Winter Fun

 

 Happy bank holiday to you all :D 

I hope you have had a lovely crafty Christmas so far. It is nearly time for us all to move out of 2020 and I can't wait to get the new year started. What are you all hoping to do more of in 2021? 

I want to be able to do more crafting and making time for me. Fingers crossed it works. 

On to my cards for today and I love this stamp set so much I couldn't resist doing a couple of cards with it. This is Life's Ups and Downs stamp set and you can make this adorable little interactive seesaw! It is so easy to do all you need is a brad/ split pin to make it work :)

That is all from me today. I hope you all have a great new year and I will see you in 2021 :D

You can still get 10% off any order at Time For Tea Designs by using my code T4TAMY10

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Cosy Winter Wishes

 

 I can't believe we are in the Christmas week already! Even though plans have had to change I am still looking forward to Christmas this year. I hope you are all still able to enjoy the time in some way. 

Have you seen this adorable Cosy Winter Stamp and Die set from the new release? There are so many cute critters in it.

I teamed this fox and the snowglobe background from the Cosy Winter stamp set up with the Winter Wonderland paper pad as that tree pattern was just crying out to be used :D The sentiment is from the Sentiment Card Pack. They just make things so easy to have some sentiment ready that I just have to cut out. Don't forget you can get a 10% discount on your Time For Tea Designs by using my code T4TAMY10

I hope you all have a lovely Christmas 

Huge hugs to you all

Amy xx

Trying out a new technique for me

 

 Hi everyone,

DT Amy here at the start of a brand new week. Are you ready to see the new mini release later? I am excited for you all to see it :D be sure to join Jo Live at 8 to see some great demos and get all the details.

Now onto my card for today. This was my first time trying this kind of card and I really enjoyed it. I used the adorable Caroling Critters stamps and dies. I coloured all my critters with Spectrum Noir tri-blend markers then I tore a piece of paper and used that as my mask to make the snowy mounds along the floor. I inked the rest of my paper with some distress inks and the beautiful blender brushes. 

The sentiments were from a mix of the caroling critters and the Warm Winter Wishes stamp set. The Warm Winter wishes stamp set will be back in stock very soon and Jo did an amazing live using it last Thursday so be sure to catch up on that if you missed it :)

If you want to get your hands on these critters or anything else from Time For Tea Designs shop don't forget you can get 10% off using my code T4TAMY10

I hope you all had a good weekend and are staying safe.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

I am giving thanks for you all

 

Hi everyone,

This is DT Amy here :) I am just moved to sunny Whitby this weekend. It has been hectic and tiring but it is done. I am so lucky that there are so many people who helped me make it possible. So my card today is a thanks card. I am so thankful for all of you for your kind words of encouragement as I haven't been able to be around here as much as I wanted to be. You all inspire me so much with all your makes.

 

For this card I used the super cute Woodland Critters stamp set and the beautiful Autumn Leaves stencil. First I inked through it with some distress ink and the Beautiful Blender Brushes. Then I also used the stencil to emboss the pattern on the kraft card circle. I cut the circle using the Circles Of Love nesting dies. To finish it off I used the Thanks sentiment die and as normal I couldn't resist adding in an action wobble for the foxes little head :D 

This stamp set is back in stock in the Time For Tea store and you can get 10% off using my code T4TAMY10

 

Huge hugs to you all

 

Amy xx

Catmas Cracker

Hi everyone,

I hope you are all well and staying safe. I am having a mad couple of weeks trying to get moved but wanted to pop in here and share my card using the Catmas Crackers stamp set and the great Zig Zag Frame and Tag die set  They were just calling out for me to use them together :)

I also used one of the papers from the Winter Wonderland paper pad. If you haven't seen these papers yet they are well worth a look as they are beautiful and can be used for more than just Christmas makes.

To finish it off I used one of the sentiments from the sentiment cards which I inked around the edges of and added some glitter to :) 

There is a great giveaway at the moment on the Kit and Clowder face book page. Where you can be in with a chance to win this stamp and die set as well as other yummy Time for Tea goodies so why not check it out. Also there is the black friday sale still on at the Time for Tea Designs shop until midnight tonight (BST 30th of Nov) So there is still time to grab yourself a bargain! On top of that you can use my code (T4TAMY10) to get 10% off your order at the Time for Tea Designs Shop so even if you have missed the black Friday deals you can still get some money off :) 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

2 Crafty Crazzie critters challenge- Anything goes with a critter

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Animal friends - A Cat or Dog

Have you picked up these Penguins?

