's all from me today, hope to see you soon.

Take care