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

Possitive vibes

This little guy just makes me feel so happy and summery. This whole Gnome matter what set is just so cute. I coloured this one with my Nuvo alcohol markers. The background I made by cutting a rectangle out of white card with the stitched rectangle die then using the grassy lass die cut to cut the grass shape across it. Next I inked the sky half in Mermaid lagoon and a touch of faded jeans and the grass half in twisted citron with a touch of mowed lawn distress oxides. Finally I put them back together and layered them on another piece of white card then black card again which I cut using the stitched rectangle dies.

The sentiment is from the Heffy Doodle whatcha saying now? set and I cut the speach bubble from the coordinating die set. For a finishing touch I added the nuvo drops right across the whole card.

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Give a crafter a cookie - Photo inspiration and I have used the colours from the cookies to inspire me.

Southern Girls - Anything goes

Heffy Doodlers FB group - Happy mail

Crafts Galore Encore - Anything Goes

Love to craft - Anything Goes

Paper craft challenges - Spring

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

Fairy fun

This is the first time I have made a shadow box card and I have to say that I loved it! I used the Time for tea box clever die to give me the base and the layers in between and it made the whole thing so easy to do. I love how it looks like a little scene.

OK so for this I used a range of other time for tea goodies as well, The super cute fairies and mushroom house are from the Fairy garden stamp set and then I added some extra little mushrooms and flowers from the Hip hop hooray stamp set. I coloured them all with Spectrum noir tri-blends and fussy cut them all out. For the shadow box itself I used the Scene it stencil to do the sky and tumbled glass distress oxide. The grass I used a Heffy doodle grassy lass die to cut the grass shape and then inked it with a mix of twisted citron and mowed lawn distress oxide.

I am entering this card for the following challenges: 

The paper girls - May day photo inspiration (I used the colours and some flowers)

Dare 2B Artzy - In the garden

 A Place to start - Create a custom background

All fun challenges - Anything goes

Lil' patch of crafty friends - Anything goes

A perfect time to craft - Anything goes

A bit more time to craft - Anything goes

Crafty Animals - Anything goes

I Love you

I think we are all missing people at the moment. Here we are in lock down and I am not able to see my boyfriend as we don't live together. Of course we are still in touch and are looking forward to when we can get back together but in the meantime I thought I would make him a card. 

I was watching a live stream yesterday and someone said about a critter holding letters so that gave me the idea for this card :)

I have used the super cute Chimply the best stamps and dies for the main feature. I coloured them with Copics. I can not tell you how excited I am to have copics. I have wanted them for over 10 years and I have to say I am not disappointed. The only problem now is that I want them all.....my bank account is not so sure about that though 🤣

For the background I used Tumbled glass, Peacock feathers and blue print sketch oxide inks for the blue back ground and then used stitched rectangle dies for both the blue back ground and the rectangle to frame the chimps. For the one around the chimps I altered it to be thinner just so it worked better for the layout.

The letters that the chimps are holding are from the stitched alphabetters dies and they were very easy to put in the chimps arms as the chimply the best dies have some really good internal cut lines which cut around the arms for you. The heart is cut using the whole lotta hearts die.

And the grass is another die called grassy lass. I added a bit of mowed lawn distress oxide ink to add some dimension to the grass. 

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

Heffy Doodlers Facebook challenge - CAS

Addicted to CAS - CAS with an animal

Bots of love & a Heffy Doodle DT call !!

Today I want to tell you all how I have bots of love for you all :D

Aren't these just the most adorable little robots that you have ever seen? I can not wait to get them onto more projects. They are a super sweet stamp set called Bots of Love by Heffy Doodle. Now if you have seen much of my blog you will realise how much of a huge Heffy Doodle fan I am, so you can just imagine how excited I am to tell you......

THEY ARE HAVING A HEFFY DOODLE DT CALL!!

Yes that is right we can all try out to be part of the super talented team who show off these awesome products. There are different roles available so make sure you look to see which one could fit for you and then get over there and apply. As they say "you have got to be in it, to win it!" 

So now onto some of my Heffy Doodle creations. For this card I used the "Bots of love" stamps for the main robot images and also for all of the cogs that I scattered across the background. I heat embossed the cogs using superfine silver Wow! embossing powder so that have a real metallic finish to them. 

I wanted to play with the negative image from the Heffy Doodle "Hey" die cut as I do like to use up my scraps when I can and so have layers the grey card over the black to make the negative of the word really stand out. The grass at the bottom of the card is another Heffy Doodle die called "Grassy lass". I love that die set as it makes creating a grassy hill or scene so easy.

The little robots I have coloured with the following Spectrum Noir Illustrator pens:

Yellow robot: LY3,CT1, BG9, BG4, MG4

Grey robot: BGR5, IG9, IG7, IG2, Blender, RD5, DR4, CR10

I am entering this card for the following challenges:

 Catch the bug - Anything goes

Crafters castle - Anything goes

Crafty Calendar challenge - Anything goes

Colour crazy challenge - Anything goes colouring

Colourific challenge corner - Anything goes

Creative fingers challenge blog - Anything goes

I could not resist also trying out these adorable stamps with some fabric paint. They just shouted out to me to try something a bit different and these baby grows were all the inspiration I needed. 

The stamps worked a dream and the sentiments are so perfect for this kind of project. After a bit of trial and error I found I needed to be a lighter with my stamping than normal but otherwise it was quite easy to do. I love it when you can use one item for different kinds of projects :D

 I am entering these baby grows for the following challenges:

Send a smile 4 kids - Anything goes for kids

Brown sugar challenge blog - Anything goes

Simply create too - Anything goes 

Good luck to anyone else who is trying out for the Heffy Doodle DT.