 

I can not tell you how much fun I am having with these adorable little Skating By Penguins. They just make me smile so much. This little car was so quick to make as I used the Winter Background stamp and then trimmed it to fit on this little 4x4 card. I put the penguin on an action wobble so he can be dancing for joy and then added sparkle with some nuvo drops. Who else has gone for these penguins? What are your plans for them? If you haven't brought them or if you want anything else from the Time For Tea Designs shop you can get 10% off if you use my code T4TAMY10

Huge hugs to you all 

Amy xx

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 Sisterhood of snarky stampers - P is for penguin

Crafty Calendar challenge - Anything Goes

Crafters castle - Anything Goes

This new Time For Tea Designs release is snow much fun!

Happy Saturday everyone! Wow! What a week this has been. Have you enjoyed seeing all the new release?? What are your favorites? And who got their orders in yesterday? I am so excited to see what you all create :D

Lets be honest, if you have seen all the new items you would know that I was never going to be able to resist these cute little penguins for long and they work so well with the new display card die I had to team them up :) I started by die cutting the card base and then decided which layers I wanted to use with it. I love that this looks so 3D but folds flat to fit perfectly in a C6 (6"x 4") envelope. I used a beautiful blender brush and a mix of blue print sketch, mermaid lagoon and tumbled glass distress oxides to do the sky in the background and add some depth to the snow.

I coloured all my little penguins and the up with copic markers and then stamped out coloured up some of the little trees from the winter background stamp set to go with them. The sentiments are from the new sentiment strip sets. To just finish it off I added some nuvo drops around which add some glitter and texture to it.

 

 I hope this has made you smile and that you all have a great weekend. Don't forget if you want to grab these little guys or anything else from the Time for Tea Designs store you can use my code T4TAMY10 to get 10% off your order.

 

Huge hugs

 

Amy xx 

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges: 

Coulour crazy challenge - Anything colouring goes

Crafty catz - Anything goes with a twist of outdoor pursuits

Creative fingers - Anything goes

Pattie's creations - Anything goes

Winter Wonderland - Festive things with wings

Time for Tea Designs Sneak Peek day 1

This is Amy back again for the second time this week to share my make using some of the amazing new November release from Time For Tea Designs. First off just check out this adorable little door! Isn't it so cute! Its called open the door. I knew as soon as I saw it that I wanted to add a little brad as the door handle. I used the brick wall stencil with a beautiful blender brush to add some tea dye and vintage photo distress oxide ink to give the bricks a two toned effect.

Then what is more perfect to be the other side of the door than this caroling mouse from the new caroling critters stamp set. You might also notice a couple of other little things like the paper and some sentiment strips that you will see more of later in the week ;) 

There is just so much to show you this week so I hope you are ready for it and don't forget to watch out for the FB lives with the lovely Jo as well so you can see even more of each of the new products. They will all be available from Friday and if you like a bit of a bargain don't forget you can use my code T4TAMY10 to get 10% off your order at the Time For Tea Designs store.

Thank you for reading this and check out the FB page to enjoy the rest of the sneak peeks :)

Huge Hugs 

Amy xx

 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 2 Crafty critter crazies - Anything goes

A Bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes 

Crafty Animals - Anything goes (must include an animal) 

Time for some Pandamonium!

 I am so so so excited this is my first project as DT for Time For Tea Designs so please be kind :) I felt like we all needed something bright and happy with everything that is going on so what better than a panda with googly eye?? OK so I went one better and it's not only a panda with googly eyes its also on an action wobble!! I couldn't resist. 

This adorable set of stamps are called Pandamonium Party and in my personal opinion they wont fail to make people smile. I added a tiny bit of shade around their white bits with a light grey triblend marker, Coloured the hat and the balloons with more triblend markers before adding some sparkle with a crafters companion sparkle pen. To make the balloons look shiny with some glossy accents. I used the coordinating dies to cut them all and then added the hats and balloons before fixing on their googly eyes. 

 For the background I used my time for tea beautiful blender brushes and some distress oxide inks to make this colourful background (I used Wilted Violet, worn lipstick and antique linen) before then adding sparkle using some pineapple delight glacier paste with the starry sky stencil

The squares behind them I cut using the quilted square nesting dies. For the solid square I wanted to add some texture so embossed it using another time for tea stencil called say cheese so the black has some slightly raised spots on it. The sentiment is from the stamp set and the rectangle that it i stamped on is from the coordinating dies. I heat embossed it in white embossing powder to stand out and match with the black and white of the pandas.

 I hope this has given you all a little smile and that you are all staying safe and well.

Huge Hugs

Amy xx

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 2 Crafty critter crazies - Anything goes

A Bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes 

Crafty Animals - Anything goes (must include an animal)

Foxy Friend

I just can't resist foxes and these foxes from C.C. Designs I fell completely in love with as soon as I saw them. I couldn't resist colouring them all up and they just seemed to fit perfectly with some inky backgrounds I had created using distress oxide sprays and these papers so I made them into a little set :D

 

You are invited to the Inlinkz link party!

Click here to enter

You are fabulous

Honestly these digi sets from The Greeting Farm are just so much fun to play with! This one I kept nice and simple I mixed the adorable birthday girls and birthday boys sets. I kept it all on one layer and coloured it with my copics and then added sparkle with a spectrum noir clear sparkle pen.

 

In case you have missed it The Greetings farm have a DT call going on and you can find all of the details HERE. 

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

  

Crafty Sentiments- Anything goes

Digi Choosday - Anything goes

Through the craft room door - Anything goes 

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Hogs and kisses

 

 

Have you seen this adorable new hogs and kisses stamp set from Time for Tea designs? It is just so perfect for a whole load of occasions and I new I wanted to team it up with their Speech bubble stamp set as well. I stamped the missing you speech bubble in grey Catherine Pooler ink all over the card and used the ink to make a perfectly colour matched layer to use for my matting and layering by inking the edges. I added a mix of nuvo glitter drops to add some sparkle and a pop of colour :D

    

 

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

  

LeAnns world 101 - Anything goes

The creative crafters - Anything goes

The happy craft challenge - Anything goes 

Love to craft - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

A fairy new release

 

Seriously how adorable is this new release from the amazing Sweet November?? I am so in love with the super cute fairies from the Falling into fairwees clear stamp set. I coloured this cutie up with copics and then put her on an action wobble to pop her up from the card and give her some movement :D

The sentiment is from the Time for tea Speech bubbles stamp set and I stamped it in grey Catherine pooler ink before using the coordinating speech bubble dies to cut it out. The stencil I used for the back ground is also from time for tea designs and has the best name ever....tropic like it's hot. I inked through the stencil using the amazing super soft Time for tea beautiful blender brushes and kraftin' kimmie hybrid inks. 

To finish it off I added a variety of nuvo drops to add some sparkle, shine and texture :D

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes 

The happy craft challenge - Anything goes 

Love to craft - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

New release and give away time!

 It is time for another super cute clear stamp release from the amazing Sweet November Stamps! They have brought out 2 stamp sets again. One is a collection of witches for halloween and the other some fairies that are perfect for autumn. 

Seriously how cute are these???

I have been lucky enough to get an extra set of the witches so I am doing a giveaway over on my instagram @craftypurplefrog so be sure to check it out. The giveaway is open worldwide so everyone can join in.

Here are some cards I have made with the adorable witch set :D

For this first card I used the brilliant bats and moons stencil from Kraftin' Kimmie to emboss the orange card. I think it gives it a great touch of texture.

I used another Kraftin' Kimmie stencil for this second card called Ghoulish ghosts and inked through it with goblin green and charming chartreuse inks.

I am entering these cards for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Crafts galore encore - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

The Greeting Farm Design Team Call!!

I can not tell you how excited I am that TFG have a design team call going on. There is a call for a clear stamp team (US only) and a digi stamp team (open world wide). You can click on the link or the picture above to get the full details of how you can apply yourself.

I LOVE digi stamps and The Greeting Farm so this is a match made in heaven for me and I have to try out. I have put together this card using the Build a craft room digi set and the little Anya is from the dress up bed time set. I love playing with these scene builder sets. It is so much fun making a little world for these stamp cuties to live in. I would be over the moon if I had the space for a craft room like this! I created my scene in photoshop but don't worry all you need to set up a scene is word. There is a brilliant tutorial of how to use word to make your scenes from the amazing Amy Young right HERE.

I coloured it all up with copics and then decoupaged Anya so she looks a bit more 3D. I really like the way it worked out :) 

I hope you all had a great weekend and good luck to anyone putting in for the DT call :D

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back.

Huge hugs

Amy xx

Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs Hop

Hi everyone and welcome to the Heffy Doodle and

Time for Tea Designs Collaboration Blog Hop!

The design teams ( + me!) have come together to share some

amazing inspiration featuring Heffy Doodle

and Time for Tea Designs products, and there is a prize up for grabs, too!

I am so excited that I got to join in this awesome blog hop. I love both of these companies so much and as you can see from my 5 cards once I started combining them I just couldn't stop!

So sorry for the long post haha

For card number 1 I used the new small heart xoxo die set and the heart from the Mini frame and banner set of Time for Tea Designs to make my background. I cut all the hearts out of grey and pink card layered them and stuck them down to make this pattern.

The adorable Elephant is from Heffy Doodles Elephant of Surprise stamp set and I coloured his up with Spectrum noir ice grey tri-blends. The stitched square frames are from the Heffy Doodle Stitched square dies. The sentiment is also from Heffy doodle and is from the new Close at heart stamp set. Just to finish it off I scattered some Nuvo drops around adding sparkle and texture.

For my next card I inked up these super cute Pandas from Time for Tea designs Pandamonium party stamp set. I decoupaged their heads and used just a touch of Ice blue spectrum noir tri-blend pen to add a bit of shadow it their white areas. I couldn't resist adding some fun with googly eyes for them both as well. For the background in the circle I used one of the new Time for Tea stamps called Squiggly Giggly. I stamped it in 3 different colours of distress oxide and slightly off set it each time to make it look like patterned paper. The grey stitched circle is from Time for Teas Circles of love nesting dies set.

The sentiments are from two new Heffy doodle stamp sets. The Close at heart stamp set and the bold banner sentiments. The grass is die cut from green card using Grassy Lass dies from Heffy doodle. And again to finish I used Nuvo drops to add sparkle and texture.

Card Number 3 features the new Hot diggity dog stamp set from Heffy Doodle long side this awesome bold new Thank you sentiment die from Time for tea designs. I coloured the dog with copics and the thank you I cut out twice so the grey one could be used to look like a shadow. To finish this card I put a strip of grey card down the side and stamped it tone on tone using the new washi strips stamps from time for tea designs.

Card 4 and I had to do a slim line card among the cards I was doing somewhere. So here it is and I used the new Heffy doodle Slim line trio die to do the frame around this one. I used the biggest frame in the set and this is a DL card. I trimmed the ends off as this largest one is just bigger than a DL but as you can see the width fits perfectly. I then used the next size down to do the main image inking up the background using distress oxides and time for tea blender brushes along with the curved edge of the new heffy doodle green fields stencil to make a scene.

The new Sealy friends stamp set from Heffy Doodle was just too cute not to colour up. I coloured them using Warm grey spectrum noir tri-blend pens. The small stamped sending hugs sentiment is again from the Close at heart stamp set.

The big friend shadow die is from Time for tea designs and I covered it in Nuvo drops and scattered some more Nuvo drops to add sparkle and texture.

Last but by no means least I have done some stenciling using the Time for Tea designs scattered hearts stencil, blender brushes and two shades of pink distress oxides . The frame for this card is a time for tea design die called smile sentiment and scalloped frame. The thinking of you shadow die is a new one from Heffy doodle and I think is a great size to be just used alone on a card like this. As with all the other cards of course I added some Nuvo drops to finish it off.

Heffy Doodle and Time for Tea Designs will each be giving away a £25 voucher to spend in their respective stores.

Winners will be chosen randomly and announced on July 28th on the Heffy Doodle and Time for TeaDesigns blogs.

You should have come from Sharon Nettleship and the next stop is Laura Volpes.

Here is the full list of every stop on the hop in case you missed any :)

Heffy Doodle Blog

Shabneez Khan-Muztar

Amanda Fitterer

Natalie Seddons

Cassie Trask

Catrin Goodwin

Laura Sterckx

Katrina Howe

Tallie Clewley

Sharon Nettleship

Amy Gould <----- You are Here

Laura Volpes

Time for Tea Designs Blog

I am entering my creations for the following challenges:

613 avenue create - Sentiment as the focus

Dragonfly dreams - No patterned paper

Stamping sensation - all creatures great and small

The paper players - CAS and celebrate

Crafters castle - Anything goes

Thank you for taking the time to look at my blog. I would love it if you would follow me and leave me a link to your blog so I can follow you back. Happy hopping and good luck.

Huge hugs

Amy xx